Sean O'Driscoll sacked by Nottingham Forest! McLeish walking already?

JPA · 27-12-2012 04:39PM

McLeish 1/5 with PP.

eek!

grenache · 27-12-2012 04:59PM

JPA wrote: »

McLeish 1/5 with PP.

eek!

Somebody tell me this is a bad dream.

CSF · 27-12-2012 08:11PM

JPA wrote: »

McLeish 1/5 with PP.

eek!

Poor Forest!!! How does this fool keep getting jobs?

EdenHazard · 27-12-2012 08:28PM

Managed Rangers to Europa League final, pretty decent.

Dempsey · 27-12-2012 08:59PM

EdenHazard wrote: »

Managed Rangers to Europa League final, pretty decent.

No he didnt!

Leiva · 27-12-2012 09:07PM

EdenHazard wrote: »

Managed Rangers to Europa League final, pretty decent.

Kiwi_knock · 27-12-2012 09:14PM

McLeish appointed as Forest boss.

Excellent appointment, I am sure all of Forest's fans are overjoyed. Lovely attacking football from them in the future.

Kiwi_knock · 27-12-2012 09:19PM

Chairman Fawaz Al Hasawi said: “I’m delighted to welcome Alex to our Club and look forward to working with him.

“Alex took Birmingham to promotion from the Championship and has great experience of working in the Premier League.

“He’s hungry for more success and I believe he’s the man who can help us fulfil our ambition of making it to the Premier League.”

Do not forget he relegated Birmingham twice, can not leave that off the amazing C.V.

grenache · 27-12-2012 09:35PM

Kiwi_knock wrote: »

McLeish appointed as Forest boss.

Excellent appointment, I am sure all of Forest's fans are overjoyed. Lovely attacking football from them in the future.

I expect our fans to reject him from the start as the Villa fans did last season. We were used to flowing passing football under O'Driscoll and Davies. McLeish is the parallel opposite.

I feel sick.

thebaz · 27-12-2012 09:48PM

what an awful appointment - lets sack the manager , who did alright given limited investment , and appoint a manager who plays anti football , given forests pedigree of playing the game in the right way

Keano · 27-12-2012 09:57PM

Disgusted! Owners showing they really are clueless now

Oat23 · 27-12-2012 10:01PM

Thank god I happened to start supporting two member-owned clubs.

McLeish

ctrl-alt-delete · 27-12-2012 10:06PM

Can't believe McCleish has picked up another job.
As others have said - he took Birmingham down twice, yes he won a League Cup, but he went on to nearly take Villa down.

Orchard Rebel · 27-12-2012 10:18PM

Seems to have got it based on taking Birmingham up in 2009. However that was a side that was already too good for the Championship. This Forest side isn't.

If he is shrewd in the transfer market then maybe we have a chance. However, if he sticks to the negativity he showed at Villa, the Forest fans will be on his back from the start....

Dempsey · 27-12-2012 10:34PM

Yep, if he does pull it off, even plays football that the fans like and gets them all onside (which will be a miracle), those owners are likely to "trade up" depending on who's available.

JPA · 27-12-2012 10:38PM

Feel massively sorry for Forest.
McLeish talks a good game but is completely and utterly clueless tactically. He has not got a clue how to deploy attacking players.
Can't believe he's got another job in England.

EdenHazard · 27-12-2012 10:55PM

Teams have to get relegated. Birmingham on paper should go down and they did, Villa show this season they are useless, so McCleish prob got as much as he could or anyone could out of the players available. I'm not saying he's some great manager but whose to say he won't get Nottm Forest promoted?

grenache · 27-12-2012 11:11PM

Bet the Sheep fans are having a right good laugh at this.

Why are there so many clueless people in positions of power within football?!

CSF · 27-12-2012 11:22PM

EdenHazard wrote: »

Teams have to get relegated. Birmingham on paper should go down and they did, Villa show this season they are useless, so McCleish prob got as much as he could or anyone could out of the players available. I'm not saying he's some great manager but whose to say he won't get Nottm Forest promoted?

Think you're just trying to make up for being wrong about the Europa League to be honest. McLeish is pure turd.

Francie Barrett · 27-12-2012 11:31PM

McLeish will have them playing awful putrid stuff. Amazing O'Driscoll was sacked for such an ordinary manager.

yabadabado · 28-12-2012 12:33AM

feel sorry for Forest fans.McLeish plays horrid football ,madness how some of these lads keep getting jobs.

Kiwi_knock · 28-12-2012 12:39AM

McLeish is well liked by the media though, most of them are saying that he is a good appointment and that he coped well with difficult situations at Birmingham and Villa. I can not see any Forest fan falling for that, McLeish is a woeful manager who only manages to get results due to his negative defensive tactics.

Corholio · 28-12-2012 01:54AM

EdenHazard wrote: »

Teams have to get relegated. Birmingham on paper should go down and they did, Villa show this season they are useless, so McCleish prob got as much as he could or anyone could out of the players available. I'm not saying he's some great manager but whose to say he won't get Nottm Forest promoted?

He didn't. His tactic's were utterly woeful at times. It's a bit black and white to just say theyre not doing well now so he musn't be as bad. He was.

GavRedKing · 28-12-2012 10:17AM

I had a buddy who hadnt been over to Villa Park in a few years until he went over 3 times from January this year util the end of the season.

His reason, he genuinely thought Villa would be relegated under McLeish and wanted to see them in the EPL a few times before they were dragged down.

McLeish is a bluffer.

Corholio · 28-12-2012 01:23PM

GavRedKing wrote: »

I had a buddy who hadnt been over to Villa Park in a few years until he went over 3 times from January this year util the end of the season.

His reason, he genuinely thought Villa would be relegated under McLeish and wanted to see them in the EPL a few times before they were dragged down.

McLeish is a bluffer.

Any chance he could go see them again? Hopefully get the same result at the end of the season :pac:

v3ttel · 28-12-2012 03:44PM

Forrest deserve a lot better than McLeish. Why not stick with O'Driscoll? Or at least, if they sacked him, make sure it's for somebody that is a significant step up?

grenache · 02-01-2013 01:02AM

Well that was a good start for Big 'Eck today!

Esse85 · 02-01-2013 08:38AM

When spoofers like Sepp Blatter get jobs at the highest level then it's easy for the likes of McUseless to land something further down the food chain.

LuckyLloyd · 02-01-2013 01:00PM

Eh, who gives a **** what kind of football he plays? If he gets Forest promoted playing long ball stuff is grenache and the likes going to be in here claiming they would prefer to be knocking it about in the Championship?

grenache · 03-01-2013 03:25AM

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

Eh, who gives a **** what kind of football he plays? If he gets Forest promoted playing long ball stuff is grenache and the likes going to be in here claiming they would prefer to be knocking it about in the Championship?

I'd rather be playing decent football in the Championship than hoofball in the Prem. Forest fans since the days of Johnny Carey in the 60s have been reared on neat passing football.

In any case I don't think it'll come to that as McCleish can't hack it in the PL. And unless he can somehow guide us to an unlikely promotion, he'll probably be getting his marching orders too in the summer.

Sean O'Driscoll sacked by Nottingham Forest! McLeish walking already?

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