Mike E

Best thing we could do is get rid of Greg 'but we've already tried that' Coar. No, we HAVEN'T already tried a damned thing if you're half-arsing it at every step.

Chaddy mentioned him about a month ago. I'm not taking the piss, he genuinely did, and I said at the time it's the kind of left field appt that could really work.

That's my understanding of it

And how do you think the LET could drive circulation? Holding the club to account, including when not given answers? Or limply repeating 3day-old rumours from the internet? If Sharpe's input was actually interesting, I'd buy the paper or subscribe. As it is we get better info on here than we get from Sharpe.

It literally IS the job of any journalist to hold to account the people on whom they report.

Why? Every one is a step up from every manager we've had so far when they joined (Lambert aside).

Played the round of my life yesterday, my first round at Pleasington GC! Stroke index 17.6, so standard handicap of 18. Course index meant I played a 21 handicap (so the course played difficult). Scored 87 gross, for a net 66! 5 under par!

Reads similar to Coleman at Accy, that.

He's been in the job 10 years and taken a club from the brink of extinction to the Championship, what's 'rookie' about that?

Nothing to say the final three candidates aren't Santo, Favre, and Villas-Boas 😉

Let's not forget that managers with repeated and recent success in L1 are STILL a step above any of our Venky managerial appointments when they joined us (probably Lambert aside). I'm just relieved we're actually looking at actual football managers and if Warne or Ainsworth are our worst case scenario, I'm absolutely fine with that!

I think people are overthinking this. Isn't it just a case of Duncan put Carlo down as a reference?

I'll have you know I'm a fucking ray of sunshine 🤣

What chance Waggott has been sly here and leaked 'A call with Ancelotti' to direct everyone towards Ferguson THEREFORE drawing focus away from an actual candidate they desperately want to keep hush hush so nobody jumps in (as has seeming happened with Carvalhal and Farke)? I'm choosing (with no basis whatsoever) to believe they've pulled off a very good managerial signing. Reckon our worst case scenario is Ainsworth.

He heard of him when he was just a glint in the milkman's eye. Get with the programme ffs.

Won: 3-1 Vs Chelsea Draws: 1-1 v Utd, 0-0 Vs Arsenal, vs Leicester (KO Penalties). Lost: 1-0 v Norwich Honestly, that's actually pretty good imo.

Oh don't worry, I can already see tomorrow's headlines about TAA not singing the national anthem while ignoring Mount doing the same. No idea what possible difference between them will form this motivation though.

Ooooft would love that to be what we walk out to at Ewood!

I'm still deluding myself (for the sake of staying away from misery). It'll be one of: Favre, Villas-Boas, Dyche, Santo, Setien, Martinez, Fonseca, Valverde, Zidane. *Puff of smoke*

For the last time, I don't know!

Probably the 'unfashionable' football, I guess?

You just mentioned his 9 years at Wycombe and completely ignored the first 6 years there. He saved them from relegation out of L2 in 2012. Then eventually got them up to L1 in 2018, while contributing the necessary wheeling and dealing to get the club onto a sound financial footing. All without an academy, reserve team, or GK coach. Then, given the opportunity to add to his coaching staff, and reserves (allowing him to rest and rotate players at last) he them promptly gets them into the Championship, relegated, then back into a Play-off final again. The guy has played real-life Football Manager and it's a remarkable managerial career so far. His fandom is irrelevant (and actually a turn OFF for me lest he be tainted by Venkys). But his record suggests he's ready to make the step up, much more than Mowbray or Coyle deserved when they were appointed, much moreso that the recently appointed Beale, Edwards, Lowe at other clubs.

Lenihan deal all but agreed pending new manager imo.

I'm choosing to believe that we'll appoint a good quality manager early next week. On the basis that the only 'leak' we've had is that Glen reckons we're after Farke. Nothing else has come from a credible source apart from Pete O'Rourke getting Big Dunc wrong.

I just want to know Clough's reaction. Did he set Dave McKay on him next time the sides met?