Maybe I’m biased by having been VP Marketing for a global brand… You think the marketing guy at Rovers gets to make any decisions of significance??

What on earth makes you think under Venkys we will ever have competent people throughout? Probably the least important person in the entire club is the one doing “marketing”. He doesn’t set the prices, he just farts around doing “cool” things to go on his CV, which will always have minimal impact on the attendances. In the world of marketing, a job at Rovers (or Hull City) is NW Counties League standard, anyone any good at marketing would be in another industry.

Genuinely exciting appointment, he’s going to be a real culture shock for some of our players. I also wonder if the new set up is a sign that our youngsters in the academy have much more potential than in the past. Nothing wrong with the staff being kept on: at best their roles are now very secondary given he’s bringing in his two main men, and he’ll just sideline any he doesn’t rate.

Very big if. Armstrong ended up with 2 goals as Southampton’s 9th top scorer so personally I can’t see Rothwell playing in the Prem.

Complete fantasy to think Allardyce would’ve been interested in staying much longer than he did. He’d been there and got the t-shirt with Bolton and often said he could do it at much bigger clubs. Newcastle was a huge blow to his ego and we were always just a temporary stepping stone on the road back to where he thought he belonged.

As I understand it, he only repeats the 3 day-old internet rumours that he has been able to confirm, thus making them factual rather than rumours. If the Telewag’s sports section was 301 pages of random bullshit, I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t sell any copies at all.

Really? So not his job to help sell more newspapers? Some journalists do that by holding people to account, eg on the political pages, others do it endlessly promoting people, like on the show biz pages. But the job of both is literally to help drive circulation. I heard Sharpe say in an interview he doesn’t print anything he hasn’t been able to confirm from two solid sources, like, ummmm, professional journalists do.

No one at the club under these owners is the best we can do. And the next manager won’t be either. On our list of problems, I’d argue that the bibs and cones man and the goalkeeping coach (who our goalkeeper likes) aren’t even in the top 20.

I don’t know anything about how Lowe and Benson are perceived in the industry, as I suspect no one else on here does either. And does it really matter who the cones and bibs man is? It’s already been made clear a new guy can bring in his own number 2 so I just don’t get the BRFCS groupthink that it’s somehow unheard of for a new manager to inherit some lesser staff. About five managers inherited Ferguson at Everton, but apparently he’s rubbish.

As did Fagin and Evans.

Interesting to learn that only being a manager for five games guarantees failure, which was five more than Paisley and Dalglish had before being handed the biggest job in the country, and that no manager with a spine would inherit incumbent coaches, which Dalglish, Souness and Hughes all did.

By Jove, Holmes, amazing!

I’m not sure I agree with the thinking that we need a manager proven at getting promotion, and from the championship. Even the ones proven at more than one club, such as Warnock, are a long way from being a sure bet. As well as holding the record for most promotions - 8 - he must surely also hold the record for most non-promotion seasons - 33. King Kenny said you need two things: luck and money. I’m not sure we have either.

My algorithm has a sense of humour..

Me neither, when you can end up with a dolloper like Howard Kendall going that route…

Am I the only person surprised that the most vociferous Mowbray Out posters in days gone by are now shocked and outraged to discover we have a slow, unambitious, cheap approach run by powerless clowns to recruit his successor? He had to go but let’s not pretend this process ever had a chance of being better than it is. The dice have been well and truly rolled.

Which bit of “Hasselbank hasn’t been interviewed” wasn’t clear?

It happens in every family business. While there are issues with a very restricted talent pool and being promoted too early, family appointees do come with some major benefits: - access to the real power - not there for the money - have to live with the consequences of performance for the rest of their lives - very unlikely to cut and run - very unlikely to be dodgy

Nepotism? In a family business? I’m shocked!

Irrelevant. Would anyone who had had a senior position in a club be able to manage Venkys? John Williams and Tom Finn certainly couldn’t.

It can only be good news IMO as it would completely remove the Waggott position which couldn’t approve anything but could and did make decisions slower and worse. As to his qualifications: - in family businesses, family is a big qualification - having direct, unhindered access to the decision-makers - commitment and desire to succeed He’s a lot more qualified for the role than 99.9% on here, including me, to write off his ability to run a football club, as none of us have done that either. The issue is not can he run a football club, it’s can he run a football club owned by Venkys.

I must say the pitch held up a lot better than I’d expected.

“Ainsworth said: “You’ve got all your sheikhs and billionaires. Give me Pete and Rob [Couhig] any day. I’m proud to be the Wycombe manager.” - a come and get me plea if ever I’ve heard one

Shagadelic!

Wow! That shows how memory is a tricky thing. I would never have guessed in a million years that three of our four most frequent subs were Dunn, Jansen and Tugay; three players mythologised as being undroppable geniuses.