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[Barmitzvah Boy]

Good luck to Chorley tonight. They have a better chance of beating Fleetwood than Rovers.

Expect a bigger gate than we had v Barnet.

Matt Jansen is a potential future Rovers manager. He cannot be any worse than the last few duffers: Bowyer, Coyle, Mowbray etc.

 

[Drog]

How come you missed out Lambert, Appleton and Kean? (I'm not including Berg cos he has Premier League and Worthy Cup winners medals with us).

 

[Barmitzvah Boy]

How come you missed out Lambert, Appleton and Kean? (I'm not including Berg cos he has Premier League and Worthy Cup winners medals with us).

They were the etc Gordon

 

[Drog]

Point taken BB.
Just as an aside here is my league table of that sorry lot in order of who I'd rate most from top down should they be the only options... Not great reading tbh. My only uncertainty is whether Henning Berg who has managed pretty successfully since he left here should be any higher.
Bowyer
Mowbray
Berg
Lambert
Appleton
Coyle
Kean

 

[Drog]

I know but his recent record is quite impressive .... although I concede that both stints have ended in the sack.

 

[blueandwhitehalves]

I can only echo Amo on that one. Berg's stint here must be the worst record of any Rovers manager in history.

Played 10 Won 1 Drawn 3 Lost 6

Don't know what you've got against Lambert drog but putting that above him is comical.

 

[Drog]

Talk sport debating the rovers right now! Phone ins required

 

[Drog]

He did indeed. As I said though I've little detail but Berg's managerial record since has been pretty decent and at least as successful as Lambert. It's not the Premier League of course but he's won Poland's equivalent and come second on Hungary's version. Been sacked twice too as a reward for his efforts. No idea why but there must be reasons one would assume. As for Lambert his tactics were crap and so too were his signings in the main. One of those failed manager's like Maclaren and Roy Kean whose name continually gets linked with vacancies by the press and media for no good reason.

From Wiki...."
"Legia Warsaw[edit]
On 19 December 2013 it was announced that he will be new manager of Legia Warsaw starting from 1 January 2014.[18] In his first full season as coach, he led the team to the Polish Ekstraklasa title. On 5 October 2015 he was sacked while sitting second in the league, following a 2-2 draw against Górnik Zabrze.[19]
Videoton[edit]
On 5 May 2016 Berg signed a 2-year contract with Székesfehérvár-based Hungarian League club Videoton FC.[20][21] He was sacked at the end of the season despite having been a contender for the title until the very last matchday.[22]"

 

[Alan]

That's unbelievable. What do these clubs expect? Unless he was making unreasonable demands.

 

[tomphil]

Berg strikes me as a stubborn kind of guy who will only do things his way so maybe that's behind it. As said not very impressive stint at Rovers but he was working with other peoples rubbish on the pitch and off it and I doubt he had a whole say on selections and tactics the whole club was pulling in different directions and was total poison.

From what I remember he tried to get them to play a bit more open than they were capable of whereas Appleton just shut up shop and played nothing resembling football whatsoever. Bowyer seemed to find a bit of middle ground.

In the grand scheme of things if Berg was allowed to do his own thing i'm sure he'd have achieved the same stability that GB did at the least. Actually backing him a bit would have saved a huge payoff for a while at least.

 

[Drog]

............ In the grand scheme of things if Berg was allowed to do his own thing i'm sure he'd have achieved the same stability that GB did at the least. Actually backing him a bit would have saved a huge payoff for a while at least.

I think he'd have done OK but with the run he was having it's likely we'd have been relegated and had to start from the bottom. As it stood changing for Appleton made things worse. I seem to rem for Appleton that the venkys had to write a cheque to the oystons for 300k. I guess he was a buddy of Derek Shaw and Agnew. Anyway it was an expensive mistake by those two as Berg was awarded a 2m payout too.
They'll never admit it of course but privately the venkys must deeply regret taking such bad advice from that spiv and their ensuing actions in the first 6 months after takeover. Taking Anderson's advice has cost them 150 million .... and rising!

 

[steve w]

I think he'd have done OK but with the run he was having it's likely we'd have been relegated and had to start from the bottom. As it stood changing for Appleton made things worse. I seem to rem for Appleton that the venkys had to write a cheque to the oystons for 300k. I guess he was a buddy of Derek Shaw and Agnew. Anyway it was an expensive mistake by those two as Berg was awarded a 2m payout too.
They'll never admit it of course but privately the venkys must deeply regret taking such bad advice from that spiv and their ensuing actions in the first 6 months after takeover. Taking Anderson's advice has cost them 150 million .... and rising!

Which does make you wonder why they have never sought legal redress?

 

[tomphil]

Jerome was like one of the family remember, they allegedly did bring a lawsuit but that was at Kentaro so wouldn't be surprised if most of the blame got lumped on them but then again it was probably just a smokescreen to put the FA off the sent. Anyone can fire about a few non threatening solicitors letters it means jack shit.

As for all the bad advice i'm not sure it was all advice more like instruction or do as you like your running the show type stuff.

 

[Drog]

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As for all the bad advice i'm not sure it was all advice more like instruction or do as you like your running the show type stuff.

I'd prefer to believe it was more along the lines of ....Trust me, I know what I'm doing'.

 

[Barmitzvah Boy]

An excellent idea from Rovers. A sort of a 40%’ish Season Ticket

 

[khmerblue]

Yep good to see,maybe the upstairs side of the club are doing more than penny pinching.

 

[Drog]

Some might say incurring a 130m debt over 7 years isn't exactly penny pinching.

On the other hand when one sees that Man Utd are willing to pay an above average, but not great striker 500k per week and in doing so raising the bar for all future transfer and remuneration negotiations one can excuse a certain parsimony amongst other clubs. I suppose they must be able to afford it but that has to curtail re-investment in other important things and the Glasers will have to tighten their belts. How stupid are MU to give way to such demands when they will make their existing players disgruntled and still won't be good enough to win the title or for that matter the Champions League?

 

[khmerblue]

Venkters own fault Drog,they hired the idiots.It's no use moaning when they made the appointments.