Sack Tommy Widdrington now please!!!!!

Well said hear hear

Blimey.

What a ridiculous statement, IMO made without any reasonable facts to substantiate sacking the man.
As I understand it he is Head of the scouting regime with multiple scouts, statisticians, match video editors etc reporting to him. and as stated by Widdrington he has a file on over 1000 players. There is no way on this earth that he has seen all these players. That list including video clips is presented to the manager.
I presume as he stated (there was a job advert a few weeks ago) there are scouts all over the country perhaps 10 - 20 even more who look at all levels of the game from under tens up to the Championship. These scouts watch all level of games, react to reports from team managers and players agents etc ( Nicholson was he scouted in USA or by agents contact? I believe there is an FA list of registered players who are out of work and available  to all clubs.
Widdrington stated the list only contained players within Rovers reasonable financial constraints. I think a reasonable guess is that many are in the lower age group with a view to the future with released premier/championship league players under 18/21/23 high on the list. How many are first team calibre would be the minority I would say. If the list contained 40 players in each position that's 440 players for a manager to choose from. It then fall on the manager to choose a player from the list accepting the financial constraints put on him by the CEO.
IMO it was Garner, lead and supported perhaps by Wael, who fell into the trap of moving too quick into the Peterborough model of buy cheap and sell high! Is that not what Barton has said in his latest interview 
Up the Widdy

Don’t defend this man it is time for him to go

I cant believe hes still here how head of recruitment!
We bottom of the league all but relegated!
Hes failed end of story?
Shut the door on your way out bye bye 👋
Hows they any other out come is beyond me

Didn’t tommy say we got enough goals in this squad ?
Well he was wrong big wasn’t he ?

a bit optimistic is understatement we are bottom of the league we got no defensive and basically no strike force?
And he head of recruitment !

He is an employee as well as a Director, and can be removed from both positions. 

So if I go to the head of recruitment and ask for a centre back, aged under 30, league 1 experience, leadership experience, strong in the air and able to pass the ball out of defence and they come back with Max Ehmer who takes the blame? The manager isn’t blameless as he has final sign off but if you can’t trust the head of recruitment who has spent hours watching these players and researching them personally, what’s the point in having them?

It beggars belief people still can’t see how things work. Widdrington’s main remit was recruiting players and Garners was coaching and developing them and picking the team / tactics.

Anyone that thinks Widdrington was just a Head scout needs to ask why his title was changed from head of recruitment to director of football to better reflect the role he was carrying out.

Almost all of the players signed you can link back to Widdrington either having formerly worked with the player or having spoken of his admiration of that player at some point. These were Widdrington’s players signed off, naively, by a guy who was content with a role mainly focussed on getting the best out of the ‘hand he was Dealt’ (Geordie Tommy, nov 2020)