Chapter 50: Beautiful Tackle (Part 1)

As the team that entered the final playoff last season, Reading has always been regarded by Nottingham media as the direct opponent of Forests to advance to the Premier League this season.

In the first round, Reading was tied by Ipswich away. As long as you defeat them in the second round, Forest will be able to widen the points gap with Reading.

But...who would have thought that the Forest would lose so badly?

"0:3! This is really a defeat!" John Motson, who was responsible for commenting on this game, commented so at the end of the game.

I believe he also knows what will be waiting for Stan Collimore, a novice coach, for a week after the game - the typhoon warning!

"The Forest without Fighting!"

"The Forest of Defeat!"

"Colimore has no choice!"

"0:3!"

From the post-match press conference, the media's fingers pointed at the team's head coach Stan Collimore. Donn has also tasted the blame that he once faced.

Everything about Collimore in this game became the target of media criticism: starting lineup, substitute lineup, on-the-spot command, substitution dispatch, midfield adjustment... As for the other players Colimore bought in the summer, they also performed poorly, it could hardly be considered too much of a sin - because everyone's attention is still on the most expensive Rebrov.

Rebrov couldn't find any feeling when facing the tall England defender, which made people miss Hailewood, who continued to explode in the second half of last season. This increasingly mature shooter has scored goals in his new club in two consecutive rounds.

The Nottingham Evening Post even sent out a question like this: Who drove away our top scorer?!

Who is it? Of course it is the team's head coach Colimore.

Faced with overwhelming accusations, Collimore quickly pushed the blame completely.

He believes that the team was unable to score at home in Reading, and the reason why they did nothing in the face of the opponent's intensive defense was not his tactical mistakes, but the team lacked a powerful center with impact and ability to compete with tall defenders.

Looking at the camera of the TV camera, he said with a serious expression: "Before the summer transfer window is closed, I will ask the club board to buy a powerful center! Then, I will let you see what the real Forest team is!"

Evan Dogerty actively responded to Collimore's request. On August 20, three days before the third round, he brought Collimore a powerful center - Gareth Taylor.

The 30-year-old former Burnley center is 1.88 meters tall and weighs 85 kilograms. He is good at heading the ball. He went from Manchester City in the second half of the 00-01 season (man`

City) loaned Burnley, scored four goals in fifteen games, and then joined the team for free. In the next two seasons, they played for 80 games and scored 32 goals.

The numbers are very average, with 40 games and 16 goals in both seasons. As a striker of a Class A team, you can't ask for too much, this result is excellent enough.

Collimore's dialect gave Burnley Club the qualification to start the price. The big man's value increased from 200,000 to 550,000, and finally brought Evan Dogette to the city stadium and the media to meet the fans.

At the press conference and fan meeting, Collimore happily patted Taylor on the shoulder and announced to the media: "I'm very happy to have Taylor. He is a great player.

With him, we can smash the doors of all teams in the First Division!"

Blast the doors of all teams?

Mrs. Cardi smiled, and they left the city court with a satisfaction, leaving Collimore with a 1:2 score and a mess.

The away team Cardiff scored two consecutive games within ten minutes of the game, completely stunned Nottingham Forest. The home team did not score a point with a free kick until the 70th minute of the game. But it was useless.

Collimore sent Rebrov and Taylor to partner with the forward line, but the forward combination whom he had high hopes did not score a goal, which made him lose all his face.

Collimore found a new excuse in the face of the media and fans who already complained - "Taylor has only been with the team for only three days. He has not even had time to practice with the team. It is normal for him to not cooperate tacitly.

But I believe that as long as I give me a little more time, I promise you will see a powerful Nottingham Forest!”

How great this is said!

How wonderful it sounds!

Feeling tremendous pressure from the outside world, Forests and Colimore finally won. They defeated Coventry 3:1 away.

But Collimore was embarrassed that Rebrov and Taylor, whom he trusted, still did not score. The first two goals of the Forest team were scored by Andy Reed in the 19th and 61th minutes respectively, and the third goal was David Johnson, who came on the bench in the 77th minutes, scored in the 85th minutes.

There is nothing wrong with Rebrov and Taylor.

After four rounds of the league, the team's top scorer turned out to be Andy Reed, who played as the left midfielder, and he scored three goals.

Reed, who is twenty, gets a salary of 1,000 pounds a week. And the twenty-nine-year-old Landerbrov has a salary of 11,500 pounds a week, which is the highest in the team.

Reed is less than one-tenth of Rebrov's salary, but he scored three times the Ukrainian's goal. This is really ironic!

Just when Collimore felt relieved, on the last day of August, in the fifth round of the League One, Nottingham Forest played against Norwich at home. His team was forced to be 0:0 by his opponent at home.

When he first took office, he assured the media and fans that he would see beautiful offensive football, which implies that his ex-football was not beautiful at all. What about now?

His former Tony Donald Forest may not be as good as the current Forest team in terms of player quality. But they can beat Stoke City 6-0 at home, but Collimore's team can't even win Norwich.

Even a single ball can't be reached.

Rebrov could clearly hear the booings at him in the stands of the city stadium. Taylor's life was not easy. He was 1.88 meters tall, but he couldn't even get a header.

"Goal! Goal! Goal! We need to score!" The media are shouting, and fans are also questioning why a forward line combination of two million pounds and a half hundred thousand pounds can't even score a goal.

After five rounds of the League One season in 2003-04, Nottingham Forest, who was previously considered a favorite to advance to the Premier League, won two wins, lost and draw one, and only scored seven points. He ranks twelfth in the league.

This starts worse than Paul Hart's start last season.

The Nottingham Evening Post conducted a random small survey on the streets of Nottingham, saying that the fans of Forests who will return to the Premier League at the end of this season have dropped from 71% before the season to 36%.

Sixty-two percent of fans believe that the reason for this bad situation is the incompetence of the team's head coach Stan Collimore, and even four percent of interviewees believe that if Collimore continues to coach the team, then by the end of this game, the Forests will not be able to stay in Class A - people will find the name of Nottingham Forest on the list of teams participating in the second division next season.

Before agreeing to be the head coach of the Forests, Stan Collimore thought coaching the team was simple, as simple as his goal. But now he is already in a state of turmoil.

He had no plan in his mind about how to improve the team's performance. Perhaps he could only play a role in the high hopes of Rebrov and Taylor, who were highly anticipated by him, exploded quickly and scored a goal to save him.

During the pre-season preparation period, Collimore threw almost all trainings at Des Walker, not caring about it.

Even if he doesn't come to the training ground, he doesn't know where he has gone. Maybe he is lying in the arms of a woman, maybe he is drunk and lying in front of the toilet and vomiting shockingly...

Des Walker was also helpless about this. He reminded Collimore several times. Pay attention to how bad the head coach's actions will have to the players.

But he asked him to say "I am the boss here" and then he turned back.

Looking at the team with poor performance and low morale, he, the assistant coach, felt that it was boring. Walker suddenly missed Tang Enlai in the youth team, and didn't know how he was doing in the north.

If he were here, he would never let things develop to this point.

I really can't figure out why Mr. Chairman wanted to remove Tang Endi from his post... Hey, Mr. Chairman, sitting on the second floor, open his eyes and see, is Collimore stronger than Tang Endi? Can anyone tell me where is he strong?!

When Collimore was criticized for his poor performance, Donn's youth team won three consecutive victories in the fourth group of the Youth League, defeating Leicester 4-1 at home, 2-0 away, and 1-0 at home to Walshal.

In addition, the team also defeated West Bromwich's youth team 2-1 away in the first round of the FA Youth Cup on August 19th and advanced to the second round.

On September 27, they will face the Bradford Youth Team at home.

When Tang En was in charge of youth team affairs.

He discovered his own strengths and flaws. Like in the first team, he is still not good at training players. He may be able to say something in general, such as suggesting a certain player to do more training in a certain aspect, but he cannot give a detailed and specific training plan.

Tang En knew in his heart that this might be a flaw that accompanied his entire coaching career. But he did not intend to work hard to improve his abilities in this area, and his energy and time were limited. If you are good at some aspects, you will not be good at some aspects.

It is impossible for Tang En, who has become a monk halfway through the journey, to make himself an omnipotent.

His ability to train players is not good. But his ability to direct team games and train players' psychology makes assistant coach David Chris Lack feel guilty about his own abilities.

Those who worked with him from Paul Hart all lamented that Tang En was a bit useless to lead the youth team here to play games.

“Tony, your court is not here.

"One day after training, he pointed to the training ground of the Wilford training base under his feet and said to Donn, "Where should your stadium be..." He pointed to the east again, which was the direction of the city stadium.
Chapter completed!