New manager wishlist

[StHelensRover]

Just put us out of our misery if it's Ismael and announce him. At least then we can start the Moby Dick puns about our annual fight to avoid promotion, lots of wailing etc.

[Penwortham Blue]

14 minutes ago, sharpysharps86 said:

I'm all for bashing Coyle, but I don't think its fair to group Mowbray in with that clown. Mowbray ultimately got us back up to the Championship and steadies the ship. Absolutely no comparison between him and Coyle.

Obviously I wouldn't want Mowbray now, and he definitely had his flaws whilst at Rovers but lets not re-write history and suggest he was anything like a Coyle or dare I say a 'he who must not be named'.

Mowbray did a reasonable job, a decent fist of staying up and then a a promotion. He became too comfortable and badly got it wrong with his slow build / journey diatribe that was more focussed on keeping an easy life than getting the Rovers promoted.

[RoversClitheroe]

Id never leave the house and live in darkness for the rest of my life if Mowbray came back

[dallydally]

We didn't approach Jurgen but nearly appointed his brother Klipperty!!

[Neal]

A name not mentioned hardly is Dean Smith. I could see him being one that hasn't made the bookies lists. 

[joey_big_nose]

35 minutes ago, StHelensRover said:

Just put us out of our misery if it's Ismael and announce him. At least then we can start the Moby Dick puns about our annual fight to avoid promotion, lots of wailing etc.

It is a cracking literary name, you have to give him that.

Best one since Shakespeare at Leicester...

That said reckon Kurtz would be a better fit to the kind of delusional madness needed on our boat.

Edited February 24 by joey_big_nose

[Penwortham Blue]

9 minutes ago, Neal said:

A name not mentioned hardly is Dean Smith. I could see him being one that hasn't made the bookies lists. 

I wouldn’t be against that one.

[broadsword]

22 hours ago, joey_big_nose said:

It is a cracking literary name, you have to give him that.

Best one since Shakespeare at Leicester...

That said reckon Kurtz would be a better fit to the kind of delusional madness needed on our boat.

Living under the venky jackboot is indeed like a snail having to crawl along a razor blade

Edited February 25 by broadsword

[Blue blood]

42 minutes ago, sharpysharps86 said:

I'm all for bashing Coyle, but I don't think its fair to group Mowbray in with that clown. Mowbray ultimately got us back up to the Championship and steadies the ship. Absolutely no comparison between him and Coyle.

Obviously I wouldn't want Mowbray now, and he definitely had his flaws whilst at Rovers but lets not re-write history and suggest he was anything like a Coyle or dare I say a 'he who must not be named'.

A better manager admittedly but that's a tallest dwarf. Still poor imo and the only manager who has said fans still expect 95. Another I'm delighted we are rid of. 

[Herbie6590]

6 minutes ago, Penwortham Blue said:

I wouldn’t be against that one.

Dean Smith is coaching in the US

[Neal]

5 minutes ago, Herbie6590 said:

Dean Smith is coaching in the US

At Charlotte... Might fancy another crack at the champ? 

[AspRover]

19 minutes ago, Penwortham Blue said:

Mowbray did a reasonable job, a decent fist of staying up and then a a promotion. He became too comfortable and badly got it wrong with his slow build / journey diatribe that was more focussed on keeping an easy life than getting the Rovers promoted.

In hindsight I think that Mowbray was running into exactly the same issues that JDT and Eustace did, but rather than agitating and then getting out ASAP he just accepted it, put out the soundbites and picked up his pay packet every month.

I don't think that the slow build stuff was coming from him, he just went along with it and didn't try and fight against it in the same way as his successors - imagine if Eustace had put out the 'significant investment' line. At the time TM left I thought he was the problem, now I'm not sure that there is much he could have done differently. I'm pissed off at Eustace jumping ship so early, but until something major changes behind the scenes I think that Mowbray's tenure is ultimately what a manager sticking with us long term under these conditions looks like.

I might be wrong, it could be that the current model of spend nowt is directly a result of TM demonstrating that we can do that and stay in the league, but I think it's more likely the other way around. 

[Fraserkirky]

Welcome aboard Ismael!

[Paul Mani]

4 minutes ago, Fraserkirky said:

Welcome aboard Ismael!

Confirmed? I’m abroad and disoriented!!

[davulsukur]

19 minutes ago, Paul Mani said:

Confirmed? I’m abroad and disoriented!!

 

No, nothing official 

[miqaayil]

https://www.birminghamworld.uk/sport/football/west-brom/west-brom-blackburn-sheffield-wednesdays-play-off-final-championship-table-5004773

 

suhail and wags ...wet dream  

 

VALERIAN AND THE CLUB OF PUNE THIEVES .... nice ring to it

 

Edited February 24 by miqaayil

[Exiled_Rover]

56 minutes ago, Neal said:

At Charlotte... Might fancy another crack at the champ? 

Charlotte is an incredibly dull city so I'm sure he fancies a change.

[sharpysharps86]

1 hour ago, Blue blood said:

A better manager admittedly but that's a tallest dwarf. Still poor imo and the only manager who has said fans still expect 95. Another I'm delighted we are rid of. 

Absolutely fair, I too am glad he isn't Rovers manager anymore. Was simply making the point that grouping him in with Coyle is just massively incorrect IMO.

[miqaayil]

VENKY'S 

 

please appoint steve kean ... put us out of this hope ...please... i can't bear to see my brothers fighting among ourselves on which manager is better ... with KEAN we can collectively hate you ,wag and suhail...

Edited February 24 by miqaayil

[roverandout]

1 minute ago, miqaayil said:

VENKY'S 

 

please appoint steve kean ... put us out of this hope ...please

 

[AJW]

Disappointed if it is Ishmael just cannot see him  as a) the tactical genius to win games or b) the inspiring figure head to lift spirits in and around the club

[rigger]

4 minutes ago, AJW said:

Disappointed if it is Ishmael just cannot see him  as a) the tactical genius to win games or b) the inspiring figure head to lift spirits in and around the club

I am not sure if you have to be a tactical genius, just start the best eleven players in their favoured positions.

[Cherry Blue]

So Mr Waggott, will a new HC be taking training before Saturady's crucial game v Norwich City?

[Proudtobeblue&white]

14 minutes ago, miqaayil said:

VENKY'S 

 

please appoint steve kean ... put us out of this hope ...please... i can't bear to see my brothers fighting among ourselves on which manager is better ... with KEAN we can collectively hate you ,wag and suhail...

Be very careful what you wish for?

[USABlue]

The more I read about the names mentioned the more I am leaning toward just fuckin give it to Duffer.  End of season, to be reviewed then.  He may just turn out to be a revelation.  He did leave a note when he left for Chelsea that said he would be back.  Seems to me Duffer will still have things to prove as he tries to climb the Football manager ladder. These others seem to be more concerned about kissin their own arses. Give him a go and let's go up.

Edited February 24 by USABlue