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Ex-Wolf Watch

Elephant Pyjamas said:
There was SO much moaning about our lack of possession, the desire to switch to 4 at the back, us being negative and boring!? That's not revisionism, I remember it vividly!

Like I mentioned, it was most virile on the fan podcasts where fans wanted him out months before he left.
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Oh my word. But we weren't winning games?
 
Fans are allowed to be critical of their manager, that's not necessarily the same as wanting him sacked, or negates what he'd done before the dodgy season
 
prawnking said:
Fans are allowed to be critical of their manager, that's not necessarily the same as wanting him sacked, or negates what he'd done before the dodgy season
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Of course, I'm saying that there were fans that wanted Nuno sacked months before he left. It's revisionism to suggest there wasnt!

Fans moaned about our shape, our lack of possession, that we were boring, it happened, I'm not making it up :ROFLMAO:
 
prawnking said:
Fans are allowed to be critical of their manager, that's not necessarily the same as wanting him sacked, or negates what he'd done before the dodgy season
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As I alluded to earlier:

1) Non-use of Gibbs-White was weird (and probably paid a part in him more or less forcing a move 18 months later)

2) Non-use of Vitinha even more weird (and cost us a £60m player that we'd agreed to sign for a fraction of the price)

3) Awful team to put out in the cup when we weren't doing anything in the league and had as good as a 0% chance of going down

And some of the football was awful, without a doubt. But with massive mitigating circumstances and that entire season is just plain weird and an odd outlier (look at the ratio of away wins across the league, never happened before, will never happen again).

I cannot countenance anyone actively wanting him to be sacked. It was fucking bizarre. And here we are.
 
Deutsch Wolf said:
As I alluded to earlier:

1) Non-use of Gibbs-White was weird (and probably paid a part in him more or less forcing a move 18 months later)

2) Non-use of Vitinha even more weird (and cost us a £60m player that we'd agreed to sign for a fraction of the price)

3) Awful team to put out in the cup when we weren't doing anything in the league and had as good as a 0% chance of going down

And some of the football was awful, without a doubt. But with massive mitigating circumstances and that entire season is just plain weird and an odd outlier (look at the ratio of away wins across the league, never happened before, will never happen again).

I cannot countenance anyone actively wanting him to be sacked. It was fucking bizarre. And here we are.
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Absolutely. People were so fucking ungrateful. Blows my mind
 
He may have turned it around, but maybe he knew to get out at the right time.

Like I said, will always be a legend here
 
prawnking said:
He may have turned it around, but maybe he knew to get out at the right time.

Like I said, will always be a legend here
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He will have known the direction of travel.

If you believe that Nuno Espirito Santo wanted to sell Diogo Jota and spend all the money on Fabio Silva and Ki-Jana Hoever then I have some magic beans that you may be interested in.
 
Del Woppio said:
We were absolutely wank for the last months of Nuno's time here. Dire, turgid, slow, scared football.
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It was football without any soul, nobody in the ground, players largely going through the motions, goal music reverberating in an empty stadium, 12 year olds on Twitter informing Shi's decisions. It wasn't the time to pass any judgements as long as we stayed up, which we did, comfortably.

All that said, he and Shi were done so it was when not if
 
Elephant Pyjamas said:
Of course, I'm saying that there were fans that wanted Nuno sacked months before he left. It's revisionism to suggest there wasnt!

Fans moaned about our shape, our lack of possession, that we were boring, it happened, I'm not making it up :ROFLMAO:
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Oh I don't disagree that some people probably wanted him sacked, don't recall much of that on here and it may have been more kids/twats on social media?

Lack of possession didn't bother me, but I did feel our identity had devolved into an over-cautious, dry and neutered one, without any of the attacking threat we had previously.
 
So we're crap, boring, slow for 12 months?
Eve so managed a comfy mid table. So the answer is to sack the manager who had previously given us the best 3 seasons of most of our lives. Then follow with 3 and a half (so far) seasons of absolute garbage. Yep sounds like a good plan.
I agree the end wasn't great but surely you give him a season to turn it round?
 
prawnking said:
Oh I don't disagree that some people probably wanted him sacked, don't recall much of that on here and it may have been more kids/twats on social media?

Lack of possession didn't bother me, but I did feel our identity had devolved into an over-cautious, dry and neutered one, without any of the attacking threat we had previously.
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Without repeating my previous post, I just thought that season was just a load of nothing, I stopped watching games from about half way through as it was about the PL not having to pay tv companies back too much money rather than a sporting competition. Deutsch has summed up the issues within that which have hurt us since
 
sycophantia said:
So we're crap, boring, slow for 12 months?
Eve so managed a comfy mid table. So the answer is to sack the manager who had previously given us the best 3 seasons of most of our lives. Then follow with 3 and a half (so far) seasons of absolute garbage. Yep sounds like a good plan.
I agree the end wasn't great but surely you give him a season to turn it round?
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Wasn't the official line 'by mutual agreement'? I don't think that's completely accurate but I think he was OK with ending his chapter there. He wasn't the same Nuno of 2018/19, he may well have took us backwards the year after too, and been properly sacked, without a farewell home game etc.

No certainties in football, and everything comes to an end
 
prawnking said:
Wasn't the official line 'by mutual agreement'? I don't think that's completely accurate but I think he was OK with ending his chapter there. He wasn't the same Nuno of 2018/19, he may well have took us backwards the year after too, and been properly sacked, without a farewell home game etc.

No certainties in football, and everything comes to an end
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He was happy to be off, no doubt about that. Took the wrong job at the time his best player went on strike, which killed his reputation over here. Went to Saudi won tbe league with the side that didn't have Ronaldo. Came back to Forest and here we are. The very first part of that could have been avoided if Jeff Shi wasn't a twat
 
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