New manager wishlist

[Ossydave]

2 minutes ago, RoversClitheroe said:

Is this a rumour you've heard? 👀

Nope as it stands they're still keeping it incredibly close to their chests, OR doing fuck all about it 🤣 I've still only heard 1 concrete name which is Duff but don't think anything is happening there either. Its quite hard to believe Nixon is getting this exclusive information as nobody else I know is....

 

[davulsukur]

20 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Has anyone said they wont give him a chance?

Being underwhelmed/disappointed by a potential appointment doesnt mean people wont give him a chance.

Win ratio isnt a fool proof way of looking at a managers record because it depends on each individual situation.

Agreed, pretty sure everyone would give him a chance if he gets the job.

We all want him (or whoever) to be a success.

[Plastics]

People get so defensive when it's suggested that writing people off before they've started is hasty. All of a sudden it becomes a free speech debate.

[roversfan99]

Theres a difference between having an initial opinion and writing someone off to the point where he wont be given a chance to prove his worth.

[roversfan99]

So we are only just meeting candidates now?

[Exiled_Rover]

2 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

So we are only just meeting candidates now?

[Ossydave]

4 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

So we are only just meeting candidates now?

In fairness that's fairly normal practice, fingers crossed there's a shortlist that expands further than the 2 Nixon has mentioned.

He'll be loving this, creating meltdowns and essentially controlling the (Very limited) betting market.....

[Exiled_Rover]

53 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Maybe the players thought Lowe was near to being appointed as well. That would explain the no-show on Saturday.

The no-show was because Hedges is downright awful, Dolan had one of his 9 in 10 games and Weimann's legs have gone. Obviously Pears throwing one in his own net broke our back. 

[Old Codger]

2 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

So we are only just meeting candidates now?

Cretinously slow, even for a bunch of amateur cretins.

Feyenoord got Robin van Persie in just a few days, even though he was already successfully achieving in his role with Heerenveen.

And if they are only just conducting face to face contact, what the feck was all that hamshankery in London last week? Informal see you at the coffee shop for a chat? Bring your ID for verification? Get your jabs for working in the rat infested shithole formerly known as Ewood Park?

They think we are mugs.

I'm not - I'm the finest bone china tea-set I tell you 😉

[TugaysMarlboro]

Just now, Ossydave said:

In fairness that's fairly normal practice, fingers crossed there's a shortlist that expands further than the 2 Nixon has mentioned.

He'll be loving this, creating meltdowns and essentially controlling the (Very limited) betting market.....

My thoughts too, easy enough to back someone at large odds, write a story about them being a candidate and lay it off when the price shortens. Easy Money. Aye.

[LeftWinger]

7 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

So we are only just meeting candidates now?

It just shows the press don't have a clue what's been happening then.

I thought we had been conducting interviews in London? 

Presumably done via Teams from a computer in London then? 

[Hasta]

20 minutes ago, Plastics said:

People get so defensive when it's suggested that writing people off before they've started is hasty. All of a sudden it becomes a free speech debate.

 

It's nothing to do with being accused of being hasty.

It's people saying that fans aren't going to "give him a chance" because they dare to voice an opinion that they think he isn't right. 

It is possible to say "I really don't want him", but then give him a chance and support him once he starts.

Edited 2 hours ago by Hasta

[jim mk2]

26 minutes ago, K-Hod said:

No posts and only downvotes, think this is a troll/spammer.

Stand by.

Could be Ismael himself of course. Has been known - remember Keith Andrews? 

[cesus]

3 minutes ago, LeftWinger said:

It just shows the press don't have a clue what's been happening then.

I thought we had been conducting interviews in London? 

Presumably done via Teams from a computer in London then? 

I don't think masses actually gets out to the press from this club. I'd say unleaded on here comes up with way more accurate, earlier news than anybody in the press.

JDT and Eustace all came without many press reports. There is a decent chance it is nobody mentioned on here due to most info coming from that arsehole Nixon.

I'll give any manager a chance, my frustration is how slow it is due to what a good chance we have this season.

[jim mk2]

15 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

So we are only just meeting candidates now?

 

This is like all the transfer windows where all the business is done in the last 12 hours

Stand by for the new manager to be named just before the last game of the season in April

[G Somerset Rover]

17 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

So we are only just meeting candidates now?

Are we appointing a regional sales manager or a manager of a championship football club? How this is all being played out only reaffirms the belief that we really are a circus off the pitch.

[47er]

1 hour ago, broadsword said:

I don't think we sack managers full stop, who's the last one who has his contract terminated, coyle? What's that, eight years ago?

Good point. We keep going with them till their contract's up to save money. Or we come to an arrangement. We don't sack.

This is not a normal club.

[USABlue]

11 hours ago, JHRover said:

They'll be keen to offload Cantwell this summer as I think he was only a late 'splurge' to keep Eustace quiet and the intention was always to get him back into the English shop window and sell again. Introducing a manager totally the opposite of his style will see to that.

I don't think Cantwell wants to be here anymore 

[LeftWinger]

In many ways this whole situation reminds me of my divorce.

The wife leaves me for a man I consider beneath me - despite constant claims of togetherness.

I then spend months trying it on with unattainable women, before settling for a 6'3" woman of North African origin who isn't the prettiest, but she gets the job done.

[chaddyrovers]

48 minutes ago, Ossydave said:

Has anyone apart from Nixon said it's between Ismael and Wagner? Everything I've read seems to just stem from his story. Since Park left he isn't getting the tit bits he was.

I wouldn't rule out another twist in this yet.....

would Elliott Jackson and Andy Bayes have the contacts that Alan Nixon? 

[USABlue]

4 hours ago, Mercer said:

You are lying in a hospital bed and the surgeon who can save your life is a 'Dingle' whose idiosyncrasy is to wear claret and blue scrub caps.

Would you allow this Dingle to save your life or would you choose to die?

A surgeon with six fingers?

[islander200]

This manager hunt Is frustrating but the time it is taking is similar to other clubs

West brom lost their manager 24th of December and didn't appoint a new one until the 18th of January 

Coventry sacked Robins 7th of November and didn't appoint Lampard until the 28th of November 

I wouldn't be taking it as a given that it will be either of the 2 names he has said, last week he was saying Karanka had a big chance 

[islander200]

3 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

would Elliott Jackson and Andy Bayes have the contacts that Alan Nixon? 

Nixon was saying Karanka last week 

[Forever Blue]

1 hour ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

One thing you can be sure of - if they’re shit they’ll be here longer than if they are amazing. 

That’s true

[superniko]

25 minutes ago, jim mk2 said:

Could be Ismael himself of course. Has been known - remember Keith Andrews? 

Wait, I was around at the time but can't remember that, did Andrews post under an alias on here?