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Miker Champions League

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This is a pisstake. To talk about stability, but sack a manager under who we had that stability just contradicts everything else she's said. To say you're impressed with Kean after a single good performance, a couple of decent results, and a whole lot of positive talk is baffling. It's like after every bad result they come out and give more support to Kean than they did the previous week. I bet next time we lose, they'll announce that Kean has godly status or something.

Not that I expect them to keep their word.

I have a lot of respect for Hindu culture and philosophy, but some of the things they believe is pretty questionable.

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This is a pisstake. To talk about stability, but sack a manager under who we had that stability just contradicts everything else she's said. To say you're impressed with Kean after a single good performance, a couple of decent results, and a whole lot of positive talk is baffling. It's like after every bad result they come out and give more support to Kean than they did the previous week. I bet next time we lose, they'll announce that Kean has godly status or something.

Not that I expect them to keep their word.

I have a lot of respect for Hindu culture and philosophy, but some of the things they believe is pretty questionable.

They sacked Sam because they are Hindu.

Makes sense

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They sacked allardyce because for some reason he didn't fit their plans. You don't know why, I don't know why but they just didn't want him. Happens often when businesses are taken over - someone's face doesn't fit and they go soon after the takeover. There is something about Kean they do like and so they are prepared to back him. There doesn't have to be a logical reason for either decision. Sometimes things just are.

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They sacked allardyce because for some reason he didn't fit their plans. You don't know why, I don't know why but they just didn't want him. Happens often when businesses are taken over - someone's face doesn't fit and they go soon after the takeover. There is something about Kean they do like and so they are prepared to back him. There doesn't have to be a logical reason for either decision. Sometimes things just are.

I would agree with that and yes, now he is here, we must support Steve Kean and the club, however, my stance is and always has been this, Mrs D had never been to Rovers, knew nothing about football and yet appointed Steve Kean to the position of Manager, ahead of Neil McDonald who could have come accross equally as positive had they met, so how did she know before the appointment was made, that Steve Kean was the right person for the job having never met and admitting she knew nothing about football?

This is the thing that I and other football people are unable to get their heads round.

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I would agree with that and yes, now he is here, we must support Steve Kean and the club, however, my stance is and always has been this, Mrs D had never been to Rovers, knew nothing about football and yet appointed Steve Kean to the position of Manager, ahead of Neil McDonald who could have come accross equally as positive had they met, so how did she know before the appointment was made, that Steve Kean was the right person for the job having never met and admitting she knew nothing about football?

This is the thing that I and other football people are unable to get their heads round.

I think they must have sought advice and that was the advice given. Whether there was any conflict of interest involved, you might think so, I really couldn't say.

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I expect Mcdonald was guilty by association. Unless she once saw his Carlisle side play ;)

Actually, Carlisle did ok under under McDonald and finished 8th in his only season there, was sacked after one game of the following season after a 1 - 1 draw.

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The journos on Sunday Supplement had a field day with this. They discussed the allegation that Sam had been undermined from within and implied that Steve Kean was "unpopular" in football circles right now.....are those facts in any way linked ???

The SSN interview with Neil McDonald seems to be the evidence quoted.

I have to say that neutrals always say that managers need more time & success comes from stability - but when it's your club inevitably you feel differently. I would like stability at Rovers but I didn't want stability in December 2008.

Unsackable ? I doubt anyone other than Sir Rednose is unsackable....& even he might be under pressure if Man U lost 10 in a row.....

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The journos on Sunday Supplement had a field day with this. They discussed the allegation that Sam had been undermined from within and implied that Steve Kean was "unpopular" in football circles right now.....are those facts in any way linked ???

Football is a narrow minded business with plenty of mutual back slaping where people are all friends and supporters of each other even if one of them is a bore, a bung taker or a big red nosed bully.

I bet not one of them would ever repeat their unfounded allegations to Keans face when they are having a post match drink and chat.

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This is the thing that I and other football people are unable to get their heads round.

But since when did football people get much say in managerial appointments? It was no more a surprise decision than Al Fayed's to give Coleman and Kean the Fulham reigns.

Many of your posts refer to football people in a positive light and non-football people in a negative one. Unfortunately for football people though, they have proved to be so bad at running football that it needs constant and never-ending injections of cash from non-football people, which gives said people a say in appointing the person in the club who spends all the money and keeps demanding more - the manager.

I am not a football person, I am a business person, and I can think of several reasons from my perspective why McDonald might not have been an automatic slam-dunk for the job.

- Kean had a broader experience, having worked abroad

- Kean has languages, which may fit with where we might be shopping for young 'uns

- McDonald had failed at the managerial level already.

- McDonald had spent so much time working for the giant ego that is Sam, one might question if he had enough of a forceful personality to be a leader in his own right.

Of course, it may have been none of these, but they are all questions that would have come into my mind if it had been my money and my decision.

If football people don't like non-football people making such decisions, then maybe they should learn how to run businesses profitably and do away with the need to have to put up with non-football people.

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Not sure if this was posted already -

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Blackburn-boss-Steve-Kean-won-t-be-put-in-a-fowl-mood-by-frequent-trips-to-India-article674787.html

Steve Kean in regards to his meeting in India.

Oh and the worn out chicken puns continue. It's time the media get over the fact our owners have a made a fortune out of the poultry industry.

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Anyone else finding it downright odd that just about the most respected Chairman in English football has not yet met Mrs Desai whilst Steve Kean is going to Pune on monthly trips?

She hasnt been here.....Steve Kean decided to do it of his own accord, whats wrong with that? :wacko:

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