As a team that reached the final play-off last season, Reading have long been regarded by Nottingham's media as a direct rival to Forest's promotion to the Premier League this season. Reading were held to a draw away by Ipswich Town in the first round, and a win over them in the second round would open up the gap between Forest and Reading.

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

“0：3！ What a rout! "John Brown, who was in charge of commentating the game. Mortensen commented at the end of the game. I'm sure he's also well aware that waiting for Stan a week after the game. What will Collymore, a rookie coach, be - typhoon warning!

"The Forest Without Fighting Spirit! 》

"The Failed Forest! 》

Collymore is helpless! 》

《0：3！ 》

From the post-match press conference, the media pointed the finger at the team's head coach, Stan. Collymore. The reproaches that Donn had faced, Colymore had now tasted as well.

Everything about Collymore in this game became the target of media accusations: the starting lineup, the substitute lineup, on-the-spot command, substitution scheduling, midfield adjustments...... As for the other players that Collymore bought in the summer, they also underperformed, and that hardly counts as a big sin - because the attention is still on the most expensive Rebrov.

Rebrov couldn't find his groove at all against a tall England defender, and it was particularly nostalgic for Helewood, who continued to explode in the second half of last season – a technically mature goalscorer who had scored in two consecutive games with his new club.

The Nottingham Evening Post even asked who drove our top shooter?!

Who is it? Coach Collymore, of course.

Faced with an overwhelming flood of accusations, Collymore quickly shifted the blame. He believes that the team's lack of goal at Reading's home stadium and the inaction in the face of the opposition's dense defence are not due to his tactical mistakes, but because the team lacks a strong centre-forward who can compete with tall defenders. Looking into the lens of the TV camera, he said with a grim face: "Before the summer transfer window closes, I will ask the club board to buy a strong centre-forward!" When the time comes, I'll show you what the real Forest team is! ”

Evan. Dogetty responded positively to Collymore's request. On August 20, three days before the third round, he brought a powerful center forward to Collymore, Gareth. Taylor (Gareth'Taylor). The 30-year-old former Burnley centre-forward, who is 1.88m tall and weighs 85kg, is good at heading. He spent the second half of the 00-01 season on loan from Manchester City to Burnley, scoring four goals in 15 games before joining the team on a free-for-all. Over the next two seasons, he played 80 games for the team and scored 32 goals. The numbers are very even, with 16 goals in 40 games in both seasons. As a striker in a First Division, you can't ask for too much, it's good enough.

Collymore's words gave Burnley Club the right to sit on the ground, and the big man's worth rose from 200,000 all the way to 550,000. Dogetty took to the City Stadium to meet the media and fans.

At the press conference and fan meeting, Collymore happily patted Taylor on the shoulder and announced to the media: "I'm very happy to get Taylor, he's a great player. With him, we can smash the doors of all the teams in the First Division! ”

※※※ Knock down the doors of all the teams?

Mrs. Cardy laughed, and they left the City Stadium satisfied, leaving Collymore with a 1-2 score and a mess.

Visitors Cardiff scored twice in the opening 10 minutes to completely stunned Nottingham Forest. It wasn't until the 70th minute that the home side pulled a point back from a free-kick from Reid, but nothing was done. Collymore sent Rebrov and Taylor up front, but the pair of strikers he had high hopes for didn't score a single goal, leaving him with a loss of face.

Collymore found a new excuse in the face of the already complaining media and fans - "Taylor has only been in the team for three days, and he hasn't even had time to train with the team yet. It's normal to not work together. But if you give me a little more time, I promise you'll see a mighty Nottingham Forest! ”

What a great thing to say!

How wonderful it sounds!

Feeling the pressure from the outside, Forest and Collymore finally won. They beat Coventry City 3-1 away. But to Collymore's embarrassment, his trusted Rebrov and Taylor still failed to score, with Forest's first two goals going to the goal. Reid scored in the 19th and 61st minutes, and the third goal came to David Brown, who came on as a substitute in the 77th minute. Johansen scored in the 85th minute. There was nothing to do with Rebrov and Taylor.

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

The 20-year-old Reid received a salary of £1,000 a week, while the 29-year-old Rebrov received a whopping £11,500 a week, the highest in the team. In terms of salary, Reid is less than one-tenth of Rebrov's, but in terms of goals he is three times that of the Ukrainian, which is ironic!

Just when Collymore felt he could breathe a sigh of relief, on the last day of August, Nottingham Forest hosted Norwich City in the fifth round of League One. His team was held to a 0-0 draw at home. At the beginning of his tenure, he promised the media and fans that they would see beautiful attacking football, but the implication was that his predecessor's football was not beautiful at all, and now?

His predecessor, Tony. Donn's Forest may not be as good as their current side in terms of player quality, but they were able to beat Stoke City 6-0 at home, while Collymore's side couldn't even win against Norwich and couldn't even score a single goal.

Rebrov could clearly hear the boos from the stands at the City Stadium, and Taylor was not having a good time, with a height of 1.88 meters, but he couldn't even score a header.

Goal! Goal! Goal! We need to score goals! The media are shouting and fans are questioning why a £2 million and a 500,000 pound forward combination can't even score a goal.

In the 03-04 season, after five rounds of League One, Nottingham Forest, which was previously considered by the media to be the favorite to advance to the Premier League, won two wins, two losses and one draw, accumulating only seven points and ranking twelfth in the league. Such a start to the season is better than last season Paul. Hart's start was not as good as that.

The Nottingham Evening Post conducted a random survey on the streets of Nottingham and found that the number of fans who would return to the Premier League at the end of the season has dropped from 71 per cent to 36 per cent before the season. Sixty-two percent of fans believe that the cause of this terrible situation is the team's head coach Stan. Collymore's incompetence, and even four per cent of those interviewed believe that if Collymore continues to manage the team, it will be impossible for Forest to remain in the first division by the end of the season - people will find Nottingham Forest's name in the list of teams participating in next season's second division.

Before agreeing to become the head coach of Forest, Stan Brown. Collymore thought it was as simple as he was to score a goal. But now he's exhausted.

He has no plan in his head about how to improve the team's performance, and maybe he can only play the role of Rebrov and Taylor, who he has high hopes for, to explode quickly and score a goal to save the emergency.

In the pre-season preparation period, Collymore threw almost all of the training sessions to Des. Walker, he didn't care. Even if he doesn't even come to the training ground, the ghost 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 in the bathroom and vomiting earth-shattering...... Des. Walker was also frustrated, reminding Collymore several times to be aware of how bad his actions as a manager would have on the players. But let him say "I'm the boss here", and he pushed back.

Looking at the team with low morale because of poor results, he, the assistant coach, felt that what he was doing was boring. Walker suddenly remembered that Done was on the youth team, and he didn't know what he was doing in the north.

If he was here, he would never let things get to this point. I can't figure out why Mr. Chairman wanted to dismiss Donn...... Hey, Mr. Chairman, sitting high on the second floor, open your eyes and see, is Collymore better than Donn? Can anyone tell me where he is strong?!

While Collymore was reviled for his team's poor results, Donn's youth team won three straight games in Group 4 of the Youth League, winning 4-1 at home to Leicester, 2-0 away to Derby County and 1-0 at home to Walchal. The team also advanced to the second round with a 2-1 away win over West Bromwich Albion in the first round of the FA Youth Cup on 19 August. On September 27, they will host Bradford youth at home.

When Donn was in charge of the youth team, he found his strengths and flaws, and as in the first team, he was still not good at training players, and he might be able to say something in general directions, such as suggesting that a player should do more training in certain areas, but he could not give a detailed and specific training plan. Don knew in his heart that this might be a flaw that would accompany him throughout his coaching career. But he didn't plan to work hard to improve his ability in this area, people's energy and time are limited, you are good at one thing will not be good at another, and it is impossible for Don En, who is a halfway monk, to make himself an all-rounder.

His ability to train his players is lackluster, but his ability to direct the team's games and tune the players' mentality has made assistant coach David Brown. Chris Rac was ashamed of himself. This one was with him from Paul. Those under Hart lamented that it was a bit overkill for Donn to lead the youth team here.

"Tony, your stadium isn't here." One day, after training, he pointed to the Wilford training ground at his feet and said to Donne, "Where should your pitch be...... and he pointed to the east, which is the direction of the city pitch.

"David, you're right, my stadium is there. But not now, I'm going to have to wait......" Tang An muttered as he looked at the twilight sky in the east.

(To be continued)