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I think that's harsh. Until Lambert and Rowett, Stoke had changed their manager once in over 500 competitive games - Pulis was there for 7 years, Hughes for 5. Correct, and if they've all got sense, that will be recognised and addressed as soon as possible. Following on from my point above...

I used to live in the Luton area. It's a very ordinary town, but scruffy and far too much racial tension. Some of the estates in the area are proper grim too - I'm thinking in particular of Lewsey Farm, but there are others.

All of this. Nothing wrong with Stoke City. Crap area, a few twats in their support for sure, but a decent enough club IMO. If I was a Stoke fan, I'd be loving the idea of Jones going there - far better than the usual tired merry go round managers they've been saddled with for several years now.

Actually that is fair comment. But given his record at Derby and Stoke I'd have to say he doesn't look like an appointment for a club with a realistic hope of promotion from the Championship. He might do a job at, say, Ipswich or a league one club.

Would be a great appointment. Not least because I'll be able to will Luton back down the league again.

One promotion. He had six months to steer clear of relegation in the first place in 2012/13, failed to do so, then spent a fortune getting them back up (by the skin of their teeth via the play-offs). Another crap but incredibly lucky manager as everyone knows.

QPR 2012/13 and 2013/14 under Redknapp, although he'd been appointed to replace Mark Hughes :rolleyes: in Nov 2012.

I'm not sure this is true. You just happen to have picked two examples where the managers were kept, but for entirely different reasons. Benitez hadn't been at Newcastle long enough to turn around their relegation around and was in no way attributed to him. Dyche got Burnley up in the first...

He's a one trick pony who got the best out of the rubbish he inherited at Birmingham but has been dire ever since. James Mclean for £6m? Tom Ince for £11m? These are Rowett signings at Stoke. Nobody in their right mind would have paid that sort of money for those two bang average players...