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Problem is,who else would we get??
Can't think of an obvious replacement, except Pearson!!

I think this is the problem. They’d have to go cap in hand back to Potter and hope he’s changed his mind with the news on the points deduction. Also whoever else comes in is now lumped with the Cooper signings which are abysmal.

Only one way we recover as a club. King Power out. Until that happens it’s a spiral towards championship oblivion which has already started

I would be very surprised if Potter would even consider coming after rejecting us twice. Feels like that opportunity has already gone.

Most suitable fit with what we have would be Moyes, but I am not sure if he would come here.

Corberan for me. Should have gone for him instead of Cooper if we’d had any sense. Other than that it would have to be a European wildcard pick

I would love to see us try to poach Corberan but I am not sure the current squad would be up to his style of players. Cooper has lumbered us with a load of players that are not really going to of much use to more progressive players. Don't get me wrong, I would love to see a more attacking manager getting Fatawu, Ricardo, Buonanotte and El Khannouss into the team but what is Corberan expected to do with the likes of Reid and Ayew, other than drop them?

Once it was apparent that Potter wouldn't be joining, we should have gone all out to get him and let him build on Maresca's team. Instead we went for the cheap, out of work option because he lived 30 miles down the road. Now we're stuck with a manager with a 20% win record and his buys.

It’s not easy. In one sense I can see some progress in how we are playing. Pre-season we were horrific. I can see that Cooper has made the team better and we’re approaching games looking more solid and actually scoring goals. We did neither in pre-season, we looked abysmal in every aspect.

I can see performances improving and I actually thought Skipp was very good yesterday so I can start to aee how bringing that type of engine into midfield can help us (despite me having questioned the signing ALOT). Ayew works his socks off even if he’s lacking in quality. Those things will help us BUT…….

It’s not enough unless Cooper learns to use the attacking talent he has at his disposal (Fatuwu, Mavididi, Ricardo, El Khanouss) and stops trying to approach games and subs so negatively.

That’s where I’m conflicted - he’s doing some good work but we can’t shiiithouse our way to survival. I get that he doesn’t trust Ricardo defensively, he doesn’t trust Mav and Fatawu together defensively - but he has to when it comes to games like Palace and Everton because they give you so much more going forward

The Coady sub yesterday cost us the game. It’s too negative and you’re bringing on a defender who has barely played for a year at a pivotal moment. No wonder he made a mistake

Cooper has to get the balance better - otherwise he has to go

I said 2 weeks ago, that this will the formula that Cooper constantly uses

We had it for 18 months in the PL under him and it was awful to watch - even when we managed to win a game it was with like 18% possession and was painful watch a lot of the time

When we were in the Championship under him, we had one of the most exciting and attacking seasons. I’ve ever witnessed (you’ll remember from that FA Cup game)

But in the PL he constantly relies on a low block counter attacking approach which just kills any entertainment - and when you drop point of end up losing like we did most weeks, it was just a turgid watch

Good luck with him, it was the best decision we made in the past 2 years upgrading from Cooper to Nuno

I feel for you, because seriously, I know exactly how you lot feel 👍🏼

I can’t see how Nuno has been that much of an upgrade Rev in fairness. You finished what - 16th last season? I’d hardly say Nunos football is progressive or a joy to watch.

Is Nuno a better manager than Cooper? Undoubtedly. But I do think he needs to push on this season and get a top 10 finish as you have some very good players. Last season some his football was terrible and let’s not forget Forest fans were fuming when Cooper was sacked

I do however agree with your assessment on Cooper in general and certainly we’re approaching games too negatively really to get 3 points. I think ultimately the owners have yet again backed the wrong horse and if it takes us down then they’ll have run out of excuses to hide behind given there’s no points deduction (probably)

Mate, Nuno is definitely an improvement on Cooper - you have to remember the Nuno inherited Cooper’s squad of players

And yes, we just avoided relegation, but if it wasn’t for the points deduction we’d have finished 10 points clear of the Relegation zone

We’re definitely seeing the benefits of what Nuno has done with the players and tactics - we’ve now won 4 on the bounce away from home (counting the end of last season too)

Of course it’s still early days, but I think it’s fair to say, the vast majority of Forest supporters are a lot happier this season compared to what we witnessed under Steve Cooper

The very fact that we’re actually on the offensive now is just good to watch

It’ll be an interesting game when we play in a few weeks time 👍🏼

Just for the record, we won 2 away games in 1.5 season under Steve Cooper 😳👍🏼