General Post Rowett - who next?

[Northstandboy]

 

[Peterdev]

I see Will Still is now 3-1 on. Unless WBA show interest

 

[isibuko]

Of course it doesn't. None of it 'matters'. It's football.

It doesn't matter if Mark Harris starts over Will Lankshear. It doesn't matter if the Sheffield United game is postponed. It doesn't matter if we sell out our allocation at Leicester.

But why the f*ck are you on this forum if your response to every attempt to question or hold the club to account or just try and understand the process and make sense of what happens is 'does that matter'?

If you don't give a f*ck, why bother?

I do give a f**k. But every attempt to ‘question’ or ‘hold the club to account’ is coming from wild assumptions, massive leaps in logic, and a process of whipping ourselves up over essentially knowing nothing.

There are plenty of things that are documented that we can criticise the club for, but it’s a massive waste of energy to critique the club based on complete speculation.

 

[Stranger]

They aren't interested in him according to French source

Bechamel?

 

[Osleroad]

I see Ryan Mason has been sacked by West Brom. Hope that doesn’t now long this process out even more……

No thanks - could see that coming though

 

[Bicester Yellow]

They aren't interested in him according to French source

Doubt he will leave England after his Girlfriends health scare.

 

[dickwalton1964]

I see Ryan Mason has been sacked by West Brom. Hope that doesn’t now long this process out even more……

Not surprising over the course of the season but he can count himself very unlucky to lose last night - Albion were superb for much of that game and created countless chances to win comfortably. Were robbed in the 95th minute, that’s football for you I guess.

 

[Bicester Yellow]

No thanks - could see that coming though

They were unlucky last night, had multiple chances to beat Leicester.

 

[unification]

Read an article yesterday which referenced a quote attributed to Giovanni Trapattoni:

“Good coaches make a team 10% better and a bad one 50% worse”

The way in which Rowett's tactical approach and frustrations became more apparent this season, do feel like we trended downwards significantly. At this stage just having someone that can do the basics I think will help performances improve.

Ooh, we've had some who can do way 'better' than that ...

 

[Peterdev]

Has to be Gary O’Neill going to WBA

 

[NorfolkExile]

No thanks - could see that coming though

Wasn’t suggesting he’d be someone I’d want to appoint. I was more hoping it wouldn’t be a case of we have someone close who would then have their head turned by WBA and we’re back to square one again. Not sure we would even be fishing in the same managerial pond as them but footballs a funny old game

 

[londonyellow]

Has to be Gary O’Neill going to WBA

Possibly depends on whether or not he gets the Strasbourg job – he's been shortlisted apparently

 

[Followtheox1]

100 pages now this thread, hopefully they are taking their time as they being careful to make the right choice with the 100s of top level managers who have applied. I live in hope!!

 

[mariokempes]

I can see Celtic probably having thoughts of bringing Jens Berthel Askou in to the fold in the summer.

 

[holdsteady]

You’re turning a fundamentally very simple game into a chess match. English football peaked around 25-30 years ago (I don’t think many old enough will disagree with that) and has very gradually declined since then in terms of quality. We’ve gone from high intensity, free flowing, end to end football to what it very often is now - a dull, probing, strategic, sideways procession. That’s thanks, in my opinion, to a ridiculously over analytical approach that has removed all the risk and reward from the game. I’m not sure how it reverts back, perhaps when Pep leaves the English game will help.

You will never find a person that loves the period you are talking about, 95 -2000, more than me, it was mine and human civilizations peak and I would love nothing more than to go back to 1996 and be in Magaluf with the lads in the sunshine instead of freezing my nuts off, curtain haircut, wearing my YSL shirt, kickers shoes and stinking of CK One.
But, I might give you football was more entertaining back then, I would have to say the quality of football has improved due to all the money spent on it and the advancements that continual study and training brings. Its perhaps duller but excellence quite often is.
I suppose a fair point is that we don't get the excellence at our level but we have the dullness, so we suffer without the gains.

 

[Swaby39]

I can see Celtic probably having thoughts of bringing Jens Berthel Askou in to the fold in the summer.

Exactly why you get in now. Wait 6 months for him to cement the immensely impressive job he’s doing and he’ll be in a top club next season.

We have to get in while he’s still a bit of a risk, but for reasons none of us can understand we’re limiting ourselves to a far riskier pool of options instead.

 

[Bicester Yellow]

Exactly why you get in now. Wait 6 months for him to cement the immensely impressive job he’s doing and he’ll be in a top club next season.

We have to get in while he’s still a bit of a risk, but for reasons none of us can understand we’re limiting ourselves to a far riskier pool of options instead.

Bargain is what we are targeting if we get either Sheehan or Bloomfield

 

[holdsteady]

Won't all of these managers be on the same wage? So they can't be bargain bucket.

 

[TheDukeOfBanburyshire]

You’re turning a fundamentally very simple game into a chess match. English football peaked around 25-30 years ago (I don’t think many old enough will disagree with that) and has very gradually declined since then in terms of quality. We’ve gone from high intensity, free flowing, end to end football to what it very often is now - a dull, probing, strategic, sideways procession. That’s thanks, in my opinion, to a ridiculously over analytical approach that has removed all the risk and reward from the game. I’m not sure how it reverts back, perhaps when Pep leaves the English game will help.

Wow, that is one wild take on the current state of top flight football. I'm old enough to remember the product from 25-30 years ago. It may have peaked from an entertainment perspective, but technically it was absolutely nothing compared to its current day equivalent. I love the way football has progressed and the 'marginal gains' element to it. It still retains the emotional elements that make it the greatest game in the world.

 

[Stranger]

Exactly why you get in now. Wait 6 months for him to cement the immensely impressive job he’s doing and he’ll be in a top club next season.

We have to get in while he’s still a bit of a risk, but for reasons none of us can understand we’re limiting ourselves to a far riskier pool of options instead.

Maybe because you can't just click your fingers and the person you want will magically appear with no other considerations to be taken into account?

 

[AssHead]

Will Still now big odds-on favourite to seal Championship return after Southampton sack

Former Southampton manager Will Still is the odds-on favourite to become Oxford United's new boss as they continue their search for Gary Rowett's permanent successor.

www.footballinsider247.com

 

[Bigdwoolly]

Exactly why you get in now. Wait 6 months for him to cement the immensely impressive job he’s doing and he’ll be in a top club next season.

We have to get in while he’s still a bit of a risk, but for reasons none of us can understand we’re limiting ourselves to a far riskier pool of options instead.

There is no way Jens Berthel Askou would come to us at the moment. I live near Motherwell and everyone has noticed he's doing a good job, it would make no sense for him to join a club that at best has a 50/50 chance of being League One next season when he could be looking at an Old Firm job, or alternatively a top end Championship club later in the season.

 

[Osleroad]

Wasn’t suggesting he’d be someone I’d want to appoint. I was more hoping it wouldn’t be a case of we have someone close who would then have their head turned by WBA and we’re back to square one again. Not sure we would even be fishing in the same managerial pond as them but footballs a funny old game

Yes of course - just wanted to plant a red flag

 

[WuTang]

West Brom have just sacked Ryan Mason. So another Championship club on the hunt for a new manager at the same time as us.

 

[Bicester Yellow]

Will Still now big odds-on favourite to seal Championship return after Southampton sack

Former Southampton manager Will Still is the odds-on favourite to become Oxford United's new boss as they continue their search for Gary Rowett's permanent successor.

www.footballinsider247.com

Bit of a nothing article that, not saying it’s not true as I’d like him to be appointed but that’s not quoting any sources except odds

 

[holdsteady]

West Brom have just sacked Ryan Mason. So another Championship club on the hunt for a new manager at the same time as us.

Is always a risk if you drag your heels I suppose.

 

[Belgium Yellow]

Has to be Gary O’Neill going to WBA

Carrick will go to West Brom, O’Neil eventually to Birmingham.

 

[WuTang]

Is always a risk if you drag your heels I suppose.

I expect them to be fishing in different waters to us, but you never know. That doesn't stop managers we want applying for the other job and waiting for that instead.

 

[holdsteady]

I expect them to be fishing in different waters to us, but you never know. That doesn't stop managers we want applying for the other job and waiting for that instead.

You would think they would want to go a different route than a Mason type appointment so that should mean they avoid the ones we are looking at. They don't look like going down or up either so no real hurry, could see them looking abroad.

 

[JerryL]

Really upset that this forum hasn’t been approached to be the manager, for the greater good

 

[Swaby39]

Maybe because you can't just click your fingers and the person you want will magically appear with no other considerations to be taken into account?

I don’t really see how that’s an argument against what I said.

I get that it isn’t a linear thing, but we didn’t sack Rowett this morning. My hope is that what’s causing the stall is that we aren’t prepared to settle and shackle ourselves to an inadequate manager yet and think someone a bit more ambitious is interested.