[Archived] Blackburn Rovers v Wigan Athletic

[A cup of beans]

Gutless performance. Clueless tactics. Wigan couldve destroyed us but took it easy!

Relegation is what the players, Kean and Venkys deserve! Our fans dont deserve it though!

Bradley Orr is an absolute scumbag! I heard part of his 5 live interview. He was saying Kean has been magnificent and fans have crossed a line!

His Sky one has just been on SSN. ABSOLUTELY SICKENING!

Well done to Robbo and Jason Lowe. The only 2 players to stay and clap the fans.

WTF were the rest of them

Well done my mate Ben for smuggling in his chicken! I didnt believe he was gonna do it! He's a great lad and a die hard Rover.

Well done to the majority of Rovers fans for the chanting tonight. It was inspiring! Hope it came across on sky.

Dont know when but, Rovers will be back - in spite of the venkys and the clueless moron of a manager!

[hesfromburn]

Too Devestated to talk about the bigger picture, but on the game it was another woeful performance that was typlical of performances under kean. Unfit players with no organistation or leadership from any sort of managment with a weak as ###### team.

I think with the team we started the season with we probably would have scraped to survival but with the likes of emerton, salgado, n'zonzi, givet, Samba, ryan nelsen either shipped or frozen out, mixed with a terrible excuse for a manager the quality and short of numbers squad we had left ultimatly deserved to go down.

Thanks Kean & Venkys for all you have done to this club I once loved and fighted for with a passion.

[Plastic Head]

Just popped oin to say what a bunch of puffs 3overs.fans are. I turned out to change things tonight but 85% of thje support weren't that bothered. As for me, I'm avin a party when kean ans venkys die x x x

[Steve Moss]

Just had a call from an Indian friend, all over the Indian newspapers, Venkys want the parachute payments and then off they go!!

Thats from an Indian, he called them a disgrace to their country!!

They'll be waiting a while, the payments are staggered over years, not bulk sums.

We'll receive 48 million staggered over 4 years. Is there anything to stop Venkys from selling the time payments at a discount for a lump sum now? Discount 48 million 10%, 20$, 30% or even 50% for a single lump sum and they'll have more than covered their investment. Use players sales (Jones, Samba, Kalinic) to cover the debt. The balance of marketable players Yak, Hoilett (not as large as it should be but still worth a fair bit, especially if he stays in England), Hanley, etc. . . is pure gravy.

Kean's frequent interviews wear he measures his success by player value reinforces my paranoia.

I'm not saying the above is happening. It is a scary scenario which makes sense, but I hope instead the owners start to show some commitment to the club by firing Kean, appointing a respected replacement, appointing a real chairman with brains and spine, and do something to financially benefit the club.

Commentator ...... Kean has had a very difficult season but has maintained his dignity throughout "..........

If remaining stone-faced and dreaming up his next excuse counts as "dignity" as defined by the Queen's English, I'm glad I'm an ignorant colonial who speaks American.

So Kean ordered the Wigan players back into the dressing room because Givet... twinged his hamstring.

What a vile individual he really is. Thought he could defuse the atmosphere by exploiting Givet's medical condition?

When I saw this I wondered whether he was attempting to create a Fabrice Muamba situation to get the gamed called.

robbo the only one with the minerals to applaud the crowd

Hasn't it been that way all season?

Kind words from Martinez in his interview. Asked if he had sympathy for Kean, he sidestepped that and said he had sypathy for the CLUB. And said he wants to see us back where we belong in the PL. Why can't more managers be like him?

All I could think when Dave Whelan was speaking was, "thats what we used to be like."

Martinez and Whelan have something Kean and Venkys lack: Class.

[Tom]

Fitting end, out with a whimper.

The fans did well tonight despite what some may say there simply had to be anger.

Did that bloke really have to take his shirt off though!

[1864roverite]

Tonight epitomised everything about Kean, total inability to play football, no tactical nous and no formation equals NO ###### IDEA.

I am distraught but sadly I cant find the sorrow to shed a tear.

Kean has killed my love of football.

[doctorryan]

Who's the dark-haired milf who always stands near the tunnel?

I really shouldn't be encouraging this, but do you mean the one holding the coat?

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

STEVE 'TEFLON' KEAN:

RELEGATION?...NOT A CHANCE!

[adsfortheblues]

I'm angry, no tears have been shed like the last time though. I feel like I don't care, but I know I do, I'm just trying to convince myself that I don't. RIP rovers

[47er]

Had Kean posessed an ounce of intelligence, he'd have resigned a long time ago.

Nothing to do with lack of intelligence.

[A cup of beans]

Thought 5Live have been on the money tonight.

I heard a bit on my way to ewood. cheif reporter Ian Dennis laid into kean! As did savage.

Heard a bit on my way home, Savage slagged off orr and condemned other clubs fans for slagging off rovers fans.

I might download the lot and digest it better.

I stuck Radio Rovers on too, sounded like Venkys will pull the plug on that too! another cost cutting measure ?

I feel sorry for those that rely on Radio Rovers for their Rovers coverage!

[1864roverite]

that young lady is my mates Wife, I am sure Mrs Makinson would take offence at being labelled a milf and by the way she has a kick as hard as a horse !

[Devon Rover]

I feel absolutely devastated. Lets be honest, this has been coming for a long while now (despite some idiots on here thinking the future under these buffoons was going to be bright). However, despite knowing relegation was coming tonight has still felt incredibly painful for me; a mixture of sadness of what has been allowed to happen, and sheer anger at how an ignorant family and their cheap-as-chips rent boys have destroyed everything that was worked for over a long period of time.

For any of you Venkys-sympathisers on here: ###### you. You are complicit in this. They have destroyed our club, and there is no way back until they go. I genuinely wish Venkys and Kean ill. I am generally quite calm and reasonable (I think!) but if I wake up to news of any of the Venkys-clan having died tonight I will be happy. Because the pain they are making me feel is sickening.

Sorry to anyone who may be offended by this. But this is one of the few things I care about in life and Venkys have ruined it.

[ChrisyG]

Strange atmosphere tonight, a mixture of anger and depression. The players looked like they had no idea what to do. I'm convinced, a half decent manager would have had them organised.

[doctorryan]

that young lady is my mates Wife, I am sure Mrs Makinson would take offence at being labelled a milf and by the way she has a kick as hard as a horse !

Too bad she's never used it on the manager.

[adsfortheblues]

Was a blue, still am a blue, will always be a blue

[ffan]

Means f all but my sincere commiserations. A fine club been clumsily, unceremoniously ripped apart. I really hope ye get rid of the vermin, stabilise and bounce back.

[Mercer]

Just back from the match.

Utterly gutted.

Highlights for me - the chicken and the supporter who invaded the pitch and threw down his ticket in disgust.

Same person who correctly told me about the line-up has told me about 20 minutes ago that a 'massive story will break tomorrow'. Have no other detail and unless it's the sale of the club and the sacking of Kean, then just don't care.

Wept a tear or two on leaving Ewood - don't know when I'll be in that ground again.

[Tom]

Means f all but my sincere commiserations. A fine club been clumsily, unceremoniously ripped apart. I really hope ye get rid of the vermin, stabilise and bounce back.

Cheers mate, miss your postings you were always good to read.

To make things worse Geoff Shreeves just knocked on my door and told me we had been relegated

[booth]

Well that was an absolute disgrace wasn't it. No fight from the team, wrong side put out, bad formation, poor tactics. Just couldn't be more wrong but not a surprise after the Tottenham game.

To the person having a go at the Rovers fans, what else can they do? Banners were smuggled in, chants were aimed at the manager and the owners, season tickets were thrown on the pitch, some people invaded the pitch. Even a chicken was released! So I'll ask again, apart from doing something illegal what else can be done. Most of the time the fans were shell shocked at what they were witnessing.

No one knows what's going to happen next. I dread another 12 months under Venky's, it can get worse.

[Hughesy]

Heart broke/ gutted/ miserable - just a few things I can think right now.

[BRFC1995]

Cheers mate, miss your postings you were always good to read.

To make things worse Geoff Shreeves just knocked on my door and told me we had been relegated

Cheered me right up lol

[47er]

Heart broke/ gutted/ miserable - just a few things I can think right now.

Well we warned you months ago but you didn't listen. Hope you and Ewood Spark enjoy your quiet Saturday afternoons at Ewood next season without the Tremblers annoying you.

I'll probably regret posting that in the morning but I feel very bitter right now.

[PAFELL]

Blackburn Rovers defender Bradley Orr on boss Steve Kean after Rovers' relegation from the top flight: "He is very down, devastated, but behind the scenes, what people don't see, he has been different class and I am gutted for him. We feel short as a group of players. It is hard to take."

It was obvious that kean sent him out to do that. Kean was interviewed afterwards.

[Devon Rover]

Cheers mate, miss your postings you were always good to read.

To make things worse Geoff Shreeves just knocked on my door and told me we had been relegated

Thanks to ffan for your commisserations and to Tom M for helping me to raise a smile!