Jon Dahl Tomasson - Sweden coach

[roversfan99]

He was stubborn and clearly trying to prove a point in season 2, but the squad had been ripped apart and filled with crap, and has also become over reliant on sub par academy players or existing rubbish that had to play a more prevalent role.

I suspect the Isak situation has really hindered them so far in qualifying. He did start yesterday but as shown at Liverpool is still unfit.

[BRFC.]

Would have him here (obviously he’ll never come back under this regime) but I’d have him here any day of the week over Ismael. 

[Commondore]

On 11/10/2025 at 18:03, joey_big_nose said:

JDT is - from what I saw at Rovers in his first season - a very good fair weather manager who can build a team and get more than you would expect out of it's constituent parts. But as he is from the Ange Postecoglou school of "lets throw everything into the attack and let the defenders figure it out" he's not great when things start going against you and you need to batten down the hatches, as we saw in season 2.

This has pretty much been his tenure in a nutshell. To be fair, he was given a brief to play attacking football after the usual Swedish approach of hard teamwork and defense had grown very stale, and we've produced a lot of attacking talent in the last few years while there's been a dearth of defenders and defensive midfielders. Still, the result of JDT's tactics have been that those not very good defenders have been badly exposed without the support of the players who are roving forward.

[JHRover]

The time for JDT has been and gone. When he was here we had the foundation of a strong Championship squad and on top of that invested sensibly and effectively in people like Szmodics, Brittain and Hyam. 

The combination of Mowbray's left over squad, those good signings, JDT's impact / ambition and the Adam Wharton emergence - the stars aligned at the right time and we could have done it. 

Some prefer to convince themselves that we will never get promoted or close to it because of crowds, money, excuses but even under these wretched owners we ended up in a position to take that step under JDT. Engaged owners with some ambition would have backed him 'heavily' in his first January - instead they borrowed Sorba Thomas from Huddersfield.

Nowadays it wouldn't work as well - they've gutted the squad of the quality it once had and are ensuring the prospects even of repeating signings like Szmodics and Brittain are remote. 

I think JDT struggled at times here because he was just on a totally different wavelength footballing wise to most of the players who had enjoyed the happy camp under Mowbray for years. Nowadays that would be even more extreme - I doubt any of them are capable of performing in the way he wants.

[chaddyrovers]

Rovers not signing being able to convince Denis Undav to join us in January or even having a Plan B option meant we didn't get the playoff place or even better in JDT's first season. 

Understand think JDT learnt alot about English football but more importantly Rovers 

[roversfan99]

He will have to learnt to not take jobs with dreadful owners.

[chaddyrovers]

He needs to be club management but willing to be more adaptable in tactical 

Edited 7 hours ago by chaddyrovers

[JHRover]

2 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

Rovers not signing being able to convince Denis Undav to join us in January or even having a Plan B option meant we didn't get the playoff place or even better in JDT's first season. 

Understand think JDT learnt alot about English football but more importantly Rovers 

A pattern emerges of not getting business done when needed. 

I very much doubt that's because we 'couldn't convince' a player to join us and is more likely because the owners and their henchman refused to sanction the outlay. In doing so it probably cost them millions and millions.

JDT will have learned one thing from his time at Rovers. Never, ever trust a Venky. 

[chaddyrovers]

11 minutes ago, JHRover said:

A pattern emerges of not getting business done when needed. 

I very much doubt that's because we 'couldn't convince' a player to join us and is more likely because the owners and their henchman refused to sanction the outlay. In doing so it probably cost them millions and millions.

JDT will have learned one thing from his time at Rovers. Never, ever trust a Venky. 

Undav said publicly he turned down to stay and fight for Place at Brighton. 

We already a deal in place with Brighton. JDT and GB couldn't convince him to join us. 

Gregg Broughton's comments on the public record " I think it's on the public record we had an agreement in place with Brighton for Deniz Undav, and at that stage just before it was done, the player decided to stay in-house. "

https://x.com/Rovers/status/1621486156721553410?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1621486156721553410|twgr^87f7e0e8d7a397d4e5e781152c1257c1b972938b|twcon^s1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ffootballleagueworld.co.uk%2Fkey-blackburn-rovers-figure-reveals-premier-league-striker-turned-down-january-transfer-move%2F

[roversfan99]

1 hour ago, chaddyrovers said:

He needs to be club management but willing to be more adaptable in tactical 

Until he left, you was pretty insistent that he was correct to carry on playing as we was at the time.

He was wrong but it seemed to be out of stubborness rather than naivety. He had plans and he had the carpet totally pulled from underneath him, hence why he wanted to resign. His main lesson is to choose his next club based on the owners and board. Dont make the mistake he made here where Venkys totally messed up all of his plans.

[JCRovers]

JDT is an idealist, not a very pragmatic coach or tactician who can adapt his approach during games. Would probably have gotten us into playoffs had he been backed during his first season. Second season was a disaster because he wanted out early and he refused to change tactics when it was obviously not working given the squad at hand. But you kinda see in his way of approaching games that he used to play as a striker - Sweden showed some great attacking moves against Switzerland the other day (Bergvall somewhat unlucky not to score twice) but he gets exposed for his lack of defensive thinking / tactical knowledge / experience when he's facing teams playing on the counter (e.g. the defeat vs Kosovo away). Which could also explain the strange pattern of rarely ever drawing a game when he was coaching us.

Think he will be successful in the future if he finds an assistant coach that complements him a bit better than what Reijnierse does at the moment.