It will be weeks before there will be an appointment, i'm going for third week in June.

At the end of the day, even if Rothwell had gone and we got a couple of decent players in, we still would have had Mowbray in charge so nothing would have gone any differently.

They will have seen the previous manager get 5 years at the job, under very little pressure, to do what he wants at the club. What manager in todays world wouldn't want that?

Raya, Nyambe, Lenihan, Mulgrew, Williams, Bennett, Evans, Conway & Graham were all lauded as hero's after finishing second in league one, Mowbray inherited all them. Bowyer inherited Murphy, Etuhu, Best, Orr, DJ Campbell, Kean, Goodwillie and about 50 Portuguese lads. I don't rate Bowyer at all, but to turn that shitshow around and not only keep us up (which Mowbray didnt), but finish 8th the year after was a decent feat for a rookie manager in his first job. It took Mowbray 5 years to finish 8th. Anyway, like i said, not really the thread for it....

Bowyer definitely inherited the club in a weaker position that Mowbray. This isn't the thread for that though. Mowbray has done ok, probably the bare minimum i would expect for someone given 5 years to shape the club how he saw fit, also feel like we have wasted a few years as he took us on this ridiculous journey though.

The one thing we can guarantee, is that nothing is going to happen quickly. I predict we'll announce something in around a month or so.

I'm pretty sure venkys getting rid of Sam had nothing to do with his style...

Yet there are many out there that would have you believe that the fans are the main problem at the club.

If Lowe has to stay couldn't they just stick him in the youth setup seeing he came from there previously? Presume Ben Benson will be staying too.

Gav, how has Neil got a worse record than Mowbray? They were 13th when they sacked him while we were flying high in 15th. He finished above Mowbray in each of his last 3 seasons, without the luxury of spending millions on strikers too. He's a much better manager.

I read it wrong the first time and selected Woodgate. Obviously i thought the question was who do you think will be the next manager. Who i want is obviously Farke.

Thought Brown had a decent first half, then a shaky second. Far too early to tell if he will make it at this level, my gut tells me that he will be here and make the odd appearance until January before he goes on loan to a league or two below, then probably spend his career there.

I guess we're in for a few weeks of utter silence now. June 30th his contract expires? In venkys world that is plenty of time to get around to it, they won't have a clue that the new season starts exactly 4 weeks after that.

Nixon will just link us to everyone out of work over the next few weeks until the position is filled. Then claim an exclusive.

I imagine we'll get about 4/5 weeks of absolute silence now save for the odd tidbit from Mowbray through the LET. There will be nothing from the official site for weeks, until middle of June when some desperado that we didn't think of takes charge. Farke is a pipe dream I'm afraid, even if he has some interest I have no faith in them getting the deal done.

For what it's worth, I heard the exact same thing at the game today. Obviously no idea if true but the person who said it doesn't make things up.

They are planning huge protests tomorrow i read, pitch invasions and all sorts.

Gerry Cinnamon is playing a gig at Hampden the night we play Celtic so that could be something to do with the high prices.

First game announced... https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2022/may/05/rovers-announce-celtic-friendly/

Guessing its something Nixon has said on his patreon.

Why? Surely you have seen what venkys have done over the past 12 years, they haven't all of a sudden figured out that we should be appointing the best available.

I imagine the likes of Brown, Carter, Garrett, Vale & Butterworth will be used to pad out the squad next season if there isn't much money knocking about. Carter could very well go straight into the side given his last loan spell. I would say we need at least 1 right back, 2 centre halves with Ayala never being fit, 2 central midfielders and a striker.

I'm a bit of a geek with season reviews as i had them all as a kid and watched them all hundreds of times. There are season reviews out there from 89/90 and 90/91 but must be ridiculously rare. They then released a season review every season from 91/92 to 97/98. 98/99 has a half season review but no end of season one presumably because of relegation. There was no review for the 99/00 season ever released. 00/01 had a half season review, then a full season review at the end of the season. (Which is probably the worst one they ever released to be honest). 01/02 & 02/03 were both on VHS with a special double VHS in 01/02 showing highlights of the Worthington Cup run plus the full 90 minutes of the final, which was released separately to the end of season VHS. (This was later re-released on DVD with the 94/95 champions DVD) 03/04 had no review, with 04/05 just being a short DVD of all our goals that season which came with the ST renewal pack. 05/06 through to 10/11 all had a season review released on DVD, with nothing else until the 17/18 League one DVD, and nothing since.

My group here in Cheshire went down from 5 to 2 in the summer of 2012, with the last one dropping off in 2015. (Although we're back to 2 now considering my lad started coming at the start of the 15-16 season). All have probably been to a handful of games since (mostly early after the relegation). I still see them occasionally around town and all seem fairly clue'd up on whats going on football wise i.e with results and players etc, they just have no desire to attend games anymore. One lad was my age, while the other 3 were older and are in there mid 60's now.

Lambert on paper was the most logical appointment venkys have made. In reality, he was bang average, but if given 5 years at the job I reckon he would have done at least what Mowbray did.