BIt the bullet and renewed ahead of the initial deadline about 13.30 today. Was originally going to wait and make sure we didn't make a Pardew style appointment but a fool and their money are easily parted eh? Was expecting there to be a sizeable queue but we were the only people in the shop which I thought was a very bad sign given it was deadline day and the shop was only open until 3p.m. I asked a lad in the ticket office who's been there a long time how sales had been going and he attempted to put a brave face on it by saying he wasn't told numbers but he "thought" levels were roughly the same as at the comparable stage last year.

Never mind "reading between the lines" you seem to be having difficulty comprehending what I posted in black and white. Would JDT have been my first choice? Of course not. I'd have been (very) happy with Dyche or Farke. But at least if it is JDT I would still regard that as a vast improvement on a "Mowbray Mark 2" appointment like Pardew or Adkins. And I would be prepared to give JDT a chance to show us what he can do unlike you who seem to be dismissing him out of hand before he even gets here. Has the recruitment process been a shambles? Of course it has. But that imo is what you get when you leave Waggott in charge of anything.

That post may come back to haunt you if we did appoint JDT and he turns out to be decent. Don't know anything about him myself but on the face of it his CV is far better than Mowbray's so it seems very premature yo be dismissing him out of hand before he even gets here. Not sure if you're being serious with this post or are in your usual wind up mode, but once again it seems extremely odd that you never complained about a manager who struggled here for years and who finished the second half of the season in relegation form but would dismiss out of hand the claims of someone who won the Championship of the Country he was managing in for the last two seasons.

The main advantage to the appointment of Broughton in my book is that someone like Pardew would have such an inflated opinion of themselves they probably wouldn't be prepared to work under and defer to a DOF. Unfortunately the converse probably applies in respect of a genuinely good candidate. Between that and the apparent requirement to work with Lowe, Benson and Johnson rather than staff of their own choice and I really can't see a decent appointment being forthcoming.

Broughton MIGHT be very successful. However imo the reason we haven't been very successful over the last 4 years isn't because we haven't had a DOF - it's because we've had a shite manager and even worse CEO. If we had an absolutely superb manager and Waggott I think we could still just about be successful. If we land another shite head coach or manager then I doubt very much the outcome will be any different to the last 4 years, regardless of Broughton's abilities.

On the subject of Deila, why pay compensation to get him out of his contract because he is willing to work with Lowe, Johnson and Benson? Would it not be easier to get a better guy who is temporarily out of work, and use some of the money saved by not paying compensation towards paying off whoever he didn't want, then starting afresh?

Fair enough, good post.

The first bit is looking increasingly likely. The second...... not so sure, he may be here for the long haul and not in a good way......he's seemingly already cottoned on to the Mowbray mantra of jam tomorrow and long term "journeys' which of course never come to fruition but you get a bloody good screw out of it in the meantime.

I really really hope not. Just about the only name mentioned so far that would save me £430. I would probably put Adkins in that bracket too.

What is there to be positive about about the appointment of a former Academy Director no-one had ever previously heard of? He might turn out to be a success, might not, but has no previous experience as a DOF and I really don't understand this assumption he's going to transform our fortunes.

Players revolted and fixed it for him you mean. After that the relationship between everyone had gone. How did we fare after that game again?

Couldn't agree more. Subsequent to Venus's departure I was told not even he could stand Lowe. What sort of recipe is that for a harmonious camp and dressing room? Surely you need everyone pulling in the same direction if you're to stand a chance and I think we saw that in the second half of the season albeit the main culprit was Mowbray and his preference for playing Bradley Johnson as a false 9 rather than sign a back up striker.

And who is already talking about selling players and "long term plans".

The time for Johnson imo would have been 2-3 seasons ago in any of the various campaigns when Mowbray was failing. Johnson could have had a good 10-12 games towards the end of the season and we could have seen if he was up to the task or not.

We need Tom Jones. "Why why why......is it Deila?"

Yet again the situation apparently hinging on any new man's willingness to take on Lowe, Johnson and Benson. Utterly bizarre.

She'd also probably be a better option.

Greg Coar's been at the Club a very long time. Nice bloke and wish him all the best at Wigan but you'd have to say we've been lacking in this respect for some time. Be interesting to see if this change has a positive impact.

What, because I asked PM why the appointment of Broughton meant we'd be fishing in a completely different pond as regards recruitment? I think it's a legitimate question to ask. If he'd said he thought the appointment of Broughton would revolutionise the pathway from Academy to first team I'd have thought that would have been a fairer proposition but I'd still want to see evidence of that happening first.

Someone must have put a tenner on Rooney. Into 12/1 all of a sudden on Sky Bet.

Why?

Those were exactly my thoughts when I saw the headline. Sounds like someone promising another "journey".

Egil Olsen?

So to summarise, the two new favourites for the job are two Norwegians, neither of whom have any experience whatsoever of English football. One however has a promising CV, and could do well, the other, the highlight really of his career is to win the SPL with Celtic (at a time when Rangers had been demoted) playing shite football and emptying half of Parkhead in the process. Unfortunately however it seems we have little prospect of landing the decent looking candidate as our newly appointed DOF has apparently previously fallen out with him. That about cover it?

Lol, "dream ticket?" If I'd asked you to name your "dream ticket" at the start of this tortuous recruitment process, you wouldn't have come up with that combination if you'd been given a million tries. You just hitch your wagon to whoever seems to be the most likely to get the job at any given point. If there's a new favourite for the manager's or head coach's role by Friday you'll be saying we absolutely have to get them in instead. "Dream ticket" - Hmmm......"The best we can hope for after practically everyone else has turned us down" might be a more apt descriptor but whoever comes in we will have to wish them luck.