Valérien Ismaël: Blackburn Rovers Head Coach

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

4 hours ago, 47er said:

Venkys taking us down, Ismael is just the useful complicit idiot.

 

Edited 11 hours ago by SIMON GARNERS 194

[RevidgeBlue]

29 minutes ago, Hasta said:

I don't disagree. At the minute he still appears to have kudos with the fan base so his words are being taken at face value rather than ridiculed. He is a good platform for the club to spin their narrative. I doubt we will start seeing the frustration in interviews we saw from the previous managers.

I really hope I'm wrong because in the past 10 years we've always felt like there has been some good fighting a lost cause within the club and usually it has been the manager.

100%.

Whilst JDT was constantly calling out the powers that be, you felt there was some hope despite the ownership.

Eustace was slightly more professional as it were in the sense that he didn't make his dissatisfaction so public. But you could tell he wasn't happy, Towards the end you could hear the optimism draining out of him with every interview.

This guy gives the impression all is well and he's 100 % on board. That may change of course but I doubt it.

[RevidgeBlue]

So in VI 's 14 competitive matches so far.........

We've conceded the opening goal inside the first 20 mins 8 times.

Of those eight,  4 of them were actually inside the first 10 mins.

Out of those four where we conceded inside the first 10 mins, we actually conceded a second goal inside the opening 10 mins on 3 out of the 4 occasions!!!

Surely these figures are completely unacceptable no matter how good or bad we think the players are or whatever level you happen to be playing at.

They smack of a lack of organisation, lack of concentration from the first whistle and an  unwillingness to put it all on the line for this manager.

Edited 9 hours ago by RevidgeBlue

[Tomphil2]

It certainly indicates a lack of high intensity football.

[roverandout]

If we go on losing run then his future needs to be called into question 

[bigbrandjohn]

What saves him is that henis a bag of laughs

[Blow-in]

17 hours ago, SuperBrfc said:

He won't be here for long. I think most of us can see where this is heading. He looked aghast on the touchline towards the end tonight. I think he has been sold an illusion just like Lambert, JDT and Eustace were.

In terms of actual management, he showed promise at the back end of last season, but he has just seen his squad dismantled by a numbers man with something else in mind.

It must be deflating seeing a squad you were happy with, seeing players who you wanted to stay on and who weren't difficult to keep hold of, let go and be replaced by random shite.

I think Ismael realises he's on to a loser. In my opinion, he will be gone before the Jan window when he hears there will be little activity.

I'm fully expecting it. Like I said earlier, IMO, all of these managers are part of a 'normal' camp that wants to win, but there appears to be an opposing camp that doesn't seem arsed about that, and at times looks like it doesn't want to. That camp is the root of all our problems, IMO.

Why would he leave a championship club who cannot afford to sack him where he will be under no pressure and has a 3 year contract. To take a chance with another at best relegation candidate where he will quite likely get sacked in 6 months.

 

Only way this guy leaves voluntarily is if Rovers stop paying wages. I think he will continue to half arse it till the end of contract. I cannot see the fans turning on him.

[DeeCee]

26 minutes ago, Blow-in said:

Why would he leave a championship club who cannot afford to sack him where he will be under no pressure and has a 3 year contract. To take a chance with another at best relegation candidate where he will quite likely get sacked in 6 months.

 

Only way this guy leaves voluntarily is if Rovers stop paying wages. I think he will continue to half arse it till the end of contract. I cannot see the fans turning on him.

I can see the fans turning on him (low hanging fruit). The problem is above him and he knows it. He'll continue picking up his wages for as long as he can. Another grifter.

[Upside Down]

Fair do's to him. He was unemployed and he's picked up a job with 3.5 years guaranteed wages. 

Results don't matter, if he does well he's worked an absolute miracle and if he doesn't then can he really be blamed completely? 

He's irrelevant. We could have Ancelotti in charge and it wouldn't make any difference. The club has been as clear as they can be, there is no ambition to get promoted back into the Premier League. 

I honestly don't care anymore. They've never seen a penny of my money and they never will. This situation is not unique to Rovers either, there needs to be fundamental changes to the way football clubs are owned. Until that is changed there will just be more of the same. 

Fuck it. Roll on league one.