[Archived] Nicko's Thread Part 3

[TugaysMarlboro]

I just hope they take their time cause this appointment is more important than the Mark Hughes one

If we know its more important than the Mark Hughes ones, then i'm certain JW feels the exact same. Never fear.

[b12_simon]

u must be easliy pleased, i will still support the club no doubt about it, but i am not wasting my money to watch utter crap boring football, which BFS will bring to Rovers. A lot of bolton fans i know say the football and enjoyment of watching football at the Reebok has inproved an awfull lot since BFS has left the club and that is under Megsan FFS

Seconded. I work with a Notlob season ticket holder who was smiling about the football under Little Sam, if not the results.

[Sandiway Blue]

I must admit i have a gut feeling Martinez might get it,don`t know why..

[den]

I'm pretty certain that if you read the thread you'd find Nicko has already said that Big Dick has applied.

Has he, - where?

[spencey7]

I'm pretty certain that if you read the thread you'd find Nicko has already said that Big Dick has applied.

He hasn't. Nicko has made clear (many times) that he hasn't heard Advocaat's name being mentioned, and that he is probably very happy at Zenit, on a big contract, money to spend, and Champions League football next season.

[Head Rover Heels]

I must admit i have a gut feeling Martinez might get it,don`t know why..

I'm in that same state of affairs, and the more i think about it, the more i warm to the idea. I think he might, just might mind you, be a cracking choice.

[RibbleValleyRover]

He spent TWENTY-SIX MILLION POUNDS on players and failed spectacularly.

It took Keegan months to stop Newcastle attempting to play in his confused, entirely one-dimensional style. I remember that incredible moment in Keegan's first game when Nigel Pearson (BFFS's assistant who hadn't yet been sacked) ran to the touchline telling the full-backs to play the long, and forward quicker. Keegan nearly fell over in his hurry to get to the touchline demanding that they pay no attention to Pearson, and get the ball on the ground.

I reiterate - Allardyce had SIX YEARS to "implement his system" at Bolton. Given the weight of feeling against him already, he won't be given anywhere close to that at Blackburn.

I urge any supporter of Allardyce to read the following: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/01/...ist_left_p.html

I agree, theres a huge difference between starting at a team and bringing them up the divisions and therefore moulding the team into your vision and just starting a new job with a new team.

Allardyce did well at Bolton because he was there for years and brought in the players to implement his system. At Newcastle he went in and failed. Something i could quite easilly see him recreating at Rovers.

[gazsimm]

He hasn't. Nicko has made clear (many times) that he hasn't heard Advocaat's name being mentioned, and that he is probably very happy at Zenit, on a big contract, money to spend, and Champions League football next season.

i thought Advocaat is stalling on signing a new contract at Zenit though. If he is i think Rovers should do all they can to make him Rovers Manager

[RibbleValleyRover]

Damn Driver error double post

[b12_simon]

He hasn't. Nicko has made clear (many times) that he hasn't heard Advocaat's name being mentioned, and that he is probably very happy at Zenit, on a big contract, money to spend, and Champions League football next season.

If I have remembered it wrongly it won't be the first time. No way I'm trawling through umpty-hundred posts. I'll take your (and den's) word for it and blame wishful thinking

[roverich]

THE FUTURE OF THE CLUB IS AT STAKE HERE. If boycotting Ewood under an Allardyce-reign is the most effective course of action (which it is), then that's damned sure what my mates and I will be doing.

Again, grow up! Blackburn Rovers FOOTBALL CLUB is more than one man whether that man be a star player, the chairman or the manager. I do not want Allardyce because of the controversy that so often surrounds him but he was very successful at Bolton, a club very similar to our own in terms of finances and fan base, and he left Newcastle no worse off than he found them so it is unfair to criticise the football side of his management history.

[thenodrog]

If boycotting Ewood under an Allardyce-reign is the most effective course of action (which it is), then that's damned sure what my mates and I will be doing.

Another leader of the creche pack.

[nicko]

Allardyce odds took a tumble - must have been spotted going into his meeting. Any idea where? Would love to doorstep that one.

[gumboots]

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What do you mean? I was too busy marking exam papers - it's part of what they pay me for. I had been discussing the Rovers job in my free time but suddenly realised the pressing urgency of the task i was supposed to be performing - the kids were coming in shortly after that and I hadn't calculated their percentage marks so it had to be done. sometimes you have to have a bit of self-discipline even though you'd rather deal with more important issues.

[thenodrog]

From an previous post. He was on TalSport a few weeks back. He's running ataining school in spain training lads released from clubs at 16, to try and get them back into the game.

Good on him! We've been doing that too ....... only in England and with 20-25 year olds!

[nicko]

Another little scoop followed up...

http://www.eatsleepsport.com/blackburn-rov...ted-744885.html

[thenodrog]

Every body has a right to have their say so leave them alone FFS

Well why not let your 10 mates speak for themselves then?

[gazsimm]

Another leader of the creche pack.

another insult from sad grandad

[EwoodGlory]

Allardyce odds took a tumble - must have been spotted going into his meeting. Any idea where? Would love to doorstep that one.

Tried the pie shops?

[spencey7]

Again, grow up! Blackburn Rovers FOOTBALL CLUB is more than one man whether that man be a star player, the chairman or the manager. I do not want Allardyce because of the controversy that so often surrounds him but he was very successful at Bolton, a club very similar to our own in terms of finances and fan base, and he left Newcastle no worse off than he found them so it is unfair to criticise the football side of his management history.

If Allardyce is appointed the whole FOOTBALL CLUB will change. This is about much more than "one man", it will be a shift in how the club operates, goes about its business and is percieved.

Newcastle were MUCH worse off when Allardyce left than when he joined - Perhaps not in terms of league position, but certainly in terms of the overall structure, tactics and confidence of the playing staff.

From the Guardian article mentioned in my above post:

Long balls crashed towards the corner flags as part of a long throw-propelled percentage game may have worked for a while at Bolton but the stakes are higher and the fans more demanding at Newcastle.

His squad grew bored during interminable team meetings about how "to stop" opponents, and one brave player once asked: "But what do you want us to do when we're on the ball?"

Sir Bobby Robson became so concerned about the lack of style at the team he once managed that he urged Allardyce publicly to "pass it shorter and play carpet football". As obdurate as he could be arrogant, Allardyce responded by using his regular column in Zoo magazine to opine that people "were talking rubbish" about Newcastle's perceived lack of style.

Is this what we want at Ewood?

And "Zoo" magazine as your public forum? Christ.

[spencey7]

Another leader of the creche pack.

I'm 28.

[gazsimm]

Well why not let your 10 mates speak for themselves then?

well for a start they are not on this forum, so that could be one reason you numpty and another if they were i think they would very easily get sick of your on going insults

[gumboots]

Well why not let your 10 mates speak for themselves then?

You (Theno)do seem to have taken it on yourself to decide who may or may not speak and about what if they do not post in line with your thinking. Now that's something i hadn't noticed till the last few days and like my anti allardyce stuff I'm hoping it's a temporary thing and you will get back to more like normal service. Still doesn't mean we'll all agree but it will be lot lessannoying.

[LeChuck]

If Bolton played so terribly then there's no way the likes of Okocha, Diouf and Anelka would have been able to play consistently well. They all need the ball at their feet in the final third, so it can't have all been about lumping it forward and playing percentages. In fact, you can be certain Anelka would have kicked up a fuss if he was just expected to try and head everything and feed off scraps.

[gazsimm]

I'm 28.

don't worry about him he tends to try offend people, but really he is just a sad old lonely man. He has disrupted another thread like he normally does