BLACKBURN Rovers won't keep Brian Kidd waiting to get back into management - if someone else gives him the chance.

Kidd, sacked by Rovers at the start of November, insists he wants another managerial post.

But he says that before making his next move he needs to reach a financial settlement following the termination of his Ewood Park contract, which still had more than two-and-a-half years to run and was likely to be worth approaching £2 million.

Kidd said: "I haven't been soured by the experience and if the opportunity arose, I would accept another job as manager.

"I still have belief in myself. I still believe I can be a success. What happened at Blackburn was one of those bad experiences anyone can go through. I want to get back into the game.

"What I first have to do is come to an agreement with Blackburn over the remainder of my contract. I can't move until that has been decided, but I believe the club are honourable and I don't foresee any problems. After that, I have to sit by the telephone and wait for it to ring. It's not for me to say whether my credibility has been ruined by what happened at Blackburn. It is for others, prospective employers. What I can say is that I've already had one or two offers but all that's on hold until after Blackburn and I have reached a settlement," added the former boss, who couldn't prevent Rovers slipping out of the Premiership and then oversaw a disastrous start to their First Division campaign during his 11-month reign.

However, Rovers insisted today that there was no dispute with Kidd over his pay-off.

"That's not an issue," stressed chief executive John Williams. "As far as I'm concerned the agreement has been done, it's just in the hands of the lawyers and waiting for a few legal niceties."

That will clear the way for Kidd to try and pick up the pieces of his managerial career after things turned sour at Ewood.

And the former Manchester United assistant apparently has no complaints about how things turned out at Blackburn.

"I've no problems with Jack Walker. He has decisions to make too. That's part of life. I'm philosophical about it all. I don't go belly-aching around and moaning," he said.

"I'm glad to see how well Blackburn are doing now but before I left I'd been stressing that things were about to turn round for us.

"Unfortunately it didn't happen in my time and that's something I've had to learn to live with.

"As a manager you have make decisions and you have to stand by them. The decisions I made didn't work out for me but they haven't affected how I see myself.

"I don't have a big ego so I can't say one way or another whether I'll get another job in the game.

"But I'm too young to be just playing golf all day." When the time is right, hopefully soon, I'll be ready to have another shot at being a manager."

He added: "I get on with it and I'm still excited about the future. I'm certainly not afraid to go back into management - but that, in the end, will be down to other people, not me."

"What I've been determined not to do is feel sorry for myself, and I haven't felt that way. You have to pick yourself up and get on with it."

Meanwhile, on-going reports linking Colin Hendry with a return to Rovers appear to be wide of the mark, despite the fact that the former Ewood stalwart has no part at Rangers.

Tickets for Rovers' third-round FA Cup replay against West Bromwich Albion at Ewood Park next Wednesday night are now on open sale.

Season-ticket holders should claim their seats by close of business on Saturday and free tickets to under-eight familay stand season-ticket holders must also be claimed in advance.

Prices for season-ticket holders are £12 adult, £7 senior citizen and £5 junior, and £15, £7 and £5 in the Jack Walker Stand, upper central section apart which costs £17 for adults.

Prices for non-season-ticket holders and all matchday prices are £15, £10 and £8, and £18, £10 and £8 in the Jack Walker Stand, upper central section apart which costs £20 for adults.

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