New manager wishlist

[Nic81]

12 minutes ago, Valconite said:

If these names are true then how can anyone deny that they aren’t trying to deliberately derail a promotion push. 😡

I don’t think that is the case. It will be the person who will accept their wages and non-commitment re transfers and contracts. If they could get promotion on the cheap, I really believe that would be their dream. 

Edited Wednesday at 19:33 by Nic81

[AvRover]

12 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

A week's a long time in football, if there was any feeling of grievance against Eustace amongst the players that will be dissipating and after a week of training the temporary arrangements will feel more like the norm

Lowe will be doing REALLY well to make it 3 out of 3 on Saturday.

Absolutely, as good as Lowe may be, you also have to consider the politics of his situation. Will he be there next week? Who's got authority to tell a player who's contract's running down he'll be there next season? Does he have the experience at this level for a PO run in? Will he get the job if he wins another game? These questions would eat away at even the best coach's position.

[islander200]

4 minutes ago, davulsukur said:

Difficult to see it any other way, absolute sabotage of the season.

They are of course, also just picking the cheapest, most desperate yes man they can find, one who will be happy with zero budget and players sold from underneath their feet.

Obviously not a long drawn out process with the best interest of the club at heart, just further cost savings and less boat rocking.

Shambles.

In fairness Karanka isn't one to hold his tongue had big fall outs at both Forest and Boro.Poor choice if it his him but he isn't a yes man

[RevidgeBlue]

1 minute ago, JHRover said:

I'll keep on saying it because I believe it is the obvious and correct course of action but I really wish the clowns running the club would just pick up the phone to Warnock, offer him what he wants to take it until the summer, offer him £1 million bonus if he pulls it off and let him get on with it. 

It is a total no brainer. It buys us 3 months to work out what the hell we are going to do come the summer whilst also giving it to the safest pair of hands available for a shot at the play-offs.

What on earth they are doing if they are speaking to the names Nixon is mentioning I do not know but it isn't going to end well. They clearly don't know what they are doing or looking for, too many cooks spoiling the broth and they're going to end up getting a panic appointment or a middle ground that just isn't what is needed.

We could actually be barking up the wrong tree. They could actually have a genius appointment up their sleeve, however everything you say appears to be correct and as many of us have said the suggestion you're proposing seems so simple and obvious.

Every managerial appointment is obviously vital but given the challenges we're likely to face after this season if we dont go up, I think the next appointment we make is likely to be one of the more pivotal ones in our history. I think we're talking after we went down to the third division in 1970 for the first time ever and when Jack was ill and we'd sacked Bryan Kidd type crucial.

Luckily we came up with Ken Furphy and Souness (before he lost the plot) on those occasions and our longer term futures revived in each case.

Do we trust current management to make a similarly  inspired appointment? Feels like a real "sliding doors" moment.

[BigHoz]

150+ applications, countless interviews and we might end up with karanka? 🤣 Jesus fucking Christ. A club with no clue. Knew it was going to be a dodgy one with all this interview talk, a proper club identifys 2/3 at most and makes a move. 

[AvRover]

Just now, RevidgeBlue said:

We could actually be barking up the wrong tree. They could actually have a genius appointment up their sleeve, however everything you say appears to be correct and as many of us have said the suggestion you're proposing seems so simple and obvious.

It's so far up their sleeve, at a point where continuity and time is of the essence, it's taken them nearly two weeks to extract from said sleeve?

The silence and shifting odds indicate they're running around like headless chickens (if you'll pardon the pun!)

[Tugayisgod]

I'm sure there will be more names being interviewed, but of the ones mentioned ( if true,of course), I think Ismail would be my choice , under sufferance let me add.

 

 

 

 

[Bethnal]

On Duff - I’d love it. The job he’s done at Shelbourne (I didn’t end up going to see their game against Derry City due to grim weather and a supplier “meeting” running quite late into the Friday evening/morning) was described to me as “unbelievable.” Won the league and has instilled a real sense of… “togetherness” doing it. They hadn’t won it in something like 20 years and were 25/1 odds to do so, when he did it. I don’t think it can be sniffed at.

I do not think he’ll do it based on what I heard over there from fans/observers. Almost sounded like he wanted to build the standard of the league up. Heard he donated his Shamrock Rovers wages to charity in his final season of playing, so he’s not exactly after money, either.

So yeah, I think it would be compelling but I also think he has more noble aims than breaking into English football.

[RevidgeBlue]

13 minutes ago, TommyRovers said:

I'd take Pep Ljinders. Risky no doubt, but he speaks well.

 

Karanka has sneaked in because of Gestede obviously, he would be a bad bad choice.

 

Cant for the life of me see why. 

I had no idea who he was but and had to look him up but he was apparently sacked before Klopp had even started his job at Red Bull with his side 10 points behind the leaders Sturm Graz.

Also with his side 32nd out of 36 in the Champions League group.

[Devon Rover]

14 minutes ago, TommyRovers said:

I'd take Pep Ljinders. Risky no doubt, but he speaks well.

 

Karanka has sneaked in because of Gestede obviously, he would be a bad bad choice.

 

So does Gyles Brandreth. 

Neither should be in the running for this job. 

Both have probably been interviewed for it.

[Browjd]

Who is the manager in work? Duff?

[AvRover]

10 minutes ago, BigHoz said:

150+ applications, countless interviews and we might end up with karanka? 🤣 Jesus fucking Christ. A club with no clue. Knew it was going to be a dodgy one with all this interview talk, a proper club identifys 2/3 at most and makes a move. 

Exactly. Any talk of being "thorough" is to cover for the fact they don't know what to do. They're trying desperately to find a candidate who won't totally embarrass them whilst being relatively cheap.

[dallydally]

11 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

We could actually be barking up the wrong tree. They could actually have a genius appointment up their sleeve, however everything you say appears to be correct and as many of us have said the suggestion you're proposing seems so simple and obvious.

Every managerial appointment is obviously vital but given the challenges we're likely to face after this season if we dont go up, I think the next appointment we make is likely to be one of the more pivotal ones in our history. I think we're talking after we went down to the third division in 1970 for the first time ever and when Jack was ill and we'd sacked Bryan Kidd type crucial.

Luckily we came up with Ken Furphy and Souness (before he lost the plot) on those occasions and our longer term futures revived in each case.

Do we trust current management to make a similarly  inspired appointment? Feels like a real "sliding doors" moment.

They are total jerks....end of. Let the action begin. We need to veto attendance at games - ALL OF US!!!

[Inferi]

Definitely feels like it's going to be Karanka, doesn't it? Championship experience and even won promotion with Middlesborough (Middlesborough link, check!) many years ago. Would not get another job in the Championship as his career has fallen off a cliff. Should also be cheap. 

If we're not going for a short term option like Warnock I would have liked us to go for Rob Edwards but maybe he wouldn't accept the working conditions.

[simongarnerisgod]

it matters little who our next manager is,he won`t be here for the long term

[roverandout]

Karanka lasted 6 months in Israel 6 months in Spain In his last 2 jobs.  Perfect short term appointment for venkys 

[Tricky]

59 minutes ago, Tricky said:

Don't get the love for Duff. Aside from his rovers time. One job, league of Ireland FFS 

Might as well keep David Lowe in place.

 

53 minutes ago, LeftWinger said:

And won the league in Ireland

 

[RevidgeBlue]

Better hang fire a day or two.

Pep might be available after tonight Lol.

[M_B]

25 minutes ago, Devon Rover said:

So does Gyles Brandreth. 

Neither should be in the running for this job. 

Both have probably been interviewed for it.

🤣

[roversfan99]

Justification for the slow process was often put down to the quality 150 applicants that made us rethink.

Karanka, Ljinders and Ismael?

[RevidgeBlue]

I have the solution!

We should direct any prospective candidate to onejackwalker.

It's the job no one in their right mind could possibly refuse or ever want to leave!

Apparently.

[JHRover]

7 minutes ago, roverandout said:

Karanka lasted 6 months in Israel 6 months in Spain In his last 2 jobs.  Perfect short term appointment for venkys 

Take out his time at Middlesbrough, and he's managed 134 games across 4 clubs winning 44 of them. His average tenure has been 33 games. Since 2021 he has had 21 games with Granada and 23 games with Maccabi Tel Aviv. 

I've ignored his Middlesbrough spell as that appears to be very much an outlier, where he was blessed with heavy backing, a stable club and a good chairman. Quite irrelevant to the situation here.

I do think he is a fiery individual though and I also don't see him as a desperado who will accept any old rubbish to get a job. Expect he has applied but could quite quickly give it up as a bad job when he realises what they're giving him.

[RevidgeBlue]

Just now, roversfan99 said:

Justification for the slow process was often put down to the quality 150 applicants that made us rethink.

Karanka, Ljinders and Ismael?

The number of alleged applicants worn as a badge of honour by some. 

Just think what the other 147 must have been like!

[Theaxe15]

So are we raging because Karanka’s name has merely been mentioned???

[martonrover]

We’ve just got a load of compo for our previous manager, and our process to replace him centres on who will do the job for peanuts.

Bloody great, isn’t it?