It's the Stephen Kenny Thread

"As Marinakis subsequently made clear in a Zoom call with the first-team squad, what happened that night was a humiliation. Forest lost 4-1 and Stoke’s officials were bemused to see Vrentzos make his way to the front of the stand in the final minutes to shout at the home dugout that they needed to score."

"At times of Lamouchi’s tenure, the players had started to suspect he was often following orders, rather than having the power to do everything his own way. Throughout his time at the club, signings had been made without them necessarily being his targets."

"Three days into the new season, Marinakis then arranged the Zoom call in which he laid into the players for their end-of-season slump, their habit of losing to Barnsley  and for letting him down as the owner."

"Although Forest say it is always the manager who decides which players go into the bomb squad (a selection of outcasts banished from first team), some of Lamouchi’s colleagues had the clear impression the Frenchman was uneasy about this part of the club.“There are some players, I’ve never seen them,” Lamouchi said in one interview last season. “I don’t know these players. I asked the club but these players never make one session with me.”

Yeah definitely lad, the situation at Forest and Ireland is identical. 

Anybody writing Hughton off over his time at Forest would want to have a word with themselves. He made a huge mistake taking the job and luckily for us that mistake might be to our advantage.