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Some interesting comments underneath this following him keeping Oxford up with a game to spare last season. A league table below shows him getting the 7th best results between christmas and the point of survival in late April, including a particularly strong home record. He wont get that amount of time here however. Their fans however are much more negative this season about him after results slid and the football was so dull. However, Oxford's squad is insufficent for this level.

I think Rowett would be a fairly sensible if slightly underwhelming appointment. And is certainly someone far more preferable to many of the other names mentioned. Football is really dull and limited (maybe screams another man leaving next Jan/Feb) but he knows how to set up a team and organise them at this level. The job to keep us up shouldn't be a massive uphill battle, just because of the situation around us. There are obviously 2 spots available, but it feels closer to 1 with Oxford struggling to stay competitive. So it is essentially a case of not being the worst of 5 or 6 teams down there. With Rowett in charge, I would like to think that our chances of finishing bottom of that mini league decrease. He doesn't feel like someone who fits in with the current "structure" in the way Ismael did, and I don't say that as a negative thing. It was clear that Ismael was initially content to have crap random imports thrown his way, although even he seemed to have enough of it by the end. Rowett will likely place more importance in domestic experience and hopefully will kick up more of a stink if more De Neve/Henriksson/Tavares types are put his way in the summer. The Oxford sacking is a big red flag although they really are dire. We all know the state of our squad but we certainly have more quality than them. His jobs before then seem to be a pattern of initial stability before getting to a limit of how far he can take them.

Means nothing. The other 3 favourites are Rowett who has been reported as not in the reckoning, and 2 others just because of their initials. Someone must have stuck a tenner on Savage.

I am hoping that if Coleman was our preferred candidate, that we would have sorted it already. Because he wouldnt be able to believe his luck. So hopefully it wont be him. Its clearly best not to get too wound up over betting odds either. The volatility of the market sees random names shoot up based on absolutely nothing. Eustace is still 33/1.

I am not belittling him. I am merely saying that the situations are totally different. Ismael was using excuses as an act of self preservation, like desperate managers always do. Why would Johnson bemoan injuries in the same way when the majority have cleared up, hes not our permanent manager trying to keep his job, hes only managed one game and we won? He has been a good servant and I hope he does well in the mean time and stays at the club once a manager is appointed. No comparison to Tony Parkes obviously. If you think I have a negative opinion of him or am keen to belittle him because I dont think it makes any sense whatsoever to potentially speed up or slow down the urgent matter of appointing a manager, based on each individual result he gets in this interim period, then you arent listening to my point. It isnt a reflection of Johnson, I felt the same with Lowe. It also doesnt mean that I want us to rush into getting someone for the sake of having someone permanent or getting someone crap.

Different circumstances though. One is a manager doing a poor job desperate to deflect questioning away from himself. We did have injuries so using them to excuse himself was possible. The other has taken one game (and one against a team that wasnt competitive) with the majority of his squad fit and knows he wont be in the role long. No need for self preservation.

The thing is, it all stemmed from an "insider" account posting that someone with his initials had "interviewed" well. It probably just shows how easy it is to totally change the betting market on a market like this.

For a start, why would 2 managers of their own right agree to be a duo? The priority of this appointment shouldnt be nostalgia or to "capture the imagination."

If we went 352 I would go: Toth Miller Carter Cashin Alebiosu Morishita Tronstad Baradji Pickering Gudjohnsen Ohashi

Alebiosu surely has to play. I would also like to see Afolayan especially considering how ineffective Jorgensen looks.

No. I wouldnt delay the urgent process of a new manager upon a solitary result. And that doesnt mean rushing it. It should be a single minded approach to get the best manager possible in the quickest time possible. That shouldnt change.

I would like to think that the set piece coaching isnt involved as based on what we have seen with the set pieces, he has pulled a blinder to manage to find employment.

😂 Cant complain about being sacked. Results not good enough. Tactically inflexible. The post employment swerve in stance. Welcome back.

It wasnt a response to your post though. If we win, do we abandon the search? Based on a solitary result? Do we tell anyone already contacted to not bother? Yeah we probably are, but we are much more likely to assure our Championship status if we appoint a manager. I certainly have never suggested appointing someone crap for the sake of a permanent manager.

Chaddy straight back in to tell us that he thinks that Lee Bowyer might get the job and that a bloke recently sacked by Oxford wouldnt take it. Presumably still fuming that Ismael was sacked.