May sound like total panic but I would say thanks but no thanks to Holloway, pay him off & get Rowett in - he is a great coach - look what he has done at both Burton & Birmingham with no money. Problem is the board/owners will make noises about sticking with their man/QPR through & through blah blah blah - we all know that Clement & Rowett were the first/second choice when JFH was sacked. Inevitably somebody else will end up with a great manager/coach & we will end up going to Milton Keynes, Wimbledon, Gillingham etc. Don't get me wrong - I really like Ollie - I just don't think he is the man to take the club where it needs to go....
It may sound crazy, but taking Rowett is an opportunity. Holloway isn't working and Rowett is highly respected as a manager for the future. I would rather be re-building under him than what we have now.
Time for Tone to grow a pair. Admit that, likeable though Ollie is, there is a more suitable man out there. Let's have Rowett and his back room team. Ollie's compensation package will be mitigated by what we save on Les's wages as he too can go. Having just sat through two hours of hideous traffic to get to W12 to see 90 minutes of lessons on how to pass a ball backwards - I'm desperate to see better gameplay by my team.
Gianfranco Zola: Birmingham City appoint ex-West Ham boss as manager please log in to view this image Gianfranco Zola has been sacked by West Ham, Italian side Cagliari and Qatari side Al-Arabi Gianfranco Zola has been appointed the new manager of Championship side Birmingham City to replace the sacked Gary Rowett. Former Chelsea and Italy striker Zola, 50, has signed a two-and-half-year contract with the West Midlands club. Blues, who are seventh in the table, sacked Rowett on Wednesday after he spent more than two years in charge. Club director Panos Pavlakis said Zola's "pedigree" fits with Blues' ambition to "move in a new direction". Zola's first match in charge will be at home against second-placed Brighton on Saturday. Zola's last managerial job was with Qatari side Al-Arabi, but he was sacked in June after just one season. Prior to that the Italian managed West Ham, Serie A side Cagliari and Watford. Birmingham were taken over by Chinese firm Trillion Trophy Asia in October. Rowett's dismissal and Zola's appointment comes in the wake of the new owners making three new boardroom appointments on Monday. Wenqing Zhao, Chun Kong Yiu and Zhu Kai, all existing directors of Hong Kong-based Birmingham International Holdings, have formed a new five-man board at St Andrew's, alongside existing directors Pavlakis and Victor Ma. Rowett was dismissed with Birmingham just outside the play-off places on goal difference after winning 2-1 at home to Ipswich on Tuesday. The Blues' previous two results were 4-0 and 3-0 defeats by Newcastle and Barnsley respectively - the only defeats in the club's past seven league matches. http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/38322274
Agree ................... Birmingham will only drop from where they are now. Any confidence and momentum the team had has now been cut off. Only a complete imbecile of an owner would sack a manager who has a motivated team moving forward and heading to the playoffs.
