[Archived] Henning Berg - Rovers Manager

[Mercer]

I like him and desperately want him to do well

Next week is huge for him and us

Don't think too many question Berg's 'likeability' but, unfortunately, doesn't necessarily make you a good manager.

IMO, there are no signs of improvement, in fact quite the opposite, and, tragically, we actually seem to be set-up and playing worse than we did under Kean and then Black's stewardship.

I think we need to face facts, Berg is not the man.

Still got time for Berg, if Lowe/Etuhu/Dann are still playing regularly after Jan my attitude may change.

Apathy is all i feel at the minute until January comes around, which beats felling angry like the last 2 years.

Good management is about recognising the warning sirens and acting.

I think your comments are very similar to ones we saw for Kean - give him time, wait until the window is complete, wait until he's had his first full pre season etc.

Berg should have been showing a lot more, and he hasn't.

Time for Singh, Shaw & Agnew to hold up their hand and admit they got it wrong.

[Rover_Shaun]

Time for Singh, Shaw & Agnew to hold up their hand and admit they got it wrong.

Do you honestly think they could make the right decision a 2nd time? They are w*nkers

[Mercer]

Do you honestly think they could make the right decision a 2nd time? They are w*nkers

No I don't and that's a worry.

The only mitigating factor is can anyone be worse than Berg in terms of results / points !?!?

[RoverScot]

Don't think too many question Berg's 'likeability' but, unfortunately, doesn't necessarily make you a good manager.

IMO, there are no signs of improvement, in fact quite the opposite, and, tragically, we actually seem to be set-up and playing worse than we did under Kean and then Black's stewardship.

I think we need to face facts, Berg is not the man.

If Berg fails/has failed, Shebby needs to go before him as he is the person who took a month to make him the manager.

[Rover_Shaun]

No I don't and that's a worry.

The only mitigating factor is can anyone be worse than Berg in terms of results / points !?!?

Didn't we think the same about Kean?

[roverandout]

i said when he was appointed that he would be a bad appointment and some of you hammered me by calling him 'a good manager' and 'a positive appointment'. i also said we wouldnt go up and got hammered for that too

[beerwins]

A guy that thinks any manager would be mad to work at Rovers in these conditions comes to work at Rovers strikes me as mad.

Based on prior decisions from the owners it would suggest that they make the decsions based on their own benefit, did they take Holloway or other more experienced managers? no...... they opted for their own choice... and is it working ? NO.

Do they use relaible scouting networks to find players that would fit into the team?.......NO, they buy what they think is the best and play them as individuals expecting results.

The owners are the massive problem here and until fans see this we are screwed, they run the club with no chairman, because they are afraid of losing power, they employ a yes man as manager to let their trusted man (SHEBBY) do as he seems fit (TRUST AGAIN)

They want to run the club their way and they have no idea how to do it, they employ shebby who still has no idea how to do it, and now they employ a good ol favourite in Berg to get it through with the fans but it's still not working.

I'm sorry but the team is'nt good enough does'nt work for me, apart form central midfield where we seem to overlook for the last 4 years we are better than most teams teams in this division, defense has problems but individually should be strong , Dann , Hanley, Givet, Henley,Olsson good god man, even I could make something out of that, they have all been classed as individually promising or have had decent careers before they started here, the central midfield is weak but still is massively underperforming and if you want to talk about the amount of wing players or creative players we have, Olsson, Veckevic, Rochina, King, Pederson and many more, all are more than capable at this lvl, then we have Rhodes and CKR and Best up front!

This is a squad that should be up there, you can disagree and blame individual performances and if you werte including Etuhu in the argument I may well agree but there is more than enough potential to get us higher than we are yet we are failing, my opinion is that Shebby is putting his two penneth in, doestn it seem strange that Shebby has a few fans meetings and he next match maybe 3 or 4 players are dropped and the captain is changed, you cant just do that at this lvl , dropping key players and changing captain is keaning amatuer and it reeks of crass just like our owners.

Maybe Holloway isnt the manager because he wouldnt bow to commands (it didnt take 5 weeks for no reason) maybe Berg was the only yes man we could get, either way..........results talk and Bergs are keaning terrible so far.

[USABlue]

Well I said I did not want Berg. I did however say I would back him, sit on my hands to see what he does come January. After today I am wavering, a great deal. First half I thought we were OK and although we dropped another goal to, IMHO, Dann ball watching I was reasonably pleased with some of the effort and movement. What did Berg say at half time to totally destroy that. I thought we would come out with our tails up a bit but it was totally the opposite. I have to question a manager and I mean seriously question a manager that leaves someone as inept as Etuhu on the park. That alone is enough for me to begin to have doubts. Posting this from the gut without having read any other posts. It's looking all the world right now like another relegation scrap.

1win in 9 games, not good enough, should not have even been interviewed for the post never mind handed the job.

What a mess we are in.

Mark Hughe's tenure started in similar fashion did it not. Not defending Berg just saying.

Got a feeling Berg will walk soon. Shebby and the loons from Pune will be ramping up the heat and Berg will have enough of it. It's a tricky one. I don't believe that we are the 15th worst team in the league but as many have pointed out Berg has inherited the worst Rovers side that I have seen in 20 odd years of watching us. The spine of the team is absolutely shocking. We have no leaders, the players are defeatists.

Not bringing in an experienced manager has cost us dearly as Henning is proving IMO that he's just not up to it tactically. The late goals conceded week in week out shows this.

Where we go from here I have no idea. Until those lot leave its just going to get worse. Clueless owners, players who couldn't give a flying Kean and fans dwindling in their support and love for it all. I would snap your hands off now for another relegation if it meant getting rid of 'em, but there are no guarantees. They'd still most likely be talking of Europe and dishing out 4 year deals to players who can't pass a ball and run in quicksand.

Depressing, depressing times.

I don't believe we are either, I know we are.

[Paul]

I felt Henning's Radio Lancs post-match comments were reasonable yesterday. i've seen us play much worse, which isn't to suggest we were any good at Bloomfield Road. The Rovers support may as well have left when Blackpool scored because from that moment the result was a foregone conclusion.

When Henning arrived I was basically in the "underwhelmed, lets wait and see camp." Football aside I had one nagging doubt at the back of my mind, in June Berg publically stated "you'd have to be mad / an idiot to work for Venkys." This needs a bit of thought.

Berg has arrived at the club to work for those same owners, one must conclude at interview he was told / shown how things have changed. If that wasn't the case I have to question the motivation behind his statements in June and his decision to come to Ewood. For me the conclusion is obvious.

I'm not sure if Berg is a good or bad manager, what is clear is his reign so far has been disastrous. On Wednesday last week his boss, Shebby Singh, made a whole series of contradictory statements re the team in 90 minutes:

Henning is in charge of the team

Henning and I talk tactics

We are trying to build the core of a team

I haven't discussed transfer targets with Henning

We must give the manager time to build his own team

If he doesn't have a target list he must be happy with the squad

Overall I'd get out now if I was Henning Berg, get home with my family for Christmas and forget about the last nine games. He has a ready-made excuse "I was promised things had changed, I now know they haven't and I can't work under these conditions." Hanging around Ewood is going to be a big mistake for Henning.

Don't forget Shebby told us "promotion is the minimum and maximum target" - we aren't going up

[Waggy76]

Last season I would have agreed that venky`s need to go. However, if they were to pull out now then we`d be in real trouble financially. tHey spent a lot on players in the summer but blew it by getting Berg in. Last season, they were the reason we went down cos they kept kean and sold off our best players. This season, they have invested a lot of money and forced kean out. They were positive moves. They then made a massive mistake by appointing berg.

I'm not sure he failed at Man City. He did a decent job there. Did well with Wales, Blackburn and Fulham. Did poorly at QPR. What Hughes really excels at is getting the best out of players and making his team's hard to beat. We can oonly dream of that right now. He'd get us promoted.

I agree with you about Hughes , but I think it is too late for this season (promotion) .....

Hughes is no yes man , not sure Shebby would want Hughes any where near the club and vice versa ...

How much Venkys , have spent against sales I suspect is in profit ,.....They are not going to spend their own money to get us out of this league ..

[Mercer]

Overall I'd get out now if I was Henning Berg, get home with my family for Christmas and forget about the last nine games. He has a ready-made excuse "I was promised things had changed, I now know they haven't and I can't work under these conditions." Hanging around Ewood is going to be a big mistake for Henning.

Don't forget Shebby told us "promotion is the minimum and maximum target" - we aren't going up

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[John]

We would probably have to wait until February if we were to appoint a new manager so pointless if they cannot have the transfer window.

[K-Hod]

I like him and desperately want him to do well

Next week is huge for him and us

Same. Though my issue, with Kean, we scored, but conceded loads, with Black, we hardly conceded, but hardly scored.

With Berg, we don't score, and we don't defend well and concede far too many.

[chaddyrovers]

Berg is bring in Kevin MacDonald as a Coach to work with him. Kevin MacDonald was a coach at Villa for 10 years until this summer.

Black and Brunskill are still set to leave.

Also Berg wants 3 or 4 new players in Janaury

[imy9]

Kevin McDonald is an excellent coach and has a reputation for developing young players.

Lets hope this is the start of something good-mat be yet another false dawn

[martonrover]

Kevin McDonald is an excellent coach and has a reputation for developing young players.

Lets hope this is the start of something good-mat be yet another false dawn

Very good but what we need right now is a proper manager to get to grips with the squad.

[PAFELL]

No I don't and that's a worry.

The only mitigating factor is can anyone be worse than Berg in terms of results / points !?!?

Until singh learns to keep his nose out of the tactics. Any manager would struggle at Rovers. The manager, whoever it is, needs to be allowed to get on with it. Not have tactics approved by others before hand.

[Batman.]

I must admit, I much preferred it when Kean was fluking wins every week compared to Berg earning defeats.

[chaddyrovers]

Very good but what we need right now is a proper manager to get to grips with the squad.

I still think Berg is the right manager but I think Berg has made some mistakes like with Rumour Friedel signing and changing coaching staff being leaked by someone at Rovers. wonder who that is?????????????

But Berg has pick the team that the Majority of fans would have pick for each game. or at least 9 or 10 players in the starting 11.

Are Berg ideas and tactics getting over to the players?

are Black and Brunskill implementing Berg's tactics and style of play that he wants to play?

[Stuart]

Why have you stopped posting links, Chaddy?

[chaddyrovers]

Why have you stopped posting links, Chaddy?

to what Stu

[Stuart]

Eg. We are bringing in MacDonald.

[martonrover]

I still think Berg is the right manager but I think Berg has made some mistakes like with Rumour Friedel signing and changing coaching staff being leaked by someone at Rovers. wonder who that is?????????????

But Berg has pick the team that the Majority of fans would have pick for each game. or at least 9 or 10 players in the starting 11.

Are Berg ideas and tactics getting over to the players?

are Black and Brunskill implementing Berg's tactics and style of play that he wants to play?

Genuine question - on what basis do you think Berg is the right manager?

To me he has made things worse and we are now in freefall.

The situation he came into was difficult but he looks completely out of his depth.

Another round of musical backroom chairs is unlikely to change that.

[riverside returns]

It is evident that some of the senior players threw their toys out of the pram after learning of the imminent coaching changes. This would account for the robbo decision.

Week after week I say that I can see Etuhu does not work. He is obviously there to appease shaw, never mind Singh. It seems to me that the opposing camps, Singh v Shaw/Agnew are putting undue influence on berg for their own reasons. Agnew is also leaking stories for the same.

There is no way Berg can get this right in the current climate.

We need a spine to the team and to stop allowing pressure on the defence from midfield. We need to defend higher up the pitch. The old adage 'the first line of defence should be the attackers.

[chaddyrovers]

Eg. We are bringing in MacDonald.

not online as far as i know.

ive read it in the Sunday People