I never get this ‘the message board would’ve gone mad’? Yes a few dozen folk on here would’ve moaned. And? You can’t cry poverty when you let tens of millions walk out the door for nowt.

He deserves nothing. It’s a results business. Is he the best man to get us out of the third division is the only question that matters (or it would at a normal club, but he’ll be here regardless so let’s hope he is).

Of course it’s irrelevant to the here and now, it was 10 years ago - but it’s a fair historical comparison to make - bloke comes in during a season to take over a struggling side. It’s a message board, we can chew the fat over such things, if you aren’t interested then fair enough.

Again with the ‘free ride’, ‘free pass’. Who gives these clowns on the ground a free pass? Does Swag get an easy ride on here then?

Why is it irrelevant? I’m comparing Rovers managers. People do that all the time, and why not? We compare good ones, we compare poor ones. Folk have been talking about how much time a bloke who can’t win a match should get, and that’s a fair question (not that he will go anywhere even if he doesn’t win a single game and we end up in the third division). So as an *example* Appleton came in during a season with the team struggling (parallels, no?) and was pretty much deemed as being poor from day dot. Yet since coming in this guy has been much poorer, MA got 15 games.

I think that’s Herbie’s intention in re posting now. Amazing how planning for mediocrity and the bare minimum hasn’t led to a decent season.

Unfortunately for them they made a shite managerial appointment (well, actually not that unfortunate as they hired him).

As the other thread’s been locked… Appleton - 15 games, four wins. So JE wins the next four on the bounce and he’s just about getting up to MA’s level.

No pressure, no targets, no drive, no ambition, no hope. So why are fans asked to fork out for some of the most expensive STs in the division?

Appleton - 15 games, four wins. So JE wins the next four on the bounce and he’s just about getting up to MA’s level.

The problem with this fanbase is that a good number of them still don’t particularly have much of an issue with the owners at all, so it’s not a case of fans having no balls for the fight to oust them - they don’t even think we are in a fight. All that is going to happen is yet more fans will walk away this summer, and a certain family will still be in situ.

Because I find it infuriating that you still go around the houses month after month. Maybe add just the odd post calling out the owners (unprompted) instead of always going after the hired hands (they’ve hired) and you won’t get ‘stalked’. These people have destroyed our football club but I still get the impression that if they employed, say, a CEO more to your liking you’d be more than happy to give them chance #4567. A real blind spot and I’ve never worked out why you’ve always had it.

Behave! You never, *ever* mention them unless directly asked, it’s always everybody else’s fault from the tea lady up.

Rev, *nobody* on here gives the likes of Swag ‘a free pass’, to a man the messsge board think he is an incompetent buffoon (at best) - so stop coming out with it every time you are called out for ignoring the Indian elephant in the room.

Couldn’t care less who appointed him, but it’s a results business and he has five points in eight games. Folk supposed to be impressed?

So relegation form with JDT from December, relegation from with this mon since February. I suppose we have stabilised in a routine of not winning football matches.

8 games, 5 points, doesn’t sound too stable to me.

Oh.

Sounds great Chaddy, I’m looking forward to seeing this model put into action next season.

I don’t give a shiny shite about ‘passing games’, ‘playing the right way’ and all that - results, results, results is all that matters to me and he got plenty to have us consistently around the top 6 until December 2023. I will judge JE exactly the same way as we await said win as we go into game eight of his reign. The wins start today with a 1-0 off Gally’s shin after 90 minutes of hoofing it? Sounds good to me.

He did a good job last season I can’t see how anybody can say any different with those players - as did TM in 21/22. Was it a fantastic job? No as we fell short, but we won’t be seeing a fantastic job ever again at this club until a change of ownership.

Not true last season though Parson. This season undoubtedly he had ‘one way’ much of the time, largely because I feel he knew he had one foot out of the door and thought ‘feck it’ - another reason they should’ve parted ways much earlier, but this club doesn’t do such things. However you don’t get to 7th (outside the play offs on GD) and two good cup runs with a squad as average as that one by playing kamikaze football.

We were just outside the play offs and had won a load of games going into December, points on the board is all that mattered to me. We then couldn’t buy a win for two and a bit months and the manager left, that’s football. Whereas this fella has been in post since early February and still hasn’t won a game by Easter (eighth league game today). Still, least we are now ‘pragmatic’.

You’d think they’d be out already, they went on sale on the 23rd March last year - especially considering they are that desperate for cash flow they are still trying to sell 23/24 membership schemes.

£352 for one of the ends in the DingleDome, doesn’t seem to bad to me considering they’ve been selling them out in recent seasons.