[Archived] Sam Allardyce

[Hughesy]

Hughsey you have beat your all time talking bollux...if you honestly think he won't walk then I've news for you about santa. Look at his track record..the rotung one is interested in one thing and one thing only..AND THAT'S ZZZAM and the WONGA

You been drinking again?

IF he is all money - he would have gone to UAE to manage - far more cash on offer their!

[adopted scouser]

Allardyce's body language when interviewed is shocking, it's like he'd rather be somewhere else than Ewood Park. Remember how you f****d it up at St James's fatty ?

Interview shown on Granada tonight or whatever it's called, he commented on City saying 'anyone can buy the league, Blackburn did it'. We always were accused of that and now our Manager rubber stamps it on telly, Bolton worshipping tosser.

[trs]

Allardyce's body language when interviewed is shocking, it's like he'd rather be somewhere else than Ewood Park. Remember how you f****d it up at St James's fatty ?

Interview shown on Granada tonight or whatever it's called, he commented on City saying 'anyone can buy the league, Blackburn did it'. We always were accused of that and now our Manager rubber stamps it on telly, Bolton worshipping tosser.

He also said Chelsea bought it.

Why no mention of Utd or Liverpool or Arsenal buying it?

Never thought I would hear a Rovers manager say such a thing.

[Amo]

Allardyce's body language when interviewed is shocking, it's like he'd rather be somewhere else than Ewood Park. Remember how you f****d it up at St James's fatty ?

Interview shown on Granada tonight or whatever it's called, he commented on City saying 'anyone can buy the league, Blackburn did it'. We always were accused of that and now our Manager rubber stamps it on telly, Bolton worshipping tosser.

I thought he was looking a bit chipper at the start of the season. I wouldn't be surprised if our transfer debacle and the takeover saga has been taking its toll on him.

No excuse for saying we bought the league, though.

[adopted scouser]

I thought he was looking a bit chipper at the start of the season. I wouldn't be surprised if our transfer debacle and the takeover saga has been taking its toll on him.

No excuse for saying we bought the league, though.

Don't get me wrong, to a certain extent we did (although funded by an owner who genuinely loved the club, and cash spent dwarfed by today's standards).

It's just his whole demeanour, that 'why am I here, I'm BIG Sam, I should be at a bigger club'. Maybe it's just me, I always think he wants play hoofball and take the wages until a 'better' offer comes his way.

[BuckyRover]

TheBig_Sam:

"Walked past a Romanian Big Issue seller today on my way to the skateboard park. She whispered: "I'll be England manager before you"

As she cackled I landed blows to her temple, belly button and tits. Her tits were right beside her belly button so that made it easier.

She placed a curse on me. That's all I need - the FA adding "gyspy curse" to the 'reasons not to give that **** the job' file they have."

I feel better now, after he besmirched our good name. You won't catch Carlo talking about Chelsea "buying" the league. Poor torn

[Amo]

Yeah, but the notion of 'buying the title' conjures an image of us poaching a team of all-stars, when that was hardly the case. How come, like someone else said, Man. Utd or Arsenal have never been excused of buying the title?

[Tom]

Such a self absorbed guy, sometimes that can be a postive though. As long as him doing it for himself means he does a job here I couldn't care less about his reasoning.

His comments are a bit of an insult IMO though.

[Mattyblue]

End of the day Allardyce will never be 'one of our own', just like the vast majority of the players.

As long as the club continues to achieve he can act, say and look like he wants.

[Doaksie]

Interview shown on Granada tonight or whatever it's called, he commented on City saying 'anyone can buy the league, Blackburn did it'.

I'll tell you what, that's disappointing to hear. Bad form Samuel. From the day our manager takes over, I want him to bleed blue and white. Unfortunately every so often with Sam he peels back an old wound and a trotter sticks out. Sort it out Sam.

[LDRover]

Allardyce's body language when interviewed is shocking, it's like he'd rather be somewhere else than Ewood Park. Remember how you f****d it up at St James's fatty ?

Interview shown on Granada tonight or whatever it's called, he commented on City saying 'anyone can buy the league, Blackburn did it'. We always were accused of that and now our Manager rubber stamps it on telly, Bolton worshipping tosser.

Absolutely no excuse for that. Sh**house.

[ABBEY]

Thanks for the concern hughsey..sober thanks ..

[92er]

[quote name='Mattyblue' date='10 September 2010 - 17:27 PM' timestamp='1284136072' post='95337

All the World Cup proved is that we have a bunch of overhyped and technically poor players who can't cut it at the top end of international football(especially at the end of a season rather than at the start of a new season).

Allardyce's body language when interviewed is shocking, it's like he'd rather be somewhere else than Ewood Park. Remember how you f****d it up at St James's fatty ?

Interview shown on Granada tonight or whatever it's called, he commented on City saying 'anyone can buy the league, Blackburn did it'. We always were accused of that and now our Manager rubber stamps it on telly, Bolton worshipping tosser.

If he said that then I think it was an absolute disgrace.

Does he actually believe it?

Does he know his big chum actually outspent us the season we won it?

Or is he yet again just talking for the sake of making a noise?

[rebelmswar]

He should retract that bloody statement, just more of the bias that makes the arsehole that is Man United look like a faultless angel.

I like Sam, but I would shake a fist at him for that one.

Shameful.

[67splitscreen]

IMO, he's working his ticket, babbling about his two year plan for international management.

The Dubai trips during the WC, JW confirming the interest from a club.

He's never been comfortable with the takeover, said so himself.

Maybe he sees the imminent current deal, perfect timing to be removed, with compo.

He gobs it again yesterday and within hours JW releases a statement to the LT to counter his outburst.

This is motivated but I can't work out why he has suddenly kicked off again, which I think is what Nicko is alluding to.

[beerwins]

He will never win at Rovers, some fans never wanted him and still dont and with comments like that who can blame them.

Hughesy stated he is very good at using the press for his advantage and I disagreed, but only to a point do I disagree, over the years he has been very good at this but recently he has been very distant and nonchalant.

His statement's of the takeover were just plain silly, like a child that does'nt get his way, stating we wouldnt be took over even though there are many suiters even if Syeds bid fails and now saying we bought the league isnt doing Sam any favours.

He has to get his head in the game and forget the takeover, its ok to tell the players to forget the takeover business but he has to do the same, if he does'nt we are going to struggle like hell this year.

The prem this year is a different ball game and you can be sure the geordies wont go down and our other rivals have spent welll, if we dont get on top of our game we will be certainly in the bottom half in need of fresh faces in january to give us some spark.

[Exiled in Toronto]

Absolutely no excuse for that. Sh**house.

Agreed. The only time he stops going on about 'When I were at Bowton I bought Jay Jay' it's to rubbish us.

King Kenny came here when we were crap and the place was a tip and he not once said anything derogatory about us and always intimated there was nowhere else he would rather be, and we now have to listen to this fat gobsh!te spend 18 months calling us 'Blackburn' or 'them' and then recycling the biggest insult to our amazing achievement.

He was as much in the toilet as we were 18 months ago, so show some gratitude.

[Ozz]

His comments were slightly less ungenerous in this interview .

[Parsonblue]

Personally, I can't see what Sam said that is so offensive. He basically said that if you have the money to buy good players coupled with a good management team you are able to win the League. Jack provided the funds, Kenny's astute eye for a player enabled him to sign a crop of outstanding young players and the coaching ability of Ray Harford turned them into a winning unit. Does anybody seriously suggest that without Jack's money we would have won the League? The nearest I saw the club come to it was in 1963-64 when we were in a challenging position until Everton came along - at the crucial point in the season - with a cheque for £80,000 and we waved goodbye to Fred Pickering and any chance of winning the title.

I really can't understand why we get so sensitive about accusations that we bought the title. The reality is that the overwhelming majority of the title winning squad were bought from other clubs and I'm sure fans of those clubs felt just as happy about the Rovers as I did about Everton in 1964! Sadly, in football, money talks - always has and always will. Let's not forget that on the only other two occasions that we won the top title we did so because we were able to buy some of the top players of the day.

As I say, I really don't believe that it's something we should be so defensive about. Money doesn't guarantee winning the title but it is one of the elements that goes some way to ensuring that you do. Sam was merely stating the obvious, but then, I suspect that whatever Sam said it wouldn't find favour with certain supporters. I can understand fans not liking his style of football but to hammer the guy for pointing out that Jack's money helped to win the Premier League for us I find staggering.

[imy9]

Great post.

[gumboots]

Personally, I can't see what Sam said that is so offensive. He basically said that if you have the money to buy good players coupled with a good management team you are able to win the League. Jack provided the funds, Kenny's astute eye for a player enabled him to sign a crop of outstanding young players and the coaching ability of Ray Harford turned them into a winning unit. Does anybody seriously suggest that without Jack's money we would have won the League? The nearest I saw the club come to it was in 1963-64 when we were in a challenging position until Everton came along - at the crucial point in the season - with a cheque for £80,000 and we waved goodbye to Fred Pickering and any chance of winning the title.

I really can't understand why we get so sensitive about accusations that we bought the title. The reality is that the overwhelming majority of the title winning squad were bought from other clubs and I'm sure fans of those clubs felt just as happy about the Rovers as I did about Everton in 1964! Sadly, in football, money talks - always has and always will. Let's not forget that on the only other two occasions that we won the top title we did so because we were able to buy some of the top players of the day.

As I say, I really don't believe that it's something we should be so defensive about. Money doesn't guarantee winning the title but it is one of the elements that goes some way to ensuring that you do. Sam was merely stating the obvious, but then, I suspect that whatever Sam said it wouldn't find favour with certain supporters. I can understand fans not liking his style of football but to hammer the guy for pointing out that Jack's money helped to win the Premier League for us I find staggering.

I don't think it's the suggestion that we, to a greater or lesser extent, bought the league that is offensive. It's that for some reason we are the only team that accusation is ever seriously brought against. Every team that wins the league buys it. As you say, money talks. It's just that we weren't ever really in the league and came from nowhere or pretty well in a very short time to win it so our rise was more noticeable and nobody seems able to remember that it took good management, coaching and an overhaul of the stadium to make it all happen.

[imy9]

Sam used chelsea and rovers as his examples,only man utd and arsenal have the won the pl and can't say they used their money to win the league in the way we did.

[Amo]

There is no comparison with Man. City to be made. None. It's tasteless, spurious and a lazy turn of phrase. They're shelling out scandalous amounts of money, poaching the best players from other clubs, and even with all that they've only totalled up an extortionate wage bill. How many of our title winning side were really smash-hit signings? And can you see Man. City making the same profit on Tevez & Adebayor that we did with Shearer & Sutton?

[imy9]

We smashed the British transfer record TWICE, Shearer £3.6 million and Sutton £5 million, how many of our players were youth players and how many were 'poached' from other clubs? The difference is now foreign players are common in the PL whereas previously they were not. £25 million in three years in the early 90's is a ridiculous amount of money.

[Majiball]

What a load of tosh.

We got promoted barely back in 1992, it was obvious to all and sundry back then that we had to sign better players to the mark on the premier league that Jack desired. That first season back in the top tier we lead the league easily up until Shearer's injury and I honestly believe we would have won it that year had he stayed fit. 4 major transfers were made that season, Shearer 3.4, Gally 1.5, Berg 400K & Le saux 650K, lest we forget United were willing to pay similar for Shearer as well (United spent in total, 6.89M in the season of 1989/90). 4 players added in, one an unproven striker from Southampton, a reject from Chelsea, a coventry player with 28 in 100 for them, a player United had rejected them selves in 1987. Hardly the signings of the decade when they were made and no-one in their right mind ever expected what was to happen over the next few years and not even as much as United spent 2-3 years earlier.

We always get accused off buying the league and starting the craze of stupid spending in this league, but its just not true. United bought Keane not long after for 3.75, we signed Sutton for 5 and the same year they spent 7 on Cole. One thing that is well worth noting is that in total I believe Kenny spent 28.5M (United still spent about 14M)on players whilst he was here leading up to our title winning season, which it is true was more than any club. However what people seem to easily forget is that we came from League 2 not a few years before. Teams Like United already had proven quality players as did Arsenal, Liverpool and United if you want to win the league as Jack did, what else do you do? Hope and pray the current crop is good enough??? No you improve the squad.

People should take a look at the British record transfer fees before saying we bought the league and started the craze, (My link), how many times have we broken the record for buying players??? A big fat zero. United paid 1.5M in 1981 (we spent that on Gally a full 11 years later) for Robson, Hughes for 2.3M in 1986 (we spent about that on batty almost 8 years later), wilkins for 1.5M in 1984, Waddle went for 4.25 way back in 1989, Rush for 3.2M in 1987 (what did Shearer cost???), and yet we are the ones accused over sending the market crazy. B.O.L.L.O.C.K.S. is the correct term for what people say about Rovers and buying the league. That sort of money was being spent long before Jack even owned the club.

Its propaganda and lies most likely emanated from the poor little people we up-set along the way. What did United do the season after they got promoted back into the top tier way back in 1976, that's right in 1977 they went on a spending spree, Joe Jordan (350K), Gordon McQueen(495K) and Ray Wilkins (800K), and yet for doing no different than them we get slatted. Uniteds transfers from 1986 - to date., I'll wager when you add in the players that they signed during that time that were still playing for them during the premier league and our title winning season, they'll be much nearer our £28.5M spend. Oh what a surprise, when you add onto to uniteds 14M the players that were still with them about that time you hit 27.5M.

We did no different after promotion than any other club with ambition has ever done. We have only broken the transfer fee once for selling Shearer and yet its all our fault. A lowly little town club, got promoted spent only double the same as United did during that period (about the same in total) and we more than matched them along the way, bought the league my pale Scottish arse.

History shows that spending money is far from a guarantee of anything in football, just look at Real Madrid. Kenny created a great team, built on a system that brought out the best in them and yet we still bought it, spending pretty much exactly the same as United had assembling their team.