Quote Originally Posted by Derbymiller View Post
I think PW deserves a lot of credit, his entire career in the Championship is now judged on 9 games and where his team was after 9 games, amazing how history is so easily forgotten. I think any manager worth his salt would always say that it is where you are after the last game that matters and on all three occasions when Warne has had a last game of the season finish (in the championship) his team have been in the bottom three. We were 8th when he left, but we had recently been hammered by Sunderland and got knocked out a cup at home to a poor League 1 team. We can all spin it however we want to either make PW look good or bad, as stated above he has left us and good luck to him in his career, there is nothing PW can do now to help us so let us focus on the man that can. MT has lost the best defender at the club, the best all round player at the club and has two of his best players looking at new houses away from Rotherham, one of which makes most of our goals the other one scores them, add to that we have no fit centre forward at the club and the fact we are not yet in the bottom three is quite an achievement. I do agree that whatever they tried to do in the WC break has failed, and he would be best to try and go back but I genuinely do not believe he has the players to do that in terms of fitness and interest.
I think only very stupid people would judge Warne only on where he was when he left us. You have to (of course!) look at his whole record since joining us and as I said previously, he has done very well at rebuilding and beating off better resourced teams to gain promotion 3 times, but his lack of success in this league, whether we think with or without the necessary resources doesn't really matter now, will always mean that we can't say anything much more than he has only proven himself as a successful manager to a certain extent. I think that Derby fans will have a much better idea than us as to whether he can be more successful at a higher level and with a greater budget. But he may not even get that far with them. Only time will tell.

People being much too quick to take biased stances as to both Warne's record, and MT's existing record. Again, only an idiot would surely conclude that injuries haven't worked horribly against him so far. Much more debatable is that he has the players to succeed at this level at all. But aside from that, maybe January will give us a picture as to how MT will play it on the man management side of things - is he going to drop any player who won't sign a new contract and sell them to the highest bidder on the grounds that they 'don't want to be here' and we can at least command a fee. Again remains to be seen but it does seem to be shaping up that way. It will be a divisive tactic, sounds good in theory, but how much will we get in losing their services for the rest of the season? Can we get replacements at anything like their level mid season and in haste. Very risky, but if that is his preferred method, I'll back him, even if it takes us down. Rebuild rebuild. Do it his way at least until Xmas of season back in league 1 and then take stock.