He was at Wire from 2009-2017. That is quite a long time for a coach to stay these days.

Not posted in a while but just wanted to make a comment on everyone slagging off players like Taylor saying they're the reason were in this mess and they should be binned etc - well my opinions different - im sure weve all worked in an environment where a manager gets promoted beyond their abilities and pay grade and you have little or no faith in them, they continually make poor decisions and quite frankly you lose all motivation to do a good job for them as theyre clueless - well continually promoting untried assistants has caused total apathy from a large amount of the players with very few of them having any faith in the coaches ability and that is why the team is such a mess. Tony Smith is an appointment this club has been crying out for for years - i dont think he's gonna turn us into world beaters but if we can play with the enthusiasm HKR did it will a massive improvement and im actually looking foward to next season massively more than i was a couplle of weeks ago

I'll echo that.

Slight difference being that when I go to work I don’t have a group of fans supporting me and paying good money to watch me do the best I can.

If they don’t want to do it for the coach they should at least be motivated to do it for the fans.

Especially in a local derby and especially when some of those players themselves grew up fans of the club so know what it is like and how we are feeling?

I'll echo that.

Keep issues in house. There's better ways as senior players they can voice their displeasure behind closed doors
Displaying poor form and attitude on the pitch hurts the fans and in turn the club financially.
They're professional sportsmen, use common sense to deal with the problems.
The players are part of this process and equally as culpable, no excuses.
If it wasn't for TS appointment I'd have probably not renewed my pass.
Well done the players for making a point on the field

Pretty chipper thank you

Happy and looking forward to next season, thanks, Keith.

Also feeling happy about his appointment.
What do your signings have to do with us?
He was given a directive I'm sure at Rovers and a budget on which to do it hence why you signed so many championship players particularly from Bradford.

I personally aren't interested in Rovers and who you sign.

Smith is the Hull coach and I'll judge him on how he performs for us not what he did at the last little club he coached at.

Well put.

I mean, I'll point out things like the last time Rovers won a trophy was during the first half of Queen Elizabeth II's long reign (she was in her fifties at the time) but aside from that I'm not particularly interested. Certainly not with regards who they've signed.

Are they now using Rovers Wembley win as a reference point in the history curriculum akin to the Roman invasion and the Great Fire of London.

Yes, it was exactly halfway between the two.

I understand completely the banter and even have over the years tried to appreciate why exactly supporters from another team want to go on a rivals teams site to gloat after a Derby victory although on both counts it really seems futile. But I can't really comprehend the under tones of envy and bitterness that seems to come through with some Rovers supporters (not all) still after a week posting on here when we have signed a guy who was out of work and whose last employers (their team) seemed to everyone to have driven him out of his last position there. They have a new coach arriving have apparently signed the best incoming stars and are being hailed as the top club in the city at present. pretty sad really but I think they should move on.

That post engender a lot of bites. Most naturally off topic. I was only pointing out that TS’s success in signings is not that good. Better than Hodgson’s admittedly but that would not be difficult.

It happens on all sites. FC fans are as guilty as any others. If they look at the present and not continue to live in the past they and you would see that for the last two years we have been the top club in the city. Long may it continue. Looking forward to more bites.