Rob Edwards - the prodigal son returns

[Del Woppio]

"Forest aside"?

Losses aside, I'm a brilliant gambler.

 

[HanDoJin]

Nuno and Mendes come as a pair, two halves of the same walnut. I'd rather we moved on

 

[Tredman]

Nuno and Mendes come as a pair, two halves of the same walnut. I'd rather we moved on

That will never happen under fosun

 

[Sedgley Wolf]

Grateful to Nuno for past glories, but wouldn`t take him back now. His track record since leaving hasn`t been great, Forest aside. Sometimes a Manager just clicks with a team, probably like Edwards did with Middlesborough to a degree. I think he would seriously struggle to get us out of this mess we are in.

An incredibly harsh take that also leaves out his Saudi title win (OK, it's a desert league but he still had three big rivals over there with similar budgets/talent to compete with)

West Ham's probably the biggest black mark to his name so far, but both they and Spurs are basket cases where plenty of respected coaches have tried and failed.

Only two words for his Forest spell? He got them into Europe just months after they almost went down!

 

[Alan]

We're less than 12 months removed of him replicating what he did here in 18/19 with more points and a worse squad at Forest.

“Worse squad” is in the eye of the beholder, I suppose. And we’re even fewer months from what he’s just done or not done at West Ham.

I suppose that it doesn’t seem likely to me that we’d suddenly be good again if Nuno came in tomorrow. Neither we nor he are the same as we were.

Anyway. I wouldn’t exactly be upset to have him back, I’m just not sure I see the benefit in pining.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Rui, Jonny, Boly, Neves, Moutinho, Raul and Jota of 2019 absolutely stroll into the Forest team of 2024/25.

 

[lemonjelly]

Nuno and Mendes come as a pair, two halves of the same walnut. I'd rather we moved on

Nuno had the strength to resist the foisted upon us signings that he didn't want. His successors didn't, and look where that got us.

 

[C.L.D]

Better than the one Celtic had

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Having grown up on CM/FM, I feel seen. One of us.

 

[Mel Evo]

He talks way too much to the players during the game. He’s simply ‘showing off’ rather than helping. To be fair he’s far from alone in this of course. But last week there were two occasions I saw right in front of me when the player he was barking at had to stop and look or lean in to hear what he was saying, and they simply played round us. Once someone just threw it straight over Bueno’s head as he turned back to listen.

I just don’t like a manager behaving like that during the match. Suggests they haven’t done the job in the prep, or know they should keep it simple, not add complexity. But plenty seem to do it, so what do I know…

 

[Lycan]

Sacked if he loses to Forest & Grimsby?

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

I can’t see him going before the end of the season.

 

[Lycan]

He'd be on 11 losses, 3 draws 1 win and out of the cup to lower league opposition in that scenario. You've got to start thinking about it.

 

[Tony Towner]

Not a chance. Who's sacking him? Not Shi II and Jackson is almost as invested in him as the other Shi was. If we get at least another 4 points he's here next season

 

[Kenny]

He'd be on 11 losses, 3 draws 1 win and out of the cup to lower league opposition in that scenario. You've got to start thinking about it.

Club have written off this season and not blaming Rob for any part of it.

We could end the season on 8 points and he will be here for the pre-season*




*hoping my prediction skills are still strong...

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Sacked if he loses to Forest & Grimsby?

No chance, but should he be?

Probably.

 

[NicholasG1973]

No chance, but should he be?

Probably.

Definitely.

He’s picking up all the shit from elsewhere, granted - but no one forced him to play that personnel and formation yesterday.

He’s not doing himself any favours.

It’s been done to death but Hwang is fucking awful and - whatever you think Doherty is - he’s never been a RB inn flat four.

If he can’t see at least that, I’d get rid of him today personally.

 

[Lycan]

I think he's dreadful, genuinely. I don't hate him at all, it would actually be really nice if he could have some kind of success here but I've got absolutely no faith in that happening.

For the life of me I can't work out what he was trying to achieve with that team selection yesterday, or what he thought was going to happen?

 

[Tony Towner]

The thing he has in common with every manager including final season Nuno is wanting to move away from the 3 centre halves and when trying to do so it being a failure - Lop being the exception.There's different reasons each time, but the end result is the same.

I think what we saw yesterday is the formation he'd ideally like to see us play - 4231. Whether he's here or not, we need to be asking the manager what system he wants and what style he wants to implement and recruit accordingly. It sounds simple and probably is for most clubs.

If it's not the desired formation there is absolutely no need to play with three centre halves in the Championship, so build a defence built for 4 at the back if that's what they want. Currently we don't have a right back and I'd argue left back either. Any of Bruno, Krejci, Mosquera or Toti could play in a 2 to varying degrees of success at that level depending on who is still here.

 

[Mel Evo]

The thing he has in common with every manager including final season Nuno is wanting to move away from the 3 centre halves and when trying to do so it being a failure - Lop being the exception.There's different reasons each time, but the end result is the same.

I think what we saw yesterday is the formation he'd ideally like to see us play - 4231. Whether he's here or not, we need to be asking the manager what system he wants and what style he wants to implement and recruit accordingly. It sounds simple and probably is for most clubs.

If it's not the desired formation there is absolutely no need to play with three centre halves in the Championship, so build a defence built for 4 at the back if that's what they want. Currently we don't have a right back and I'd argue left back either. Any of Bruno, Krejci, Mosquera or Toti could play in a 2 to varying degrees of success at that level depending on who is still here.

I think Wolfe IS a left back, but he has looked limited overall no matter where he’s playing. Could argue there’s a hope that level has simply been a result of being in this shambles of a team, under these shambolic managers. But it’s optimistic.

But Edwards should go. He won’t, but he should. Ultimately you could cut through all the arguments and simply say ‘he was the choice of Jeff Shi’. Look at those words and you know he should go.

 

[Tony Towner]

I think Wolfe IS a left back, but he has looked limited overall no matter where he’s playing. Could argue there’s a hope that level has simply been a result of being in this shambles of a team, under these shambolic managers. But it’s optimistic.

But Edwards should go. He won’t, but he should. Ultimately you could cut through all the arguments and simply say ‘he was the choice of Jeff Shi’. Look at those words and you know he should go.

I'd agree he is one, however in limited time on the pitch how many goals has he been either partly or full responsible for? Got to be 3 or 4