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If you're financially fucked then I couldn't imagine a worse manager aside from maybe Redknapp. Davies spends a fortune and then causes trouble if he doesn't get more. He isn't happy unless he's got a blank chequebook in front of him but is the master of deflecting blame away when it doesn't work. There's a number of rumours doing the rounds about slightly corrupt behaviour by Davies at Forest, but I've seen too many people get in trouble by spreading unprovable stories so i decided to keep schtum. Not me pal, sorry. For the record, I was of the impression Davies was a Celtic boy but I could be wrong. If anything, it makes us more qualified to discuss managers. We've had more of them than most. As I mentioned though, you do get some good with Davies. You'll get 2/3 months where you look unbeatable and you go long periods unbeaten, though this is always followed by the same period of terrible form when you've simply run out of steam. Bottom line though, you won't go up. He fluked his way up with Derby once but they then came down again as the worst team in history, but not before Davies was sacked... You truly won't realise how bad things are until he's gone. Forest became the North Korea of the Championship. A closed-doors dictatorship regime with strongly-controlled media links (one patsy from the BBC who would report anything he threw her) ruled by a complete crackpot where things are considerably worse behind-the-scenes than would be admitted openly. Thanks for your feedback, i'm glad I bothered.

So we see that Davies is in line to take your manager's role should McCoist depart. As a Forest fan who has sat through two of his tenures, I can only warn against the dangers that come with the management of arguably the worst man in football. One thing you may find is that a lot of Forest fans still wax lyrical about his time with the club but this has been significantly reduced after his second spell. He went from the messiah to a pariah in a little under a year after a comically tyrannical period where we overspent but underachieved whilst severing all ties with the academy and media and firing everyone who dared question him. It's said you judge a man by the company he keeps, and this says the world about his character. Billy's first act when he returned was to bring in his cousin James Price as director. Now, 'Jimbo' had recently been disbarred from the legal profession and was therefore ineligible to act as a director at a football club. They frequently tweeted about the work James was doing for the club, but when questioned it was all denied... Within six months they'd fired so many staff members that we had literally no scouting system in place, a mere handful of 'his' coaches and had there were no active links between the senior team and the academy. During all this he managed to become the only part-time manager in the football league. Unbelievably, he'd only spend 3 days a week in Nottingham. For the rest of the week he retired back to Glasgow (not once did he move here) and whilst he claimed to be spending the time doing 'video research', our inevitable late-season fall suggested that not a lot was being done. That, as with most things was all propaganda. They were the kings of open speech on social media when the going was good, but were nowhere to be seen when we weren't winning. In reality, even during the good times it was only hate and self-fulfilling bile they peddled. Check out the frankly incredible Twitter timeline of Price himself (@Jimbo519242) to see what we mean. Through this they promoted their 'unfinished business' agenda and it quickly became clear that it had nothing to do with righting any on-field failures but more to do with settling old scores with people who scorned them during the first tenure. They picked needless fights with some of the best and most genuine people in Nottingham football, banning both the Nottingham Post and Radio Nottingham from the club as much as contractually possible. As a club we became the enemy of the everyone we mixed with and it was quite literally us against them in every part of the game. It wasn't just professional relationships they destroyed. You may have seen that Forest have fell into trouble with FFP this week and we're now under a transfer embargo. This is partly down to our enthusiastic but slightly naive owner, but mostly down to gruesome twosome's cavalier attitude that FFP would 'never stand up'. Well, here we are, he's gone and we're feeling the effects of his excess. We were seemingly in financial trouble every week, we had unpaid invoices piling up around us and nothing was getting paid... Be it transfer installments, loan fees, even catering bills... nothing got paid on time. We weren't short of cash, they'd just not hired somebody to do it. Not to say that it was all bad in fairness, on the pitch at least. The football his teams play is attractive enough and the highs are pretty high. We put 5 past both Derby and Leicester at home and when we won 3-1 at WBA in 2009/10 it was as good as we've known it lately. His team didn't follow it through though. His emotion-led 'us v them' system runs out of steam in February and it's not pretty from that point. You go 10 unbeaten and then don't win in 11. There's a reason his longest tenure at a club has been To all those thinking this is just typical bad feeling towards an ex-manager, we've had failures before. David Platt, Gary Megson and Steve McClaren have all been and gone (with weaker results) and I hold no particular ill will towards them. All in all, it says the world that the only club that took Davies back after he was fired by Forest....was Forest, and only then after the previous chairman had died and the CEO had moved on. He was brought back a desperate owner who needed a positive appointment and knew he would be guaranteed good PR if Davies came in. They fired out positive propaganda about how Davies would be 'our Ferguson'. Despite this, 10 months later he's out of a job again. To summarise, Billy Davies is is a cancer that eats away at all that is good the longer it's left unchecked, a parasite who leaves every club in a worse position than he found it and you'd be well advised to keep a wide berth of him and his entire circus. I don't know where Ally McCoist's problems lay but he will seem like paradise to Davies when everything inevitably comes crumbling down.