Valérien Ismaël: Blackburn Rovers Head Coach

[metalrover]

JDT's style of play towards the end of his era clearly didn't work, but he persisted with it. We very nearly paid a heavy price for his stubbornness.

The passing out from the back gave me heart attacks, we clearly didn't have the players for such style of play.

[MarkBRFC]

7 hours ago, metalrover said:

JDT's style of play towards the end of his era clearly didn't work, but he persisted with it. We very nearly paid a heavy price for his stubbornness.

The passing out from the back gave me heart attacks, we clearly didn't have the players for such style of play.

In his first season it very much worked, and probably would have secured a top 6 finish if he had been backed by a couple of quality players in January.

The mistake was continuing to play that way at points in the following season when our side was weaker and we had various injuries etc.

[DE.]

Always felt like JDT's attitude was 'this is what I told you I would do, this is the project you said you'd support. If you choose not to do so, the consequences are on you, and I'm not changing my ways to compromise."

Some of that would have been fuelled by the fact he offered to leave in the summer and was forced to stay. He was essentially telling them this won't work, but the geniuses in charge decided to keep on going anyway.