Let's see who we get indeed. When's Mowbray starting at West Brom?

Couldn't agree more. If you're a genuinely top candidate and likely to be in demand the first interview screams "We've called you in because we can't decide if you're any better than (say) Duncan Ferguson or Michael Carrick." The second interview screams "You didn't impress us enough first time round for us to offer you the job" and like you say you'd be forgiven for wondering why anything that needed to be asked couldn't have been asked first time round.

Beale to be confirmed as QPR manager on Wednesday apparently. I'd have to say I wouldn't be happy with that before a ball is kicked but at least they've come to a decision and landed their preferred choice (unlike us). Risky appointment imo, could be a stroke of absolute genius or a near disaster. I'd rather we didn't go down a similar route with someone like Carrick.

Oh dear. The fishing rod has well and truly snapped. The longer this goes on I fear it won't be a Dyche or Farke like appointment and you will have something else genuine to complain about though unfortunately.

Not sure if I agree on the Sporting Director bit but if Bayes is right we just seem to be conducting innumerable rounds of interviews and getting nowhere. Hindsight will probably tell us after the event if it was the case but I wonder if it is a requirement of the role that the new man has to take on the existing coaching staff and this has caused the better candidates to drop like flies? Guess we'll know soon if the new man comes in and Pongo Lowe somehow survives the cull (yet again).

In chronological order: Significant improvement Massive improvement Massive improvement Massive improvement Significant improvement Marginal improvement Marginal improvement

So how did the owners receive this ringing endorsement? It's a bit like Ancelotti ringing up to promote the claims of big Dunc really isn't it! 2nd para, completely agree and kudos to you if it comes off as established journalists pooh poohed it from the off.

You're obviously trying to belittle the efforts of various people who have taken the trouble to contact the Club to discuss matters here and I think you're being extremely unfair. There's a genuine will and desire on all sides to edge the Club in the right direction and whilst I personally don't thing think things are motoring on at the pace 1864 would have you believe, everyone is acting in good faith and it may just be that the discussions and advice are permeating through the consciousness of one or two people in authority. I'd have to reiterate again, Mowbray gone, Venus gone, Park gone (probably) - if there's a really good managerial appointment along the lines of Farke and he's allowed to bring in his own staff, I'd regard that as massive progress personally.

So you don't like it when people spread "We know something you don't know type gossip" but you don't mind doing it when it's your own!

Well, if Glen's right the "Billionaire owners" have far bigger fish to fry than Carvalhal. 👍

"Getting"?

I think you're contradicting yourself somewhat with that post. If "the puppets at Ewood are on borrowed time" that can only be a good thing can't it? Furthermore if we do somehow by some miracle end up with Farke that would be one monumental upgrade on the last incumbent and signs of a potential " new dawn" wouldn't it.

Think unleaded ought to be the new DOF. Speaks more sense than nearly everyone on this m/ board and a hell of a lot more than Waggott I'd imagine. 👍

I've got a Galaxy S21 and I've got all the same problems. Horrendous. There's one ad that just won't close and another where you try and navigate to the x to close it without hitting the privacy or settings icon, invariably without success, then you have to plough through the cookies options.

Very good. Was waiting for someone to come up with that. If we're being technical, HK was a olayer manager, these two aren't and I'll send you a bottle of champagne if either end up being as successful as Kendall. On a serious note if we were going down the cheap untested coach route I'd rather give Damien Johnson the chance to show what he can do. To coin a cliche at least " he's one of our own" and the others probably wouldn't even be that cheap. (Not that I'm advocating giving it to DJ for the avoidance of doubt)

I'm a bit worried that Carrick features prominently in the betting at 12/1, makes Ferguson look like a managerial old hand with only 3 games managed as a stand in. So we're seemingly interested in two guys who have managed a grand total of eight games between them. I don't really get the attraction of that type of appointment.

I did find Critchley's sudden leap up the betting odds intriguing, he'd gone from nowhere to as low as 12/1 last night and I wouldn't have thought he would have attracted any backers without some sort of expression of interest in the manager's role at Ewood. I think Critchley would be a good addition and imo he would have been a good replacement for Mowbray at various times when the latter was tanking but I assumed we'd missed the boat for good he signed a new contract at Blackpool. Have to wait and see I guess.

Neatly dodged! 👍

Find it very odd that you offered a failing manager your unstinting support for three and a half seasons yet you wouldn't even give a new appointment you don't approve of even the briefest of chances to prove himself?

Apologies if I've missed it, which two names did you post on here other than Farke?

Yep.

Possible but somewhat unlikely I'd wager. I do however concede that if the outstanding candidate out of a field of 50 was someone who has only managed for 5 competitive games what must the other 49 have been like? That said I'd take a punt on someone untried and untested like Ferguson over a proven serial failure like Mowbray anyway.

That in itself would be a bit of a red flag for me. If they thought he was any good, you'd think they'd be fighting tooth and nail to keep him.

The ferocity of the reaction against the prospect of Ferguson surprises me, he has the advantage of not being Mowbray and would I think be unlikely to put up with the sort of holiday camp mentality that has pervaded the Club over the last eleven or twelve years. I think we could do a lot worse. That said, he wouldn't be my first choice, not by a long chalk and it wouldn't scream of the owners having any real ambitions for the Club despite protestations to the contrary.

It's not a particularly significant factor, the owners could if they so wished easily afford anyone we could realistically attract and plenty we couldn't. They would have to figure out how to get round any FFP implications but as someone else said earlier they'd probably be better spending more on the best manager we can possibly get as opposed to forking out £20m p.a. to trail in lower mid table Championship under an unsatisfactory manager forever and a day