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We need to talk about Nottingham Forest.

Final position

  • Top 4

    Votes: 21 7.8%

  • Other European Qualification

    Votes: 69 25.7%

  • Top 10 outside Europe

    Votes: 53 19.7%

  • Complete capitulation bottom half.

    Votes: 126 46.8%
  • Total voters
    269

carolinablue232 said:
He couldn’t get a win in something like 14 here. Stop.
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Kept Everton safe for two of the worst seasons in the club's history when we were threatened with existential wipeout.

Make no mistake: if we hadn't have brought Dyche in when we did we'd still be in freefall now - fighting to stay in the Championship.

Let's just retain a little bit of class and be grateful for his efforts here, eh?
 
davek said:
Kept Everton safe for two of the worst seasons in the club's history when we were threatened with existential wipeout.

Make no mistake: if we hadn't have brought Dyche in when we did we'd still be in freefall now - fighting to stay in the Championship.

Let's just retain a little bit of class and be grateful for his efforts here, eh?
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Existenial wipeout lol. You got those drama queen pants on again.

Back to forest. He's fell on his feet there massively. Thats a very decent squad. It should be. Its had a sh!t load of money pumped into it.
Its almost the perfect fit. Walks into a squad invested in. A sort of local forest boy. His two backroom staff are ex popular Forest boys. Why he never got the job over Ange is a mystery.
He never liked Everton. And Everton never really liked him.
 
Gilbert.. said:
Existenial wipeout lol. You got those drama queen pants on again.

Back to forest. He's fell on his feet there massively. Thats a very decent squad. It should be. Its had a sh!t load of money pumped into it.
Its almost the perfect fit. Walks into a squad invested in. A sort of local forest boy. His two backroom staff are ex popular Forest boys. Why he never got the job over Ange is a mystery.
He never liked Everton. And Everton never really liked him.
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What would you call freefall? And we would have been in the Championship for sure and with massive debt and no owners willing to pump £110M into any team down there under those circumstances.

We'd have been in the process of doing a Leeds right now...but, yeah: 'gravy tits' etc etc.
 

davek said:
What would you call freefall? And we would have been in the Championship for sure and with massive debt and no owners willing to pump £110M into any team down there under those circumstances.

We'd have been in the process of doing a Leeds right now...but, yeah: 'gravy tits' etc etc.
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There was a strong possibility while you're on that subject if he hadnt gone when he did that "extinction" was happening. We were no better than the bottom 3. Beaten twice by Southampton who were by a distance one of the worst teams seen in this league.
Its gone now. Im no longer arsed.
But as its a forest thread. He's absolutely landed on his feet there with that squad.
 
Gilbert.. said:
There was a strong possibility while you're on that subject if he hadnt gone when he did that "extinction" was happening. We were no better than the bottom 3. Beaten twice by Southampton who were by a distance one of the worst teams seen in this league.
Its gone now. Im no longer arsed.
But as its a forest thread. He's absolutely landed on his feet there with that squad.
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That just doesn't stand up and you know it.

Those three were cemented into the Championship by the time Dyche leaves and they hardly picked up a point afterward.
 
My view on him has not and will not change.

Did a good job keeping up morale and effort during the points deduction. Had to go when he did. It was getting bad, very, very bad.

Never disliked him, seems a decent enough guy, but would never wish what he was serving to us, last season, on anybody.
 

wandyr79 said:
My view on him has not and will not change.

Did a good job keeping up morale and effort during the points deduction. Had to go when he did. It was getting bad, very, very bad.

Never disliked him, seems a decent enough guy, but would never wish what he was serving to us, last season, on anybody.
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Thing is, we finished on what should have been 48 points, so the squad was clearly good enough to withstand the deductions. That and the supporters is what got us through that season -- that and the fact there were three absolutely horrid teams in Luton, Burnley and Sheffield United. Even after taking over from Lampard the season before, he didn't really have us rocketing up the table. But he definitely had us heading for relegation at the time he left. Wish him well at Forest, but he really didn’t pull up any trees at Everton.
 
canuckblue said:
Thing is, we finished on what should have been 48 points, so the squad was clearly good enough to withstand the deductions. That and the supporters is what got us through that season -- that and the fact there were three absolutely horrid teams in Luton, Burnley and Sheffield United. Even after taking over from Lampard the season before, he didn't really have us rocketing up the table. But he definitely had us heading for relegation at the time he left. Wish him well at Forest, but he really didn’t pull up any trees at Everton.
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I think these are fair points.

I just feel that praise has to go his way, as he was manager of the team. There are plenty of managers who would have given off defeatist vibes, I don't think he did and therefore was part of the reason we did survive that year.
 

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