Grant mccann...

[ForsolongaRover]

His post match interview was frank and you could say that if you wanted a rationale to terminate his employment, you simply needed to quote it back at him.

He identified shortcomings in so many aspects of the team’s performance yesterday, some of them somewhat intangible, that you might ask “Where does he start?”

The fact that he did not offer any immediate solution was sensible on a rational level, but it will be a question to which TB and GB will be needing an answer and he will be expected to set out solutions. There are posters on here that retain faith in his ability, and the integrity that comes across when he is interviewed makes such faith justifiable, but if you were the senior management team you might ask yourself whether there is tangible evidence to extend the trust.

I’m glad I don’t have to make that decision.

[RoversInSpain]

I have total faith in GM. It’s not long ago we were struggling in Lg2, as GM tried to get the balance right. The board trusted him, we got a very lucky draw at Sutton, and then had a remarkable run aided by a January loan or two. We now find ourselves in a similar situation but a league higher. GM will fathom it out and we will build a good team over the next 2/3 years to attack a promotion to a place in the championship. Patience folks! Got to support the boys now.

[Donnyjim]

I have total faith in GM. It’s not long ago we were struggling in Lg2, as GM tried to get the balance right. The board trusted him, we got a very lucky draw at Sutton, and then had a remarkable run aided by a January loan or two. We now find ourselves in a similar situation but a league higher. GM will fathom it out and we will build a good team over the next 2/3 years to attack a promotion to a place in the championship. Patience folks! Got to support the boys now.

We need that guy to phone Radio Dee Dar again and say that he's off to the Sal for a pint. :-D

[Reg of the Rovers]

I have total faith in GM. It’s not long ago we were struggling in Lg2, as GM tried to get the balance right. The board trusted him, we got a very lucky draw at Sutton, and then had a remarkable run aided by a January loan or two. We now find ourselves in a similar situation but a league higher. GM will fathom it out and we will build a good team over the next 2/3 years to attack a promotion to a place in the championship. Patience folks! Got to support the boys now.

We need that guy to phone Radio Dee Dar again and say that he's off to the Sal for a pint. :-D

https://fanbanter.co.uk/phone-call-from-doncaster-fan-has-listeners-in-stitches-and-bbc-sheffield-presenter-baffled/#

It's still one of the greatest things I've ever heard. Have we ever identified Paul the genius / mad-man behind the call?

[drfcsteve]

The budget debate on here is interesting given as far as I’m aware it isn’t something that Grant has blamed for our position in the league.

We know the club have said we have a mid-table budget and we know Grant said he was happy with what he was given. Seems a bit odd to try and turn the narrative around now and say we have a second from bottom budget and that’s why we are where we are.

[Ryaldinhio]

The budget debate on here is interesting given as far as I’m aware it isn’t something that Grant has blamed for our position in the league.

We know the club have said we have a mid-table budget and we know Grant said he was happy with what he was given. Seems a bit odd to try and turn the narrative around now and say we have a second from bottom budget and that’s why we are where we are.

If the club dont know other teams figures they cant possibly know if it is mid table budget or not. The same as we cant.

Im basing my assumption on the business done and we are down toward the bottom end IMO.

And if GM wasn't happy about budget, is he guna come out and say it? Really? That's the type of stuff that comes out afterwards as it did post schofield......when we were told top end budget then revealed mid L2 at best.

[Canadian Rover]

It’s easy, as football fans, to focus on numbers and form. Results, tables, trends. What we often forget are the people behind them the families, the friendships, and the personal battles that never make the match report.

For the first time in a long while, we’re on a difficult run. With that, a small but growing number of voices are calling for Grant to be sacked. That’s worth pausing on.
Only a few short months ago, this same man led us to promotion as Champions!

This year, he has also lost his beloved mother, and it’s clear his family has been under immense strain. Through all of that, he has shown nothing but commitment, care, and integrity towards the Rovers and the wider community.

He has raised funds through sheer effort, to help  fight prostate Cancer.

In doing this he's helped people around him including staff and supporters become fitter and more together, and worked closely with the owners to improve the gym and facilities for the long-term benefit of the club.

That is leadership. That is investment. That is belief beyond ninety minutes.

So this Christmas, and as we head into the New Year, let’s make sure Grant feels the support he has not only earned, but genuinely deserves.

I’m sure he’d appreciate it.

[Sammy Chung was King]

Grant has for the most part done a fantastic job, we have hit a run of form that has tarnished that slightly, but I can’t think of anybody better to be our manager. Yes we are second bottom but I don’t see that as a reflection of where we will finish. I see us signing a few players in January and shooting up the table. There is no way the side we have is league two quality, we are more than good enough to be in this league. We need additions to what we have, there are a few weak links that need blocking.

[scawsby steve]

It’s easy, as football fans, to focus on numbers and form. Results, tables, trends. What we often forget are the people behind them the families, the friendships, and the personal battles that never make the match report.

For the first time in a long while, we’re on a difficult run. With that, a small but growing number of voices are calling for Grant to be sacked. That’s worth pausing on.
Only a few short months ago, this same man led us to promotion as Champions!

This year, he has also lost his beloved mother, and it’s clear his family has been under immense strain. Through all of that, he has shown nothing but commitment, care, and integrity towards the Rovers and the wider community.

He has raised funds through sheer effort, to help  fight prostate Cancer.

In doing this he's helped people around him including staff and supporters become fitter and more together, and worked closely with the owners to improve the gym and facilities for the long-term benefit of the club.

That is leadership. That is investment. That is belief beyond ninety minutes.

So this Christmas, and as we head into the New Year, let’s make sure Grant feels the support he has not only earned, but genuinely deserves.

I’m sure he’d appreciate it.

A very well written and heartfelt post, CR, and I agree with the core of what you are saying.

Football can be very cruel, as life itself can. Let's hope that Grant can pull it round, for his sake, and all our sakes, because if he doesn't, the inevitable will happen, and I don't think any of us want that.

[mpc123]

Its its real life. Just support them all, its the right thing to do. Personally I think there are only tweaks to make like previous years.

Grant derserves it, he loves the club you can tel and wants to do the best by the fans, who quickly turn on him.

Its as sad as life is nowadays.

Keep supporting the players, keep supporting Grant, we have our own job as supporters to do and we are failing, many need to look in the mirror.

[roversdude]

It’s easy, as football fans, to focus on numbers and form. Results, tables, trends. What we often forget are the people behind them the families, the friendships, and the personal battles that never make the match report.

For the first time in a long while, we’re on a difficult run. With that, a small but growing number of voices are calling for Grant to be sacked. That’s worth pausing on.
Only a few short months ago, this same man led us to promotion as Champions!

This year, he has also lost his beloved mother, and it’s clear his family has been under immense strain. Through all of that, he has shown nothing but commitment, care, and integrity towards the Rovers and the wider community.

He has raised funds through sheer effort, to help  fight prostate Cancer.

In doing this he's helped people around him including staff and supporters become fitter and more together, and worked closely with the owners to improve the gym and facilities for the long-term benefit of the club.

That is leadership. That is investment. That is belief beyond ninety minutes.

So this Christmas, and as we head into the New Year, let’s make sure Grant feels the support he has not only earned, but genuinely deserves.

I’m sure he’d appreciate it.

Absolutely brilliant post CR, unfortunately we have (as do other clubs) very fickle fans
I still believe that we will have a decent season

[ncRover]

It’s easy, as football fans, to focus on numbers and form. Results, tables, trends. What we often forget are the people behind them the families, the friendships, and the personal battles that never make the match report.

For the first time in a long while, we’re on a difficult run. With that, a small but growing number of voices are calling for Grant to be sacked. That’s worth pausing on.
Only a few short months ago, this same man led us to promotion as Champions!

This year, he has also lost his beloved mother, and it’s clear his family has been under immense strain. Through all of that, he has shown nothing but commitment, care, and integrity towards the Rovers and the wider community.

He has raised funds through sheer effort, to help  fight prostate Cancer.

In doing this he's helped people around him including staff and supporters become fitter and more together, and worked closely with the owners to improve the gym and facilities for the long-term benefit of the club.

That is leadership. That is investment. That is belief beyond ninety minutes.

So this Christmas, and as we head into the New Year, let’s make sure Grant feels the support he has not only earned, but genuinely deserves.

I’m sure he’d appreciate it.

Absolutely brilliant post CR, unfortunately we have (as do other clubs) very fickle fans
I still believe that we will have a decent season

This isn’t me saying he should go, but our fans have been incredibly supportive to the manager during his time here! In that respect we have far less fickle fans than most clubs.

Most fanbases of other clubs would have been in meltdown long before the form got as bad as 1 win in 14. Most others would have wanted him sacked in the first half of the 23/24 season. Our fans didn’t.

[Fal]

It’s easy, as football fans, to focus on numbers and form. Results, tables, trends. What we often forget are the people behind them the families, the friendships, and the personal battles that never make the match report.

For the first time in a long while, we’re on a difficult run. With that, a small but growing number of voices are calling for Grant to be sacked. That’s worth pausing on.
Only a few short months ago, this same man led us to promotion as Champions!

This year, he has also lost his beloved mother, and it’s clear his family has been under immense strain. Through all of that, he has shown nothing but commitment, care, and integrity towards the Rovers and the wider community.

He has raised funds through sheer effort, to help  fight prostate Cancer.

In doing this he's helped people around him including staff and supporters become fitter and more together, and worked closely with the owners to improve the gym and facilities for the long-term benefit of the club.

That is leadership. That is investment. That is belief beyond ninety minutes.

So this Christmas, and as we head into the New Year, let’s make sure Grant feels the support he has not only earned, but genuinely deserves.

I’m sure he’d appreciate it.

Yes this is why im basically against the McCann out brigade, even if we went down he would be the best person to get us back up and would've learned a lot about this season. However, i still believe we will stay up this year and finish in the bottom half.

[NormAl]

It’s easy, as football fans, to focus on numbers and form. Results, tables, trends. What we often forget are the people behind them the families, the friendships, and the personal battles that never make the match report.

For the first time in a long while, we’re on a difficult run. With that, a small but growing number of voices are calling for Grant to be sacked. That’s worth pausing on.
Only a few short months ago, this same man led us to promotion as Champions!

This year, he has also lost his beloved mother, and it’s clear his family has been under immense strain. Through all of that, he has shown nothing but commitment, care, and integrity towards the Rovers and the wider community.

He has raised funds through sheer effort, to help  fight prostate Cancer.

In doing this he's helped people around him including staff and supporters become fitter and more together, and worked closely with the owners to improve the gym and facilities for the long-term benefit of the club.

That is leadership. That is investment. That is belief beyond ninety minutes.

So this Christmas, and as we head into the New Year, let’s make sure Grant feels the support he has not only earned, but genuinely deserves.

I’m sure he’d appreciate it.

Very well said.

[Usher wide.]

More of a ‘Squad’ than a ‘Brigade’ despite what some posters (Bob…forget the letter) would have you believe.

He’ll be here next season & the season after that as he leads us to the Championship.

[Padge_DRFC]

He's the one. Short memories of 2 seasons ago. Even in his first spell we had a really horrid period under him. Always turns it around. Recruitment needs to be better in summers.

[drfchound]

He's the one. Short memories of 2 seasons ago. Even in his first spell we had a really horrid period under him. Always turns it around. Recruitment needs to be better in summers.

If we ever have a good first half to a season again we will have clinched promotion by the middle of March.

[Lesonthewest]

I'm just happy listening to his interview he's up for the fight & has the determination to turn us into a Championship side. He's very honest & says in so many words we were an absolute car crash when he took over. He's done really well turning our club around, obviously making mistakes along the way. He must not lose the fact that the frustrations are from true supporters who back him, while those murmurings from others are in the minority of our fan base in my opinion. I still back him 110%.

[DollyRover]

Feel like i should comment again after starting this thread after witnessing one of the most abject performances i've ever seen. I love grant mccann for all hes done for the club but i do feel that the board need to have a plan b should the next few results not go our way. I would love it to work out and grant turn things around, i would buy the fanciest hat i can find (in the sales of course) and eat it for his pleasure. My concern is the always needing january to fix mistakes in the squad is not a sustainable model and grant needs a top end of the table team to compete. With a top end squad we know he consistently delivers but if we don't have a top end of league one squad, which i feel will cost far too much for us to achieve in january (just my opinion) and a relegation dogfight in the second half of the season is uncharted territory and so far the evidence is not there that he can make a rovers team competitive at the bottom end of the league.
Anyway, couldn't get there today but will be listening in with hopeless optimism. RTID

[In the box]

Too much attention has been given to none squad effects is PA system , Food Hall , New Training facilities . All very much required sorting but has the budget for players had to take a hit to balance the books , lets face facts we have gone into the last three January windows desperately need a strikers , defenders and a goal keeper . Getty g promotion has not meant a thing to the club as pushing on or consolidating has not shown its face ( Budget iffy?) . Grant Is the manager we needed ( so they say) yet he’s the common denominator throughout !! IRMC .

[In the box]

We are in a state of free fall because we don’t see what other  teams had to play with and taking  into L2 aside nowhere near competitive .This season has just not been thought-out with anything like promotion in mind ..

[Chris Black come back]

Some positives today but we only improved after the set up and personnel was changed from that curious selection that McCann started with. Interested to hear why he did that. We were not good in the first half.

[roversdaft]

We are so predictable, nothing changes week in week out. McCann to go for me. I’m sick of it

[Chris Black come back]

I think if you want to offer some constructive criticism to McCann it would be to stick with what he knows. Almost all of his tactical changes never work out, likewise his personnel shifts. He's got one set up. Try and make that work better rather than fiddling and messing around every game.

[TonySoprano]

Anyone wanting mcann gone needs to give their heads a wobble.

We've just played 2 other relegation threatened teams, and lost them both.

BUT, look at their summer recruitment, then look at ours.

Mcann has got his hands tied.

[GazLaz]

I think if you want to offer some constructive criticism to McCann it would be to stick with what he knows. Almost all of his tactical changes never work out, likewise his personnel shifts. He's got one set up. Try and make that work better rather than fiddling and messing around every game.

I said the same earlier. Shoehorning Mols and Sterry in to that formation was just wrong toddy and he rectified it at HT. another tactical mistake killing a half of football.

[andyst79]

How's he got his hands tied?! We've fielded a team today that's worse than we fielded this time last year but we're in a division higher. Yes admittedly he may not have the resources of other clubs but he knew full well what he was walking into and he has to front the blame as his recruitment has been nothing short of scandalous. Not 1 player brought in that's improved the starting 11 from last season. Said this on another post but he has to rely on the January transfer window to kickstart every season.

[mushRTID]

Just not good enough now.
With our clear lack of quality, we can’t just start playing on 70 minutes.
Ffs

[Chris Black come back]

I assume the priorities for the window are going to be a centre back, centre forward and wide right option. That could go some way to addressing the problem.

[Draytonian III]

A question I’ve asked before is , why has Lee Glover gone from being a coach to a scout, and Barry Richardson brought in as coach, not goalkeeping coach ?