I don’t think you will find too many rovers fans overly bothered about smith going to you guys, especially with the gap in between. Leaving us to go straight to you would have been ridiculous, but the man’s a coach and wants to coach so why does it matter now. It helps that we’ve moved on and seen life post tony smith and know there’s plenty to be excited about.
I wouldn’t have minded him staying though, brought our club together well and set us on an upward trajectory. Players seem bought in so should be good for that for you, as your players over the last few weeks look anything but bought in to be fair.
Coachings questionable at times, short plays and throwing it about in your own end. Not sure if you have the squad for that type of play immediately so could be some expectations managed, and if I had the patience or desire I’d be able to run back through these forums and find quote after quote of people laughing at rovers for calling him the messiah etc after defeats, the fickle world of sport
You could probably do better, but could do hell of a lot worse as well. Interesting to see contract length, only really wanted a 12 month rolling with us which was one of the fallouts with lakin who wanted him tied down longer to show commitment, hence why when it was clear we were looking at other options his dummy come out in that press conference
