Also I noticed the club were advertising a vacancy for "first team analyst" earlier, analysing the first team for 40 hours a week and also during live games, call me old fashioned but isn't that the job of a manager and his assistant?
Could it be that our chairman has recognised Taylor needs help but doesn't want to sack him? or do other clubs all have specialist analysts today?
I presume it means a contemporary number-crunching quantoid. And, yeah, I'm pretty sure every club has 'em nowadays.
Most fans are calling for him to be sacked after today (and the many other poor away performances). I don't think we can afford to sack him though, our chairman pushed the boat out to sign him on a 4 year deal, then bring in all of his back room staff and then backed him to the hilt with signings. As bad as things are on the pitch (away at least), there's no guarantee that things will improve unless we can get Warnock short term and it will leave us in a mess off the pitch as well.
Daily Mail are reporting he's gone. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...illers-comes-end-difficult-summer-window.html hmm, either they have a mole that nobody else does or they're wrong.
He's gone, wow. As bad as it's been I thought our chairman would stand by him, I think the damage is already done in terms of having a squad full of players who pull their hamstrings by just turning up to training. https://www.themillers.co.uk/news/2023/november/read--club-statement---matt-taylor-13-11-23/ Rotherham United Chairman Tony Stewart said: “It was felt by myself and the Board that we had to act now by making a managerial change in order to give ourselves the best possible chance of retaining our Sky Bet Championship status this season. Some fans are calling for Steve Evans. I'd break the bank to get Warnock and give ourselves the best chance of survival rather than rushing into a long term appointment now, assuming he would come here.
Still no manager in place for tomorrow nights game against Leeds. I don't know accurate this is but it sounds reasonable (from someone who claims to be in the know):
1-1 against Leeds at home over 90mins. 3-0 down to Hull away after 20mins. Our away form is just ridiculously bad, I can only think it's the bigger pitches?
Finished 4-1. The fans are turning on the chairman now, he sacked Taylor and then disappeared on holiday presumably hoping that the caretaker manager would get a bounce and become a nice cheap option. He's been bragging on Sky about the quality of the managers applying for the position so it's time to put his money where his mouth is now. I've said it before but I think sacking Taylor in the hope of staying up has just left us in an even bigger mess, the damage was done with summer recruitment signing players who are either on short terms deals who don't care where we are next season or are injury prone. It was a gamble that didn't pay off and now we're wrecklessly trying to rescue the situation.
Sacking the gaffer is just a roll of the dice once you're convinced he's taking you down. It probably won't help, but maybe you hit the right numbers and things turn around a bit. So yeah, nothing to lose this year, as Taylor's taking you down, anyway. But as you say, it can leave you in even worse shape going forward from that.
0-0 against Wayne Rooney FC, it sounds like we should have won comfortably with a bit more composure in front of goal. Only our second point away but not good enough really.
Nobody decent wants to come to us by the sound of it, which is not entirely surprising. I mean last season we were 8th in the Championship and the best we could get was Matt Taylor from a League One team, this season we're 7pts adrift and probably favourites to be relegated so what did we expect? Championship standard managers just aren't willing to risk their managerial record/reputation for peanuts.
Rumors that Chrissy the pig is headed back to S2. If Wilder takes over, what odds of Rotherham putting feelers out on Heckingbottom? Could see the appeal both ways. Or not, I suppose, but still.
High but he's another one I doubt we can afford and even if we were to break the bank he'd probably rather wait for an opportunity to open up elsewhere. My guess is we'll end up with someone like Leam Richardson with a view to getting back out of League One. It's either that or our chairman will give it to our current caretaker if he does well over the next few games (cheap option). We're up **** creek without a paddle basically.
A couple of the big name managers linked with us seem to have just been using us for a bit of cheap publicity, it's rumoured that once we offered them a contract they suddenly weren't interested.
Ayala was sent off after 17mins for two stupid yellows, what does he care it makes no difference to him what division we are in next season.... It was a spirited performance by the 10 men for going on 80mins but ultimately another potential three points gone begging. Even if Warnock has agreed to come here in January it'll be mission impossible at this rate.
He won't be coming anyway, Leam Richardson was announced yesterday, best we could get probably. I'll feel a lot more comfortable with him in League One next season anyhow, that was my main worry with Taylor - that if we did go down he might set us up to fail in League One. We lost 2-0 tonight. This season started with so much promise but it's just the same as previous relegation seasons where we're falling a fraction short of where we need to be game after game. Hopefully Richardson will make us hard to beat and we can turn things around but I wouldn't bet on it.
Ayala sent off again, the guy's a total liability and has no interest in playing for us, he just gets booked at every opportunity. The division is hard enough without players running themselves into the ground because Ayala collects cards like Pokemon.
Sad to say we're as bad as Wednesday were at the start of the season, we just don't look like scoring as we can't even create any chances. Taylor signing a bunch of injury prone journeymen on season long deals has backfired big time but he must have had support from the board so you can't entirely blame him. We're in a right state though. I don't think we'll be returning to the Championship for a while after this season, we basically went all in on a risky short term plan to stay in the Championship and it has blown up in our faces.