1% Villa, Steve McClaren resigns from Notts Forest

[Lambert and Payne]

Genuinly feel sorry for him. He was promised money but they refused his transfers. It speaks volumes that the fans were singing sack the board today not singing about Steve

And mon won't go there, they have no money and the board won't give him the free ride he needs

[spangley1812]

The Forest chairman has gone as well

[Legion]

The Forest chairman has gone as well

Not quite.

[Somniloquism]

The bloke wasn't backed and apparently was made promises on appointment. For all the flack he gets McLaren is probably still the best English coach/manager in the game.

Coach yes, manager no. The trouble is you can't see him going back to being a coach now due to his previous career.

[Legion]

From Auntie:

Manager Steve McClaren and chairman Nigel Doughty have both resigned from their roles at Championship strugglers Nottingham Forest.

McClaren held a two-hour meeting with Doughty, who will remain as the club's owner, after Sunday's 3-1 defeat against Birmingham at the City Ground.

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

Repalcement...MON ??

I reckon he's off back to Celtic.

[Chris Smith]

Even if he hasn't been backed he's still done a spectacularly poor job for a team that has been in the play offs two years in a row. He's a bit crap, so glad we weren't bounced into appointing him.

[CJ]

Regardless of any capability he MAY have as a coach he's just a complete dickhead. At Watford a couple of weeks ago he decided to take to a partly built stand roof rather than watch the game from the dugout - then there's the accent, the brolly..... He always seems a bit desperate to do something to make himself look and sound terribly interesting. I was hugely relieved when we didn't get him.

Wouldn't be at all surprised to see MON roll up there

[timeoutbigbar]

I don't really like the man but I feel a bit sorry for him with the unkept promises.  He does appear to have destroyed his reputation in England all pver again though.  It seems the only way is down from here.

[villan1975]

I don't really like the man but I feel a bit sorry for him with the unkept promises.  He does appear to have destroyed his reputation in England all pver again though.  It seems the only way is down from here.

Next stop SHA then?

[TopDeck113]

I don't think MON will go there, unless he gets the sort of guarantees I don't think the current board are able to give.

In terms of ex-Forest players, Roy Keane might be up for the challenge and to restore his rather tarnished managerial reputation.

[pauliewalnuts]

If McLaren has gone because he was misled about the money available, then there's no way in a million years O'Neill is going to go there.

[Rico]

This is fast becoming another MON thread!!! As for Mclaren, so glad we didn't go for him. Never rated him. At Middlesborough there was a lot of fans who couldn't stand him. For England he became a laughing stock. Probably the best thing he can do now is to lie low or maybe look for work abroad. In the same way that Alex Mcleish will never be accepted by some Villa fans, Mclaren will never be accepted by most English/British fans.

[Macho Man Randy Savage]

Stuart Pearce says he isn't yet ready for the England job, so this could be just the preparation he needs.

[willywombat]

Stuart Pearce says he isn't yet ready for the England job, so this could be just the preparation he needs.

That's a good shout