Dave
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Post by Dave on Dec 16, 2008 17:45:26 GMT
After only 17 games and three months into a three year contract, Blackburn Rovers have sacked Paul Ince. Not sure what your views are on Ince and I know Blackburn are getting detached at the bottom of the Premier League, but has he been given enough time to prove his worth?
Who would want to be a manager in football these days? loved one minute and then cast as a villain the next, I can understand why a club like Blackburn feel they must stay in the Premier League, but they knew who Ince was and his record. It will be interesting to see who takes over and what effect the new man will have on the team and the results.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2008 18:08:35 GMT
I watched Rovers a lot in the 1980s when Bobby Saxton - ex Argyle and City - was manager. Always a solid, well-organised outfit they challenged for promotion a few times with players who were there for years: Gennoe, Branagan, Fazackerley, Keeley, Mail, Rathbone, Barker, Brotherston, Miller and the one and only Simon Garner (who played for us at the f*g end of his career).
Back then the locals, remembering better times, complained of a "lack of ambition". I left the area in 1988 and didn't return until I popped in to see the changes at Ewood one day in 1998. Our presence was soon detected on CCTV and a security guard asked us to leave, but not before we got talking.
"You know something" he told us "this club completely lacks ambition. Always has done!".
I could only smile because Rovers had won the Premier League in those intervening years which, of course, all seems a long time ago now. I guess years of Premier League dosh makes Rovers a big club but Blackburn is neither a large nor wealthy community. Even though the fans were hard to please back in the 1980s, I always felt the club had a sense of place, perspective and direction. I'm not sure if this is still the case.
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merse
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Post by merse on Dec 16, 2008 19:05:35 GMT
 I don't know who is the more arrogant..............the club for appointing someone who hadn't got the basic qualifications or Ince who even then "bunked" off his crash course in getting the required licence to play golf. I wouldn't waste your time feeling sorry for such a self centred ego-centric Dave, he wouldn't lower himself to even acknowledge your good thoughts. In my opinion Blackburn deserve to be exactly where they are for disrespecting the rest of the game and appointing him in the face of all the accumulated knowledge and qualification that was on their application list last time.................rock bottom and sinking. It's significant that the manager at the very pinnacle of our national game had to spend six years proving himself at the outset of his managerial career working with the thirteen and then sixteen year olds at AC Milan. If it's good enough for Fabio Cappello then it's good enough for the Inces, Keanes and Southgates of this world who got handed Premier jobs they were neither entitled to nor qualified for on a plate when there were perfectly good and qualified personnel rejected. Now we have "I don't like people, if I could I'd just walk my dog for the rest of my life and then die without talking to anyone" Tony Adams put in a charge of Portsmouth...................no wonder Joe Jordan promptly walked out! I'll give this dysfunctional and socially ill at ease misfit another two months - maximum.
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