We need to update that joke - 3 Burnley fans (RAyzer, Oztheman and Judge Dredd) on one coach had a debate going to Barnsley. Rayzer said there were 60 on the coach, Oztheman said there were 40 on and Judge Dredd said 20 on. That's 120 in total away fans then said Rayzer. It didn't look that many to me but laugh at that superb second Barnsley goal I did!

I'm giving Ince till Jan 1st to turn it round.

30 YEARS AND COUNTING!

if we wait till jan 1st, it will be to late, it will take a few weeks for a new manager to be appointed, which will give him no time to look at the current team and sign any players!

if we are to get rid of ince the it needs to be at the laterest latest early to mid december.

Give him 2 more gamnes, and if we aren't out of the bottom 3, get rid!

I have long been cautious about Ince, but if we leave it much longer than the next couple of weeks, it's going to be bloody difficult to get out of it.

sack the useless b@stard now i say. its depressing knowing yet another ex-man utd scumbag is sh@gging our club up

its a conspiricy im convinced!

kidd
ince

who next.....brian mclair!

lay off ince and judge him when he gets his midfield fit i have never met such a whingeing set of so called fans.get behind them when they are stuggling not only the good times.

Just read that Olsen has admitted he wasn't 100% fit for the Spurs game and that he trashed the dressing room after being red carded. What is Ince and his backroom team doing, picking players that obviously cannot perform. It does nothing for the player's morale or team spirit, it's shear stupidity! In this league you have to be firing on all cylinders, this is not MK Dons!!

Ince out now, he has had his chance and is out of his depth, the team is playing like a side resigned to relagation and we are only in november. We need new gaffer quick so the players can believe in themselves once more

Mike Costa says:

Some of the comments on this site are going way over the top. Let's step back and look at some of the facts.
Long gone are the days of Jack Walkers millions. The big 4 will occupy the first 4 places in the league for the foreseeable future. There is now a definite 2nd tier developing with clubs who have either major financial backing or a huge fan base (include in this Villa, Man City, Tottenham, Everton and even Newcastle (yes I know their current league position)).
The remainder will fill the bottom half of the league. Rovers, with no money and a small fan base will forever be in this group. Our chances of breaking into Europe in the future rely on a good cup run.
However, whats so great about getting into Europe? Who wants to watch us being beaten by some ex-Soviet block team who nobody has ever heard of? Not many, judging by the gates from our previous European campaigns.
Next, look at the Premier league as a whole.How many truly exciting games have you seen in the last 2-3 years? A dozen at most in the whole league. Nearly every game is either a foregone conclusion or two poor teams trying to stop each other winning. Mark Hughes built his career at Rovers on this.
And who are these so called 'star' players? Foreign mercenaries who have no concept of British Football traditions, no loyalty to the clubs and who will flit from one team to another at the mention of a few thousand extra pounds a week. The really sad thing is most of them really aren't very good. They don't care about the fans, why should we care about them?
What I guess I'm trying to say is, what do Rovers get from being in the Premiership? Not good football, not much chance of winning anything, not huge gates, not any connection with the players.
The idea of Championship football shouldn't be so unappealing. At least there would be some juicy local derbies against real teams with real local support (unlike the trophy hunters at Man U, Liverpool, Man C). Isn't it better to be a big fish in a small pond than the small fish in the big pond that we are at present?
I've watched Rovers for 40 years, and the most enjoyable Football we played during that time was in the old Division 2 with Jim Smith and Don Mackay in charge. I'd rather be entertained than suffer the excuse for entertainment churned out over the past few years.
I leave this out there for you to ponder. Before slagging me off, give it a bit of thought.

The arrival of the pair follows a number of triallists already at the club, including Macclesfield striker Nick Blackman,...
STRIKER FROM WHERE????LOL LOL LOL LOL 3 POINTS FROM 24..INCE PLEASE GO OTHERWISE SOME IDIOTS WILL THINK I AM A BURNLEY SAD GIT..
3 points from 24 and counting..

The board will not sack Paul Ince this year. He will be given at least until the end of the transfer window. So it would be better if we just get behind him and the team.

So Warnock's out and we have no other left back apart from Olsson...who would you play then? You're all quick to critise but have no answers apart from "sack Ince"...that's the easy way out.

I'm interested to know what you think he should do when we have no right sided midfielders and has to bring on Derbyshire. Go on, tell me who you'd bring on?

I'm all ears...

OZTHEMAN wrote:
The arrival of the pair follows a number of triallists already at the club, including Macclesfield striker Nick Blackman,... STRIKER FROM WHERE????LOL LOL LOL LOL 3 POINTS FROM 24..INCE PLEASE GO OTHERWISE SOME IDIOTS WILL THINK I AM A BURNLEY SAD GIT.. 3 points from 24 and counting..

knobhead

edithann wrote:
lay off ince and judge him when he gets his midfield fit i have never met such a whingeing set of so called fans.get behind them when they are stuggling not only the good times.

please understand full well the 3 games we won in a row all 3 midfielders are FULLY FIT so your thesis is a bit lame..TUGS ON BENCH AND ANDREWS PLAYING IS AN INSULT TO INCE AND HIS KNOWLEDGE OF FOOTBALL, NOW WERE BUYING A MACCLESFIELD STRIKER..WERE BECOMING A JOKE

we will beat portsmouth then draw with liverpool,stuff wigan and butcher stoke

keep the faith,rovers till i die

I can appreciate what you are saying Mike and you make some good points but the standard of football in the Championship is very poor compared to the Premier League.I too have some good memories from the old second division, but time alters your perception of things. I don't think the football itself was that good. If we were to be relegated crowds would fall and apart from beating the dingles twice, there would be very few matches to look forward to (the dingles managed a single point against Doncaster and Barnsley this week, not really inspiring opposition). All in all the Premier League has many faults but I'd much rather be in it than watch lower league football every week. Sadly Paul Ince is not the man to keep us up. Fat Sam to save us is I'm afraid our best option.

blueandwhitewomble wrote:
So Warnock's out and we have no other left back apart from Olsson...who would you play then? You're all quick to critise but have no answers apart from "sack Ince"...that's the easy way out. I'm interested to know what you think he should do when we have no right sided midfielders and has to bring on Derbyshire. Go on, tell me who you'd bring on? I'm all ears...

SIMPLE PLAY THE TEAM THAT WON 3 GAMES IN A ROW..BUT YOUR IN LOVE WITH ANDREWS WITH WHOM WE HAVE YET TO WIN A GAME...we can understand changing it for UTD but then 2 weeks later Midlesborough and ANDREWS IS CHOSEN AHEAD OF HIM and the 38 yr old has yet to start a game since good luck INCE U NEED IT..

OZTHEMAN wrote:

blueandwhitewomble wrote: So Warnock's out and we have no other left back apart from Olsson...who would you play then? You're all quick to critise but have no answers apart from "sack Ince"...that's the easy way out. I'm interested to know what you think he should do when we have no right sided midfielders and has to bring on Derbyshire. Go on, tell me who you'd bring on? I'm all ears...

SIMPLE PLAY THE TEAM THAT WON 3 GAMES IN A ROW..BUT YOUR IN LOVE WITH ANDREWS WITH WHOM WE HAVE YET TO WIN A GAME...we can understand changing it for UTD but then 2 weeks later Midlesborough and ANDREWS IS CHOSEN AHEAD OF HIM and the 38 yr old has yet to start a game since good luck INCE U NEED IT..

Mike Costa says:

Unbelievable !

Well said Mike though don't fancy the chumpionship. Back your team, (& manager) you bunch of moaning minnies.

Roverite wrote:
sack the useless b@stard now i say. its depressing knowing yet another ex-man utd scumbag is sh@gging our club up

its a conspiricy im convinced!

kidd
ince

who next.....brian mclair!

Brian McClair as part of Kidds Backroom staff so has already been at Blackburn. All this shouting Ince out but still no good suggests of who you want in. People keep saying Allardyce im sure nobdoy wanted allardyce in originally so why now. If you just saying his name because he is free then thats stupid. He proved at newcastle he isnt that great, oh wait you probably say he wasnt given time hmmmm so what is paul ince getting sod all from the sound of it. Let Ince get his team right, we arent going to be relegated after 2 more games, every team is beating each other and I can be very sure that by the end of the season you will have 6 or 8 clubs all fighting for survival. Every team will have dips in form on and off. Ince is looking to bringing in players to help he is identifing the areas we need strengthing, and watching them on trial to make sure they will be good enough and not just paying out like some managers do. Getting rid of Ince isnt the answer and once another managers fails you all be demanding them out. Protests at games will only make it worse as players will be afraid to play at home and cause further defeats think before attacking as you do nothing but in the end cause to Blackburns downfall

I also like to know how a story on a player that sounds like he could be very good for us, and great ince is trying to unearth talented young players became nothing but another Ince out campaign. I dont see the point in coming on here and writing ince out over and over again. And not discussing the stories.

blueandwhitewomble wrote:
So Warnock's out and we have no other left back apart from Olsson...who would you play then? You're all quick to critise but have no answers apart from "sack Ince"...that's the easy way out. I'm interested to know what you think he should do when we have no right sided midfielders and has to bring on Derbyshire. Go on, tell me who you'd bring on? I'm all ears...

Not that i'm one of the people quick to critise but

Robbo
lb - ooijer
nelson
samba
emerton

LM - peds
CM -tugay
mokoena
Andrews
or Vogel
(take your pick)
RM - Andrews or derbyshire (give whichever one a full 90 mins).

Roque
Benni

Just a thought.

injuries are a big problem which in time will sort itself out, thing is do we have time??

Well said Mike Costa,if football is not restructured soon there won't be any.What do we get from OUR fans, sack PAUL INCE,bring in Big Sam.get a grip on reallity and support the team and manager.

Mike Costa wrote:
Mike Costa says: Some of the comments on this site are going way over the top. Let's step back and look at some of the facts. Long gone are the days of Jack Walkers millions. The big 4 will occupy the first 4 places in the league for the foreseeable future. There is now a definite 2nd tier developing with clubs who have either major financial backing or a huge fan base (include in this Villa, Man City, Tottenham, Everton and even Newcastle (yes I know their current league position)). The remainder will fill the bottom half of the league. Rovers, with no money and a small fan base will forever be in this group. Our chances of breaking into Europe in the future rely on a good cup run. However, whats so great about getting into Europe? Who wants to watch us being beaten by some ex-Soviet block team who nobody has ever heard of? Not many, judging by the gates from our previous European campaigns. Next, look at the Premier league as a whole.How many truly exciting games have you seen in the last 2-3 years? A dozen at most in the whole league. Nearly every game is either a foregone conclusion or two poor teams trying to stop each other winning. Mark Hughes built his career at Rovers on this. And who are these so called 'star' players? Foreign mercenaries who have no concept of British Football traditions, no loyalty to the clubs and who will flit from one team to another at the mention of a few thousand extra pounds a week. The really sad thing is most of them really aren't very good. They don't care about the fans, why should we care about them? What I guess I'm trying to say is, what do Rovers get from being in the Premiership? Not good football, not much chance of winning anything, not huge gates, not any connection with the players. The idea of Championship football shouldn't be so unappealing. At least there would be some juicy local derbies against real teams with real local support (unlike the trophy hunters at Man U, Liverpool, Man C). Isn't it better to be a big fish in a small pond than the small fish in the big pond that we are at present? I've watched Rovers for 40 years, and the most enjoyable Football we played during that time was in the old Division 2 with Jim Smith and Don Mackay in charge. I'd rather be entertained than suffer the excuse for entertainment churned out over the past few years. I leave this out there for you to ponder. Before slagging me off, give it a bit of thought.

Are you out of your mind? If you thought the football under Don Mackay was enjoyable then you were clearly on drugs during that time! We may not have the money that Jack Walker brought to the club but being in the premier league is the only place to be. Since Jacks money has no longer been at the club we’ve still had one or two great players (Bellamy, Santa Cruz) and I feel privileged to have seen a player like Duff during his time at Ewood. I prefer that any day than to watching players like Hill, Kennedy, Hildersley and Richardson.

I have it from a very reliable source that Andy Cole starts coaching at Rovers next week and that Ince has been told he has six games to get it right.

This is the same source that informed me of his training methods pre-season.

Believe it or don't - not arsed.

LATEST NEWS COMMING OUT OF EWOOD PARK THAT PAUL INCE WAS CAUGHT SPEEDING

HOWEVER WHEN THE POLICE PULLED HIM OVER HE SAID HE WOULD DO ANYTHING FOR 3 POINTS

OZNOTTHEMAN wrote:
LATEST NEWS COMMING OUT OF EWOOD PARK THAT PAUL INCE WAS CAUGHT SPEEDING HOWEVER WHEN THE POLICE PULLED HIM OVER HE SAID HE WOULD DO ANYTHING FOR 3 POINTS

knobhead

OZNOTTHEMAN wrote:
LATEST NEWS COMMING OUT OF EWOOD PARK THAT PAUL INCE WAS CAUGHT SPEEDING

HOWEVER WHEN THE POLICE PULLED HIM OVER HE SAID HE WOULD DO ANYTHING FOR 3 POINTS

Do you read, that same sh*te joke was done before on here get some new material you sad tw@t. Anyway, John Williams wont advise Ince that he has so many games as they stick by their guns and dont get forced into making rash decissions which I think sacking ince 4months into his first season is. Specially dont think he be giving 6 games if was going be a timescale as that would then lead into Jan which is when ince can purchase again be able to make his own choices bringing somebody in then wouldnt make sense. As said before we need to give Ince the time to build which we arent if we are just after short term resolutions which some people seem to want.

8burnley wrote:

OZNOTTHEMAN wrote:
LATEST NEWS COMMING OUT OF EWOOD PARK THAT PAUL INCE WAS CAUGHT SPEEDING HOWEVER WHEN THE POLICE PULLED HIM OVER HE SAID HE WOULD DO ANYTHING FOR 3 POINTS

knobhead

PLEASE DO DIFFERENTIATE ME AND THIS PERSON..I AM NOT OZNOTTHEMAN I AM BRAVE ENOUGH TO STAND BY WHAT I SAY MAY IT EVEN BE IN CAPS,THANK YOU FOR THOSE WHO UNDERSTAND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION..I FEEL FOR THOSE IN TIMES DESPERATION..

8burnley wrote:

OZNOTTHEMAN wrote:
LATEST NEWS COMMING OUT OF EWOOD PARK THAT PAUL INCE WAS CAUGHT SPEEDING HOWEVER WHEN THE POLICE PULLED HIM OVER HE SAID HE WOULD DO ANYTHING FOR 3 POINTS

knobhead

PLEASE DO DIFFERENTIATE ME AND THIS PERSON..I AM NOT OZNOTTHEMAN I AM BRAVE ENOUGH TO STAND BY WHAT I SAY..MAY IT EVEN BE IN CAPS,THANK YOU FOR THOSE WHO UNDERSTAND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION..I FEEL FOR THOSE IN TIMES DESPERATION..

chris666 wrote:

Mike Costa wrote: Mike Costa says: Some of the comments on this site are going way over the top. Let's step back and look at some of the facts. Long gone are the days of Jack Walkers millions. The big 4 will occupy the first 4 places in the league for the foreseeable future. There is now a definite 2nd tier developing with clubs who have either major financial backing or a huge fan base (include in this Villa, Man City, Tottenham, Everton and even Newcastle (yes I know their current league position)). The remainder will fill the bottom half of the league. Rovers, with no money and a small fan base will forever be in this group. Our chances of breaking into Europe in the future rely on a good cup run. However, whats so great about getting into Europe? Who wants to watch us being beaten by some ex-Soviet block team who nobody has ever heard of? Not many, judging by the gates from our previous European campaigns. Next, look at the Premier league as a whole.How many truly exciting games have you seen in the last 2-3 years? A dozen at most in the whole league. Nearly every game is either a foregone conclusion or two poor teams trying to stop each other winning. Mark Hughes built his career at Rovers on this. And who are these so called 'star' players? Foreign mercenaries who have no concept of British Football traditions, no loyalty to the clubs and who will flit from one team to another at the mention of a few thousand extra pounds a week. The really sad thing is most of them really aren't very good. They don't care about the fans, why should we care about them? What I guess I'm trying to say is, what do Rovers get from being in the Premiership? Not good football, not much chance of winning anything, not huge gates, not any connection with the players. The idea of Championship football shouldn't be so unappealing. At least there would be some juicy local derbies against real teams with real local support (unlike the trophy hunters at Man U, Liverpool, Man C). Isn't it better to be a big fish in a small pond than the small fish in the big pond that we are at present? I've watched Rovers for 40 years, and the most enjoyable Football we played during that time was in the old Division 2 with Jim Smith and Don Mackay in charge. I'd rather be entertained than suffer the excuse for entertainment churned out over the past few years. I leave this out there for you to ponder. Before slagging me off, give it a bit of thought.

Are you out of your mind? If you thought the football under Don Mackay was enjoyable then you were clearly on drugs during that time! We may not have the money that Jack Walker brought to the club but being in the premier league is the only place to be. Since Jacks money has no longer been at the club we’ve still had one or two great players (Bellamy, Santa Cruz) and I feel privileged to have seen a player like Duff during his time at Ewood. I prefer that any day than to watching players like Hill, Kennedy, Hildersley and Richardson.

Yes, drugs. That was it.
I'm still getting flashbacks. One of them was about Simon Garner, Dave Wagstaffe, Colin Hendry, Steve Archibald, Simon Barker,David Dunn, Ken Knighton, Roger Jones and, yes, Damian Duff. All played in the Second Division and my addled brain remembers them as being pretty good. Yes there were players like the dwarf Hildersley and little Johnny Price alongside the worst ever Rovers player, Tony Finnigan. They can't all be good!
We've had some stinkers in the premiership as well though. Paul Warhurst, Dwight Yorke etc etc

Bring back Parkes until the seasons end. He gets full respect from all the players and fans. Respect and being comitted to the cause is what is needed here, I respect Ince as a player and what he has achieved in football, but not what is going on at Ewood.
I have never seen so many injuries so what the hell is going on with the training and fitness programme?

i like wearing womens silky lingerie
i like the way it feels against my winkle

MARCUS I feel for you mate,if we give Ince more time we will have more players like JANSEN ANDREWS AND FOWLER and now scouting a Macclesfield striker.. I am certain the team I have supported for the last 5 yrs would not have bought them..give this guy time and we will play alongside Macclesfield with HALF Inces mates in our team..he has lost touch with premiership reality in 8 yrs in thelower divisions..

blueandwhitewomble wrote:
So Warnock's out and we have no other left back apart from Olsson...who would you play then? You're all quick to critise but have no answers apart from "sack Ince"...that's the easy way out. I'm interested to know what you think he should do when we have no right sided midfielders and has to bring on Derbyshire. Go on, tell me who you'd bring on? I'm all ears...

not to put to fine a point on it...but that is what ince supposedly paid for.

Don't know if anyone knows the answer but what has happened to Vogel? At the end of last season I though he was looking better each game as he got his fitness back although he's not featured this term at all and we are crying out for someone in the centre of midfield - Is he injured? I'd almost forgotten he's here?

SECOND FROM BOTTOM!!!!THOUGHT ID REMIND YOU UGLY LOT!!!KEEP IT UP INCE,.,FOWLER,JANSEN
,ANDREWS EVERY ONE WANTED THEM!!!LOL

i see today,somone thinking the championship might not look too bad(bloody hell MIKE COSTA)you must be on drugs...lets just pack up now,have a holiday,prepare for chumpionship .but your right about the prem been two leugues,but you seem to miss in your statement about the money thing is that,rovers under mark kept us in the top part of this 2nd tier,and that he did on a limited budget,so he was doing something right.so money is not the key to everthing (i know it helps a lot).what we have got to face is that paul has not hit the ground running,so to speak,but to let him carry on dragging us down is not going to solve the problem is it ?or maybe for you its fine as you dont have a problem with it,but i and others do ....and this does seem a lot of people no matter what they feel about mr inces fate.....i think we all agree if mr ince goes or stays,we must stay in the premiership,full stop.i for one gave up on mr ince after the sunderland game,and did not see anything in the tott,game to change my mind.i will take my hat off to MORST THE 88TH,even that man has drawn a line in sand,with a time factor for mr ince...For all those that back mr ince,can you tell me and others all the positives thats flowing from him,or his it me that thinks he lost the plot,and respect of a lot of fans......

Robbie wrote:
if we wait till jan 1st, it will be to late, it will take a few weeks for a new manager to be appointed, which will give him no time to look at the current team and sign any players!

if we are to get rid of ince the it needs to be at the laterest latest early to mid december.

Robbie, We hope Ince will turn it around by Jan 1st - that's plan A.
Plan B is meanwhile you prepare an assessment of who might be available or could be targeted and would love to move to a bigger club e.g. Owen Coyle? No business sits there until Jan 1st and then scratches it's head - you just don't announce it!
Then if Plan A does not work you move quickly to plan B by Jan 2nd at the latest but maybe before if it does not improve in next 4 games. But I still think there were many positive signs with 10 men against Spurs. Portsmouth and Stoke are the games I want to see some return from.
Why are Clarets fans digging up jokes from 40 years ago?

bed and breakfast man ! - I am still backing Ince to get it right but you can't have 3 points from 24 and not accept it has to change in the next few games.

RAyzer - what happened last night? - I mean the away following - even you could count them!

30 YEARS AND COUNTING!

OK that last comment was silly. 120 fans is more than RAyzer's fingers.

Mike Costa voices many of my own conclusions - sadly.

Firstly, UNLESS THE PREMIERSHIP does something to create a more level playing field in the Premiership, then there is a lot to be said for swallowing false pride and playing COMPETETIVE football in the Championship, for Clubs such as Blackburn. Without a fan base, from which to draw sufficient fans to games, the Club is fighting a losing battle.

The Players might be able to fight their way out of their present situation IF they stop feeling they do not DESERVE to go down. The Club, as a whole, HAS to admit that their position in the Table is their right one - at this time!!!

The previous team that got relegated were renowned for saying, 'We're too good to go down!' That attitude ensured they took the drop. The current team have to say, 'We're not that good but, by God we'll fight for every point!'

My big grouse, speaking of relegation, is the fact that the Players who fail to keep the Club 'up', are allowed to leave the Club without any sanctions! It is hardly just, nor ethical, that a failed employee can leave his employment and put the Club into such a hole - without let or hindrance!

Players should be BOUND to stay with a Relegated Club for a specified time after the relegation.

Meantime, let's hope Ince can turn things round - so we can be in the middle of the table with our peers!

Morst the 88th min Heartbreaker wrote:

Robbie wrote: if we wait till jan 1st, it will be to late, it will take a few weeks for a new manager to be appointed, which will give him no time to look at the current team and sign any players! if we are to get rid of ince the it needs to be at the laterest latest early to mid december.

Robbie, We hope Ince will turn it around by Jan 1st - that's plan A. Plan B is meanwhile you prepare an assessment of who might be available or could be targeted and would love to move to a bigger club e.g. Owen Coyle? No business sits there until Jan 1st and then scratches it's head - you just don't announce it! Then if Plan A does not work you move quickly to plan B by Jan 2nd at the latest but maybe before if it does not improve in next 4 games. But I still think there were many positive signs with 10 men against Spurs. Portsmouth and Stoke are the games I want to see some return from. Why are Clarets fans digging up jokes from 40 years ago? bed and breakfast man ! - I am still backing Ince to get it right but you can't have 3 points from 24 and not accept it has to change in the next few games. RAyzer - what happened last night? - I mean the away following - even you could count them! 30 YEARS AND COUNTING!

thats fair comment morst,but at least,you agree things are not working out for mr ince,and unless something kicks into place,we have to cut our losses,and the people who say it will cost us money to get shut ,yep i agree 100%,but it will cost us a lot more in the long run ,like our status,and prem money !!!!!!!!!

Has anyone seen our january fixtures?if Ince did go then that's the best possible run of games to pick up points - think even I could manage at least 1 win!!!We need to win 3-4 games before christmas then concentrate on those jan games, oh and try and knock united out of the cup (here's hoping!!)
On another note congratulations to dingles on a week of impressive results!!

Hope you all get behind Paul Ince.to sack him is mad remember wot happened after hodgson, williams is smart he will be given time.

Just to comment on a few points here:

Olsson might not have told Ince he wasn't 100% and with Wanock banned, he was our only option. Unless of course you want to play someone out of position, something which many on here have complained about Ince doing so often. Same with Derbyshire on the wing - outside of Emerton, who has just returned from injury, it would be someone else playing out of position.

As for possible transfers - what do you want Ince to do? Say that we are looking at the possibility of signing Drogba in January? What is the point of focusing time and money on players who we can't afford? It's sad but true that we have to look for bargains. And trialling them before signing them is showing good sense on Ince's part.

With regad to the league, I've said it several times before, but the situation isn't as bad as some are making out. After we've played Liverpool, we'll have the 'big 4' out of the way at home this season. That means that from mid-December onwards, there will be lots of winnable games at home. Hopefully, we'll be over our injury problems by then and have one or two new faces to help us along too. As it stands we're still only 4 points of 11th place and 6 points off 7th, so it's still very tight and a couple of wins can see us looking towards top-six versus bottom 3.

I agree that against Spurs we looked like we could get something for much of the game - even with 10 men. The same spirit got a draw at West Brom. Ok, there have been disappointments, with home draws against Hull and Boro, but we had those several times under Hughes too, yet people didn't make the same over-reactions when it happened under him.

There is only really Arsenal and Man U who have played us off the park this year. The Chelsea game could have gone either way had Roberts taken his chance at 1-0. West Ham scored two in injury time as we chased the game down there, so another close game was exaggerated by the scoreline.

I truly believe that we are not far from climbing the table. Getting a settled side will be a big plus for Ince. Whether that comes through returning players from injury, or through transfers in Jan, I don't know. What I do know though, is that there is definitely plenty of fight in the players, which you did not see when we were relegated under Kidd. That is what is keeping me positive about the current situation and believing that Ince is the right man to get us going again.

Agree 100% M J Rover - its just our position gets more difficult to defend if it becomes 3 points from 30 etc. For me some points from next two games are required and then Stoke, Wigan, City home are really key games for Ince to give us confidence for those "Easy" games in Jan!

30 YEARS AND COUNTING!

QUESTION FOR MR JOHN WILLIAMS BLACKBURN ROVERS SUPREMO - What do Harry Redknapp, Fabio Cappello and Joe Kinnear have in common?
ANSWER (In Five Parts) - 1) They are all over 60. 2) They all have a wealty of football management experience at the highest level. 3) They all know how to handle 'Big name players'. 4) They all have recently taken charge of faltering teams. 5) All those teams results have shown a remarked improvement.
CONCLUSION - The premier League is a step to far to soon for Paul Ince.
OPINION - Following Hughes departure a pair of 'safe hands' to steady the ship should have been appointed.
STEP FORWARD SAM ALLARDYCE, it was a big mistake by Mr Williams to dismiss Allardyce's credentials for the Ewood job. However we all must now give Ince our full support as the Rovers head for 'free fall', that is if the Ewood attendances, themselves in free fall, do not dwindle even further. If Ince can take the 'smug' look of Mark Hughes face, when we face Man City on the 28th of Dec, most things might be forgiven as we race headlong into relegation. C Whiteside, Beech Mount,Waddington, Clitheroe.