All aboard the "Jones Rovers Rovercoaster"

[Copps is Magic]

Premature to write off promotion. We've played 4 of the top 6 (1 in the JPT) and at least matched them all. If some of these tight decisions had gone our way we'd be a couple of points outside the play-offs. As it is we're only 6.

I look at it this way - if we're that close when we're playing shite what will happen when we're on form? I thought the same last season, but sadly when we got into the play-offs we dropped off.

[murham]

Absolutely love your optimism

I'm a pessimist
I will be happy with 5th
From bottom this year. It's total chaos

[wing commander]

Premature to write off promotion. We've played 4 of the top 6 (1 in the JPT) and at least matched them all. If some of these tight decisions had gone our way we'd be a couple of points outside the play-offs. As it is we're only 6.

I look at it this way - if we're that close when we're playing shite what will happen when we're on form? I thought the same last season, but sadly when we got into the play-offs we dropped off.

     There is some merit in what your saying,but we have to start seeing some evidence of this..Oldham have had a couple of hammerings recently and we still wasn't that much better in truth..There match reports on there forum pretty much say it as it was..2 very poor teams playing a pretty poor game of football..I know you've already nailed your colours to the corporals mast but its only going to be results that give him the job and he's only got 5 or so games to do it in..He's had 2 and weve got a solitary point to show from it...Nowhere near enough...

[murham]

Jones is the cheap option

Let's get a real manager in asap

[silent majority]

Jones is the cheap option

Let's get a real manager in asap

He's not the cheap option, he'll get the going rate the same as anyone else.

[drfc1951]

As a player hes probably on £2k a week that over £100k per year.He would expect more to  be a manager as well,so no hes not  cheap.

[Alan Southstand]

He's not the cheap option, he'll get the going rate the same as anyone else.

He may well, SM, but are we going to replace his position in the team with an equal or better player? If they don't do that, then he is the cheap option, I'm afraid.

[Yorkiered]

Jones is the cheap option

Let's get a real manager in asap

He's not the cheap option, he'll get the going rate the same as anyone else.

How can you say there is a "going rate"?
Do you think we would have to pay the same for Brian McDermott as Dave Penney or Rob Jones?

[silent majority]

He's not the cheap option, he'll get the going rate the same as anyone else.

He may well, SM, but are we going to replace his position in the team with an equal or better player? If they don't do that, then he is the cheap option, I'm afraid.

Why wouldn't they? To save £100 - £150k a year? Its peanuts. As I've said before why invest many hundreds of thousand in other areas, i.e stadium improvements, commercial teams, club foundation, Cantley Park etc, etc and then scrimp on a manager to make all that successful? It just doesn't make any sense and defies logic.

[silent majority]

Jones is the cheap option

Let's get a real manager in asap

He's not the cheap option, he'll get the going rate the same as anyone else.

How can you say there is a "going rate"?
Do you think we would have to pay the same for Brian McDermott as Dave Penney or Rob Jones?

Of course there's a going rate, just as there is for players at a particular level then the same applies for managers. That's why ex PL managers don't apply for the job.

[DonnyBazR0ver]

Has anyone ever taken a pay cut to get back in work?

[The Red Baron]

Has anyone ever taken a pay cut to get back in work?

I have, and I'm sure some football managers and players have. Football managers can often be choosy about jobs because of the pay-offs they receive when they get sacked. Also some find media work lucrative and a lot less stressful! I saw Ian Holloway had decided to stick with Sky rather than dipping his toe into management again. Probably a sound decision.

[IDM]

Has anyone ever taken a pay cut to get back in work?

Hell yes!  Earning around 70% of what I used to be one, but that's better than being on the dole..

[Sammy Chung was King]

I'm not writing Rob off just yet, he has made a reasonable start, he was five minutes away from getting a draw away to a team full of confidence, and very under-rated by the neutral fan.
H got a home draw against a poor Oldham team, it's a start, he needs games to get the players, playing how he wants.
I would like him to well, like i want all our managers to, but if after a few more games nothing changes, and a better candidate comes along, then the decision has to be made.

[roversdude]

Maybe this ride should be renamed journey to the centre of the earth - it can't keep going down