Nottingham Forest appoint Alex McLeish

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/dec/27/nottingham-forest-manager-alex-mcleish

The only reason I have posted this is because it looks like they are going to invest big in Jan and they want a diffrent manager spending there money.

The way I see it, bad for them, good for us!

See, it's not hard to place your



That last one was intentional. I was praising myself.


Because nobody else ever does

Smart arse. I fully understand why people don't praise you.

No one wants McLeish as their manager, because no one wants their team to play like he designs them too. His 50% win rate in this league is beyond the point, football is a game. McLeish sets teams up to be hard to score against and steals wins with sneaky countering goals, while I believe and probably always will the goal of football is to score more than your opponent. It doesn't matter if you conceed two goals a match average if you also score 3, you'll still win the league and it would be damn exciting football. Being defensively sound as a priority however could lead to never ending 0-0 draws which are not only nowhere near good enough to win the Leage, but would rot most fans brains away.

Red614 wrote:No one wants McLeish as their manager, because no one wants their team to play like he designs them too. His 50% win rate in this league is beyond the point, football is a game. McLeish sets teams up to be hard to score against and steals wins with sneaky countering goals, while I believe and probably always will the goal of football is to score more than your opponent. It doesn't matter if you conceed two goals a match average if you also score 3, you'll still win the league and it would be damn exciting football. Being defensively sound as a priority however could lead to never ending 0-0 draws which are not only nowhere near good enough to win the Leage, but would rot most fans brains away.

Football,as an industry, retains the capacity to surprise.
In a results driven environment it's amazing how some managers seem to rise above logic; McCleish's last two outings were at Birmingham and Villa. Although wining promotion at Brum, they were relegated twice on his watch and the way McCleish slithered across the city to Villa, only to embark on another fruitless campaign. you would have thought the owners of Forest would have steered well clear.
In the small amount of time I considered who Forest might be appointing, McCleish did not cross my mind!

Forest have a recent history of spending big and falling flat on their face; I see nothing in this appointment that will change that.