[Archived] Nicko's Thread

[robborover]

Money talks. And, by the way, there are fortunes going on him at the bookies...

Sad to say, I've not had a penny on it myself.

But I should stress he has domestic issues. However two or three years at £3 or £4 million-a-year may just cover the housekeeping.

My money is on a Hughes and Fat Sam swap. I think Hughes will want to take a new challenge (if offered) and we have little money, no new owner and no central midfielders!

[modes98]

My money is on a Hughes and Fat Sam swap.

That would be the final straw and make my mind up about next season's season ticket.

I couldn't take watching bolton/newcastle type football week in, week out.

Jol would be top of my list but whether he would consider it would be another matter.

[robborover]

That would be the final straw and make my mind up about next season's season ticket.

I couldn't take watching bolton/newcastle type football week in, week out.

Jol would be top of my list but whether he would consider it would be another matter.

But at least we would cheat and win, as opposed to losing but scoring 3 goals!

[John]

http://www.football365.com/story/0,17033,8...3036619,00.html

Hughes odds drop.

EDIT: John, when you put a link onto a post, could you please give some guidance as to what the link is about. Thanks.

Sorry Den - at work, and not meant to be surfing BRFC news!!!!

[Hughesy]

Hughes has only just signed a new deal and Wouldnt go as he has said before - he could damage his chances of UTD too!

[rovers_rob]

Money talks. And, by the way, there are fortunes going on him at the bookies...

Sad to say, I've not had a penny on it myself.

But I should stress he has domestic issues. However two or three years at £3 or £4 million-a-year may just cover the housekeeping.

How long do you think it will take for Newcastle to make an official approach ?

Is there any more news on Roberts leaving ?

[nicko]

Don't panic.

All of this is from halfwits listening to Sky and the local Newcastle paper guessing.

There is only ONE man they want - Redknapp - and unless it goes wrong he will get it.

And nothing has gone wrong yet.

Mind you, if it did....

[greggyk]

Hughes has only just signed a new deal and Wouldnt go as he has said before - he could damage his chances of UTD too!

I doubt Hughes would get the United job based on just him keeping Rovers in the top half. He'd need to do something special with us IMO (top 4, win FA Cup) to even be seriously considered.

[LeftWinger]

Out of the £868,195 matched on betfair - when I just checked:

87.33% has been put on Redknapp

2.77% on Hughes

Sounds like Nicko is right - and Redknapp is hot favourite.

His missus better like Newcy Brown!

[rovers1993]

any news on rovers transfer front nicko?

any incoming or outgoings happening soon?

[OscarRaven]

If Newcastle don't rate Hughes as prime choice then clearly the likes of Man Utd will look elsewhere when the time comes... unless of course Hughes has taken Blackburn to the Champs league (not likley) or achieves big things with a Tottenham or Newcastle type...

[herbergeehh]

It's probably also a matter of who they're able to attract, they clearly won't declare interest in a manager they know will turn them down. Which is what I hope Hughes would do..

[vintageadidas]

If harry does not take the job then i think it will be offered to Hughes and he may just take it. I would be gutted, but if he does - we would have to look at Martin Jol for the replacement.

Koumas can stay at Wigan, if he is not good enough for them he is not good enough for us.

Wonder how Valeri is doing on his trial - i think the guy who posted the fake information has ruined his chance of making it now. How can you be expected to run 100m in 9.98 secs and then in reality you are pretty slow. You can picture it now " i thought he was meant to be fast? Im faster than him!"

[CircoWill]

Hughes would be making a mistake going to Newcastle. My only fear is he'll get fed up with the lack of available funds at Ewood.

[rebelmswar]

If harry does not take the job then i think it will be offered to Hughes and he may just take it.

Wonder how Valeri is doing on his trial - i think the guy who posted the fake information has ruined his chance of making it now. How can you be expected to run 100m in 9.98 secs and then in reality you are pretty slow. You can picture it now " i thought he was meant to be fast? Im faster than him!"

I dont think Hughes and his coaching staff are that shallow, and I also trust that they do not believe things on Wiki that were posted after we showed an interest in him.

[vintageadidas]

Sorry, i meant the fans will be saying that!

[herbergeehh]

He will, they won't and he won't.

As for Koumas, they've denied their interest. Your logic has flaws though, Chris Samba is one of them.

Valeri will get a contract if he's good enough, if not then too bad, I highly doubt Sparky checked wikipedia first thing after the agent had called.

[Hasta]

Out of the £868,195 matched on betfair - when I just checked:

87.33% has been put on Redknapp

2.77% on Hughes

Nicko is probably right. However bear in mind on Betfair that the percentages also means that 87.33% of the people laying bets are chosing to lay Harry Redknapp.

It's like a horse race with a red hot favourite. On Betfair most people take the view that it will either win or lose. If you think it will lose then rather than pick another horse that will win like you had to do in the old days, you just lay the favourite horse not to win. For all the people backing Redknapp, the same number of people are laying him. Otherwise his price would contract to 1.01 or something ridiculously short.

Out of interest I cant get Betfair at work. What price are Hughes and Redknapp on there?

[herbergeehh]

I got 1,75 to 1 on Redknapp on Unibet, Hughes was on 4 to 1.

[USRoverME]

Just an odd carosel thought...

Hughes to Newcastle, Shearer to Rovers?

[LeftWinger]

Just an odd carosel thought...

Hughes to Newcastle, Shearer to Rovers?

As much as I like the idea - would you really want a third manager in a row to leave for Newcastle when Sparky is inevitably sacked in 8 months time by the Barcodes?

[BrianPotter]

Surely Hughes would need his head examined if he were to take the Newcastle job?

I can sort of see where people are coming from in suggesting he could be tempted by a new challenge (bearing in mind recent results), but last time I looked MH wasn't anything resembling Jesus and whoever takes the Newcastle job is going to need to perform a miracle to be succsesfull up there

Hughes has stated previously that he values the type of people that he works for and said that Rovers are a great club to be employed by - he certainly aint going to be able to say that about Newcastle - would you work for a man like Ashley, he sits amongst the supporters wearing a Newcastle shirt FFS - trying to make himself one of the boys when hes really making an arse of himself!

As has been said previously it must be a case of who they can attract, they are hardly in position to start drawing up shortlists of top managers. Unfortunatley as usual the jordies seem to have delusions of grandeur in beleiving they are an attractive proposition. They are not:

(1) Too many good managers have gone there and failed.

(2) The manner in which the club is run must make working for them very difficult and the board has a habit of interfering in footballing matters and transfers.

(3) You have 56000 jordies screaming for your blood every week because they think that the fact they pack the ground every week gives them an automatic right to succes.

(4) As theyve just demonstrated any new manager would need to bring instant success, six months and your out otherwise.

Who would seriously consider taking that job

[Hasta]

(1) Too many good managers have gone there and failed.

(2) The manner in which the club is run must make working for them very difficult and the board has a habit of interfering in footballing matters and transfers.

(3) You have 56000 jordies screaming for your blood every week because they think that the fact they pack the ground every week gives them an automatic right to succes.

(4) As theyve just demonstrated any new manager would need to bring instant success, six months and your out otherwise.

To play devils advocat.

(1) Therefore if you were the one to succeed your reputation would shoot sky high. The only way is up.

(2) New guy in charge now so things might be different.

(3) That's a problem with any club with large support that spend money.

(4) To be fair this Ashley guy didn't appoint Allardyce. Maybe he'd give his own choice more time (see 2)

[Nelsta]

Sunderland have made another bid for Stephen Hunt.4.5 Million.

[herbergeehh]

Silly money.