Greenlizard0 Weekend Football Thread ** spoilers ** [17th - 22nd December 2011]

Finished 2-2, suppose it shows how far we've come that we#re disappointed with an away draw in the prem!
 
bah! i wish i'd have gone out to watch the blackburn game, had a feeling it had a chance of being good entertainment.

if kean doesn't get sacked within 24 hours, there's something very dodgy going on but who the heck would want that job and who on earth would want to sign for them in january?
 
Really feeling for Kean. He just looked like a broken man at the end. He'll reel the same stuff out in the post match but there's no way he's alright hearing that from the fans every week.

There was some reaaaally dodgy sounding stuff about what's going on with Kean at BB but it all sounded a bit too tin hat to be true. Frankly if he survives in the job into the New Year you may have to give them a little more weight.
 
cm1179 said:
bah! i wish i'd have gone out to watch the blackburn game, had a feeling it had a chance of being good entertainment.

if kean doesn't get sacked within 24 hours, there's something very dodgy going on but who the heck would want that job and who on earth would want to sign for them in january?
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I have a feeling Steve McCLaren would step up. If they survive then he's a hero and if they get relegated then it wasn't his fault!
 
Great result. Feel sorry for Bolton and Coyle, they don't have a big squad and the loss of key players in the summer have hit them hard. Kean on the other hand appears to be incompetent, Blackburn shouldn't have sacked Big Sam.
 
Pigeon_Killer said:
Blackburn shouldn't have sacked Big Sam.
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it certainly looks that way. i knew nothing of jones at blackburn, can one player leaving really have such a huge impact?

i too, feel sorry for kean. he seems like a nice bloke, he hasn't quite lost the players yet but he's certainly lost the fans but what do the fans expect? how have the board invested in players. i can only imagine how awful keans family must be feeling right now, the stupid fans who abuse him (i'm sure most now go to the games to primarily abuse him) should remember the bloke's only human.
 
Pigeon_Killer said:
Great result. Feel sorry for Bolton and Coyle, they don't have a big squad and the loss of key players in the summer have hit them hard. Kean on the other hand appears to be incompetent, Blackburn shouldn't have sacked Big Sam.
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Coyle's Bolton team fell apart LONG before the summer and afaik Blackburn have had a similar number of injuries. It's no excuse.

mtrent10202 said:
Surely Kean has to go!
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So far this season still Bolton have lost 13 of 17 games, Blackburn have only lost 11.

When you factor in just the last 5 games last year, Bolton lost all 5, Blackburn managed 1 loss, 2 wins and 2 draws, beating Bolton and Wolves and drawing with Man Utd and West Ham.

When you factor in the season so far and the second half of last season(to look at longer term form 17 games this season 21 from last season) Blackburn have lost 20 of, 38, Bolton have lost 26 of the last 38 games.

Bolton's record looks significantly worse, painfully bad and honestly tonights result doesn't really change that.

To be honest, home is almost more daunting for both teams as the fans are giving the home team and manager more stick than the away team and manager. Blackburn sucked so badly in the first half, improved dramatically to become just quite crap in the second half. Bolton had the better game, Blackburn looked the better team, marginally, when they actually showed up in the second half.


I mean, my humble opinion is the horrific second half of the season and the start of this Coyle should have gone, maybe before the season started. Kean, he looked cack but you can't deny Blackburn had a cracking end to the season which may have hinted at him turning it around somewhat, key victories against other relegation battlers. I'd have fired Kean by now but considering how the team was looking last season there was a lot more to be optimistic about Kean than Coyle.

Both on their record in the past season shouldn't be in jobs, both teams are shockingly bad at the moment and if either team is to survive a change in management and the potential morale change and improvement in the squad and changes/good performances lazy players put in to prove themselves to a new manager might be the difference between staying up and going down.
 
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