Mike E

But that’s how you do succession planning. Ensuring you get a candidate of appropriate quality in quickly.

Why not? The last appointment under Waggott didn’t happen for weeks UNTIL GB appointed JDT.

I personally suspect that such a quick appointment may be exactly because of the succession planning regularly discussed by GB. IF (a big one) my suspicion is correct, GB deserves some credit.

I’m coming around to the Eustace appointment, strictly in the context of the situation we find ourselves in. After reading around about him, including on a Brum forum, he meets a lot of the criticisms we have of JDT, and probably fits a DOF model better. 1. He focuses on defense and set pieces as a priority, then builds from there. This is what we’ve all said JDT struggles with, and is reminiscent of our better post-Walker managers: Hughes and Allardyce. 2. He is tactically flexible, using at various points in his Brum tenure: 442, 424, 532, and 3412. This suggests a flexibility that meets our need for change and reaction in-game, or in form dips, or injury/suspensions. 3. He is predominantly a man-manager rather than a coach, preferring to work with what he has, rather than square pegs in round holes. 4. Combining 1+2+3 suggests to me that he’d be willing to ‘wee with the willy we’ve got’, using the players brought in by the DOF and make it work, in a way that JDT never really did. If this is successful we’ll like him, if not we won’t, I think he COULD be the best way (last chance) for this shitshow to work. Either way: Raos out. Suhail out. Waggott out.

Nutshell: Raos out. They took the club widely regarded as one of the most efficiently-run in football, and turned it into a laughing stock. The shame of Pune and India have destroyed the Pride of Lancashire.

Their priority ought to be to bugger off.

Do you mean to keep tagging me? I don’t have his Patreon. I wouldn’t pay him my turds for his ‘info’.

Failing to capitalise on potential Indian (Venkys) and Chilean (Brereton Diaz) marketing opportunities.

Mowbray took us from a relegation place, up to 17th and 5pts clear by April. Then relegated us.

@J*B Would I be right in describing the ‘secret’ bits as actually already in the public domain as rumour, but not official from the club?

Very well spoken my friend

If the statement from last week was a lie, spinning events to appear reasonably positive, what’s the betting that today’s statement is a similar lie and the reality is even worse than that ineptitude? Ie: Sabotage rather than error.

Don’t understand the logic of ‘who will buy us?’ posts. It’s like asking who will buy your house when you decide to sell: I’ve no idea, but plenty will be interested.

Obviously their board will have their own opinions. Personally, I’d argue that (even aside from WATR members calling for protests themselves) the moment their board might turn unilaterally is if the spirit of the MoU is abandoned when talking with the club, as that would be Rovers representatives going back on a signed agreement.

Go on @Miller11 😅

I think Waggott and Venkys can count themselves VERY lucky we didn’t concede a third vs QPR. I felt it was about to tip.

I guarantee that if we charged £200-300 for a ST, and no longer had Venkys here, we’d have minimum crowds of 15k. Easy.

Can anyone photoshop the Venkys logo to say ‘Wankers’?

Never, she was beautiful.

Annie. Sorry it’s not a Rovers pun.

My cat’s just died. It’s been coming for a couple of weeks, but feel like it sums it all up at the moment.

Crowd turning. Slowly.

Pears has played well today and doesn’t deserve that

Szmodics noticeably starting to bollock Dolan for not tracking.