Forest sack Freedman

[Ernest]

Let's hope they bounce against Hull on Tuesday

 

[Motogull]

I'm beginning to think that there must be 'something of the night' about Nigel Pearson, did an amazing job in getting Leicester into the Premier League, only to get the sack not too long afterwards.

Frankly I'm amazed, that with the managerial merry-go-round that we are all now on, no one else has taken a punt on him long ago.

He was a bit of a twunt in his last knockings at Leicester as I recall.

 

[Stat Brother]

He was a bit of a twunt in his last knockings at Leicester as I recall.

And you can be 100% certain that if twunt is what the public are aware of, the real truth is considerably worse.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Pearson is going to be spoilt for choice.

He's going to be managing 2 clubs..clever chap...though could come unstuck when they both meet

 

[fleet]

They play Hull Tuesday

Hope for that "manager just sacked reaction" and Forest sneak the win!

 

[8ace]

THE most overdue sacking in the history of Association Football in England and Wales since Ochtermochty AFC first ran a pigs bladder 23 miles and slotted it betwen the sticks of the Jottleborough 24 miles away to make the score 2 flagons of mead to 0 in AD 980.
Why the hell Forest ever employed him after his underwhelming tenure at Bolton makes the mind boggle, it really does.

Why so catty about "Dishy Douglas"

 

[Guy Fawkes]

I'm beginning to think that there must be 'something of the night' about Nigel Pearson, did an amazing job in getting Leicester into the Premier League, only to get the sack not too long afterwards.

Frankly I'm amazed, that with the managerial merry-go-round that we are all now on, no one else has taken a punt on him long ago.

I thought he left Leicester because he fell out with the Thai owners who had sacked his son from the club shortly before, due to a controversial video whilst on tour in Thailand

 

[Bombadier Botty]

Why so catty about "Dishy Douglas"

Looks can only take a man so far Ace (unless you're Edible AFC Eddie obvs!)

 

[8ace]

Looks can only take a man so far Ace (unless you're Edible AFC Eddie obvs!)

I'm guessing you have a new muse these days Botty

 

[portslade seagull]

Pearson will knock them into shape, very good manager

 

[nicko31]

Amazing fall from grace for Freedman, set Palace up on their promotion season and its all gone bad since.

 

[blue'n'white]

Shame - he was doing such a good job !

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

Included in their next 5 games, they play Hull, Derby and Us.

 

[kevo]

They're actually not happy about this on the Forest forums, chairman getting a lot of stick. They think Freedman's hands were tied due to the transfer embargo, selling of Antonio etc, and also that it's madness to sack him at this stage of the season as they are not going up or down. They also seem to think his temporary replacement Paul Williams is totally inept.

 

[Easy 10]

I thought he left Leicester because he fell out with the Thai owners who had sacked his son from the club shortly before, due to a controversial video whilst on tour in Thailand

I think the primary reason Pearson was binned off was because of his rather "abrasive" nature, not really fitting in with the image the Thai owners wanted to promote for their club. Pearson had a number of run-ins that season (the strange incident when he grabbed that Palace player round the throat, telling some Leicester fans to "f*ck off and die", that curious rant at the journo when he called him an ostrich...). Results-wise he did brilliantly in turning them round from being relegation dead-certs at Christmas to being comfortably safe with room to spare by the end. But he's a strange bloke.

That said, I'm also surprised he hasn't found himself another job yet. maybe he's just enjoying having a break from it all.

 

[Gwylan]

Results-wise he did brilliantly in turning them round from being relegation dead-certs at Christmas to being comfortably safe with room to spare by the end.

... or the alternative view. He took a team that should have been near the top of the league and nearly got them relegated.

I suspect the truth is somewhere in between the two extremes.

Going back to DF, I'm not sure why so many people think he's a crap manager. That Forest team is operating under a transfer embargo (for reasons that are nothing to do with him). He had to sell a lot of his best players and replace them with inferior ones (unless people are now claiming that COG is a star Championship striker). Despite this, the team is comfortably mid-table and has never been in any danger of going down.

I certainly don't think Freedman is some genius manager but I'm not sure what he's done wrong - would another manager really do that much better there with the players they have?

 

[Bolton va va]

... or the alternative view. He took a team that should have been near the top of the league and nearly got them relegated.

I suspect the truth is somewhere in between the two extremes.

Going back to DF, I'm not sure why so many people think he's a crap manager. That Forest team is operating under a transfer embargo (for reasons that are nothing to do with him). He had to sell a lot of his best players and replace them with inferior ones (unless people are now claiming that COG is a star Championship striker). Despite this, the team is comfortably mid-table and has never been in any danger of going down.

I certainly don't think Freedman is some genius manager but I'm not sure what he's done wrong - would another manager really do that much better there with the players they have?

Agreed....He did a good job at Bolton trying to repair the damage that the imbecile Coyle had done. We were in a bad league position when he was sacked but i had every confidence in him to turn it around as he had done in previous seasons. (TBF this is a minority opinion here & a lot turned against him)