29 Jul 2019 11:50:26
A few pre-season thoughts.

1. Forest have had 47 managers since 1897, 32 of them since Brian Clough retired in 1993. The only one, apart from Frank C, to take us anywhere near was Billy Davies about 10 years ago. Stability at the top is absolutely essential from now on.

2. Kenny Burns doesn't know everything but he is usually not a bad judge. He doubts whether the latest boss knows enough about the Championship which relates to my first point. We have been there before but let's hope KB is wrong. Burns also worries about our lack of fire power and I think most of us agree there.

3. Good luck to Benny Osborn. Forest will miss him but he deserves a go at the top level.

{Ed001's Note - on point 2, if you get point 1 then it will give him time to learn about the Championship.}

1.) 29 Jul 2019
29 Jul 2019 12:12:18
Time is proving to be an illusive commodity.

2.) 29 Jul 2019
29 Jul 2019 12:50:43
SO Dave Bassett an Paul Hart didn’t do a good job for us?

3.) 29 Jul 2019
29 Jul 2019 13:20:04
Not according to Dr. N😂😂🤔🤔.

4.) 29 Jul 2019
29 Jul 2019 13:23:10
I guess you could say nobody has done a good job for us because nobody has taken us up.
Football has changed so much in the last 20 years. Owners are now more important than managers, and this is where Forest have been let down. Until we have a situation where Owner, Board, Manager and Players all see eye to eye and are of one vision we will not improve. MON stated this quite clearly, and so I fear we are still not what and where we should be.

5.) 29 Jul 2019
29 Jul 2019 14:09:09
Spot on Arran 85 Paul Hart did a fine job with some good youngsters and was on so close. Good old Dave Basset could talk the hind legs off a donkey and was let down by the infamous clown Van Hoodjoink ( which was a shame as he was a cracking striker and the best free kick taker I've seen at Forest and one of the best I've seen ever) . Time waits for no man when a club that stinks of desperation to succeed rears its ugly head season after season.

6.) 29 Jul 2019
29 Jul 2019 18:54:12
Bassett and Hart did well but had rugs pulled away. Under BD in 2009/ 10 it was there for the taking but investement wasn't forthcomimg at the critical January transfer moment.

7.) 29 Jul 2019
29 Jul 2019 21:51:57
Fans expectations surely won't affect club performance to much of an extent. Of all the reasons suggested, its owner meddeling that's cost us the prem in the last decade or so. I honestly think at least half of the managers we've had in that time could have done it if left to it for a few years.