Saxondale

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.

I still think the board will want somebody with solid Premier League experience. I think they will surprise us with somebody who was a fairly big name a few years ago - like they did with Ranieri.

You tell me. I don’t think it was.

We scored 89 goals last season. The second highest goal scorers in the league. Clearly, we played with sufficient attacking intent.

People slowing down and only subsequently indicating. It’s mainly the oldies too. Such a fundamental error; no excuse.

This is absolutely bang on. Whoever is appointed, the old “FORWARD! QUICKER!” codgers are going be disappointed, because they don’t seem to understand that the game of football has moved on since the mid 80s.

Terrible analogy. Who wouldn’t choose the piss?

He’ll regret it.

“I’m sick of Corberan ball. It’s so negative, all this passing side to side. Get it forward. No Plan B. Get this man out the club. The owners are clueless appointing this bloke.”

Chelsea have confirmed it on their site too.

Cooper is clearly an absolute genius. He managed to get an abysmal Forest team promoted somehow. I’d probably be more interested in him if we had failed to get promoted, however.