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Notts Forest fans getting in early to get a discount on names and numbers on the backs of their retro (relegation season) shirt. I bet they’ll sell loads with their two best players Gibbs-White or Elanga on the back.

That’s as bad a quality snide as you’ll see. Badges too small, badly stitched and too far apart with the wrong sponsor. I’ll take 2👍🏻

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Lock this thread and flush the key down the nearest shithouse

Loves a bit of Golf does GOFN 🥴

He’s a popular lad at one of his ex clubs Middlesbrough due to this admission. At least it’s proof of dedication to a cause (watching the golf), as well as an innovative approach to coming up with solutions to problems that may arise. 🥴

Pearson never managed Derby in the Premier League and fell out with the owner so it’s completely different. Cooper’s fan popularity has little to do with actual Premier league form at Forest. He was pretty rubbish in the PL for Forest and they just stayed up because of a basket case club called LCFC having a terrible season off the scale. He was sacked quickly the following season. O’Neil’s failure is very fresh and whether he’s learned a lot in that brief time since his sacking, from a motivational perspective alone it’s some stretch to convince LCFC players (and fans) that he is any different to the O’Neil that somehow made a Wolves side with Cunha and Ait Nouri in it be significantly worse than Cooper’s shambolic Leicester City team during the first part of last season.

I think that’s about right. If a manager has consistently failed at clubs at the same level as Leicester then it’s very likely that he’ll fail at Leicester too. Why would it be any different? Are there many managers that buck that trend?

You don’t need to recruit a ready made PL standard manager. You just might as well take a risk in The Championship with a younger manager not tainted with the sackings that O’Neil has experienced very quickly in ALL of his management experiences at Premier League level. How do players look at O’Neil? Like the rest of us, we know he isn’t good enough to lead a team at that level and so will the players. He showed it most recently last season when he first blamed VAR then publicly blamed his players for somehow managing to be worse than an awful LCFC team. Then Vitor Pereira came in and showed everyone that (as Wolves fans already knew,) Wolves’ poor form was down to O’Neil’s poor management.

All history shows that with equal or stronger squads compared to Leicester City’s (Wolves had a better squad than us last season) O’Neil fails 100% of the time. Next year will be no conundrum if we get promoted. We’ll be adrift near the bottom, O’Neil will get sacked and we’ll be paying yet more compensation to a manager out of his depth. Same thing will happen with Wilder or Dyche.

That’s absolutely wrong. Carsley did a great job in charge of England. We played much better football him than we did with Southgate. We had one loss against an excellent Greece team whilst playing with an experimental lineup. An 83% win ratio whilst giving debuts to 8 of his u21 team is definitely not a spectacular fail. Gareth.

Absolutely no way Carsley would leave the England set up. He’s perfect for the U21’s and will be in the main job after Tuchel. For that reason I’ve ignored that option as well as Rosenior who’s just signed a new contract at Strasbourg having got them into Europe. Both beyond the realms of possibility.

Could be Top is trying to coax actor Ryan O’Neal out of death forced retirement having seen his performance in underrated 1970’s film Barry Lyndon?

Lock this thread and chuck it in the nearest bin.

A properly run club at our level wouldn’t consider either of them OR Dyche. Southampton certainly wouldn’t and recruiting Will Still shows way more ambition.

The top names on our supposed shortlist, other than the unknown or Rohl (who for me is by far the best option) will all have the same inevitable end. Looking at the history of Wilder, Dyche, O’Neill - their spells have ALWAYS ended in a sacking at the top level - and a fair sacking due to football reasons. What would be different about them being within the current Leicester set up that would mean they’d suddenly become a success and not sacked? The answer is nothing, all have failed at equally well/badly run clubs as us with a similar squad strength to what we have now and it will be a case of rinse and repeat. None of them have the aura of a manager like Maresca who can motivate players to play above their level. All have been tainted by past sackings that have been fully deserved. An appointment of a manager within the merry go round of the usual suspects at this level, very much including Wilder, Dyche or O’Neill will be the final proof to the players as well as us fans after the Cooper fiasco, that we are aspiring to be Middlesbrough or Stoke. Teams that are happy with being underwhelming also rans in The Championship.

I think I’d rather see him stay as a coach. As soon as you become a manager, your time at a club is limited. He’ll either get sacked or get head hunted. We need Kingy around long term. Obviously it depends on his ambitions but he has so much to offer yet as a coach.

That was better than every pre season game we saw from Cooper last season. Credit to Kingy and the young lads who all showed up well today.

That’s because Dyche hasn’t managed us. 🥴

All giant, ice white, box fresh trainers with minimal sole flex should be retired (like when players numbered shirts are retired) to acknowledge 10 years since the legend left the club 🥰

The concern from the now deleted posts was that the fixes they had put in to remove the fungus hasn’t fixed the problem and now they aren’t sure what they’re dealing with. The fact the groundsman has admitted they’ve already got to the fingers crossed and hoping for the best stage doesn't fill me with confidence 😬

No and I don’t see the connection. For a start he Pearson never got us relegated and for me had more than enough credit in the bank if we had been relegated. He also didn’t play Dycheball. I lay a lot of credit for the premier league win to Nigel Pearson. He bought the players, he built the squad mentality, it was all his back room staff. So no i absolutely would not say Pearson is a bad manager. I’ve also not said Dyche is a bad manager, I’ve just said his style of play doesn’t suit our youth system development and that he always gets sacked (for footballing reasons) when he’s in the Premier League.

We all know how it will end for Dyche if he got the job, it ALWAYS ends with his sacking at the top level. He doesn’t get head hunted. A manager like Rohl, hasn’t been on that sacking cycle yet, there’s still hope with an appointment like him as the future is uncertain. His time with us might end like Enzo’s where his performance resulted in him being taken by a bigger team here or abroad. I’m fine with that as it will mean he’s done a good job like Enzo did. Ultimately let’s pick a manager that plays football aligned with how our youth teams are coached, particularly when it’s clear that that’s where clubs can earn the most profit to get back to where we want them to be. I can tell you with some certainty that our youth team players aren’t developed to play Dyche ball.

Who in our squad is built for Dyche’s physical non complicated long ball tactics then? It pretty much discounts all the promising young players we have. He prefers physical centre halves and defensive fullbacks, legs in central midfield rather than craft, a big lad upfront and direct getting the crosses in from traditional wingers.

As I’ve said previously on this thread, we haven’t got the players to play Dycheball. Everton did and they still struggled.