Reds attempt to justify O'Driscoll sacking
NOTTINGHAM Forest chairman Fawaz Al Hasawi has defended the shock decision to sack manager Sean O'Driscoll only hours after a 4-2 home win over Leeds United.
Forest's resounding win left the club in eighth place, one point adrift of the Championship play-off places.
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Midfielder Jeff Hendrick carries the ball forward at Turf Moor.
But it was not enough to save O'Driscoll, who left Crawley in the summer to take over at the City Ground, and Forest are now targeting a replacement with Premier League experience.
Al Hasawi said: "The timing of our decision may look a little odd after the win over Leeds but sometimes you need to make changes with the long-term future in mind.
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"Sometimes those changes need to be made from a position of strength rather than weakness and that is what we are trying to do.
"We are looking to bring in an ambitious manager with Premier League experience."
Al Hasawi admitted the decision was tough on O'Driscoll.
He said: "We cannot speak highly enough of Sean as a man.
"He was appointed at an extremely difficult time for the club and can count himself unlucky to have lost his job with the team just one point away from the top six.
"But we have a responsibility to look to the future for this great club because we have huge ambitions for it.
"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."
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