Think with the latest Pardew rumours, the BRFCS rumour mill has now gone over the number of actual applicants for the job, never mind the ones interviewed.

In all fairness it’s much easier when you’ve got the capabilities to pick from a pool of decent managers. When you’re operating with the budget we likely have, it’s more difficult. Yes I do think they should have identified a target and gone after him, but imagine they’d gone all out for Farke, he decides the club doesn’t match his ambitions, so we go after an in work manager, say Manning, and he doesn’t fancy it. You’ve then got to start this process of interviewing managers who all know they are third choice at best. Once they’ve started this process of interviewing they might as well follow it through properly, even if it wasn’t the right strategy to begin with.

Wouldn’t rule Farke out the running just yet. Sounds to me like his agent has been trying to hurry the Rovers decision makers along. Sports BILD in Germany just reported that Farke isn’t in the running for the Schalke job after all.

Just tweeted it on the ToffiesTV Twitter account instead.

Walker is an interesting gamble. At PNE he was deemed to be better than Dolan talent wise. He can be an outstanding player on his day and the club gave him an extra two years to mature and sort out his attitude. The thinking at the academy was that he’d done enough to earn himself another deal this time round but it appears not. Either that or Rovers got in his ear first. “If you give him the chance that Dolan got you’ll have some player,” was what I was told.

Would welcome Wagner with open arms. Let’s be honest here, given our track record of appointing managers and some of the names we’ve been linked with, he’d be a massive improvement.

I suppose we should just let the opposition score a free goal whenever we grab one that’s marginally offside or from a dubious penalty too.

Given that it’s been predominantly foreign managers who have gained promotion from this league in recent times, I can imagine this would make sense for Venkys. Frank, Farke, Xisco Munoz, Bielsa, Bilic, Silva etc. Only recent exceptions for this are Parker (tons of £) and now Cooper who to be fair has been fantastic at Forest.

Farke first time round at Norwich spent around £4 million to get them promoted and promoted youth players like Max Aarons, Todd Cantwell etc from the academy. Second time round, granted he spent £11m but they brought in around £40m in player sales that year. It was also predominantly the same squad second time round as they hardly spent after their first promotion to the Premier League. Granted Wagner did a fantastic job at Huddersfield but I think Farke’s two promotions with Norwich aren’t an easy achievement.

Wouldn’t be surprised if he did get it, he’s been on the list since mid April!

I can’t believe there’s people on here complaining that we’ve wasted time by interviewing different managers. It’s really worked well for us in the past when we’ve just used a ‘consultant’ to cherry pick a manager for us hasn’t it… If they’d just gone and appointed the first name they considered, we’d be sat here with Duncan Ferguson as our manager now. That might still happen, but at least they are taking a measured approach and seeing what is available.

I believe he was one of the 2/3 candidates who entered the race last minute so perhaps a change of heart.

Respect for the owners that he had a big argument with and that sacked him? Interesting take.

So of the 8 interviewed it’s certainly Carvalhal, Fergusson and Carrick. Nixon claims Beale too. I also have a ‘hunch’ that Dyche was one of the last to be interviewed (Friday) You would also think that despite what it says in the LT, you can have preliminary talks with in work managers but in order for them to progress then you need to contact the club, so it wouldn’t surprise if Ainsworth and Manning were included in the 8.