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We need to talk about Nottingham Forest.

Final position

  • Top 4

    Votes: 21 7.8%

  • Other European Qualification

    Votes: 70 25.9%

  • Top 10 outside Europe

    Votes: 53 19.6%

  • Complete capitulation bottom half.

    Votes: 126 46.7%
  • Total voters
    270


Saint Domingo said:
4 points adrift in the relegation zone when he turned up. 4 points clear of it now. All within 6 league games. 2 European wins to boot in there as well.

Turning dire situations around, it’s what he does.
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With the squad he has available at Forest, he bloody well should have. As for turning dire situations around, we stayed up comfortably even with points deductions because there were three teams vastly more horrible than we were. And he turned that situation around all right -- he had us heading for the trap door when he left, tail between his legs.
You're normally a very sound poster, SD, but I can't for the life of me understand the slurping of the scotch egg. Would you really want him back here?
 

canuckblue said:
With the squad he has available at Forest, he bloody well should have. As for turning dire situations around, we stayed up comfortably even with points deductions because there were three teams vastly more horrible than we were. And he turned that situation around all right -- he had us heading for the trap door when he left, tail between his legs.
You're normally a very sound poster, SD, but I can't for the life of me understand the slurping of the scotch egg. Would you really want him back here?
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Well half of it is just to rage bait some in here who foam at the mouth at the mention of his name.

I give him credit for keeping us up from the horrendous situation we were in in Jan 23. That was his biggest achievement in my view. There was one poor team that year in Southampton. That Leicester team and Leeds teams were not that bad. I think we had t the 19th worst squad that year, and it got decimated further by injuries to Calvert Lewin. This fixture list was horrendous and yet he kept the club up.

He could do what he liked after that point as far as I was concerned as in Jan 23 when Lampard was fired, Gordon sold, no striker brought in, Arsenal at Goodison next, and then Calvert Lewin gets injured, I thought we were gone.

That would have meant no Friedkins, no new stadium, or we’d have to sell it and lease it back, fire sale of all player assets, administration and further points deductions. We weren’t far off not being able to pay people as it was so we’d have probably been wound up.

Dyche prevented all that by taking a job that Bielsa turned his nose up at. So yeah I forgive some of the stuff that occurred in his final season when there really were three poor teams.

People brush off his 23/24 season because there were three worst teams but at one point w head 10 point deduction with the prospect of another hanging over us. To take a team that had been in two consecutive relegation battles and shrug that off without letting it cause a death spiral was good management, so was the 48 points achieved with those players.

It can all be revised away now as there were three worst teams but it’s just historical revisionism. The threat to this club was real at the time and Dyche dealt with it. Couldn’t care less if everyone hated him for doing it. We’re all enjoying a shiny new Everton now full of nice things because he grafted in the absolute mud to keep this club going.
 

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