Paul Ince - new Blackburn boss

[superfrank]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/b/blackburn_rovers/7457696.stm

I'm genuinely surprised by this appointment. He's an up-and-coming manager but the jump from League Two to the Premiership seems too big. It's a backward step for Blackburn who would always struggle to replace Hughes. But someone with more experience, as a manager, in the top flight and Europe would've suited them better.

[Stevo Da Gull]

Best of luck to him. It does seem a bit rushed but good luck to him anyway.

[pineapple stu]

Hope it screws MK Dons over.

Bets of luck to Ince - rare now to see a player taking the proper route to club management, by starting off at the bottom (Macclesfield and MK).

[Plastic Paddy]

Hope it screws MK Dons over.

Let it go Stu, time moves on. After all, it's little different to Meadowbank moving to Livingston or, dare I say it, Shams to Tallaght or Bohs to Harristown.

:ball: PP

[pineapple stu]

"Little different" (to the Bohs and Rovers thing anyway) in the sense that it's completely different. Seriously, that's one of the worst comparisons I've ever seen and indicates to me you don't know what you're talking about.

When did I last mention them?

[Plastic Paddy]

I have every idea what I'm on about; I even own a few shares in AFCW as it happens. Wanting to "screw over" a football club five years after an (admittedly controversial) event smacks of misguided solidarity at best and petty moralising at worst. The eL examples were merely illustrative on my part (I never said you mentioned them) but the clubs concerned are still moving/proposing to move well away from their original catchments for whatever reasons and, hence, the comparisons to MK Dons are valid.

:ball: PP

[pineapple stu]

Letting the MK Dons thing go, as you put it, implies that it's now OK what they did, and that we should forgive and forget (it also implies that I've mentioned it lots of times before). They will remain a cancer on English - and world - football as long as they exist and you can't dismiss what happened because it was five years ago. I'd be quite happy to see them relegaetd a couple of times and go out of business. (In passing; it's not something I lie awake at night worrying about).

Go on the Rovers forum and ask them if they think they're the same as MK Dons and you'll very quickly find a lot of people who think that's a ridiculous comparison. Ditto Bohs. I suppose you want to include Swansea City in there too because their new ground is about two miles out of town?

[bennocelt]

i think its a cracking appointment
what Ince has done so far has been excellent
I expect Blackburn to carry on with their top 10 finishes and maybe more after a while

[pineapple stu]

i think its a cracking appointment
what Ince has done so far has been excellent
Back on topic, I agree. Very impressive career so far.

[Pauro 76]

Never really liked him as a player or character. Bit too Billy Big Time. But what he's done as a manager so far. Only thing is lack of loyalty to his previous clubs as a manager..... Will he leave Blackburn after one season if he does well? or two?

[Macy]

Bit too Billy Big Time.
Big Time Charlie


But what he's done as a manager so far. Only thing is lack of loyalty to his previous clubs as a manager..... Will he leave Blackburn after one season if he does well? or two?
Yeah, I was surprised with the doing the things the right way comment - I mean he's hardly stayed in the lower leagues to learn his trade. He's jumped every chance he's got.

Be interesting to see how he does - that United team (94 double team - my personal best ever) now has 4 premier league managers.

[Longfordian]

I still have visions of him running to the Kop at Anfield in 1999 with sheer ecstasy on his face after he got a late equaliser against United and they thought they were going to deny United the title. Afterwards he described it as the best moment of his career. Big Time Charlie is right.

[Closed Account 2]

Be interesting to see how well he works with Stevie Reid.

[pineapple stu]

Yeah, I was surprised with the doing the things the right way comment - I mean he's hardly stayed in the lower leagues to learn his trade. He's jumped every chance he's got.
True I suppose. Though he's jumped upwards every chance he's got, and you can't really blame him for that. He's using the lower leagues as a learning ground, which is the right way to go about it, but he's obviously not intending to stay there.