00:00 Moving on then, the process is very much well underway of replacing Cisco.
00:16 It's looking increasingly likely that Danny Rowe, I'm going to work out how to say it,
00:23 I've been told, or sorry I picked up on Twitter that you pronounce it how somebody from Hull
00:30 would say Rowe.
00:32 So I think it's Danny Rowe.
00:36 So Danny Rowe has a lot of experience for someone at such a young age in terms of the
00:46 amount of clubs and very big clubs and very big jobs that he's had.
00:51 He has been at RB Leipzig, he's been at Southampton, he's been assistant coach with the German
00:59 national team alongside Hansi Flick, but he hasn't been a manager before.
01:07 Now we spoke last week about the fact that Wendsey perhaps needs a firefighter now at
01:20 this stage and perhaps somebody like Neil Warnock or somebody who has the experience
01:24 of doing that kind of job would be best at this stage and perhaps maybe looking at somebody
01:30 like Danny Rowe in the summer to kind of start a project.
01:35 Clearly those in power at Sheffie Wendsey believe that there is more than enough time
01:40 for this season to be turned around and the project can start immediately if indeed Danny
01:44 Rowe is the man to take over.
01:48 Does that surprise you a little bit?
01:52 Not really.
01:53 Look, we gather that Danny Rowe was someone that the club spoke to at length in the summer
01:57 before Chisko was appointed.
02:02 I think Wendsey have rightly been accused in recent years of sort of lurching from one
02:09 thing to the other and so I think following through with a certain profile of manager
02:15 is something that I think can be commended.
02:19 There are anxieties around where Wendsey are and where the squad is compared to the rest
02:25 of the championship just in terms of the set-up and maybe a perceived lack of dynamism and
02:32 all the rest of it there.
02:36 Look, if Danny Rowe had been appointed in the summer I think there would have been a
02:39 great deal of excitement and rightfully so.
02:42 It's an appointment that I remain excited about.
02:45 It's just a very, very difficult place for a 34-year-old first-time manager to come in.
02:51 There's no doubt in his coaching CV that the club that he missed off there was the
02:56 Little Mermaid.
03:00 And so I always find it a bit lazy when you sort of cling to certain things and Mikel
03:08 Ateta and Enzo Maresca and all these managers have followed a very similar path in terms
03:16 of being the background figure behind big, big-name managers of big clubs and knowing
03:22 the pressure that comes with it.
03:23 Now, it is a different kettle of spuds when you're the main man.
03:29 I've read an awful lot of English language interviews that he's done.
03:35 I think his grasp on the language is pretty good and he speaks very, very well and very,
03:41 very confidently.
03:42 He's 34, he's younger than Wednesday's number nine, which is always a little bit of a quirk.
03:51 I mean, there are pitfalls and there are big ticks, I think, in the potential appointment,
04:00 which we should say with all the caveats is not done yet.
04:04 The madness of Sheffield Wednesday always sort of plants something in the back of your
04:07 mind that something could change quite late on.
04:10 But it's one that I'm cautiously excited about.
04:15 There are many ways to skin a relegation battle.
04:20 Lurching from being Neil Warnock's biggest cheerleader to Danny Rill might feel a bit
04:25 disingenuous but, as I say, there's many ways to go about this and if Wednesday are sort
04:30 of pressing on with a certain profile of manager and where they want to go about it, then that
04:35 has to be commended.
04:38 You name those top teams and the big, big name players that he will have worked with,
04:46 sometimes that doesn't always translate to the Championship.
04:51 However, kind of doing a little bit of reading up and having a look on social media around
04:56 what Southampton fans have said, they're very much of the opinion that...
05:01 I wouldn't go as far as to say he was the brains behind it, but in the Championship
05:09 and in the Premier League with Hasenhuttl, they felt that things started to go wrong
05:17 in that regime when he left.
05:21 He's clearly very, very highly rated as a coach first and foremost and translating that
05:30 to a different set of players I guess would have its question marks.
05:38 But, I mean, reading around him, when Hansi Flick left Bayern Munich to having headhunted
05:46 him from Southampton, Julian Nagelsmann wanted to keep him on board at Bayern and now that
05:53 Nagelsmann has followed Flick into the Germany job, he very much fancied him as part of the
05:58 coaching staff there.
05:59 So these are some of the biggest, biggest names in football management the world over
06:03 that don't appear to have anything bad to say about him.
06:09 It's a step down for him.
06:10 There is absolutely no doubt.
06:12 He has dipped in, if it's done, he's dipped down for Sheffield Wednesday.
06:22 In my eyes, looking at his profile and all the rest of it, you look at the number of
06:25 young managers that get given a go at Bundesliga level or clubs perhaps, a little bit more
06:33 calmly set up in the Championship in recent years and I think it's a coup for Wednesday.
06:39 It certainly, certainly would have been in the summer.
06:41 There is that niggling doubt over the firefighter tag and having to come in and hit the ground
06:48 running immediately.
06:49 But yes, like I say, this is Wednesday's win rather than Danny Rill sort of fighting his
06:59 way through his career.
07:01 And just finally, just going by what you've said, is there a slight concern that he, well
07:09 I mean it's probably pretty obvious really, will he be feeling that this is probably a
07:13 stepping stone into bigger things, potentially a Premier League job if he does well here?
07:20 Yes, Danny Rill isn't sat here at 34 working at the clubs that he's been at to think that
07:26 he's going to finish his career as Sheffield Wednesday manager.
07:30 If he does, Wednesday will probably be a Champions League club at the end of it and all the rest
07:33 of it.
07:34 So, everyone would be a winner but yes, let's not worry about the potential stepping stone
07:41 tag.
07:42 If he does go off and find a bigger and better job, he'll have done a good job at Sheffield
07:47 Wednesday and yes, everyone walks away happy I think.
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