Gary Rowett

[fox_favourite]

7 minutes ago, Muzzy_no7 said:

Two things:

 

Firstly: If he was in place in December or straight after Marti was sacked, we would’ve stayed up.

 

Secondly: He shouldn’t be anywhere near the club come June. 

History repeating itself....we said the same with Dean Smith. This shows that the club just doesn't learn. 

 

Now is the time to get it right. 

[winteriscoming]

20 minutes ago, Muzzy_no7 said:

Two things:

 

Firstly: If he was in place in December or straight after Marti was sacked, we would’ve stayed up.

 

Secondly: He shouldn’t be anywhere near the club come June. 

How do you think we’d have stayed up with him if he was appointed earlier when his record with us is 2 wins from 14 games? 

[Gazza M]

Very similar to the end of the Dean Smith reign. Neither has a clue what is happening. Radio silence. He will just turn up one day next week and Lucy Pinder is at the training ground and his office emptied. 

[Dmitry]

1 hour ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said:

**** off Gary you stupid sod

A rather restrained reflection, but brings the point across.

[Paninistickers]

Dean Smith 'got' the club far more than this fool.  And conducted himself better 

 

 

 He was a failure as a player with us, an instrumental part of Taylor's clique. Overwhelmed by better, self assured players who'd been and done it all in the upper reaches of the PL. 

 

Fast forward 25 years later, his lack of confidence was, for me, glaring in his role as manager. He tried to blag it and bluster it. But just like birds in a nightclub can sense the single and desperate a mile off (not matter how much bravado), you could smell the inferiority on him. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Wasyls Pec Deck]

1 hour ago, lookwhaticando said:

 

Was the Cillit Bang guy not available?

[Gazza M]

21 minutes ago, Paninistickers said:

Dean Smith 'got' the club far more than this fool.  And conducted himself better 

 

 

 He was a failure as a player with us, an instrumental part of Taylor's clique. Overwhelmed by better, self assured players who'd been and done it all in the upper reaches of the PL. 

 

Fast forward 25 years later, his lack of confidence was, for me, glaring in his role as manager. He tried to blag it and bluster it. But just like birds in a nightclub can sense the single and desperate a mile off (not matter how much bravado), you could smell the inferiority on him. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rowett was very self assured as a player in his first 4 or 5 months. Was very solid in a back 3 with Gerry and Elliott. Got injured and Taylor had a few brain parts and replaced him with Lee Marshall. Think he went on to Charlton and was decent there after us at Prem level. Wasn't as good as Frank Sinclair who came back from injury himself to take RB/RCB slot for another year or two with us. 

[Tuna]

47 minutes ago, Gazza M said:

Very similar to the end of the Dean Smith reign. Neither has a clue what is happening. Radio silence. He will just turn up one day next week and Lucy Pinder Darren Ferguson is at the training ground and his office emptied. 

 

[Paninistickers]

1 minute ago, Gazza M said:

self assured as a player in his first 4 or 5 months.

That team ran on autopilot for 5 months from Taylor's appointment. 

 

No retrospect, I remember at the time Rowett felt like an outsider. Frank, Taggs, Elliott, Guppy, Impey all had a swagger. Rowett always looked like he was just about holding his head above water until the tide dropped.

 

Not sure if Elliott and Taggs on the club channel have had too much to say about him other than banal basics..wheread they could write a book of anecdotes about the others mentioned above. 

[The Doctor]

relegated two clubs in a single season, win today changes nothing beyond moving him to marginally better than Mclintock and Sousa and comparable to Bassett rather than the outright worst manager in our history as far as win rate goes. Send him away and change the locks to be sure 

[Corky]

Just a Merse manager, really. Will go in, do reasonably well and Merse will overlook the negatives on Soccer Saturday. "Oo cud do a betta job, Si? I mean, Gaardyola cudnt".

[Dmitry]

“I’m quite pleased with the professionalism of the group, at least, you know, in the season where we all feel A LITTLE BIT that we’ve left everyone down.”

 

You are total fraud, Gary.

 

 

[StanSP]

I was happy with his appointment as I genuinely thought he's get us out of the rut we were in. At times we looked like we could find ourselves scraping by and doing enough. But it wasn't consistent enough and it seems like the grip of the Leicester malaise set upon him as time passed. 

 

Some bizarre decisions and segments in interviews makes me now think what the fvck were we playing at getting him in? 

 

His persistence to stick with players who clearly couldn't give a crap for the badge on the shirt and refusal to give youth a chance fvcked us up quicker than expected. 

 

Get him gone. A refresh of the club doesn't involve him. 

[jim5000]

6 hours ago, davieG said:

Story by Jordan Blackwell

 
Gary Rowett said he could be “exactly what the club needs” as he made his biggest appeal yet for the Leicester City manager’s job.

Rowett rounded off his 14-game contract at City on Saturday, earning his second win, a 1-0 success at Blackburn.

Now City have to decide who they want to lead them for what will be just their second-ever season in League One.

And while Rowett has overseen the club’s fall into the third tier, he set his stall to remain in the role, saying he could be the man for what is a “fantastic opportunity” at the King Power Stadium. He said brave decisions need to be made as the rebuild gets under way.

“I see a fantastic opportunity here,” Rowett said. “There’s going to be some big decisions. It’s going to need someone who is brave enough to make those decisions.

“This team needs to look very different, the culture needs to look very different. But it’s a great opportunity so of course I would like that opportunity.

“But what’s more important is the club getting it right, because it’s a fabulous football club.

 

“I’ve enjoyed the 14 games. It’s been tinged with frustration and disappointment that we’ve played well in a lot of those games and lost four of them. We shouldn’t have lost that. We should have won a lot more. But it’s easy to say that.

“It’s important the club get it right, whatever decision that is. But of course I’d like this opportunity to rebuild this. I think I could be exactly what the club needs.”

Rowett took 14 points from his 14 games in charge, and believes it could have been more had City had a killer instinct in both boxes.

They showed more of that on Saturday at Ewood Park, helped by another excellent performance from Harry Souttar at the back on the Australian international’s second appearance of the season.

Rowett said: “If you look at the games, we’ve conceded silly goals. They were almost comical at times. You can’t win games of football with that.

 

“We created the second most chances over the last 14 games but if you can’t take those chances, you’re not going to win games of football. That’s been the biggest frustration.

“The first half was a bit of us in the 14 games. We looked nice, we looked good, we were comfortable on the ball, we build well and get into good areas, but in both boxes we’ve lacked that killer instinct that someone like Harry Souttar has.

“Even our corners he’s getting his head on everything, so you can see the difference he potentially would have made.

“But there’s no point crying over it now. It’s nice that he’s back. He’s had a long period out of the game so it’s nice that he can play the last two games. Now he’s got a big summer with Australia. It’s really nice for him, he deserves it.”

 

The killer instinct "that someone like Harry Souttar has" - That is damning. Our manager sees a perma crocked defender as our most dangerous player

[Sly]

I wonder if we have him contracted to the 30th June, or he’s now finished? 
 

Either way, I hope we have already stated work on next season. 

[Tom12345]

7 hours ago, winteriscoming said:

How do you think we’d have stayed up with him if he was appointed earlier when his record with us is 2 wins from 14 games? 

Rowett is atrocious. How the fuxk can any manager manage 2 wins out of 14 in the second tier with the squad we had. He should not have even been considered, and once appointed, he should have been sacked 5 games in.

 

We still played like a top team in the Championship but just kept losing. It was partly a mental thing and partly organisation. We should have just played a fast pace counter attack football rather than the slow build up which we just don’t have the players for. We have quality players which could do better in a faster pace style. 

 

We also did not know how to set up defensively. Admittedly, we miss a big guy presence like Souttar. He is what we missed all season - especially with his headers. Vesty can’t head the ball despite his height. The Newcastle CB was solid but he was not used enough.

 

This is entirely our club’s fault for appointing a loser for our relegation fight. If they had spent the money and got Maresca back or any other manager with a good track record, we would have been safe.

[filbertway]

Tom going on like the man had the PSG squad at his disposal. Love it

[shailen]

I think we looked better under Rowett then we have under anyone in two years. He stopped the rot of losing four on the bounce in his first game and had we had some better composure in key games (Watford, Preston, Stoke, Hull, Swansea, Sheff Weds) we would have stayed up.

 

His style of football is primitive but we need to go back to basics and id rather him than Russell Martin and playing fancy football. We need our players to be fighting and im not sure who'd be better equipped to the job.

 

[Blue-fox]

We have looked better under Rowett. If we had a half competent striker we would have probably stayed up. He can only choose from the players he had available. And not throwing every young kid in that shows any promise was probably the correct decision, because it keeps them away from the toxic environment and hopefully next season there will be no hangover after we shift the dross.
 

Also, what is absolutely key, is we have a manager in BEFORE pre season starts to give them half a chance of getting the team fit. 

[winteriscoming]

78 year old Roy Hodgson managed more wins with Bristol City than Rowett did here. 
Rowett shouldn’t even be under consideration next season but I bet he will be. 
 

[Tielemans63]

Did a poor job - worse than Marti. Tactically, he was incredibly inflexible. Shouldn't even be a consideration.

[Rubbersoul]

10 hours ago, Dmitry said:

“I’m quite pleased with the professionalism of the group, at least, you know, in the season where we all feel A LITTLE BIT that we’ve left everyone down.”

 

You are total fraud, Gary.

 

 

What an insulting thing to say after the disgraceful lack of effort all season. 
 

Maybe I just didn’t know enough about him as a manager but ive been massively shocked by how weak he is lol. Absolute no backbone. 

[DAS Boot]

Amazed at the amount of ‘we look

better under Rowett’ comments.

 

We absolutely have not looked better.  I’d say we looked worse.  

[Claudio Fannieri]

I have to be honest, I wasn’t overly excited by his appointment, I thought it was pretty lazy, uninspiring and unimaginative, however what I did think he would bring would be a ruthless streak, mix up the team selections, create a siege mentality and yet there was none of that. 
 

it was almost like he knew he was 3rd/4th choice his heart was barely in it and it was just another pay day. Given the severity of the situation, his team selections, tactics and his interviews has done nothing but continued with more of the same, he had an opportunity on a short contract to really shake things up, call players out, tell a few honest truths but he chose to either play safe or I’ve influenced and completely bollocksed the job. 
 

That run of results & performances from QPR onwards in a run of very very winnable fixtures was absolutely criminal. 
 

Should not be any where near the conversation for next season, his treatment of the younger players has been appalling. 

[The boy Linacre]

Had 14 games, a 3rd of the season, couple of wins and not draws and the confidence of those would have kept us up narrowly.

Don't rate him massively, but perhaps if there is nothing better, and don't take gamble, he might do the League 1 job, shouldn't be hard IF we can keep/get some decent players.

Then we can sack him off when promoted, don't rate him, but sometimes merit in the status quo.

Who's realistically better??????  That we actually can get, not who in some rose tinted dream we think we can get (Maresca!!).