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So its a total guess. I have no idea what they were on, just like you. Yet you are using it as a key component in your argument. Considering our position, the importance of the role and the incoming money recently including from Eustace, we shouldnt be doing it on the cheap. That article (which may not be totally true, who knows) suggests that again, we are. As a result if we are doing it on the cheap, if you pay peanuts you get monkeys. Expect someone underwhelming. I would be very happy if we went and pushed the boat out and got Cooper.

We wouldnt have needed it had he not made so many errors across the course of the season. Getting into double figures including the 2 at home to Ipswich and Sheff Wednesday. He certainly did not have a superb season.

Pears was superb last season? He was dreadful. Made so many mistakes.

How do you know that all of those managers were on the same wage? Thats one hell of an assumption. Im just responding to an article suggesting that our continued penny pinching has caused issues in attracting a decent manager. Im also not deluded enough to think that money isnt the primary motivation for any manager, its only a job to them. I dont think that all of those 4 will end the summer with extended deals, no. If we are lucky, one or two might. May aswell throw in Dolan too. We havent extended a contract in over a year.

You live in cloud cuckoo land if you dont think that salary is the biggest driver for who comes into the club. Its a job, its not as if people are going to be so desperate "to build their own team working with Gestede and Owen" that money becomes less important. You pay less money, you limit yourself to a poorer quality of candidates. Money is the most important variable. Do you genuinely think we will renew all 4 of those contracts by the summer?

Good luck getting a straight answer. He will just repeat that its how we operate and maybe say other clubs do and/or its the modern way.

Its not about backing your ability. The job of a football manager is very much still a job and if you are offering a low salary then you naturally are ruling out the better options before you start. The probability of us getting promoted this season is low (thats not negativity, all teams from 4th downwards are more than 50% likely to be a Championship club next season) so it then leaves being on a lower than average salary at a club with no solid foundations and its best players out of contract at the end of your first full season.

Just a bit of a spoiler. Whoever comes into the job is doing so for the money. Football management is a job. No one is coming purely for the opportunity to get us promoted or to work with Rudy Gestede and Owen. As ever, under cutback obsessed Venkys, we are seemingly trying to employ the most important position on the cheap. If we dont offer a competitive wage we will only attract the desperate because like with any job the most important thing is money. So expect a poor appointment. Why wouldn't I be negative about that? Why would I be anything but negative about the way the club is run? Your approach is to tell people to stop going on about it, bury your head in the sand and now call people negative when they call it out.

Also says that Owen being involved "boosts Lowe's chances of staying in charge." So not offering a competitive wage and might even just appoint the coach. What a club. Surprised Klopp isnt interested and willing to work for free. Its not a job being offered, who needs money when theres a promotion chance, surely people queueing round the block to do it for free.

Are you taking the piss? Its a job to anyone and again cut backs mean we get someone rubbish.

I am surprised that people seem to think that Gueye wasn't too bad. Usually, his hold up play is good but the ball just wouldn't stick with him, it kept bouncing off him and he kept losing it inviting further pressure. His form in recent weeks of course means that compared to the likes of Hedges, who is crap week in week out, or Pears who has made a number of errors in the last month or two, he has much more credit in the bank, and he obviously didn't have much support, but I thought he was poor.

So if no one is confirmed by Tuesday youll be annoyed? Fine.

If no one is in position by the start of the week and/or if he isnt a good choice, will you be critical?

You didnt expect it because you defended the selection even though it was the opposite of what you wanted yourself. Hedges is something else and not in a good way.

Terrible performance, a potentially massive blow to any top 6 hopes and Lowe couldnt have got things more wrong if he tried. It was a vulnerable and poor Swansea side that was there to be attacked. All but one or two said in advance that it was the wrong attack. And the usual suspects failed to disappoint. Hedges again dreadful, apparently "quality" but in reality anything but. Losing the ball, cant tie his laces, did nothing at all useful in attack. Weimann at least gets himself into positions for chances but messed that part up. Dolan was back to being ineffective, full of needless tricks and petulant. Gueye just could not hold the ball up either, he was very poor. Forshaw regressed back to the mean and Sanderson was all over the place. Ribeiro wasnt as strong as he has been and Pears has gone back to being an embarassment.

Lowe picked the wrong team and its cost us the game. Ryan Hedges is an absolute waste of space. Chaddy's seat must face away from the pitch if he thinks he is quality. Constantly giving the ball away, never in the box when the ball is on the other side (Gueye put in one ball across and he was nowhere to be seen) he offers nothing. And he cant even tie his laces. Gueye has been poor and Weimann missed a huge chance. Its too late to rescue it but make subs at half time. Pears has also gone back to being an absolute laughing stock.

We are beyond getting "excited" about rumours, gossip and links anyway. Need to get it sorted.

I dont think Wolves are at a similar level to the other 3. O'Neil had them performing well below their capabilities, conceding was it 20+ so soon in the season from set pieces and having lost all of their discipline.

Proof that Elliott Jackson reads stuff from here. His predicted team is the exact same as the one leaked on here.

It wasnt in League 1.

Apart from hard work and discipline, I am still to see what he offers to prove that he is "quality." Offers absolutely nothing going forward. Continious underfunding and a lack of wide players of any note coming in have given him more game time than is warranted. He wasnt very good anyway but I think he regressed after his recurring injury last season.

Exactly. Lack of alternatives. In those years, in terms of wingers we have only signed Sorba Thomas for half a season who wasnt very good, Sigurdsson who spent the majority of the time injured and even when fit didnt fancy it, and Cozier Duberry who again spent much of the season injured and looks very much like a player in his first season of proper football. We have now signed Kargbo who hasnt yet been deemed ready to start a league game. If you are a winger who isnt quick, cant take people on, doesnt score any goals and seldom creates chances or assists goals. Then it doesnt leave you with much. So indeed, he isnt "that type of player" if that type of player involves offering an attacking threat.

Quality? He really does run full backs ragged by taking them on, using his blistering pace and tricks, scoring and creating goals. Against our own player? I want him to do well like any other player. Its the fact that he repeatedly does zilch that frustrates me.

@onlyonejackwalker was Szmodics crap? He was a regular starter for a side that only stayed up on the final day.

Just brush off the main issues, pretend they dont exist.