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

[K-Hod]

It's clear that Kean won't walk away which is horrible. The man really is a cancer on the club.

The problem with booing and chanting Kean out all the way through the game just serves to curry favour with him in the media and strengthen his sympathetic position in the media which is hugely frustrating.

He really is a first class bell-end.

[Mike Graham]

Steve Kean: "You’re not a supporter if you jeer when Blackburn Rovers score"

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/blackburn_rovers/news/9401557.Steve_Kean__You___re_not_a_supporter_if_you_jeer_when_Blackburn_Rovers_score/

Turning on the fans is a great way to get their support Keano! He is the epitome of deceit and lies like there is no tomorrow

I supported the team for a long time before that deceitful tosspot Coco came along.

GET OUT OF MY CLUB COCO AND TAKE THOSE ABSENT OWNERS WITH YOU.

[Mattyblue]

However, Kean knows that there are a good number that will read that LT report and agree, 'aye, these protesters are as much, if not more to blame than Kean, they aint real fans'.

A shrewd operator who will cling on to the bitter end.

[bellamy11]

Steve Kean: "You’re not a supporter if you jeer when Blackburn Rovers score"

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/blackburn_rovers/news/9401557.Steve_Kean__You___re_not_a_supporter_if_you_jeer_when_Blackburn_Rovers_score/

Turning on the fans is a great way to get their support Keano! He is the epitome of deceit and lies like there is no tomorrow

He knows EXACTLY what he's doing. Comments such as that will undoubtedly lead to more in-fighting between protesters and non-protesters.

[sijoco]

After reading these l challenge anyone, media included, to feel any sympathy for the sorry excuse for a human.

Excuses Excuses Excuses

[King Kenny's Magic]

He knows EXACTLY what he's doing. Comments such as that will undoubtedly lead to more in-fighting between protesters and non-protesters.

Very Palpatine-esque in my opinion

A long time ago in a boardroom far far away...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpjWgwoxgME

[broadsword]

They do really well to find these people don't they?

Someone on twitter who was very pro-Kean. Might've been called Tom I don't know.

Am I allowed to say he looked a bit special needs with his woolly-hat on, and his dumb comments?

[King Kenny's Magic]

They do really well to find these people don't they?

They sure do,bunch of plonkers. I usually listen to Drive Time too on the way home. Not tonight though i'll probably end up crashing my car.

[rovers11]

Has the board meeting happened yet? Anyone know the outcomes?

[bob fleming]

Has the board meeting happened yet? Anyone know the outcomes?

Venkys sat round looking dumb, Kean told them everything was OK and that we’re on course for the Top 10 before the end of January and Champions League qualification before the end of April, so long as no one else gets injured of course, or any of the "silly" 0.2% boos him. Then the Barclays bores started waffling on about money and stuff and the Raos mentally switched off, they started doing paper scissors stone. Balaji got his iPod out, Mrs Desai did some knitting. Barclays left, in a huff, and then Kean got out a list of 500 targets he has been given for the January transfer window. Usual stuff. Kean will be speaking to the Press shortly after last orders "The owners are very supportive, can see what we are trying to do..." etc

[JonnyH]

Steve Kean: "You’re not a supporter if you jeer when Blackburn Rovers score"

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/blackburn_rovers/news/9401557.Steve_Kean__You___re_not_a_supporter_if_you_jeer_when_Blackburn_Rovers_score/

Turning on the fans is a great way to get their support Keano! He is the epitome of deceit and lies like there is no tomorrow

Well he's not a proper manager!

[Rovermatt]

More of the usual nonsense from the BBC. They are strongly suggesting that the fans were jeering a guy who had just put the team in front with a cracking goal (and who would go on to score three more). That's very misleading as far as I'm concerned. The press coverage seems to focus on the fact that supporters have the temerity to protest rather than the reasons for their disquiet. Contrast this with the situation at Sunderland where Bruce's demise was accepted by the media early on as a foregone conclusion.

[Jansen is God]

Someone on twitter who was very pro-Kean. Might've been called Tom I don't know.

Am I allowed to say he looked a bit special needs with his woolly-hat on, and his dumb comments?

If he's pro-Kean he must have learning difficulties. Defeat afer defeat after defeat after defeat equals an incompetent manager. Fact!

[Mattyblue]

Demonising football fans is par for the course for pundits.

Look at the Bruce thing, 'they wanted him out becaise he was a Newcastle fan'.

That was not the main reason at all- more the fact he had wasted countless millions and had only won 2 home games in 2011.

Feck 'em.

[broadsword]

If he's pro-Kean he must have learning difficulties. Defeat afer defeat after defeat after defeat equals an incompetent manager. Fact!

I was going to call him a *******, but changed it to special needs.

don't want to be cruel.

[jim mk2]

Sorry if this has been posted already

1 SOCCER Blackburn

KEAN STILL TARGETS TOP 10

By Carl Markham, Press Association Sport

Blackburn Rovers manager Steve Kean is confident his side can secure a top-10 finish in the Barclays Premier League.

The Scot, whose side beat Swansea 4-2 at the weekend to move within a point of climbing out of the bottom three, thinks the next couple of weeks will be pivotal in allowing them to move up the table.

Rovers, six points adrift of 10th-placed Everton, have matches against Sunderland, West Brom and Bolton - all teams in the lower half of the table.

Asked if the top 10 was still his aim, the Rovers boss said: ``Definitely. We want to push on.

``We feel as if we are in a false position just now but we are here and we have got to keep winning games.

``We are not shy of goals. We are disappointed with the goals we have conceded but we have got a body back in Chris Samba. Once we get a full unit back, we will be much better.''

Kean added in the Lancashire Telegraph: ``We will always score goals and when we have got the unit, we will climb the table fast.

``We've got a real nice run of games now. I would like to think over the next three games, Sunderland, West Brom and Bolton, we will get ourselves out of the position we are in.''end

[Mike Graham]

Sorry if this has been posted already

1 SOCCER Blackburn

KEAN STILL TARGETS TOP 10

By Carl Markham, Press Association Sport

Blackburn Rovers manager Steve Kean is confident his side can secure a top-10 finish in the Barclays Premier League.

The Scot, whose side beat Swansea 4-2 at the weekend to move within a point of climbing out of the bottom three, thinks the next couple of weeks will be pivotal in allowing them to move up the table.

Rovers, six points adrift of 10th-placed Everton, have matches against Sunderland, West Brom and Bolton - all teams in the lower half of the table.

Asked if the top 10 was still his aim, the Rovers boss said: ``Definitely. We want to push on.

``We feel as if we are in a false position just now but we are here and we have got to keep winning games.

``We are not shy of goals. We are disappointed with the goals we have conceded but we have got a body back in Chris Samba. Once we get a full unit back, we will be much better.''

Kean added in the Lancashire Telegraph: ``We will always score goals and when we have got the unit, we will climb the table fast.

``We've got a real nice run of games now. I would like to think over the next three games, Sunderland, West Brom and Bolton, we will get ourselves out of the position we are in.''end

what do you buy this man (Coco not Jim !) for Christmas? A sick bag perhaps?

www.airsicknessbags.com

[K-Hod]

what do you buy this man (Coco not Jim !) for Christmas? A sick bag perhaps?

A polygraph...

[Mike Graham]

A polygraph...

a bottle of red wine and a bottle of Bud

[perthblue02]

After his next visit to India to see her majesty one of these My link

[Roaming Rover]

So here we go again, Blackburn fans are back to being ungrateful, unrealistic, selfish cry babies. Last week after the Stoke debacle Kean was deluded, untrustworthy and as far as being our manager goes he was well past his sell by date. One win and its all change!!!

The truth of the matter is that Steve Kean has won 11 matches in 41 games. Bear in mind that three of those games were against lower league opposition and one against Newcastle after extra time in the League cup. A game which on 90 minutes we were winning. Add to this the fact that we have not kept a clean sheet in 25 games and that alone is enough to make one worry!!!

If Steve Kean had once come out and said he was worried about our position in the league, that our form was not good enough and he and the players were working hard to fix it then the supporters may well have given him some slack.

When you have just been destroyed by Newcastle, which we somehow only manage to lose 3-1, to then be told we played well and were unlucky was a complete slap in the face to the supporters. Aston Villa again we were well and truly beaten despite a 10 minute spell where we did OK. Apparently we deserved at least a point because we entered the Villa box 32 times and they entered ours 33. There was me thinking it was goals that counted!!!

Man City toyed with us and destroyed us. Kean then says we did well considering they were a Champions League team. Hold on? It wasnt long ago we were going to be pushing for a Champions League place......

We are being told we are to sign Beckham, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho etc etc. They will not come to Blackburn and even if they did the wages they would be on would cripple out club and maybe destroy it. We know that, we are not stupid. We know we are a different team from the Jack Walker era, but with shrewd signings like Chris Samba, David Bentley, Ryan Nelson, Tugay we can still compete. That is all we ask, that we at least give teams a good game and maybe a good cup run.......all this talk of Kean has no money so what do you expect is rubbish. Mark Hughes worked on a shoestring budget and kept us in the top half of the table, Sam, granted was a Marmite manager if ever I saw one, but give him his due he kept us midtable with no money. So yes, it can be done. We are not asking for miracles. We know its not easy and it gets more difficult as each season goes by, but that is where the promise of a reasonable transfer fee from Venkys came in to play.......little did we know that a player costing a few hundred thousand would cost us millions in agents fees.....and bang goes the budget!

We were a well run club, that was where we stood out against some of the others in the league. Could we match the wages of other teams? Often we couldnt, but what we could offer was a nice environment for players to play football and sad but true put themselves in the shop window as many of our players have done. We accepted that, it is our place now in the pecking order. What we did hope was that Venkys would add to the already solid foundations in place and help us cement our midtable position and maybe move up a place or two with a modest investment of the transfer fee they promised.

We are not deluded, many of us go and watch Stanley, Chorley and Clitheore when Rovers are not playing. We know what life is like outside the top flight and how lucky we are to be there. That is why we are so worried and vocal. We know how much our premier status means and that if we drop out it could spell disaster from a football perspective and financially for the club. Kean and Venkys do not seem to grasp the seriousness of the situation. That to me and many other supports is what hurts.

We are bottom 3, yes we are still in the relegation zone even though with some of the reports coming from the media and Kean after the Swansea win, youd think wed just moved top 4!!!

We want Kean out, but what we really want to someone to step forward and tell us they understand why we are frustrated, and what they plan to do about it. We dont want to hear rhetoric about finishing top 10. We dont care about top ten, we care about not being bottom 3. That, at the moment is all we care about. We dont care about big name players on big wages, we care about getting someone in the centre of midfield who can stem what seems to be wave after wave of attack from the opposition.

So please do not tell us Mr Kean that we are not supporters for making our concerns heard, when all around our club people seem to have their heads in the sand. We dont want fairy stories, we just want honesty. Nothing more and nothing less. That is the least we deserve.........

[pedebumchin]

Anyone else get the feeling that Kean actually doesn't answer to Venky's? The behaviour of the club recently seems to hint that Venky's answer to Kean. Just my opinion but if you look at the decisions made recently it makes more sense.

[LeChuck]

Add to this the fact that we have not kept a clean sheet in 25 games and that alone is enough to make one worry!!!

I think it is that fact which is by far the main reason why Steve Kean isn't fit to manage the club. That is just an appalling fact.

14 goals we have conceded in the last 6 games, or 24 goals in the last 10 games.

It shows absolutely no signs of turning round, in fact we seem to be getting worse. We will be relegated if we can't stop it soon.

[pedebumchin]

I think it is that fact which is by far the main reason why Steve Kean isn't fit to manage the club. That is just an appalling fact.

14 goals we have conceded in the last 6 games, or 24 goals in the last 10 games.

It shows absolutely no signs of turning round, in fact we seem to be getting worse. We will be relegated if we can't stop it soon.

In 13 of the last 18 matches we have conceded 2 or more goals. Of those 13 games, on 7 occasions we have conceded 3 and conceded 4 once.

[T4E]

So we're basically going to have to lose atleast 2 more games before he goes. Which we will.