Williams, so 4.
Edit didnt read the post fully, I thought it said 3 bame managers...
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Christopher William Gerard Hughton is no longer the manager.
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Edit didnt read the post fully, I thought it said 3 bame managers...
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Alf-engelos Mindminackers
The Artiste formally known as "Wanksy"
Spot on mate. I mean it's an obvious clickbait article, but we're branded guilty by association. The ****s who wrote it need a good fuckng hiding.
GreeksBearingGifts
Stuart Pearce
If there's any truth in today's reports that Hughton had very little impact in this transfer window, much to his dislike, and to the point that he didn't even bother to go to the office on deadline day, then the club had decided to sack him before the start of the season.
Timing is crucial when you sack a manager, and it's the second time it takes the club too long to do so. When you make such a decision, whether it's right or wrong, you need to implement it immediately.
Timing is crucial when you sack a manager, and it's the second time it takes the club too long to do so. When you make such a decision, whether it's right or wrong, you need to implement it immediately.
Thomas
AMERICAN IDIOT
Wow what an epic waste of 5 games or whatever the amount.
MaxiRobriguez
Bob McKinlay
Not surprising if so as he was pretty brutal (yet in his polite manner) in radio Nottingham interviews about our signings.
Probably a good thing. Didn't get a tune out of Murray, Krov or Knockaert last season which were obviously his requests, and our absolutely wank start to this season means it's good we've not accumulated any Hughton bought bombsquad.
Probably a good thing. Didn't get a tune out of Murray, Krov or Knockaert last season which were obviously his requests, and our absolutely wank start to this season means it's good we've not accumulated any Hughton bought bombsquad.
Any Time Now
Grenville Morris
Was pretty clear the players we bought in weren't made with CH in mind, putting an emphasis on wingbacks (plus the brazilian ball playing CB) isn't something you'd do for a manager who never plays anything other than 4 at the back. Think we all knew CH was on borrowed time ever since we appointed Dane, just not the right fit for the direction we're heading so his departure was just a matter of if not when
Purely speculation but it makes you wonder if the stubborn negative approach by CH that he repeatedly justified with 'its all i can do with what i've got' was him trying to prove a point to the board for not backing him. Without wanting to be too critical of Chris I simply find it hard to believe an experienced manager would be so tactically inept unless it was partially to send a message
Purely speculation but it makes you wonder if the stubborn negative approach by CH that he repeatedly justified with 'its all i can do with what i've got' was him trying to prove a point to the board for not backing him. Without wanting to be too critical of Chris I simply find it hard to believe an experienced manager would be so tactically inept unless it was partially to send a message
Haych
John Robertson
Managers are so stupid at times. No Chris you didn’t have a say in transfers as last year we wasted a fortune on your mates Knockart and Murray who lead us to 17th place so we decided we will give that job to someone with different ideas.
Hughton will never work again in the top 2 leagues if he continues crying about not having a day in players, you k ow like every other manager in any ‘top’ league in the world.
Hughton will never work again in the top 2 leagues if he continues crying about not having a day in players, you k ow like every other manager in any ‘top’ league in the world.
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Alf-engelos Mindminackers
The Artiste formally known as "Wanksy"
I think him staying was very much:
1) The club trying to be fair and at least give him a go
2) The club taking it's time landing the right replacement
3) The club ensuring Garner signed
4) Dane fully assessing everything before making a move
I can't really fault any of that tbh. I think we did the right thing. It may have cost us this season in terms of promotion, but on the flipside it's also taken the pressure off to go up, and gonna buy Dane & co a year to build proper and then push on when more big contracts are up next year. I don't think that was intentional, but I think it'll work out for the best tbh.
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I wonder if it was a case of the club making sure they gave him enough time and enough rope so that when they got rid of him it was a case of 'Thank the gods that's over' rather than 'What the heck? He's not had a chance to do it with his own players'?
It's not like there will be many of the fanbase missing him or saying what he could have done now.
Mr. Blonde
Jack Burkitt
I can believe the former but not the latter.
If the club had decided to sack him before the start of the season why didn't they? And if they were waiting to see what results would be like they could've seen way before he got to seven games. Paul Taylor has said several times on TA that the club really didn't want to sack Hughton and wanted to give him time.
Danga
Formerly JLingz
For all Hughton is a nice guy and a man of 'character', it shows his integrity that he didn't walk after the clubs took transfers out of his hands and then went on a run of games that saw the club have its worst start in over a century. Just shows the stubbornness of the bloke.
Ravi
Upper Decker
Rubbish. What it shows is he’s not a complete fool. He’d be an idiot walk away and miss out. And maybe he hoped he’d be able to turn things around.
Anyway, the ltlf hate towards Hughton should stop now. I have more respect for him than I do Forest. He came to a mediocre second division football club with a self entitled and arrogant fan base. Working for Forest has been poison to many a career in the past 25 years. Hughton is just the latest victim.
Danga
Formerly JLingz
Hang on, McClaren gets absolute pelters on here (in fact across all of football) but he when he realised he wasn't up to it, he resigned. Hughton however gives us our worst start in a century, is statistically one of our worst managers ever but he'd be a fool to walk and miss out on a pay off? We bemoan the players in the bomb squad and if Hughton was a player that is exactly where he would have been right now.
Also on the money side, Hughton will have accumulated enough wealth over his managerial career to not have to worry about 8 months worth of pay.
On the last point, if you go around and speak to pretty much any and every fan base out there, the majority will come across as self entitled and arrogant. Look at the post match comments every week and that is pretty evident.
Also on the money side, Hughton will have accumulated enough wealth over his managerial career to not have to worry about 8 months worth of pay.
On the last point, if you go around and speak to pretty much any and every fan base out there, the majority will come across as self entitled and arrogant. Look at the post match comments every week and that is pretty evident.
Dirk Furtull
John Robertson
Hughton had an easy ride compared to most failing managers despite proving to be pretty hopeless at Forest.
Nobody hates him as far as I can tell, I wasn't happy about the style of football or the results, nothing to do with Hughton as a person.
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Rzar
Bob McKinlay
I have no personal feelings towards Hughton but I felt that his management was a detriment to the club. I haven't felt that strongly about any other manager for a long time.
MaxiRobriguez
Bob McKinlay
I don't blame Hughton for hanging on. Most people who are successful (and he has been) have self-belief as a trait so he would have thought he could turn it around, and even if he thought he couldn't, then he's well within his rights to want a pay-off - we'd all do the same let's be honest.
That said, he perhaps should have walked earlier. It was abundantly clear after Stoke for anyone paying even a small amount of attention that we were so, so bad that relegation was a probability not a threat. He could have walked at that point to preserve his reputation, using disagreements with the board or whatever ahead of a transfer window as justification. That he held on, and we got worse, and then he blames the board after being sacked, makes it look much, much worse for him than it otherwise might - to the point whereby getting another (decent) job is far less likely than it would have been if he resigned earlier.
So maybe he regrets that. Or maybe he doesn't - he's 62, maybe he'll fancy retiring from football.
Meh, I don't dislike him because he didn't walk, I dislike him because his football was absolutely turgid and he was on a path to getting Forest relegated. Those things combined made me really dislike having to go and watch Forest, and he was the cause of it.
That said, he perhaps should have walked earlier. It was abundantly clear after Stoke for anyone paying even a small amount of attention that we were so, so bad that relegation was a probability not a threat. He could have walked at that point to preserve his reputation, using disagreements with the board or whatever ahead of a transfer window as justification. That he held on, and we got worse, and then he blames the board after being sacked, makes it look much, much worse for him than it otherwise might - to the point whereby getting another (decent) job is far less likely than it would have been if he resigned earlier.
So maybe he regrets that. Or maybe he doesn't - he's 62, maybe he'll fancy retiring from football.
Meh, I don't dislike him because he didn't walk, I dislike him because his football was absolutely turgid and he was on a path to getting Forest relegated. Those things combined made me really dislike having to go and watch Forest, and he was the cause of it.
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Danga
Formerly JLingz
Much more eloquently put Maxi than my dribble earlier. But that sums up my feelings too.
I just thought it was out of character that if he was undermined with the transfers to the point where it meant he couldn't do his job to the best of his ability, I'd have thought he would have walked.
I just thought it was out of character that if he was undermined with the transfers to the point where it meant he couldn't do his job to the best of his ability, I'd have thought he would have walked.
I'm Red Till Dead
Stuart Pearce
The guy is a TW@T
Hughton is the 5th longest of the 14 permanent (or as permanent as we get) managers since 2010 including the the two Billy sessions separately, and
9th longest of the 22 permanent managers since 2000, again counting the Billy sessions separately. Cooper isn't in the totals.
If Hughton had done better he'd still be here. He has been given longer in a losing streak that most of our other managers. Just a chance for the guy to get paid for small change to an old story of his.
Mr. Blonde
Jack Burkitt
What hurt Hughton was being shit
MaxiRobriguez
Bob McKinlay
Has Cooper retired Hughton?
He isn't getting another job again is he?
He isn't getting another job again is he?
„He’s just ended that man’s career!“
Our current form over the last 6 games is 8 points, 1.3 points per game.
If we extrapolate this over the remaining 36 games and add to the 8 points we already have we will have 55 points, which should see us safe.
If we extrapolate this over the remaining 36 games and add to the 8 points we already have we will have 55 points, which should see us safe.
Statto
Free Kick Specialist
I still think he'll end up with the ROI job, cushy number with a few matches a year, no need to develop/sign players etc...