Merged Threads - Blackburn sack Appleton

[Northern Cottager]

More brutal tactics by Rovers. Sacked Appleton after just 67 days. Where do we think this may leave Murphy with the next one coming in?! Will he be coming back as a coach as rumoured?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21843906

[aFFCn_Fan]

I just saw the story. What a joke these chicken farmers are. Admittedly the club is towards the bottom of the championship and looking like it will be the next Pompey. Biggest mistake they made since they taken over was sacking Allardyce (wow, I just wrote that). Although I'm sure he would have walked soon enough

[cottage cheese]

Another club ruined. That singh guy really has turned the club into a laughing stock.  

[Northern Cottager]

They need to get gotten rid of. Awful owners. Personally hate the club but I'm sick of foreign owners coming into clubs and using them as toys before inevitably selling them off in a much worse situation. These Venky's haven't got a clue what's going on.

[SP]

Shameful. Never had a problem with Blackburn or their fans.

[Legate21]

Ridiculous decision, but after what Appleton done to Blackpool it shows the grass isn't always greener.

[MOR :]

Championship strugglers Blackburn have sacked boss Michael Appleton after 15 games and 67 days at Ewood Park.

He is the third manager to leave the club this season following the departures of Steve Kean in September and Henning Berg in December.

Reserve-team coach Gary Bowyer has been put back in charge for the remainder of the season.

Appleton, 37, left Blackpool to take control of Rovers on 11 January, having begun the season with Portsmouth.

[Steve_orino]

Come home Danny, come home.

[jarv]

wow, the manager merry go round just keeps getting faster and faster, every season.

[alfie]

Come home Danny, come home.

Danny cannot come back in a coaching capacity until he has obtained his qualifications. MJ has already said this is unlikley to happen.

[JBH]

Come home Danny, come home.

Danny cannot come back in a coaching capacity until he has obtained his qualifications. MJ has already said this is unlikley to happen.

Quite right too, why should FFC pay DM to get qualified as a coach  :028:

[Burt]

Complete shambles...

Weird too. Having held on to Keano to the bitter end (probably beyond that, in fact), they now they seem very quick to fire.

[Northern Cottager]

Complete shambles...

Weird too. Having held on to Keano to the bitter end (probably beyond that, in fact), they now they seem very quick to fire.

Possibly attempting to please the fans as soon as they call for the managers head rather than the months and months of abuse they got with keeping Kean on. Not going to work.

[westcliff white]

Come home Danny, come home.

Danny cannot come back in a coaching capacity until he has obtained his qualifications. MJ has already said this is unlikley to happen.

Your right Jol did say he is unlikely to come back as coach, however you are wrong on he needs his coaching badges to coach. He can be taking them and still coach, what he cannot do is be a manager in the premiership without the uefa pro licence or coach without having under taken to start the coaching courses.

[Mr-ska]

Joke of a club..

[EJL]

Michael Appleton's spell at Blackburn summed up:

[MasterHaynes]

The supporters should be rueing their constant abuse of Kean eventually pushing him out the door, when he left they were on the verge of promotion places and looking reasonably placed to push on. Now they look destined for Div one.

Any group of supporters that can do what they did to Kean then not turn up for an FA quarter final they were favourites to win desrve everything they get in my opinion

[alfie]

Come home Danny, come home.

Danny cannot come back in a coaching capacity until he has obtained his qualifications. MJ has already said this is unlikley to happen.

Your right Jol did say he is unlikely to come back as coach, however you are wrong on he needs his coaching badges to coach. He can be taking them and still coach, what he cannot do is be a manager in the premiership without the uefa pro licence or coach without having under taken to start the coaching courses.
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you are correct of course, sorry i just worded it wrong.

[MOR :]

It says everything about Blackburn's current predicament that Michael Appleton was sacked by a man he had never met and without the knowledge of the club's managing director, Derek Shaw.

During his 67 days at Ewood Park, Appleton did not exchange a single word with global advisor Shebby Singh until Tuesday morning, the moment he discovered his time was at an end.