Bowyer About To Be Named As New Rovers Boss
Gary Bowyer is about to become the permanent manager of Blackburn Rovers after being in charge of the club in a caretaker roll on two occasions.
The 42-year-old is set to be named as the new man in charge after steering the club away from the threat of relegation after it looked at one time that the club was doomed to be playing league one football next season.
It was thought that Bowyer ....
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Goodbye Goodwillie?
SPL side Hearts are hoping to take David Goodwillie back across the border on a loan deal according to reports today.
The Tynecastle outfit are set to lose Michael Ngoo to his parent club Liverpool so they are looking to get in a replacement during the summer ready for next season.
Hearts have their transfer embargo lifted on July 1st and Goodwillie, who has not really come up to his best ....
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New Stopper On Way To Ewood Park
Portsmouth goalkeeper Simon Eastwood has turned his back on a new contract with Pompey to join Blackburn Rovers in the summer.
The south coast club were expecting the player to sign a three year deal at Fratton Park, but instead he informed them of his impeding move up north late on Monday.
Pompey boss Guy Whittingham was looking to make Eastwood his number one choice between the sticks ....
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Rovers Interested In Notts County Winger
There are reports that Blackburn Rovers are looking to sign Notts County winger Alan Judge.
The 24 year old is supposed to be wanted back at the club where he began his career after he let the Magpies know that he wants to move on.
Judge has been with County for three years and he has also attracted the interest of Charlton Athletic and Ipswich Town, Rovers current manager Gary Bowyer had ....
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Chris Taylor Set For Rovers Switch
Rovers look set to grab the signature of Millwall's Chris Taylor after it was revealed that the player had turned down a new contract at the Den.
The move will cost Rovers nothing as he turned away an offer of a two year deal by the London based outfit.
Rovers want to make moves quickly to strengthen the side with Gary Bowyer about to be installed as the new full time boss when he returns ....
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Dunn Believes Bowyer Is The Man
Gary Bowyer has at least one fan who would like to see him made the new Rovers permanent manager.
Veteran David Dunn believes that he deserves a crack at the job after having two fairly good interim goes at the job in the last season.
Bowyer turned things around enough for Rovers to be able to keep their place in the Championship when it looked like under the guidance of full time ....
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Big Sam Looking At Rovers Keeper
If the papers are right then Jake Kean is attracting the attention of Sam Allardyce at West Ham.
Jussi Jaaskelainen has just been handed a new deal from big Sam, but the ex-Rovers manager wants Kean there to create more competition and have a readymade replacement for his Finnish number one who is now 38.
Kean on the other hand is just 22 and looks to have a bright future in front of him ....
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Pedersen Set To Stay
Norwegian winger Morten Gamst Pedersen has given hints that he is happy to stay with Rovers, despite reports to the otherwise on a few websites.
Reports said that Pedersen could have wanted to move on in the summer due to only making 17 appearances for the Ewood Park outfit last season.
But the 31-year-old says that if Rovers are going to make a return to the top flight anytime soon, then ....
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Bowyer Not Happy With Motor Mouth.
Blackburn caretaker manager Gary Bowyer has spoken out in defence of Grant Hanley after he was accused of cheating by Ian Holloway.
The Crystal Palace boss was obviously upset after his side had failed to be Rovers in a game they could have done with taking all three points from the game.
He was particularly narked about his side not being awarded a penalty in an incident that involved ....
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Bowyer Happy With Point Against A Good Side
Blackburn caretaker manager Gary Bowyer was pleased with his side after they managed a 1-1 draw with Crystal Palace on Saturday.
Rovers put in a good display compared with the one they put in last week that saw them go down 4-0 to Watford and it earned them a valuable point against a team that was at one time pushing for an automatic promotion spot.
But Bowyer felt that Rovers may have ....
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Holloway Stoops To Cheating Accusations
Crystal Palace boss Ian Holloway accused Blackburn of cheating after his side failed to get the win they came looking for from Ewood Park.
After looking like automatic promotion candidates for so long, Palace are now in danger of blowing the chance of reaching the play offs as well, not helped by the draw with Rovers.
Stephen Dobbie's first-half opener was cancelled out by Jordan Rhodes ....
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Rovers Grind Out A Point Against Palace
Blackburn Rovers grabbed another point to help ease relegation worries slightly except that three would have been better.
But they were up against a good Palace side who themselves are looking to seal a play off place even though automatic promotion looked to be on the cards just a few weeks ago.
Palace looked to be slightly better than Rovers in the early exchanges of this game although ....
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Bowyer Wants To Re-install Belief
Gary Bowyer wants his side to pick themselves up and get ready to take on Millwall on Tuesday night.
Rovers took a beating at Watford but Bowyer does not want that to shatter what confidence they had leading up to the second half at Vicarage Road.
Before the trip Rovers had won their previous two games and went into the game looking to get at least a point from high flying Watford.
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Bowyer Disappointed After Defeat
Blackburn caretaker boss Gary Bowyer was disappointed with his side after they ended up getting thrashed 4-0 by promotion chasing Watford on Saturday.
All was looking good for at least a point at half time, but as soon as they let in the first goal on 52 minutes, they simply collapsed as Watford ran riot.
Troy Deeney broke the deadlock with a double and more came after strikes by Almen ....
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Its Vital To Win Next Two Games
Ex-Blackburn striker Kevin Gallacher says that Rovers must do the business in the games against Derby County and Huddersfield Town at Ewood Park at the very least.
The game against Derby comes this weekend and just a few days later Huddersfield are the visitors and Rovers should be looking to get a full six points from the two games as it gets a whole lot harder after that.
After the defeat to ....
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Bowyer Challenges His Players
Rovers caretaker boss Gary Bowyer says that his squad is good enough to get themselves out of the relegation trouble they are now in.
He wants his squad to look at the table and somehow he feels that this might inspire them to try that bit harder to recover from the fate of the drop.
Maybe they should have been looking at the table long and hard a few weeks ago when the rest of us saw ....
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Rovers Now Sit In Bottom Three
Winger Jermaine Johnson scored twice for the Owls, with Leroy Lita also on target as Dave Jones’s side moved out of the bottom three at the expense of perpetual crisis club Rovers.
Jordan Rhodes and Scott Dann were on target for the managerless club, whose defeat was overseen by caretaker Gary Bowyer.
Blackburn were in Premier League mid-table when controversial Indian owners ....
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Ince Back And Looking Forward To The Game
Like him or hate him, Paul Ince is back at Ewood Park on Friday as his new club Blackpool visit.
Ince was given the boot by Rovers after a terrible run of three wins from 17 games in charge back in 2008, now he will be eager to prove to the fans who booed him at the time that he should have been given a longer chance to get things rolling during his stint with the club.
If Ince can pull ....
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Call To Arms From Bowyer
Blackburn caretaker boss Gary Bowyer is pleading with fans to come along to Ewood on Friday and help roar the lads onto victory against Blackpool.
Rovers need this win very badly indeed and the men in charge have given Bowyer the task of keeping Blackburn in the Championship after they have nearly managed to run the club into the ground.
But Bowyer says that he needs the fans right behind ....
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Robbo Set For Back Surgery
Blackburn Rovers goalkeeper Paul Robinson is set to miss the rest of the season as he requires a back operation according to reports.
Sky Sports says that the former England number one will have to go under the surgeon's knife for a minor operation.
But the problem does mean that Robinson will miss the rest of the season.
Not that he has been able to get a look in when it comes to the ....
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Disappointed Appleton Thanks Rovers Fans
After being removed from his post as manager of Blackburn Rovers after just two months in the job, Michael Appleton has described himself as "disappointed."
The 37 year old left a good job at Blackpool to come to Ewood Park, now just 67 days after taking over, his dreams of being the man to take Rovers back to the top flight lie in tatters.
Yet again Venkys have managed to shock fans by ....
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Appleton Gone
Blackburn Rovers have sacked Michael Appleton after just over two months in charge at Ewood Park.
Rovers have made the decision to wield the axe on a third manager this season following Sunday’s 1-1 draw with local rivals Burnley and last week’s FA Cup quarter-final defeat to Millwall.
A statement on the club’s official website read: “Blackburn Rovers FC can confirm that ....
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Defender Set To Come In On Loan.
Rovers manager Michael Appleton is on the verge of bringing a new right back into the club according to reports.
Chelsea's Todd Kane is the lad coming forward on loan to fill the roll according to the Lancashire Telegraph; he is expected to be in place before Sunday's big game against Burnley.
Kane has already been at the club earlier in the season on a loan spell.
Rovers have a ....
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Henley Suffers Hamstring Blow
Blackburn defender Adam Henley looks set to be out of action for the rest of the season after he tore his hamstring at the Den on Sunday.
The 18 year old is a bright prospect at Ewood Park and there is little doubt that he has a good future mapped out in front of him, he was given his chance in the first team by former manager Henning Berg.
Henley first had hamstring trouble after the ....
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Appleton Confirms Dann Is The New Captain
Blackburn Rovers' manager Michael Appleton has confirmed that defender Scott Dann is the team's new captain.
Dann gets the job on a permanent basis after leading the side out for the last two games, his first job will be to lead the team onto victory against Millwall in the FA Cup quarter final replay on Wednesday night.
Appleton told Sky Sports: "It was a difficult decision to make but I think ....
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