Rover down South

Lewis Miller ball watching 🤬

Mark Bowen funnily enough is at Forest Green with Savage! Director of Football.

Coleman doesn’t seem to stay in a job long! Last six appointments since leaving Wales: Sunderland - 5 months Hebei China Fortune - 11 months Atromitis - 22 months AEL Limassol - 6 months OH Leuven - 6 months Asteras Tripolis - 3 months Rudy would probably give him a three year contract!

I think what the club needs and what Rudy wants are wide apart. What worked well for JDT & in particular for Eustace is they bonded with the players well and the players in turn gave their all. The ‘togetherness’. Didn't see any of that with Ismael and felt a lot of the players just looked like they’d lost interest under him. I would love someone with that Robbie Savage type personality. Serious enough, but can be one of the lads at the same time. Pointed out before by another poster that he wouldn’t last five minutes with Gestede, and it’s RG’s arrogance and control that will be the decider between us getting someone half decent and a someone just desperate to get into management.

Brighton my local team. He was awful. Hughton came in after and was successful though. Tony Bloom backs his managers!

Coleman has a 29% win rate (Coventry) and 17% (Sunderland) so absolutely not what we want or need. Wagner or Hassenhuttl would be first two on my list. Thought we’d have a poll by now!

It would absolutely hurt, no question, to see Trav lifting the playoff trophy would be absolutely gut wrenching but if that’s what it takes to get the media talking about the demise of Blackburn Rovers and the attraction of jumping from a club in the play offs to a club in danger of relegation, I’ll take it. We could appoint Jurgen Klopp but still can’t see him getting this current squad challenging for much. Tronstad walks in the summer, Toth & Alebiosu sold on. We need something to trigger a change.

I’m kind of hoping Johnson until the end of the season. Fingers crossed Derby go up via the playoffs. Will be a bit heart wrenching at first, but the media will surely jump all over the fact Eustace left us in the playoffs, to take a team from the relegation zone to the Premier League in 18 months, with a number of former Rovers players & backing from the owners. A message of ‘this is what YOU could have had’. I’m certain it would get so much media coverage and the story of John Eustace would really rub Pasha & Rudy’s noses in it. They’d never admit they were wrong but there would be no escaping their colossal mistake. Could spell the end for RG and all of a sudden the Rovers job looks a bit more attractive. Edit: it’ll be 16 months!

1. Below average squad 2. Sat in relegation zone 3. History of selling best players without re-investment of funds 4. Owners aren’t interested 5. Player contracts rarely renewed 6. Inexperienced ex-player dictating decisions 7. Wage budget capped at unrealistic level 8. Arguably the best player (Tronstad) is going to walk on a free in a few months Could go on, but there’s eight reasons why any manager who wants a career in football management wouldn’t want this club damaging their CV and career.

Ah! I see. Point taken 👍👍

David Wagner currently favourite gone from 5/1 to 7/4

Maybe Cantwell feeling guilty then…..

Bilic clotheslining Gestede! Would be a sell out at Ewood 😂

Sky Sports News announcing Mowbray or Bilic in the frame

February 2024 - JDT February 2025 - Eustace February 2026 - Ismael February 2027 - TBC 😂