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Yeah I agree with that - its tempting to some as he has achieved a lot already in his role. If he did step up then we would need to find someone capable enough to replace him in his role and I think that could be a real challenge. At best I think Rubio could take over temporarily, but only in the very short term. He seems to be doing great work in the academy and that has to be a priority going forward given our tradition of bringing through good youth players.

PW has a lot of dreams.

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He will either bring in a temporary/caretaker until the end of the season (likely either Rubio or someone previously associated with the club) and spend months researching/interviewing someone for the job in the summer.

Or like you say, he will act quickly - but this doesn't seem like Pete's style. He won't want to fuck up again.

My gut says that we won't bring in a permanent manager before the end of the January window. I think we'll have a caretaker first, and my gut says it will be Rubio until the end of the season.

I need ice cream.

Time for a conspiracy theory

Dan Micciche left the FA by Mutual agreement 21.12.

On 21.1 is PW in talks with him. ( I know Filthy comment re Cotterill but he was at least one of our games and perhaps he turned us down) This morning Micciche is heavily backed to be the next manager.

Had PW bearing in mind his video all ready selected Micciche but the FA put a claus(e) (it was Xmas) in his contact that he could not take up employment elsewhere for a month. Not beyond the realms of possibility. On 20/1 Neilson sacked or whatever you want to call it.

I for one do not believe in coincidences (with good reason)

PW cannot hang around this time and needs to have the job done this week transfer window etc

The only thing I hope if this is the case he finds some experience from League 1 from somewhere.

Which leads me to KR or Phil Brown(e)

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Not sure Pete will share that view. We need players and bringing in a manger pre-31st Jan means he can do the deals to get them in. Likely candidates will be assessing the current squad and know who they want out the door and where too if that’s what needs to happen to make the required deals work.

I’ll be stunned if we don’t have anyone in before Friday.

I think we'll have someone announced as being in charge until the summer. Even if a manager came in today, I really think they would struggle to have a meaningful impact on the squad with transfers given that there is only 10 days left.

Most of the groundwork will have been done by Bobby W and others, probably inline with what Neilson has instructed. So unless the new manager has his own ideas/connections, I don't think we will see much activity. Maybe a LB or CB already researched by Bobby W.

We'll have to wait for him to be evicted from the Big Brother House.

Everyone had better get on their phones then and vote for him to stay.

Sky Sports reporting that Alan Stubbs is apparently interested.

It shows the difference between Scottish & English football again, Hibernian 58% wins, Rotherham 7% wins.

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