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Everyone seems to have forgot the 15 mins before we scored. we should have been 5 down. Awful stuff. Ecstatic with a point from that but let’s not pretend it was good.

They came out and dominated for 15 mins, wasting multiple chances.

Absolutely dreadful. but a decent point.

It’s a travesty that to meet FFP we have sell KDH for around £30m but then buy Oliver Skipp for similar money. the whole system is ridiculous.

John Percy has said over recent days that fee was £15m They’ve signed a Brazilian keeper and seem close to getting to getting Milenkovic from Fiorentina for around £12m which looks good business.

Just awful. the modern game for you.

And then try to convince themselves/others that other average replacements would be better.

Not going to happen. I saw Santos was named as one of the players offered this way. Forest signed him last season and Cooper got a strop as he wasn’t told it was happening and then didn’t play him. I’m sure they are desperate to be reunited with each other.

Chelsea is a as move for anyone currently but money talks. as for the players in exchange. No thanks.

Underwhelming at best.

He’s a very good modern media manager. His words are thought through and partially why forest fans still love him. He’s excellent at his brand and getting people onside. he’s not getting the luxury of 2 wins in 13 here. or 2 wins in 30 away games.

In spite of their chairman bankrolling promotion? And then bankrolling them to stay up? Real fairytale stuff eh! im sure people rewrite things to suit their agenda!

Daniel Taylor is very cosy with Steve Cooper and has a dislike of their board so will tone articles in this manner (any inside info out of forest goes to John Percy rather than Taylor). I mean what manager doesn’t look to improve? And he was hardly batting away jobs too good to turn down.

Much is made of the “appalling board’. they financed the promotion season and financed them staying in the league. They’ve also massively improved the club off the pitch and have plans for a ground improvements/new ground and training ground. nothing has ever suggested they interfere with team selections etc and it perhaps isn’t unreasonable the board wanted a better return than what they were getting. a huge bit of luck and forests home seige mentality kept them up first season and he was taking them down second season. Cooper isn’t getting that level of support from our fans. I appreciate people will try to kid themselves it’s a good appointment but it really isn’t. It’s simply the cheap option.

What a load of shite.

I’m not convinced why people think Cooper is flexible? He played pretty much the same formation all the time for Forest once he realised 3 at the back didn’t work. His main tactic was to get the ball to Johnson and hope for the best. They were never convincing and their crowd got them through due to being first year up. Even when they beat us we should have been out of sight if Barnes could have finished twice. The board eventually got rid when it was apparent it wasn’t working for a second year (only fan power kept him there and was for what he did in getting them rather then PL form). 2 away wins in 1 and a half seasons speaks for itself. as for youth, he didn’t really get them involved and even his younger signings like Williams and Hudson-Odoi only excelled once he had gone.

Cooper literally learnt his trade with the FA. how anyone would want Cooper over Potter is beyond me.

If we get Cooper we aren’t playing out from the back. 3 years is madness.

Are you suggesting Cooper is a better manager than Potter based on that?

You can spin things however you like. If you are happy with this appointment then that’s fine. But absolutely nothing suggests he is a successful PL manager. As ever time will tell. Forest drastically improved under Nuno and also got the 4 points knocked off. They were far less negative. And I know it was funny at the time but they really were done by decisions that easily puts another 4 points on their total.

Swansea fans weren’t bothered to see him go, they were sick of him touting for other jobs. I think you are forgetting they’ve had Martinez and Potter in recent years, they won’t be craving for Steve Cooper

Their fans are stupid. They only love him as he got them up and then failed to see any faults. He’s not a PL manager as sadly we will find out.

That’s fine as he won’t be in post for 9 months. hes a championship manager. no one should kid themselves that the only reason we will appoint him is because he’s cheap and no compo needs to be paid.

He’s not going to be developing young talent. Most of those are from his England youth coaching days, of course he’s going to have some footprint on them due to his job but he’s not developing anyone here. in fact in the Prem he was reluctant to play younger ones (apart from Johnson who couldn’t be ignored). Hudson Odoi and Neco Williams only got played and decent after he left. this is just a cheap option, I can’t see it ending well at all. His football at forest was terrible and just two away wins ever in the PL says a lot.

I really hope it isn’t Cooper. i know the forest fans found it hard to let him go, but that’s more because he got them up after two decades out the top flight. A championship manager, not for me at all.