Valérien Ismaël: Former Head Coach

[Lancaster Rover]

2 hours ago, Ferrit said:

He also said man united were after Pears

People need to stop listening to this clown. 

"you've got a wee gem there" is a quote that should never be forgotten when assessing Nixons' opinions on football.

[Dreams of 1995]

This thread should be closed now so we can at least close the door on this reign of mediocrity 

Another sad part in an overwhelmingly long and sad chapter of BRFC.

As far as managers under Venkys go, Ismael suffers the ignominy of being of the worst coaches we have had, second only to Steve bloody Kean.

Never got on board with Val. Struggled to like him through his conferences, struggled to like his football and I honestly believe his mentality of 'hard running' has meant that our young and inexperienced squad have been ran in to the ground repeatedly, thus leading to a season struck by injury after injury.

Edited yesterday at 15:02 by Dreams of 1995

[StHelensRover]

Managerial Hall of Shame:

Berg: 10 games 10% win ratio

Iley: 16 games 12.5% win ratio

Pickering: 61 games 24.5% win ratio

Ismael: 43 games, 25.6% win ratio

4th worst ever manager in 150 years, bravo and goodnight.

(You-know-who will always be the worst and only one truly hated, but for many reasons beyond on-pitch results)

[DE.]

Makes me wonder if that random Pickering start against Charlton was Ismael firing a shot at Gestede. 

[RevidgeBlue]

4 hours ago, StHelensRover said:

Managerial Hall of Shame:

Berg: 10 games 10% win ratio

Iley: 16 games 12.5% win ratio

Pickering: 61 games 24.5% win ratio

Ismael: 43 games, 25.6% win ratio

4th worst ever manager in 150 years, bravo and goodnight.

(You-know-who will always be the worst and only one truly hated, but for many reasons beyond on-pitch results)

Im surprised John Pickering's record is so bad - I remember him quite fondly and the crowd were all on the pitch chanting his name on the final home game when we were relegated.

Different times.

[Upside Down]

6 hours ago, Dreams of 1995 said:

This thread should be closed now so we can at least close the door on this reign of mediocrity 

Another sad part in an overwhelmingly long and sad chapter of BRFC.

As far as managers under Venkys go, Ismael suffers the ignominy of being of the worst coaches we have had, second only to Steve bloody Kean.

Never got on board with Val. Struggled to like him through his conferences, struggled to like his football and I honestly believe his mentality of 'hard running' has meant that our young and inexperienced squad have been ran in to the ground repeatedly, thus leading to a season struck by injury after injury.

Venky FC has a loooooooooong way to go before they achieve anything even slightly resembling mediocrity.

[Tricky]

8 hours ago, Dreams of 1995 said:

This thread should be closed now so we can at least close the door on this reign of mediocrity 

Dunno, I'd be quite interested to hear VI's take on things once he gets the opportunity to spill all to the media

[RevidgeBlue]

Just now, Tricky said:

Dunno, I'd be quite interested to hear VI's take on things once he gets the opportunity to spill all to the media

Will have signed an NDA.

He'll be happy as Larry. Has absolutely stunk the place out for 12 months and walks away with a massive pay off.

[Dreams of 1995]

10 hours ago, Tricky said:

Dunno, I'd be quite interested to hear VI's take on things once he gets the opportunity to spill all to the media

He won't spill anything

He has left by mutual consent - basically, here is your payment, now keep shtum about any misgivings you have and it won't go on your record as a dismissal. 

[dallydally]

20 hours ago, Dreams of 1995 said:

This thread should be closed now so we can at least close the door on this reign of mediocrity 

Another sad part in an overwhelmingly long and sad chapter of BRFC.

As far as managers under Venkys go, Ismael suffers the ignominy of being of the worst coaches we have had, second only to Steve bloody Kean.

Never got on board with Val. Struggled to like him through his conferences, struggled to like his football and I honestly believe his mentality of 'hard running' has meant that our young and inexperienced squad have been ran in to the ground repeatedly, thus leading to a season struck by injury after injury.

Totally agree

[Tomphil2]

There'll be no 'take' from Val just like the rest.

He was happy going along with it up until something gave the other day, quite possibly the hearing of other potential names being banded about i'e Tony Mowbray.

He's a Frenchman and his ego might have been rattled with that so he's decided to bail before he was pushed. In future he can always say it was a disagreement over transfers and not he was sacked because his win % was one of the worst in 100 years.

If we'd beaten Hull but sold RA or Totth without replacement he'd still be here lets be honest.

[RevidgeBlue]

Think the news broke about 13.09 Monday he'd been sacked. It seems really unlikely to me that he'd have time to take training Monday morning  have this so called massive fall out with Gestede and then thrash out and agree terms for his departure by mutual consent inside an hour or two.

I think it's likely that in this instance it really is what it said on the tin. He sounded like he knew the gig was up after Saturday's game.

[Rogerb]

16 hours ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Im surprised John Pickering's record is so bad - I remember him quite fondly and the crowd were all on the pitch chanting his name on the final home game when we were relegated.

Different times.

It was quite bizarre . Used to go home every week disappointed. Think we managed 5 home wins all season and 4 draws.

[MarkBRFC]

1 minute ago, Rogerb said:

 Think we managed 5 home wins all season and 4 draws.

A pipe dream for the current crop.

[RevidgeBlue]

8 minutes ago, Rogerb said:

It was quite bizarre . Used to go home every week disappointed. Think we managed 5 home wins all season and 4 draws.

He did have to try and pick the pieces up after Iley tbf which anyone would have struggled with.

Edit: Seem to remember we played well enough under him but lacked a decent striker to put the ball in the net. Did we try signing or had we previously signed a washed up John Radford around that point 

Edited 7 hours ago by RevidgeBlue

[KentExile]

Chris Sutton has his say on Robbie Savage

 

[JHRover]

It's 2026 and links to the National League's Forest Green Rovers manager are being downplayed because our owners ambitions probably won't match his.

That's the Venky effect.

[RevidgeBlue]

12 minutes ago, JHRover said:

It's 2026 and links to the National League's Forest Green Rovers manager are being downplayed because our owners ambitions probably won't match his.

That's the Venky effect.

Yes, our level of ambition really only suits an unemployed desperado keen to get back into work of some sort.

Lambert/Coyle/Mowbray/Ismael etc.

The outliers were JDT and Eustace -they were also unemployed at the time but their careers weren't on downward trajectories.

[Armchair supporter supremo]

Savage could either be brilliant (and highly entertaining 😄) 

Or an absolute shit show 

 

No in between. 

 

Either way he'd garner a lot of media attention and could put a tighter spotlight on the clowns running the club 

[roverandout]

3 hours ago, KentExile said:

Chris Sutton has his say on Robbie Savage

 

Chris Sutton is always a top guy. Only ex rover who still gives a shit

[den]

I don’t see anything in Savage that persuades me he’d make a manager.

[RevidgeBlue]

1 minute ago, den said:

I don’t see anything in Savage that persuades me he’d make a manager.

He's already done well at Macclesfield tbf.

Then again so did Ince.

[den]

4 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

He's already done well at Macclesfield tbf.

Then again so did Ince.

Macclesfield Rev.

[dallydally]

6 minutes ago, den said:

I don’t see anything in Savage that persuades me he’d make a manager.

Apart from no nonsense, focussed, good motivator and committed?

[den]

19 minutes ago, dallydally said:

Apart from no nonsense, focussed, good motivator and committed?

No nonsense - Robbie Savage?