Manager Poll

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Binary choice folks

[DonnyOsmond]

This poll is about as good as Brexit. I'm "stay until we can get someone else in", which we should start the process for immediately. If we sack Butler we'll just be replacing him with another internal caretaker, which will likely bring the same results.

[drfchound]

9-0 so far.
Maybe that is a prediction for the Peterbro game.

[since-1969]

This poll is about as good as Brexit. I'm "stay until we can get someone else in", which we should start the process for immediately. If we sack Butler we'll just be replacing him with another internal caretaker, which will likely bring the same results.

Gavin Baldwin !!

[silent majority]

And replace him with who exactly?

Or hasn't your thought process extended that far?

[Jersey Rover]

He needs replacing ASAP, new manager needs time, no point hanging it out he’s done

[sha66y]

 :rtid:Not blaming Andy Butler at all.....he’s between a rock and a hard place, the team are just not good enough at the moment, we played well at the beginning, fluked a fare few wins and found ourselves in a strong position with a wonky wobbly team that was just waiting to fall over.

We have fallen over

[Retdon1]

And replace him with who exactly?

Or hasn't your thought process extended that far?

Plenty of good mangers out there both IN and OUT of work... how about showing some initiative and ambition and go approach some of them

[normal rules]

Butler should not leave the club having been sacked. He was given a poison chalice from the off.

[ian1980]

And replace him with who exactly?

Or hasn't your thought process extended that far?

Plenty of good mangers out there both IN and OUT of work... how about showing some initiative and ambition and go approach some of them

You mean like loads of other clubs do?

[ChrisBx]

And replace him with who exactly?

Or hasn't your thought process extended that far?

It's been clear for a couple of weeks that Butler won't be getting the job permanently. Ideally, we would have started the recruitment process a number of weeks ago with a view to giving the new manager as much time as possible to assess the squad and identify targets before the summer transfer window opens. Had the process started at this point, we may be nearing its conclusion and, therefore, the appointment of a permanent manager.

[Retdon1]

And replace him with who exactly?

Or hasn't your thought process extended that far?

Just a few names off top of my head
Out of work
Nicky Butt
Ritchie Wellens
Daniel Stendal
Sol Campbell
Jody Morris

In work
Ryan Lowe
Jimmy floyd hasslebank
Nigel clough
Micheal Duff

[craigdrfc]

In the given circumstances its a No from me.

Its very easy to look at the results and say ‘he has to go’ but the reality is somewhat different in my eyes. What the club need him to do is hold it together the best he can until they find/appoint the next permanent DRFC manager.

I actually feel for AB now - he cant win. He walks away and he is basically quitting which  I suspect goings completely against his character , or he stays and he is basically treading water in a very shitty situation where some of the players are not interested in our future.

[Rovers91]

And replace him with who exactly?

Or hasn't your thought process extended that far?

Couldn't the academy manager Tony Cook step up and cover until a new manager is appointed because this currently is a disaster.

[PDX_Rover]

The best thing to do would be to thank Andy for his service and that he is caretaker till the end of the season. We start interviewing next week and as soon as the right person is identified, they are announced and come in to run the rule over the squad, and start planning for next season.

Yes, it’s been downwards since Whiteman left - Although perhaps he’s thinking WTF did I do right now.

Moore well and truly did a number on us and my biggest fear is him taking Anderson and James.

[silent majority]

And replace him with who exactly?

Or hasn't your thought process extended that far?

Just a few names off top of my head
Out of work
Nicky Butt
Ritchie Wellens
Daniel Stendal
Sol Campbell
Jody Morris

In work
Ryan Lowe
Jimmy floyd hasslebank
Nigel clough
Micheal Duff

The point I'm making is that it takes time to appoint, we have a process, and sacking somebody doesn't mean that somebody else can walk through the door the next day. So what will you achieve by getting rid?

If you want to sack a manager you need the replacement lined up. That's why the thought process needs to extend that far. We can all write names down, that's the easy bit, making it happen needs a bit more work.

[3b4eight]

compo from owls for Moore probably used to stem the leaky bucket that is a football club with no income.

don't blame board for giving job to someone already on payroll, probably gave him an extra grand or so, lot less than a new manager.

easy to criticise when it's not our bottomless pockets picking up the bills.
what if we had carried on to promotion through playoffs. we would have gone in to championship with a squad of nearly good enoughs, and loanees.

hopefully when crowds return next season we will be able to return to a more "normal" situation, and be carrying a lighter millstone than other clubs

[phil o sophical]

Putting aside AB's lack experience as a manager, i can't help but think he has been badly let down by the players. If they have any sort of professional pride they need to have a good look at themselves.

[since-1969]

Butler should not leave the club having been sacked. He was given a poison chalice from the off.

He should leave .. after giving the board a piece of his mind !!

[mushRTID]

And replace him with who exactly?

Or hasn't your thought process extended that far?

It’s not our job to find his replacement!

[DonnyOsmond]

And replace him with who exactly?

Or hasn't your thought process extended that far?

It’s not our job to find his replacement!

But it's the fans job to sack him?

[silent majority]

And replace him with who exactly?

Or hasn't your thought process extended that far?

It’s not our job to find his replacement!

I didn't suggest we should. But people demanding we sack the manager must have given the process some thought as to how that works. If you get rid of one manager you need to have another ready to step in, so who does the OP think should do it?

Its a sensible question.

[Canadian Rover]

Personally I think brining in an experienced manager and making Butler his #2 or player coach maybe the way forward. Let him have dignity and he can still input to the club.

[big fat yorkshire pudding]

Absolutely shouldn't just cast butler aside, he needs time to develop and he will learn from this period. I'd like to see him as part of a future set up and let him develop so that he can inevitably become a caretaker again in future perhaps?

I do agree with SM, you can't bring someone in for 4 weeks, they'll have no impact.

[Rovers91]

Personally I think brining in an experienced manager and making Butler his #2 or player coach maybe the way forward. Let him have dignity and he can still input to the club.

No chance, a new manager will want his own backroom staff and a player coach doesn't work now.

[Pliskin]

I put 'no', because the season is gone and the only purpose it would serve is to pacify an angry mob for a week.

I just hope that the people who run the club get their head out of their arses and start looking for the successor now, rather than waiting until the summer before starting off the usual 2 month long rigmarole of a process.

[the vicar]

And replace him with who exactly?

Or hasn't your thought process extended that far?

no let him do his job and sort it at the end of the season, as it will take till then to get someone in with the lengthy process we go through

[Draytonian III]

And replace him with who exactly?

Or hasn't your thought process extended that far?

Just a few names off top of my head
Out of work
Nicky Butt
Ritchie Wellens
Daniel Stendal
Sol Campbell
Jody Morris

In work
Ryan Lowe
Jimmy floyd hasslebank
Nigel clough
Micheal Duff

If Nicky Butt wanted to be a manager why doesn’t he manage Salford City.
Wellens is waiting for a bigger club ie Preston
Sol Campbell would be a step backwards for us
Daniel Stendal has tried South Yorkshire football and won’t want to try it again
Jody Morris is waiting until Frank Lampard gets another job so he can be his assistant
Ryan Lowe is manager of a bigger club than Rovers
Jimmy Floyd H is in a safe job, Burton don’t change managers very often
Nigel Clough works close to home and will be on good money at Stags
Michael Duff is the manager of the team at top of League 2, same team he used to play for.

[DonnyOsmond]

And replace him with who exactly?

Or hasn't your thought process extended that far?

Just a few names off top of my head
Out of work
Nicky Butt
Ritchie Wellens
Daniel Stendal
Sol Campbell
Jody Morris

In work
Ryan Lowe
Jimmy floyd hasslebank
Nigel clough
Micheal Duff

If Nicky Butt wanted to be a manager why doesn’t he manage Salford City.
Wellens is waiting for a bigger club ie Preston
Sol Campbell would be a step backwards for us
Daniel Stendal has tried South Yorkshire football and won’t want to try it again
Jody Morris is waiting until Frank Lampard gets another job so he can be his assistant
Ryan Lowe is manager of a bigger club than Rovers
Jimmy Floyd H is in a safe job, Burton don’t change managers very often
Nigel Clough works close to home and will be on good money at Stags
Michael Duff is the manager of the team at top of League 2, same team he used to play for.

Gary Megson it is then. Unless he's looking for a bigger club?

[Big Fey]

So 30 people would be happy for the next 15 games to go the same as the last? Jeez!!!