At least something is competitive then even if the games aren't.

I think comparing Mowbray's ppints tally from his last 13 or 14 games to Coyle's would be equally damning.

I agree on Mowbray, you have to appoint the right manager with boundless enthusiasm and a keen eye for a player. i We haven't got that. However if you do have it I can't see what benefit a Director of Football brings. It's all very well citing the success of two blokes from Norwich and Brentford with hindsight. I've never heard of them and haven't a clue what their respective backgrounds are or whether they were highly regarded before they took up those roles. How do you know a DOF is going to be any good before they start? I'd say the ultimate DOF type Club where the Coach is pretty expendable is Watford. Would you say they were particularly successful? I'd say not and would label them a bit of a basket case of a Club albeit they're doing far better than us which speaks volumes as to the situation here.

Great minds and all that, my better half found that on the Internet the other day and I was going to post it on here. Comedy gold, how can a National newspaper conduct an interview like that with a straight face, let alone print the story? Just shows how easy some people are to fool. On a serious note there are some commendable initiatives in there. If he correctly knows the way to go is to keep prices affordable, how come he's making it as expensive and inconvenient as possible to attend matches here by introducing the match day tax for walk ons and raising prices during a pandemic when most people were struggling and no-one could attend anyway? That article does nothing to curb my growing suspicion that ulterior motives are afoot here.

That would involve fully opening all four stands and would be far too much hassle for our CEO and the local Constabulary.

Yes, I was going to make the same sort of point that Waggott for example could legitimately describe himself as an experienced football administrator so how do you know your DOF is going to be any better than Waggott? Would you want someone like Waggott dictating to someone like Hughes who they can and can't buy?

Don't think you're right about Celtic fans. I wouldn't have said Coventry fans were particularly fulsome in their praise either.

To be fair if you were judging it based purely on results, EVERYONE on the coaching staff should have been through the door some time ago. You're just fishing as always.

OK if you're going to be pedantic, he probably wouldn't get into the top six sides in England. He is however as good as we're ever going to get whilst we're playing at Championship level and his proposed replacement is a massive downgrade as he isn't a full back.

I await with baited breath.

Do either you or Hoochie know the bloke that's leaving personally? If not your comments that he MUST be on more money at Fleetwood sound at least as speculative as the ones you're criticising. If you know as much about it as you claim, what's the difference in salary in %age terms between the head groundsman at Fleetwood and the head Academy groundsman here?

Oh hello, thought you'd disappeared off the face of the earth. Never see you after matches these days for some strange reason. How's that "progress"going under Mowbray? We don't know who'll be in for Nyambe yet. A number of the players keep picking up injuries. Due to the manager's handling of them?

Can't believe anyone doesn't think Nyambe is top class. We're going to lose him for peanuts and replace him with JRC who isn't a RB and who is terrible defensively. So of our former 5 "crown jewels" Nyambe - been messed about by Mowbray no end hence we're losing him for next to nothing. Will be a real asset wherever he goes. Lenihan - has regressed no end under Mowbray. Looks ordinary at best now. Travis - has regressed under Mowbray, nowhere near as dynamic as when he first burst into the team. More recently unimpressive since return from injury. Lacking sharpness, out of form and out of favour Dack - has suffered 2 terrible injuries. Didn't look to be back at it after the first one anyway. Armstrong - white hot in the first half of the season but poor since the turn of the year. Was his earlier form a flash in the pan? Either way, surely off in summer, will we get what we want for him in his current form? Depressing stuff. And apart from Dack there's one common denominator running through them all - Tony Fecking Mowbray.

I really don't understand your obsession with appointing a Director of Football Chaddy. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. A recipe for disaster with said Director at complete loggerheads with the manager. Let's appoint the best manager we can and leave him in full charge of all footballing matters. Let's appoint the best Coach of his choice we can to assist him and Let's appoint the best CEO we can, (most definitely NOT the choice of the manager) to run the Club behind the scenes.

Not surprising as an ex Boro player and manager Woodgate wants him to stay. Who else is going to take all Boro's duds off their hands for them?

Even if that's entirely true I'm sure he could still stick his oar in and make it as difficult as possible by threatening to walk if TM is sacked (if Carlsberg did sackings) or refusing to deliver the news himself.

Kean was not only not unsackable he walked out of his own accord after being needled out by Shebby Singh. Mowbray hasn't moved a muscle yet.

**Desperately clutching at straws** Maybe just maybe it had been agreed for a relatively dignified exit in the summer but the wheels have fallen off so badly there's had to be a Hasty rethink but there hasn't been time to dot all the i's and cross all the t's on a new appointment yet. ** Then I woke up and remembered Waggott was Mowbray's immediate boss.

For me the similarities at Coventry make the Brockhall thing a purely Waggott/Mowbray/ Venus driven initiative.

Exactly. All the more reason why a lame duck/dead man walking manager should have no input whatsoever on the future direction of our training facilities/Brockhall. A new coaching regime might have a completely different view.

I'm hoping to distribute it Brockhall way when we get chance.

If we fail to win. But the form over that period would be equivalent to around twenty points over the course of the season. Twenty points! Let that sink in.

I thought it was exactly the opposite with Lambert. He announced he was exercising the option he had put in his deal with two games to go and didn't have a bad word to say about the Club or anyone at that point. I didn't think he should have been in the dug out for those last two games but bizarrely we won them both making his overall performance look a bit better than it really was. Conversely Mowbray has been talking as though he is fairly desperate to be paid off for a month or two now.

Like Mowbray hanging on for a pay off, I don't suppose there is any chance at all of Waggott actually walking if Mowbray is potted, he's not just going to walk away from a £300k p.a. job. It's going to need decisive action from the owners in respect of all three of the Coventrio. We'll probably find out indirectly what the owners views on the Brockhall plans are through this. Done without their consultation or spun a line to - P45's for all 3 Fully in support - no movement.

Blimey. He's woken up.