Valérien Ismaël: Blackburn Rovers Head Coach

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16 hours ago, oldjamfan1 said:

Having dealt with Waggott several times I did warn when he left that fans celebrating his departure should be careful what they wished for. He was a canny operator.

Sometimes you just have to let the train wreck happen on its own.

[ageoftherover]

Napkin count has Middlesbrough with 9 injuries atm, including to key players like Brittain, McGree, Strelec. 

Maybe its the extra 4 that accounts for the 20 position gap on the league table.

[MarkBRFC]

15 hours ago, Athlete said:

WTF is VI still in employment ?

He is doing exactly what the regime wants him to do.

For the 100th time, football results are not a priority here.

15 hours ago, sharpysharps86 said:

Realistically I don't think he'll leave because he'll manage to scrape a win in the Sheffield Wednesday replay, keeping himself comfy in the job till the end of the season.

This is exactly what will happen, lose the next two fairly comfortably, then we'll beat Sheffield Wednesday and somehow get a point at Norwich and they won't stop banging on about it for ages.

Then we'll go another 10 or so without a win.

[DeeCee]

What's Tony Pulis doing nowadays?

[Mattyblue]

Give it Lowey to the end of the season (did Suhail ever get to the bottom of if he’s still employed or not?)

[LeftWinger]

20 hours ago, oldjamfan1 said:

Having dealt with Waggott several times I did warn when he left that fans celebrating his departure should be careful what they wished for. He was a canny operator.

Completely agree. Whenever I met him he struck me as an extremely knowledgeable football person. 

[Tomphil2]

Waggot was the public face of Rovers as a CEO should be but he was only half a CEO behind the scenes i'd wager.

He took the brunt of the stick whilst the others hid in the shadows and he did his best often to hide as well although maybe he was gagged who knows. This is the club who went to lengths to hire a director of communications and then stopped him from communicating !

So they finally get Waggot out the door as the fall guy, after finishing 7th, then embark on wrecking the stability at least his presence provided. 

The last advert for a new CEO read basically as a stadium manager even Nixon confirmed this so it's obvious who is running everything now so they should be held accountable for everything.

Starting Saturday.

[Tom]

Seems some Carlisle fans want Hughes out there; could genuinely see him back here.

How we’ve both fallen!

[sharpysharps86]

5 minutes ago, Tom said:

Seems some Carlisle fans want Hughes out there; could genuinely see him back here.

How we’ve both fallen!

Oof, yeah they seem to have blown it. Played 4 more games than 2nd placed Rochdale and are 2 points behind them, 3 points behind top of the table York who also have a game in hand on them. They appear at risk of not even making the playoffs.

[LeftWinger]

6 minutes ago, sharpysharps86 said:

Oof, yeah they seem to have blown it. Played 4 more games than 2nd placed Rochdale and are 2 points behind them, 3 points behind top of the table York who also have a game in hand on them. They appear at risk of not even making the playoffs.

They've got a 12 point cushion from the team outside the play-off spots - it's not that much of a risk.

[Mattyblue]

End of the Swag was a General Manager type figure. Senior face around the place, been in the game a long time, could placate fans with some anecdotes or merely just nodding along.

He had no power, CEO-INO but he was a deflection, especially when Cuddly Tone and uber-charismatic JDT (before he went after the regime) were here to deflect too.

Now with this motley crew who have the worst traits combined - unprofessional and out of their depth, but arrogant and un-charismatic with it. 

[sharpysharps86]

10 minutes ago, LeftWinger said:

They've got a 12 point cushion from the team outside the play-off spots - it's not that much of a risk.

Ah, sorry I didn't realise the playoff spots where down to 7th. My bad!