[Archived] Official: Paul Lambert Appointed Blackburn Rovers Manager

[booth]

I think it's pretty obvious, they don't give a toss about the club and can't be bothered.

[G Somerset Rover]

Bayes being slightly more direct for a change regarding poor team and individual form:

http://audioboom.com/boos/4447739-y

[Iceman]

Hawksbee and jacobs just mentioned it sounded like lambert had had enough of the owners at rovers

Oh dear!

We have nobody in Blackburn to deal with wages, contracts, transfers, budgets etc etc, the press is Lamberts only outlet and I applaud him for saying what he thinks instead of hiding behind the usual 'Venkys veil of secrecy'

Paul Lambert is calling these fools out, they need someone to tell them just how it is and if he doesn't get the right answers I firmly believe he'll walk and rightly so.

When/if he walks we'll have the same sections of our support/posters telling us:

"Well what can we do, Venkys are our only option"

If he walks over broken promises I'm done until they feck off

Completely agree Gav. If he quits because Venkys can't come forward with a proper plan and budget, then it's time for Venkys to get lost.

Again I'm not over there, but we really need a United fan base on that side pulling the same way to rid us of these clowns. Venkys are an utter disgrace

[Stuart]

Venkys said they would only hire Mark Warburton if he brought in Terry Butcher and Steve Wicks as his backroom team.

Rub-a-dub-dub.

How childish.

Clever though!

[Athlete]

Bayes being slightly more direct for a change regarding poor team and individual form:

http://audioboom.com/boos/4447739-y

just heard it TBH PL does himself no favours when Bayes questions the strikers currently at the clubs strike rate compared to last season...seen the SSN watered down version PL's body language didn't seem as upbeat as normal

[Stuart]

Bayes being slightly more direct for a change regarding poor team and individual form:

http://audioboom.com/boos/4447739-y

Thanks for that GSR. I think Lambert makes some good points. Although it's a pretty pitiful defence of Brown.

In terms of his response to losing a 50 goal strike force (Rhodes, Gestede, King) he believes that it's about the team and not goals. I'm on board with the sentiment; synergies and all that, fine.

But it's about the calibre of the team in my view. We should be retaining quality striking options and improving the other areas of the pitch who aren't good enough: raising the benchmark. Granted Lambert wasn't here for most of it but they have dumbed down the squad after every transfer window and in the stands Venkys have relied on the "slow-boiling frog" conditioning effect, in that, given long enough, fans will acclimatise to the new conditions, and will watch the club will slowly die without really being aware that it is happening.

We absolutely need Venkys to back Lambert, and if they can't do so financially - for whatever reason - then they have to speak to him about what they can do. He's a big boy and he'll be able to cope with not getting £20m. But he must be made to feel that the owners are pulling in the same direction that he is, and that they are doing all they can to get him the tools he needs.

There is no quick fix for the damage they have inflicted on this club. If they want to personify it and simplify it then they only need look at what happened in the case of how'd Ryan Nelsen's exit was (mis)managed, and how it should have been done. He was at Spurs for one year and they shamed Venkys in how they did it.

[Mattyblue]

Lambert is protecting his player, but to suggest Brown gets in the right positions is patently untrue, he spends most of his time outside the box and I purposely watched him on Saturday as crosses went in, he was not in any way attempting to use his ample size to get the better of the centre half.

No confidence and little (no?) talent, for all our sakes (his included) he needs to be taken out the firing line.

[Pedro]

Lambert is protecting his player, but to suggest Brown gets in the right positions is patently untrue, he spends most of his time outside the box and I purposely watched him on Saturday as crosses went in, he was not in any way attempting to use his ample size to get the better of the centre half.

No confidence and little (no?) talent, for all our sakes (his included) he needs to be taken out the firing line.

Brown does most of his work 40 to 50 yards from goal - closing down mainly. I've never seen him find space in the box and ridiculously, I can honestly only think of two or three shots that he has EVER had. He used to bring the ball down quite well under pressure but that has also stopped. A poor player and almost pointless option.

[BlueMonday]

Hawksbee and jacobs just mentioned it sounded like lambert had had enough of the owners at rovers

Yes, I listened to that GB. They questioned why anyone would work for that mob.

Its an open secret

[Neil Weaver]

.... but we really need a United fan base ......

Vinjay, here's a job for you.......

[G Somerset Rover]

Brown does most of his work 40 to 50 yards from goal - closing down mainly. I've never seen him find space in the box and ridiculously, I can honestly only think of two or three shots that he has EVER had. He used to bring the ball down quite well under pressure but that has also stopped. A poor player and almost pointless option.

Completely agree with you and Matty. Yes he runs around a bit and can be a nuisance, but he's a completely useless option. We may as well throw Mansell or Forrester on instead as I'd bet my bottom dollar that they'd register their first goal for the club within 40 games.

[K-Hod]

He's never going to say what we all know to be true about Brown is he? We all know he's a terrible footballer, he's just trying to go for the 'arm around the shoulder' I expect. That being said, I agree with the sentiments about the youth players. Forrester must be a better option at the very least!!

[Tom]

Brown will score goals elsewhere - not many but some.

It looks like he doesn't want to get on the end of chances because he doesn't think he can score, it lessens the chance of him even fluking one!

[Leonard Venkhater]

Brown will score goals elsewhere - not many but some.

It looks like he doesn't want to get on the end of chances because he doesn't think he can score, it lessens the chance of him even fluking one!

Whatever Brown's deficits, his confidence must be absolutely shot. He needs a move for that reason alone!

It would have been wrong for Lambert not to shield the player in interview with Bayes.

Good to see Bayes asking difficult questions, though. Oh how we could have done with that kind of questioning for Shebby Singh, Agnew, Kean etc.

Ironically, Bayes has saved his difficult questions for the person, who is probably more honest than the rest of them put together.

I could believe in Lambert and I hope I am wrong in thinking he has already decided to walk....

I think it will come to a head, when the season is finished.....

[tomphil]

Brown did seem to be making a conscious effort to stay out of the box on Sat but he did do a few useful lay offs and nearly played someone in with a clever ball that got toe ended away by a defender. At the end of the day the lads a league 1 player and the sooner he ends up back there with another club the better.

I always have this nagging feeling they keep hold of him just in case disaster strikes and we end up there ! Tell you what though his cameos are often better than Jacksons and that's saying something I know but that guy is another one who's a level or two above where he should be. It's a dire state of affairs.

[Proudtobeblue&white]

I worry about Saturday's game - me and my lad came away from that poor excuse for a professional football game and kept saying it was rubbish - irrespective of the Forrest result, what incentive is there to go and watch Bristol beat us? PL is in an untenable position.....I have every sympathy for him.....platting sawdust.....he's been sold a pup. They are a disgrace......to our heritage - shame on them.

[Dunnfc]

I like PL's personality and feel he should be backed but he has under-performed and that should go without unquestioning.

Can't understated the clamor to give him a blank cheque not as if he has earnt it is it?

What's GB's ratio compared to PL, anyone?

[RevidgeBlue]

I think we both know it could be worse Rev!

Paul Lambert and his staff are the best thing thats happened to the club in a very long time, I'm stunned you can't see that.

Results and performances maybe poor, but I could list plenty of reasons why, and non of them are the managers fault.

Sorry Gav,I disagree completely there. Lambert and his team SHOULD have been the best thing to happen to us for ages but so far it hasn't panned out like that. I don't think anyone could have done much worse than Lambert, Irvine and Kelly. I'd settle for someone who looks like they want to build a team going forward, not chuck together a bunch of short term signings and loanees for a few months then do the same again the following season.

Poor quality loaders and signings at that. We're not talking Steve Archibald here are we?

The only way in which I would have any sympathy for Lambert is IF he was told there would be substantial funds available in summer and he was told to just stir things up a bit on the cheap in the interim and the owners have subsequently gone back on their word.

Even then though I think there's an argument to say that Team Lambert performed so poorly in playing ourselves completely out of play off contention over the Christmas and New Year period that it prompted the owners to have a change of heart. I suspect this is what may have happened and to that extent Lambert is partially the author of his own misfortune.

[Gav]

As LV says above, Bayes has left it a bit late to ask questions of anyone at the club, his attempts to put Lambert, the best thing that's happened to this club in 6yrs, on the back foot are a bit desperate.

He's asking the questions of a manager that he knows is against the owners, pathetic if you ask me, poor.

The manager is always going to defend his players, and rightly so. If we had a Best in the ranks I'd expect Lambert to tell it as it is, but we don't, Brown gives 110% every game and I'd expect the manager to back him, I certainly do, you can ask no more than 110%.

[jim mk2]

Fans are entitled to expect better than some of the poor fare and results served up in recent months for which Lambert is entirely responsible. He's brought in these players so presumably he likes them and thinks they can improve the team - but where is the evidence? I don't want Lambert to leave but he's done nothing as far as I can see to justify the lofty reputation he's given by many people. Yes, we'd probably be in an even worse position under Bowyer but presuming he stays and isn't given much money to spend in the summer Lambert will to show his mettle as a manager to prevent the team getting relegated next season. On current form, I'd say he isn't up to it.

[Tom]

Sorry Gav,I disagree completely there. Lambert and his team SHOULD have been the best thing to happen to us for ages but so far it hasn't panned out like that. I don't think anyone could have done much worse than Lambert, Irvine and Kelly. I'd settle for someone who looks like they want to build a team going forward, not chuck together a bunch of short term signings and loanees for a few months then do the same again the following season.

Poor quality loaders and signings at that. We're not talking Steve Archibald here are we?

The only way in which I would have any sympathy for Lambert is IF he was told there would be substantial funds available in summer and he was told to just stir things up a bit on the cheap in the interim and the owners have subsequently gone back on their word.

Even then though I think there's an argument to say that Team Lambert performed so poorly in playing ourselves completely out of play off contention over the Christmas and New Year period that it prompted the owners to have a change of heart. I suspect this is what may have happened and to that extent Lambert is partially the author of his own misfortune.

He took over a team flirting with the drop zone and has barely improved it but it's insane to say you don't think anyone could have done much worse, we could easily have been dead and buried by this point with another manager or with the last one.

We should absolutely expect more but to say nobody could do much worse is a blatant mistruth in my opinion.

[Gav]

He took over a team flirting with the drop zone and has barely improved it but it's insane to say you don't think anyone could have done much worse, we could easily have been dead and buried by this point with another manager or with the last one.

We should absolutely expect more but to say nobody could do much worse is a blatant mistruth in my opinion.

I couldn't agree more.

I'm astounded Rev thinks we had a chance of the playoffs when Lambert took over, we had more chance of relegation than playoff.

Lambert saw right away the side was heading to league1, so he tried to address that and we're still in the Championship, job done.

Now he needs funds, if he doesn't get funds we'll never make the premiership simply because of where we're starting from, cr@p squad, small squad.

[Tom]

One of Lamberts big issues was the false dawn, 4 games into his tenure we started to look at the playoffs hopefully for the first time then it was a crash back to reality albeit with heightened expectations of where we should now be.

Where we actually are now is right about where we were when Bowyer left - which isn't where we want to be but it could have been much much worse.

[Gav]

I never even considered the playoffs, how could I with the likes of Kiota, Apkan, Delfy, Taylor, Steele, Spur and Brown in the squad?

[gumboots]

I'd settle for someone who looks like they want to build a team going forward, not chuck together a bunch of short term signings and loanees for a few months then do the same again the following season.

Isn't this exactly what lambert's gripe is? That he wants to build a team but isn't being allowed to because our owners won't give him the tools, the backing or the authority to do the long term planning so he's being forced into short termism