Exactly that. You very rarely hear of managers resigning these days - it's always mutual consent. TM's post match interviews for the last 6 months almost sound like someone who wants to be pushed to me.

That's my point though - there is likely to be a break clause in there like Kean had. I'd find it unlikely that it would be the balance of his 4 year contract, as you'd assume they'd have to pay that out in full if they terminated his deal early. It's likely that it's 12 months either way. Surely we could afford 12 months of his salary. This was the wording in Kean's contract: 15 Early Termination 15.1 If the Manager receives an approach for his services whether directly or indirectly from any other club or national association (whether in England or anywhere else in the world) and/or any third party on behalf of such entities during the Fixed Period, he will notify the Owner immediately. 15.2 In the event that the Manager shall, at any time, wish to be released early from this Agreement the Club shall grant his request only if the Manager, prior to any release, compensates the Club or procures the payment of compensation to the Club by way of liquidated damages in a sum equal to twelve (12) months’ gross basic salary as enjoyed by the Manager at the applicable time.

I've obviously not seen Ainsworth's contract - but Kean had a clause in allowing him to leave for the sum of 12 months of his salary. You'd guess that would be a fairly standard clause I would have thought. So I'd expect any compensation to be around 12 months of his salary - and he can't be on a fortune as Wycombe boss.

Before his injury: Championship games: 64 Championship goals: 24

Are you saying he's got an issue with his reliability....and in the next sentence labelling him as reliable?

And I'll bet that comes before the defenders.

I don't get the fuss around Pearson. Did well at Leicester - but they finished 14th in the Premier League before he was sacked and then won the league the season after. His record since Leicester isn't great. Derby - 21.4% (win percentage) OH Leuven - 32.1% Watford - 31.8% Bristol City - 16.7% Certainly nothing to get excited about.

I think this image fully emphases what an awful decade it's been. Rovers v Burnley league finishes since Venky's got involved. This season uses the current league positions.

I was just reading about Vince Grella on Wikipedia to see how many games he did manage for Rovers. He had terrible luck with injuries. He went off injured at half time on his debut - and then was out for month. He managed 29 league starts in 4 years - including just 4 in his last 2 years at the club (none of those 4 he completed the 90 minutes). Then went to Melbourne City - signing a one year deal. It took him 3 months to make his debut - coming on as a sub. He got injured in that substitute appearance and retired 2 days later.

This is surely the equivalent of a woman telling her husband she's going to move in with another bloke, and then changing her mind at the last minute. They've made their bed now, they should be booted out 😂

Worth noting that Paul Cook has won 2 of his 12 games at Ipswich so far. They've not scored a goal in 529 minutes of football either.

The statistics get more damning by the week. They have now lost 19 matches, the same number they managed in the whole of their 2016/17 relegation season. They have failed to score more times (13) than they have managed clean sheets (11) and it’s now two wins in 17 and 11 points taken from the last 51 available.

He doesn't see Melbourne Victory quite at Super League level yet, but he's sure they can be in a few years.

I'd be interested to see how many of the players were genuinely bothered about that. I get the feeling the majority are more interested in lining their own pockets than representing their country anyway (not all of them, but the majority)

Elliott is much more physical than Buckley and he's about three and half years younger. I'll guarantee you now Elliott has a better career than Buckley.

Jose has only managed 5 of the Super League clubs so far. He's just trying to be the first man to do all 12.

I remember when we had a decent manager and I'd panic every time something like the Mourinho sacking happened. Whenever the likes of Spurs, City or Newcastle would sack someone, I'd be panicking they'd go after Hughes. No such worries nowadays.

It was Gary Charles I think.

On the plus side - let's strip the 6 of them of all league titles/places since the inception of the Premier League. Rovers are now newly crowned Premier League Champions for the 93/94 and 05/06 season and finished runners up in 97/98 and 02/03.

Another stat - in the last 23 games, we've only won 1 game where we've had more possession than the opposition (we've won another 3 games in that time period, but had less possession than the opposition). Possession football doesn't always work.

2018/19 - 35.3% (Win percentage) 2019/20 - 36.7% 2020/21 - 29.5% 2020/21 (5th December onwards) - 18.5% 2020/21 (5th January onwards) - 16.7% 2020/21 (5th February onwards) - 6.7% If he's developing and improving the squad - it must be the manager causing us to go backwards.

I can picture it now. His end of season meeting will be like a gender reveal party. There will be a big explosion as some giant balloons with our final league position float into the sky. Mowbray puts a positive spin on the fact we've stayed up.

Agree with this. He's bound to have dips in form at 17 playing for a struggling side. He's got 16 goal involvements in the league - 11 assists and 5 goals. From what I can see, there are only 9 players with more goal involvements. He hasn't been as good since the turn of the year, but overall he's been a success.