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A warm welcome to Sam Allardyce : I hope he stays 5 years or more and is a resounding success. I'm sure he will be.

A note of caution however. We are in a perilous position and the odds on us surviving are not good. Allardyce has one hell of a task to turn our season around.

I feel exactly the same. I'm sick of fearing that a change of manager will threaten our existence. Must be dead easy to be a Manc or Arse fan. I hope Sam's a success and around forever.

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gillibrand Premier League

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Well fair play to Gumboots as credit is due that they are able to look past their dislike and get down to Ewood. As oposed to spitting their dummy and going to play golf instead.

I think there is a difference to not liking someone but know he is good at his job to not liking him because he is a pile of rubbish and is going to wreck the club! :rover:

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As Churchill surveyed the wreckage of the East End, news leaked to him of the arrival of a great General. Written off by most following his 3 month failiure in Libya, Montgomery had a point to prove. His methods and strategies were seen as too advanced and too intellectually challenging to work properly in the theatre of war. Traditionalists bemoaned his attention to detail, and ridiculed his large entourage each laden with specialist disciplines and focussed delivery. As England stood alone in the deep and dark valley of 1942 news reached Winston of a great victory at Alamein over the Desert Fox. The War had turned. With remarkable prescience, Churchill remarked

"They have received back again that measure of fire and steel which they have so often meted out to others. Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."

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accyrover Premier League

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Is there any chance the muppets on this board can stop calling him 'Fat Sam' ? Clearly, he's a tad on the rotund side but its a bit disrespectful to the manager who has agreed to clear up the Ince/Matthias/Knox mess to be sizeist when posting comments.

For the record, I am not BS's love child.

:rolleyes:

Totally agree with the sentiments expressed by many on here. Sam's first press conference inspires absolute confidence we've got the right man, finally! A total opposite to the mood when Ince was appointed, which veered between 'Oh God no!' to 'Er, give him a chance he might be ok, fingers crossed, maybe'. I'm looking forward to the chance to welcome Sam to Ewood on Saturday. He's got his work cut out undoing the mess left by that clown Ince but with the fans & players behind him I'm sure he'll do it.

It sort of feels like the last 6 months was all a bad dream!

I agree. Sam came across so much more measured, professional and knowledgable than that clown Ince and his hangers-on. Good to see Matthias and Knox booted out the door.

I have every confidence that the club have done the right thing.

Accyrover

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Mr Creosote Premier League

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big fat sam, big fat sam, big fat sam,

big fat sam, big fat sam, big fat sa-am

it's got the perfect number of syllables. This automatically overrides any political correctness gone mad.

Nothing PC about basic respect and affording the new manager a welcome that isn't an insult.

I'd hope you are on your own with your daft chant on saturday however, given the burgeoning chav culture in the BBE I suspect you wont be.

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John World Cup

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Trying to keep my feet on the ground (as I feel excited again ahead of a BRFC match), but I just sense so much more authority/purpose from Sam.

Also some positive comments.

Of course actions speak louder than words, but the last few weeks/months under Ince have felt like torture to be honest. This is such a nice feeling to have someone in charge who appears to know what they are doing.

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philipl World Cup

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My recollection is that he was referred to by us as big fat Sam even in the days he was trundling around as a defender.

Takes a while to break a thirty year habit...

Anyway, I am now typing Sam rather than BFS these days so I am excused.

PS To all those inveterate plonkers who limp wristedly simper on about political correctness, the reality is that you just want to say something nasty and spiteful that could hurt someone else's feelings purely for the hell of it. Own up you wusses.

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It's just occurred to me that Williams would have interviewed Sam and Ince only days apart, if not closer than that. Surely he must have seen the gulf between the two if the two press conferences are anything to go by? He was obviously blinded by this 'model' he keeps banging on about - young up and coming British managers - even though we'd only had one of them in a row.

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