A two part interview is just not the normal way a club would go about appointing a new manager / head coach. You go after your preferred candidate and make every effort to get them. If you fail with your first choice, you repeat with the second choice, and so on. All the method we are using achieves is to annoy any half decent candidate. Add to that the confusion surrounding the Director of Football role. It’s like a crap version of The Apprentice, with Waggott instead of Sir Alan.

Largely agree, but it surely makes a huge difference if they are telling candidates they will be a Head Coach rather than a manager, depending on the level of responsibility and autonomy?

Glad it’s not just me who thinks so! To me, it illustrates that between them, Venkys, Waggott and Pasha don’t have a clue what a DOF / Head Coach structure actually is. It’s painful and embarrassing to watch this unfold.

Again, I think you’re right, but surely strictly speaking it should be the other way around. It’s reminiscent of Mowbray bringing in Waggott.

But, as @chaddyroversand I were discussing on Twitter, the actual role definition for each job will be key. If the DOF has the greater power, then he should come first. If we appoint a Head Coach first, we’re putting the cart before the horse. It’s a mess.

You’re probably right, but surely it should be the other way round? I don’t even think the muppets running the show will have a clue what the Director of Football will actually do. If they need a manager to tell them and choose one, that says it all!

The Director of Football / Head Coach thing will put a good few off, too, especially if we can’t even tell the Head Coach candidates who it’s going to be! The more experienced managers will, quite rightly, want greater autonomy. It’s going to be a poor appointment, for sure.

But, knowing how Venkys operate, they will simply be replaced by more puppets.

It’s like a game of snakes and ladders. Farke interview report : up a ladder, Unsworth news : straight back down.

But he’s neutral, so , why? Too much noise for there to be nothing in it. I certainly don’t believe that Ferguson knows nothing about it. Let’s hope it all blows over. Edit : But I’d rather have him than Grayson, and that is probably the territory we are now heading towards.

That’s him appointed tomorrow then 😂 This one really is strange. Pete O’Rourke is usually pretty accurate.

Available, cheap and the owners will have heard of him, (and Ferguson). Lincoln passed on him. Be just like us to appoint him.

Karl Robinson now favourite for QPR. Might be a red herring, but it would be very odd to sack Warburton and replace him with Robinson. Seems Burnley have made their choice and it’s just about the detail. The worry for us is not so much the time being taken, but the distinct possibility of a poor appointment.

I think the tweet from the Liverpool based reporter, (who apparently has a good track record), had an impact on the odds. Maybe. I was thinking Ainsworth. I’m not sure Critchley would view the 2022 version of Rovers as much of a step up from Blackpool. He no doubt has a supportive chairman and a functional set up there.

Myers is the bloke whose great idea to placate the supporters was to hold a tea party, and spent most of his tenure on sick leave. As others have pointed out, note that he has not simply come out and said, “I have not spoken to the owners about Duncan Ferguson”.

He’s a patronising tosser who thinks we should be happy with Championship mediocrity.

He has been in charge for five games and won only one. I knew it!

It smacks of Ferguson’s agent and cheerleaders going direct to the organ grinders, or to Pasha, and passing on the Waggott sideshow.

As you know, Mr Nixon has stated that no contact has been made. If he gets it, the fact that no-one has a clue whether or not he would make a decent manager makes our process of interviewing eight others seem even more ridiculous. He’d be getting it because he’s the cheap option, and because of people pushing him to Venkys.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Ferguson I don’t want Ferguson, but I can’t help but chuckle that he’s the polar opposite of Mowbray 🙂 I’d forgotten what he got up to years ago. Blimey 😂

…….and won’t involve compensation. We are fishing in the freebie pool, which excludes a few decent potential candidates. Oh, and we’ll probably still end up with a cheap rookie.

I’m convinced that for Venkys cheapness tops youth development, which itself tops results. A recipe for more failure.

I think the compensation to Villa will scupper that one. He’s credited as being the brains behind Gerrard at Villa and it seems they are reluctant to let him go. I can’t see Lampard being too worried about Ferguson leaving.

A muddled process, where the main criteria of the job spec so far has been to not currently be employed as a manager. That in itself is all wrong . We’re not fishing in the Premier League, but if there’s a manager in the Championship or League One who we fancy, we should already have been after that person.

Paul Warne also sneaking upwards (pinch of salt, I know).