LR's pre match interview

[gru]

Could the problem be it's more difficult now to get the calibre of players in such as Vaulks Barlaser Crooks Chieo than it was a few years ago or the agents have pushed the wages up so we are out the running for that quality of player?

[Pocket rocket]

Mt did not play possession based football. The ball spent more time in the air than a Boeing 737. I agree our real issues are not the managers but the boardroom and until we get some changes there it will get worse. Exactly what has our DoF or COO done in the last three months? Oh that is it convinced TS to install some drains, absolutely awful the running of this club, there is more to running a successful organisation that keeping the finances in check.

Have to disagree about the hoofball Derby under MT against Norwich Blackburn Blades away Burnley away to name a few we played some amazing football pal.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

Ok, so LR goes and the club installs a few drains.

Who is a viable choice as manager?

Or is it promote a player into a role he's got no experience in.

[mellowmiller]

It goes back further than that. The disdain and snarkiness directed towards ‘that nice mr Warne’ after what he had built here was what was embarrassing. I never thought we would stay anywhere near 8th, and in the end he jumped ship all by himself, but quite a few on here were wanting him gone and openly said so. Sadly what we have witnessed since then is exactly what I predicted would happen, despite a general (not universal) view that ‘anyone but Warne’ would see us elevated to the broad sunlit uplands.

What I hadn’t even considered at the time was that the problems might actually stem from TS himself as some have pointed out on this thread. I find I am reluctantly coming round to that view too. Not merely in the fact that we struggled so badly to entice our first four choices to take the job, which begs the question what was actually revealed to them at interview, as I don’t see any of them as mere time wasters? But also may offer an explanation for the desertion of the entire coaching staff as well as Warne himself.

In such a scenario, if accurate, it becomes irrelevant who the manager is. It’s easy to fall prey to confirmation bias and line up all the things that ‘suddenly make sense’. But when you look at the above, and add in our utter inability to actually persuade decent players to come here at all, it does look bad. The budget limitations are real and are a genuine constraint, we simply cannot expect in demand Championship players to choose us. However, when we miss out on players when in L1, we get told that a higher level of football was the deciding factor, yet we have lost at least two L1 players we targeted this season to other L1 clubs despite our own higher statusl. That’s when it reflects poorly.

Richardson may be worse than Taylor, but that’s not saying anything really. It was still Taylor who signed the players and set the pattern. Until there is a real change in how the club operates we will just be swapping the deck chairs on the Titanic with our fingers crossed whenever we change the boss.

In fact it makes what Warne built up here all the more impressive in hindsight

Excellent post Beaufighter.
At the risk of becoming gru-like I'll repeat what I have been saying for a while, the problem isn't who the manager is, it's much higher up than that.
Nothing will change until that does so I guess people will just have to accept the fact that quality employees aren't queuing up to be here.
Soon be season ticket renewal time though.......

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

To listen to some on here folks would think that Warne, Barker and Co were sacked.

They weren't, they jumped ship for the money.

[Masbroughstreet]

To listen to some on here folks would think that Warne, Barker and Co were sacked.

They weren't, they jumped ship for the money.

Which posts? I haven’t seen any that would make anyone think that.

[flourbasher]

Mike Pollitt is GK coach at PNE

I’m sure he will be impressed with Vik

[Townerslovechild]

Very few things in life are black and white, including football, apart from Newcastle United !
But one or two facts are...managing Rotherham United in the championship is one of the hardest jobs in football.
The whole football club was in a better place with Warne in charge.
We will not walk the league next season.
Everything else is a mucky grey,is Richardson any good,at the moment absolutely not,but this situation is not all is own doing, so do we give a chance in the summer ?
My gut feeling is yes,but if its not working then get rid at Christmas, daft as it sounds, us in league one is probably more attractive to a new manager, than being in the championship.
On a personal level I've really tried to like LR,I even said in thread recently that I was warming to him,but that has cooled again, I think Taylor was more likeable.
I know this shouldn't really matter, especially if the team is winning, but compared to Warne ,who I loved as a manager, at the minute it's all a bit meh.
When you support a team like Rotherham you need something to hang on to, as we will never have the best players, at the moment it's not easy being red,as Kermit almost said.

[Derbymiller]

Blades and Burnley were last season, this season it was every time the keeper got the ball it was hoof, never tried to build from the back and play through the midfield. Yes he had two very good performances against Blackburn and Norwich (more than LR has or seems capable of) but after that it was aim for hugill. On this site loads of people said we keep giving the ball away with the punt forward and that we don't have the players to play football, which I don't agree with we have some good footballing players, but I am not sure we have had coaches capable of getting them to play. However we all see the game differently.

[mellowmiller]

To listen to some on here folks would think that Warne, Barker and Co were sacked.

They weren't, they jumped ship for the money.

It's hard to believe that any sane individual would move to another employer for higher pay, better working conditions and an improved chance of being successful.
I mean that really would be a stupid thing to do wouldn't it?