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[Archived] A United Statement By Blackburn Rovers Fans

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Rover Down Under Premier League

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A worthy statement but if you read the independent article it gives some indication as to the dire straits that we are in. I do not believe our focus should be on a change of manager. We will only survive as a Football club with a change of owner. That is where our energy should be focused. They are literally destroying our club hour by hour day by day. Kean is the dignified puppet who is holding the regime together. Getting rid of him could land us with Brunskill as the manager. This is a slow motion level crossing train disaster with Venkys at the controls of the locomotive and our beloved club stalled on the level crossing. And we can all see it coming.

I agree wholeheartedly BBJ but I just don't think the majority of fans or even on this board have 'got it' yet and are still focusing on Kean instead of Venkys. I said that the club had about 3 weeks to save itself, that was 4 weeks ago. I now think it is too late and we are worse than doomed (think worse than going into administration). The next 3 weeks will all but confirm this.

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beatrix Premier League

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I think people in general know that the venkys are the root cause of the problem, however they have engineered a situation

where it is very difficult to get at them and have purposely set up Kean to take the flack. Therefore the only person to obviously

target is Kean, including the ewood based staff ACEO etc.They are concerned about finance only at this point in time, otherwise

they would have removed Kean in the close season. I agree with you that this transfer window will reveal their true intentions

regarding outgoings and more importantly incomings if there are any, if as I suspect they want to save and generate as much

money as possible then Samba, Hoillet, Robinson etc will be sold as well as Roberts,Salgado and other fringe players leaving us

with a much depleted squad and definite relegation. :closedeyes:

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Andy Champions League

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Have any of the journos slating Rovers fans written about this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZhI4LQnn9E&feature=share ?

If not why not?

Apologies if they have, I don't buy newspapers or own a telly

Coventry fans protesting about their owners.

I've not heard anything, but compared to the verbal abuse we'd (rightly in my opinion) given Kean, that footage is disgraceful behaviour by the fans.

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Of course not, because it's outside the PL, nobody cares.

The Premier League is the Greatest League in the World™. Fans can't be seen in mutiny. We should just be thankful we're in such a prestigious competition.

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The 'Unity' would have been helped had the FF endorsed it. Very diappointed to see you sitting on the fence lads.

Absolutely right Al. If they want to hide behind their original remit of only being concerned in matchday matters and not in the politics of running the club and/or onfield performance, then why did they accept the invite to India and whilst there get involved with talking to the Venkys on the subject of Rovers fans concerns? They can't have it both ways; they have already crossed the Rubicon and GOT involved in the very same concerns that ALL Rovers fans feel.

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I've been trying to keep away from all things Rovers recently as call me sad but it kills me from waking up to going to sleep. So I've only just read the statement and I've got to say very well done to all concerned. It's a perfect statement and sums up my feelings well. As others have said it couldn't be worded any better.

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Absolutely right Al. If they want to hide behind their original remit of only being concerned in matchday matters and not in the politics of running the club and/or onfield performance, then why did they accept the invite to India and whilst there get involved with talking to the Venkys on the subject of Rovers fans concerns? They can't have it both ways; they have already crossed the Rubicon and GOT involved in the very same concerns that ALL Rovers fans feel.

I agree Fife, but I now get the impression the FF members are far from united amongst themselves - let alone united with other fans!

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colin Champions League

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Good post & video that David_Daft,

The Coventry fans are obviously as pi55ed of with their club as we are with ours, only they have taken it in a different direction. Coventry are rock bottom of "The Championship." Won 4; drawn 7; lost 14. (19 points out of a possible 75- 25%) We've won 3; drawn 5; lost 12. (14 points out of a possible 60 - 23%)

So the situation we find ourselves in is not dissimilar.

Although I'm far from being a beard-stroking socialogist I can sort of empathise with those Coventry City fans. They have a common purpose, they are united against an authority that wants to tell them how they should respond to the bitter frustration that they feel.

It's interesting that all of those fans, who probably don't really know each other, have unified to turn on the police when they actually didn't have to. An example of tribalism at its best. Unity by supporters of a football club. Apart from the bloke who shoved a fellow supporter down the stairs and into a copper. He was a tw@t.

It'll happen at Ewood soon enough. Just wait for one frustrated fan* to get mouthy and sweary, the steward/police will move in

and something will kick in.

*My money is on Abbey: that's a compliment to him.

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Absolutely right Al. If they want to hide behind their original remit of only being concerned in matchday matters and not in the politics of running the club and/or onfield performance, then why did they accept the invite to India and whilst there get involved with talking to the Venkys on the subject of Rovers fans concerns? They can't have it both ways; they have already crossed the Rubicon and GOT involved in the very same concerns that ALL Rovers fans feel.

Post 70 on page 4 explains why the Forum didn't sign. You might not agree but there you go.

I agree Fife, but I now get the impression the FF members are far from united amongst themselves - let alone united with other fans!

We never have been united. And quite right, if we are at all a representative group of fans, as the fans as a whole aren't united either.

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m1st Uefa Europa League

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Earlier today I e-mailed my Geordie mates ahead of tomoorrow's game. Knowing how much they love Mike Ashley ;) , I suggested that the game would be between the Premier League's two worst owners but that we were now miles ahead in that 2-horse race.

I added that, if our owners don't sell up and any new owners don't get rid of Kean immediately, we'll be playing Middlesbrough next season and Hartlepool the season after. Before adding "Darlo here we come!", I thought I'd just check which League Darlington play in these days [blue Square Premier] and came across this: My link

I do hope that isn't an omen for what might happen if those charged with the ownership of our club aren't very careful.

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Thanks for finding that, colin. It's almost beautiful.

God forbid we should ever be in their situation; but, if we were, I'm sure that we'd be feeling exactly as whoever has penned that. I wonder if Venky's can comprehend that.

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Thanks for finding that, colin. It's almost beautiful.

God forbid we should ever be in their situation; but, if we were, I'm sure that we'd be feeling exactly as whoever has penned that. I wonder if Venky's can comprehend that.

Lots of feeling and sentiment there but nowadays those factors aren't enough to finance a professional football club much less save it from uncaring owners solely out to make profit in some way.

I've said many times that 92 professional clubs are unsustainable in this day and age and that if football was invented today two thirds of them would never have started a season. Professional football in this country will not be able to defy gravity for very much longer. It will become pure survival of the fittest sooner or later.

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Thanks Colin for finding that. Thanks to you as well m1st for your post on the Darlo board. Top stuff.

Lots of feeling and sentiment there but nowadays those factors aren't enough to finance a professional football club much less save it from uncaring owners solely out to make profit in some way..

Lovely that theno. Very defeatist.

I'd be immensely happy to be playing Darlington today in the Conference, so long as we both had a club we could believe in, people in charge who we could trust, honesty, no bullshit, players trying their best for the shirt, (if only to be spotted by a bigger club).

Why can't any club just live to it's means? Oh to win at Old Trafford eh? Thats the ultimate dream surely? Well we've just done that and frankly I don't give a toss because of the people who are in charge at Rovers. That's quite something that Kean / Venkys, you should be very proud. But hey that's just me isn't it?

Sure it's not the Premier League but so bloody what? Oh to be patronised by Lineker or Hansen or 'Newcastle's Alan Shearer' every week. Stelling or Merson, utterly clueless as to what's happening at Ewood. Nicholas, SEM. Nixon and his questionable loyalties.

May the end come soon, don't kill us slowly. Get out of our club.

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