COMMENT: Venky's need to get this right
10:09am Thursday 4th October 2012 in Sport
By Andy Cryer, Blackburn Rovers reporter
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
JUST a glance at the suggestions for Blackburn Rovers’ next manager shows what a difficult job owners Venky’s have on their hands.
Is experience the most important criteria? It is time to give a young manager his chance? Would a former Rovers favourite get the fans back on side at Ewood Park? These are all the questions the Raos, Shebby Singh, Paul Agnew and Derek Shaw are going to have to ask and answer to make sure they avoid the disaster of the club’s last managerial appointment.
The Lancashire Telegraph’s poll is just a snapshot of fans’ feelings, but you can understand why there is such a call for a more experienced man this time round.
The inexperienced route didn’t exactly work last time with Steve Kean, did it?
Ian Holloway would be a good shout for the job. He knows what the Championship is all about and has the respect of most fans.
Would he come? Maybe, maybe not. If you don’t ask, you don’t get.
Mick McCarthy is another solid, reliable candidate, with vast experience and it is no surprise he got a large percentage of the votes as well.
Bernd Schuster is an eye opener, while the likes of Harry Redknapp and Rafa Benitez have to be unlikely.
I get the impression the owners are keen to steer away from the ‘old school’ mould, which would rule McCarthy out.
The idea of bringing a former Rovers favourite back has also invoked mixed reactions.
You can see the appeal. Imagine the feelgood factor of someone like Alan Shearer taking the hot seat?
Whether that would last though is a difficult one as there is no track record to judge him on.
Tim Sherwood is another difficult one. He hasn’t got any managerial experience but how do you get experience?
Sherwood is highly thought of at Tottenham.
From all the early suggestions though, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is the best fit for me. He is young, dynamic and with fresh footballing ideas – the exact characteristics Venky’s are looking for.
He also has some managerial experience, having led Molde to their first ever top flight title last season and taking them to the brink of winning it again this year.
Would he leave Molde? Publicly he will state he is happy there but an interest has been expressed from his representatives to Rovers and that means there is a chance.
Whatever happens, any manager is a gamble. Venky’s need to make sure they do their homework to ensure the gamble has been taken with authority and knowledge.
Comments(45)
cybercop
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10:21am Thu 4 Oct 12
See you all at Ewood on Saturday!
Crow27
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10:22am Thu 4 Oct 12
Ewoodlegend
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10:27am Thu 4 Oct 12
Venkys do the right think........BRING HIM IN
handsj14
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10:28am Thu 4 Oct 12
jaysay
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10:29am Thu 4 Oct 12
HitchinRover
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10:29am Thu 4 Oct 12
NickH1982
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10:30am Thu 4 Oct 12
Crow27 wrote:wasnt paul Ince young an hungry an did well at MK dons
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer all the way for me. A little successful managerial experience and young and hungry! Get him whatever it takes!!!!!!!!!
b12simon
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10:41am Thu 4 Oct 12
NickH1982 wrote:Winning the Norwegian title is a much higher level than doing well with Franchise FC in division 4!
Crow27 wrote:wasnt paul Ince young an hungry an did well at MK dons
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer all the way for me. A little successful managerial experience and young and hungry! Get him whatever it takes!!!!!!!!!
Also Solskjaer never described himself as "the guv'nor".
Ryanb74
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10:49am Thu 4 Oct 12
Forever-Blue
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10:50am Thu 4 Oct 12
givet82
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10:53am Thu 4 Oct 12
handsj14
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10:57am Thu 4 Oct 12
French Rover
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11:06am Thu 4 Oct 12
So now its Ole Gunnar who is coming as our next manager - unless Sherwood has a very sudden and late change of heart.
Forget all the rest. All hail Ole!
That is Ole and not Olly! He might have been ok now - but maybe not in the prem?
And thank god it is not Mad Mick McC or the Kean with an E at the end)....they are dinosaurs and we need someone fresh and ambitious now and Ole fits the bill I think...
ronnie clayton
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11:07am Thu 4 Oct 12
Road Runner Road Runner
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11:10am Thu 4 Oct 12
The baby faced assassin that I'm sure will run through his teams.
Roy Kean would be a no goer for me. Doesn't fill me with confidence as I don't believe he feels his players can live up to his high standards ?
Failing that then Henning Berg would be a serious contender for me also.
Arte et labore
wezzyrover
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11:14am Thu 4 Oct 12
makaveli96
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11:19am Thu 4 Oct 12
1) Sherwood - Judas
2) Shearer - Judas
3) Hughes - Judas
4) Souness - Judas
5) Ole/Keane - Ex United
6) Mick McCarthy - Yorkshire, plastic Irish
7) Alex Ferguson - to old, speaks like Kean
8) Redknapp - dodgy tax
9) Redkapps Dog - good financial background but a southerner
10) Please not a German, ask my grandad
YES!!:
1 SIMON GARNER, theres only 1 SIMON GARNER!!!!
givet82
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11:24am Thu 4 Oct 12
makaveli96 wrote:You're a strange type of grown up maka :)
NOs:
1) Sherwood - Judas
2) Shearer - Judas
3) Hughes - Judas
4) Souness - Judas
5) Ole/Keane - Ex United
6) Mick McCarthy - Yorkshire, plastic Irish
7) Alex Ferguson - to old, speaks like Kean
8) Redknapp - dodgy tax
9) Redkapps Dog - good financial background but a southerner
10) Please not a German, ask my grandad
YES!!:
1 SIMON GARNER, theres only 1 SIMON GARNER!!!!
ronnie clayton
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11:29am Thu 4 Oct 12
givet82 wrote:Would be happy with Garner ,but with your way of thinking would he not be a JUDAS in the eyes of the good folk from Huddersfield OR does that not count ?
makaveli96 wrote:You're a strange type of grown up maka :)
NOs:
1) Sherwood - Judas
2) Shearer - Judas
3) Hughes - Judas
4) Souness - Judas
5) Ole/Keane - Ex United
6) Mick McCarthy - Yorkshire, plastic Irish
7) Alex Ferguson - to old, speaks like Kean
8) Redknapp - dodgy tax
9) Redkapps Dog - good financial background but a southerner
10) Please not a German, ask my grandad
YES!!:
1 SIMON GARNER, theres only 1 SIMON GARNER!!!!
janus1947
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11:31am Thu 4 Oct 12
roverphil57
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11:32am Thu 4 Oct 12
A Rover 45 years and over
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11:33am Thu 4 Oct 12
jackdyson
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11:36am Thu 4 Oct 12
So bring him in! Invite him over to watch the game on saturday so he can see for himself jut what a great project it will be!
COYB!
bornindarwenliveinnottm
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11:38am Thu 4 Oct 12
I was at the city ground last night and Danny Murphy was appalling. He's obviously just going through the motions and taking his money. He has no pace and it looks like his legs have gone.
Reo Coker is 28 and has a good engine on him. We seriously need a box-to-box type who has the energy and drive to kick start our attack.
OnePostThenTheOther
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11:44am Thu 4 Oct 12
givet82 wrote:I sometimes wonder whether you are a Rovers supporter. Your continual condemnation of fellow supporters is at best tedious.
Not mr you score 1 goal we will score 2 Holloway please, a lot of fickle fans at Rover's will soon get on his back for having zero defence. Blackpool fans can handle it but our club definitely won't. OGS, Redknapp or Curbs for me
Remember that without the actions of 'fickle' fans as you describe them we would still be suffering the deluded incompetence of the former incumbant.
bow1974
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11:48am Thu 4 Oct 12
makaveli96
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11:49am Thu 4 Oct 12
With a lump in my throat and a scramble for words before she left, I asked.."Just like that?"
Crow27
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11:49am Thu 4 Oct 12
Solskjaer said. "We have gone up this path before and it is only speculation. It will happen when it happens, that I have to pick up the phone to Kjell Inge Rokke regarding a job offer, but I have not spoken to Blackburn as yet.
The lines - 'it will happen when it happens' and 'but I have not spoken to Blackburn as yet' are I believe indicators that he is interested and we need to get him ASAP!!!!!
makaveli96
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11:51am Thu 4 Oct 12
I used a club and a spade last night.
alfa111
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11:54am Thu 4 Oct 12
makaveli96 wrote:LIKE IT,LIKE IT LIKE IT
NOs:
1) Sherwood - Judas
2) Shearer - Judas
3) Hughes - Judas
4) Souness - Judas
5) Ole/Keane - Ex United
6) Mick McCarthy - Yorkshire, plastic Irish
7) Alex Ferguson - to old, speaks like Kean
8) Redknapp - dodgy tax
9) Redkapps Dog - good financial background but a southerner
10) Please not a German, ask my grandad
YES!!:
1 SIMON GARNER, theres only 1 SIMON GARNER!!!!
givet82
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12:03pm Thu 4 Oct 12
OnePostThenTheOther wrote:The truth hurts and the sad fact of the matter is Steve Kean as much as i dislike him would probably have took us up. I have said continuously be careful what you wish for. People on here and probably you want a manager who hasn't done his badges, Kean was a good coach but bad manager just remember that. And by the way my continual condemnation as you put it of fellow fans is based on every manager we have had in the past 15 years have been singing for their sacking, for example big sam, Kean and ince got awful treatment for large sections of the crowd (kean i agree with was out of his depth). But what what i know eh, just finished my UEFA badges to coach under 10,13,15 and 18 years. Rovers fan for thirty years and know Kean wasn't as tactically inept as a lot think, you will find out in the coming matches
givet82 wrote:I sometimes wonder whether you are a Rovers supporter. Your continual condemnation of fellow supporters is at best tedious.
Not mr you score 1 goal we will score 2 Holloway please, a lot of fickle fans at Rover's will soon get on his back for having zero defence. Blackpool fans can handle it but our club definitely won't. OGS, Redknapp or Curbs for me
Remember that without the actions of 'fickle' fans as you describe them we would still be suffering the deluded incompetence of the former incumbant.
benal13
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12:03pm Thu 4 Oct 12
!!!!!
makaveli96
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12:08pm Thu 4 Oct 12
He must do,If even the thought of leaving the country makes him ill.
makaveli96
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12:09pm Thu 4 Oct 12
alfa111 wrote:Now then, now then, now then
makaveli96 wrote: NOs: 1) Sherwood - Judas 2) Shearer - Judas 3) Hughes - Judas 4) Souness - Judas 5) Ole/Keane - Ex United 6) Mick McCarthy - Yorkshire, plastic Irish 7) Alex Ferguson - to old, speaks like Kean 8) Redknapp - dodgy tax 9) Redkapps Dog - good financial background but a southerner 10) Please not a German, ask my grandad YES!!: 1 SIMON GARNER, theres only 1 SIMON GARNER!!!!LIKE IT,LIKE IT LIKE IT
roverfor60years
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12:20pm Thu 4 Oct 12
If that is not done first, it really doesn’t matter which manager is brought in. Either he would be just another puppet – or he would pack his bags as soon as Mickey and his friends started poking their noses in. Either way they would be back where they started.
Bringing in players behind the manager’s back is madness.
AndyW
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12:51pm Thu 4 Oct 12
makaveli96 wrote:Judas?!
NOs:
1) Sherwood - Judas
2) Shearer - Judas
3) Hughes - Judas
4) Souness - Judas
5) Ole/Keane - Ex United
6) Mick McCarthy - Yorkshire, plastic Irish
7) Alex Ferguson - to old, speaks like Kean
8) Redknapp - dodgy tax
9) Redkapps Dog - good financial background but a southerner
10) Please not a German, ask my grandad
YES!!:
1 SIMON GARNER, theres only 1 SIMON GARNER!!!!
Jesus, I bet you're still bitter than your first girlfriend left you for somebody better looking, aren't you?
Nothing 'Judas' about doing a legendary job for Rovers (like Big Al did) then moving on to his real love, his hometown club.
I'd take Shearer back in a heartbeat, experience or no experience.
But at the end of the day, I don't care who takes over as long as he's not Steve 'The Weasel' Kean.
OnePostThenTheOther
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1:07pm Thu 4 Oct 12
givet82 wrote:Which just goes to show that UEFA badges ain't worth sh8.
OnePostThenTheOther wrote:The truth hurts and the sad fact of the matter is Steve Kean as much as i dislike him would probably have took us up. I have said continuously be careful what you wish for. People on here and probably you want a manager who hasn't done his badges, Kean was a good coach but bad manager just remember that. And by the way my continual condemnation as you put it of fellow fans is based on every manager we have had in the past 15 years have been singing for their sacking, for example big sam, Kean and ince got awful treatment for large sections of the crowd (kean i agree with was out of his depth). But what what i know eh, just finished my UEFA badges to coach under 10,13,15 and 18 years. Rovers fan for thirty years and know Kean wasn't as tactically inept as a lot think, you will find out in the coming matches
givet82 wrote:I sometimes wonder whether you are a Rovers supporter. Your continual condemnation of fellow supporters is at best tedious.
Not mr you score 1 goal we will score 2 Holloway please, a lot of fickle fans at Rover's will soon get on his back for having zero defence. Blackpool fans can handle it but our club definitely won't. OGS, Redknapp or Curbs for me
Remember that without the actions of 'fickle' fans as you describe them we would still be suffering the deluded incompetence of the former incumbant.
Sorry, don't recollect any instances of the crowd singing for the removal of Souness, Hughes or Allardyce, so a bit of fabrication there on your part to support your tenuous argument and to justify your continuing defamation of genuine Rovers supporters.
Rest assured that I wouldn't let a sanctimonius, self-congratulatory tw@t like you influence how I support the team that I have followed for the last 37 years. Little wonder, based upon the above insight that you have a soft spot for Kean.
makaveli96
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1:26pm Thu 4 Oct 12
AndyW wrote:Next you will telling me Kevin Pieterson didnt desert South Africa, or Bradley Wiggins Belgium!
makaveli96 wrote: NOs: 1) Sherwood - Judas 2) Shearer - Judas 3) Hughes - Judas 4) Souness - Judas 5) Ole/Keane - Ex United 6) Mick McCarthy - Yorkshire, plastic Irish 7) Alex Ferguson - to old, speaks like Kean 8) Redknapp - dodgy tax 9) Redkapps Dog - good financial background but a southerner 10) Please not a German, ask my grandad YES!!: 1 SIMON GARNER, theres only 1 SIMON GARNER!!!!Judas?! Jesus, I bet you're still bitter than your first girlfriend left you for somebody better looking, aren't you? Nothing 'Judas' about doing a legendary job for Rovers (like Big Al did) then moving on to his real love, his hometown club. I'd take Shearer back in a heartbeat, experience or no experience. But at the end of the day, I don't care who takes over as long as he's not Steve 'The Weasel' Kean.
Girlfriend left me? check the patio
makaveli96
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2:08pm Thu 4 Oct 12
My boss immediately came over and whispered in my ear, "Don't do that again."
"Sorry," I said, "It must be the nerves."
"Fair enough," he replied, "But there was no need to hold the microphone to your arse."
makaveli96
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2:10pm Thu 4 Oct 12
"Yeah," I replied. "Poor bugger never had a moment's peace in his whole life."
We just stood there, gazing at our dad, as he smiled down at mum's coffin.
makaveli96
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2:46pm Thu 4 Oct 12
I was on channel 4 years ago and was given E, LSD and MDMA That has to be the hardest Countdown conundrum ever .
makaveli96
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2:48pm Thu 4 Oct 12
She crushed four of them.
azza234
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7:08pm Thu 4 Oct 12
makaveli96 wrote:where u get these jokes from a crisp packet there crap id stick to your day job unless its a Comedian then id leave it
My wife fell in the lion pit at the zoo. It was carnage.
She crushed four of them.
smellthecoffee
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3:49am Fri 5 Oct 12
makaveli96 wrote:Funny....esp Harry's dog. Seriously tho Mick McCarthy has the best record of all the managers mentioned (of getting teams promoted). Sure, if he struggles in the Premiership then you reassess the situation then....until the club gets promoted that won't be a problem!! Def not Sherwood....the fans don't have much love for him. Ole or McCarthy for me.
NOs: 1) Sherwood - Judas 2) Shearer - Judas 3) Hughes - Judas 4) Souness - Judas 5) Ole/Keane - Ex United 6) Mick McCarthy - Yorkshire, plastic Irish 7) Alex Ferguson - to old, speaks like Kean 8) Redknapp - dodgy tax 9) Redkapps Dog - good financial background but a southerner 10) Please not a German, ask my grandad YES!!: 1 SIMON GARNER, theres only 1 SIMON GARNER!!!!
kazz says...
10:20am Thu 4 Oct 12