absolute scandal if you ask me.
With the 25 player squad rule you should, as a manager, be able to play any combination of those 25 players.
End of story.
I would certainly challenge this if I were the club.

Are they putting the wind up Mr. Holloway (or the Blackpool board) because they is not in line with the PMA or League on some things?

I genuinely have been impressed with Holloway's progress this season. It would be an utter shame to lose a manager of his kind in the league. Coyle, Holloway, Martinez, Di Matteo...these are the kinds of managers that they should be encouraging rather than the Pulis/Fat Sham/Hughes/McCarthy who have been killing this league.

None of the above managers are killing this league.

But Hollaway is the most interesting one of the lot and says it how it is. Invisible is right regarding Arsenal's changes against Wigan.

The FA are wrong here.

Sam Allardyce has been sacked from his last job because the football his team played was so unbelievably bad. That guy IS bad for the league.

No Allardyce was sacked because the new owners wanted another guy. He was brought in a couple of years ago by the previous owners who wanted Blackburn to stay up, which he helped them do. Blackburn played the same stuff they did previously as they do now more or less. Have you noticed a significant improvement in Blackburn's football since Allardyce left? I

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/8287671/Chelseas-40-million-bid-for-Liverpool-striker-Fernando-Torres-is-an-act-of-desperation.html

Chelsea want Torres but no chance of him leaving, definitely not in this transfer window.

Who do you think the Blackburn owners wanted? I'd be very surprised if it was Steve Kean, and yet they've gone and given him a 2.5 year contract. Allardyce is famous for playing dull as ditchwater football - very easy to see why a naive new ownership with ambitions to sign the likes of Ronaldinho would want a manager who's key tactic wasn't focussing on restarts.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1338459/Blackburn-owners-reveal-reasons-sacking-Sam-Allardyce.html

We had been talking to Sam in the past few weeks but he did not fit in with our vision for the club’s future. We wanted good football, wanted the games to be interesting and of course wanted to win and to have good players.

They're obviously muppets that are running Blackburn. Allardyce might be a twonk that plays horrible football, but he would have guaranteed they stayed in the League and finished as high up as possible, and then they could have changed it up in the summer. Instead they're depending on a man who has never managed a football club in his life, to steer them through to the end of the season. Barmy.

Hopefully we'l take advantage of their incompetence and nab Phil Jones for a good price in the summer.

They are madder than a bag of badgers, that's for sure.

I'm surprised they sacked Allardyce, myself, but not at all sorry for him.

Cripes, Liverpool have got Suarez. £23m!

Our forward line is seriously behind our rivals at the moment.

Yeah but Asa do you think they've actually improved their football?

They've won a few games with Steve Kean in charge. They beat Liverpool 3-1 and WBA 2-0 or something. They are eighth at the moment so Kean isn't really that bad.

I just think most people believe Blackburn are there to make up the numbers for us so it's easy to be dissmissive.

Not massively, but what do you expect with the players they've assembled?

Clearly, Venkys didn't have Steve Kean in mind when they sacked Allardyce - they've had a massive reality check since they did that, I imagine. They weren't too bad under Allardyce, and they aren't too bad under Kean - but it's not about them being bad, it's about Sam Allardyce's absurdly dull brand of football. Personally, I get the impression that most pundits, amateur and professional, can now see through the sort of dreck that you get from the likes of him, and recognise that pure results aren't always enough.

asajoseph wrote:

Cripes, Liverpool have got Suarez. £23m!

Our forward line is seriously behind our rivals at the moment.

How so?

Well, because we've got one good, injury-prone striker and a collection of journeymen.

ah, okay.

I take the forward line to be Nasri, RvP and Walcott. Nevermind.

Fair point that - thinking about things the wrong way, I suppose. Still, we do lack quality strikers compared to our rivals at the moment.

Torres-Suarez will be mammoth in time. I don't believe Liverpool will sell Torres this transfer window. He's too much quality. The only issue is injury but almost every time he plays he produces. Look at the Chelsea game or even the goal against Fulham. He's always there.

It's interesting to see how Liverpool still have a lot of clout. I mean I doubt they'll make the CL next season but they can still attract a player like Suarez.

Great signing for Liverpool, exactly what they need and have needed for years now.

should be a good signing for 'Pool.
They needed another top quality striker desperately.