Peterbrough

[Campsall rover]

Why has McCann been sacked. They are sitting just outside the play off places.

Where does McAnthony expect them to be.
Ipswich, Wednesday, Derby, Bolton, Portsmouth and a few others I suspect will have much bigger budgets than Posh.

The man’s deluded totally deluded.  Then brings in a man he has sacked 3 times.
Quite mad. The man needs to see a shrink pretty quick.

[Campsall rover]

Quite unbelievable.

Is McAnthony stark raving mad? 

Fergies always done a good job for him though hasn’t he

But he is only capable of taking them so far.  Once the going gets tough he starts blaming everyone other than himself.

[Red wizard]

I'd like to know how much he's been paid off in total from all his sackings. Ferguson must be laughing all the  way to the bank.

[roversdude]

Must be a way of money laundering lol

[DonnyBazR0ver]

Fergie resigned last time and MacAnthony said he didn't want him to leave.

[Chris Black come back]

Putting Ferguson - who was not a good manager for us - to one side, they’ve no materially greater financial resources than us but are consistently more competitive and have a very strong track record of monetising talent for big return.

We are currently outside the play offs in the lowest professional level of the game.

[Herbert Anchovy]

I really liked McCann when he was our Manager. He was in the process of building something really special I reckon. The 2nd leg play off at Charlton is up there with my favourite Rovers games of all time despite the result.

The manner in which he walked out on us completely ruined everything though and I’m not sure that we ever really recovered. At the time of him leaving I was told by a very good source that Rovers did everything possible to keep him and significantly increased the transfer funds in an effort to get him to stay and finish what he’d begun. He well and truly left us in the lurch and that’s always left a bad taste in my mouth.

[DonnyBazR0ver]

Putting Ferguson - who was not a good manager for us - to one side, they’ve no materially greater financial resources than us but are consistently more competitive and have a very strong track record of monetising talent for big return.

We are currently outside the play offs in the lowest professional level of the game.

As reported by Kieran McGuire, it wasn't too long ago when they supplemented their finances with loans. This appeared to be one of the factors in why they were desperate to sell Toney.

We also saw Fry on TV lamenting their position last January, struggling against relegation  suffering from injuries and struggling to attract quality players whilst being bottom of the league. (Very similar to our situation back then)

In addition, they were also lumbered with players who they couldn't get rid of being top heavy with contracted players. The flip side of the speculate to accumulate policy that tends to go unseen. Only the headline transfers leads people to believe their situation is better than it is.

Not saying that taking risks doesn't work but there are consequences.

[Lifelong supporter]

Putting Ferguson - who was not a good manager for us - to one side, they’ve no materially greater financial resources than us but are consistently more competitive and have a very strong track record of monetising talent for big return.

We are currently outside the play offs in the lowest professional level of the game.

Ferguson not a good manager for us??
Won promotion and signed Ben Whiteman, among others.
Copps rated him, alongside SO'D, as the best two managers he played under at Rovers.
Wonder what you have to do to qualify as a 'good manager'?

[DonnyBazR0ver]

Bit unfair to miss out the relegation that preceeded the promotion.

You could argue he achieved promotion (although nearly made a mess of that) from League Two with a League One budget.

Also frustrations with him and his formations not working. For the good signings we also had some poor ones.

He said himself, he could have been sacked but we stuck by him.

I'm a bit more neutral on him. Afterall, he got us back to where we were when he started and it took McCann to get us into the League One play offs.

[selby]

  Looking at his thoughts about our club that he has stated, I guess any hope of signing any of the players from Peterborough have gone out of the window.

[ravenrover]

Putting Ferguson - who was not a good manager for us - to one side, they’ve no materially greater financial resources than us but are consistently more competitive and have a very strong track record of monetising talent for big return.

We are currently outside the play offs in the lowest professional level of the game.

Ferguson not a good manager for us??
Won promotion and signed Ben Whiteman, among others.
Copps rated him, alongside SO'D, as the best two managers he played under at Rovers.
Wonder what you have to do to qualify as a 'good manager'?

Not come 3rd in 1 horse race would do for starters

[BobG]

Maybe he wasn't SOD. But cast your mind back.... Maurice Setters, Steve Wignall, Keith Kettleborough. I know who I'd rather have.

BobG

[The Red Baron]

I can't readily recall any manager taking the same job four times, even allowing for caretakers.  

Jackie Bestall. Two spells as manager, one as a joint manager, one as a caretaker.

Some managers seem to be an ideal fit for a particular club but don't seem to be able to enjoy success elsewhere. Mark Robins (Coventry) and Nathan Jones (Luton) spring to mind, and I wouldn't be surprised to see Dean Smith back at Aston Villa one day. Incidentally I don't think Southampton have won since Jones came in so he probably won't last long there.

[normal rules]

Ferguson and McAnthony are made for each other .
Birds of a feather.

[sedwardsdrfc]

Properly weird situation for them. Seems to work somehow though. They’ll be trying to get in the championship while we’re a long way off L1. Not sure we can criticise too much really.

He must be good a sacking people for them to so often be happy to come back. I know he left things a bit poorly but can’t help feel Fergie would have been a good appointment instead of McSheffery. Not a massive fan of his but he did ok for us and certainly wouldn’t have been the needless risk GM was which really set the club back again

[Campsall rover]

Properly weird situation for them. Seems to work somehow though. They’ll be trying to get in the championship while we’re a long way off L1. Not sure we can criticise too much really.

He must be good a sacking people for them to so often be happy to come back. I know he left things a bit poorly but can’t help feel Fergie would have been a good appointment instead of McSheffery. Not a massive fan of his but he did ok for us and certainly wouldn’t have been the needless risk GM was which really set the club back again

There is no way Fergie would have come back even if asked. He would have wanted a much bigger budget than what the board would have been prepared to give.

[monkeytennis]

Lol. Lmao.

[Chris Black come back]

58 percent possession, 15 shots, 6 on target today. Got hammered 5-0 at home by Bolton.