Coughlan’s comments - considering his future

Tbf I think GC has overestimated himself, or at the very least underestimated the size of the job he has to do with Mansfield. They're a team that clearly believe they should be pushing for promotion and if GC doesn't hit the ground running I think the pressure will be on him very quickly, they seemingly expect a lot with the money they've spent recruiting him and JD and paying off their compensation fees.

The cheapest option with zero experience at this level hardly suggests they are gunning for a promotion push. 

Rubbish. The cheapest option would have been Hargreaves or someone else, already on the books. Personally I think he's a good choice and I don't think his wages will be less than GC's. They have given him a 2 and half year deal and he's been an assistant for a Premier League club. Expect he was on more than GC and all of our staff then. Wouldn't be surprised, if he's atleast on his wages now.

Plus we went for Nathan Jones, but he was not interested. It wasn't about the cheapest option.

Never understood fans, who think any board don't want to do up. What world do they live in.

If they want to sell the club, or keep us, it would still be better for them, if we went up. More TV money, more ticket sales, more media, better sponsorship deals etc. They could still keep the playing budget at 60%. Which would higher the wages a lot. But the 40% for other stuff, would be a lot higher, lowering our losses. They wouldn't need to higher the budget, if they didn't care. Could just keep the extra money and come straight back down.

Why would they want to put the brakes on? Give me one good reason?

I am no fan of the board, but surely the cheapest option would have been the people we already have at the club, such as Hargreaves and Mansell. Perhaps he was the person who was the best for the job in terms of bringing young players through and contacts in football to get loans etc. Didn’t we approach Nathan Jones first? Certainly not a cheap option.

I agree.

Who, in their right mind, would come to a club where the board effectively say, or give the impression that, "If we appoint you, you must not win too many matches because we do not want to get promoted."? The board have to sell the club as having great potential. This particularly applies to Rovers, as Wael has not had a piggy back for some time and is starting to mope, which is irritating the family.

This is even more borne out by the fact that a young manager, especially one in his first managerial role, would most definitely not take on a job where he knew he could not enhance his worth. Indeed, I would opine that he would look at it as jumping on a partially made chance of gaining promotion.

This is an old chestnut that does the rounds every time a team stutters and chokes.

Garner won't have been a cheap option and anyway, why is the cheapest option necessarily a bad one? The only managers to have achieved anything in this century were both internal appointments and so-called cheap options.

The notion that any board will have attracted a manager, however inexperienced, by suggesting to him that we'd better not win too many games is ridiculous. It's true that we are in no way set up for life in the Championship and would probably have to keep our wages as low as possible in that league were we to get there, but to suggest we don't want to win games just smacks of ammunition for those who seem to have an agenda against Garner already.

Give the bloke a chance FFS. Unless things are truly awful (i.e. Dobson, Penney, Buckle), that means judge him at the end of next season. This was clearly an ambitious, long term appointment. Give him a chance to see if he can make it work, rather than writing him off after one training session and one game.

I watched the recent Starnes interview and thought he was very genuine and straight talking especially about his ambitions for the club. Do you believe he wasn't?

Don’t think garner is a cheap option but he isn’t an expensive option either. Gasheads seem to be getting excited about his coaching in the prem but he was out of work and has not had a management role before. Expensive coach he may have been, but unproven as a manager he is.

If he does struggle, which I doubt, they could always appoint a temporary Director of Football.