Next Rovers manager

[Upside Down]

36 minutes ago, davulsukur said:

Rowett now the favourite and could be offered the job but Jackson saying he's not in the frame 🤷‍♂️

I certainly know which one of these two I would trust more.

[Hasta]

Rowett now 1/3

[danger19_80]

Will Rowett take it though. Leicester looking also and he played for them

[Armchair supporter supremo]

Sorry am I missing something here!? What has rowet done as a manager that's impressive, looks like he just plods from 1 job to the next achieving nothing

Dean smith isn't exactly the most inspiring, but at least he's shown he can get a lot out of mediocre teams at this level 

Edited 2 hours ago by Armchair supporter supremo

[Upside Down]

1 minute ago, danger19_80 said:

Will Rowett take it though. Leicester looking also and he played for them

And they will also pay a real wage, not an apprentice salary for a senior role.

[JHRover]

3 minutes ago, Armchair supporter supremo said:

Sorry am I missing something here!? What has rowet done as a manager that's impressive, looks like he just plods from 1 job to the next achieving nothing

Dean smith isn't exactly the most inspiring, but at least he's shown he can get a lot out of mediocre teams

Birmingham - took over when they were bottom 3, no money to spend and by the time he was sacked by their new owners they were in the top 6

Derby - play-offs in his only season

Stoke - sacked after 6 months - but nobody has done well there

Millwall - kept them up and had them top half / play-off chasing for 2-3 years

Birmingham - took over with 8 games remaining, won 3 but they went down

Oxford - took over with them struggling near the bottom, kept them up with a weak side, sacked this season with them struggling

Personally I think he's ideal for us both in our current situation and as someone who could build us up again on a limited budget.

But under Rudy and Suhail I suspect it won't work out because he won't be given the opportunity to do the job, just like Eustace wasn't.

[Armchair supporter supremo]

1 minute ago, JHRover said:

Birmingham - took over when they were bottom 3, no money to spend and by the time he was sacked by their new owners they were in the top 6

Derby - play-offs in his only season

Stoke - sacked after 6 months - but nobody has done well there

Millwall - kept them up and had them top half / play-off chasing for 2-3 years

Birmingham - took over with 8 games remaining, won 3 but they went down

Oxford - took over with them struggling near the bottom, kept them up with a weak side, sacked this season with them struggling

Personally I think he's ideal for us both in our current situation and as someone who could build us up again on a limited budget.

But under Rudy and Suhail I suspect it won't work out because he won't be given the opportunity to do the job, just like Eustace wasn't.

Fair doos! 

 

I was just going of his wiki stats, that don't look good on paper 

[Tricky]

10 minutes ago, danger19_80 said:

Will Rowett take it though. Leicester looking also and he played for them

And he'll send them down on the last game of the season 

[Andy]

If I'm honest, I don't know that much about Rowett, but sounds like he's realistically as good as we're going to get, with the current whoppers overseeing it.

[Tricky]

2 minutes ago, Andy said:

If I'm honest, I don't know that much about Rowett, but sounds like he's realistically as good as we're going to get, with the current whoppers overseeing it.

This very much.

Don't google his coaching style mind...

[toogs]

4 minutes ago, Tricky said:

This very much.

Don't google his coaching style mind...

Yay. Can’t wait. 

[Armchair supporter supremo]

4 minutes ago, Tricky said:

This very much.

Don't google his coaching style mind...

Seems ok in theory and the kind of style that's served us best over the years if you've got the players suited to it, 

 

Tbh as long as we play a traditional back 4 that's a good enough start for me 😅

[Dreams of 1995]

Real shame for Elliot Jackson. He’s trying his best as a journalist but the club have effectively froze him out. They want him gone and they’ll do whatever they can to get rid of him, including clearly feeding false information. The message will be clear if that happens - write things we do not like and we will make your job untenable. What a very strange situation we find ourselves in. Is there another club in the football league that bans its local journalists?

Does this type of behaviour not get considered in the “fit and proper” tests? 

[Theaxe15]

7 minutes ago, Dreams of 1995 said:

Real shame for Elliot Jackson. He’s trying his best as a journalist but the club have effectively froze him out. They want him gone and they’ll do whatever they can to get rid of him, including clearly feeding false information. The message will be clear if that happens - write things we do not like and we will make your job untenable. What a very strange situation we find ourselves in. Is there another club in the football league that bans its local journalists?

Does this type of behaviour not get considered in the “fit and proper” tests? 

Agreed. Last thing the lad needs is arrogant folk like “RoversXtra” giving him stick online

Edited 2 hours ago by Theaxe15

[M_B]

5 minutes ago, Armchair supporter supremo said:

Seems ok in theory and the kind of style that's served us best over the years if you've got the players suited to it, 

 

Tbh as long as we play a traditional back 4 that's a good enough start for me 😅

Set piece emphasis sounds like a plan. 

[OsloRover]

2 hours ago, moerpho said:

On Damien Johnson: could it be he just enjoys being employed without the threat of being fired if things go poorly? Loves the club despite its millions of faults and don’t want to get binned, have to move, resettle the family etc? If so I hope he stays on as an employee rather than a manager/head coach. He has been here for some time now, but we don’t hear much from him. I know the feeling from my own “work life”.

That’s my take on it too. 

[Paul Mellelieu]

3 minutes ago, OsloRover said:

That’s my take on it too. 

He's said this in the last few days, and during his last brief tenure.

[John]

40 minutes ago, JHRover said:

Oxford - took over with them struggling near the bottom, kept them up with a weak side, sacked this season with them struggling

 

Oxford have been (so far) worse than us this season, which is some achievement - is their squad that bad or does Rowett take some responsibility..?

[Tricky]

Who's Rowett bringing with him then?

[speedies gonna get ya.]

Every new manager is a gamble. However experienced, even more so working for that shower. Klopp would struggle with Rudy and Pasha above. I want to stay up ofcourse but all a bit irrelevant while Raos still the owners. I would usually be quite excited and optimistic now about a fresh start and new manager. They have robbed me of that feeling too.

[Andy]

38 minutes ago, Armchair supporter supremo said:

Seems ok in theory and the kind of style that's served us best over the years if you've got the players suited to it, 

 

Tbh as long as we play a traditional back 4 that's a good enough start for me 😅

Sounds very 'Eustace' in fairness.

[Kjell]

Lengthy and recent interview with Rowett:

[Leonard Venkhater]

49 minutes ago, Dreams of 1995 said:

Real shame for Elliot Jackson. He’s trying his best as a journalist but the club have effectively froze him out. They want him gone and they’ll do whatever they can to get rid of him, including clearly feeding false information. The message will be clear if that happens - write things we do not like and we will make your job untenable. What a very strange situation we find ourselves in. Is there another club in the football league that bans its local journalists?

Does this type of behaviour not get considered in the “fit and proper” tests? 

He has my respect for telling it like it is on the podcast. The club is a disgrace.

[RevidgeBlue]

1 hour ago, Tom said:

Feel for Jackson but he’s so far out of the loop these days, even on deadline day was wrong with a simple story about a player leaving on loan when it was a perm.

I think the club are spiteful enough to ensure he gets the wrong info. 

Come off it, Jackson's worse than useless, always has been.

That isnt to say it was fair for the Club to ban him.

[Polky]