What's Paul Hart like then, westyorksnffc?
There's a bloke on Twitter, @fanhousepercy, who normally calls everything pretty much spot on, he's a Forest fan but a jounrno too, he reckon's Hart for Swindon is pretty much nailed on.
As for Hart himself, sorry guys but don't expect miracles. Whilst he's a very good coach, especially at Academy level (Leeds - Bowyer, Kelly, Harte, Smith, Woodgate etc; Forest - Reid, Dawson, Harewood, Williams, Prutton(!)), man-management isn't one of his better skills.
He had two good years at Forest 2001-03, but his tactics got 'found out' in the end, likes to play a 4-4-2 using the diamond formation, so expect Prutton to be deployed on the right-hand side of the diamond - unless you've got better? Admittedly, our glorious chairman, who decided at the end of the 2002/03 season that he would rather give his money to charity than overpaid footballers (his exact words) decided that Jim Brennan, Riccy Scimeca, Jack Lester and Jon Hjelde weren't worthy of new contracts and Darren Huckerby wasn't worthy of being signed, which lead to our play-off squad being broken up. After that we went on a long winless run, and Hart was relieved of his job in February 2004, only to be replaced by Joke-in-Ear.
Should Hart get the job at the County Ground, he'll certainly try and add some stability, he won't take fools lightly, but unfortunately he's not that clued up tactically, if plan A fails, there's rarely a plan B. And his successes at other clubs don't make for glorious reading either, Chesterfield, Barnsley, Portsmouth and Palace stuggled to stay up or fell away quickly after early promising starts (not too dissimilar to his time at Forest), he's a cheap option, and a nice bloke, but for me, that's where it ends.
If he is appointed though, which looks likely, I hope he does a good job, I really do, it'll be a shame to see Town suffer another relegation,, but maybe the change is just what you need right now?
