Saturday 2 February 2008

Pack your bags now, Colin. You're out of your depth

God, I feel so flat. It could just be because of tiredness and lack of sunshine, but I don't think I can take much more of Forest any more. Every week, you think we've reached rock bottom, but somehow the Club manages to sink even deeper, and who knows where it will all end?

I accept that even big clubs lose against little no-hopers now and again. But it's happening to Forest almost every time they go away from home now, so you can't put it down to bad luck, no matter how Deadwood tries to dress it up. He is quite possibly the worst manager we've ever had...and that is saying something. Gary Megson and Joe Kinnear may have been morons, but at least they had some tactical ability. Deadwood doesn't appear to have any whatsoever. The players must think he's an idiot. Surely they do. He plays most of them out of position, and then he blames them for the poor results. The players may partly be at fault, it's true, but if they're been fed dumb instructions all the time, it's no wonder they make mistakes.

I might have been able to accept defeat at Bournemouth had they given a good performance. But they were absolutely dreadful. I don't know what happened to our defence. They were absolutely ripped to pieces. It could quite easily have been 5-0 before half time. The back four of Luke Chambers, Kelvin Wilson, Wes Morgan, and Julian Bennett had for the first half of the season been rock solid keeping many clean sheets, but you wouldn't think it the way they played against Bournemouth. Chambers sounded like he had an awful game at right back, and Paul Smith, who recently had been in good form, was guilty of some terrible distribution.

Grant Holt also had a shocker, and he was to blame for the second goal as he lost possession in midfield, inviting Bournmouth to score.

The only player who sounded any good was Chris Cohen, but as all his team mates were rubbish, his efforts came to nothing. How he must wish he was playing for a better team.

This latest defeat has enraged the Forest fans, who were already livid at the Club's inertia in the transfer market on deadline day. The failure to bring in new players has left the squad looking very thin. At the moment there are no injuries, but that will not last, and there are several players teetering on the brink of suspension. We are currently propping up the squad with players from the academy just to make up numbers. This should not be happening at a club like Forest. We are run in such an amateurish way these days. It's completely unacceptable and insulting to the fans. Much smaller clubs are doing so much better than us. The chairman doesn't seem like he could care less. He professes to be a huge Forest fan, but if he was, surely he'd fire Deadwood? All he is bothered about is saving money, so he'll leave it to the fans to hound the manager out instead. Well, rest assured, that is just what will happen now. The internet forums are going crazy at the moment, and the away supporters' chants of 'You don't know what you're doing' are becoming louder and louder. All we need now is for the home crowd to turn on him, and then surely he will be gone.

In a way, defeat against Millwall next Saturday might actually be a 'good thing'. If we win, then the feel good factor will temporarily come back, and everything will be hunky dory (although not in my eyes), but another awful defeat might just be the straw that breaks the camel's back. It is NOT too late to bring somebody new in. OK, so automatic promotion might be beyond us, but with three months of the season left, we can salvage a rescue operation and scrape through the play-offs. Look what happened two years ago when Megson went. We narrowly missed out on a place in the top six following a brilliant honeymoon period under Charlie McParland and Frank Barlow. Whoever replaces Deadwood, will probably oversee a brief Forest resurgence – it is so common with a new manager, and this might just be enough to see Forest through the play-offs. All I do know is that if we don't get rid of Deadwood now, that there is a very strong chance that we won't even qualify for the play-offs, never mind win them.

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