Well I’ve slept on it….

[Cramby10]

I'm mulling over whether to give them one last chance to show us something different on Saturday or just stay away and do something more enjoyable.

Last night was utterly disgraceful. Starting with five at the back and one up top at home to a team just outside the relegation zone hardly fulfils the mantra of playing attractive, attacking football that is allegedly at the core of our strategy. I feel sorry for whoever is hung out to dry ploughing a lone furrow up front. It's no coincidence that our strikers haven't scored a single goal in months!

My son showed me an interesting stat today regarding Dany Schofield. Of the 35 games that he has been a head coach at Hudds & us his out and out strikers (not incl wingers, no 10s) have scored only 2 goals of the total goals scored. George Miller has got 1 of those. That is an incredibly poor outcome and proves to me that he does not know how to set a team up to create chances for strikers. He talks about processes all the time yet there is rarely any positive outcomes from those processes. A process without a positive outcome is not worth continuing Danny

whilst the point is valid about his woeful attacking football that’s not strictly true. I believe Miller has 3 under him, scored in only 2 games. And I think Jordan Rhodes got a few at udders.
I looked it up when I saw the tweet I believe you may have seen.

[Usher down the wing.]

An absolutely shocking display, what was the manager thinking with the first sub.

That's me done now and my lad too. This board, who are responsible for this need to hand the club over to the fans.

Time to walk Mr Blunt you first.

What on earth do you actually mean by that statement ‘……need to hand the club over to the fans’?

[Prez]

I'm mulling over whether to give them one last chance to show us something different on Saturday or just stay away and do something more enjoyable.

Last night was utterly disgraceful. Starting with five at the back and one up top at home to a team just outside the relegation zone hardly fulfils the mantra of playing attractive, attacking football that is allegedly at the core of our strategy. I feel sorry for whoever is hung out to dry ploughing a lone furrow up front. It's no coincidence that our strikers haven't scored a single goal in months!

My son showed me an interesting stat today regarding Dany Schofield. Of the 35 games that he has been a head coach at Hudds & us his out and out strikers (not incl wingers, no 10s) have scored only 2 goals of the total goals scored. George Miller has got 1 of those. That is an incredibly poor outcome and proves to me that he does not know how to set a team up to create chances for strikers. He talks about processes all the time yet there is rarely any positive outcomes from those processes. A process without a positive outcome is not worth continuing Danny

whilst the point is valid about his woeful attacking football that’s not strictly true. I believe Miller has 3 under him, scored in only 2 games. And I think Jordan Rhodes got a few at udders.
I looked it up when I saw the tweet I believe you may have seen.

Miller got 2 at Grimsby, but its still a shocking stat, overall.

[Bessie Red]

I'm mulling over whether to give them one last chance to show us something different on Saturday or just stay away and do something more enjoyable.

Last night was utterly disgraceful. Starting with five at the back and one up top at home to a team just outside the relegation zone hardly fulfils the mantra of playing attractive, attacking football that is allegedly at the core of our strategy. I feel sorry for whoever is hung out to dry ploughing a lone furrow up front. It's no coincidence that our strikers haven't scored a single goal in months!

My son showed me an interesting stat today regarding Dany Schofield. Of the 35 games that he has been a head coach at Hudds & us his out and out strikers (not incl wingers, no 10s) have scored only 2 goals of the total goals scored. George Miller has got 1 of those. That is an incredibly poor outcome and proves to me that he does not know how to set a team up to create chances for strikers. He talks about processes all the time yet there is rarely any positive outcomes from those processes. A process without a positive outcome is not worth continuing Danny

whilst the point is valid about his woeful attacking football that’s not strictly true. I believe Miller has 3 under him, scored in only 2 games. And I think Jordan Rhodes got a few at udders.
I looked it up when I saw the tweet I believe you may have seen.

You're correct it should have read in only 2 games out of the 35 and Miller scored twice in 1 of them.

[Cramby10]

I'm mulling over whether to give them one last chance to show us something different on Saturday or just stay away and do something more enjoyable.

Last night was utterly disgraceful. Starting with five at the back and one up top at home to a team just outside the relegation zone hardly fulfils the mantra of playing attractive, attacking football that is allegedly at the core of our strategy. I feel sorry for whoever is hung out to dry ploughing a lone furrow up front. It's no coincidence that our strikers haven't scored a single goal in months!

My son showed me an interesting stat today regarding Dany Schofield. Of the 35 games that he has been a head coach at Hudds & us his out and out strikers (not incl wingers, no 10s) have scored only 2 goals of the total goals scored. George Miller has got 1 of those. That is an incredibly poor outcome and proves to me that he does not know how to set a team up to create chances for strikers. He talks about processes all the time yet there is rarely any positive outcomes from those processes. A process without a positive outcome is not worth continuing Danny

whilst the point is valid about his woeful attacking football that’s not strictly true. I believe Miller has 3 under him, scored in only 2 games. And I think Jordan Rhodes got a few at udders.
I looked it up when I saw the tweet I believe you may have seen.

You're correct it should have read in only 2 games out of the 35 and Miller scored twice in 1 of them.

2 games out of 21 for us. Jordan Rhodes scored in a couple of games under him at udders.

[ForsolongaRover]

The “business” is serious trouble and the evidence is all over this site. It is not just the mud-slingers, but the serious fans, who have a collective experience of many years of Rovers history and what Doncaster expects of its football team.

The decision that needs to be made now seems as important for Club Doncaster as it does for DRFC. Rovers are the focal point of the whole operation which makes the performance of the Head Coach crucial.

Is he on the same wavelength as everyone else though?

He has a fashionable modern way of looking at things, finding “the positives” out of shambolic overall performances and of course the reduction of all in life to “processes”. But the fact is that there is a bigger picture with multiple components like the understanding of individuals and the uncontrollable element, the opposition. All this takes him away from what he knows and believes in.

So, if what we know of him so far is any guide, to turn things around would require a radical change of management focus involving skills which, given the impression I have of his personality, he may not possess.

It would be naive to imagine that senior management at the club would not have noticed his limitations, but only they are in a position to make a clean break.

[i_ateallthepies]

Well, he's staying for the time being otherwise he would have been sacked already after last night's performance.

[mushRTID]

He’s not going to be sacked and I’m not sure he should be (yet).

But last night has to be the bottom of the barrell it just cannot happen again.

What he does need to do very quickly is show some fight, some adaptability and a bit of respect to the supporters - as many times this season already I have listened to his interviews and felt like he’s trying to mug us off by telling us things that just haven’t happened.

To be fair last night he called it how it was but he couldn’t really do anything else.

He doesn’t seem to have much personality though and I just cannot see the players running through brick walls for him. It’s feeling already like another bad decision.

[ForsolongaRover]

Do the Shadow Board have any input into this? I cannot recall another situation since we re-entered the EFL which is in any way comparable to where we are now.