Well, let's start off with what we knew about Paul Ince before the start of this increasingly dire season that we are having.
He played for numerous clubs including Manchester United, Liverpool and Internazionale making 609 appearances and won 53 England caps which shows he was a good player especially in the central midfield role. But what is he like as a manager?
He joined Macclesfield with the club bottom of League Two, seven points off their nearest rivals. He then revived confidence and after a 3-0 win against Chester they managed to climb off the bottom of the table. They subsequently avoided relegation, albeit on the last day of the season.
This was a decent start to his managerial career as he then went on to manage MK Dons where he won the LDV Vans Trophy and won them promotion into the Coca Cola League One.
Then came the big step-up, his move to our beloved club Blackburn Rovers. The decision to appoint Ince as manager came as a shock and to some fans a bit of a joke as he is inexperienced and not good enough to be a Premier League manager. Let’s start off with a review of the transfers that have occurred under Ince at Blackburn.
The Good: Paul Robinson is probably one of the best replacements for Brad Friedel we could of got that was available at the time, sure he has his critics as he has made mistakes in the past but so has every other keeper in the Premier League. The main thing we have to do is keep his confidence up and give him plenty of practice as our defence seems to do every match.
Next up is Vince Grella, although we haven’t seem much of him as he is plagued with injury, i was extremely impressed at his first half performance against Chelsea and hope it is a sign of things to come.
The final two are questionable on whether they are up to standard or not as Danny Simpson who is on loan from Manchester United has made many woeful mistakes in the past few weeks but has shown that he has the right platform to become a decent right back, the other is Carlos Villanueva who at first glance was absolutely brilliant, he put in a brilliant performance against Grimsby and made an assist in the Fulham match after coming on from the bench.
Apart from those games, he hasn’t really shown us what he can do as he has been played on the wrong side of the field and has been more like a ghost than a player.
The Bad: Robbie Fowler, I do not know why on Earth we have signed this useless waste of space who is literally past it. He is a merely a patch on what he used to be and can hardly manage 30 minutes without needing to be subbed off.
When, Ince started Fowler with Roberts in attack against Bolton, I could not believe it when we had talent such as Matt Derbyshire and Benni Mccarthy on the bench. To be honest, the bench is too good for Fowler and he should not be at the club.
Another dismal player is Keith Andrews, the only reason he is at the club is because he was Ince’s captain at MK Dons. I don’t have a clue why everybody is giving him so much praise just because he scored the equaliser against West Brom, he is a terrible player who can not tackle or pass which are the essentials for being a central midfielder.
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illya mclellan 7 months ago
I will be surprised if Ince 'manages' to hold on to his job in the next two months, he has shown that he is not quite there in terms of making the right decisions on a tactical level game to game. If you put him next to Tony Pulis and Phil Brown who are both in pretty much the same boat as far as players resources etc, maybe even worse off than him because he took over an established club, he is nowhere next to these guys. I think he needs to go cut his teeth a bit more in the lower leagues, refine his management acumen.
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Nathan Lowe 7 months ago
Ince is an absolute yob, he has no place in a top side managing, he can't even manage his own emotions, much less those of his players.
He has very little leadership qualities when he can't lead by example on the pitch!
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