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He's already done well at Macclesfield tbf. Then again so did Ince.

It's been pointed out. ☺️

Was surprised to learn earlier on today a billionaire owned Rochdale. Then again no-one could ever possibly buy us

Don't get the love in for Will Still though. Comes into the "Don't touch with a bargepole" category for me after his performance at Southampton.

Lot of doom and gloom about about the possible identity of the next man but lets not forget if he manages two wins in his first fourteen games that's still better than Ismael managed in his last 14.

You're right. I stand corrected.

Just by way of illustration his very first game was away at Oxford I think and we went one up, retreated into our shells as was Mowbray's tendancy, and ending up drawing 1-1. Stuart (formerly of this parish) went absolutely ballistic and was giving it "What the **** has he done to deserve to be even anywhere near this job etc etc" I thought that was harsh for his first game and rememember leaping to Mowbray's defence. The bigger point is that he had plenty of chance overall to get us out of it, the two games we eventually won at the end turned out to be too late and came after a run of no wins in seven I think. But as we keep saying the relegation wasn't all his fault or even primarily his fault.

Yes, our level of ambition really only suits an unemployed desperado keen to get back into work of some sort. Lambert/Coyle/Mowbray/Ismael etc. The outliers were JDT and Eustace -they were also unemployed at the time but their careers weren't on downward trajectories.

There's probably no more foundation to it than the Coleman links. Without blowing anyone's trumpet on this site O Rourke has probably had a look on here at some point and thought That's a good suggestion, "I can get plenty of clicks out of that" Same with Coleman, someone's probably either on quite an ingenious wind up or has seen the early betting odds and has made 2 +2 =5. It's only day 2 of the search most of the earlier names linked are invariably complete nonsense. I can barely remember Ismael's name being mentioned until Nixon said he was on a shortlist of 2 with Wagner a day or two before it happened.

I would have thought if it's either of them they come in until the end of the season with a younger assistant who then carries on. Bit like your hypothetical Hughes/Savage or Dalglish/Gerrard scenarios. Depends on how badly you want to achieve scenario 1 in your earlier post and if so how much you're prepared to lash out to achieve it.

Just checked and it's 12 points for administration, and typically 6 points for FFP breaches or 9 points for more serious or repeat breaches. Im not completely up to speed with it but it feels like Leicester are permanently in bother on this, due a deduction, get away with it because they got promoted, back in bother again after being relegated etc. I imagine if they only got deducted 6 after the season finished having survived by 7-9 points other Clubs would definitely be kicking off.

Neutral. Pretty sure he's been linked with us several times before and despite his relatively young age he's been round the managerial block a number of times already. Gut says if he was as special as people thought he was at one point he'd have made more of a splash by now than he has. We've been linked with a lot worse already of course.

That would be a intriguing scenario admittedly. Would only be viable for Savage if Hughes made it clear he only wanted to carry on managing for another 6-18 months max with a view to Savage taking over thereafter imo.

Really good post Ian. I would maybe asterix it by saying if you're more interested in 1) it probably needs to be a short term appointment until the end of the season then reassess. If you're more interested in 2) then you maybe make a longer term Will Still type appointment at the possible expense of 1) in the short term. I'm more worried that they might see 2) às more important than 1) rather than the fact they might look at an ex Rover.

Savage isn't going anywhere as assistant to anyone I wouldn't imagine.

Same with everyone in that situation I suppose. At worst, if he comes here and does well for 12 months, he puts himself in the shop window.

Do they have much discretion on the number of points they can deduct? Surely it would have to be a fairly standard amount otherwise other Clubs affected would kick off.

Surely if a punishment is imposed from the start of next season any Club who wouldn't have been relegated had the punishment been imposed this season? The EFL must be praying Leicester stay up by more than 12 points. Even if they made a decision tomorrow (which they won't) that takes us into mid March and about 8 games to go. Is if fair on Leicester if they receive a deduction with say 3-4 games to go and all of a sudden they have to perform miracles to stay up when previously they thought they were completely safe? Maybe, maybe not but you can bet they'd be suing the EFL as well if that happened.

He could have made that link reading this site. I want a finder's fee if it comes off.

He did have to try and pick the pieces up after Iley tbf which anyone would have struggled with. Edit: Seem to remember we played well enough under him but lacked a decent striker to put the ball in the net. Did we try signing or had we previously signed a washed up John Radford around that point

Can we put in a joint offer for him and the billionaire? Lol.

Think the news broke about 13.09 Monday he'd been sacked. It seems really unlikely to me that he'd have time to take training Monday morning have this so called massive fall out with Gestede and then thrash out and agree terms for his departure by mutual consent inside an hour or two. I think it's likely that in this instance it really is what it said on the tin. He sounded like he knew the gig was up after Saturday's game.

Ive never ever understood why everyone doesnt do that as a matter of course. At least with 2. That then requires the opposition to leave 3 back. It's a pet hate of mine leaving no-one up at corners. So negative and just guarantees you're going to give the ball straight back or at best win a throw deep in your own half but keep yourself under pressure.

Any word on that yet?

Double post sorry