07 May 2018 13:54:55
Congratulations to AK on stabilizing the ship and saving us from relegation following Warburton's deluded recruitment policy.

The summer will see the remnants of the Fawaz era completely erased.

The majority of Pearce's signings apart our recruitment policy historically has been a disaster.

In 4 months Karanka has laid this bare and exposed the limitations of our Academy system. In short we produce too many nice players who get too comfortable in Nottingham but are not winners. Losing to Bolton twice in a week sums up the lack of mental strength within the club.

The players parachuted in are clearly made of sterner stuff and have saved the day so we should all look forward to AK's summer rebuild which will get us competing at the right end of the table.

We have the right man for the job in hand at this stage of our new era so to all the Foremoaners judge AK next summer as the board will do having had a full season with his own team.

You might not see pretty football but you will see winning football and progress which you need to instill into a team before you can develop the pretty stuff. Even Cloughie worked this way!

Also remember in our better teams of the past we have always had a "fat lad" pulling the strings!

Onward and Upward COYR's.

1.) 07 May 2018
07 May 2018 14:37:59
Redinexile, it does not matter which side of the fence someone is on regarding the manager but i think you will find both fans and owner will give him close to January like Warburton got if we are not close to the top six.

Although i like the manager with the results we have had under him since his arrival we only avoided relegation due to there being more teams being slightly worse than us.

I think the manager could well turn things around, he has now had more than enough time to decide the teams weakest links and has now got more than enough time to replace the weakest links, and a pre season to get his ideas across without any pressure of having to win games in the Championship while he does.

With the time he had so far and all of the pre season, he will have had more time than Warburton to sort things out so as January approaches if we are not looking in good shape why would he deserve untill the summer to try and get it right.

2.) 07 May 2018
07 May 2018 16:49:08
I think it’s bitterly disappointing how much we have struggled under Karanka. In other seasons when the bottom teams have been better our points total would have taken us down.
I hope and it is just hope at the minute that he can move us forward after a pre season and his own signings. Doesn’t look like he will ever take the division by storm though.

3.) 07 May 2018
07 May 2018 19:33:20
The only reason man. City won the premiership was because there were 19 teams worse than them.

4.) 07 May 2018
07 May 2018 20:09:26
Oakhamred, i like your thinking, the big difference with Man City though is they have Won 30 games, Drawn 4 games, and Lost only 2 games in all those games they scored 102 goals while only conceding 26 goals.That is Premiership winning form.

Had the manager joined us at the start of the season and had the same results as from when he did join us that would have been relegation form.

5.) 08 May 2018
08 May 2018 13:05:03
Agreed 2 star but the results tell us more about the players Karanka inherited than his ability. We were never going to pull up trees with a 19 year old centre forward. At least since Jan we have been better at the back with TF in the team and have been creating chances for our forwards.
Next year will be much better.

6.) 08 May 2018
08 May 2018 13:09:57
That's a fact win at all costs.
So why all the euphoria over what Karanka has done??
He hasn't done anything to improve us at all.
It's that simple and yes we'd have been in serious relegation fight if the points weren't already on the board.

7.) 08 May 2018
08 May 2018 13:50:57
I’m staying open minded just as I did last summer. If I’m honest as the curtain fell last season I feared for us this season without a big overhaul (which never came). I feel the same again now and hoped for a much stronger finish. EG victories against Bristol city, Brentford and Bolton would have been massive in terms of demonstrating at upward trajectory. I feel we are miles away from doing better but will remain positive and hope for better times next season.

8.) 08 May 2018
08 May 2018 14:23:47
Ff799, the euphoria for me is because Karanka came in had very little time to access the team before deciding what he had to do, and whom he could bring in.

I liked the way he publicly said what a lot of us were thinking and he did not pull any punches in what he said. He wasted no time getting players through the door, all be it some of them being panic transfers, the loan players mostly but he wanted certain qualities and got them.

He did not really have enough time to get the players to gel, although results have not gone as we all would have liked there have been signs of improvement, you can see he has a plan and all be slowly,it seems to be coming together.

That is why i believe with the time he has had to access the situation, and now having time to get who wants and a whole pre season with most of the players he, and the team will get better.

Nothing as you know is guaranteed but that is the way i feel.

9.) 08 May 2018
08 May 2018 15:54:01
To be honest euphoric is not how I am feeling. More like optimism. The euphoria is to come.

10.) 08 May 2018
08 May 2018 21:59:03
Good luck with it win at all costs.
Dangerous game kicking out 15 players,if at all possible?
Then going our and bringing in 15.
The last ten other than figs have been mainly crap.
Lots of excuses for the poor results from Karanka, but they don't wash with me.