Dickov

[RedJ]

I don't think you can single the bloke out as being much different to all the other ex Rovers managers. Each and every one of them failed, eventually.

I don't consider Penney to have failed as manager either. I might get slated, but I preferred the Penney years to the SOD years. Sure it was lower down the leagues, but I just enjoyed every match back then.

And consistent top ten finishes in League One is hardly a failure. John Ryan just wanted to go that extra step, which unfortunately seemed beyond Penney - though his signings laid the foundation for what was to come.

I wonder if the next step would have been beyond Penney if he'd been given the funds to sign Stock, Wellens, Woods, Hayter, Sullivan and Mills in addition to the squad he built.

Well, you could well be right. I'd have liked to have found out, but we all know the way things turned out.

[TheFunk]

Yet SOD led us to a lower league finish than the previous season.

[idler]

Maybe sometimes you have to go backwards to go forwards. 😉

[TheFunk]

Yes we certainly did with significant investment. Let's hope the same applies this time. Unfortunately we don't seem to have too many good honest pros now.