Current Staff If Gary Rowett goes

[Stranger]

Hard no to John Terry. I'd like to think the club still has some morals

 

[RBNO]

problem i have is when rowett was appointed we had fight showed some teeth and survived....now we are toothless set up to hang on wannabes.....we really are better than that ...WE REALLY ARE

 

[RBNO]

all these hard no's to any manager suggested.....like that striker ..... carlton morris? 10 in 16? someone in this club somewhere needs to really get a grip.....or as at the fans meeting where it was stated we are ahead of the curve do they not really care one way or the other?

 

[ubermeistervonmeat]

Hard no to John Terry. I'd like to think the club still has some morals

Even if he kept us up ?

 

[Scotchegg]

I'd break the bank to bring Michael Carrick in and back him with every penny we can possibly squeeze out of the budget.

 

[ubermeistervonmeat]

Trouble is the board wouldn't

 

[Orkney Islands Yellow]

He's been backed. He's showing himself to be, quite frankly, incompetent.

We've just been beaten by (quite comfortably) the weakest squad we've encountered in 16 months at this level.

He doesn't deserve any further backing the way he has utterly underutilised this squad and specifically multiple players that are capable of so so much more.

I'm so disappointed. I really thought Rowett was going turn us into Millwall. I still felt he might even a few weeks ago. I thought he had him in it.

But he's so far off getting anywhere near the potential out of this squad that even if were to sign Morgan Whittaker, Brandon Thomas-Asante and Victor Torp in January I wouldn't have any faith in Gary Rowett getting what he should out of them.

Hands up - I think I may have misjudged him.

He's actually not a very good manager.

I think Ed Waldron is on very thin ice. Needs the window of his career in January.

 

[OUFC1978]

Roy Keane and Martin O’Neill!!

 

[90syeIlow]

I think Ed Waldron is on very thin ice. Needs the window of his career in January.

Given the budget that was cut, what more could he have done in the Summer?

 

[dickwalton1964]

I'd break the bank to bring Michael Carrick in and back him with every penny we can possibly squeeze out of the budget.

I think Carrick still harbours big managerial aspirations and I’m just not sure this current Oxford project could tempt him. I think he will go back in eventually somewhere top half in the Championship and reboot his managerial career - similar to Lampard and at a similar sized club.

 

[SSO]

Fair comments on adapting to change in circumstances.

However I think it’s also worth noting that Rowett was ‘head hunted’, I doubt very much he was desperate to get back into management, applying for lots of jobs, and prepared to take anything to get back on the treadmill. I’ve no doubt he was singled out, targeted, approached and given assurances. I suspect it’s highly likely he took the job partly or mainly based on those promises.

Reflects badly on those who reneged on those assurances, who even went further and doubled down at a public fans forum by denying any change to the playing budget.

There’s no way Rowett would’ve approved a huge part of our squad building budget on a right back if he thought there wouldn’t then be other funds available to bolster other areas in particular the midfield. Absolutely no way.

Rowett isn’t perfect, far from it, , but he’s the fall guy for those above him who have been less than straight and deliberately so..I’m not surprised he’s a bit pissed off.

Please go back 3 weeks and look at that team he picked at Norwich. He has been trying to get sacked for some time now. The last few weeks he has sabotaged any hope we had of staying up.

 

[SSO]

I think Carrick still harbours big managerial aspirations and I’m just not sure this current Oxford project could tempt him. I think he will go back in eventually somewhere top half in the Championship and reboot his managerial career - similar to Lampard and at a similar sized club.

Yep the WBA job will be up for grabs soon because Ryan Mason hasn’t got a clue. You have to have a certain type of manager who will come to us. Same with the suggestion of John Terry. Sounds good but he would want to be aiming higher. Wouldn’t take Pearson. Last managed 2 years ago. Ainsworth? Please God no. He almost took QPR down.

Best option is Colin until the end of the season and then take the Lincoln manager on next season when their promotion bid fails this season.

We almost need to write this season off now and move Rowett out before any more damage is done. I am missing Boxing Day and to be honest if he is still there for Swansea I might do my best to miss that one too.

I think the fans have had enough and I am almost expecting a 11am announcement Sunday morning to confirm it. Two home games coming up. If we want a chance of a new manager bounce this could be our best chance of getting it.

As for the fans getting at GR I can fully understand it. They pay money to follow us away and you can’t keep serving up a serving of crap and get away with it. I notice how a lot of people who have come on here to slag these fans off are also amongst the missing voters in the updated GR poll. Come on nail your colours to the mast and get on board before he drags us all down with him.

 

[OxfordBoy]

Id rather get a project manager in and accept that relegation is likely in all honesty, rather than go for another Rowett type who won’t be the person to try and rebuild if we do go down

 

[RgYellows]

Id rather get a project manager in and accept that relegation is likely in all honesty, rather than go for another Rowett type who won’t be the person to try and rebuild if we do go down

That is a ridiculous attitude to have to Championship status that took us 25 years to earn back.

We are two points and one place off safety in December.

We need to be made of stronger stuff.

 

[EastStandKieran]

I wouldn't mind John Terry someone like him would get respect from the players he's had a very successful playing career with lots of top managers. He's desperate to get into management so I think he would have fire in his belly to actually achieve something

Obviously it could be a complete disaster or it could be a real game changer for us

Either way Rowett pack your bags old boy and get out

 

[Jster]

The trouble with John Terry is he'd insist on wearing his full Chelsea kit at all times, which could be confusing to the players.

 

[Billyox]

Would anyone take Steven Gerrard

 

[OohJonnyLager]

I wouldn't even mind him to be honest as long as he's sorted his personal issues and is more professional this time around.

When things were good under KR the football was outstanding.

Wow. This forum is a comedic platform yes?

 

[samstudd]

We need a manager who can motivate the players, have a connection with the fans and one who picks his best team every week and keeps it consistent. That can’t be too much to ask surely.

I like the Gerrard shout, would certainly command respect. Thorup is my pick of the bunch.

 

[NorthernExile]

Skubala is the sort of manager you'd be confident would make us competitive in League One if we did drop, but we'd have to pay compensation, so little chance of that in my opinion.

Not sure Carrick would touch us without the promise of backing and that's not coming.

Concerning times ahead. Whoever it is, let's hope he or she can galvanise us. As others have alluded too, our problems extend far beyond Rowett. We now have in place some of the more arrogant minds you are likely to find in football among our senior leadership, which has been detrimental to the culture of the club and has immediately impacted the players in several cases.

 

[Osei Yaw]

If we want a motivator then John Sitton is available.

 

[Morris Oxford]

Please go back 3 weeks and look at that team he picked at Norwich. He has been trying to get sacked for some time now. The last few weeks he has sabotaged any hope we had of staying up.

If he was really trying to lose that match and get himself sacked then he failed on both counts.

Clearly Rowett’s made mistakes and is pissed off with the stupid ill fated Indonesian tour, and the poor unbalanced recruitment, (Vaulks as the only cover for BDK and Brannigan was extremely foolish) but I don’t believe he’s deliberately trying to lose matches by picking Harris instead of Lankshear and get himself sacked, that’s the stuff of conspiracy theorists.

Rowett has said that he’s had no dialogue with the club about January budgets, if true then his back me or sack me please is understandable. But we all know it’s a results business, and to that end plus his challenge to the board, well it’s only going to end one way.


As for conspiracy theories, it’s easy to start them, here’s one for you:

Thohir has been texting Rowett on a regular basis demanding that Romeny is in the starting XI.

What at happened to the last manager who got fed up and stopped answering text messages?

 

[OxfordBoy]

That is a ridiculous attitude to have to Championship status that took us 25 years to earn back.

We are two points and one place off safety in December.

We need to be made of stronger stuff.

so get someone in to come in and be a firefighter for 5 months, then restart this whole process again?

When does it end? It’ll be 5 permanent managers in under 3 years assuming Rowett is toast, and to replace him with another stop gap ‘survival at all costs, we’ll worry about tomorrow, tomorrow’ appointments who likely won’t be here for long either?

Not for me, I’d love to stay up but I’d also like to feel like the club actually has a plan beyond the next 6 months

 

[RgYellows]

so get someone in to come in and be a firefighter for 5 months, then restart this whole process again?

When does it end? It’ll be 5 permanent managers in under 3 years assuming Rowett is toast, and to replace him with another stop gap ‘survival at all costs, we’ll worry about tomorrow, tomorrow’ appointments who likely won’t be here for long either?

Not for me, I’d love to stay up but I’d also like to feel like the club actually has a plan beyond the next 6 months

I agree with the comment about a lack of a plan and made a pretty extensive post saying as much yesterday. There is no long term strategy regardless of whether we keep Rowett or not. Things are going wrong at the top, but realistically there is absolutely no pressure on them while we sit around accepting relegation because we are little Oxford United and we can’t do any better.

Gary Rowett is selling that story now because he’s preparing for a stint in the Sky studio. It’s clearly filtering through to the players, who are a more talented bunch achieving less than the group last year because they’re playing within themselves. It’s also filtering through to the stands, where fans are honestly trying to tell me that we are lucky to be served up a performance like yesterday because no one could possibly do a better job.


You are incredibly blasè about our chances of getting back into this division. The last time we were relegated from the Championship, we shipped five in a league game at Histon before we got back here. We lost our home and we nearly lost our club. I can accept us going down fighting, surrendering without a whimper is embarrassing.

 

[greatunclekip]

so get someone in to come in and be a firefighter for 5 months, then restart this whole process again?

When does it end? It’ll be 5 permanent managers in under 3 years assuming Rowett is toast, and to replace him with another stop gap ‘survival at all costs, we’ll worry about tomorrow, tomorrow’ appointments who likely won’t be here for long either?

Not for me, I’d love to stay up but I’d also like to feel like the club actually has a plan beyond the next 6 months

Given they haven’t discussed any January plans with, erm, the head coach, and January is *checks watch* 2 weeks away, I’d suggest even a 1 month plan is fanciful.

We are an absolute rudderless mess.

 

[SirAndyOfCrosby]

David Wagner
Michael Duff
Graham Alexander

The latter two are massively beneath us now.

But Wagner is a very obvious option. As he was this time last year. What he achieved at Huddersfield was truly exceptional. And he was sacked for having Norwich (who we now know as strugglers) in the play-offs.

Fantastic record of overachieving. Would be a coup.

But a more impressive coup (and what we should really judge our senior management on) is finding the next Wagner.

Our Wagner...

 

[Jster]

I like the Wagner shout. The first vaguely realistic name that actually sounds like a good idea. (The likes of Thorup is uninspiring in the extreme.)

 

[Ox4Eva]

Whether there's a managerial change or not, we are in the sh*t, the other issue is the recruitment of better quality signings as the January transfer window is normally difficult.
And do the board chuck money at it, we sign players on big money and long term contracts and still go down, then what

Nobody has a magic wand, but we need to put a winning run together, I am a great believer in momentum and I just can't see how we can get some back to back wins just now.

Up the U's!

 

[dickwalton1964]

I like the Wagner shout. The first vaguely realistic name that actually sounds like a good idea. (The likes of Thorup is uninspiring in the extreme.)

I still think Rowett can dig us out of it but if he were to go I agree re Wagner. I think he’s got a role at Leipzig currently but he’d be gettable for a Championship managerial job. Plays a good front foot brand of football - hence why he’s involved with Leipzig. As you say, probably the first realistic option mentioned that genuinely excites.

 

[Orkney Islands Yellow]

Given the budget that was cut, what more could he have done in the Summer?

Identified better players within the budget and listen to what the manager, an experienced football man, is telling you what they need.