[Archived] Steve Kean Thread (Poll reset after Stoke game)

[RoyRover]

I know it might be a waste of time but I couldnt sleep and decided to write Steve a letter. Probably a waste of time but I needed to get some of my feelings out.

Dear people at Blackburn Rovers Football Club. Enclosed I have written a letter to Steve Kean. I know it probably won´t reach him but I need to get this off my chest. I am, like many others, desperate to see some change in my beloved football club. And to get some smiles back on the faces of the fans.

Mr. Steve Kean

I am a supporter of Blackburn Rovers Football Club and have been so for many years. I am from Denmark so unfortunately I can´t follow the club on a local basis. But make no mistake. I follow the club through thick and thin. Even in this dark period where alot of people are confused about what on earth is going on in our beloved football club.

First I would like to congratulate you on todays 4-2 win over Swansea. That Yak is something, huh?

Well, to the point.

I have read post-match comments that you dont understand why sections of the fans are protesting when the club is winning a game. My mission here is to try and make you understand.

- There is massive uncertainty as to how our beloved football club is being run. The fans want, and deserve answers. We spend alot of time and alot of money on this club, and over the last year we have had many worries and many sleepless nights ( I am having one as I am writing this) wondering if all our support goes unnoticed and if the club will survive all this talk about bankloans and relegation.

- The results over the last year have been awful. When you took over we were in the tophalf of the premiership. In may we just barely escaped relegation with a fantastic first half against Wolves. This season is no better. We can score goals but we cant defend. The amount of goals we concede are shocking.

- You have signed alot of players. Some of them have done good. Formica, Rochina (Whats with the agent fee?) and Yakubu have all been good deals. Scott Dann is yet to impress and I´m wondering if he holds a place in the first 11 after the comments you made about looking forward to Ryan Nelsons return. Simon has had limited time on the pitch. He looked really good today but Im wondering if he had seen the grass if Rochina hadn´t limped off. Petrovic is yet to impress and so is Goodwillie. As to Ribeiro and Myles Anderson....Don´t get me started. They just dont seem to have what it takes to succeed . Even in the Championship, and they both seem like strange signings. During the transfer window you talked alot about getting bodies with Premier League experince. We got Scott Dann and The Yak. The rest of them have all needed time to get used to what it means to live and play in England. And we are suffering from that.

- In the media there have been some strange comments from you, the manager. Talks about Champions League Football, Massive transferbudgets to the latest comment on forfeiting the Carling Cup a day after you said we could win it.

- You appear arrogant in your way of behaving publicly. You drove under the influence and blamed the fans for spiking your drink. You stabbed John Jensen in the back and blamed him for your shortcomings as a manager. We can all see that we haven´t improved since Clement took Jensens place. In addition to this it seems obvious that you have no respect for the fans that question your ability to manage. Surely you must have doubts yourself? Your record speaks for itself.

These are some of the reasons why fans continue to be negative. I could probably continue writing but I am beginning to tire now. Gotta go to work tomorrow so I can make money, some of which I will probably end up spending on some sort of Rovers merch.

I am probably only writing this for my own benifit since I have no hope that you will read this. I just needed to vent my feelings. If I have reached one person in the Blackburn Rovers organization then I would be satisfied and consider my effort a success.

Yours truly.

A Blackburn Rovers fan for life.

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People write positive letters to Steve Kean all the time apparently so this may well be the first negative one that he reads.

[Mercer]

What's Kamy posted on twitter

Northern_RoverNorthern Rover

Enjoy the win but back to reality today. There are many issues facing the club, the most immediate one being Kean's future, let's see what

Northern_RoverNorthern Rover

Happens tomorrow, lots of rumours about. But best to wait and see what happens, big push to get Kean out, if he stays then others will quit.

[RoyRover]

And that's what makes Kean such a tosser.

If he had come out and just said, 'Results haven't been good enough but we got a vital win today and go from here...' then fair enough. I'd still want him sacked. It's the way he twists everything for his own agenda that makes me sick!

Exactly that. He knows that most people hate him, but that only a minority are protesting, so he tells the media, who believe him, turning the protesters into the bad guys and totally forgetting his abysmal record. The guy just can't be realistic in his interviews.

Yesterday's win was huge, no doubt about it, but as Harvey Keitel says in Pulp Fiction "Lets not start sucking each others ***** just yet."

[Andy]

Northern_RoverNorthern Rover

Enjoy the win but back to reality today. There are many issues facing the club, the most immediate one being Kean's future, let's see what

Northern_RoverNorthern Rover

Happens tomorrow, lots of rumours about. But best to wait and see what happens, big push to get Kean out, if he stays then others will quit.

Good news.

Let's hope it's not yet another false dawn.

This would be the perfect time to get a manager in - a few weeks to assess the squad before the transfer window and a handful of potentially winnable games for a proper manager.

[Wiggy]

FAO Steve Kean.

Here's a couple of ideas for you Steve if, through your outrageous good fortune, you survive Monday's board meeting.

1. Spend ALL week on the training ground working on keeping a clean sheet at Sunderland.

Ignore the offensive side of the game.

Concentrate on getting men behind the ball.Concentrate on closing space down. Concentrate on harrying opposition players. If Junior Holliett or Morton Pederson look gormlessly on whilst players run past them, stop play and give them an almighty bollocking.

Set pieces.

At corners and free kicks have the players screaming at each other to pick up every opposition player. No opponent should be left free. ( I know this is school boy stuff but every week your team seems to allow free men. Free men score goals).

The focus all week should be on stopping the opposition having the ball or time or space. Keep a clean sheet.

If you do this you'll get at least one point. With the form the Yak's in there's even a chance that he'll sneak a goal and you'll get all three. You know Steve, if you let the opposition score three every week then your teams got to score three to get a point.

2. If you've survived and you've come to identifying your January transfer targets, consider this. Your midfield has Rochina, Formica, Hoilett, Petrovic, David 'The Legs' Dunn and Morten Gamst 'Billy Elliot' Pederson. Fine though some of these players are potentially, they have barely got a tackle in them. You need dogs of war in a relegation battle. You need players who can break play up, hastle, put a foot on the ball and pass it to one of your flair players. You need players like Batty and Savage. Dogs of War.

Forget this pretty football b@ll@cks. You don't want Villa Boas, Terry, Redknapp and the rest coming and patting you on the head because they thought you played well.

You want that lot going to the press and complaining about decisions because you harried, closed them down, worried them and took points off them! You want them to be scared to come to Ewood!

Steve, if you did these things, then maybe, just maybe, people would start to think that you weren't that dumb. People maybe would think that one day you could become a manager.

Then again you've had 12 months and nothing's changed.

It's up to you!

[roverandout]

i was one of those standing up when the 'stand up if you hate steve kean' chant went around. Even the kean sympathisers around me are turning, heard most of them agree that kean has to go so it looks like he is losing virtually all of his support at the games.

[Jansen is God]

Let's hope it's not yet another false dawn.

I just can't see him getting sacked next week. After sticking by the guy through defeat after defeat, why would he get sacked after a win? It just doesn't make any sense.

I'm hoping they wanted to get a replacement sorted before they let him go but Kean's record is so poor, I'd have thought that once they made up their mind to let him go then he'd be sacked straight away and a caretaker put in charge for the Swansea game.

[Gav]

Sadly somebody said there was a bit of light at the end of the tunnel. Shows how over-reactive we can be to one game.

My point is that I wouldn't support Kean if he won the next ten (which he won't of course).

Me neither, been there done that supported him that is.

[roverandout]

sacking him now but the perfect timing, we have just won which gives us half a chance of getting out of this mess and any prospective manager would see the team has some potential with the likes of hoillet, yakubu and samba etc.

[Kamy100]

Very interesting article from Nick Harris, he has some very good sources:

Nick Harris Article

Very interesting article from Nick Harris, he has some very good sources:

Nick Harris Article

[roverandout]

great so one win and he gets another 10 games where we win nothing, bunch of muppets, the decision to sack kean shouldnt be about yesterday's result, it should be about 12 months of poor results, if she watched the game, as claimed then she must surely have noted the booing for kean and as for yakubu of course hes going to back kean because he is the one who signed him, fecked off with all of this.

[Elvis McSmithy]

pathetic how a decision to keep kean has been made over 1 game against 1 of the weakest teams ive seen in the prem for years, these idiots seem to have zero sense of perspective,

Mrs.Desai out?

[AllRoverAsia]

Very interesting article from Nick Harris, he has some very good sources:

Nick Harris Article

Very interesting article from Nick Harris, he has some very good sources:

Nick Harris Article

If Mrs D's mind is changed by one result and the reaction of a goalscorer who's career was saved by Kean then it kind of helps to explain some of the mess that we are in - as far as on the field is concerned. I wonder if she knows that we are still in the bottom 3. I wonder if she anaylsed how Rovers goals came about?

I just wish she would stick to what she is good at - slaughtering young chickens by the millions on a daily basis.

[martonrover]

pathetic how a decision to keep kean has been made over 1 game against 1 of the weakest teams ive seen in the prem for years, these idiots seem to have zero sense of perspective,

Mrs.Desai out?

Sadly predictable from Mrs D who knows B all about football. She obviously watched with the sound down and missed all the booing. Lets hope someone changes her mind before tomorrow.

[2PAC 4 Blackburn]

If Mrs D's mind is changed by one result and the reaction of a goalscorer who's career was saved by Kean then it kind of helps to explain some of the mess that we are in - as far as on the field is concerned. I wonder if she knows that we are still in the bottom 3. I wonder if she anaylsed how Rovers goals came about?

I just wish she would stick to what she is good at - slaughtering young chickens by the millions on a daily basis.

Take it all with a pinch of salt, they are not direct quotes. Everyone seems to know someone at the minute who has inside info but rarely does any of the info come true.

[philipl]

Very interesting article from Nick Harris, he has some very good sources:

Nick Harris Article

Very interesting article from Nick Harris, he has some very good sources:

Nick Harris Article

Oh no- this is horrific.

All we can do is double up on the offensive to get Venky's and Kean out of Rovers.

Yak jogged over to high five SK under instruction apparently and rightly got roundly booed for it.

I have spoken with Nick Haris and I can tell you that guy was in my opinion doing a brilliant job as an apologist for Mrs Desai and an absolutely rubbish job as a reporter. The hagiography he wrote about the Raos last January was highly misleading and contained several key inaccuracies.

[JAL]

Very interesting article from Nick Harris, he has some very good sources:

Nick Harris Article

There always seems to be an excuse from these illegitimates !

Venkys SEM /Kentaro Kean OUT !

[Jansen is God]

From the Nick Harris article:

"But the final say was always going to lie with Mrs Desai, and she has remained Kean’s most loyal supporter, albeit from India having only ever made one trip to Ewood Park during the family’s ownership of the club"

No wonder we're in the mess we're in. It would appear that most people at the club (even the Rao brothers) want Kean out, at least that's the impression that I'm getting from various articles/posters on here etc. Then we've got Ms. Desai half a world away with seemingly little interest in the club (or at least not enough to make another trip to Ewood) making the final decision on matters. How on earth can she make decisions that go against what everyone else is telling her when she's that detached from the club? We are ######!

[BuckyRover]

Oh no- this is horrific.

All we can do is double up on the offensive to get Venky's and Kean out of Rovers.

Yak jogged over to high five SK under instruction apparently and rightly got roundly booed for it.

I have spoken with Nick Haris and I can tell you that guy was in my opinion doing a brilliant job as an apologist for Mrs Desai and an absolutely rubbish job as a reporter. The hagiography he wrote about the Raos last January was highly misleading and contained several key inaccuracies.

"under instruction apparently" should read "in my opinion he was under instruction" because as far as I can see he is happy with Kean as he rescued him from Everton reserves.

I wish that wasn't the case but it certainly looks like it based on his actions and what he said after the game

[philipl]

"under instruction apparently" should read "in my opinion he was under instruction" because as far as I can see he is happy with Kean as he rescued him from Everton reserves.

I wish that wasn't the case but it certainly looks like it based on his actions and what he said after the game

No, not in my opinion.

Apparently is inserted because it came from a source inside the club- just one so I am not being didactic about it.

Did you watch Samba's reaction when he saw Yak was going to Kean? On the TV feed by the way, they panned to Steve Kean on the edge of his technical area stood with his hands up for a high five long before Yak eventually jogged over. It certainly looked like a pre-meditated move by Kean and I was not suprised to be given the nod after the game that it was an instruction.

[Torgeir]

Oh no- this is horrific.

All we can do is double up on the offensive to get Venky's and Kean out of Rovers.

Yak jogged over to high five SK under instruction apparently and rightly got roundly booed for it.

I have spoken with Nick Haris and I can tell you that guy was in my opinion doing a brilliant job as an apologist for Mrs Desai and an absolutely rubbish job as a reporter. The hagiography he wrote about the Raos last January was highly misleading and contained several key inaccuracies.

Yak jogging over to Kean to celebrate under instruction - is that a guess?

I think Nick Harris' article proves once and for all that Venky's are not fit to own and run a PL club. Get the clowns out and Kean will follow them out the door.

[BuckyRover]

Kean might have asked him to do it, but if he didn't want to he didn't have to. He must have known it would have appeared to be supporting Kean, hence he supports Kean.

[Emge]

Did you watch Samba's reaction when he saw Yak was going to Kean?

What was his reaction?

[Mattyblue]

Think you're right Bucky and why are people surprised?

Kean signed him after rotting away at Everton, he's on good money, playing and scoring.

Most of the players don't give a dn about the greater good of Blackburn Rovers.

[BuckyRover]

Think you're right Bucky and why are people surprised?

Kean signed him after rotting away at Everton, he's on good money, playing and scoring.

Most of the players don't give a dn about the greater good of Blackburn Rovers.

Exactly. He won't know about anything else regarding his tenure. He just knows that he signed him and now he's playing. That's all most footballers want.