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Ince out, Sam Allardyce being sounded out or Soumess may return & work on as part of "DREAM TICKET" with Tugay.

 

Blackburn manager Paul Ince is facing the sack following the game against Liverpool and the club are already considering alternatives, with Sam Allardyce and former manager Graeme Souness on their list.

 

Rovers made enquiries yesterday to see where Allardyce stands with regards to replacing Roy Keane at Sunderland and were encouraged to learn nothing has been decided.

 

But their other option is to bring back Souness and unite him with highly-popular midfielder Tugay.  :cheesy: :idiot2:

 

Ince claimed there is a vendetta against former Manchester United players  :lol: and said people were out to get young managers sacked. :lol:Is It Cos I Is Black O0

 

 

 

In the frame: Sam Allardyce

 

Allardyce was among the candidates to take over at Blackburn in the summer following Mark Hughes' departure to Manchester City but the board opted to give upand- coming Ince his chance.

 

However, a run of nine games without a win in the Barclays Premier League and defeat in their Carling Cup quarter-final against Manchester United on Wednesday - as well as continued talk of players being unhappy behind the scenes - has forced a re-think.

 

At his pre-match press conference, Ince hit back at his critics, accusing them of a campaign to force him and former United team-mate Roy Keane out of their jobs. Keane quit as Sunderland boss on Wednesday.

 

But as Ince prepared to host leaders Liverpool with his team one place below Sunderland in the relegation zone, he came out fighting.

 

'I think there are people out to get us,' he said.

 

'They look at Keane and me in our Man United days and see us as snarly, old people.

 

'But we are nice guys, family men. People are envious and don't want us to succeed. That has been the case through our careers.

 

'All I want people to understand are the hard facts, and not just focus on two young men who are trying to make their way in football and to kick us around all the bloody time.'

 

Ince, 41, launched an impassioned defence of the new generation of young managers - even demanding to know why older bosses such as Harry Redknapp and Joe Kinnear do not face similar criticism.

 

Ince said: 'We have been moaning that we had to go outside our country to find an England coach but it is important the likes of myself, Gareth Southgate and Tony Adams get their grounding in the Premier League and some experience because you'd like to think the next England manager is going to be English. Not necessarily me, but somebody English.

 

'We're going through a transitional period where we're bringing young managers in like myself, Southgate, Keane and Adams and as soon as things don't go well they try to get us out of a job. It's bang out of order.

 

'Why people are clamouring for people like me to get sacked, I don't know. You have the radio shows with their phone-ins and it's terrible, really terrible.

 

'They pick the six or seven fans who really have a go at you and show it on TV or put it on the radio.

 

'It just winds me up when every day it's Blackburn, Blackburn, Blackburn and jobs are on the line. But Joe Kinnear is two points away from me and nobody is mentioning him. Nobody is mentioning Harry Redknapp. It has just been Ince, Keane, Ince, Keane.'

 

The reference to Redknapp and Kinnear will raise eyebrows.

 

Since he took at over at Tottenham, Redknapp has taken 13 points from seven games. Kinnear has 11 from nine games at Newcastle, with Blackburn claiming three points in the same period.

 

Another statistic that might concern Ince is this: of the nine Premier League teams who went nine games without a win last season, five - Newcastle, Fulham, Tottenham, Wigan and Bolton - sacked their managers and all survived.

 

Three clubs - Middlesbrough, Reading and Derby - decided against a change and two of them went down.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1092335/Rovers-axe-set-fall-Paul-Ince-Allardyce-Souness-wait-wings.html

 

 

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He's got to expect criticism. Some of his signings have been questionable and he's took a team which, under Hughes were punching above their weight, to now punching below their weight and allegedly unhappy behind the scenes.

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I'm sure Rovers fans will love Souness back :lol:

 

Our old pal from the BLACKBURN messageboard Nixon is running the story :frantic:

 

Blackburn Rovers are ready to sack Paul Ince – and Graeme Souness is in the frame to take his job. Ince faces the axe next week, regardless of  today’s result at Liverpool, with chairman John Williams checking the availability of out-of-work Souness and Sam Allardyce.

 

Former boss Souness could do a rescue job alongside fans’ favourite Tugay, possibly for the rest of the season only, with his knowledge of the club and players vital in this time of crisis.

 

The Scot would answer ‘yes’ to Rovers and is happy to link up with Tugay. Souness signed the popular Turk from Rangers and is well-liked by supporters, who have been on Ince’s back in recent weeks.

 

The former Rangers and Liverpool boss is also a free agent and lives locally, which ticks a lot of the right boxes – although there is boardroom backing for Allardyce too.

 

Allardyce is also in the frame for the Sunderland job, while Souness is free and keen to return to the club he took to promotion, a League Cup win and Europe.

 

Rovers officials believe Allardyce may go to Sunderland. He is desperate for the Wearside post and was interviewed for the Blackburn job last summer but that fell through due to a fan backlash.

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/sport-front-page/2008/12/06/blackburn-line-up-graham-souness-to-replace-soon-to-be-sacked-boss-paul-ince-115875-20949356/

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Ince's voice was at optimum wobbliness during that interview, rather than his regular wobbliness since he first got the job. Dunno about anyone else but i have never, ever been convinced that Ince was going to be a good Premier League boss. Not now, anyway. Similarly to the situation at Sunderland, if Blackburn keep their manager then i reckon they could very well go down ultimately.

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I can see BFS at Blackburn more than I can at Sunderland like.  Love it if some of the Blackburn players decided that they wanted to GTFO if BFS came in though.

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See on SSN web site, Curbishley has thrown his hat into the ring for the Makems job. I think he is more the type of person who would get on with Quinn. May mean that Sam's best bet is Blackburn

 

Sounds likely. I think Quinn will find some resistance to FSA at Sunderland after managing here even though there's a big shout for him from them. But Quinn wants to be everybody's friend and couldn't bare upsetting even one of his primates meaning Curbs is the easier choice for him to make.

 

End of the day FSA was at Sunderland only a little bit longer than he was here, not really grounds to bring him in as manager considering how dire his last 14 months as a manager actually was.

 

 

 

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See on SSN web site, Curbishley has thrown his hat into the ring for the Makems job. I think he is more the type of person who would get on with Quinn. May mean that Sam's best bet is Blackburn

 

Sounds likely. I think Quinn will find some resistance to FSA at Sunderland after managing here even though there's a big shout for him from them. But Quinn wants to be everybody's friend and couldn't bare upsetting even one of his primates meaning Curbs is the easier choice for him to make.

 

End of the day FSA was at Sunderland only a little bit longer than he was here, not really grounds to bring him in as manager considering how dire his last 14 months as a manager actually was.

 

 

 

 

Curbishley nearly got the mackem job just before Keane was appointed apparently.

 

Edit: the mackem local rag did a poll on who the mongs wanted to take over and Big Sam pissed it.

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Shame really, as if Ince gets the sack it will only serve to set the case for black managers back a few years. You would have thought that with so many excellent black football players passing through the ranks of the Football League over the past couple of decades, we'd have seen at least a fair few promising young black managers coming forward from that crop.

 

Ince looks like the latest in the line to be branded a "failure" and you have to wonder if he does get sacked, whether any Premiership team will have him as manager again.

 

John Barnes - great player, appalling manager, even more terrible television presenter.

 

Chris Kamara - decent player, average manager but didn't last long before he took up commentating for Sky.

 

Garth Crooks - more memorable for being an annoying opinionated twat than a decent player.

 

Ruud Gullit - OK, maybe a bit of an exception here, but he's not setting the world alight is he?

 

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Ince hasn't been given anywhere near a fair chance. He's not exactly had much money to spend and his best players seem to be injured at least half the time. I think he will turn out to be a decent manager but what chance to people have to prove themselves if they are only getting this long to do it?

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Ince hasn't been given anywhere near a fair chance. He's not exactly had much money to spend and his best players seem to be injured at least half the time. I think he will turn out to be a decent manager but what chance to people have to prove themselves if they are only getting this long to do it?

 

*cough* Allardyce *cough*

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Ince hasn't been given anywhere near a fair chance. He's not exactly had much money to spend and his best players seem to be injured at least half the time. I think he will turn out to be a decent manager but what chance to people have to prove themselves if they are only getting this long to do it?

 

It really goes back to what most people on here thought when he was appointed, that it was too soon for him as a manager, and that the job was wrong for him.

 

 

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The x-black players don't complain when they get all the African nations co-commentating or pundit work, I know Gavin Peacock does a bit as token white bloke. Or as the World Cup gets near a x-black player gets sent to the Caribbean for 2 weeks for 15 mins of footage for football focus.

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