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Duo's injury boost for Rovers (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Duo's injury boost for Rovers
9:30am Thursday 11th October 2012 in News
By Andy Cryer, Blackburn Rovers reporter
JORDAN Rhodes and Grant Hanley are expected to be ready for Rovers’ Championship trip to Derby County after both were forced to withdraw from the Scotland squad through injury this week.
The injury scare to Blackburn Rovers’ young duo sparked fitness fears but, after being assessed, the pair are in line to be fit for their next Championship outing.
Rhodes did meet up with the Scotland squad earlier this week ahead of Friday’s clash with Wales despite picking up an injury knockduring Saturday’s defeat to Wolves.
He was sent home after being assessed by the Scottish medical team but Rovers are now hopeful their £8million man will have shaken the injury off in time for the trip to Pride Park a week on Saturday.
The former Huddersfield man has looked increasingly jaded over the past couple of weeks, having been asked to play as a lone striker for the majority, with the club pleased to rest him.
Centre-back Hanley was also forced to withdraw earlier this week after suffering a groin injury during Rovers’ disappointing Ewood defeat at the weekend.
His fitness is less certain and he will undergo treatment at Brockhall as the club bid to get him ready for their next Championship action, but it is hoped he will be ready to resume training by the middle of next week.
Meanwhile, it remains uncertain whether a new manager will have been appointed in time for Rovers’ trip to Derby with global advisor Shebby Singh expected to draw up a shortlist of candidates this afternoon.
Singh and managing director Derek Shaw have received a host of applicants for the vacant managerial post after Steve Kean’s shock resignation almost two weeks ago.
A string of top names including Bernd Schuster, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, and Javier Clemente are already understood to have expressed an interest.
The final decision will be made by Venky’s, who are currently out of the country, but they will be briefed and advised by Singh and Shaw.
Republic of Ireland boss Trapattoni yesterday distanced himself from claims that he could be interested in the vacant post at Blackburn.
The 73-year-old said: “I’m not aware of it. It must be agent chit-chat. I’m not interested anyway.”
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Comments (22)
9:58am Thu 11 Oct 12
Rover-The-Moon says...
10:02am Thu 11 Oct 12
gleechy says...
10:02am Thu 11 Oct 12
Crow27 says...
Bernd Schuster
Shearer
All 3 'managers' offer different levels of experience. That would be my shortlist and in that order. OGS in by Derby please!
10:15am Thu 11 Oct 12
gleechy says...
10:32am Thu 11 Oct 12
Rovers 1495 says...
rd.co.uk/sport/footb
all/football-news/ex
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e-kean-wants-1371768
LMFAO
And it's not even April 1st
10:37am Thu 11 Oct 12
davemal says...
10:40am Thu 11 Oct 12
Nuttall Street says...
MAMA: which one of you is an absolutely tip top lacrosse coach? (Some mumbling from over the video link). Which one of you is an absolutely tip top football manager?
ALAN SHEARER: well now Gary, it's like I wus sayin' just now to Alan before we come on air.......
MAMA: (yawn) thank you Mr. Coconut Head, we don't want to be bored to death. We want a personality, we want a manger who knows his onions.
ROY KEANE: I knows me onions 4:4:2, 3:5:2, 3:5:1:1, one up front, one dropping back, one in the hole....
MAMA: not those sort of onions, I mean the sort of onions that go into a lovely stuffing for our chickens.
ROY KEANE: I'd stuff you, you owd bag if you wasn't as ugly as Gary Neville. Anyways I want the Bolton job, I'm off!
SHABBY: who shares the Venkys philosophy of passing football?
(a long silence)
ERIC BLACK: Oh! Oh! I do, I do.
SHABBY: and who shares my passion for Ronnie Clayton?
(a longer silence)
ERIC BLACK: Oh! Oh! I do, I do.
SHABBY: Very good. I'm not giving anything away, but you're our kind of manager.
MAMA: does anyone have anything to say about the comments that the Rovers are living on borrowed time?
COLIN HENDRY: borrowing's a good thing. I'd encourage that approach. I like borrowing, I do. I do it a lot you know. In fact could you lend me something for a cup o'tea, say about £83,000?
'ARRY REDKNAPP: did someone say bung, err borrow. I've never borrowed anything! Mr Mandaric just put that quarter of a million 'nicker in my Swiss bank account with the funny name, named after me dog or me daughter, whatever, and I forgot about it same as any other man would as can't read and write like what I can't. Anyway I can't stand it up here with all you dishonest, thick, unsophisticated Northerners. I'm taking the Bournemouth job, it's a nice little earner.
KENNY DALGLISH: hoots mon, och aye tha noo. Eets a braw breght nite ta neght. I gan in tay footba in 1892! Och ay tha noo, tha noo.
ONION BAHJI: now I am going to ask a technical question. What is that round, inanimate object, full of gas that people would like to kick, which I am pointing at?
OLE GUNNAR SOLSKJAER: that's Mrs Desai
MAMA: well, you're out of the running, you baby-faced assassin. We don't want a manager whose name is too difficult to spell.
OLE WHAT'SHISNAME: but Mama I learnt under Sir Alex Ferguson and I'm having great success in Norway. I won the Treble with Man U.
MAMA: and that's three more reasons why you won't be getting the job. You're too good and would be telling me what to do. Don't you know I'm a philosopher of passing football. There's a whiff of Big Fat Sam about you!
VINDALOO: sorry Mama that's me.
MAMA: you there! You look like a sharp young manager! Are you the one they call "The Special One"?
MICK McCARTHY: no ma, I'm the one they call Mick McCarthy.
MAMA: how disappointing.
MICK McCARTHY: well be disappointed some more, I'm only joining a Premiership team.
MAMA: but we are in the Premiership, Steve Kean told me so himself just around the time he signed Maradona.
SHABBY: well that completes all our questions. I can see that we have a very high number of very big name candidates. We could worry about the difficulty of making a choice or we could appoint Jourdain Ali, who is absolutely top hole, or we could meet again to decide, say in about a month's time?
MAMA: Quite right Shabby, we will not be rushed. We are in a hurry but we will not be rushed. What came first, the chicken or the egg? That's what I always say. You draw up a short list. It will only have one name on it. It will have many big names on it. Is that clear! I must go now. I have a meeting with a former employee, an old bald headed favourite of mine, and his solicitor.
10:45am Thu 11 Oct 12
dangerous dave says...
OUT WITH BLACK AGNEW SINGH HENDRY VENKYS
10:54am Thu 11 Oct 12
ronnie clayton says...
Alan Brazil ---Colin who would you like to them to bring in as new manager ?
Hendry-- the man we have right now ticks all the boxes !!!
Brazil -- the results have not been good the last 3 games have they ?
Hendry -- we tried everything we could against Wolves but it never worked.
Well I seem to recall a Hendry quote prior to Steve Kean employing him as defensive coach ,it was "Steven ticks all the boxes as manager ,and the majority of supporters are behind him>"
ALSO the quote that they (B&H) tried everything they could to beat Wolves but could not is basically a admission that they cannot do the job.
Also I would think HENDRY would HAVE NO QUALMS about saying "THE TEA LADY TICKS ALL THE RIGHT BOXES TO BE ROVERS MANAGER " if it meant him keeping his job.
11:05am Thu 11 Oct 12
greenscreener says...
11:51am Thu 11 Oct 12
bburnrover says...
12:52pm Thu 11 Oct 12
French Rover says...
1:06pm Thu 11 Oct 12
greenscreener says...
1:51pm Thu 11 Oct 12
French Rover says...
2:03pm Thu 11 Oct 12
greenscreener says...
What would we give for a bad night in the champions league these days.
2:41pm Thu 11 Oct 12
French Rover says...
http://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=kICLDnopT
t0
3:02pm Thu 11 Oct 12
Robbie says...
3:02pm Thu 11 Oct 12
DJP says...
3:28pm Thu 11 Oct 12
ewood1952 says...
4:53pm Thu 11 Oct 12
YarkshahRover says...
8:10pm Thu 11 Oct 12
DirtyHarry says...
And now look at him, he's ruined. Just goes to show how sh1t you lot really are.
10:16pm Thu 11 Oct 12
peely says...