We have lost three of our arguably our three biggest disappointments from last season - Evans, Greg and Sturridge.
We have lost squad players (myhill, yacob and Gmac) who rarely featured under Big Dave.
Big Dave coached the majority of this squad for the last six weeks of the season, he has seen them previous, he has a big advantage on Rowett there who has only been working with his players since pre-season began, admittedly ideally we would of had an assistant manager by now but if it is Jones and thats who Big Dave wanted, surely its best to wait for who you want than panic and get your 2nd or 3rd choice.
We dont know what sort of manager Big Dave will be and how much of a success he will be, however the same can be said of Rowett. Rowett has a good reputation but at the time of writing has not pulled up any trees in the championship, he steadied Blues then harshly got the sack, he spent big at Derby and failed to get them up.
There is a big difference between steadying the ship and getting a team promoted, he in under big pressure at Stoke, he didnt do it at Derby, be interesting to see how he does at Stoke. Also ask most Blues fans and they will say as much as they appreciate the job he did, his football is awful, it may of improved in time but his spell at Derby would suggest that isnt the case, after Hughes and Lambert, Stoke fans may be getting more of the same.
The above could apply to us with Darren Moore, but people getting carried away about Stoke, they have signed three decent championship players - Afobe, McClean and Ince, not even top players, at least Wolves got Neves and Jota last season.
Stoke may get Chester, looked good at Villa, and i think he would get into our team, however based on our current squad, Ince maybe would get games, not sure Mcclean and Afobe would.
We may lose Rondon, they may lose Butland, its all if and buts but personally i am yet to see the great business stoke have supposedly done.
PS - I am not saying we have done great either, i would still like us to sign 1 or 2 creative players.