Which utterly brilliant manager will we be delighted to welcome next?

[ItsRoverZ]

2 minutes ago, Mike E said:

Why have 3 colleagues asked me about Lee Carsley today? Anyone know anything?

He's a good man Lee, but he would be a huge risk I would think, he's only managed U21s right?

[perthblue02]

14 minutes ago, Mike E said:

Why have 3 colleagues asked me about Lee Carsley today? Anyone know anything?

Former colleague of Damien Johnson at Birmingham  - Future Manager and Assistant ?

 

11 minutes ago, ItsRoverZ said:

He's a good man Lee, but he would be a huge risk I would think, he's only managed U21s right?

Had a couple of caretaker manager roles Brentford and somewhere else I think

Edited April 30, 2022 by perthblue02

[booth]

12 hours ago, Gav said:

Gary Bower - Very cheap + available

Paul Lambert - Cheap + Available

Owen Coyle - Very Cheap + Available + desperate 

Tony Mowbray - Very Cheap + Available

Next manager = Very Cheap + Available, 3yrs treading water in Championship if we’re lucky, then let go. 

Venkys Out - You’re not fit to be associated with this town, it’s supporters or this once great football club.

Scumbags contract was stupidly costly - combined with compensation to Allardyce.

Berg was on a million a season.

We paid compensation for Appleton so I presume he was on decent money.

Bowyer was installed as manager presumably because the manager budget for that season had dried up. I feel sorry for Bowyer as it's now looking like he was our best manager even if he did fall short - and he probably made the least dough out of it.

Lambert won't have been cheap back then.

Coyle will have been on more than you think.

Mowbray won't be missing family time for buttons. He extended his contract in 2018 so something was keeping him here.

Whoever they get next will be taking home £1m or close to it, a season. No matter if they are good, bad or Tony Mowbray.

[booth]

2 hours ago, Mr. E said:

Venkys have absolutely no clue or care about the club, it is disgraceful they get to pick the next manager. Which they obviously will as owners, pending on whatever foolishness is whispered in their ears.

How do we get out of this nightmare.

It seems like they don't allow people to get on with their jobs, yet they don't want to do the job themselves so half-ass it.

If they don't trust the people they've put in charge of the club, to find a decent manager, then why are they in charge?

[martonrover]

29 minutes ago, ItsRoverZ said:

He's a good man Lee, but he would be a huge risk I would think, he's only managed U21s right?

Left us under a cloud as a player and was Steve Cotterill’s assistant at Birmingham.

Sounds about right!

[chaddyrovers]

39 minutes ago, Mike E said:

Why have 3 colleagues asked me about Lee Carsley today? Anyone know anything?

who are these 3 colleagues? are they Rovers fans? 

Lee Carsley was interim manager at Brentford and is currently England under 21;s manager

[RevidgeBlue]

Mowbray's parting comments are not helpful in the slightest. We don't need a "developmental" coach, we need a manager that can win Championship football matches!

[Mercer]

2 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Mowbray's parting comments are not helpful in the slightest. We don't need a "developmental" coach, we need a manager that can win Championship football matches!

We need a manager who can get us promoted and quickly.  Full stop.

Not bullsh1t or fanciful journeys for the naive and happy clappers.

[chaddyrovers]

11 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Mowbray's parting comments are not helpful in the slightest. We don't need a "developmental" coach, we need a manager that can win Championship football matches!

 

6 minutes ago, Mercer said:

We need a manager who can get us promoted and quickly.  Full stop.

Not bullsh1t or fanciful journeys for the naive and happy clappers.

We need a manager/head coach who will continue to bring through our academy players and develop players. This is key part of any Blackburn Rovers football transfer strategy and plan

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

1 minute ago, chaddyrovers said:

 

We need a manager/head coach who will continue to bring through our academy players and develop players. This is key part of any Blackburn Rovers football transfer strategy and plan

So we can sell them and bump around the lower regions of the table forever. We’ve three going this close season. That’s the ones we know about.

[Mr. E]

Another terrible but obvious issue is who in their right mind would want to work for Venkys? Total silence from your employer, complete refusal to communicate, with your top players sold and money not re-invested - absolutely no one with any self respect will want this job. Even when Mowbray took over at least there was some lingering mystery "what are their long term plans" of the sort, but even that mystery is gone. Even a complete newcomer, why would they choose to work for these owners instead of someone further down but where at least there is a basic level of communication?

 

 

[chaddyrovers]

7 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

So we can sell them and bump around the lower regions of the table forever. We’ve three going this close season. That’s the ones we know about.

So that we can developing into key players like Travis, Buckley and Wharton will be next season. Think Lenihan will stay tbh. I'm not bothered about Nyambe leaving. Think he is average Championship full back

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

9 minutes ago, Mr. E said:

Another terrible but obvious issue is who in their right mind would want to work for Venkys? Total silence from your employer, complete refusal to communicate, with your top players sold and money not re-invested - absolutely no one with any self respect will want this job. Even when Mowbray took over at least there was some lingering mystery "what are their long term plans" of the sort, but even that mystery is gone. Even a complete newcomer, why would they choose to work for these owners instead of someone further down but where at least there is a basic level of communication?

 

 

You’d have to be like Grayson, desperate to get back into the game before you get forgotten.

[martonrover]

9 minutes ago, Mr. E said:

Another terrible but obvious issue is who in their right mind would want to work for Venkys? Total silence from your employer, complete refusal to communicate, with your top players sold and money not re-invested - absolutely no one with any self respect will want this job. Even when Mowbray took over at least there was some lingering mystery "what are their long term plans" of the sort, but even that mystery is gone. Even a complete newcomer, why would they choose to work for these owners instead of someone further down but where at least there is a basic level of communication?

 

 

As @RevidgeBluehas alluded to, that wouldn’t matter if a competent, fully functioning CEO was in situ.

[PeteJD13]

Mark Venus isn't leaving so suspect its his job

[booth]

12 minutes ago, Mr. E said:

Another terrible but obvious issue is who in their right mind would want to work for Venkys? Total silence from your employer, complete refusal to communicate, with your top players sold and money not re-invested - absolutely no one with any self respect will want this job. Even when Mowbray took over at least there was some lingering mystery "what are their long term plans" of the sort, but even that mystery is gone. Even a complete newcomer, why would they choose to work for these owners instead of someone further down but where at least there is a basic level of communication?

... Being left completely to your own devices, giving contracts to people who haven't even seen a pitch in years or are too old for it, bizarre tactical decisions, signing £7m flops, a 7-0 record breaking drubbing at home, two absolutely abysmal death spirals, going from an auto promotion place to 9th place in a few months, deciding not to sign players in January and admitting in the local press you could do but it doesn't fit your bizarre ethos, when others around you are strengthening. And you'll still end up picking up around a million a year in wages.

Or in short, do whatever the #### you want with our football club and you'll still make a fortune.

Who would possibly want that job?

[roverandout]

26 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

 

We need a manager/head coach who will continue to bring through our academy players and develop players. This is key part of any Blackburn Rovers football transfer strategy and plan

No we don't.  We aren't some small feeder club ffs. We are bigger than 90 percent of clubs in this league.  Are Luton or Huddersfield a developmental club? No! We need to stop fucking around and start to head in the right direction.  I like seeing young players coming through but not at the expense of the promised land.  Mowbray is obsessed with developing this developing that. Mowbray has f*cked off now.  Time for a coach to come in and bring some positivity.  Don't want Johnson as he will probably have the same idea. Fresh approach.  Fresh ideas needed

[matt83]

1 minute ago, PeteJD13 said:

Mark Venus isn't leaving so suspect its his job

The poor duped Venkys who were naive and taken for a ride by a shyster football agency wouldn’t make the mistake of appointing another cone man from within. They’ve learnt their lesson now, there was a letter with a golden egg on it and everything. They care. 

[booth]

10 minutes ago, PeteJD13 said:

Mark Venus isn't leaving so suspect its his job

Hopefully it's just because he has another month left on his contract and they'd rather he sort out the cones than give any compensation out.

[aletheia]

Think of who you would like. It won't be him.

Think of someone exciting/creative/proven. It won't be him.

Think of someone sensible. It won't be him.

Think of who is possible. It wont' be him.

Think of some HSH reject. You might be getting warmer.

Think of a yes man, willing to fit in to the present structure, desperate, dirt cheap, unemployed. Getting warmer.

Think of someone who you hadn't thought of in a million years and you had forgotten was in management or even still existed. Getting very likely.

Think of someone in-house, cheap, willing to be a yes person, so no disruption and miniumum amount of thinking required from the owners. Getting very warm.

 

[Guest]

Rob Edwards I reckon

[OldEwoodBlue]

If its a foreign coach then my Sami Hyppia bet is going to win nicely.

If its an upcoming manager then Rob Edwards will be the only name on the list.

But we should also know the whos who of Indian managers as the time may be right.

Otherwise is Ronaldinho a failed manager?

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

They’ll be going for Maradona, they won’t know he’s dead.

[OldEwoodBlue]

If its an internal appointment then its got to be Ben Benson.

Brilliant with the tactic sheets in the ring binder.

More passion than Mowbray, even got sent off the other week.

 

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

Just now, OldEwoodBlue said:

If its an internal appointment then its got to be Ben Benson.

Brilliant with the tactic sheets in the ring binder.

More passion than Mowbray, even got sent off the other week.

 

It’ll be great to have Benson & Hedges at the club.