General Post Rowett - who next?

[Northstandboy]

 

[Bicester Yellow]

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Maybe Will Still was very close to signing his contract, but has now had his head turned by West Brom? Don’t blame him for at least exploring that option. But leaves us in a very awkward position.

Think he would be shorter than 25/1 if that was the case.

 

[Bicester Yellow]

Must've missed that. Where?

He’s now 2/5, he was 8/11, that’s happened in the last 30 minutes.

Admittedly doesn’t take much money to move the market but strange it’s happened after that comment was made.

 

[Andy Stroud]

DO ME A f*****g FAVOUR!!!

I know I've said that experience isn't the bee all and end all, but I don't want some kid taking over, who's never played the game at any professional level, and only done some poxy managerial course at college, whilst playing Football Manager at home!

Southampton were in free fall when he took over, and still sacked him two months into the season!

If he gets the job, I WILL s**t my pants, wet the bed, throw my toys out the pram, and whatever other adjective the blindly positive folk on here can think of accusing me of!

This would be f*****g bonkers!

Snowflake

 

[Bornyellow]

Russel Martin odds in to 12/1

 

[londonyellow]

Is he always right? I haven’t got a clue so curious about his previous predictions and the success rate.

He knows people who know things. When he doesn't know things, he is pretty upfront about that and usually says when he's making an educated guess. This particular comment felt very much like something he was told categorically.

 

[Eaststanding]

I really don’t know why you’re all crying over this announcement?
The club do something you’ve all been clamouring for and that’s still not good enough.
The process is obviously taking time, let it f*****g happen!

 

[BTCW]

Russel Martin odds in to 12/1

Now that would be the type of appointment that would be worth the two to three week wait.

 

[yellowbow]

The vibes Im getting is we’re not remotely close to a new appointment.

They’re basically saying it’s Craig Short until further notice

 

[Bicester Yellow]

Russel Martin odds in to 12/1

Was 33/1 start of the day. Been backed steadily all day.

 

[Chippy]

At this rate Watford will have 2 new managers before us, and they haven’t even sacked the current one yet!

 

[pidge]

Russel Martin odds in to 12/1

Please no! We do not have the squad for the football the Martin would want us to play.

 

[Followtheox1]

He has a brother who is involved?

Phil Still?

Such a shame Will isnt called Grant then.

 

[Raymond O'Leary]

Like just about everyone else on here I have no idea what is happening. To give the benefit of the doubt let me make an assumption or two.
Assume that the club had a succession plan and shortlist.
It would be a huge risk sounding anyone out in anything other than general terms before Gary's contract was terminated and an agreement in place.
Some of those candidates may no longer be available or interested in the package on offer. And some interesting hats may have been thrown into the ring.
If a preferred candidate has been identified a contract has to be agreed in principle, then in detail. That can and should be very detailed. For instance length of contract/options. We want to tie a successful manager in for a decent period to prevent another Bristol City poaching. But we want to be able to terminate if it all goes sadly wrong (how many compensation packages do you want running in parallel). If the preferred candidate has some market value then that clause in the contract alone will take some sorting.
I assume that an agent is involved, and a lawyer specialising in football employment contracts.
And there might be a current employer, or payer of compensation.
So the right person, on the best contract can take time.
I was once present at a negotiation in Italy where the head of one party said 'I have to get this contract agreed before I fly home. The Italian company were very polite, very reasonable, there to help and got every concession they wanted in the last half an hour before he had to go to the airport.
Rushed contracts are bad contracts and we don't know when this negotiation started.

 

[Bicester Yellow]

Please no! We do not have the squad for the football the Martin would want us to play.

I’d look at it as a long term appointment, hope we stay up and if not then we can do a big clear out in the summer and recruit for his style.

 

[Steve Gilbert]

Fans want update on manager, club give fans update on manager, fans complain that it isn't the update they wanted.

 

[Eaststanding]

The vibes Im getting is we’re not remotely close to a new appointment.

They’re basically saying it’s Craig Short until further notice

Or they are simply finalising an appointment…..? Maybe?

 

[Followtheox1]

I can actually see the logic in Still. He did really well with a smaller team on the continent. I sometimes think when a manager like that, unknown etc goes into a group of prem or ex prem players like he did at Southampton, right from the beginning that group can say no thanks who the hell are you.

 

[Bicester Yellow]

Fans want update on manager, club give fans update on manager, fans complain that it isn't the update they wanted.

I mean that update was a pile of s**t really.

 

[Chippy]

Fans want update on manager, club give fans update on manager, fans complain that it isn't the update they wanted.

Fair point, but it’s taken 2 weeks+ to tell us what we already know

 

[Finlandia]

It gets worse - the time this is taking given our current league situation and the reducing weeks of the transfer window, giving a new manager less time to assess the current squad is tinpot.

We are told over and over how we are run like a top thirty club; quite frankly it’s laughable.

 

[Stranger]

Nice use of the umlaut, punctuation has improved in my time away I see.

It's not an umlaut - that's the German symbol used where there used to be a letter e. This is a diaeresis, to show that it's the start of a new syllable otherwise it would be pronounced 'nave'

 

[SouthOxonOx]

Nice use of the umlaut, punctuation has improved in my time away I see.

At the risk of being a pedant it's not an umlaut in this particular case. It is a diaeresis. Looks the same but does a different job.

 

[SouthOxonOx]

It's not an umlaut - that's the German symbol used where there used to be a letter e. This is a diaeresis, to show that it's the start of a new syllable otherwise it would be pronounced 'nave'

Beat me to it....

 

[OX14]

It's Russel Martin

 

[Scotchegg]

He has a brother who is involved?

Phil Still?

Will, Phil, Gill and Clyde (for Pacman ghost fans!)

 

[Stranger]

We are told over and over how we are run like a top thirty club; quite frankly it’s laughable.

No we're not. That was always aspirational. No one has ever said we're currently run like a top 30 club and that won't happen at least until we have the new stadium. Stop making stuff up

 

[Stranger]

At the risk of being a pedant it's not an umlaut in this particular case. It is a diaeresis. Looks the same but does a different job.

You've got to be quick to out-pedant me, my friend

 

[Bicester Yellow]

It's Russel Martin

Wouldn’t surprise me, 12/1 on betvictor, make a few quid

 

[Yellows1]

It's Russel Martin

Please no

 

[Common Villager]

It's Russel Martin

...'s account?