The common theme with managers going back to sherwood is that none of them have had much time in the job, relatively speaking, to find a system that works for them and get the best out of the players they have at their disposal. Plus whilst they're trying to do this, they're under huge pressure to get results.
Add to this the wholesale changes in playing staff that occurs each transfer window and you're effectively looking at half a new team twice a season. It's no wonder that things haven't clicked. We've effectively gone back to square one with the squad we have now after the January window and we're only into the third week in Feb.
The players we've signed on paper should be able to outperform most of the others in the championship, but none of them are likely to be world beaters. So to expect an instant turnaround in such a short space of time seems unrealistic to my mind.
If you are up against a side that are settled, playing an established way with everyone well drilled and with high fitness levels, it doesn't seem much of a surprise that we are struggling whatever the name of the opposition club happens to be. Things will improve, I'm sure of it, but the thing we need most right now is time and that's something that you can't buy, however many billions you have in the bank.
We've got to just write this season off now and work towards getting an established system and team to come out firing next season. If it means more experimenting then fair enough. I realised this after the forest defeat and when I look at it that way, it makes it a lot easier to deal with.