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A contender for most bizarre managerial decisions ever, on a day that they beat Leads to take them on the fringe of the playoffs.

They want someone with Premiership experience, apparently.

Weird!

Must already have a man ready.

Keane or Di Matteo seems likely.

they WILL live to regret it

already seen 5 tweets from forest players (2 of which he didnt even pick regularly) saying he was a pleasure to work for learned the most they ever had e.t.c

i am still convinced they would have gone down last season, almost as soon as he came in as a coach he turned them around

unfourtantley he has next to no interest in being best mates with everybody in the media and is this day and age that side is only getting bigger

i am not sure he will get another chance now, he should at least in the championship if not higher but he should have got another chance earlier after donny and only got into forest through his coaching there

Yeah there's loads of terrible premiership managers. He certainly polished turds at Donny.
Billy sharpe is quality and they should get him signed up ASAP.

WTF, very strange.  Can't understand for a minute why anybody would hire Keane again.

Curbishley?

He's one of the two managers I'd accept when the inevitable parting of ways with Keith Hill occurs (too many fans now switched to the 'Hill out' camp for him to survive, IMO).  If we get him or Owen Coyle then I don't think relegation would be a nailed on certainty.

Don't see Curbs managing again anywhere. Been out a very long time in footballing terms.

I would think so aswell, just putting names out there.  I agree with you they must have someone lined up already to do this. 

Keane is an old boy but it's not like there was any rush to snatch him up, in case someone else got him first.

The sooner he can prove how football should be played the better. I went into mourning when he left rovers. Fantastic ideology. If Keane comes in they've got no shot at promotion no matter who they bring in

Dear o dear.....this is just crazy, or at least I thought it was 2 hrs ago.  Let me try to explain.

Performances this season have been mediocre at best for a large part of the season, I am gutted that they have got rid of Sean as he has certainly improved us this season what with the upheaval over the last 9 months or so.

Ultimately, he has been setting our team up to not lose on many occasions and some of the performances, namely Watford last week, Hull before that, were awful.  On paper, we have got a very strong squad, particularly in the attacking 3rd, but 1 or 2 donkeys at the back which make us look vulnerable to pace.

Seems like the owners are either very ambitious and have cash to spend or are very daft and will appoint either Keane or Hughes.

I pray that it is neither of these and they will splash out on say Roberto Di Matteo.  The reality is, is that Roy Keane was at the ground today and we are doomed.

Please, one time, not Keane or Hughes.

Oh, and if this sacking had happened last week after Watford, or after 30 mins of todays shite, it would be totally justified.

Timing is very strange.

Of the top 5 in betting: (although only SkyBet so doesnt mean a lot)

Roy Keane - surely not, been out of management a while and wasnt any good when he managed b4 anyway

Mark Hughes - possibly. Kind of a big name tho, but never been a big fan of his

Di Matteo - makes quite a lot of sense. Done it b4 with WBA, owner got plenty of £. Big name and would be huge coo for them to get last seasons CL winning manager in. Plus this was done so hastily points towards Roberto as they didnt wna miss out on him

Warnock - yeah, your not having him. sorry.

Paul Jewell - just LOL, surely not.

Guess it could be Coyle, Curbs, but doubt they offer the style of football the owners want to see.

The idea of replacing O'Driscoll with Keane is laughable.

I hope for Forest fans sake its not Keane.

O'Driscoll will make a quality coach/asst manager for someone. Excellent coach.

ChipRich, where is your 20/1 tip?

After your Rodgers to Liverpool coo, your followers at chomping at the bit.

I think Forest have underachieved this year.  I don't think it's an unreasonable sacking given he had had funds to bring in a fair few players.

They were awful against us (Watford) last week despite looking good on paper.

There were several performances like the Watford one.  Not a shock in some ways, just the timing after a good win makes it look bad.

Mcleish favourite now.....oh dear.

My opinion is that anyone decent already has a job apart from 1 manager, and that obviously isn't going to happen.

mcleish

 best of luck

certainly the last time you have seen the ball being passed around for a while

What about Mark Hughes or Alan Curbishley?

Or Big Ron....

Nottingham Forest appoint Alex McLeish as their new manager

Regards

M

Sad day for a wonderful club :-(.

Could be worse, Hughes or Keano.

Hope he takes us up or the whole thing will be a farce of epic proportions.

Very odd, Simon, isn't it?

Statistically the worst Aston Villa manager ever, took Birmingham down

Can't see Billy Sharp ampongst others wanting to play for him....

 So a manager that has achieved a 29% win rate over 5 years as a top flight manager is going to get Nottingham Forest Promotion

Joke

Regards

M

Just lol

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A_JhVQKCAAEwF2V.jpg:large)

 :D


(just waiting for our Thai numpties to be the next wtf chairment to sack a manager now)

he must be a great interviewer

he does not even come across charismatic in the press

madness

I can't bring myself to describe how gutted and depressed I am.

End thread, please someone, switch the lights off.

An awful 24 hrs.

Horrible horrible appointment. He might manage some short term success but it's a certainty when he leaves Firest will be in a poorer state than they are now.

I was going to post this then decided to scroll up. Billy sharp has already tweeted his displeasure. Its a horrific appointment, I can only pray SOD gets another chance because if not I really believe Britain will miss out on a fantastic manager who will have been utterly wasted. I have no doubt Doncaster would be 5x likelier to be in the Championship if he had stayed in charge. His brand of football was truly extraordinary at Doncaster, the Telegraph even described us as the Arsenal of the North, a quote a will never ever forget. I'd absolutely love to see what he could do with a fantastic footballing side, if he got given the players he would damn well develop a Barcelona esque side.

In b4 well typed drunken hyperbole.

What's history between McLeish and sharp?

I don't think there is any history........it's just that Sean was appointed after player consultation, and was popular.  Sharp has already expressed his shock at the managerial exit via that horrible social media outlet called Twitter.

Our owner regularly communicates via Twitter and some of the abuse on their is just embarrassing and shameful, even if the vast majority of us are well fooked off, it still not nice to see.

hasn't he invited a fan to piss on his children?

I never understand why some managers get chance after chance after repeatedly showing themselves to be incompetent?

"I'd absolutely love to see what he could do with a fantastic footballing side, if he got given the players he would damn well develop a Barcelona esque side."

Being realistic he was given a decent budget by Forest and did bring in his own players.

Didn't get too much of a chance. I'd like the dreamland 5 year plan for it, won't happen though.

Doubt it will happen anywhere anymore.  Last guy I can remember given that much time was Fergie 20 years ago.

I would expect the majority of Forest fans think they now have a worse manager.

Alex McLeish - The biggest threat to the future of an English Forest since Ash dieback disease.

I assume mccleish is very good schmoozer/ interviewer and knows what chairmen want to hear.

Never seen so much anger and disappointment towards a new Forest manager, ever.

Hope he proves us all wrong. (can't see it)

Anyone watching Soccer Am?

The Villa and Brum fans say we can look forward to playing with 11 men behind the ball, and they were trying their best not to slate Mcleish.

Not happy.

Let's hope we can attract him to Oakwell now that there's officially a vacancy there.

McLeish? :)

You wish!

Do you think the time was right to remove Keith Hill Sheriff?  Or do you think he was simply doing as well as can be expected with resources?  What an odd league that a team that can win 5-0 the road finds itself bottom a few months later.

I've been one of the dwindling numbers of supporters backing him in recent weeks but seeing him in the dugout yesterday changed my mind by half-time.  He was a different person, rooted to his seat instead of managing from the technical area as he'd normally do (by all accounts he did the same on Boxing Day too).  It seemed to me like he'd given up, which meant the time had come.

I'll be happy if we could attract SOD or Owen Coyle, but have reservations that either will come as any manager at present has to work under a commercially inept General Manager and an owner who's too ill to attend games and is trying to sell the club.  Gut feel tells me we're doomed to the drop this time, no matter who is in charge, but the underlying cause of that goes back to Mark Robins' departure over a further reduction in budgets.  Since then, it's always been a matter of when, not if, and the dwindling crowds over that time are a symbol of what the fanbase in general thought of this.

Worrying times, as League One will be a sod for us to get back out of anytime soon.

Yep - League 1 is such a hard league to play in.  I remember some of the games when we were down there 10 years back - really attritional stuff.

He takes up the Bristol City job. Very surprised tbh.

Especially as he declared his 'need for time' as the reason for not taking our offer.

Looks pretty classless as a result.

Meh, better to say he needs time than "you're not good/big enough for me" which was probably his real reason.

Either way, joining a club who are below us in the league, attract similar crowds to us and are massively in debt looks a very odd step after a further week.  Would have thought the Blackpool job had more potential for him, but presumably this is solely a financial decision on his part.

No problem with him going elsewhere.  I just wish he'd been honest about things as far as we were concerned.

Bristol City have always felt to me like a club which could achieve something with their catchment area.  Nobody has ever come close though - not sure they have ever featured in the Champ playoffs?  Maybe O'Driscoll can unlock their potential, although their current squad looks in need of a total overhaul.

O'Driscoll working with some of the talented players at Bloomfield Road would have been dreamy.

Friend of mine is a season ticket holder at Blackpool and I don't think he's too impressed with their board/owner

'When O'Driscoll knocks you back to go to the club bottom of the league and in a right financial mess you know you got problems'


On Peter Houston's possible appointment at Blackpool.

'Appointment perfect for Oyston. Compensation probably be small and fans expectations are at an all time low. He will be hoping for us to keep doing shit so he doesn't have to spend a penny and can keep the prem money paying his Dad millions more for the next 2 years'

Hilarious!

Football is getting silly

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21338533

had Sean still been there I am sure things would have been healthier.

Billy Davies been having talks with Blackpool, apparently Oyston has made an offer and Davies has until tonight to decide. Hopefully this will turn his head, he'll jog Oyston on and the Blackpool job will go to Thommo!

SOD did turn down Burnley whilst at Doncaster. Something about the training facilities being poor was the rumour at the time. Always made me smile because Doncaster train in a park!