Nervous about the possibility of having to justify a potentially woeful appointment, obviously. You've been telling us all for weeks how clueless we all are and how bright the future is... You'll be praying this doesn't get embarassing. In fact, I'm praying this doesn't get embarassing... But my hope is beginning to fade, fast!

Who to believe..... Unleaded or 1864roverite. One with a strong track record of having his finger on the pulse.... The other seemingly desperate to blame, antagonise and belittle other fans at every turn. You must be getting nervous now. Surely after all you've been told the club can't balls this up?!?!

And that’s fine, but don’t use Mercer as a credible source when you’ve been rightly calling out his nonsense predictions for months. For the record, being “correct” in my opinion isn’t as simple as making scattergun prophecies with an accuracy rate of 1 in 1000. On the Ferguson link, I don’t know what he’s done to deserve the job. Apart from that short stint at Everton he has no experience in a managerial capacity. All that running around dancing with ball boys doesn’t impress me either. Who knows, it might be an inspired appointment, but initially I can’t say I’d be very impressed with it.

Post of the year bar NONE 😂😂😂 You’re a super contributor on here, Chaddy and your insatiable social media quest for the merest hint at who our next manager might be is commendable, but you can’t be serious with that comment. You’ve been justifiably slaughtering Mercer on here, mocking his outlandish predictions for months …. But now that his latest stab in the dark suits your own narrative you portray him as a genuine source. If Ferguson is appointed it will be a case of throw enough shit, some sticks - you know better than to try to shoehorn a narrative using his ramblings. Using Nixon as a source is very borderline, using Mercer is just absurd.

I would be very surprised to see that. Have they released sales figures? Are you privy to such information? A good appointment could make all the difference.... a bad one, however.

Recently signed a 6 month extension with Stoke as a member of the playing staff.

Yet to understand why you tried to spin this as an argument that long-suffering Rovers fans have brought this complete lack of communication and stakeholder negligence on themselves. The Rao's MIGHT (according to what you've seen/heard/ allege to have been told) be trying to right the so very many wrongs of their ownership, but until there's tangible evidence, appointments, communication or results that support such whispers and hearsay, please don't try to push any blame on to the fanbase. It's embarrassing.

The Daily Mail comment pages.. . That's the source you've come up with after broad brushing Rovers fans as being cruel towards the owners? That's your argument as to why the owners continue to stay silent and not engage in any way with the fanbase? Absolutely astonishing. Even if those comments pages were filled with hatred for some absurd reason, is it a requirement that each poster has to also reveal which football club they support?

The bit in bold 🤣🤣🤣 You're absolutely spot on, we've been without a morsel of well-formed dialogue for 12 years!! Have you considered that some well-formed dialogue from the club might assist in getting a positive response from the fanbase, rather than the other way round? How can you expect fans to engage in well formed dialogue via the available communication lines of twitter, unread email inboxes, a once in a blue moon evening with Waggot and comments on the LET webpage. Get real.

Hmmm, was it a meltdown? I stand by what I said. The Rao's bought one of the best run clubs in English football... 12 years later fans are getting giddy about the prospect of their son, with absolutely no experience in football, coming in at boardroom level. Your comment on Waggott only really reinforces my point. Adopting an 'anything but him' approach. Forget appointing a proven, experienced candidate, yon lad can't do any worse, give him a try. I mean, have we all just forgotten what a proper football club looks like? ** As for comparisons with the John Williams model. Williams was appointed by Jack Walker - the man who transformed BRFC, took us to the very top of the football pyramid and had the very best interest of the club and the town at heart. No doubt he made mistakes during his ownership, but he quickly rectified them and you could never, ever question his motives. The Rao's on the other hand.... **EDIT - Apologies, misread the Waggot paragraph, realised you aren't recommending him for that role, more mocking how hopeless Waggot is. Still I maintain, what kind of company position is a 'snidey go between' to spy on the CEO THEY employed 🤣 it's fucking bananas and once again reinforces my point that our expectations have been eroded away to the point of complete despair!

I know, I did spot that and couldn't be bothered to change.

You may be right Phili, but can you believe it's come to this? They're so petrified of being rinsed again that the only people they choose to trust are their driver, or their son. Neither of whom have ANY experience or expertees in the world of professional football. Pathetic.

What about this one: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6459615/Britains-YOUNGEST-football-boss-19-inherited-1M-West-Ham-Womens-team-billionaire-dad.html

An extraordinary marker of how just how far we have fallen as a club, but also how it can, over time dumb down the expectations of the fanbase. To think John Williams was chairman 11 years ago. Now we've got genuine positivity about the owners son, fresh out of a top uni, taking a senior role on the board.

What about a sporting director?

Stuart Pearce just left West Ham..... He must have something lined up.

You must have a new source then? I can think of at least 65 reasons to doubt ANY of your previous ones. I do tend to remember the occasions when you're completely wrong.... I won't start reeling them off. But can you point to any occasion in the last 10 years where one of your ITK titbits has come to fruition?

I highly doubt that this is the main or only reason for not having already made an appointment, but isn't there a likelihood that someone like Farke might hang on to see who is relegated before committing to a job like Rovers? He may already have been told not to take another job quite yet... Sometimes it's easy to think the only barriers to an appointment are created by the owners or their merry men. Might not necessarily be the case.

Pearce's managerial record leaves a hell of a lot to be desired BUT, he is a huge advocate for developing the younger generation - he peddled the importance of the younger England teams for many years.... failing miserably with them at many a major tournament I may add. If the V's are looking at this idea of utilising and developing the academy, Pearce may be someone you would look at for a role upstairs. I always think he speaks well when I hear or see him on the media, seems to be an intelligent guy.

Better than Mowbray.... who spent less than £20m in five seasons and (about £0.00 net) and is still criticised for not reaching the playoffs. I am always uncomfortable with this thought. If the coach in this DoF scenario isn't heavily involved in the identification of transfer targets in my opinion it's a recipe for disaster. Your explanation above seems to be that a player just turns up with his boots one day and Carvalhal asks what position he plays. The detachment of any blame (or indeed praise) for transfers to and from the club is a get out of jail card in my opinion. Anyway, I was quietly impressed when we was mentioned the other day (like you, I remember his Sheff Wed stint and it seemed impressive) - just noting some caution given the reasons above. I had no idea of his recent success in Portugal, so that's a positive.

Seemingly he didn't succeed with an expensively assembled Sheff Wed side, not just transfer fees but also on wages - Barry Bannan for example, Aidan McGeady, Callum McMannaman. Whether his signings or not, he was there to get them promoted and failed. @supernikohas made a good case for his recent record, so not all lost - I was just surprised to see you put him as your preferred choice alongside Farke.

Why Carvahal, may I ask... what's he done in his managerial career? Spent £37m in 3 seasons at Sheff Wed with £1.22m of outgoings in that entire time. £10m of that was on Rhodes who would have been MASSIVE wages as well. £5.3m on Adam Reach who's hardly done anything since... Gary Hooper and a few random players from Portugal. No wonder they're in a mess financially. 20 jobs in 24 years as a manger... what case can you really make for him? Genuinely interested to know if I've missed something.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Clement_(football_manager)

I did in certain games during the Kean era - particularly when it felt like the pressure was mounting. I was sat there considering whether a win would adversely affect us, medium/long term. I was right - we were relegated, and at no point in that season did we look like surviving. A scarce win here and there wasn't going to mean anything. On reflection, was Kean's position even remotely results driven? Probably not, so there's an argument I was wrong to think like that.... Those that want us to lose tonight would do well to ponder the fact that it's likely the same situation with TM. Those making the decision probably couldn't care less what happens tonight.

I think plenty of people had this feeling around the Kean era. The odd win wasn't going to do anything more than solidify his position. Celebrating a goal/win was always accompanied and 'punctured' by the gut-wrenching feeling that it wouldn't change the course of our season, but it would strengthen Kean's position, even though it was crystal clear he would take us down. I used to argue quite a lot with people who'd sit there with their hands in their lap saying 'support the team', not realising that all they were supporting was a side more or less guaranteed to go down and a club with a very grim future. Personally, I wasn't able separate the immediate matters on the pitch from the achingly obvious (and likely illegal) destruction of the club... it felt hollow to be cheering on an almost trivial matter such as a goal, when clearly our beloved club was being taken to the cleaners. I'm not comparing the two scenarios, I felt far more strongly about Kean than I do Mowbray. We're now 6 points from the playoff places with 3 games to go BUT it is still mathematically possible, therefore we all should in theory be hoping for a win. Defeat tonight would kill off even the faintest hope - I think a lot of fans would then go in to the final two games hoping we get beat, in the hope that it would offer no opportunity for positive spin.