Your Thoughts On The Current Nottingham Forest Manager

[Sabricadabra]

I also don’t think fans have the emotional connection with him bearing in mind that we’ve not seen a team of his in the flesh or chanted his name

That would be a first. A manager who fans never witnessed leading a team at the City Ground.

[Sniffer Dog (Admin)]

WTF?

Since when have we been looking for a new manager?

Loose next 2 games sniffer and it will be coming mate

Doubt it.

[northeastred]

What makes you so sure sniff?

The footballs terrible
His tactics are terrible
His subs are terrible
Fact he will never use youth is terrible

Hes up there With MON, not far off megson

Sabri had alot of players thrown at him when he already had a full team, he got results, regardless of it falling apart at the end, he would of had the same problems with the board, if not more, still got results,

Hughton is like the team, looks good on paper, but without the right instructions it will never work, he's not learning and too stubborn to learn, like mon, EM has got 2 choices, keep him here and let the sink ship, or get someone in with a bit of idea, we can only blame Vzrentos so much for players and treatments etc etc, but at the end of the day its down to the manager to get them playing and getting results...as a fan, or a owner you want success, chris hughton won't bring it, and im not the only fan who thinks that, there's not many now what do

[Sniffer Dog (Admin)]

I am not sure mate to be honest!

I'd be a bit surprised though which is why I said I had doubts. Doesn't mean it won't happen though but I'm not expecting it.

[Sabricadabra]

He’s only been here for 12 games.

EM won’t care about subjective opinion like ‘the football’s terrible’ he’ll only care about results. The jury is still out. Results against the likes of Bournemouth, Watford and Norwich certainly aren’t yardsticks to judge him against.

[Username]

Hence me quoting the 1.08 PPG figure

[Derby My Arse]

Are people really suggesting that we should change manager again?

[Sniffer Dog (Admin)]

Are people really suggesting that we should change manager again?

I believe that there are one or two yes.

[Salvatore Matrecano]

Sacking a manager who is failing or has lost the dressing room isn’t necessarily wrong. ( they should give them a map of the City ground, with our turnover I can only imagine the dressing room is very hard to find).

What is ridiculous is when we then move in a totally different direction based on a knee jerk reaction to a poor run of results and end up with a different style of manager and inevitably meaning a complete overhaul of the squad, usually the coaching staff too. In other words as I have said many many times we do not have a plan.

I approve of the head coach model that we went for with Sabri because in theory they are expendable and a new one can be brought in with minimal upheaval to the rest of the system. I think Watford went down that route, their turnover was as bad as ours but they continued to move in the right direction. It only works though if there is a consistent strategy and preferably behind an experienced and stable director of football.

Dont worry crowds might be back early in the new year then we can boo and blame the fans for getting on the teams back instead.

[PsychoStanleyStone]

i am hoping CH will turn things around, i was overall very happy with the performance tonight

i still have the same niggles, namely too few fresh legs too late in the game or 'like for like', i really believe Guerrero could really compliment Taylor, Mighten should of been given at least 20 minutes, it was too late and we had plenty of tired players who needed a rest

ultimately i think CH needs an offensive coach to get more from all the offensive work, far too many crosses and cutbacks to noone

[Sabricadabra]

Decided to take a breather after the weekend from here. Think I might stay away until this run of fixtures ends.

Seriously we're playing the top six in a row, what were people expecting. I'm not saying we've done great but equally not that bad. Last weekend, game was lost after the red card/pen.

I'm not buying this, the players aren't trying bollocks either. That's not even slightly what I've been watching. A combination of bad luck, dreadful finishing and tough fixtures is making things look worse than they are. The commentators on Saturday were continually praising of our players work rate throughout the game for example. 

I swear unless you're winning every game scoring 4 a week you're only a few losses away from losing support of some people. Sacking managers doesn't work. Arghhhhhhhh.

Rant over

I agree, it is always the same. If we are on a bad run the manager is rubbish, the players are lazy, his tactics are idiotic etc etc. 

The thing is, before Bournemouth Hughton had been picking up points at a decent rate. A run of top six clubs has knocked the wind out of our sails.

[wassy04]

i am hoping CH will turn things around, i was overall very happy with the performance tonight

i still have the same niggles, namely too few fresh legs too late in the game or 'like for like', i really believe Guerrero could really compliment Taylor, Mighten should of been given at least 20 minutes, it was too late and we had plenty of tired players who needed a rest

ultimately i think CH needs an offensive coach to get more from all the offensive work, far too many crosses and cutbacks to noone

If I had one major criticism of CH so far its that he doesn't have appeared to have adapted his tactics with regards to squad rotation to account for the amount of matches. 

We need to make more changes earlier purely to rest players for future games, avoid injuries and hopefully influence existing games. Making few subs is fine in a normal world but in current world we can't afford this approach IMO.