Who should replace Dickov?

[Jonathan]

The level of negativity is soul destroying. If we're not moaning about what happened last night, we're moaning about what happened last week, month, year, sometimes what happened 5 years ago. And if we're not criticising what's gone before, we're finding fault with what's going to happen, what might happen or could happen. Of course I don't expect people to be happy with everything, it just feels like there's barely any positivity about anything sometimes. We've just beaten one of our local rivals, we're still in the third tier with reason to look up, and we're meant to be heading towards a new era that we can't seem to stop complaining about before it's even begun!

As for these godforsaken win ratios. There are so many other factors to take into account. Budgets, cultures, resources, opposition. They're indicative of some qualities but by no means definitive, and I'm sick to death of them!

[dickos1]

Looking forward to our new high calibre manager. The Board's word not mine.

Said as if you're just desperate to be disappointed by it. A strange approach, really.

Disagree, I have said either on this thread or elsewhere that I do believe the Board when they say they are seeking a high calibre new manager. I have also said it could be someone who none of us had either named or considered for the manager's post.

Regarding match stats, how can a manager be judged if his on field performance isn't taken into consideration, it was the reason why Dickov lost his job, and will be a key reason for the next appointment.

Judged on on field performances isn't the same as judged on match stats, I couldn't care less how many corners we have or shots in target, or how much possession we have, it's irrelevant if you're winning.
As for the moaning yorkie, you can't have been on this forum when we won the league , the moaning was just as bad that season as it is now

[RoversAlias]

As for these godforsaken win ratios. There are so many other factors to take into account. Budgets, cultures, resources, opposition. They're indicative of some qualities but by no means definitive, and I'm sick to death of them!

I have nothing to say on the rest of the discussion about negativity and all that, but I must say this is SO true. I've rolled my eyes every time I've seen someone either play up or deride a managerial candidate by pointing out their 'win ratio'. It is so irrelevant...someone who managed a team to a top 6 finish three years running but never got promoted will have a good win ratio, but maybe from that job is not well regarded. Likewise, somebody managing a low budget relegation battler will have a crap win ratio even if he did really well and kept them up three seasons running against the odds. Such percentages count for very little in real terms.

[Sammy Chung was King]

Has anybody mentioned Paul Ince, Not particularly the manager who i would go for, But without a job at the minute. ''The Best Coach in the World'', is also available John Carver!.

[les@donr]

Has anybody mentioned Paul Ince, Not particularly the manager who i would go for, But without a job at the minute. ''The Best Coach in the World'', is also available John Carver!.

Sammy, maybe there is a reason why Paul Ince isn't in a job.

[les@donr]

Danny Wilson only needs to manage us and Rotherham to have a full house of managing SY teams.

[LincsRover]

Has anybody mentioned Paul Ince, Not particularly the manager who i would go for, But without a job at the minute. ''The Best Coach in the World'', is also available John Carver!.

I wouldn't mind carver - thought he did ok at Newcastle keeping them up and look at them now under the ex-England manager, but Ince? I would put him alongside Lee Clark as a f*ck*ng useless liability with an ego far bigger than his talent and unemployable as s manager!

[les@donr]

No to Ince, No to Clark, Yes to a manager with proven experience who turn around our sinking ship.

[dickos1]

If you're only looking for experience then Ince and Clark fit the bill

[RoversAlias]

Has anybody mentioned Paul Ince, Not particularly the manager who i would go for, But without a job at the minute. ''The Best Coach in the World'', is also available John Carver!.

I wouldn't mind carver - thought he did ok at Newcastle keeping them up and look at them now under the ex-England manager, but Ince? I would put him alongside Lee Clark as a f*ck*ng useless liability with an ego far bigger than his talent and unemployable as s manager!

Did well to keep them up? Carver was deluded and his record as Newcastle manager is woeful. He didn't do well to keep them up at all, in fact it was quite an achievement to come as close to getting relegated as they did.

Ince is tosh as well, has he ever truly succeeded in a managerial position? It only ever seemed to click for him at League 2 level, anything above that and it didn't go well at all.

[les@donr]

I wonder if the manager appointment is taking so long because our first choice said No, and maybe the second choice did so as well. We might be looking for not a high calibre manager, but one that will do for now.

[les@donr]

bump

[les@donr]

It won't be Redfearn, now the Millers manager.

[Al4475]

Mentioned on another thread but the more I think about it the more it becomes possible! Maybe we have shortlisted a couple or three guys who have applied but due to commitments with clubs (am assuming here they are not out of work) could only do interviews in this current international break!

[bedale rover]

Mentioned on another thread but the more I think about it the more it becomed possible! Maybe we have shortlisted a couple or three guys who have applied but due to commitments with clubs (am assuming here they are not out of work) could only do interviews in this current international break!

I think they have their man (men) but are crossing the t's
And dotting the  i's
Otherwise why announce that they will be in situ by next week?

[les@donr]

Or a short list of 2 or 3 names to be re-interviewed this coming week.

[IDM]

[steve@dcfd]

Will the big weight be worth waiting for?

[les@donr]

Slim down version of our new manager perhaps? Steve Evans has been quoted in the Star, that he is ready for his new challenge, could it be Rovers?

[Gary Megson]

[RedJ]

That is truly disturbing.

[grayx]

If you're only looking for experience then Ince and Clark fit the bill

Experience of being losers? No thanks.

[dickos1]

Both have had success and failure, same as every manager going

[Jonathan]

Both have had success and failure, same as every manager going

This is true. The only manager we could ever appoint that hasn't had a spell judged as 'failure' will be a manager that's not yet had a job.

[Colin C No.3]

This thread is dripping with banality.

[Copps is Magic]

What happened to Nigel Clough?

[les@donr]

What happened to Nigel Clough?

The only success he has had is at Burton. Another Daddy's aka Ferguson jr.

[les@donr]

Danny Wilson only needs to manage us and Rotherham to have a full house of managing SY teams.

I wrote this in jest. But looks as if my comments might have more truth about them. We shall see tomorrow.

[Sammy Chung was King]

Wilson had a sky high opinion of him as a manager when he got Barnsley to the premier league. But apart from the odd exception every club he has gone to since, his reputation has got lower and lower.
If we got him, we would be getting 'Yesterday's man'!. Steve Round another one not considered, but he is said to be joining Allardyce at Sunderland.

[les@donr]

Didn't do much at either of the Sheff clubs.