So you have changed your stance from first positioning your statement about the salaries as FACT to one where you are positioning your statement as "MY OPINIONS". Totally laughable - you have been called out and found wanting.

I deal in realism and not an agenda where I agree with everything that comes out of Rovers. You don't know what salary Mowbray, JDT and Eustace were on. How can you come out with such nonsense? I told you where I got my figures from and it's not from where you say. You think you can take liberties with people and just trash the facts in order to back up your fallacious arguments. You really Iive a weird life

You are unbelievable. If Rovers declared black was white then you would endorse it. I honestly do not think you have a mind of your own. Firstly, £600k is not a decent salary to offer a head coach when you are sitting in the top six and looking to get into the PL. £600k WILL NOT attract credible candidates with a track record of some success. You are "Not interested in average salary for managers at this level as the parachute clubs will offer bigger salaries". Well you should be interested - how on earth do you think you can snare a suitable candidate if you are so far off the pace with your remuneration package!? What parachute clubs pay is irrelevant - if you want a quality appointment then you pay what you need to and fund it by not handing out ludicrously expensive contacts to players of the ilk of Siggy, Cantwell and Dennis. A manager makes or breaks a club and that is where you should channel your investment. Finally, you say the article I mention is from 4 and a half years ago - I assume the article you are referring to was from East Anglia which stated the average Championship managers' salary was almost £900k!!! Well you are wrong, wrong, wrong! It was an article I read just after THIS season started and was in a non sporting niche publication looking at salaries across a number of vocational fields.

You simply don't get it do you? If you want to rise out of mediocrity you invest in a quality manager/head coach which you will not get for £600k. I have already posted that the average Championship manager's salary was £800k 3 YEARS AGO. What is the point in paying the likes of Siggy, Cantwell and Dennis £18/20k a week (£3millionish per annum) when you are scuttling round to find a manager on relatively a Home Bargains' budget!!! Absolute madness and incompetence.

and therein may lie another problem - what credible manager/head coach with some track record would want to work with Gestede and Owen who clearly are now so influential despite their lack of a credible track record and any evidence of success? Would you work for a muppet? When Brum appointed Rooney, I read a couple of reports stating Rooney would be on £1.5m which dwarfed Eustace's £450k. I would think Eustace would be in the £500k to £600k range with Rovers.

I read a report a few months ago which stated the average salary for a Championship manager/head coach 3 years ago was £800,000! Your manager/head coach makes or breaks a club and when you have underperforming players, or players simply not up to scratch, earning significantly more than the manager/head coach therein lies an issue. In an earlier post, I advocated making a relatively 'stellar' appointment on a 3 month contract for £300k with a £1million promotion bonus in order to try and reach the promised land because let's face it, I think the club is fecked if we don't get up this season. IMO, all the evidence just doubly underlines how useless and incompetent Waggott, Suhail and Gestede are.

Epitomises just why the club is a shambles. Just can't see what Owen has achieved in his career as either a player or coach. In 20 years in a 'coaching' capacity he's had almost as many clubs as in a full golf set - think it tells you all you need to know!!!

You are a naive eternal optimist. I think our club is a complete shambles run by an incompetent executive management, the likes of which I have rarely come across and I've seen some dross! Can you not see this?

What's happened today is no surprise to me. The buck stops with Lowe. Diabolical selections. Think the guy is lucky still to be at the club - always thought he was an uninspirational figure with little about him. He is no Tony Parkes - Tony has forgotten more about football than Lowe ever knew. There is a reason why Eustace seemingly sidelined Lowe. No surprises from the players - IMO, the performance merely confirms - Pears is a liability, there are reasons Brum binned Sanderson, Forshaw should be playing at Pleasington and as for Weimann, Hedges and Dolan, words continue to fail me. Buckley has been half decent recently and Kargbo has shown he is capable of ripping it up, yet don't start! As for Dennis what a waste of a huge wage - one can only assume he's very rusty having played so little football so why the feck sign him~?1 Looks like we are about to spurn another glorious opportunity to get out of this league. Waggott, Pasha, Gestede, I think you are utterly incompetent disgraces and Jack Walker wouldn't have given you the time of day.

Think Karanka would be a disaster for Rovers - there can be few worse appointments we could have made. I think he is a 'disruptor' whose teams don't play good football (think back to his time with Middlesbrough). If the stuff about Karanka celebrating at The Savoy with family and agent is correct then it would be no surprise to me as, IMO, he would be one lucky person to have landed a job like ours given his managerial track record over recent years and subsequent managerial career decline. I bet he can't believe his luck.

Then you must live in a surreal unfettered world!!!!

No I am not surprised, however, it's how I feel as no doubt many, many more feel.

Total despair. If interviews have already taken place and there are now 'second round' interviews then 6 is not a short list!!! As I've already posted, as have others, I think the recruitment process is one total dysfunctional mess. The club have seemingly known about the Eustace issues for weeks - the homework and contingency planning should have already been done and there should have been 3 clear targets plus any unforeseen quality candidate who made it known he wanted the job (though given how Rovers are likely to be perceived in the football world unlikely to be any unforeseen quality candidate(s)). Smart and sharp executive management would have had a replacement appointed by the Plymouth game. Win or draw on Saturday and it would be no surprise to see Lowe appointed until the end of the season and I would suspect we would then fall away (coaching and managing a team for some 15 matches is totally different than holding the fort for a couple of games) and we would be back to square one at the season end with any semblance of planning for next season (contract renewals, player trading etc) totally buggered. What a total and abysmal mess.

Your thoughts are right. Though doesn't need to be a 'big name' but rather a person with a proven track record of success and only needs a contract through to 31 May. A £300k fixed term contract with a £1million bonus if promoted. What credible out of work managers with a track record of some success would turn their nose up at that - they would absolutely have nothing to lose.

What an utter shambles. Think it's clear the club is a basket case. Unless by some miracle we get promoted this year, one really fears for our future next season and beyond. Any decent prospective appointee will no doubt have been in touch with messrs Eustace and Tomasson - oh to have listened to those conversations!!! Bring on the desperados.