Yeah, night and day compared to how we played under JDT. We get a bit of a bonus at the moment - new manager bounce and totally new way of playing will bamboozle how other teams setup. Stoke with the high line obviously thought we were going to stay playing the Tomasson way and they could compress us, so were not ready for how direct we were. Need to get the points on the board in the next few games before other teams start to adjust. An interesting thought is I wonder how long Eustace was on the radar with GB and if he had any input direct ot indirect into the McFadz and Fleck signings. Both not very JDT...

Could be 352 with Chrisene playing LCB and Hedges LWB? They tend to order the side correctly on the tweet so Hedges listed before the CMs suggests he is at LWB.

While hes got the work rate - Dolan's too head down for me to play wing back, and hasn't got much of a deep cross on him. Hes much more focussed on beating his man than getting the ball in.

Yeah I know... But dont think we have any other option. We are not going to keep being so offensive.

@J*B was Eustace incoming the thing discussed on Wednesdays panel that no one could talk about?

Seems like Eustace has been in the picture for a couple of weeks, so Id be surprised if he had no input into the setup at all. I imagine he has already met with Lowe and DJ. My expectations is that we bin all the super offensive stuff, sit deeper in numbers and break quickly. I am sure Eustace will have already diagnosed that the first step is stop conceding so many chances and goals.

Link? It's a a total sh!tshow at the club, but getting the new manager sorted in the background has been one positive at least. Knowing how chaotic things have been I was wondering if we would have been drifting along for weeks.

There's no way we could offer Allardyce what he would want in terms of financially, backroom, etc. Total non starter.

Well Eustace has not got much professional league experience, but in his short term managing Birmingham (15 months) he came out on top in a relegation battle and got Birmingham into the playoff spots (albeit with a classic Championship 2 point gap to 11th, which puts it into perspective)... So seems a better fit than JDT is to the current situation we are in. He seems a reasonable choice in the circumstances. I can't see too many others with the right experience of a relegation battle. On his CV Alex Neil would also be a good choice I think, although his time at Stoke recently is a worry...

To be honest the key moment was the Indian courts freezing the assets in the summer. From that moment I think this time would come as the financial stability disappeared. Only thing that would have changed it is if we had managed to get into the Prem last year, and none of those events above would have got us there as I can't see how we would have won the playoffs. It's also equally true that while the new manager appointment is important, the key defining thing for us until Venkys one day (please god) leave is whether we can solve this capital issue. Otherwise fast forward 6 months and the new managers and a lot of the players will be gone too.

I think Nicko is source for the above - so someone, incorrectly or correctly - is saying that has been the blocker. I guess the situation is JDT knows is he sits in role he could force Rovers to eventually have to pay up his contract (maybe a million quid for 18 months? Just a guess). JDT says "I'll be okay to walk if we make it £500k". Then Rovers say - well, that's fine, but Sweden FA need to pay that £500k not Rovers. And that is the negotiation. I could be wrong but that is what it feels like.

They haven't even formally said he's on gardening leave yet, and that DJ etc will take the game? I would have expected at least that by now.

Yeah... the way I would describe him to a fan of another club asking about him becoming their manager - great fair weather manager. If he's on top you play some lovely football, exciting style, brings young players through, a "we will score more that you" philosophy. But.... when the worm turns doesnt adapt at all. Just keeps on the same way even if you are conceding 15+ chances and 3+ goals per game. I really struggle to see how anyone decent will offer him a job as the inability to turn around results either in game (extremely rarely getting points from losing positions) or get out of this terrible run of form makes him appear a huge risk.

Even if it is buttoned up and IS carries the can how on earth does GB have any credibility now? If he sticks around everyone is going to hate him. Thought he did okay last season but christ hes had a stinker this year - Leo absolutely disastrous (must be one of the worst rovers signings of all time in terms of negative impact on results), no impact at all from Ennis or Telelovic, and now this. Only positive for him has been Tronstad. I wonder if Eustace or whoever the incoming manager is going to accept a DoF on that record...

Someone from the club needs to come out and walk through in painstaking detail how the non send happened. It sounds like actually pressing send doesn't actually sit with Gregg - instead with CEO and Sylvester.... But Gregg said he wouldn't let it happen again. He should have been micro managing it through.... What a total mess.

That's such a championship stat! I am still amazed that just missed out on the playoffs last season on goal difference despite winning 2 of our last 11 games. Absolutely bonkers league.

Yeah - we've got ourselves into a bit of a hole where we have a few lightweight number 10 players (Sigurdsson, Moran, Ayeri, Markanday,) who can't play number 10 because Szmodics is killing it there - plus he's an absolute graafter which they are not - and they are unsuited to playing anywhere else.

I don;t think anyone has said that he has gone? Unless I missed it in this rapidly extending thread.

I am intrigued if Waggott has lined up Eustace or if it's Gregg. Waggott has always struggled to find managers, so I wonder if GB has set it up.

Did well at Fulham too, but then binned them off in quite an arrogant way as he thought he would get a bigger job. But then didn't... ended up at QPR a year later. To be fair to him he did well at Stoke too. He's worked for a lot of mad owners (City, Fulham with Al Fayed, QPR) and I don't think he enjoyed it. So I would be very surprised if he had any interest in working for the Raos.

I like this bit from the Athletic "Their well-drilled, defensive style has them closer to the play-offs than the relegation zone and the early success stories are growing."

In the circumstances I wonder if McGuire is thinking about just getting back on a plane no matter the outcome. I guess Eustace may have reached out to him though to settle him down?

Tbh if we get Eustace that makes a lot of sense as he got Birmingham out of a relegation battle last season. So despite not being that experienced he has the right experience.

If JDT is off does that automatically mean Rene goes or is he knocking about? Part of me is quite curious how Damian Johnson does - hes had a great record with the under 23s.

Yeah think he will, but I will be surprised if its somewhere bigger than Rovers. Probably a sideways move. I can see another championship club going for him. If hes left in the summer he would have been in a much better position and might have been able to get a club a step up to give him a go, but the last two months has torched that.