Maynard out?

[Glad2BeAPie]

The owners will take into account that we've made the semi finals despite not having a full squad all season and no coaching staff for a quarter of the season, and think we'll keep with him and get some players in and the coaching staff. And see how we do

[Chicken Balti Pie]

The owners will take into account that we've made the semi finals despite not having a full squad all season and no coaching staff for a quarter of the season, and think we'll keep with him and get some players in and the coaching staff. And see how we do

Before Port Vale, Maynard admitted he was below their targets this season. Injuries or not, it's a squad game and he has under performed

[Robertomac]

Well it's hardly surprising when jatta and dizzy were missing
The January window was poor - like stallard said how many if them players have made a real impact

I agree we missed Didzy today, but not Jatta. Jatta's been pretty woeful since January. Is it him, the system or the role he's asked to play? No idea, but he looks a shadow of the Jatta from before Christmas.

[bule1]

I agree we missed Didzy today, but not Jatta. Jatta's been pretty woeful since January. Is it him, the system or the role he's asked to play? No idea, but he looks a shadow of the Jatta from before Christmas.

Jatta has been poor since DC left, do not think that is a coincidence

[Since71]

The owners will take into account that we've made the semi finals despite not having a full squad all season and no coaching staff for a quarter of the season, and think we'll keep with him and get some players in and the coaching staff. And see how we do

Are you on drugs???? Keeping him as manager with this relegation form is suicide.
Get yourself to rehab!!

[Chicken Balti Pie]

I agree we missed Didzy today, but not Jatta. Jatta's been pretty woeful since January. Is it him, the system or the role he's asked to play? No idea, but he looks a shadow of the Jatta from before Christmas.

We used to push the ball for him to run onto. We now have him playing with his back to goal. That's not his game

[Putney Pie]

I just watched Man City lose playing a similar brand of toothless possession -based football. It seems Pep has been found out this season...could this be the start of the end for this tedious style of play?

Palace were organised, physical and disciplined...a bit like Wimbledon and Walsall against Chesterfield. Possession football ain't all it is cracked up to be.

Great post and spot on!!

[Putney Pie]

Physical teams playing with pace and intensity. Not afraid to go long and mix it up. Playing two strikers up front.

[kill_the_drum]

Ironically, I think Forest could prove to be the death knell for possession based football. They've proven this season that if you're organised and disciplined off the ball and ruthless with it, it's a far more effective brand of football.

Our game is all about stats, but the biggest one we seem to ignore is the most crucial - number of goals scored. Take today, a must win game where it's imperative to score. 0-0 is not an option. We registered one shot on target.

How have Forest proved that?
They?re 7th behind 6 teams that all play through the lines!
Villa were in the bottom 3 when Emery took over. He took virtually the same squad into Europe playing possession based football Vs the direct approach that Gerrard had them playing.
Our style has not been the issue. Ultimately, the only thing that matters is how many times you stick the ball in the net Vs how many times the opposition do it.
We had 24 chances Vs Cheltenham and lost the game. No other style of play is going to create more chances. We just didn?t have the minerals at each end of the pitch, over the course of the season, to get us in the top 3.

[TSANHO]

I think he should go.

I acknowledge the difficulties with the squad and back room staff this season but we aren?t winning, playing exciting football, and are just generally passive and one dimensional, and that sits on the coaches shoulders. He hasn?t tried anything different or appear to have any motivational spark to ignite the players or fans alike.

Today was the prime example. 5, 10, 15, 20 minutes to go to save our season and we did absolutely nothing different. I don?t think he is necessarily stubborn, but just not experienced or good enough to manage a club of our size.

What is even more frustrating that the ending to this season has seemed so glaringly obvious for the last few months and nothing has changed, in fact it has gotten worse. I felt no nerves or excitement in the build up these last few games because I felt I knew exactly what would happen and how we would play, and unfortunately that?s exactly how it has panned out.

It is difficult to see a scenario now where we go into next season where more than a handful of people would be happy to see SM in the dugout.