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What I noticed about this whole 'pressing from the front' we seem to attempt the player will break their neck chasing down a player but very rarely ever actually challenge or block a pass. It's almost like they want to show willing but it's absolutely pointless. Except for ohashi we very rarely win possession back up front.

I’ll bite! Mowbray had a great few years here in the middle of his run but I still think he could have done more in that first season, he didn’t pick up a team stranded at the bottom and we threw away too many leads.

Remember bumping into Mark Bowen when we were both filling our cars at the petrol station on the A59 just days before the Burnley cup clash. I asked him if Savage's diet was raw meat that week, we had a chuckle and I wished him and the team well.

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Am I the only one noticing that Morishita is a bit lazy at his backtracking? Watched a bit from the Hull match and he dropped of on his defensive duties inside the first 10 min. I remember also thought the same yesterday.

I missed this one Zak Gilsenan has been on loan at Buxton in the National League North to hopefully regain fitness, so far has 2 goals in 3 games

Set pieces in general are so poor. Miroshita's corners were even worse.

Mark Bowen funnily enough is at Forest Green with Savage! Director of Football.

If Cantwell does find form a la earlier in the season he can be a game winner from midfield.. Baffled why none of his set pieces beat the first man it's almost like they've practiced the near post flick (like the Miller goal which he nearly repeated against Wednesday)

Yes, our level of ambition really only suits an unemployed desperado keen to get back into work of some sort. Lambert/Coyle/Mowbray/Ismael etc. The outliers were JDT and Eustace -they were also unemployed at the time but their careers weren't on downward trajectories.

Mark Bowen and Eddie Niedzwiecki.

Yep, Savage is better placed than most to know what an absolute mess we are. Berg at least had the excuse of Venky's still being quite early in their tenure, although he still should have known better. It's been 15 years, and we're arguably at our worst in terms of boardroom competence.

He knows what a shitshow Rovers are - he's kept himself in the loop. So does Sutton.

Match report from U17s semi final win team Rovers put out is below (those in bold are from our U16s) Holt Pitt Decandia McIlroy Low Vare Ball Higgins Lister McCoy Joseph Subs - Wolsoncroft, Nosegbe, Walls, Flynn, Clanford I would like to highlight that West Brom had a wonderfully named player on the scoresheet, Justin Seven-Seven

It's 2026 and links to the National League's Forest Green Rovers manager are being downplayed because our owners ambitions probably won't match his. That's the Venky effect.

It's a poor do when even national league managers are laughing us off.

There's probably no more foundation to it than the Coleman links. Without blowing anyone's trumpet on this site O Rourke has probably had a look on here at some point and thought That's a good suggestion, "I can get plenty of clicks out of that" Same with Coleman, someone's probably either on quite an ingenious wind up or has seen the early betting odds and has made 2 +2 =5. It's only day 2 of the search most of the earlier names linked are invariably complete nonsense. I can barely remember Ismael's name being mentioned until Nixon said he was on a shortlist of 2 with Wagner a day or two before it happened.

We are sufficiently far into the season that nobody in trouble is too good to go down. The West Brom transfer dealings make Gestede look brilliant in comparison by the way. Huge amount depends on injuries. Hopefully we are through the worst on that front but the Ewood surface could yet sabotage us. Suspect Leicester will get a 6 point deduction and their frequently rubbish performances mean they are in the doodoo. Based on the season so far, there isn't a game on the fixture list we can't win and definitely none we are incapable of being beaten in. Our Achilles heal is not scoring and that comes from creating ridiculously few good chances. A lot of this comes down to coaching as does conceding from set pieces and 90+ minutes goals against. In short, problems which can be largely fixed with the players we have got. However, I have less than zero confidence we will make appointments capable of fixing them so a totally avoidable relegation from which we won't recover is rightly priced at evens.

I read that it was most likely between 3 and 9 points based on similar case (Everton and Forest)

Chris Sutton has his say on Robbie Savage

If we're looking for old managers. Giovanni trappatoni

haha, that lasted long then!

Pity!

I would have thought if it's either of them they come in until the end of the season with a younger assistant who then carries on. Bit like your hypothetical Hughes/Savage or Dalglish/Gerrard scenarios. Depends on how badly you want to achieve scenario 1 in your earlier post and if so how much you're prepared to lash out to achieve it.