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

[Blackpool_Rover]

Tough situation now because I think doing anti-Kean chants at the game would reflect very badly on supporters after the last two results. I think any protest needs to be taken away from Kean and focussed on the owners. Fact is, he won't be sacked. If he can survive the Bolton game he can survive anything. The biggest question for us is finding the truth regarding the owners....it seems to me like stories regarding not wanting to pay him off are close to the truth when you add it to the Salgado/Roberts contractual issues...it all seems quite clear. They are in a corner now (the owners) and surely if they don't spend in January (without selling) then they will be found out.

The best thing we can do is get behind Kean and the team because no matter what you say about him he is working hard and he does have the players fighting for him. If he can get us about 7 wins from the remaining games we have a good chance. Winning the next two would be a fantastic start.

Looking at it another way....as the media are all saying the players are fighting for him (which is true) I can't help but notice the starting 11 at OT (apart from Pedersen and Samba) were all Kean signings/youth system players. All of which would give their right arms to play and do a job regardless of the manager. The more senior players, injured or not,seem a little more shaky. I'm not sure how much truth is in all of the injury stories and we've seen what is going on with Salgado and Roberts.

Anyway, i'm waffling on a bit now but the main thing is get behind everyone today, lift the roof off Ewood and get 3 points!

[magicalmortensleftpeg]

1) For a start I think it would genuinely be a bad move to remove any manager at this stage of the season i.e. just as the transfer window opens. Its clear that Kean is going to be given more time regardless and I think any change of management would be too late to change our destiny this year.

2) To protest after we've drawn at Anfield and won at Old Trafford would look pathetic. I was uncomfortable with how personal some of the abuse towards Kean got before those two results, but no one on here can say he hasn't deserved at least one game without the fans on his back.

3) The protests in general need to shift from Kean and focus on Venkys. I, like many on here, have been saying that Kean is just a symptom of the main problem and regardless of his faults, I dont think anyone has deserved the amount of abuse he alone has received. His crime is being a poor football manager, but the issue is that he shouldn't have been given the job in the first instance and he shouldn't still be here now.

4) Kean is trying to do his job and he's not doing well. But he's here to stay for the foreseeable future. Its time to accept that. Either go to the game and support the team or dont go at all.

[den]

4) Kean is trying to do his job and he's not doing well. But he's here to stay for the foreseeable future. Its time to accept that. Either go to the game and support the team or dont go at all.

hee hee.

Talk about not understanding the situation.

[ABBEY]

1) For a start I think it would genuinely be a bad move to remove any manager at this stage of the season i.e. just as the transfer window opens. Its clear that Kean is going to be given more time regardless and I think any change of management would be too late to change our destiny this year.

2) To protest after we've drawn at Anfield and won at Old Trafford would look pathetic. I was uncomfortable with how personal some of the abuse towards Kean got before those two results, but no one on here can say he hasn't deserved at least one game without the fans on his back.

3) The protests in general need to shift from Kean and focus on Venkys. I, like many on here, have been saying that Kean is just a symptom of the main problem and regardless of his faults, I dont think anyone has deserved the amount of abuse he alone has received. His crime is being a poor football manager, but the issue is that he shouldn't have been given the job in the first instance and he shouldn't still be here now.

4) Kean is trying to do his job and he's not doing well. But he's here to stay for the foreseeable future. Its time to accept that. Either go to the game and support the team or dont go at all.

do you think being a bad football manager is a crime? do you think that hes not done anything illegal? (drink driving is illegal for one)? he hasnt received enough abuse? why does he deserve more time? 8 wins in his entire time as manager?

as for the pillock himself saying your not a true fan if you protest how long has this @#/? been here 2-3 years? well i for one had family on the ground for our record attendence way back ,what about you kean? one win doesnt make you lord and master .If you add baiter on the end then its nearer the truth.

[jim mk2]

1) For a start I think it would genuinely be a bad move to remove any manager at this stage of the season

Ince was binned about this stage (again too late) - and we just about escaped thanks to Sam's heroics. Sticking with Ince would have led to almost certain relegation - the same applies to Kean now.

West Brom binned Di Matteo last year when they were in freefall and Hodgson saved them from the drop.

The lesson is it is always correct to get rid of a failing manager irrespective of the circumstances.

[Damien]

But surely today we should all get behind whatever team plays in blue and white and cheer rovers on for all three points! Then we can decide what to do with regards to protesting!

[ABBEY]

3 points today wont stop the venkys raping and tearing the clubb apart.

[Andy]

No, but it'd give us a better chance of staying up.

And that'd the main thing in all of this right now.

[gumboots]

But surely today we should all get behind whatever team plays in blue and white and cheer rovers on for all three points! Then we can decide what to do with regards to protesting!

We don't always go to the ground expecting to protest - there were no organised protests at the last 2 home games. However, a year of frustration and being taken for fools means that we are all there with anger just below the surface and a poor start will automatically lead to protests of some kind. What are we supposed to do - take more of the same old rubbish we've been given for months now. I think you'll find the atmosphere at the start will be fairly positive as we all want the team to build on what they've done in the last few games. It's largely up to them to keep it as positive as possible. Don't concede early, look like you are trying to get it right and get some importatnt tackles in and people will be more inclined to keep singing and try to lift you. Look as inept as we did against Bolton and it will be very hard for fans to remain positive.

[Mattyblue]

Exacy gumboots.

I don't think some posters on here understand how football crowds react to events.

We play well- no abuse

we get spanked- abuse.

[Damien]

Yes I agree there, if the players look committed and give the fans a game to be proud of but... And it's only a small but, where I sit at ewood there is a group of lads and as soon as the whistle blows for the kick off they start booing and jeering Kean and it's cringe worthy to hear it! Sometimes they start a few chants too and thats the worry! Hopefully today they'll be as enlightened as yourself and only vent when it is required!

[technoprisoners]

I once saw Ian Dowie in a curry restaurant in Blackrod.

I once saw Steve Kean in a dock in Macclesfield, but I didn't see Jeff Shreeves who was supposed to be backing up the spiked drink alibi....

Venky's out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[technoprisoners]

Once met Stan Ternent in a pub in Burnley. He was with some of the Burnley back room staff having a Christmas drink or three. I said to him, "Looks like they're gong down well." He smiled and said, "They are" and lifted his glass. I replied, "I wasn't talking about the beers." Stan wasn't amused, but it brightened up my evening no end.

Venky's out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[RibbleValleyRover]

Nothing has changed with these two results, Rovers are still on course to get relegated (perhaps not as quickly as first thought).

[Stuart]

Soccer Saturday Moobs just discussing Rovers situation right now.

Phil Thompson appears finally to have got it.

Ally McAnally has 'come out' as a self professed friend of Steve Kean.

Paul Walsh however, has just said "I would love Steve Kean to stay as manager to the end of the season and stick it up the Blackburn fans who have got on his case". I bet he was a staunch lover of Roy Hodgson and the Yanks at Liverpool, and the likes of Christian Gross at Spurs.

What an absolute see you next Tuesday

[gumboots]

http://www.teamtalk.com/news/2483/7406227/Kean-deserves-a-break-after-festive-cheer

Another case of their just not getting it

[Amo]

http://www.teamtalk.com/news/2483/7406227/Kean-deserves-a-break-after-festive-cheer

Another case of their just not getting it

Nope. Sorry. Not clicking it.

I've had it up to here with Kean's apologists. Remember, they only judge us on the last game, which currently makes us title contenders.

[HATRIX]

3 points today wont stop the venkys raping and tearing the clubb apart.

Raping . Now thats a word that should not be used out of context.

[Amo]

Raping . Now thats a word that should not be used out of context.

You do know 'rape' has more than one definition, yes?

[jim mk2]

This conman of a manager really is useless. Someone should explain to him that successful football teams are based on solid defence and clean sheets.

[LeChuck]

If Kean remains in charge for the remainder of the season then I will happily bet that we'll go a full calendar year without keeping a clean sheet. April was our last one and we show no signs of keeping one any time soon.

[Clitherover]

Fulham game is on the 14th, 12 days to get a manager in with a brain.

[DE.]

We've won 3 games this season - in each of those games we've conceded 2 or more goals. Sad.

[Kendalrover]

If Kean remains in charge for the remainder of the season then I will happily bet that we'll go a full calendar year without keeping a clean sheet. April was our last one and we show no signs of keeping one any time soon.

No ifs about it. Kean is here as long as the Venkys are here.

I suppose all the Kean lovers and apologists will now return to their bunkers and wait for another isolated win to claim the corner has been turned and Kean is the new Messiah.

January will start the fire sale, completed in the summer so Venkys can recover as much of their investment as possible then administration.

This club can not move forward until Venkys and Kean leave.

[RoyRover]

I was watching Gillette Soccer Special earlier and again some of the pundits on it just don't seem to get it. Alan McAnally (who I think talks a lot of sense usually) was talking about how he's mates with Kean and how he wouldn't be walking away from the club, unless the owners sacked him, so the fans should just wake up and realise that he isn't going anywhere! Charming.

Paul Walsh, another pundit who I like listening to, was of the opinion that he hoped Kean would keep Rovers up so he could 'shove it up the Rovers fans who've been giving him stick.' Again, just brushing over the fact that the guy has won 8 games from 40.