04 Jan 2026 10:40:20
Cannot believe there are fans who want Bilic or Parker, let Pardew!

Agree that if we don't get 3 points against Forest the club should pivot to planning for the championship.

In my view that could present a real long term opportunity to gut the club of dead weight, antiquated processes and structures, and start all over again.

Focus on youth, get a young attacking manager, model our recruitment on the likes of Brighton and Brentford, accept it's a long term process and back the club.

Obviously very hard with Sully and co in charge but you never know, this could spell the end of him.

The worst option in my opinion is to do the expected, hire an average manger from the merry go round, approach things the same, but miraculously expect different results

1.) 04 Jan 2026
04 Jan 2026 11:11:03
Most sensible post I've heard for a long time. Fingers crossed its what they do.

Offload our assets now and get best price and prepare for next year

2.) 04 Jan 2026
04 Jan 2026 11:18:04
Whilst Sullivan is there nothing will change
WH spent £2.5 m setting up, a data driven system, for player recruitment
What for I don’t know, never used, dumped after 4 months, Sullivan has his cheapskate ideas, he won’t change, whilst he’s the chief shareholder, I fear for the future of WH

WH will be massively devalued in price as, and if, we drop, we can only hope that some consortium, will see us as a future prospect

3.) 04 Jan 2026
04 Jan 2026 11:53:29
CMVV, I mentioned Pardew as we are going down. Everyone needs to accept that. With Pardew it would give everyone breathing space, plus Pardew is a Cup man. Hopefully, he could take us a few rounds in the cup.

4.) 04 Jan 2026
04 Jan 2026 12:21:02
My point is that it's at best a short term fix. It's not the appointment of a future-facing club that plans for the long term. We all know the rot runs deep. I think that means we should accept that a few years of pain while we totally remake the club is worth it for the long term pay-off. Pardew might take us far in a cup - though I have my doubts on that anyway - but I'd sacrifice that for the overall health and success of my club in a heartbeat.

5.) 04 Jan 2026
04 Jan 2026 12:58:00
CMMV, I think you misjudge what a lot of people are saying. For example, I for one have suggested Bilic as a TEMPORARY coach until the end of the season. That IS a short term solution for the remainder of this season. If we are destined for Championship football next season, at least his team would provide some entertainment as opposed to the ‘backs to the wall’ stuff we’ve become used to under our last several coaches. And who knows, we might, just might, escape playing Bilic’s gung-ho attacking football? I don’t think many see Bilic as a long term fix. As I said in previous posts, we need a young progressive coach who can cut his teeth in the Championship. If we do, as expected, go down that is. If we stay up by some miracle, we should go all out for someone like Silva or Frank (if he leaves Spurs), but realistically that’s not going to happen under Sullivan and Brady.

6.) 04 Jan 2026
04 Jan 2026 13:48:40
Doesnt matter who comes in they will be set up to fail under Sullivan. Nothing will change under the current ownership, relagation doesn't magically make them good owners that know what they are doing, they are clueless.

Stadium is awful, and we will be stuck with it in the championship.

Only good thing if we go down is that we have a good batch of youngsters coming through, but they will be poached when we likely fail to come back up.

I can see us ending up like Leeds or Sunderland, the big difference is they had proper football stadiums, we need a new owner that will buy the stadium reconfigure it or builds a new one.

Hope i'm wrong and a win against forest is the catalyst for a good run of games, but it looks like sullivans incompetence is finally catching up to him, if we stay up its only prolonging the invetible until Sullivan steps away.

7.) 04 Jan 2026
04 Jan 2026 14:17:19
Loosely connected to ‘gung-ho’ managers, I just accidentally came across the Clive Anderson interview of Brian Clough on YouTube. Now that is what I call a football manager. If you haven’t seen it, it’s well worth a watch. Cloughie fits well into Dabber’s idea of a disciplinarian. They certainly don’t make ‘em like that anymore!

8.) 04 Jan 2026
04 Jan 2026 15:07:21
You’re not wrong there Tin Legs, Cloughie would have ripped them apart yesterday ….what a character!