McSheffrey

[Chris Black come back]

Got a job. Striker coach at Blades. The 12 month rolling deal we had presumably means we stopped paying him back in October, so he wasn’t out of pay cheque for that long.

[selby]

  A good man, a good coach, and a nice person, I hope he does well.

[Bentley Bullet]

I still feel sorry for the bloke, after seeming to accept the team manager job offer with some reluctance, he gave up a far more secure job with the club only to be booted out for not achieving the impossible.

[DearneValleyRover]

I personally think he did far better than most gave him credit for, given the limitations he was under. A more competitive budget and I believe he may well have kept us up.

[Bentley Bullet]

I personally think he did far better than most gave him credit for, given the limitations he was under. A more competitive budget and I believe he may well have kept us up.

Absolutely. Mind you, if the previous manager to McSheffrey had been given a more competitive budget they'd both probably still be with the club now.

In League One!

[Chris Black come back]

I personally think he did far better than most gave him credit for, given the limitations he was under. A more competitive budget and I believe he may well have kept us up.

I agree with this. The whole appointment was obviously shambolic and he didn’t have a cat in hell’s chance of keeping us in League One with that squad, but he got them playing in an effective way in League Two, arguably outperforming. He wasn’t the right appointment at the time though and you feel for him as it knocked his career back.

Other than the Richardson years that spell has to be the most risible in living memory. “Exhaustive process” resulted in guy who already had job and despite never actually being a manager he could make up for this by having Lee Carsley on his friends and family call plan. I wonder how those conversations went.

[Pancho Regan]

I'm pleased he has got fixed up and I wish him all the best.

I felt sorry for him when he was sacked and with the benefit of hindsight he didn't have much of a chance.

[drfchound]

Hindsight tells us much Pancho.

[Colin C No.3]

Although he was at the end of his career I enjoyed seeing him play in the hoops.

He was between a rock & a hard place when he was offered the Rovers manager post. Turn it down & his future at the club was likely to be put under pressure by whoever was appointed in his stead (& god only knows where the board would have turned next), take it on, as he did,  & he had to hit the ground running, get the players on his side & playing for him all with a budget that we now know wasn’t adequate to say the least.

It didn’t happen for him, was never going to.

I wish him every success in the future & hope his experience with us will have made him wiser & stronger.

[Goole Rover]

Good luck to the bloke had a bad deal here.

[donny dave]

I like the bloke and wish him nothing but the best wishes.
All the best Gary.

[Bills view]

It's fair to say he probably overachieved here given the available resources. Good to see his career back on track.