DPL v Peterborough Utd

So the announcement is on Monday with the successful candidate the Board’s first choice and terms and the selection of his assistant being finalised over the weekend.

BBC licences used to be free for the Over-75s Micky, but not any more! You have to sign in, but whether they check you out I don’t know.

Sorry, just read your last line and it sounds as though they do, although I don’t remember giving mine.

1/6 odds on Richie Wellens today

I see Tommy Rowe has been released. Might be a good choice to start with. Wellens is no AB. He's a reasonable record and hungry for success. Hopefully he and the boatd have agreed a strategy that suits him. He will have learned from his recent experiences.

Fans hoping for a different style of play under Wellens than playing out from the back will be dissapointed though.

The BBC are getting smart. I tried to watch the Cup Final, had everything set up through my VPN that I was in England, used my nephew's address, etc., but the Player would not play. In the "Problems page" it says if the BBC detects the use of a VPN, the Player will not work as they have to be sure you are in the UK. I do not know when they got that smart as I had watched some in the past, but nothing live some time.

I can’t remember a great deal from Wellens interviews as a player, but I do not remember him as being a natural communicator. However he has polished up his style and came over quite impressively in his first club website interview as manager; not as smooth as Fergie, but not blunt like McCann was sometimes. And Moore ... well, interviews were not his strong point, were they?

We now await his choice of assistant(s). I’m not sure Mr Gerrard would be top of my list.

Yes, Wellens came over quite well in the interview, and Liam Holden had some positive things to say in the DFP.
I'm intrigued by how he will handle recruitment as we do not have much of a squad at the moment - and how does he handle the Halliday and Wright situations? I did not realise until a few days after the final game how bad Joe's injury was.
It should be an interesting summer.
To all here on ja606, hope you all have a good summer and get away somewhere if you can and want to.
We have two weddings to attend and will use them as the basis for two mini-vacations. One is in Seattle, a city we have enjoyed in the past, and the other is at a winery near Salem in Oregon. The latter is for the lady who replaced Pauline when she retired from Pacific University. She is from India and so it seems some of her family will not be able to attend from India. The wedding has already been delayed once because of Covid so I'm sure it will go ahead, but sadly with some of her family missing.

Delighted to see Richie back as manager. He was a skillful, intelligent and committed player for us and part of the strongest midfield in the league. I know that some people are concerned by his relative lack of experience and nothing is guaranteed, but given the right backing I think he can build something good here and bring success. Looking forward to an interesting summer and the start of next season.
Stay safe everyone!

Yes hopefully back to proper football with fans present next season. Of the three final candidates he seemed the natural choice. Quite a tough prospect for him given the current state of the squad . But sometimes a clean sheet can be beneficial. I see Bursik is on loan to Lincoln today for their play off tie with Sunderland. Lincoln had a flying start to the season which seemed to be upset by playing us and unjustly losing! They got things back together and could be outsiders to win promotion. Though it would be one less localish derby for us. Hoping to be able to make my annual pilgrimage up North in the Autumn to watch Rovers play. Lets hooe its a Summer of content in more ways than one. Cheers!