Sean O'Driscoll & Nott'm Forest part company

@SkySportsNews Nottingham Forest have parted company with manager Sean O'Driscoll. More on #SSN.

Forest won 4-2 at home to Leeds as well today.

Strange!

Is this Coyle's big break?

He is after all the best manager he has ever been, whatever that means.

With the shower of shite Coyle's left us with the only job he'd get in Football is Selling phooking Programmes .

Banks of the Croal wrote:With the shower of shite Coyle's left us with the only job he'd get in Football is Selling phooking Programmes .

I wouldn't trust him not to cock that up as well!

Something not right at Forest. McClaren walked out as well.

Sacked apparently -

"He can count himself unlucky to have lost his job with the team just one point away from the top six," Forest chairman Fawaz Al Hasawi said.

"With the January transfer window approaching, we feel it's the right time to make a change."

Al Hasawi added that Forest would now be "looking to bring in an ambitious manager with Premier League experience".

Former Republic of Ireland international O'Driscoll was appointed on 19 July, days after Steve Cotterill was sacked.

He leaves Forest with them in eighth place, having collected 36 points from 24 games. In total, Forest won 10 games during his time in charge, drawing nine and losing seven.

However, they had not won more than two games in succession under O'Driscoll, and Al Hasawi cited that lack of consistency as one of the reasons for the decision.

"We have a responsibility to look to the future for this great club because we have huge ambitions for it," he added.

"We knew when we bought the club in the summer that it would take time for the players we bought in to settle but that process has taken longer than we anticipated.

"We feel we have developed a really strong squad of players but are still searching for consistency in terms of team performance, underlined by the fact that we have not won more than two games in succession in the Championship this season."

O'Driscoll spent five months as first-team coach at Forest at the start of the year, before leaving to take charge of Crawley in May.

He was with the League One side for just two months before returning to the City Ground as manager, signing a three-year contract.

O'Driscoll's task was to build a side capable of challenging for promotion to the Premier League and he made a number of high-profile signings, including Simon Cox from West Bromwich Albion, Henri Lansbury from Arsenal and Billy Sharp on loan from Southampton.

Shortly after the news of O'Driscoll's sacking was confirmed, Cox wrote on Twitter: "So we win 4-2 and the manager gets the sack. Gutted for Sean, pleasure to work under. Wonder who will walk through the door next."

Sharp also took to Twitter to give his reaction, writing: "Gutted that ruins a decent day."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20847476

Christ you can't write this stuff can you. A place from the play offs and he is sacked, very odd.

Sluffy wrote:

"With the January transfer window approaching, we feel it's the right time to make a change."

Al Hasawi added that Forest would now be "looking to bring in an ambitious manager with Premier League experience".

They said exactly the same thing when they sacked Cotterell... and then they signed O'Driscoll.

As far as I am concerned they speak with a forked tongue.

Crazy decision in a crazy game. I don't think Forest fans will be surprised by this though, the owners want a celebrity manager. My money is on Hughes and DiMatteo being approached, they will have serious amount of egg on their faces if they turn it down.

Another set of foreign arseholes making a mess of another club.

The rumour is that Roy Keane has been lined up.

Talk about clueless idiots if they appoint him.

If Hughes and Matteo have any sense they will tell them to fuck off. Then again, it's easy money. If they sack you then you are entitled to compensation.

O'Driscoll won't be out of work for long. It is a sorry state of affairs though to be sacked when you are playing attractive football, one point off the play offs, got the backing of the fans and with a club that has lurched from one crisis to another in recent seasons just because your "profile" isn't high enough.

Why don't these people just have the balls to get a UEFA coaching badge and manage the club themselves, its what they really want - same for Abramovich.

Wow... Alex McLeish? Seriously?

Forest fans tweeted Hasawi to express their distaste at the prospect of McLeish taking over and even he seems to think it stinks.

Well it could have been worse - Coyle is still available.

Let's hope he goes to Blackburn.

Unfcukingbelievable. Kuwait, that well known hotbed of English football. You have to feel sorry for the Forest fans.

Gary Megson, Steve McClaren and now Alex McLeish.

How many more useless gingers for poor old Forest?

These middle eastern owners are only in it for the prestige. They don't give a toss about the history of the club they are buying or the fans for that matter.

We saw it at Portsmouth and the same thing has happened at Blackburn, Cardiff and QPR. There is no crock of gold at the end of the rainbow.