Mattyblue

Big setback for Belgian-English managers.

Why bother with a long term plan when you can just thumb through your book of Club Legends and pick one of them.

Does it? Or does success just correlate to who presently has the structural advantage up there. I.e Rangers had all the cash in the 90s, Celtic are far richer now on the back of a decade of Champions League. As always, it’s about who has the best players (and manager) and that costs money, ‘knowing the club’ is irrelevant in modern football, even in Glasgow.

Didn’t he?

Generally I think fans give players a bit too much credit re how much they ‘care’. Yes, they are pros and yes they want to do the best the can for the team, but they know it’s a short career and a ruthless industry. The example I always remember was some podcast when an ex-pro was asked if the squad would be fuming if a key player or manager left mid season, he said not in the slightest, in anything they’d be congratulating him. It’s a transient career with folk constantly coming and going and they just get on with it.

They are just doing a job and generally get on with it until the next guy comes in. Like you say confidence is the biggest factor.

Yep, a cast iron rule of football, another lesson this regime has ignored for a decade.

End of the day they don’t sack managers, especially ones that toe the line, regardless of results. So we just have to hope the time he’ll get by default gives him the breathing space to get it right.

Of course ‘99 doesn’t have ‘an agenda’, apart from wanting the best for the club, so surprised at that comment. He’s obviously a passionate Rovers fan or he wouldn’t be spending so much time on here (like the rest of us)

So say you didn’t play for them or support them but you really understand how big they are, the local area and what they mean to the fans, can you have the job?

Bit harsh on ‘99, this is for discussion not just cheerleading. I’m sure he was delighted with the win, but if he gets mocked for posting his thoughts we may as well have all just posted ‘wasn’t that brilliant’ and then locked the thread.

All that’s changed (and it is a big one) is that the parachute clubs are struggling, the other 20 sides, well 19 for obvious reasons, are at a very similar level, as always, so it’s fine margins.

So which clubs does it suit then? And why?

Game isn’t sold out to either home or away fans yet you can’t buy a ticket on the day. Another nonsense of modern football.

Yes, we might sell 9,500 STs instead of 9,000.

Just the six shipped at Chorley.

Some side that for the second tier, no wonder it went on to win a cup.

Swag was a piss poor CEO, however he was a canny fecker who’d been around the game a long time and knew how to manage ‘stakeholders’. Look at the state of it now, Gest-hail don’t even have the basics. It ‘can’t can always get worse’ here.

Just think back to the 125, doesn’t remotely feel like the same football club.

Can't afford to have Sky Sports on in Blues Bar but happy to turn down potentially thousands of ticket sales. Make it make sense 🤷‍♂️

‘Overwhelmingly united’… hmm, not sure about that.

Like I said I don’t remember that, but my point was more the atmosphere, I don’t recall a crowd being like that against a manager throughout a game for a long time, even when we scored.

Yes it is ironic that those that call us ‘negative’ are the ones with such a negative view of Blackburn Rovers and what it could be.

Still a very sizeable number within Ewood too of that mindset, don’t let the chants fool anybody.

Not sure about that, ‘sort it out’ definitely, but not ‘sacked in the morning’. But regardless, long time since a manager has seen Ewood turn.