I meant what roles.

Why, what comes between marketing manager and marketing executive in a marketing operation as small as ours must be?

He quite clearly is. The post was balanced.

I can't remember a single thing Mark Venus ever said. Did he even do interviews?

I see no reason why that would be the case. I would get it if we were a multi-billion pound multinational organisation, but our marketing operation really won't be that big. It's also surely no more of a jump than from the standard marketing role to marketing manager.

It's actually more a milestone of how much we waffle a load of shit when nothing is happening. The unacceptable amount of time passed before the appointment is the milestone of negligence.

As I've mentioned a few times through this process, we are signing a manager, not a player. That said, if he knows how to translate that knowledge, particularly the movement, into tactics and coaching, it will be a plus. If he mostly played off instinct, or doesn't know how to communicate what he did, it's meaningless. Being a disciplined hard-worker is definitely a plus in a manager's psych profile though.

I agree on Hanley. His first good season with us was his last one. It was especially annoying that we had put up with him being a shite liability for years and then as soon as he got decent he went. Hard disagree on Cairney, who was clearly class and hampered by being played out of position (yet still managing to make meaningful contributions) and on Raya, who was blatantly worth a fair bit more than we got for him. With foresight, not hindsight, I said both were terrible deals for us. So they proved.

I can't see them wanting any less than 5 million for him. That said, we were told City would want something like 8+ mill for Tosin, then he moved to WBA for about 2.

The assistant manager role is free. So of course he won't have Lowe, Benson and Johnson as second in command even if he can't shunt them out.

Do you know if he got on the pitch?

Did you watch this game btw?

Sorry what do you mean not only in profit?

Don't worry, it's tongue in cheek.

This is the point though. The relatively unknown players probably aren't available, most of them anyway, because of the restrictions. I'm not sure Pukki would have met the requirements. I think he would, with Brondby being one of the best teams in Denmark so probably qualifying for Europe, but can't say for sure. But if we are just shopping at the top teams in this league, we probably don't have the budget for it. Can anyone remember if we determined Kaminski would have met the criteria? From memory I think it was an 'only just'.

Fast forward 6 months... "A big part of why I agreed to come here was because the club said they were fine with me commuting from home every day. But being honest, the 6 hour journey twice a day and the jetlag has started to be a bit too much for me. That's why, starting today, I'll be working remotely from home via Zoom."

He's one to watch, if the injury hasn't caused longer term issues, but clearly THE one to watch as you put it, would be Ash Phillips.

People do like to keep ignoring this.

Eek don't put it like that, bit scary! (Also, plus half a squad gone)

That's probably even worse, for me. We do have young players who need to come through, especially with our weak budget, but we also need to rebuild half our squad. We could do with a manager with a decent record in the market, although presumably that's mostly going to be in the hands of our new DoF. Whose experience....oh...is mostly with bringing youngsters through too.

It's annoying enough when someone says a player's replacement is already at the club, but it's usually a youth player they're referring to. In this case they're referring to someone who has already been in the first team for two seasons (and has a piss poor injury record). How is that a 'replacement'? It's just downgrading.

I think Waggott would be delighted with that show of 'non-support'. It will mean more money in the coffers if you don't buy a season ticket but buy individual tickets to all the games.

You don't think we need to sign a CB? Our two best are gone (disagree Ayala was our best but agree he currently is, but either way he's only good for half a season at best, more often about a third). I'd say it's one of 3/4 signings we absolutely have to make no matter the budget. Others being CM, RB when Nyambe goes, and a striker when BBD goes. There's no way we should risk 2/3 to half the season relying on a pairing of Wharton (has had injury issues too) and Carter, with only 17 year old untested Phillips as backup, which is what will happen when Ayala inevitably gets his injuries slash it's-cold-I-can't-be-bothered patch. It's not just 'not ideal' for that to be the extent of our options, it's borderline suicidal and absolutely can't be allowed to happen unless the budget is actually zero. Bringing in a loanee for it again would count as 'not ideal'. If we can't afford to recruit in that area I shouldn't think we are recruiting in any area and we will be in major trouble. Like roversfan99 suggests, relying on kids to fill all these gaps is madness. More likely to get relegated than be happy with the results.

Who is filling the void of Lenihan (and Van Hecke) then? If Carter and Phillips are 3rd and 4th choice, presumably you have Ayala and Wharton as 1st and 2nd? Meaning our two best CBs just left and you don't want to replace either? Or are you just saying until we sign a CB?

My pet theory has been that Waggott has realised he is shite at stuff like contract negotiations, despite being an ex-agent, or just can't be arsed with it, and has brought someone in to delegate some of his duties to. So what you say about the partly Ops nature of the role fits.