The problem with these comparisons is again that it is bloated with players that are on big wages many of whom the manager wouldnt have chosen to use and is stuck with. Having players like Ince and Vokes are not giving Stoke a competitive advantage, if anything they are causing the manager additional issues.

I dont think we should make any decision based on emotion or sentimentality. With Ainsworth, the job he has done is impressive but him being a Rovers fan should not come into it. With Johnson he has no senior managerial experience so it would be a gamble based on very little evidence, especially as id prefer someone external with new ideas.

He was a good defender back in his day but it would seem a risk to sign him at his age and following such a large injury lay off. I always felt be had a mistake in him but more often than not he was a good defender for many years at Derby. Ayala was a very good defender at this level more recently than Keogh albeit in a side that was very well organised. He is also younger but even then he doesnt seem fit for purpose. I would be reluctant to sign Keogh who would only add a further short term solution with reliability issues.

Many of those players signed were prior to O'Neill and rather than being of benefit to him, they are liabilities he is struggling to shift, Ince and Vokes amongst them.

I think that talented younger coaches should be considered as well as those from abroad, Barnsley have massively benefitted from the latter. As supporters we obviously have limited knowledge of potential candidates and I believe the usual names are often used as baseless proof that better isnt out there.

Thats one hell of a desperate assumption to justify the managers position in absence of any reasoning to suggest that we are progressing under him, purely based on thoeretical fear.

The Irish bit was a joke. At his best he was on his day a good Championship centre back, albeit rather error prone, culminating in costing his side the Play Off Final a few years back. Never very fast and with a year out the game injured, it would be a desperate signing. Ayala was of a higher standard, had less time off, is younger and is still not the answer due to lack of reliability.

I think a 34 year old Richard Keogh would be beyond a desperate act to put a sticker over our defence. Irish or not.

I dont understand what style he has in mind, he mentioned being reluctant to go direct but we dont have a competent target man anyway.

No one to our knowledge. There are the usual suspects, Pearson, Howe, Hughes, Wagner, Cowley etc but even if we wanted someone outside of those, there are plenty of talented coaches abroad and in the lower leagues assuming that the powerw that be put in the relevant research that may be beyond our immediate knowledge.

Bit late.

People tend to use the "give x a chance" line as a last desperate argument. People have given Buckley a chance and he to many has shown up as well off the standard. What is the difference between writing Trybull off as "awful" after even less appearances?

Mowbray has typically ranted about the state of the pitch post match. To say that the owners supposedly never refuse to write a cheque im surprised the pitch has been treat with such negligence...

And if you try to define such improvements to infrastructure, even if they exist why cant a new manager use these improvements? A supposed quality scouting network that has plucked a solitary goalkeeper and analysis boots which seem to br par for the course these days and as you say havent resulted in any improvement.

Do you think there is a realistic chance of that changing? And if not, surely it makes sense to build with half an eye on next season, building around the players mainly that will be around then. Mowbray is stumbling between systems just hoping something sticks.

The flaw regarding such a want is the assumption that a loss would lead to a change, when there is no suggestion of that.

He has never directly clarified. More deflections than a Corry Evans highlight package.

Ive not seen a replay from a good angle of either incident but it is of little surprise that you only chose the incident in which Mowbray can claim a hard luck story about.

You cant sack a manager after a successful season in which on the back of a shall we say experimental start managed to regularly win game after game to get to 96 points, comfortably clear of the play offs. Football is about results which is why his job was rightfully safe then and his time should be up now.

Ive still to see any constructive reasons as to why he should be kept on. Signs of progress, things to cling on to. The closest is the fear of "another Coyle" which is flimsy at best.

He scored the goal and fair play to him for being in the right place but be didnt do much otherwise. He is rather languid on the ball and everything is at walking pace. Fantastic is very extreme.

Plenty of business talk and intangibles as always. Proof of the pudding is on the pitch where progress can not be seen. He has done a good job overall but that journey stopped taking us forward a while ago.

Absolute shit yet again, no plan, no structure, constantly hopping between formations out of desperation. Only performance that would get 6 out of 10 was Davenport, why he was dropped I have no idea.

Decisions even themselves out. Armstrong maybe was onside but the ball seemed out of play for the equaliser which has been excluded from your analysis.

We could do with those 10-12 points right about now. Absolutely dismal, no excuses, shambolic.