[spireitematt]

According to the Daily Mail (take it with a pinch of salt) the club are going to offer Rowe a better and improved contract to fend off interest as he's attracting interest from League 2 clubs.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba...tract.html

The question is is someone stirring the pot? Why would the Daily Mail report on a National League club? It was only a few weeks ago they were slagging the club off. Surely if the club were going to announce a new improved contract then they would have spoken to Rowe first and then made an announcement when it was signed and sealed not tell the media first let alone the Daily Mail.

[Devongone]

Well all we can do is back the man financially, give him as free a rein as possible, and make it clear we are a major opportunity for him to develop a club as he thinks it should be developed and take it back to EFL Division One ...... if he is prepared for another two or three seasons. If that doesn't convince a club at a level he should be aiming for to give him a chance, then changing horses now to EFL 2 would also have no chance of getting him to the top.

In France or Germany sudden and unexpected success managing a club even at the equivalent of our level would catch the eyes of clubs struggling to keep even a distant eye on Bayern and PSG. And when they find such a manager who becomes a success then, and only then, do they wake up several lazy eyes in our Premiership. If they choose an English manager they go for a Steve Bruce, certain to finish 14th to 17th every season, big Sam organising at the back, Roy Hodgson an ageing past master at making a team far better than the available budget. By and large they are very unwilling to back a potential talent and risk losing Sky millions. So English managers work their way up the pyramid, winning trophies and getting older and more and more set in their ways. Who doubts Warnock could and should have managed a very good Premier side with a decent budget and real ambition? Paul Cook has the football nous, but he doesn't sound right, he's now done well at too many small names ............ and maybe is a little too fond of a drink ............... To be English and a first choice, you have to get promoted with a Championship club and win the League, then the European Cup and then your claim to be the real deal will still be controversial. (And when a Lampard gets the chance and later the sack, that proves the caution correct to every other dithering owner.)

In a sensible world a Crystal Palace or a Newcastle might be having a quiet word with our Mr Rowe and saying, "Son, if you can get Chesterfield through the play-offs and back to the EFL this season, we'll give a three-year contract and a decent budget to come to us next season and we'll compensate your club too." But they won't. James Rowe could be the real deal, and he might be lucky and get himself an offer from EFL One, but unless he can get to the Championship and take it like Tiger Mountain, he'll be pissing into the winds of history.

By the look of the transformation he is bringing about on Whittington Moor tiny tittle-tattle rumours in the Daily Mail ought to be the least of our worries. Some enterprising owner with big ideas and a moderate squad should be getting the sweet-talk started. Let's be honest, if you were the owner of Bristol City with plenty of money and a burning desire for Premiership football could you really convince yourself that Nigel Pearson would be a better bet than James Rowe on any grounds other than sheer cowardice?

(By the way, after the good things I've said about him in the past, I'm glad Grant Smith has started out by showing his true ability. I was worried he'd somehow lost his mojo!)

To be honest if I were Mr Rowe I'd learn French, Spanish or German and manage a club to win their Second Division. An English manager doing that would wake up Premiership clubs (maybe he could appoint Roy Hodgson as advisor and language specialist!)

[Dancingwilldoit]

Rowe is a long way off the Prem. I learned a long time ago not to believe anything that was in the Mail or Express, Rowe has a job to do for us and thats get us up and back in the football league. If he does that he can have a knighthood for me or go and manage Bayern Munich or anyone else he wants. Lets not get too carried away with his abilities. Things look good atm but as we all know shit finds its way of blowing back in your face when you least expect it.

[Devongone]

Mr Rowe does have a lot to prove, but the only way to find out if he can is to make it possible for him to prove it. Getting us back to the EFL would be a much bigger achievement than anything Steve Bruce has done for years, but Brucie would win out over Mr Rowe any time in a race to take on a Premiership vacancy. By the time he's proved himself he'll be another boring old fart like you and me Dancing.

If Bielsa quits Leeds do you really think his miniature interpreter will be headhunted to manage anyone at all in this country, but Bobby Robson's interpreter has won everything.

I don't think Mr Rowe has a snowball's chance in hell of getting us into the EFL for next season, but equally I wouldn't have believed he could get us in sight of the play-offs without spending loads of money and employing a telescope.

But he's seen the usual manager mould, and he must know he isn't cut from it. He has to know, for better or worse, he's bit different. He could crash and burn, but he's certainly gone his own way. I celebrate that and hope he can keep it going.

The irony is that I'm the one who thought we were asking the impossible of a team to come back from Covid restrictions and little training to beat Notts County, Altrincham and then Stockport within a few days. Yes we need to be realistic, but we shouldn't confuse that with being unambitious. We have to lose games, but it isn't a good idea to lose to Eastleigh come Tuesday.

[spireitematt]

Rowe is a long way off the Prem. I learned a long time ago not to believe anything that was in the Mail or Express, Rowe has a job to do for us and thats get us up and back in the football league. If he does that he can have a knighthood for me or go and manage Bayern Munich or anyone else he wants. Lets not get too carried away with his abilities. Things look good atm but as we all know shit finds its way of blowing back in your face when you least expect it.

I agree Dancing, one swallow doesn't make a summer.

[Devongone]

Try finding a swallow in winter.