Dead Fish Eyes , Nottingham Forest And The Current Situation ?

[EastStandRed]

Spot on Animal burra fear fans like thee and me who think like this are now seen as dinosaurs. The idea of a bloke with experience and football knowledge being told by an owner "Here's thi budget fo transfers and wages. Identify the players tha wants in and art and tha stands and falls by thi decisions" is now old hat. So is the idea of "scouting", looking at players on a wet Tuesday neet when tha 2-0 darn, Who is still running their b0ll0cks off and not giving up? Nar it's much "smarter" to spot them on a spreadsheet and watch them scooar on a video.
With these owners knowing nowt abart football and evving little interest in the game, instead delegating to people who ev little knowledge of the Championship/League One I fear for the future. I fear a load of second rate continental players will roll in ovva the summer who will struggle in League One.
Tha nivva knows though. Brentford might be full of nerves tomorra and we sneak a 1-0, similarly at Derby.

Brentford work a similar way in recruitment , maybe we’ll get there in the end

[SBRed48]

Brentford work a similar way in recruitment , maybe we’ll get there in the end

True ESR. One key difference may be that the Brentford owner Matthew Benham has ploughed £90 million into the club. Another is they have Dean Smith as coach who knows the game in this country.
Interesting article by journalist Martin Samuel written at the time Benham sacked their continental coach Marinus Dijkhuizen--
"Marinus Dijkhuizen is gone amidst reports of disorganised training and doubts about his stewardship. All sounds a bit subjective doesn't it for a (Brentford) regime run by numbers. Almost as if there is a little bit more to the game than data"

[EastStandRed]

True ESR. One key difference may be that the Brentford owner Matthew Benham has ploughed £90 million into the club. Another is they have Dean Smith as coach who knows the game in this country.
Interesting article by journalist Martin Samuel written at the time Benham sacked their continental coach Marinus Dijkhuizen--
"Marinus Dijkhuizen is gone amidst reports of disorganised training and doubts about his stewardship. All sounds a bit subjective doesn't it for a (Brentford) regime run by numbers. Almost as if there is a little bit more to the game than data"

Yep, like I said maybe we’ll get there in the end ... whatever the end is