[Archived] If you were Manager, what would YOU do?

[roversmum]

Okay. There is much criticism of the Manager floating around. Some feel he should not be Manager, some feel play is improving, and we should stick with him.

That is not the purpose of this topic though.

What I am interested in, given the squad we have, how would YOU pick the squad for matches? Who would you play in what position and why.

What would your tactics be?

Who would be on the subs bench?

(taking into account current injuries of course)

[Andy]

Get on the phone to the board to appoint somebody available, competent and experienced as soon as possible, as there's no way I have the required skills or experience to guide a Premiership football team to safety, never mind progression.

You listening Stevie??

[philipl]

Resign.

The corner he has turned is that 1 point per game last season is now down to 0.5 points per game this season.

For what it is worth, I think Kean finally picked the strongest XI available FOR THE FIRST TIME this season. His subbing as usual was rubbish- seeming to think Samba could run off a hammy risking enormous damage to the player then the clockwork orange 70th minute subbing of Rochina- a massive indictment of the fitness (lack of) regime at Brockhall.

[Elegia]

Stick the "new" Chris Smalling on, hoof it up to "Scottish Rooney" and the "new Batistuta" - job done.

[Wing Wizard Windy Miller]

Besides questioning the owners over the promised summer transfer funds and berating myself for not making use of the domestic loan market I would build from the back.

Apparently Nelsen & Dann should be back

Would play Nelsen, Givet at c/b Dann at r/b and Olsson on the left

lOWE/PETROVIC/NZONZI/SIMON

HOILETT/YAKUBU

Wingers that will track back but are industrious. About the most solid team we could put out at the moment.

[Speedie Dived]

Without doubt i would get Hoilett away from the left hand side as quickly as possible. It's the one huge error in our side, we are leaking goals down that side and it's so easy to get in behind us. This is Kean's biggest footballing mistake at the moment.

[USABlue]

Without doubt i would get Hoilett away from the left hand side as quickly as possible. It's the one huge error in our side, we are leaking goals down that side and it's so easy to get in behind us. This is Kean's biggest footballing mistake at the moment.

Looked like he did that yesterday, we all saw the result of that.

[Speedie Dived]

Looked like he did that yesterday, we all saw the result of that.

Hoilett played on the left for 90 minutes?

[Waggy76]

Personally , I do not think the squad we have at our disposal at the moment is capable of staying up or even in with a chance of survival in the last month ...The bottom line is ,they are not good enough , nor amazingly are their fitness levels ..

Money wasted by Kean on very similar players Formica , Rochina , Simon

What we really needed was a replacement for the 2 Jones boys ,....

[Speedie Dived]

Personally , I do not think the squad we have at our disposal at the moment is capable of staying up or even in with a chance of survival in the last month ...The bottom line is ,they are not good enough , nor amazingly are their fitness levels ..

Money wasted by Kean on very similar players Formica , Rochina , Simon

What we really needed was a replacement for the 2 Jones boys ,....

We are fit enough now, MGP and Formica are putting in tremendous shifts, you cannot do that if we are not fit, i would also add Lowe to that list. Some of the players are just lazy (Hoilett and Yakubu) giving the impression of poor fitness.

[FourLaneBlue]

Sorry, Roversmum but I have to agree with the other posters. If I was him I'd resign as I'd know I'm taking Rovers down. Those fans with any football knowledge know that Kean is a charlatan masquerading as a manager and the other fans, well, we have always had our share of those that don't know owt, alas.

I know you hoped for reasoned answers related to tactics, lineups and formations but sorry mum, I'm too depressed thinking about our current state to be bothered.

EDIT - Actually, ok, I'd stick two defensive midfielders in a five man midfield, play Vuckevic, try Salgado in midfield, keep him away from right back, in other words revert to a 4-4-1-1 system (but only on the provision that the two central midfielders are there to defend) with Formica behind Yakubu (he's our only option up front), and attempt to keep clean sheets rather than outscoring the oppositon. Teams that traditionally get relegated are those who can't clean sheets, rather than those who can't score. Sort ourselves out at the back, and then we can try attacking more.

[RovertheHill]

It's a very fair question.

I don't believe that Kean is a football manager. He may be a coach, or an assistant, but he is very much out of his depth, especially when he speaks to the media. And that gets peoples back up even more. So job 1 would be to button it and say as little as possible.

However, there are some important points that people should realise (especially some who claim to have connections and know what's going on)

1) If the club is in chaos behind the scenes then that will not help the manager - and especially so with somebody so inexperienced

2) Bizarrely, if Big Sam were still manager he wouldn't be manager - if 1) is true then he would have left long ago

3) If 1) is true then anybody established is not going to come.

Which is a shame because I think there are signs there that with the right organisation we have the players to be comfortable in this league.

[ABBEY]

Okay. There is much criticism of the Manager floating around. Some feel he should not be Manager, some feel play is improving, and we should stick with him.

That is not the purpose of this topic though.

What I am interested in, given the squad we have, how would YOU pick the squad for matches? Who would you play in what position and why.

What would your tactics be?

Who would be on the subs bench?

(taking into account current injuries of course)

I'd resign and ask you what good the venkys have done so far!

[DE.]

2) Bizarrely, if Big Sam were still manager he wouldn't be manager - if 1) is true then he would have left long ago

An interesting point, that, and you're probably right. I think Allardyce would have stayed until the summer, saw the absolute mess the club was descending into and not renewed his contract. Would Kean have stepped up to fill the void anyway? Difficult to say, but considering the Indians do not have any desire to put their own money into the club it's very likely.

[roverandout]

tell jason roberts to pull his pants up, go on tv and tell the rovers fans that we have more chance of championship than champions league!!

[John]

If I was Kean, I would stop smashing the back out of Mrs Desai then resign.

Following that, I would have a heart to heart with my agent, Jerome, to establish what in gods name made us both think I could be a good manager.

Goodnight and F off Steve.

[booth]

Erm, jump in the river.

If I was the current manager of course.

[yoda]

What would you do roversmum?

[bennyboyt11]

Revert to route one, with Roberts and the Yak up front, forget these fancy dan players for the time being.

[Brfcrule1]

mum I have an idea on this about what he needs to do first off being a defender in his playing days Kean should now realise our defence is a shambles midfield don't track back to help the defence. I would work more on keeping clean sheets rather than getting caught upfield and a good counterattacking team cut us up with so much ease also I would realise we are no more in a league where loads of goals are scored and you don't win by 6 or 7 goals anymore most results are achieved by winning by the odd goal as the systems of 4-4-2 are usually only played by the top teams and for me instead of being so expansive I would go for a 4-2-3-1 formation and I believe our strongest lineup is:

Robbo

Lowe Samba Givet Olsson

N'Zonzi Petrovic

Rochina Vucevic Hoilett

Yakubu

This way the team looks solid with good cover for our defence and I would focus majority of my time on keeping clean sheets and focus on the emphasis of Hoilett pushing on to support the lone front man and most importantly in Jan I would look at urgently bringing in a striker who knows where the back of the net is personally if I were in charge I would make be banging on at the owners to bid either 10-13M for defoe or 5-6M for Jelavic someone with a good pedigree and who knows where the back of the net is and get rid of coco's ass licker Jason barn door Roberts if anyone is daft enough to take him. But most important I would work religiously hard on keeping clean sheets which clearly coco is not working on! as the goal conceded against Chelsea was easily avoidable.

[Speedie Dived]

mum I have an idea on this about what he needs to do first off being a defender in his playing days Kean should now realise our defence is a shambles midfield don't track back to help the defence. I would work more on keeping clean sheets rather than getting caught upfield and a good counterattacking team cut us up with so much ease also I would realise we are no more in a league where loads of goals are scored and you don't win by 6 or 7 goals anymore most results are achieved by winning by the odd goal as the systems of 4-4-2 are usually only played by the top teams and for me instead of being so expansive I would go for a 4-2-3-1 formation and I believe our strongest lineup is:

Robbo

Lowe Samba Givet Olsson

N'Zonzi Petrovic

Rochina Vucevic Hoilett

Yakubu

This way the team looks solid with good cover for our defence and I would focus majority of my time on keeping clean sheets and focus on the emphasis of Hoilett pushing on to support the lone front man and most importantly in Jan I would look at urgently bringing in a striker who knows where the back of the net is personally if I were in charge I would make be banging on at the owners to bid either 10-13M for defoe or 5-6M for Jelavic someone with a good pedigree and who knows where the back of the net is and get rid of coco's ass licker Jason barn door Roberts if anyone is daft enough to take him. But most important I would work religiously hard on keeping clean sheets which clearly coco is not working on! as the goal conceded against Chelsea was easily avoidable.

Is that not exactly how we are playing now? But you have replaced two of our current better performers (Formica and MGP) with the lacklustre Petrovic and rarely seen Vucevic.

Agree on the striker issue. If the Yak scores that absolute sitter yesterday and that great chance in the 2nd half we "could" have got something out of the game.

[K-Hod]

Kick the living sh1t out of Jerome Anderson and fire him as my agent. Then quit.

[MeanGreenMachine]

Brought a goalscorer in the summer, a capable right back and then not spent 7million on a centre half who hasnt been fit for the best part of 8 months.

[glen9mullan]

I would do what I said I would do on TV, speak with the unhappy section and try and defuse the protests up-rising, people can be more reasonable when you face your critics.

In addition I would appoint someone to sort our defensive problems out, clean sheets ultimately keep you in the top flight and we aint had one forn 17 games.

i would stop singling the unhappy section out, all supporters are supporters regardless of opinion, 100% Fans behind team so why does he say other wise?

I would communicate with the board instead of telling them I dnt answer to them

I would get myself a PR guy who advises me better to not make silly comments.

Most of all I would take responsibility for my own actions and results

[riggers77]

roversmum you arent half asking for some stick lately....clearly you are going to get alot of answers saying that people would resign.

for what its worth I would look hard in the mirror and admit i was not good enough and resign.

but we all know that isnt going to happen, nearly everyone in football now is all about the money so they will always wait for the pay off.

oh....i would stop bringing the one player who has a bit of class (rochina) off and bringing yes man Dunny on for his appearance bonus.