the cal train wrote:I’d imagine a clear out has been in the pipeline for some time. Pearson/Clark must have some long term vision, probably wanted Hodgson to be the man to do it but he took too long to work with what he had.
Unfortunately Hogdsons recruitment was horrendous, he signed Gale, Reynolds, Evans, Mcintosh and Lovodua.
Then decided not to play Lovodua in the position he was brought in to play, rather playing Houghton for 80 minutes.
Radford has a lot to answer for too, giving out long deals to mates and releasing Litten and Abdul without really giving them a chance.
And obviously Pearson, kept Radford at least a year to long and appointing Hodgson. This along with academy merger has set us back a few years.
Hopefully Smith is the man to turn us around, I'm sure at the end of his first year at Rovers he made big chances, did well signing some young players too and ones from the championship.
I guess we will see what he can do.
Just hope the rumour about Cliilford is wrong