Don't see Potter coming to us.

Even not allowing for the Palace/Brighton rivalry, I think he will still attract interest from clubs deemed bigger than Palace. West Ham, Leicester (should they stay up), even Everton should they dispense with Dyche.

He has enough money he doesn't have to make a rushed decision. How many vacancies will become available between now and Christmas, probably quite a few.

I think we will play it safe and offer Roy a one year contract.

I'd rather have Beatrix Potter than the Graham version.

Living down here in Hove I know a few Brighton fans and despite the initial brouhaha when he left for Chelsea the common opinion was that his teams were boring to watch.

So boring, in fact, that some of the crowd fell asleep and forgot to leave on 80 minutes.

Potter said that he'd walk along the Prom "in disguise" while he was manager down here. Can't imagine what he'd have to dress up as if he joined us.

Living down here does have some advantages. At least you can see them cry.

Agree with whole post however the highlighted is the crux of the matter for me.

I do wonder as to whether this is such a binary choice though? It does seem as though in an attempt to move away from any Pulis/Allardyce/Hodgson, backs against the wall, scrapping for our lives existence we have gone for the 'wacky ideas' manager option in the likes of FdB and Vieira which, with such a swinging of the pendulum, have ended terribly. Is it so hard to find somebody that can manage a team where the defence does it's job in defending, the attack does it's job in attacking and the midfield supplements both elements?

I think a lot of it comes down to the actual recruitment, formation and balance within the squad. Ironically now I think we are seeing the truth exposed about Hodgson in that he was keeping an underfunded and somewhat weak squad afloat in the PL however with better tools at his disposal can actually offer that I've articulated. His pragmatism in that situation, probably combined with his England stint, may have painted an incorrect image. 3 games very little by way of evidence however I am open to the possibility. Were he not 75 I'd be excited for the future as I am for remaining games this season.

I have a working theory that our managerial appointments have been made either from desperation to stay in the PL or idealistic and poorly crafted ambition. An objective analysis with appropriate insight should yield the appointment of somebody in the middle of that road for where we are as a club. Just my thoughts on the matter which in themselves are very unqualified I do recognise that.

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

When he took over the reins they were second from bottom after 8 league games, they finished in 4th place and were promoted via the play-offs.The previous season they finished in 17th place so Cooper deserves plaudits for the improvement at the club.

As with all managers I tend to concentrate on what I see now rather than past achievements and based on some of their recent performances, I wouldn’t want him as our manager. In my opinion the metal of a manager is how they perform when things are going wrong. I think that if Forest stay up it will only be because Cooper manages to implement a plan B that works, or there are three worse teams. He’s certainly got enough players to choose from to make a different plan work.

Agree - but not sure we will play a strong team again this season. Maybe Spurs away but against Bournemouth they were awful. Fulham maybe.