[Archived] Paul Ince Gone

[Jan]

Jan pointed out, quite forcefully, today, apart from Andrews and Robinson, this was Mark Hughes' team that finished 7th. Not an Ince team, not an Allardyce team. She then went on to mention if you play two cntre forward on opposite wings, a central defender at right back and your best left back in midfield it's hardly surprising if the team loses and the players don't have a clue what to do!

I thank you

Secret- part of the reason I was as forceful as I was was that my friend who was in the car decided to open the window as I was talking to Alan Green, which meant I couldn't hear him properly) and wouldn't stop pressing the button- even when I tried to close it. I was getting more and more irate with her................. It came out in my rant about Ince!

[Paul Mellelieu]

Glad Ince has gone, but interesting to hear Dunny, on Rovers Radio after the game, defending Ince and pointing the finger at the players for letting him down.

[joey_big_nose]

Sir Bobby Robson speaking sense:

He didn't have his coaching badges, he was inexperienced in signing Premier League players and, by some accounts, the players were struggling to build a rapport on the training ground with his staff.

I love Bobby's lack of messing around. Check out this quote:

"None of my England players from the 1986 and 1990 World Cups went on to be really great managers and I would not put a lot of money on Bryan Robson and Terry Butcher making it."

Ha! Interesting as so many on the TV (as opposed to newspaper) media circuit are extremely careful to only say positive things about everyone in the whole football aparatus (managers, players, coaches etc) because you never know who you are going to be sitting next to on the sofa in the future. A seriously negative word is a rarity. Maybe Bobby's age means he does not really need to care about that.

[oozy]

I don't know if this has been posted, but I thought this was a good article in the Mail:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/...-like-Ince.html

Is it me, or has the Mail come across as pretty anti-Ince in all this? Almost all the negative articles I've read about him have been in the Mail. Earlier in the season, I thought it was due to them being anti-Rovers, but I guess not.

Not that I mind! Those at the Mail have gone up a lot in my estimation.

[oozy]

And another article:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/200...15875-20976560/

I so wanna let him go, and never think about him again. But I cannot believe what a mess he made out of our football club and it aint easy to forgive and forget

[Damage]

Glad Ince has gone, but interesting to hear Dunny, on Rovers Radio after the game, defending Ince and pointing the finger at the players for letting him down.

There you go again Squishee Boy!! Clutching at straws for your pathetic assertion!

Let me tell you .....................

Paul Ince will never make a competent premiership manager as long as he has a hole in his ass!!!

and by the way ..................

err you can do one for an apology, maybe you should think about a life!

[dingles staying down 4ever]

Sir Bobby Robson's View

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/...-axed-Ince.html

[philipl]

David James on Ince going.

[tony gale's mic]

James is arguably one of the most intelligent Premier League footballers going. Very good article.

[Paul Mellelieu]

There you go again Squishee Boy!! Clutching at straws for your pathetic assertion!

Let me tell you .....................

Paul Ince will never make a competent premiership manager as long as he has a hole in his ass!!!

and by the way ..................

err you can do one for an apology, maybe you should think about a life!

I thought you'd been banned for making light of child abuse. Seems you can get away with anything these days.

[John]

Very fair article from David James. He is good mates with Ince as well....

Another tool saying his stuff.........

[broadsword]

It'll all die down in a few weeks.

I very much doubt we'll be seeing ince as a top-flight manager ever again. Although I guess he'll have plenty of time to do his badges now!

[brfc_andrewtatt]

Next Leeds Manager??...

[thenodrog]

Maybe Bobby's age means he does not really need to care about that.

imo thats why Fergie gave it large to Real Madrid this past week. ('Jesus Christ... I wouldn't even sell them a virus') He doesn't care a fig who he upsets anymore.

[John]

Glad Ince has gone, but interesting to hear Dunny, on Rovers Radio after the game, defending Ince and pointing the finger at the players for letting him down.

In my view, Ince and Dunn seemed like good friends.

Not the way for managers to be.

Ince needs to realise now he was a complete shambles as a manager.

[thenodrog]

Is it me, or has the Mail come across as pretty anti-Ince in all this? Almost all the negative articles I've read about him have been in the Mail. Earlier in the season, I thought it was due to them being anti-Rovers, but I guess not.

Not that I mind! Those at the Mail have gone up a lot in my estimation.

It goes back a long way with the mail. Jeff Powells comments after England lost to Sweden and Ince gave a V sign at the crowd are ancient history now but maybe the board should have read them in June.

Curse the angry brigade

Jeff Powell

THE FATEFUL question is no longer whether Glenn Hoddle has lost the plot - no prizes for getting that one right - but if he has lost control of Paul Ince and his brother prima donnas in England shirts.

The answer has become an urgent matter of national importance.

Where it was once a disgrace to be so much as booked while playing for England, let alone sent off, it now appears that anything goes E and nobody cares. Not even the coach of the England team.

Ince The Unruly will resent being fingered but he has put himself at the crux of this festering issue.

Whether that gutter gesture in Stockholm was directed at the gloating Swedish fans, the dismayed England coaching staff, the referee who sent him packing or the last critic to suggest he may not be quite as good as Pele, Maradona and Ronaldo rolled into one, it simply doesn't matter.

What he really did was raise two fingers at the game which has made his fortune and at the country he dishonoured that recent afternoon abroad.

The Guv'nor?

Never mind the England football team, he's not fit to be the Guv'nor of a pub. Perhaps the chief licensing magistrate should be his manager, rather than one of his misguided apologists.

Because down at the local he would be required to keep an orderly house, not brawl in the corridors with the visitors the way he is reported to have done with Chelsea's Graeme Le Saux at Liverpool on Sunday.

That said, Ince is not alone. Arrogant, scowling, aggressive and snarling as the most sanctioned footballer in England's history can be -12 bookings, one dismissal but not enough great passes - he is but one of the many spoiled brats who are threatening to sour football's boom in their seeming belief that they are above the laws of the game E and in some cases the law of the land.

As the stars of the game, their petulance and greed is accelerating football's downward spiral towards anarchy. The verbal and now even physical abuse of the referee has been the

most blatant manifestation of that crisis of respect. But it is all the more alarming if authority no longer resides in the office of England coach. When Hoddle panders to Ince and Le Saux, he opens the trapdoor to a snake-pit.

[yoda]

Very fair article from David James. He is good mates with Ince as well....

Another tool saying his stuff.........

Trying to pave his way for when he hangs his boots up

[sambo]

My Dad was speaking to someone pre game who said that he ranted at Ince after the Wigan game, and consequently Ince went and had a chat with him. I could swear I've heard about this on this messageboard previously.

I am glad Pompey got beat, Adams should concentrate on his team's spineless defending!

[John]

Interesting comments from Jason Robers below. Goes along with the socialiser theory which has been banded about.

“I’m wary of saying anything because I don’t want to be seen to be saying negative things about the past manager,” Roberts said. “I thought he was a nice guy.” Talk about damning someone with faint praise.

[LeChuck]

Is anyone watching Match of the Day 2?

In their '2 good 2 bad' section they had a clip of Paul Ince. He was on the touchline clutching a pen and notepad, and when he turned the camera managed to get a shot of what was on it. All he'd done is scribble the word 'SHOOT' inside a picture of the penalty area.

[Anti-Dingle-Brigade]

That was on ages ago. Against West Ham in fact.

[roversnick]

Is anyone watching Match of the Day 2?

In their '2 good 2 bad' section they had a clip of Paul Ince. He was on the touchline clutching a pen and notepad, and when he turned the camera managed to get a shot of what was on it. All he'd done is scribble the word 'SHOOT' inside a picture of the penalty area.

somebody on here has a clip of that as their signature

[LeChuck]

Ah, I should start paying attention to signatures from now on.

[jodrell]

There is a good article in the mail by Sir Bobby Robson. Also Look at the one about Roy Keane which could apply to Ince

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/...-axed-Ince.html

[Paul Mellelieu]

Interesting quotes from Roberts and McCarthy. http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/footbal...rt-1207423.html

Robinson was also less than glowing about Ince post match.