Your Thoughts On The Current Nottingham Forest Manager

[Strawberry Avenger]

Last seasons piss poor finish under Martin has nothing to do with his history with us.

Obfuscate as much as you want but we finished short of where we should and regardless of who was in charge it wasn’t good enough.

I wouldn't say it was piss poor, we won three on the trot for the first time in years.

Prior to that we went to Wast Brom and bossed them, we went to Preston and bossed them too, we also destroyed Boro at home. The situation is know where near as bad as some people like to make out.

I would. 

On 1st March we were three points off the playoffs and FIVE points ahead of Villa with twelve games to go. The fact we didn’t make the playoffs despite winning three on the trot speaks for itself and the results in the final few games only blurred the lines on how bad it was. 

Hopefully we can do some decent business this summer and get the season off on the front foot.

can i ask, what was your opinion of Karanka's first 20 games?

there was a few weeks where we had no CB's, and AK had loaned a good one to Rangers.

AK signed around 25 players yet we were also lacking up front and academy players were climbing over bodies to feature regularly in the starting 11 in midfield

'piss poor' ... in comparison to who?  M o N's win percentage is higher than any manager this century and the 8 wins from 19 games was really very respectable taking into account the reality and comparison to any other actual past performance

The facts are we have the best manager in the division, he has won more than all the others put together, Karanka had 1 promotion with a squad that was worth around £40 to £50 million and involved 47 signings over 2 and half seasons

Anyone who thinks Karanka or any other manager in the championship is better than M o N is on cloud cuckoo, last season we finished 17th, the season before survived on gd, this season was alive most of the time and we finish the season with 3 wins to nothing

The £25m or whatever AK spent only brought our squad into line with the top half teams, but i think we all know that for every 5 players AK brought in only 1 is actually any good to us now.

Karankerism has left us with a huge mess and it is very fortunate we have a decent manager to sort it out.

I really really hope Karanka ends up at Derby, this would make things very interesting.

Brilliant post.  Pick out Karanka's 1st 20 games on here.  And it was brutal stuff.  The Karanka love fest was in no way evident during the 1st 20 games.  He couldn't buy a win.  But we recognise what it was.  Survival football whilst a manager builds and assesses his squad.  

And that is how you compare managers.  Not something you can do in isolation.

Boro' had a losing streak of 6.  They pick up and finish 1 point out the play offs despite being in them for most of the season.   I'd rather be Forest than Boro'.

SA.