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"Potter's all the rage, Jerry. Kids love Potter."

Nobody knows who our next manager is going to be, because we always keep negotiations under wraps. The bookies haven't had a clue for the last several appointments. There's a good chance that the journalists who claim we've approached or spoken to X or Y manager are absolutely correct, but this may well be gauging candidates' interest. There are certain managers who will obviously be on our radar, and we have already guessed those names, because they're as obvious to the club's board as they are to us. It would be highly surprising if we didn't make contact with the likes of Potter, Cooper, even Sarri to see whether there is any potential interest before wasting time drawing up a shortlist of uninterested candidates. I expect we've made contact with each of these names, as well as several that none of us have thought of.

Since seeing that picture of Potter with a slightly mod-style haircut, it's put me off a bit. Mods are - as we know - complete and utter bellends.

The OS reporting on Fatawu's performance with Ghana. Surely wouldn't be doing so if he was finished with the club. EDIT: Though, having said that, they also mentioned Akgun in the same story, thus immediately trashing my theory.

Genuinely hope not. The guy's a bona fide clown.

Well evidently not for Cooper, because he already worked for the England set-up.

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I think managers try a bit too hard these days. I'm not into this Pep fashion nonsense. Managers should have two choices: a suit and tie with a double breasted jacket or a big Umbro-style training coat.

What is difficult to accept is that these people are entitled to vote, and that their vote carries equal weight to that of an Oxford professor.

There's about a billion references in this thread to Rudkin's supposed action or inaction around recruiting the new manager, but I'm 99% sure the managerial recruitment is lead by Susan Whelan.

People are jumping to conclusions. This isn’t what’s happening.

Wow. Just looked him up on Wikipedia and I don't know what is more remarkable: the number of clubs he's had or the fact his middle name is just 'Steve'.

Life is just a series of sliding door moments. Everything we do stems from an idea we had at a given moment for whatever reason.

100% this. They surprise us every time.

You’ve got this the wrong way round. He didn’t sign those wastemen. He managed to achieve what he achieved DESPITE the fat Greek’s imbecile son touring Europe with his dad’s chequebook and signing everything that moved.

I’m afraid a lot of our fanbase has lost their heads since we won the PL. It was always going to happen. People’s expectations aren’t quite calibrated correctly.

Just get Pearson back and be done with it. He can be our Billy Davies - though he hopefully won’t do what Davies did in his sixth or seventh Forest spell, going mad, sacking the tea ladies and employing his beefwitted brother as an advisor.

No.

Second mistake is Forest fans.

This. And the bookies know absolutely **** all that we don’t.

Forest fans famously have excellent perspective. I was got into an argument with a load of them on Twitter a few weeks back because they’re convinced they are essentially a mid-table PL team who were robbed by refereeing decisions. This is the team that finished on 32 points and somehow survived - they’re only in the league because the bottom three were essentially under 8s girls teams.

Haha, Steve is my mate! I’ll ask him the crack.

Well if you’re not worried about success then that’s fair. But a manager who brings exciting football but no success won’t last long.

No, you want some magical unicorn football that is both endlessly exhilarating and ever successful. You want passes to be both immediate and accurate. You want us to move the ball forward at all times but never concede possession. If you find us winning the league at a canter and scoring 89 goals boring, then - I hate to break it to you - you’re in for a long season.

I wouldn’t read too much into what the bookmakers think. They thought Preki was going to be our manager.