Your Thoughts On The Current Nottingham Forest Manager

[Strawberry Avenger]

I think 'Tails' makes some very balanced points. A 'calm heads' worthwhile read.

SA.

[Sunny]

There isn’t a sustainable approach unless we go up. The club will continue to lose money like every other Championship club.

[Strawberry Avenger]

Perhaps.

But if Forest 'dared' to have a squad of 20 players 'properly' you can bet your bottom dollar our right back would end up with a cruciate knee injury...or our striker would end up with an achilles injury...or that our recruitment of 34 year old DCMs or venerable CH would end up with 'shot legs' or 'niggles' that keep them from their best or playing for us.

...hmm...wait a minute...

SA.

[Sunny]

The top six clubs usually have bigger squads so they can cope with the inevitable injuries of a long season and still put a strong team out every week.

[Strawberry Avenger]

The top six clubs usually have bigger squads so they can cope with the inevitable injuries of a long season and still put a strong team out every week.

:cool:

SA.

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:cool:  'Nobody said it would be easy...'

SA.

[Spangles]

Well we're simply not winning enough games .
I don't want change for changes sake but how long will Marinakis tolerate such a poor win percentage ?

[Username]

I think if he goes soon the whole place will become toxic.

[Sunny]

Last season is largely irrelevant. EM was happy to invest in AK for this season so it’s 7 games (and 2 successful cup games). Our away form is pretty good. He needs to get more wins at home, starting on Wednesday.

[Sunny]

Last season is largely irrelevant

It simply isn't & I am 100% certain that the club doesn't see it as irrelevant either. To dismiss it as irrelevant is just a crude attempt to bury bad news & had we won 15 games in a row, at the end of last season, I am also 100% sure that we would all be sitting here now using it as mitigation against this seasons sluggish start & you would in no way be attempting to dismiss it as irrelevant.

It’s irrelevant in the sense that a new team has been brought in over the summer. Whether we’d won every game or lost every game last season doesn’t have a bearing on how this new team will perform.

[Redgirl]

I think if we don't get a win in the next 3 matches then he deserves to go. I hope he turns it around but his win record is simply dire. I'm not sure anyone would blame EM in this scenario.
The pressure would be on any incoming manager to fire us up the table, this is a good squad and we should be winning matches simple as.

[Kylos247]

Next home games must be wins, unless we do a Fulham? 23 games unbeaten towards the end? Broken by Brum?

[Sunny]

It’s irrelevant in the sense that a new team has been brought in over the summer.

& a new one was bought last summer, & last January, & next January. That's sadly how modern football works. Leeds are currently top of the table with 10 new players & a new manager, & last season wolves were up there with 23 signings & a new manager.

Every team signs players, but it doesn't negate, nor make irrelevant Karanka's past form & results, especially when they are consistent with the current seasons.

Whether we’d won every game or lost every game last season doesn’t have a bearing on how this new team will perform.

No but would have a bearing on the managers abilities, which is what is being discussed.

You are just attempting to dismiss an inconvenient truth.

You realise that even if you dismiss that truth that in the real world it doesn't actually change anything?

The board is no more, or less likely to keep, or dismiss Karanka because you've chosen to ignore results & performances from last season, especially with regards to performances where we saw clear indications of tactics & formations, consistent with this seasons & the performances & results they have so far produced.

I’m giving my opinion. I thought that was the purpose of a forum.

The draw at Swansea was a good result in my opinion and so I don’t see it hastening a change of manager. It makes little difference to me who the manager is so long as the team clicks in the next couple of months and begins to rise up the table.