Valérien Ismaël: Blackburn Rovers Head Coach

[RTM08]

7 minutes ago, davulsukur said:

What a truly disgraceful appointment this was.

21 games and only 6 wins. 

Get the fuck out.

The number of losses for me is the more damning statistic. 

[StHelensRover]

He's not very good, I'd sack him. But then I've no faith in Suhail and Rudy to be able to appoint anyone any better. This is a big mess.

[roversfan99]

6 wins, 3 losses, 12 defeats.

Shit manager and absolutely no chance of him going anywhere.

[den]

4 minutes ago, StHelensRover said:

He's not very good, I'd sack him. But then I've no faith in Suhail and Rudy to be able to appoint anyone any better. This is a big mess.

It is a big mess, you’re right.

It isnt about any one individual. It’s about the owners. We are owned by failures who appoint failures. It won’t change.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

The next week is massive. If he can’t summon up a win out of those two games I agree it’s a taxi for Ismael.

Edited 8 hours ago by Tyrone Shoelaces

[KentExile]

Just now, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

The next week is massive. If he can’t summon up a win out of those two I agree it’s a taxi for Ismael.

we might agree, but those in charge won't bother changing anything

[BRFC.]

His PPG (0.70) this season, absolutely diabolical he has to go, claimed this squad is better than last season. Get him gone, get an experienced championship manager and an experienced competent CEO. Disgrace.

[BRFC.]

Just now, BRFC. said:

His PPG (0.70) this season, absolutely diabolical he has to go, claimed this squad is better than last season. Get him gone, get an experienced championship manager and an experienced competent CEO. Disgrace.

Suhail, Rudy and Venkys (the main problem) leaving would be excellent too! Had enough 

[DanielMB]

Venkys don’t sack managers, but if they did what would be the point? Nothing will  change. They just find another guy to try and piece together a team from all the dross Rudy brings in. 

[Ghost7]

19 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

6 wins, 3 losses, 12 defeats.

Shit manager and absolutely no chance of him going anywhere.

 

Sounds like the perfect manager for Rovers to me.

[Tom]

May as well sack him and replace with another jobber, being a bad manager combined with an ‘unlucky’ one never ends well 

This is Venkyland though and he’s likely here till he has had enough 

Edited 8 hours ago by Tom

[sharpysharps86]

1 minute ago, Tom said:

May as well sack him and replace with another jobber, being a bad manager combined with an ‘unlucky’ one never ends well 

This is Venkyland though and he’s likely here till he has had enough 

Indeed.

Sadly the reality is as much as I am not a fan of Ismael and would like him gone....I'm also terrified of who the replacement would be. Based on player incomings it'd be an unheard of foreign coach.

[StHelensRover]

Just heard his guff on radio lancs and I think I've heard enough from him now.

Banged on about how good we were in first half, said there was lots of positives to take from the game and a good mentality. No pushback against that really from BBC and then Kev Gallacher didn't really disagree too much either in his response to the interview. This fanbase is up against it this season. 

Edited 8 hours ago by StHelensRover

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

32 minutes ago, StHelensRover said:

He's not very good, I'd sack him. But then I've no faith in Suhail and Rudy to be able to appoint anyone any better. This is a big mess.

Yep,damned if we do,damned if we dont.

[Polky]

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

2 minutes ago, StHelensRover said:

Just heard his guff on radio lancs and I think I've heard enough from him now.

Banged on about how good we were in first half, said there was lots of positives to take from the game and a good mentality. No pushback against that really from BBC and then Kev Gallacher didn't really disagree too much either in his response to the interview. This fanbase is up against it this season. 

Kevin 'Sit on the Fence' Gallacher wont say boo to a Goose.

[StHelensRover]

I think BBC probably watched what happened with Eliot Jackson at the LT and realised that they'll also be sent packing from Ewood if they dare to ask anyone at the Venky politburo anything more difficult than what their favourite colour is or favourite film.

Edited 7 hours ago by StHelensRover

[Mattyblue]

Especially Gallacher who is never out the hospitality suites.

[LDRover]

Pissmael's predecessor at Barnsley Gerhard Struber continues to push on at Bristol City.

There are imaginative leftfield appointments that can work in this league, not that any of the no-marks we have making the decisions would ever find them.

[RoversClitheroe]

Quell my suprise absolutely wank manager.

[BRFC.]

43 minutes ago, StHelensRover said:

Just heard his guff on radio lancs and I think I've heard enough from him now.

Banged on about how good we were in first half, said there was lots of positives to take from the game and a good mentality. No pushback against that really from BBC and then Kev Gallacher didn't really disagree too much either in his response to the interview. This fanbase is up against it this season. 

Sadly some fans are also clapping along and backing the club. I’ve had enough of the manager, Rudy, Suhail and the owners. How long till we protest? Some “exciting summer” 

[StHelensRover]

1 minute ago, BRFC. said:

Sadly some fans are also clapping along and backing the club. I’ve had enough of the manager, Rudy, Suhail and the owners. How long till we protest? Some “exciting summer” 

"Why do you have to be so negative? Just back the lads ffs you're making it toxic and it affects the players. The owners are doing their best, they put £20mill in every year, good luck finding someone else to put that in. It's not 1995 anymore. Let's forget about off the pitch stuff and sing some more songs about B*rnley, who we haven't laid a glove on since our owners bought the club and are constantly laughing at us."

 

[BRFC.]

5 minutes ago, StHelensRover said:

"Why do you have to be so negative? Just back the lads ffs you're making it toxic and it affects the players. The owners are doing their best, they put £20mill in every year, good luck finding someone else to put that in. It's not 1995 anymore. Let's forget about off the pitch stuff and sing some more songs about B*rnley, who we haven't laid a glove on since our owners bought the club and are constantly laughing at us."

 

Fair 😂

 

[London blue]

I know we can be a dreary bunch but the majority of posters on here are well informed and know their football.

Very, very few celebrated VI's appointment. 

The combination of (lack of) man-management, towing the Venkys line and throwing multiple players to the wolves and frankly baffling calls regarding tactics and subs is proving that right.

Don't forget his win record.

He's shite.

[StHelensRover]

I think if we had appointed pretty much anyone else last season after Eustace walked, we would have got into the playoffs. When you look back at the position we were in, the favorable run of fixtures we had, the fact that some of the other usual suspects for the playoffs had 'off' seasons,  it's quite incredible that we managed to not finish in the playoff places. It really took some doing to not finish in them, because so many other teams stumbled and faltered. 

I'm not saying we would have won the playoffs, I don't think the team was good enough for that. But if we had finished 5th or 6th, that would have been our best ever season under the Venkys, without question. But instead we went for someone who historically barely lasts a year at a club, with a very questionable record of success.  We went from someone who put man-management front and centre of his approach to someone who doesn't seem to give a toss about the players and will throw them under the bus at the first opportunity. His approach to last season was so awful that all our senior and experienced players left the club as quickly as they could, I'm convinced he is one of the reasons they were so keen to leave.