Jon Dahl Tomasson - Sweden coach

[tomphil]

4 minutes ago, ageoftherover said:

Would we prefer:

 

Disillusioned manager lobbing handgrenades at the owners/management who gets us relegated?

Or

New manager, tows the party line, buys into our current situation and keeps us up?

That's what is needed but looks to me like they've all agreed he'll just go at the end of the season and despite him saying he'd walk for nothing last summer i think if they offered him money now he'd be off like a shot.

They won't though and they won't want to source or pay a new guy coming in either so on we go despite the massive and clear stand off.

That's why imo some of them don't give a toss about relegation because it provides phase 2 of the downgrade restructure on a plate.  Only the ownership can alter that if it bothers them because these plumbs running it here couldn't give a stuff the shadowman will stay in his cushy position whatever.

[Ghost7]

You know your club is completely f*cked when your manager can essentially say whatever the hell he wants in an interview and still not get fired. I love JDT for sticking it to our incompetent owners and execs. 

Things are happening at this club that do not happen anywhere else; they are happening repeatedly with good managers... and bad ones.

You'd think that alone would be enough for every fan to realise the owners need to go. No one can be measured properly until the club is ran properly, that starts at the very top and is influenced heavily by the CEO but even he isn't measured correctly - so you're f*cked before you've even started.

Unfathomably it still needs spelling out for a lot of people... Venky's are the root cause of the problems at Blackburn Rovers.

[joey_big_nose]

4 minutes ago, NeilInBristol said:

Are you serious? Did you listen to what he said on that video? He brought his family over here and his kids in a school. The guy has given everything.

 

Someone else mentioned earlier this squad isn't as good as the squad that got relegated. 

 

He can't do much more especially with his hands tied behind his back. 

 

He does care and hasn't given up. He was so frustrated that he wasn't able to talk yesterday 

Oh I think he did care, I really rate him as a manager. But I think hes got to the point where its all such a clown show, and the goal post keep moving etc, that hes checked out and feels miminal accountability for how the team is performing.

We've been dragged into a relegation battle in a death spiral which puts Mowbray in the shade but you wouldnt guess it from his demeanor or what he says.

Hes been sold a pup so I dont blame him - in his position I would probably react much the same - but that doesn't take away from the fact the manager / coach needs to take accountability and lead. And if hes checked out then that is very very bad news.

[Roverthechimp]

18 minutes ago, ageoftherover said:

Would we prefer:

 

Disillusioned manager lobbing handgrenades at the owners/management who gets us relegated?

Or

New manager, tows the party line, buys into our current situation and keeps us up?

Buys into our current situation? Could someone tell me what that it is because we are definitely no longer a football club 

[jim mk2]

39 minutes ago, joey_big_nose said:

Oh I think he did care, I really rate him as a manager. But I think hes got to the point where its all such a clown show, and the goal post keep moving etc, that hes checked out and feels miminal accountability for how the team is performing.

We've been dragged into a relegation battle in a death spiral which puts Mowbray in the shade but you wouldnt guess it from his demeanor or what he says.

Hes been sold a pup so I dont blame him - in his position I would probably react much the same - but that doesn't take away from the fact the manager / coach needs to take accountability and lead. And if hes checked out then that is very very bad news.

 

Sorry, this is letting Tomasson off the hook. All the above is true but that doesn't excuse the way the team was set up and played today. And it's not as if today was unusual, it's been the same for weeks and weeks, the team is in freefall and heading for the bottom 3 at a rapid rate.

This is all down to Tomasson, and if he's feeling hard done by and sulking then it's a poor show and unprofessional on his part. He needs to show some respect  to the fans, work with what's he's got and get the team picking up points again. Even some draws would be encouraging. 

[ABBEY]

6 hours ago, RoversClitheroe said:

You sign an NDA when you start a job

but but then say fuck the nda and spill and bollox to it

[ABBEY]

1 hour ago, ageoftherover said:

Would we prefer:

 

Disillusioned manager lobbing handgrenades at the owners/management who gets us relegated?

Or

New manager, tows the party line, buys into our current situation and keeps us up?

admin via said manager who speaks the truth and gets maggot and suhail alongside every venky twat jailed. gimme games against unknown city  rather than the shite on offer now

[bluebruce]

44 minutes ago, ABBEY said:

but but then say fuck the nda and spill and bollox to it

And get sued? He doesn't owe us that.

[lraC]

The manager mentioned in his radio Lancs interview at least twice that a hand grenade had been thrown in to destroy his work.

He was gagged on Friday simply because he was highly likely to call someone out for the same incompetence as last year, when it comes to getting a transfer over the line. This year the player was announced as being signed and in reality he hasn’t been.

What he excuse will we have this time and who will be the fall guy. Last year it was Greg, so if it’s him again (and I’m not convinced it really was last year) do we just shrug our shoulders and just carry on regardless?

Last years error cost us a play off place, this year’s could be the difference between us staying up and being relegated.

A balls up like that once is unforgivable, but twice should mean it is the end for those responsible, sadly it won’t be and it will be business as usual by the end of next week. 

[Herbie6590]

9 hours ago, martonrover said:

Time to give Warnock a call, but it won’t happen with Paul Senior, sorry, Gregg Broughton in situ.

Going to Aberdeen apparently 

[Herbie6590]

7 hours ago, LDRover said:

You missed out selling the ground. It's only a question of time before that, like most so called conspiracy theories, becomes a reality.

Selling the ground isn’t allowed in FFP any more so if they did sell it, it would be very odd.

[Paul Mellelieu]

Good piece in the LT - club in crisis.

 

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/24095815.blackburn-rovers-club-crisis-off-pitch/

[Mattyblue]

Good lad, though he’s nicked a load of that verbatim from here, but that’s ok, the LT has a far bigger reach then here so good to get some of the stark reality out there.

[Upside Down]

5 minutes ago, Paul Mellelieu said:

Good piece in the LT - club in crisis.

 

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/24095815.blackburn-rovers-club-crisis-off-pitch/

I've read that article and it's not too bad.

If the LET are saying thereis an off field crisis then you know things are really turning to shit.

Still managed to stick that total bollocks in about "who would buy the club" so it loses some points for that.

[rigger]

8 hours ago, Jimmy612 said:

He rightly absolutely slayed them. JDT might be struggling with this group, but absolutely no wonder. 3 completely abysmal transfer windows in a row. If any fans think he’s the problem, they are in fact part of the problem. 

JDT is by no means the main problem, or even a significant problem, but he is part of the problem, by insisting on playing a system not suited to the position we are in.

[rigger]

10 hours ago, Upside Down said:

Absolutely a lot of paid accounts acting as pied pipers to the epsilons that just regurgitate whatever the party line is.

What is an "epsilon" I thought it was German for the letter Y.

Edited February 4 by rigger

[Upside Down]

13 minutes ago, rigger said:

What is an "epsilon" I thought it was German for the letter Y.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 

[martonrover]

56 minutes ago, Herbie6590 said:

Going to Aberdeen apparently 

We should be going to him, cap in hand.

[wilsdenrover]

55 minutes ago, Herbie6590 said:

Selling the ground isn’t allowed in FFP any more so if they did sell it, it would be very odd.

Whilst it wouldn’t help with FFP I presume it could still be done under the guise of ‘keeping the lights on’.

[rigger]

1 minute ago, Upside Down said:

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 

I still don't get it, could you explain in laymans terms ?

[BankEnd Rover]

Jon there’s no bad blood here but you need to walk for the sake of the club and your career.

These new signing must be thinking what on earth have come to. 

[Upside Down]

6 minutes ago, rigger said:

I still don't get it, could you explain in laymans terms ?

They are these people in society that have no ability to think for themselves, they literally just plod along happy as larry.

It's a very strange book, not as good as 1984 but still pretty good. 

[Jimmy612]

31 minutes ago, rigger said:

JDT is by no means the main problem, or even a significant problem, but he is part of the problem, by insisting on playing a system not suited to the position we are in.

I agree. I think he’s probably come to the end of the road. He’s obviously begging to be sacked, results have nosedived and I don’t think he knows how to get this group out of it. The football side probably needs some sort of kick start, a new voice and some new ideas just to get us to 50 points or whatever the safety point is in this league.  The problem is, it costs money to sack and appoint a new manager, money that this lot won’t spend. Our name must also be absolute mud within the football world. You’d be crackers to walk in to this, with the funding issue, the complete Horlicks that is every transfer window, the state of the squad.

So it’s paralysis. A complete state of impasse whilst we slide closer and closer to L1. 

[Lancs Rover]

14 hours ago, davulsukur said:

JDT sticking the boot in on Waggott, Suhail and The Cretins.

Good man 👏

Just gone back up in my estimations.

 

It's a bad workman that blames his tools. 😉

[rigger]

2 minutes ago, Lancs Rover said:

It's a bad workman that blames his tools. 😉

It is a far cry from "pissing with the willie we have got".