OK but the odds will change then.
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NEXT GAME:no idea
Sometime in August
Kick off unknown pm
No idea where
Definitely the Championship
The next Rovers manager
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Chaddyrovers
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I have back Rovers to get promote this coming season
Barmitzvah Boy
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Looks like we have have an announcement on Monday 
www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk
Rovers managerial latest as interview process concludes
Rovers have finished their interview process - with the hope being their month-long search for a new manager is moving towards a conclusion.
Old Darwen Blue
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It is in Norwegian.Monday the 13th!!!I thought footballers were superstitious?
Maybe 13 is a lucky number in Sanskrit.
tonygreenbank
Senior Member
An “impeccable source” as quoted by Jim Wilkinson says that Jon Dahl Tomasson is our new manager. BB is spot on with the 13th it seems.
davebirch
Senior Member
I'm hoping for a "Postecoglu" from him.
Relatively unknown, but got the trust of the players quickly, developed them into his style, brought in a few who were also unknown, and voila. Success at the first hit.
Yeah, ok it probably wont work to the same level here, but one never knows, maybe a seventh position next season?
Relatively unknown, but got the trust of the players quickly, developed them into his style, brought in a few who were also unknown, and voila. Success at the first hit.
Yeah, ok it probably wont work to the same level here, but one never knows, maybe a seventh position next season?
tonygreenbank
Senior Member
A vote of confidence, Dunny!
Lets reserve judgement but very much a leap in the dark.
Dunnfc
Senior Member
A manager with no real relevant experience and a director of football who’s taken up his first DoF role having been in charge of academy only recruitment.A vote of confidence, Dunny!
Not the appointments an established club makes if I’m honest. Hopefully il be pleasantly suprised!
Chaddyrovers
Senior Member
JDT has been head coach at Malmo for 2 years and also 2 other spells as the head coach. Plus number 2 coach of the Denmark national team for around 3 years. How much experience does he need? Farke and Wagner never had that much experience when they were at Norwich and Huddersfield.
Barmitzvah Boy
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JDT sounds like a grand lad to me. Just the bloke we need. I recommend watching this:
blueandwhitehalves
Senior Member
I agree not a terrible choice, but still think its a bit worrying when managers only have success from minor leagues on their CV. Berg, legend though he is, is a contender for worst Rovers manager of all time with 1 win in 10 games (with a team Kean had 3rd).
I guess Berg didn't actually win anything in Norway unlike JDT in Sweden.
Dunnfc
Senior Member
Minor leagues with 1 sacking and 1 relegation. 2 league wins with a vastly high budget for Malmö guided by a DoF who is seemingly a bright chap but who’s never had that gig before. It’s naive in the extreme. It’s going to be a long hard season ahead.
Would have been better giving Tony a bit to spend
Barmitzvah Boy
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JDT’s immigration papers being sorted out, these are a formality.
Chaddyrovers
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what had Farke and Wagner done before they got their clubs promote.
and?
Managed Malmo in the champions league. He also been part of Coaching staff Denmark before Malmo.
Mowbray had more than enough money to spend during his 5 and half years here. Rightly gone.
I think Tomasson is an interesting choice and I pleased we have gone for Foreign head coach route. Think a foreign head coach will suit our new footballing structure and hopefully we can do better than last season
Dunnfc
Senior Member
Will suit our new footballing structure which we have seemingly rushed to implement into place which has more holes than Swiss cheese and isn’t very experienced at this level of football. Jeez your easily pleased.
Being an assistant at international level isn’t a badge of honour, if someone offered you Southgate we’d all run I suspect. No one decent these days ends up as international manager.
We will see. What are the bottom four odds for us this year out of interest?
Chaddyrovers
Senior Member
How was it rush when I believe we used a recruitment agency to find us director of football.
Head coach is hopefully announce today or tomorrow.
Pre season training starts next Monday.
Southgate is a very good international manager. Produced our best results since Terry Venables.
No idea on those odds. I've put a bet on us getting promote this season along with Derby getting promoted from League 1 and Bradford from league 2.
blueandwhitehalves
Senior Member
Ok but like when you say Rovers should get in the play-offs because Luton and Barnsley did, I don't see how picking out the 2 best performing examples is a good argument for what you expect to happen.
Arguably I did the same picking out a worst performing example in Berg. So the real question is how often overall do managers with only club experience in minor countries do well in the Championship? Maybe it is more than half, but it seems a risk to me.
Course everything seems a risk when we've sacked a manager who finished 8th with the, I assume, specific purpose of improving on that.