Forest should back Davies...

[Spring Heeled Jack]

So says some bloke from the Mirror.

Apologies if this has been posted, I cannay see it.

 

[lard]

Cracking.

 

[ianb78]

spot on.

The decision by Derby to sack him was ridiculous

If they had kept him they would probably have got promoted back to the premiership a year later following relegation

Football clubs are extremely short sighted nowadays

I only hope that Forest give him backing and time if we are to be promoted to the Premier League this season.

 

[sebs]

who's saying we wouldn't back him ???

 

[Spring Heeled Jack]

who's saying we wouldn't back him ???

Nobody, the point of it seems to be, that should we go up, we should back him if we come straight back down, or, keep him on when we're flundering like fish out of water in the Premiership. Something Derby didn't do, which perhaps could be one of the reasons they are so utterly shite now.

 

[gazzaw]

For me, he has done more than enough already to show that we should back this man long term.

If we do go up & come straight back down, well so what, better to have loved & to have lost than never to have loved at all.

We know ND has made some mistakes in the past, we know that MA isn't everyone's cup of tea but these men among others really do care what happens to our great club. We will not repeat the disgraceful treatment that Billy Davies received at Drabby

We have waited a long time for a new messiah, well he's here now, let's not piss him off.

 

[Rogue]

Look what happened the last time we had an ex-D*rby manager and let him 'spend a little'.

 

[Luke]

Unfortunately, most opf the reasonable Forest fans seem to be on here. IF we did go up, and IF we were shite, I feel alot of gobshite fans would expect us to be beating established Premiership teams with ease, and so if things didn't go our way for a long period of time fans would soon jump on Billy's back ...

 

[andyred]

If we do go up and get relegated we should definitely stick with Davies. He would be the best man to take us back up.

Birmingham stuck with Steve Bruce through a relegation and he took them back. More clubs should give good managers time.

Playing devils advocate though. If we'd stuck to this philosophy we would still have Calderwood in charge and not Davies.

 

[Red Duster]

If we do go up and get relegated we should definitely stick with Davies. He would be the best man to take us back up.

Birmingham stuck with Steve Bruce through a relegation and he took them back. More clubs should give good managers time.

Playing devils advocate though. If we'd stuck to this philosophy we would still have Calderwood in charge and not Davies.

We didnt give Colinwood time

He got us promo and looked to be taking us back down again :nowink:

Are you saying we should stick with King Billy if we're in the drop zone next boxing day? 8)

 

[ForestNo10]

I hope King Billy gets the players he wanted the club to sign this month like he said before the start of january.

didnt he say he'll walk if he didnt get the signings or was that paper talk?

 

[weasel]

Whether he was backed at Derby or not, I think he's learnt so much now and is in his absolute prime to make something big happen here, and I sincerely hope he does. The days of Darren Moore in a Billy Davies side look to have been banished once and for all one way or another.

I get what he's saying about going up too early, totally, but I don't happen to have quite so much fear about it. Look what Nial Quinn did at Sunderland, changed things around rapidly and they're an established Premier League side. With the current investment we're getting I see no reason why we couldn't get some big signings if we went up and easily mix it with the likes of Wigan and Blackburn. Why the bloody hell not?

 

[ThePatriot]

who's saying we wouldn't back him ???

To be honest I don't think it works like that. The backbone has to be built from within. You need to spend and get them playing before they get there then add to it. They need to gel and work their game out. Buying big players wont resolve anything unless they have replacements perhaps equally expensive. If you have a unit with a game plan then half the job is done. There would be no disgrace in going up and coming back down with the parachute payments to build a better foundation. The thing I like most about teams BD has built is -like BC- there are no superstars. They work as a unit and taking one player wouldn't destroy the team as replacements are there already. Grafting sides like Wimbledon, Hull, Burnley haven't had stars in their sides so you can't take one player and spoil them.

 

[NFFC Johan]

The fans back him and also the board do, otherwise they wouldnt of took the risk of spending so much money in the summer. They will be working on shorey or another left back and looking at majewski and i reckon if we sort or left back out then were strong enough to stay there. Also dont be too suprised if we make a good signing e.g a winger or maybe a striker...........

 

[king_congo_red]

For a moment there, I transposed a letter into the title of this thread and read it as...

'Forest should sack Davies... '

I was relieved to find out that rather than Springy having taken leave of his senses, it was just my stupidity.

 

[wakefield RED]

he looks to confident in what he is doing with our players to be sacked ?
the passing is beautiful!

 

[incapable hulk]

The problem is, if we do go up, and are bottom at christmas, there will be a vocal group demanding davies be sacked.

It always happens at forest. You only have to look at last season when billy kept us up last season, people saying no matter how we did this season we'll back billy. Yet a couple of games in and a few mediocre results- and there were already people saying he should go. Idiots I believe they are referred to as.

I have no doubt if we went up, and struggled- it would be exactly the same. We are a very fickle bunch of fans. I would genuinely hope though, that doughty would stick with him- and after the way he stuck with calderwood youd assume he would.

 

[MaxiRobriguez]

The difference between giving Billy time and not Colin was because the former was expected to get promotion and keep us in what is a very open league. He lucked out on the first task and failed miserably at the second.

Billy had a mid-table expectation at the start of the season and we're punching above our weight. If we get promoted we'll end up in a league where the promoted teams are expected to go down, unlike this one.

We're making great progress under Billy, we made slow and shallow progress under Colin.

 

[Daniel]

I don't care if we get relegated from the Premiership (should we make it there) next season, as long as we beat Derby's total. 8)

Davies should be given a 5 year deal.

 

[king_congo_red]

Davies should be given a 5 yearlifetime deal.

 

[Al LeftLion]

Absolutely, if we go up this year he has to be allowed to have the full season in the prem, even if we go down. He'll get us back there again and hopefully we'll be stronger for it.

I'm sure if we are bottom of the prem come christmas there will be calls for him to be sacked, but i will say right now, i won't be one of them and i'll be making it clear to anyone that says otherwise that they are an idiot.

 

[Daniel]

Absolutely, if we go up this year he has to be allowed to have the full season in the prem, even if we go down. He'll get us back there again and hopefully we'll be stronger for it.

I'm sure if we are bottom of the prem come christmas there will be calls for him to be sacked, but i will say right now, i won't be one of them and i'll be making it clear to anyone that says otherwise that they are an idiot.

Actually to be fair I think the majority for our fans are quite level headed... So fans calling for his head may actually not happen. As long as the board back him, or at least listen to his view and support it then we will be ok.

 

[earthworm]

Actually to be fair I think the majority for our fans are quite level headed... So fans calling for his head may actually not happen. As long as the board back him, or at least listen to his view and support it then we will be ok.

3 years of League 1 will do that for you, we know how much worse than gerrin' panned in the Prem it can get.

 

[yam]

Bassett was sacked after the board pulled the rug from under his feet, we were always up against it last time we made the prem. The PVH fiasco, selling Campbell and Cooper etc left us weak before we even started. I can't see our current board pulling similar stunts.

We still got almost 3 times as many points as Derby though.

 

[red_outlaw]

You've just brought memories (more like nightmares) of the lethal strike partnership of Dougie Freedman and Neil Shipperley flooding back, not to mention the likes of Nigel Quashie and Bernard Alloooouuuuu!