[Archived] Steve Kean

[yeti-dog]

Don't let him yank your chain gumboots.

I think he probably doesn't get out too much.

Spends hours every day spreading bile on the internet and getting off on it whilst thinking wistfully back to 'the good old days' when women did as they were told...

[gumboots]

Don't let him yank your chain gumboots.

I think he probably doesn't get out too much.

Spends hours every day spreading bile on the internet and getting off on it whilst thinking wistfully back to 'the good old days' when women did as they were told...

As i said - no more arguments. I need to go and get ready to go to the match and hope that our team, whoever is involved in the decisions and likes who or doesn't like who, does the business on the pitch and get us 3 points closer to safety

[deftangel]

The Steve Kean joke continues.

This would be comparable to me going into a tough classroom and selecting four popular Year 11 boys to run the class for me, how many other managers at this level have little consortiums set up?

Can someone please keep a list of the Kean Sympathisers and look out for their reactions if we get stuffed today. The 'last game only' viewpoint on here never ceases to amaze me.

That being said, of course today I need to put my personal feelings to one side and cross everything I have and hope for a win.

I can't shake the feeling that if the Rao brothers but themselves in charge of the team, some of you would give them six months.

I've a lot of time for your opinion but that's way OTT and nothing of the sort. The article merely suggests he has a meeting with a group of senior players every couple of weeks to address any issues in the squad. The example given of requesting training start at a consistent time is hardly the most outlandish thing I've heard. I suppose all other Premiership managers refuse to meet their players and fire out their instructions via fax or barking Sgt. Major. I meet with the MD of my employers once a month and I'm certainly not shy of an opinion, doesn't mean I run the company.

I'm of the view that performances in the last three games have been relatively decent with the team being put into a difficult spot with some decisions. I'll be as disappointed as you are if we don't build on that today.

I'm more interested in hitting Kean with sticks like "makes questionable tactical decisions" and/or "picks the wrong players" which apart from the last game he's done frequently. If not deluding myself that Samba, Dunn and Nelson now manage the football team puts me on a list of so called Kean apologists then so be it. I'll go enjoy the game with my friend perspective.

[RovertheHill]

Just as a point of interest, a question to the hard-core Samettes. What are you going to say if we get a positive set of results on the run-in and finish in 10th or above?

[Amo]

Kean taking advantage of his coaching relationship with his senior players in order to rally the troops.

What's so wrong with that? Makes perfect sense to me.

Oh right, there is nothing up with that. But people do need something to bitch about over their morning coffee. Such is life at BRFCS.

[DE.]

Just as a point of interest, a question to the hard-core Samettes. What are you going to say if we get a positive set of results on the run-in and finish in 10th or above?

Surely anybody supporting Sam would just say we'd have finished even higher if he'd been in charge?

[otto man]

"Now experienced quartet Chris Samba, David Dunn, Ryan Nelsen and Paul Robinson regularly hold chats in the manager’s office. And the committee held its latest meeting last night with Kean desperate to ensure his players are up for the crunch clash with Birmingham today."

So if thats true it's becoming clear that Kean is no longer in the driving seat. The final straw must have been HT v Blackpool as many of us suspected. It's not as it should be but if that was the case and we avoid relegation then I have no objections.

"Have you finished cleaning our boots with your tongue Steve? Good make another brew then cock." Certainly gives the lie to the crackpots who maintain that the reversion to Allardyce tactics is being carried out with a better brand of passing football at Kean's behest.

Just as an aside...... I wonder if Alan Nixon is treating his colleague at Mirror HQ with the contempt that he reserves for people on here whose opinions differ from what I believe is his scripted viewpoint?

The sheer bloody hypocrisy of that question is mind boggling! POT? KETTLE? BLACK? and as for your "Kean is no longer in the driving seat" rant, well I'm speechless!

[Andy]

Just as a point of interest, a question to the hard-core Samettes. What are you going to say if we get a positive set of results on the run-in and finish in 10th or above?

I'm not a 'Samette', but am both a fan of Allardyce and a critic of Kean (based solely on results and performances) - but if Kean can guide the side to a higher finish than Sam achieved last year, that's a tremendous achievement.

If we did finish higher than last season, that shows a marked improvement and is surely the basis for Kean to stay on as Rovers manager.

That said, I genuinely cannot see it happening - based on Kean's overall performance to date.

[Steve Moss]

You really are a miserable old dinosaur...

He may be a dinosaur but he is right on the issue of different genders learn and interact differently. And its not a matter of men "growing up".

Just as a point of interest, a question to the hard-core Samettes. What are you going to say if we get a positive set of results on the run-in and finish in 10th or above?

The same thing I've always said I would say. If we stay up by the skin of our teeth, Kean needs to go. If he does 11th or better I'm willing to reconsider and perhaps chalk it up to him finally getting on the right side of the learning curve. This match and Everton should pretty much either solidify my current low opinion of Kean or raise the possibility that I was wrong.

[Mr. E]

I bet he's proud of his hard hard work. The mastermind got a draw after all.

[G Somerset Rover]

I'd pay through the nose to hear his response to "but mr steve why have we not won for 9 games?"

[Bobby G]

Worst manager in Rovers history? Well he is as close to it as anyone who is going to push Ince for that honor.

[Mr. E]

I have to laugh at people who say its too late to sack him because it will destabilize the team or something. Exactly how much more unstable can this team get? If it wasn't for a moment of individual effort by Junior, we would have lost today at home to Birmingham. What else do you want.

[Bobby G]

I have to laugh at people who say its too late to sack him because it will destabilize the team or something. Exactly how much more unstable can this team get? If it wasn't for a moment of individual effort by Junior, we would have lost today at home to Birmingham. What else do you want.

Only if the owners had any clue how dire our position is.

[BRFC1995]

Just as a point of interest, a question to the hard-core Samettes. What are you going to say if we get a positive set of results on the run-in and finish in 10th or above?

sam 16 games 21pts

clown/puppet/whoareyou 16 games 14pts

mathematically only 2 thirds as good which equates to howthehellhaventyoubeensacked if i remember my maths correctly

[tony gale's mic]

It's easy to see where those 7 points have come from too. Four games.

West Ham home, Stoke home, Birmingham home, Blackpool home.

Sam's excellent home record against bottom half teams (Stoke were bottom half when we played them as I recall) can be extrapolated to say we wouldn't have lost any of those games (no home losses against bottom half teams) and we would have won three of the four, probably drawing one of them.

That's 10 points we should have got, but instead we got 3.

That's why some of us were ringing major alarm bells after the Stoke game, only to be argued down by some of the more thick headed members of this forum.

7 extra points would have had us a point behind Bolton and two points behind Everton in 7th, effectively meaning that our games against Everton and Bolton would have been a fight for a European slot rather than a desperate fight against the drop. That's not even taking into account what Sam brought in had he been given £5 million to spend.

One decision has been the difference between what probably would have transpired as a successful season, and one likely to end in abject failure and devastation for our club.

[Sandiway Blue]

I have to laugh at people who say its too late to sack him because it will destabilize the team or something. Exactly how much more unstable can this team get? If it wasn't for a moment of individual effort by Junior, we would have lost today at home to Birmingham. What else do you want.

Thats as daft as saying if the referee had blown up for the push on our player in the lead-up to the birmingham goal we would have won....

[G Somerset Rover]

Kean "we are still chipping away". Shut up you bald mug and answer us why we haven't won in 9 rather than blame the officials EVERY week. Yes we're not getting the rub of the green but stop trying to pull the wool over our eyes. The worst thing is some believe everything this guy says.

Cannot wait for the day when he leaves taking Jon Jensen with him.

[Gogger]

I wonder when this joke of a manager is going to explain where our left back and on form striker whom we actually own were today.

[Bobby G]

Kean "we are still chipping away". Shut up you bald mug and answer us why we haven't won in 9 rather than blame the officials EVERY week. Yes we're not getting the rub of the green but stop trying to pull the wool over our eyes. The worst thing is some believe everything this guy says.

Cannot wait for the day when he leaves taking Jon Jensen with him.

Chipping away? Didnt this bald muppet talk about improving on Sam's 10th place? Funny how he doesnt even talk about that stuff anymore.

[FourLaneBlue]

Worst manager in Rovers history? Well he is as close to it as anyone who is going to push Ince for that honor.

If he takes us down from a position of mid-table safety then yes, he will be the worst manager in our history.

[G Somerset Rover]

Chipping away? Didnt this bald muppet talk about improving on Sam's 10th place? Funny how he doesnt even talk about that stuff anymore.

Precisely. Why do no interviewers have the balls to ask him these sorts of questions? "what's happened to bettering 10th?" "why have rovers not won in 9" "when you said 5th next season I'm guessing you meant the championship?". Instead we get two 'rovers fans' asking him how he's so amazing etc.

The most unrealistic, dumb, annoying, backstabbing d### alive. At least Mrs Desai will get a good seeing to when he's in Pune next rather than discuss where our next wins coming from.

[Majiball]

We don't use them to ask them. there are clear guidelines about what subjects they are allowed to touch on, such as they aren't allowed to ask female staff if they plan to become pregnant or anythng like that which might be discriminatory. Perhaps I should have said they ask questions in a more forthright manner than most of the actual interview panel do and they like to get real clarification from interviewees about anything they don't understand. as their vocabulary is naturally more limited than that of most of the panel they often push harder for clarification, so you really have to justify anything you say and be prepared to go into detail.

Fair do's thanks for clarifying that Gumboots.

[Mattyblue]

Just as a point of interest, a question to the hard-core Samettes. What are you going to say if we get a positive set of results on the run-in and finish in 10th or above?

[chaddyrovers]

Kean record as manager is worst than PI! It's a joke and embrassing now!

No tactical knowledge!

When Hoilett came off we needed to bring MD. He got pace to get in behind the BC defence. And go 4-3-3 for last 20 mins!

we needed to win today!

My message to Kean is PLEASE LEAVE NOW! YOU ARE USELESS! YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING!!!

Kean comments after the game http://www.rovers.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10303~2334714,00.html