Kevin Blackwell has a job!

[1danewhitehouse]

Never understood the abuse towards Blackwell from some of our fans, I suppose its representative of a certain section of our support who always seem to hate our own manager more than anyone else.

Blackwell did a good job for us. Steadied us after Robson, took us to a play off final, kept us competitive when everything started getting sold. I guarantee we wouldn't have been relegated had he stayed in charge in 2010-2011.

Also, he's a genuinely good bloke who absolutely loved the club, and put in several years of top service for us. I met him a few times and he's a top bloke who loves to coach and always had great things to say about the club. Considering this, the abuse some of our fans gave him was a disgrace.

Good luck to him as he enters the twilight of his career.

I agree with some of your points and think he did have good qualities but on the flip side:-


1. His recruitment was poor £5million on Henderson and Evans. Wages on the likes of Stewart, Taylor, Simmo, Nyron, Seip, Davies, Harper, Halls, France, Walton, Connolly, Fortune, Spring, Ertl, Bogdanovic, Lupoli, Craig Beattie etc.


2. Players seemed to hate him. Remember Cotteril, Kenny etc really slagging him off on Twitter and there were also lots of rumours when he was here that he was worse than Clough when it came to man management.


3. His players didn’t seem to fit his style. Taylor, Quinn, Harper, Williamson, Camara, Evans, Ward, Lupoli etc were not suited to the physical, direct, percentage football we played.

 

[1danewhitehouse]

Blackwell coming in after Robson being absolute gash, getting an instant response out of the players, turning it around straight away, wasn't that what we expected this season, so, steady on with the criticism...

Our current saviour isn't doing what Blackwell did at the minute, for the league were in and the players we have, it's all relative..

Ps...I expect us to go on a decent run starting tomorrow ...UTB

I think that’s more of a reflection on Nigel Clough being a far superior coach with the players at his disposal than Robson. Robson, Weir, Heath etc. were atrocious and you got the impression that any half decent coach would bring an improvement from their players. I'd liken Clough more to Blackwell. Fixed the mess, went on a good run, then got the recruitment wrong and suddenly the team look to be going backwards.

 

[SandyMcBlade]

The obvious question then dane is where would you put Adkin right now ?

 

[BushBlade]

I agree with some of your points and think he did have good qualities but on the flip side:-


1. His recruitment was poor £5million on Henderson and Evans. Wages on the likes of Stewart, Taylor, Simmo, Nyron, Seip, Davies, Harper, Halls, France, Walton, Connolly, Fortune, Spring, Ertl, Bogdanovic, Lupoli, Craig Beattie etc.


2. Players seemed to hate him. Remember Cotteril, Kenny etc really slagging him off on Twitter and there were also lots of rumours when he was here that he was worse than Clough when it came to man management.


3. His players didn’t seem to fit his style. Taylor, Quinn, Harper, Williamson, Camara, Evans, Ward, Lupoli etc were not suited to the physical, direct, percentage football we played.

4. He gave contracts to existing players for more than they were worth, hence we were stuck with many of them because no other club would take them off our hands. Cost KM a shitload and he's never got over it.

5. Signed numerous loan players who were no better than players he could have signed permanently but a lot less committed.

 

[Sean Thornton]

I think that’s more of a reflection on Nigel Clough being a far superior coach with the players at his disposal than Robson. Robson, Weir, Heath etc. were atrocious and you got the impression that any half decent coach would bring an improvement from their players. I'd liken Clough more to Blackwell. Fixed the mess, went on a good run, then got the recruitment wrong and suddenly the team look to be going backwards.

Blackwell inherited decent players. Clough had Weirs dross.

He replaced it with more if his own I admit but initially it's not a fair comparison.

 

[1danewhitehouse]

Blackwell inherited decent players. Clough had Weirs dross.

He replaced it with more if his own I admit but initially it's not a fair comparison.

Yeah but I didn't say they were identical in performance, just similar. On the other hand, Clough inherited Maguire, Murphy, Coady etc who were decent.