He's on a rolling yearly contract. So we'd only have to pay the same if he's here ruining the club or left now. Surely kicking the smeg out and finishing higher up the league (better prize money) and better selling profile (sponsors, advertisement and potential buyers) is a worth while risk.

Why is he still employed then !!!!!!!!!!!!

The owners don't give a shjte about the fortunes of the football team.

The point about a rolling contract does not stop them having to pay him off.

Ally McCoist has just given ONE YEARS notice to Rangers. This means if they sack him tomorrow they are liable for the years wages.

Think there holding out for a white knight to come riding in, but that's not guna happen.

Are JR and Louis waiting in the wings?

Its just not adding up, which ever way you look at it,

I have it on very good authority that there is only 1 person willing to put money into the club funds and that's Mr Watson.

TB and the other shareholders have been approached about putting some funds in but so far is weeing into the wind.

They had a "progress" meetin Saturday morning just gone to discuss what's happening and where to go next. Strangely enough we then went on to lose to Gillingham so I assume that's not the best start after the meeting and I believe that Mr Dickov is on borrowed time!

Just a footnote.

If we're in the relegation zone by the new year, we'll start the year looking for a new manager.

Or has our next management team been sorted.

For legal reasons "this is just my thoughts", I thank you.

NY, I worded it badly, sorry. My point was, we pay the same till the end of the season no matter what. Getting shut of him must be more beneficial in the long term.

Corporal Jones to take command in January and hang up his boots at the same time

Deano's doing quite a bit on the telly just lately. Could he return with corporal Jones as his No.2.

My g od, Saunders is the answer to the situation is he?
I remember very well how he was castigated on here for his long ball kick and chase methods.
Also i remember how some 606ers this season pointed out that the reason we were struggling under PD was because of his lack of experience.
Are the same people now calling for the vastly experienced Jones to become our manager.
Or would we rather have Saunders who has a record of 93 league games as a manger and a win percentage of 30%.

How is that an improvement on PD?
Just curious.

Terry butcher or the newly sacked Nigel Adkins for me

Desperate times call for desperate measures. And with him we are fkin desperate. I'd even have Mickey Walker as manager! Well maybe not

Why is he still there? Well, he is certainly unique, being the only serving manager any of the 4 leagues who was appointed to manage a club in a division higher than they inhabit now who still has his job. The only other manager who survived a relegation was Gary Johnson, but it was he who took them up to the Championship in the first place.

If you look at the 2013/14 season in the Championship you will discover that apart from Yeovil, every club finishing from below 10th place has now parted company with its manager, none of whom have gone on to manage at a higher level.

As far as I know only Harry Redknapp has done this too in recent years, but he does have a rather better long term record.

If you turn to League 1 PD is again the least successful manager over the period since he took over Oldham that is still in league management.

In contrast to Dickov whose supporters claim “has not had enough time”, if you look at the managers appointed in the 6 months following his appointment, most never had the first pre-season yet still successfully improved their team’s position.

Of course it’s the Board’s fault that he is still in place and we reached the point where giving him a “proper chance” ran out a long time ago. The Board are the guardians of the community asset that is the football club and failing to recognise that it is not being competently managed is a disservice to all those who have supported the Rovers now and over the years.

They are letting the club disintegrate and Club Doncaster, the much vaunted Youth Policy, the stadium itself, our rise from the ashes, is all embarrassingly falling apart in front of us. From League Champions Dickov ensured that we soon became “Struggling Doncaster” in the Championship and are now “Struggling Doncaster” in League 1.

In Dickov, unshakeably confident of his personal invincibility, yet utterly incapable of instilling the will to succeed into the football team he personally assembled, the Board have the perfect steward to preside over it all.

Danny Wilson?

Yeah he's shjte as well, wouldn't have him neither.

He didnt get sacked after relegation either.

Hound manager
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Danny Wilson was not appointed until December 2013, so he took over his predecessor's team without the opportunity to carry out the very important "due diligence" on his new recruits which Dickov presented as being a sure way of getting precisely the right people - Forrester, Wabara, Evina etc., etc. So Wilson's record of failure is not as long and distinguished as Dickov's. And Barnsley are still above us in League 1 having scored 13 more goals an won 2 more matches at home, so there has been less misery for the majority of their fans.

Not if you listen to them on praise or grumble on the radio don.
You did say that Dickov (and not uniquely?) Johnson were the only two to survive relegation.
Only yesterday i listened to a Barnsley fan complaining that they had been "murdered " by Donny and were lucky to get a point.

Barnsley are above us on goal difference only, having played a game more and conceded seven more goals and have lost one more game than us.
It all depends on what spin you put on it.

I think we are past mere "spin" in our situation. It's not a marginal situation any more. You cannot keep trying to divert attention away from the principal facts. Everyone but you Hound and possibly Alex says Dickov's time is up. The club needs a fresh start. He has had far more chances than he would have got at any other club. This is indisputable fact. He was the wrong choice at the start. He may be able to smooth-talk the media, but when it matter most, at half-time with the players, it fails miserably.

I was just beginning to give him the benefit of doubt until last Saturday.
Gills were a very poor side I felt if we had got a goal we may well have gone on and won by 3.
We passed the ball around quite well but insisted on our 2 very good wide players standing centrally in a very congested midfield why I just don't know.
Apathy has spread from the board to manager to players and down to a very passive dwindling crowd

First of all, Lanza.
I agree with your assessment of the game on saturday and thought that we played very well first half but looked very nervous in the second half.
If we had scored first we would have won.
We are not the only ones on here to say similar things about the game.
The thing is, if we could score then everyone would be happy.

Donaldo next. There are plenty of other Rovers fans that i know who are not wanting Dickov sacked so i am far from being the only one (as you say).

We recognise that essentially we now have a good enough squad to be comfortable in mid table IF we can begin to score the goals that our good football deserves.

It is quite ironic to me that when SoD was the manager that many people on here were happy to see us playing good football even though we were not winning games.

I will say that during the last seven games of Sods reign i was in favour of him being sacked.

You will now ask me what the difference is between our situation then and the current one i suppose.

Well, the difference to me is that during the latter part of Sods time, including the end of the previous season, we played some nice football but never looked like scoring.
I feel that at present we are playing some good football and DO look like scoring.
It is just that our strikers are not up to it in my opinion and they are letting the side down.

I genuinely believe that if we had someone like the Heffs of old we would be in a very healthy position in the table.

That to me is not the fault of the manager as he will not be allowed to spend what we need to spend to get someone of that ilk.

When i read the DPL predictions it is contrary to what you are telling me.
Most people have been predicting a win or draw and some have even said that "someone is going to get a spanking soon" or words to that effect.
That tells me that people have recognised that we are playing well.

'Comfortable in mid table' come on mate, we shouldn't have to put up with that. We all know the board are all fuqwits, but Dicksplash doesn't look like winning many games does he. Time for a change mate