Who says JDT was sacked?

Why did they not run a similar process when searching for JDT's successor and instead got Eustace sorted out very quickly? Did they not have 100+ applicants back then? I suspect the answer to that is that Broughton was involved in getting JDT and Eustace in and both happened quickly and professionally, whereas prior to Broughton arriving and now we see a totally different approach, quite shambolic. In their efforts to make this managerial 'search' appear thorough and professional by referring to interviews and CVs coming in all they are doing is digging a deeper hole for themselves when they end up leaving Lowe in charge or hand it to another friendly face/linked agency client.

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Going to look a bit ridiculous if Swansea have a new man in charge in time for Saturday whilst we are still conducting interviews having had 10 days+ more time to get things in place.

O'Neil would at least be a logical appointment based on past performance. Granted he hasn't managed at this level or with lunatic owners and management but he's clearly an intelligent well thought of manager, you don't get two cracks in two years at PL clubs if you don't have something about you. Not my first choice and I'm not convinced he will be better than JDT or Eustace (and that's the only thing we should be aiming for if we are a serious club) but he's head and shoulders above the likes of Boateng, Boa Morte, Wellens, even some of the others like Carsley, Duff, Lowe and Karanka in the betting odds list. I'm not even particularly confident he'd take it, it will be a massive come down financially and structurally to what he has been used to and I'm sure after his difficulties at Wolves and being ruthlessly sacked at Bournemouth he might fancy waiting for a serious job to come up with long term prospects, which nobody will be getting at Ewood. If he's in the running it really wouldn't surprise me to see a summer termination clause, I'd be amazed if any manager would commit to 2-3 years of this without some serious assurances on future plans. If I was him or anyone else with any decent pedigree I'd be looking at the JDT and Eustace debacles and planning accordingly.

Luke Williams anyone? Not a serious suggestion but now available after getting the Swansea sack

Questions as to whether Rovers could 'tempt' O'Neil or Edwards into the Ewood Park dugout? Good god. What a reminder of what levels this regime has dragged us to. Edwards has set Luton on course for League One 'or if Rovers would like to tempt him to do so' - tempt him? He'd be fortunate to say the least to get a top 6 Championship job so soon after that mess. O'Neil would be a major coup and it remains to be seen whether he could be tempted? Deary me. Of the names I've seen linked he is one of the better ones but good grief, a major coup? Could he be tempted? What small minded nonsense.

I don't think he does 'know' the club. He knows the training ground and area from before but he certainly won't recognise the disgraceful shambles of an organisation behind the scenes compared to what he might remember from over 20 years ago. I'm not really sure 'knowing' the club actually means very much, especially not in our position.

No Championship club and especially not one in the top 6 with less than a third of the season remaining would hand the job to someone managing in Ireland (Duff), Guinea-Bissau (Boa Morte) or recently axed as an assistant at Coventry (Boateng). The fact that all three appear high in the betting list is highly alarming.

There is a potential link between Hughton and Boateng - Ghana. Boateng was born there despite playing a few games for the Netherlands and Hughton was recently involved with the Ghana national team first as an advisor and then as manager. So I've heard less crazy suggestions. My theory is that they'd love to give it to Boateng and that there will have been a 'plan' to do so for some time since he got the job at Brockhall working with the kids. There's been a similar plan for some time to get Gestede into the hierarchy and I suspect eventually he will replace Waggott as the main man down there. This is how these people operate - they love to give jobs out to the cheap and desperate who will accept any conditions in return for a route into management. Probably nice people too just to help them along. But I also think they will recognise that directly appointing Boateng would cause furore especially in our current position. So perhaps their little scheme is to bring someone like Hughton in alongside/above him temporarily just to make it appear more reasonable and then he steps aside and they hand it to Boateng after that.

A club in our position with a PL slot up for grabs within the next 3-4 months and having had a clearly unhappy / disgruntled manager since the start of the season should have a clear plan and idea of what to do next. We're now 10 days on from Eustace speaking to Derby and still doing 'interviews' and if Nixon's list is remotely accurate it seems there is very little method to it other than a ragtag collection of desperate names and friendly faces of Waggott/Gestede. A shambles. They're determined to fritter away the opportunity Eustace has left us with.

There's a difference of course between actively and deliberately taking steps to stop us getting promoted, and just being so utterly indifferent and disinterested that missing out on promotion becomes inevitable after repeatedly failing in January. The outcome is the same either way, so it doesn't really matter, their actions (or lack of) holding the club back and will forever more.

I also think that it was only heading into his final season that Mowbray took the handbrake off and 'went for it' knowing that his contract was running out and that it was all silent with regards to a renewal. He probably felt that a promotion push would make the Indians sit up and take notice and offer him a new long term deal. Then he realised that not even that was enough to re-engage the Indians or secure additional January backing and it petered out to nothing. I think he was making a point to them to try and get them to offer him a new deal and when they didn't he felt insulted/betrayed. I think if he had been offered a new 2-3 year deal in summer 2021 ahead of that final season we'd have just plodded along again to a 12th placed finish.

Venkys, Waggott, Suhail and Gestede do. Their budgets make it almost a certainty, see our approach to transfers - short term, cheap, hit and hope rather than any sort of grand or ambitious plan.

Wolves news: Gary O'Neil signs new four-year deal - BBC Sport O'Neil signed a new improved 4 year Wolves deal in August that ran until 2028. Now unless something drastic is happening with that I suspect he will be due a sizeable chunk of money from Wolves and would forfeit some of it if he took a job at Venky Rovers. I imagine his wage at Wolves will have also been way beyond what we are willing to pay here.

We need someone in this week ahead of the Swansea game. I appreciate the job done by Lowe and Johnson and inevitably they will remain closely involved behind the scenes whatever happens next. If we had 3-4 games remaining I'd be tempted to just keep them on and see what happens now but with 14 games remaining there is just too much ahead of us - games, points, work - to leave it to chance. We've got ourselves into a position now where anything beneath 6th has to be considered a massive disappointment. With the exception of Coventry's good run nobody behind us is accelerating and teams we expected to be pushing - Middlesbrough and West Brom are dropping points. It is there for the taking. It needs someone who can command the respect of the players and fans and who knows how to handle the pressure and get over the line. Suggestions of Boa Morte and Boateng are so ridiculous my only conclusion if true is that it would be a deliberate attempt to take us away from the top 6.

If we did want Wellens, which I hope we don't, why would paying £250k compensation be a stumbling block when we've just collected reportedly 2-3 times that from Derby for Eustace? Where has that money gone so quickly? It really doesn't bode well for the future if we are baulking at appointing a League One manager (Not that I'd want him) based on his compensation figure

I'd love to know who 'they' are when interviewing managers. Waggott, Suhail, Gestede, Owen? Others? What a sorry first impression potential managers would get of this club speaking to that gang. A week on from Derby tapping Eustace up and they're clearly not in any rush at all to get this resolved (assuming Nixon is accurate, big assumption although he seems to be on the Waggott payroll/grapevine at the moment so maybe he is correct).

I still keep seeing comments on Facebook and Twitter with people asking why Dolan hasn't signed his contract and where does he expect to go if he leaves here. Not a single first team player has signed new terms in almost 18 months now. It is unheard of and unprecedented. I'm sure even a club in administration would renew some deals so to protect the value of assets. This tells me that whatever 'deal' we have offered Dolan is abysmal, and probably doesn't even exist.

Beale alone would be too expensive for Rovers. He's had work managing QPR, Rangers and Sunderland and recently had a job in Saudi so would have to take a massive pay cut to come here and be assistant manager - isn't going to happen Critchley is busy with Hearts and only worked with Gerrard for a few months before he was sacked at Villa Like with Carsley file under 'potentially a good option' but never going to happen here in a million years.

Stability here is just another word for going nowhere - like we had for years under Bowyer and Mowbray The owners won't allow us to have any stability as evidenced by the turnover in managers, players and staff. I don't think we want any players to sign new contracts which is part of the reason none have and why Eustace left - they are running them down deliberately and not offering new terms.

Carsley might well be a good coach and a good option for an aspirational club. Why would he come here though? He's got a safe, well paid job with the England setup. In 18 months Tuchel is out and he may well be tipped to replace him as he was tipped to replace Southgate last time. He will need compensation to get him out of his contract with the FA. He's never been a club manager despite being around the coaching block the last 10 years or so. He was linked heavily with the Irish job last year which suggests he's got options if he wants to be a Number 1. Coming here as his first club number 1 role would be extremely risky, and almost certainly won't happen. His name is getting linked because he's an ex-player and he's been linked to other vacancies over the last few months like Stoke.

One of the reasons I would want Warnock is knowing that you are going to get 100%, and he'll leave no stone unturned to get us over the line. In a few weeks we go to Derby and that fixture concerns me with Eustace there. The thought of rocking up and rolling over to them worries me. Go there with Warnock at the helm and they will know about it.

I found it staggering - absolutely staggering - when I arrived at Ewood at 12:10pm before the Wolves game last Sunday and saw the ticket office hatches with shutters down and nobody there buying or selling match tickets. 20 minutes before kick off, 15,000 empty seats and no facility or ability to buy admission to the ground in person either from the ticket office or on the turnstiles. I just find it insane.

I don't think anyone of any repute is going to look at this job and think it is a wonderful medium to long term opportunity. The best we can offer - and most attractive part to the job - is between now and May - we've got a play-off position within our reach, a squad clearly giving it everything with a great team spirit and a shot at promotion. It is a period of 2-3 months that not even Venkys and their stooges could wreck with budget cuts, poor communication and botched recruitment. Therefore the sole focus of whoever it is making this decision should be on getting the best man to come in immediately and have an immediate impact until the summer. This is why I suggested Warnock or Allardyce but I am sure there will be plenty of good calibre European options who are available and would fancy a 14 game crack at getting to the PL or a promotion on their CV and then reassess. Suggestions of people like Wellens, Boateng, Carsley are just dismal and totally inappropriate for the position we find ourselves in, as is the suggestion of sticking with the status quo based on one performance and result at WBA. People with reasonable reputations or standing in the game are not going to look at Rovers and think that this is a 3-4 year project to get promotion. It is a 3-4 month project to get promotion and nobody - probably not even Venkys - has a clue what comes after that but it almost certainly won't be good. So I'm not even particularly confident that the likes of O'Neil, Edwards, Gerrard would fancy this beyond the end of the season. Despite failures this season they've still got reasonable standing and reputations in the game and are still collecting big money pay-offs from their last clubs. Why gamble all that to come and work for this farce? They need to get their next moves spot on otherwise they are probably finished as top 2 division managers. They're better off limiting their terms to the summer or waiting until then and seeing what else becomes available.