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It doesn’t stand up to even basic scrutiny.
So a tiny club, with minuscule resources and a small fan base used to the bottom end of the pyramid has modest success no L2/L1 playing with teenagers and you think that we should have a go?.
Quite apart from the large number of practical
Reasons it wouldn’t work here, have you thought what would happen when said team of kids got back to back spankings away for example at Blackburn and Middlesborough when they come up against the wily old foxes that manage those clubs and know exactly how to set up to neutralise and then eviserate a team of kids?. Fact is that far from “showing patience” the entitled fan base at Forest would turn on the team, manager and owner in the face of sustained negative results. How do you think Warnock will be feeling if Lincoln are promoted?-guaranteed 6 points thats how. There would be unhappiness at Forest in the stands in the press and on social Merida (like here). The Manager would be sacked at some point and we would be back to square one.
And god help us is we had a season like this one and those kids found themselves in the bottom 5 fighting for their lives against relegation. I wonder how the flowing, champagne football would fare then?.
I’m a dyed in the wool, on the deck, free flowing attacking football fan-thats one of the reasons I got into Forest when I was younger. I believe we will see it again one day but it will only come in the modern era with balance, and real patience, under a good manager, not one extreme approach or another which are doomed 98% of the time before they’ve even started
I agree, theres a fine line between success & failure in this league & compromising our defensive foundations for the sake of entertainment doesn't feel like a good plan.
Hughtons retained the lamouchi solidity, he's also evolved things going forward, working within the obvious limitations of out of form/injured players.
Seen nothing to suggest a few quality additions wouldn't give us a sustainable two way plan that's easier on the eye & more competitive.