15-06-2019, 01:17 PM
(15-06-2019, 10:15 AM)Sniffer Dog Wrote: My confidence and feel good factor in MON and RK is growing.
I think MoN and Roy did a decent job with a team and squad that wasn't theirs.
The tactical flexibility and the way the team was set up to counter each opponent e.g. Preston (completely neutralised...) augers well for the future.
Even the quick but incisive action to bring in the CHs to cover a back line that had been on verge of a crisis and finally was.
I'm sure if they could have brought in an additional striker and winger they would have done. But hard to do that in January? And that, along with Grabban being injured for how many games and being off form before that accounts for the points dropped. You're not winning games without your star striker. And Forest deemed having 1 'unfit' striker good enough for all season. Madness. Just just having Dawson, an ageing classic, thrashed at CH. It was never going to work all season. The back line and front line evidence the same flawed recruitment policy from the Summer whilst being overloaded with an abundance of CMs, many of whom, didn't play an awful lot.
It must be remembered that not having your key striker is a recipe for struggle. As Brian Clough found out after he let Teddy Sheringham go. It doomed him. And Forest.
If that's what they can do without their own players, I can't wait to see what they can do with their own players. I'm expecting far more robust recruitment, players who will 'die' for the cause.
And when he's had a year doing that. Then any fair comparisons to managers past can be drawn. He's a Forest legend with a glittering CV.
That deserves time. At least a year. (Although that may seem a long time in this 'Twitter-short-attention-span-over-stimulated' times.)
SA.