[Archived] Paul Ince

[BRFC1995]

Loads of sympathy for moneybags ince

He'll have westwood round lookin at his cars next, well timed interview you moron.

[RibbleValleyRover]

All the pundits/commentators i have heard today have said that it would be foolish to sack Ince now and that he needs more time. Alan Green on Five Live said that Ince's comments about there being a media bias against him are a load of rubbish but when it came down to whether the manager should stay or go he is firmly in the stay camp. Another example, I was just flicking through the channels and came across Setanta Sport News, Steve Claridge reckons it’s far too early to sack Ince and that he needs until January.

A common theme I have also noticed by the television media is the constant, "they have been punching above their weight so their plight was expected" and "Ince hasn’t had the resources so its no surprise he is struggling”.

I am finding it baffling that I haven’t come across anyone in the media that reckons his time is up. Is it just that we are so hated by the media a case of ‘how dare Blackburn be in the prem’ that they want us to get relegated? Or that they care more about Ince and wanting him to succeed than the club?

[magicalmortensleftpeg]

Loads of sympathy for moneybags ince

He'll have westwood round lookin at his cars next, well timed interview you moron.

calling him a moron is pathetic. Grow up, we're adults arent we? You sound more moronic by saying that then him doing an interview for the BBC. Criticise him as much as you want regarding managing the team, that is all justified, but to slag him off for every little thing he does is just the sort of attitude which gives football fans a bad name.

[hawkiiz]

i want ince to be siucessful, but we do need sam allardyce!!!

it showed against man utd that our top performance are two goals short of a reserve team manchesters, which is far from good enough.

its not science, allardyce has always been the man for rovers.

even if ince gets it right, what will happen in three years when we are pushing for UEFA again? ince is leaving like hughes.

get allardyce. he is top class and wont leave. THATS what we want. whoever want to see sexy footballl shouls start supporting barenlona. period.

[Tris]

I went on the Blackburn End today expecting to see Ince's swansong - I thought the Ewood crowd would crucify the guy no matter what.

Having read the gobsh!tes on here, I was ready for boos, banners and bloodletting, and a clear message to John Williams that Ince should be history.

3 Liverpool goals later, and none of the above happened. A couple of lads in N01 tried to get the "we want our Rovers back" chant going, but it fell down after 10 seconds. Another couple of lads gave it "Paul Ince's Blue and White Army" - and that DID catch on!!

Great support for the lads at the final whistle, and Ince stayed out to listen. I've heard more boos at Christmas Panto. If this was a message to John Williams to sack the manager - as the gobsh!tes have been advocating all week - then it went badly wrong. JW will have heard the opposite from the 20,000 Rovers fans at Ewood Park.

Which points to an uncomfortable truth about this messageboard. It does not in any way reflect the views of the Ewood regulars. The same folk can bleat on and on and on from behind their keyboards, but it means absolutely nothing if it's not reflected in the stands.

I will carry on backing whoever is in charge of my team. I wouldn't be sad to see Ince go, and I wouldn't be sad to see him stay on and bag six points in the next couple of winnable fixtures.

Strange as it seems, I think that today's Ewood crowd saved his job for another week. The chance was there to nail Paul Ince in a blaze of publicity, nicely teed up by the Saturday papers, but our fans reacted to the positive performance on the field rather than the negative rubbish from the gobsh!tes.

[hawaii501]

Nonsense. We may have jostled Liverpool around, but we never had a gameplan and our goal was only a consolation. Liverpool were there for the taking, but we had nothing going forward.

Open your eyes and see that this man is taking us DOWN. The form is simply not good enough for any level, let alone the Premiership.

Listen up mate, you cant go sacking your manager willey nilley. Rovers fans have been on Ince's back since he took over. Yeah we know our form isn't great it doesnt take a genius to work that out. But give the guy a bloody chance. ffs

Maybe if our so called owners dipped their hands in their pockets and gave him some money to spend we'd get ourself out of this situation pretty soon. We need a right winger, creative midfielder, right back and a central defender. The manager isn't to blame here, our club is being dragged down by others and they need to put their money in or sell the club. They've had plenty of chances to sell, its just they are greedy gets.

[rog of the rovers]

I went on the Blackburn End today expecting to see Ince's swansong - I thought the Ewood crowd would crucify the guy no matter what.

Having read the gobsh!tes on here, I was ready for boos, banners and bloodletting, and a clear message to John Williams that Ince should be history.

3 Liverpool goals later, and none of the above happened. A couple of lads in N01 tried to get the "we want our Rovers back" chant going, but it fell down after 10 seconds. Another couple of lads gave it "Paul Ince's Blue and White Army" - and that DID catch on!!

Great support for the lads at the final whistle, and Ince stayed out to listen. I've heard more boos at Christmas Panto. If this was a message to John Williams to sack the manager - as the gobsh!tes have been advocating all week - then it went badly wrong. JW will have heard the opposite from the 20,000 Rovers fans at Ewood Park.

Which points to an uncomfortable truth about this messageboard. It does not in any way reflect the views of the Ewood regulars. The same folk can bleat on and on and on from behind their keyboards, but it means absolutely nothing if it's not reflected in the stands.

I will carry on backing whoever is in charge of my team. I wouldn't be sad to see Ince go, and I wouldn't be sad to see him stay on and bag six points in the next couple of winnable fixtures.

Strange as it seems, I think that today's Ewood crowd saved his job for another week. The chance was there to nail Paul Ince in a blaze of publicity, nicely teed up by the Saturday papers, but our fans reacted to the positive performance on the field rather than the negative rubbish from the gobsh!tes.

Great post Tris

These boards arent as reliable a source as you'd think.

[Anti-Dingle-Brigade]

I went on the Blackburn End today expecting to see Ince's swansong - I thought the Ewood crowd would crucify the guy no matter what.

Having read the gobsh!tes on here, I was ready for boos, banners and bloodletting, and a clear message to John Williams that Ince should be history.

3 Liverpool goals later, and none of the above happened. A couple of lads in N01 tried to get the "we want our Rovers back" chant going, but it fell down after 10 seconds. Another couple of lads gave it "Paul Ince's Blue and White Army" - and that DID catch on!!

Great support for the lads at the final whistle, and Ince stayed out to listen. I've heard more boos at Christmas Panto. If this was a message to John Williams to sack the manager - as the gobsh!tes have been advocating all week - then it went badly wrong. JW will have heard the opposite from the 20,000 Rovers fans at Ewood Park.

Which points to an uncomfortable truth about this messageboard. It does not in any way reflect the views of the Ewood regulars. The same folk can bleat on and on and on from behind their keyboards, but it means absolutely nothing if it's not reflected in the stands.

I will carry on backing whoever is in charge of my team. I wouldn't be sad to see Ince go, and I wouldn't be sad to see him stay on and bag six points in the next couple of winnable fixtures.

Strange as it seems, I think that today's Ewood crowd saved his job for another week. The chance was there to nail Paul Ince in a blaze of publicity, nicely teed up by the Saturday papers, but our fans reacted to the positive performance on the field rather than the negative rubbish from the gobsh!tes.

That was exactly what I thought. Looked around and couldn't even heard a murmur. The only negative reaction from the crowd was towards the fat Scouser jumping around in the boxes in the BBE.

[Tom]

I went on the Blackburn End today expecting to see Ince's swansong - I thought the Ewood crowd would crucify the guy no matter what.

Having read the gobsh!tes on here, I was ready for boos, banners and bloodletting, and a clear message to John Williams that Ince should be history.

3 Liverpool goals later, and none of the above happened. A couple of lads in N01 tried to get the "we want our Rovers back" chant going, but it fell down after 10 seconds. Another couple of lads gave it "Paul Ince's Blue and White Army" - and that DID catch on!!

Great support for the lads at the final whistle, and Ince stayed out to listen. I've heard more boos at Christmas Panto. If this was a message to John Williams to sack the manager - as the gobsh!tes have been advocating all week - then it went badly wrong. JW will have heard the opposite from the 20,000 Rovers fans at Ewood Park.

Which points to an uncomfortable truth about this messageboard. It does not in any way reflect the views of the Ewood regulars. The same folk can bleat on and on and on from behind their keyboards, but it means absolutely nothing if it's not reflected in the stands.

I will carry on backing whoever is in charge of my team. I wouldn't be sad to see Ince go, and I wouldn't be sad to see him stay on and bag six points in the next couple of winnable fixtures.

Strange as it seems, I think that today's Ewood crowd saved his job for another week. The chance was there to nail Paul Ince in a blaze of publicity, nicely teed up by the Saturday papers, but our fans reacted to the positive performance on the field rather than the negative rubbish from the gobsh!tes.

One of the highlights of today for me was whilst some of N01 started 'You don't know what your doing' we scored immeadietely, queue me starting 'You DO know what your doing' towards Ince some tool even tried to start an argument with me for it.

[rovgers]

Just watch the back page review on SSN and according to Mr Nixon, Ince will be gone within 48 hours.

Not really sure whether Ince should be sacked now or given more time. The only thing that I hope, if they do sack Ince they don't arse about installing a new manager, like they did during the summer.

[Tris]

One of the highlights of today for me was whilst some of N01 started 'You don't know what your doing' we scored immeadietely, queue me starting 'You DO know what your doing' towards Ince some tool even tried to start an argument with me for it.

I'm about 4 rows in front of you and half a dozen seats to the right (against the right hand wall) - either you or your mate weren't too happy with Santa today?!

[joey_big_nose]

To be fair the outstanding commitment from the team today did confuse things. We didn't look like scoring much but the work rate was exceptional and against lesser teams we would have got something.

If we can get Allardyce it is an obvious switch if not it is hard to see who will be better.

re cruz: he looks tired and seems a bit confused. Second season syndrome in full flow. Not lazy like McCarthy last year but certainly a big question. Where are our goals going to come from?

[roverfanuk]

http://timesonline.typepad.com/thegame/200...e-does-pau.html

Does Paul Ince really know what he is doing?

No: 65.7% Yes: 34.3%

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/...s-Football.html

Paul Ince gives himself five 'Cup' games to turnaround Blackburn's fortunes

Does that mean he will resign if he doesnt do well enough? We can all hope!

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/football/view/6...-boss-on-brink/

Daily Star Sunday runs same headline: BLACKBURN BOSS ON BRINK - PAUL Ince will fight for his job in what he describes as five “cup finals” over the next four weeks.

[47er]

http://timesonline.typepad.com/thegame/200...e-does-pau.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/...s-Football.html

Does that mean he will resign if he doesnt do well enough? We can all hope!

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/football/view/6...-boss-on-brink/

Just trying to imagine where we'll be after 5 more games with him. A total of 21 games! How's the next manager to save us after that? FA Cup could finish him for us anyway.

[dingles staying down 4ever]

All the pundits/commentators i have heard today have said that it would be foolish to sack Ince now and that he needs more time. Alan Green on Five Live said that Ince's comments about there being a media bias against him are a load of rubbish but when it came down to whether the manager should stay or go he is firmly in the stay camp. Another example, I was just flicking through the channels and came across Setanta Sport News, Steve Claridge reckons it’s far too early to sack Ince and that he needs until January.

A common theme I have also noticed by the television media is the constant, "they have been punching above their weight so their plight was expected" and "Ince hasn’t had the resources so its no surprise he is struggling”.

I am finding it baffling that I haven’t come across anyone in the media that reckons his time is up. Is it just that we are so hated by the media a case of ‘how dare Blackburn be in the prem’ that they want us to get relegated? Or that they care more about Ince and wanting him to succeed than the club?

The only one I've heard doubting whether it is time for Ince to go was Mike parry on Talksport and then he only questioned how long can Rovers afford togive Ince.

[Paul]

All the pundits/commentators i have heard today have said that it would be foolish to sack Ince now and that he needs more time.

Yes I'd back that up as I've yet to hear or read any serious commentator suggest Ince should go. TBH I haven't even noticed anyhting in the gutter press for that matter. This raises a real question - are they right or is it simply that it's easy for them to support Ince as they will not pay the price?

Great post Tris. Far too many fans are now utterly unable to see anyhting positive in what Ince does. I presume they will all stop going if Williams sticks by him?

[dingles staying down 4ever]

One of the highlights of today for me was whilst some of N01 started 'You don't know what your doing' we scored immeadietely, queue me starting 'You DO know what your doing' towards Ince some tool even tried to start an argument with me for it.

If that was a highlight then it goes to show what a sad state of affairs we are in

[Martin]

I'm sat here waiting for him to get sacked. What a terrible thing to be doing.

I am completely focussed on Ince getting sacked; we can't move forward until this happens.

Yes, yesterday was ok. A decent performance, but we were never ever winning that game. Liverpool had more gears if needed.

Ince your time is up. Big Sam your time is now.

No overwhelmed by Souness returning. But at least it would mean Ince is not here anymore!

[Paul]

I just found this in The People and when I googled Sunday People the thrid link I came to was this one Kiss N Sell Nice to see the paper has standards.

I'd like to hear Alan Nixon justify slaughtering Ince like this. All these little things written as fact, lets have some proof not tittle tattle or is Kiss N Sell in full flood around Ewood?

[dingles staying down 4ever]

Lets face facts.

Team play 4-4-2 and players in right positions the team has better balance. Hardly surprising.

Team plays better but their keeper makes one real save and picks the ball out of the net once. Ours has to make more saves and picks ball out of the net three times.

When we are 2-1 down, our manager takes off a forward and puts on a left winger and throws Samba up front and goes root one. a tactic of a lower league manager.

The main sad fact is:-

NO MATTER HOW HARD WE TRY, WE ARE NOT BLOODY GOOD ENOUGH

and I don't know if changing the manager will cahnge anything

[Bobby G]

True. We put on a decent showing yesterday but we were never going to win, even against a Liverpool team in 2nd gear. Had we played this way, which I believe is how we started against United in the last game, then there is a good chance we wouldnt have lost to some of the lower table teams such as Pompey or Sunderland...Too little too late I think.

[alexanders]

even against a Liverpool team in 2nd gear.

We made them play bad.

After yesterdays performance I am in favour of giving Ince one more game to prove he is up for it. That is totally based on the fact that I think the players showed that they want to play for the manager and the fact that Ince did a bloody good job motivating them before the match - despite rough conditions and media talk.

[Bobby G]

Sure it was us who made them play bad...This is a Liverpool team that hadnt scored in 250 minutes of football until Xabi Alonso's goal, lets not forget.

This Liverpool team was in no way or shape as strong as the United team that ripped us apart.

Only in the second half did Liverpool really begin to play a little and thats when we were pushed back...

Bottom line, Im not saying we didnt play well. We were decent. Decent enough to get a point, but never three. Thats what Im trying to say.

[Wild Irish Rover]

I just found this in The People and when I googled Sunday People the thrid link I came to was this one Kiss N Sell Nice to see the paper has standards.

I'd like to hear Alan Nixon justify slaughtering Ince like this. All these little things written as fact, lets have some proof not tittle tattle or is Kiss N Sell in full flood around Ewood?

Some serious allegations there Nicko... You are confident that these will be substantiated in due course, or perhaps that they will be lost in the turmoil and euphoria of a change of management? Either way, the whole business opens up the Rovers to scorn and ridicule. I for one would just like this story to be history, and soon, so that the club (and whoever is at the helm) can concentrate on getting us out of the mire.

[imy9]

So it all comes out, IF Ince is sacked in the next 48 hours, it is imperative that the new bloke is in charge for the next game.

Looking back retrospectively I think we had a chance to sign a top European manager in the summer, e.g. Laudrup or Ten Kate but we went for the cheap option and paid for it.

When it is all said and done Hughes was a professional, a top professional and everything he did reflected this, I am bitterly disappointed that potentially Ince has not been