Source: Team_Talk
Brown success thrills Allardyce
However, that sentiment will go out of the window when their two sides meet at the KC Stadium on Sunday.
Brown, who worked under Allardyce at Bolton, had a short-lived spell as manager at Derby before getting the job at Hull and guiding the club into the top flight for the first time in their history at the end of last season.
Allardyce believes the Pride Park experience has helped make Brown a better manager.
"I think he knows now it was a little bit of blindness which took him into the Derby job in his desperation to become a manager," he said.
"That was not the right job to have taken; as big a club as Derby was the behind-the-scenes scenario was in such disarray that whoever went in there was never going to be successful.
"I think he has learned an awful lot from that experience and that is why he is doing so well now."
After a superb start to the season Hull have plummeted down the table and are only six points above Rovers, in 18th, but the Blackburn boss would happily trade places.
"Phil is in a very good position. People talk about their poor run but they had so many points in the bag to begin with," he added.
"They are six points away from the bottom three and that is a massive difference with only 12 or 13 games left.
"It is a big catch-up number. If they pick up a point a game between now and the end of the season they will be fine.
"We need our winning total to be much greater than it is already."
The threat of relegation has loomed over the Ewood Park club for most of the season.
Allardyce, who took over from the sacked Paul Ince in mid-December, has previously experienced the drop out of the Premier League with Bolton but knows the stakes are even higher this time around.
"It is harder now than it was a few years ago because there is even more publicity around how much money you lose," he said.
"It has gone from £20million to nearly £40million now and that is all the focus - the money is almost on an equal par with results now.
"And it is a bit more difficult because there so many teams are going to be scrapping and battling to get out of it.
"This year no-one has been cast adrift yet."
Midfielders Vince Grella (groin) and David Dunn (hamstring) will both be given fitness tests on Saturday before a decision is made on their availability for the crunch clash.
Allardyce is likely to make wholesale changes from the side which lost the FA Cup fifth-round replay against Coventry in midweek.
