Keeley: Don't have a pop at Rovers fans (From Lancashire Telegraph)

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  smellthecoffee wrote:
  

  BlueSkies wrote:
  

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  Morst The 88th Min Heartbreaker of Dingles! wrote:
  Honestly Bazzer- you are one of the first to rabbit on about the old days etc etc. Well we never played BS football even in Div 3 which is why Tony Field is a still hero to many fans! Rovers fans moaned like hell in the 80's when Wimbledon played at Ewood.
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  Get a Grip man - don't let 18 months under Kean make you forget the 50 years before Allardyce when this club built its history as an entertaining passing football team. It can work in any division with the right manager and players even on a tight budget - just ask Swansea, Wigan, Reading or Norwich fans?
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  34th....

  Morst...let's be honest....the quality of football played under Big Sam was far and above the football played in the 70's and 80's. Times have changed, players are fitter and technically better. Those players in the 70's and 80's would have been even fitter under a Big Sam style regime. He brought modern day fitness techniques to the club which were effective. How many games under Kean have we lost in the last 10/15 minutes as opposed to Big Sam. The season before last we would have finished in a Champions League spot had the games finished at half time.
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  Players in the 70's and 80's would be in a boozer after a game and puffing on a fag at half time. That's not a pop at them, it was simply the times they lived in. I remember many a pump up front by Faz for Garner to run on to so there was plenty of hoofball in them days. I remember Gennoe nearly always pumping the ball up front rather than throwing it out for instance....same for Jim Arnold before him. Sure there was plenty of wing play by Ian Miller and Noel Brotherston but let's not pretend there was no hoofball going on.
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  Under Big Sam I would argue there was just as much wing play (from the likes of Pederson, Olsson and Diouf) as there was years before....
  the difference was...it was done in the Premier League...not in the old 2nd or 3rd divisions. Rovers don't have a budget the size of Manchester United or City so they do not have players to "out play" them. They had to play these teams with a strategy best suited to getting a positive result.
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  Your arguments are inaccurate and flawed. You my friend are an idiot.

  In fact I even remember Rovers intentionally pumping the ball out of play into the far corner of the Riverside at the kick off (to immediately put the opposition under pressure). So if that isn't "hoofball" then I don't know what is!!

  I remember that tactic but not sure who the manager was. Was it Sparky?

  no it was years before Hughesy....Don Mackay most probably. I remember Garner pumping it out into the far corner on a number of occasions and then blocking the throw-in back to the keeper. I'm not saying it was a bad tactic (because it put the opposition under immediate pressure) but for Morst to claim the football played by the team in the 70's and 80's was far better than Big Sam's style of football then I would beg to differ....and like many others have said...not many West Ham fans are complaining at the moment....winning football is good football!!

  Cheers mate. I do remember the tactic.
  
  Simplistic really.
  
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