[Archived] Sam Allardyce

[Anti-Dingle-Brigade]

Martin O'Neill?

I'd rather stick a fork in my eye.

[Blackburn Ravers]

Not a chance i would want MON at Ewood

[thenodrog]

On the flip side in the interview with Stuart Hall Sam was eulogising about Robbo's ability to ping the ball on a sixpence as though he were teeing off on the first hole at Birkdale. Whilst this is very true, I hardly think it's a master tactic you should be crowing about.

It is a valid strength to the overall team, and especially so with two players over 6'5".

Freidel was a much better keeper but he made me holding my breath when he had to kick back passes up the pitch.

[roversmum]

NO MON NEVER

[RibbleValleyRover]

Quick straw poll...

IF Rovers get taken over by a billonaire and Martin O'Neil was interested, would you take him and sack BFS?

No way.

[BuckyRover]

I did think it was funny at the time. But I don't anymore, Sam should think before he opens his mouth. It's now going to be used as a stick to beat him with.

He's been around long enough to have seen it coming.

[T4E]

Negative feeling towards O'Neill is indicative of the short memories most football fans have. He's an excellent manager, and at his best on a limited budget. You wouldn't catch him talking the sort of @#/? that Sam does.

[thenodrog]

Negative feeling towards O'Neill is indicative of the short memories most football fans have. He's an excellent manager, and at his best on a limited budget. You wouldn't catch him talking the sort of @#/? that Sam does.

Thats a joke right t4e? It must be cos MoN is deranged.

[gumboots]

Negative feeling towards O'Neill is indicative of the short memories most football fans have. He's an excellent manager, and at his best on a limited budget. You wouldn't catch him talking the sort of @#/? that Sam does.

The only point in sacking one manager to bring in another is if he is significantly better. I don't see O'Neill as significantly better. His tactics are basically to get the ball forward as aoon as possible and go for a free kick on the edge of the box or whatever. Doesn't strike me as much different from Allardyce.

[tony gale's mic]

Negative feeling towards O'Neill is indicative of the short memories most football fans have. He's an excellent manager, and at his best on a limited budget. You wouldn't catch him talking the sort of @#/? that Sam does.

The last time O'Neill worked on a limited budget was 10 years ago at Leicester. What Sam has achieved on a limited budget over this many seasons at different clubs far outstrips what MON did at Leicester.

And given he spent £120 million at Villa to recoup less than a third of that, I don't think we should be wanting him at Ewood.

[MarkBRFC71]

Quick straw poll...

IF Rovers get taken over by a billonaire and Martin O'Neil was interested, would you take him and sack BFS?

Maybe not O'Neill, but I would definitely be looking for someone else. Allardyce is becoming a self-important pillock who thinks he's bigger than little Blackburn, and while I couldn't care less how much of a bell-end he makes himself look (and at the moment he's about the biggest on the planet) it reflects badly on Rovers and that really grates TBH.

[Steve Moss]

Quick straw poll...

IF Rovers get taken over by a billonaire and Martin O'Neil was interested, would you take him and sack BFS?

No. Sam is the man for our squad.

The only other PL managers I would want are Moyes, Coyle, Halloway or Hughes. Moyes and Hughes won't happen though. Moyes is being groomed for bigger things and I think Hughes has burnt his bridges, though that perception may change if there is a change in management. That makes Coyle or Halloway the only realistic alternatives.

If we look outside the PL, I'd be in favor of Bradley. But that may be my partisanship shining through.

[philipl]

Not Martin O'Neill now.

[Guest bluerovers]

That makes Coyle or Halloway the only realistic alternatives.

Coyle is a former dingle so no and Holloway, are you kidding? The guy speaks more rubbish than Sam, people are laughing about his comments at the moment but it will become boring after a while. He's not a great manager either, just a 'personality'.

[niggit]

If takeover happend, would like Slaven Bilić, though wont happen.

Could maybe get the best out of Kalinic

[john-rover]

for the money sam has had available over his career, he is one off the best managers in the premier league. he has done things with teams that other managers couldent have done. just remember where we were when he took over! you might not like the football that he plays, but sam is a realist, he knows whith the players we have we can't go and play alot of team off the park. he and the coaching staff know that we have to get in the oppositions face, i accept there is a line, and that may have been crossed by diouf. BUT the minuite a blackburn team shows no effort and guts is the time that i will start to get concerned. a few to many people on here listen to the BBC and what they say and if you listen to something for long enough you start to believe it. dont let the Wan*ers at the BBC brain wash you into believeing what they say. we are an unfashionable northen club and they dont like it that for years we have been a comfortable premier league club! i hope that we get this takeover then we can buy better players and play better more attractive football!

[67splitscreen]

If we were looking for a new manager, given the T/O goes ahead.

Someone who wants to have a go at the Prem, with an excellent club record and at national level.

EC winner, runner up

Uefa winner, runner up.

Three league titles, three runners up.

Super Cup.

WC runner up.

Euro winner.

Felix Magath.

[Stuart]

Wenger

Houllier

McLeish

Holloway

Coyle

Ancellloti

Moyes

Hughes

Hodgson

Mancini

Ferguson

Hughton

Pulis

Bruce

Redknapp

Di Matteo

Grant

Sanchez

McCarthy

At this moment in time, we are lucky to have Sam. The problem is, he knows it.

It's difficult to know how much cash we'll actually have post-takover but I don't see us poaching any other PL manager from that lot. Unless Hughes fancied coming back.

I'd be more inclined to see how Sam went on with the first couple of cheques. So far, he's earned that much.

[den]

I haven't actually read the comments that Allardyce has supposedly made, nor do I know the context in which he made them. The reason being that I couldn't really care less. I'm only concerned what's happening on the field. Maybe he's sending his own little message to the potential new owners?

Anyway, I'm not bothered. If you ask me would Sam be my choice to use the new monies that might become available - that's a different question. One at the moment I would have to say no to. Probably because if we do become a club that can compete for the better players, then we can realistically look to play a more expansive game. Is Sam, for all his talk about him embracing modern coaching techniques, able to change his methods?

[philipl]

TheBig_Sam

I stand by my comments. I deserve better than Blackburn. Just like Sir Paul McCartney deserved better than a bird with a wooden leg.

TheBig_Sam

Macca soon realised this and now he's got flesh rubbing against him in his bed at night, rather than oak. I'll get to the Bernabéu some day

[Stuart]

The way I look at it, Sam knows how to win Premier League matches. The problem us it's rarely pretty.

But then, Mourinho rarely did pretty either...

[Steve Moss]

Coyle is a former dingle so no and Holloway, are you kidding? The guy speaks more rubbish than Sam, people are laughing about his comments at the moment but it will become boring after a while. He's not a great manager either, just a 'personality'.

As a non-native Rover, I have some difficulty understanding the whole "dingle" thing. Let's face it, the two towns are so close that there is likely very little genetic difference between the two populations. Best I've come up with is that Rovers and the Clarets are similar to religions, and you folks are engaged in a holy crusade. Which still doesn't fit as religions usually welcome converts. And its not like Coyle was Burnely-born, he's a Scot. Why not hire him if he saw the light and wanted to manage the greatest club in the world.

And maybe Halloway is nothing but a personality. But I can't help but see him as a sort of mad genius whose period in the wilderness (unemployed building chicke coops) resulted in him having some sort of revelation. I'd actually bet that Blackpool stay up this season.

If we were looking for a new manager, given the T/O goes ahead.

Someone who wants to have a go at the Prem, with an excellent club record and at national level.

EC winner, runner up

Uefa winner, runner up.

Three league titles, three runners up.

Super Cup.

WC runner up.

Euro winner.

Felix Magath.

I really think you should stick with an Englishman, or at least one who speaks English as his native language. I'm not trying to be provincial, but to take into account that there are culture differences which I think good man management needs to take into account. Plus I think you English sell short your native managers to some degree.

Wenger

Houllier

McLeish

Holloway

Coyle

Ancellloti

Moyes

Hughes

Hodgson

Mancini

Ferguson

Hughton

Pulis

Bruce

Redknapp

Di Matteo

Grant

Sanchez

McCarthy

At this moment in time, we are lucky to have Sam. The problem is, he knows it.

. . .

I'd be more inclined to see how Sam went on with the first couple of cheques. So far, he's earned that much.

I agree that Sam should be kept. He does have an excellent footballing brain and man management skills, in all fairness. I also think minimal changes should occur each transfer window and the club slowly improve as opposed to one bid splash of cash. I think management is like cooking a good stew. You get best results on a low simmer with adding spices and other ingredients over time. It's the only way to get the taste just right.

And if Sam, Coyle, Halloway, Moyes and Hughes are all out, I'd get Glenn Hoddle if I had millions to spend. I'd probably pick him ahead of them all, except Sam and Moyes.

[RibbleValleyRover]

Big Sam blasts Blackburn's lack of professionalism as Rovers let Fulham back in

[67splitscreen]

I really think you should stick with an Englishman, or at least one who speaks English as his native language. I'm not trying to be provincial, but to take into account that there are culture differences which I think good man management needs to take into account. Plus I think you English sell short your native managers to some degree.

The first team is not exactly full of English players, so I doubt the culture differences matter a great deal.

If the change does come it will be interesting to see who's names pop up and who makes the initial short list up. JW ...... or.....

[T4E]

Thats a joke right t4e? It must be cos MoN is deranged.

I'd rather have someone slightly deranged as manager than someone who is an utter @#/?.