Fat Sam ordered to win with style

[LeazesMag 0]

[Asprilla 96]

to start with I was open minded with his “I only resorted to those tactics previously because of the limited resources available to me”,

 

yeh right you hippo headed liar.

this...

 

 

and also

[Kitman 2207]

* snigger *

[LeazesMag 0]

* snigger *

 

fucking great seeing Allardyce get slaughtered. Shame Souness isn't doing the same somewhere.

[Kid Dynamite 7182]

Let's hope he gets sacked . . . again

[Jusoda Kid 1]

Let's hope he gets sacked . . . again

 

I don't think he'll work again if he does, I mean lets face it, clubs were hardly queueing up for his services after we peddled him, much like souness.

[Billy Castell 0]

Fucking hell. That's all I can say. If someone better was readily available, I'd probably ditch Sam. However, all there is are Curbishley (not any better), O'Neill (over rated), and Strachan (shit). I doubt the younger, up and coming managers such as Di Matteo, Coyle, Lambert and Rodgers are unlikely to move, some of whom are a big risk.

[Kitman 2207]

* snigger *

 

fucking great seeing Allardyce get slaughtered. Shame Souness isn't doing the same somewhere.

 

Amen to that. The owners must have been very happy with the stylish display until someone told them they weren't playing in red......

[Kid Dynamite 7182]

Fucking hell. That's all I can say. If someone better was readily available, I'd probably ditch Sam. However, all there is are Curbishley (not any better), O'Neill (over rated), and Strachan (shit). I doubt the younger, up and coming managers such as Di Matteo, Coyle, Lambert and Rodgers are unlikely to move, some of whom are a big risk.

 

Id take the first 2 in a heartbeat over Fathead. Curbishley is probably well suited to a club like Blackburn

[shackbleep 0]

http://twitter.com/#!/TheBig_Sam

 

[sweetleftpeg 0]

Let's hope he gets sacked . . . again

 

I don't think he'll work again if he does, I mean lets face it, clubs were hardly queueing up for his services after we peddled him, much like souness.

 

He'll have his choice of Inter or Real Madrid man, they'll be fighting it out for him.

 

Joking aside, he'll get the England job I reckon. Jesus.

[Billy Castell 0]

 

Caption competition time.

[OTF 7496]

Is that the first caricature of someone where their head is actually smaller than in real life?

[manc-mag 1]

Is that the first caricature of someone where their head is actually smaller than in real life?

 

[Ayatollah Hermione 14069]

He'd have kept the score down to 4-0 tonight.

[Tooj 17]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/philmcnulty/201...redit_he_d.html

 

Does Allardyce get the credit he deserves?

 

Sam Allardyce admitted defeat after victory. No-one, he insists, will ever give Blackburn Rovers or their manager the credit they deserve .

 

This is not strictly true. Allardyce, for one, is never slow to talk up his own talents or the achievements of his players. In the absence of what he regards as their due from elsewhere, perhaps he is right to do so.

 

For a manager who is unlikely to ever take charge of one of the elite Premier League clubs, Allardyce cuts an oddly divisive figure in the court of public opinion.

 

From the methods he employs to his very obvious refusal to indulge in false modesty, such as claiming he is more suited to Inter Milan or Real Madrid than Bolton Wanderers and Blackburn Rovers, Allardyce provokes a reaction.

 

He was reading from a familiar script after Blackburn's 3-0 win against Wolves put them into eighth place in the table and sent Mick McCarthy's side to the bottom of the Premier League.

 

More on McCarthy later, but for Allardyce it was a sweet victory as he said: "We never get credit for things, but that's the way it is. We are just a small town club enjoying ourselves by winning football matches. The fortress of Ewood Park is back and the walls are getting higher."

 

I asked Allardyce whether he would ever get the credit he feels he should and what he might need to do to get it, and he explained: "Keep winning football matches. The most important thing is winning and entertaining and I think our fans will be happy we have beaten Aston Villa and Wolves at home in consecutive games without conceding a goal.

 

"If you get the maximum out of your players you can't ask any more than that."

 

And, with the exception of a spell at Newcastle United that ended in the sack, this is usually what Allardyce does, and whether outsiders regard the manner as pleasing on the eye or not is a matter of supreme indifference to this most self-assured of characters.

 

Of course there is an element of bluff about Allardyce's complaint, an "us against the world" attitude that serves his purposes well - but there is also an element of truth.

 

Praising Allardyce is not fashionable, or in many areas popular, but Blackburn did mix passing football with their usual trademark expertise from set-pieces here. Indeed, there was a surreal spell near the conclusion when Blackburn drew jeers from some of their own supporters for a passage of keep-ball designed to secure the result. Allardyce might have appreciated the irony.

 

And if, as we are constantly told, the Premier League and management are results-based businesses, then Allardyce's achievements at Ewood Park stand up to the closest scrutiny.

 

Some of the criticism he attracted has been justified, especially when he appeared to join forces with Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson to deliver a trumped-up accusation that former Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez had shown him and Blackburn a lack of respect two season ago.

 

But Allardyce is wrong when he says he and Blackburn do not get the credit they deserve, because they will get it right here.

 

When he succeeded Paul Ince in December 2008, they were second from bottom of the table. In two years he has secured their safety, taken them to 10th place last season and has put them in the upper reaches again, albeit in a season in its infancy.

 

Allardyce's approach and style of play is a taste many will never acquire, and so much is based on football's percentages that he calculates meticulously. It remains to be seen how high they finish in the Premier League in this campaign, but it is a safe bet Blackburn will not return to the lowly position in which he found them while he stays at Ewood Park.

 

In fact, Mike Ashley's decision to bundle him hastily out of Newcastle United on a tide of adverse public opinion backfired because, for the derision Allardyce attracts in some quarters, it is unlikely they would have ended up in the Championship under his stewardship.

 

He is proud of his appliance of the game's scientific side and attention to fine detail, announcing he had given his players two days off this week as he was worried about the effects of mental fatigue caused by extended car journeys to Blackburn's training ground in adverse weather.

 

Allardyce admitted he needed to rest himself after the 7-1 thrashing at Manchester United last Saturday. He revealed "an inquest" had been held, and Blackburn produced a performance to refresh players and manager.

 

As two of the teams recently named and shamed as players in the Premier League's dark side by Fulham's Danny Murphy earlier this season, Blackburn and Wolves produced a game to enjoy at a freezing Ewood Park as heavy rain washed away the snow.

 

Wolves opened as if they would sweep Blackburn away as Steven Ward and Ronald Zubar tested the woodwork, but once David Dunn headed in following a Morten Gamst Pedersen corner, the game was more or less up.

 

Shoddy defending allowed Jason Roberts to bully Steve Mouyokolo in pursuit of Michel Salgado's pass to set up a second for Brett Emerton. Wolves were wretched again when Ryan Nelsen turned in a precise Pedersen free-kick for Blackburn's third.

 

Wolves roused themselves late on, but it was academic other than for allowing Paul Robinson to demonstrate that he is still good enough to play for England with fine saves from Stephen Hunt and George Elokobi.

 

McCarthy's post-match briefing was belated, blunt and brief. It would be no surprise if his message to his players was delivered in even more stark and brutal terms - but the bottom line is that they do not appear to be listening.

 

No clean sheets in 16 league games is a defining statistic. If this continues it will be a long, hard season for all the talent of players like Matt Jarvis. McCarthy either needs to find a new message to make his point, especially to his defenders, or he needs new players.

 

Armed with finance from Blackburn's new Indian owners, Allardyce will be looking to make tweaks of his own - but his gaze is set up rather than down.

 

And he will continue to manage in the manner he employs with a concrete self-confidence, whether it brings him credit or not.

[Holden McGroin 6785]

Its not "us against the world" its "me against the world".

 

Obsese headed cunt.

[Guest alex]

I think that article is pretty spot on although I think his 'scientific approach' is more of a smokescreen than anything else.

[Holden McGroin 6785]

Big Sams tactics:

 

A ball will be scored for every 20 times it is put in the box. SO lets just hump the fucking ball in there at every opportunity.