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Baz World Cup

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Fantastic response, had a scroll through last night and its simply amazing the numbers who have signed it. Staggered at how many are non-uk names too (scandanavians / Aussies / etc...).

If 6000 is about right, then that's a massive % in around 24 hours. Higher than the number who have renewed their season tickets. It must prove to Mrs D how upset the fans really are, and how widespread that feeling is.

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Kelbo World Cup

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This would be my question, Desai, what is 1% of 20,000?

Answer 200

6,000 is 30% and in just 48 hours, who is correct Kean or the 6,000 supporters?

Over 23 games that is 138,000 less people through the turnstiles, interesting and another big loss of income, plus shirt sales, programme sales etc.

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We are auditing the figures, Wen is doing a superb job. We deffo have over 4000, Wen will finish the auditing process tomorrow morning. We wanted to make sure that these figures were properly audited so that no one could argue against the figures that we release.

The petition with all the signatures will be delivered directly to Mrs Desai, there will be no middle person involved, she will see this petition. It will also blow Kean's assertion to her that it is a minority of fans that are against him. The message being sent is clear, if they want to re-engage the fans then the first step is to remove Steve Kean as manager, if they do that then thousands of fans would start to re-consider whether to buy season tickets and the owners can start the long road to building a relationship with the fans, if they don't then the for thousands of fans the cub really is dead.

The only person between Kean and the sack is Mrs Desai, she has the veto on any decision that is made. Everyone wanted him out before Christmas and she vetoed it. Now again EVERYONE wants him out she is under a lot of pressure to make the decision to remove him as manager.

Thank you everyone for helping get such a high figure in just 24 hours, considering this was a online petition and only advertised via social media, imagine what the figure would've been if it had been both online and offline!

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DE. World Cup

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I don't know a single Rovers fan who wants Kean to stay. Not one. Somebody at six-a-side tonight asked me "what do you reckon to Steve Kean?" and I replied "I hope he disappears deep in India and never returns." He laughed, I didn't.

I think even if you asked Braddock now he'd say Kean has to go. There can't be a single fan who honestly thinks he's the man for the club after calling relegation "exciting times" and pretending it was part of the plan all along.

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We are auditing the figures, Wen is doing a superb job. We deffo have over 4000, Wen will finish the auditing process tomorrow morning. We wanted to make sure that these figures were properly audited so that no one could argue against the figures that we release.

The petition with all the signatures will be delivered directly to Mrs Desai, there will be no middle person involved, she will see this petition. It will also blow Kean's assertion to her that it is a minority of fans that are against him. The message being sent is clear, if they want to re-engage the fans then the first step is to remove Steve Kean as manager, if they do that then thousands of fans would start to re-consider whether to buy season tickets and the owners can start the long road to building a relationship with the fans, if they don't then the for thousands of fans the cub really is dead.

The only person between Kean and the sack is Mrs Desai, she has the veto on any decision that is made. Everyone wanted him out before Christmas and she vetoed it. Now again EVERYONE wants him out she is under a lot of pressure to make the decision to remove him as manager.

Thank you everyone for helping get such a high figure in just 24 hours, considering this was a online petition and only advertised via social media, imagine what the figure would've been if it had been both online and offline!

Hats off to all involved in organising this. In all the doom and gloom of this season our fans' efforts to effect change has really lifted me. We might not feel connected to the club but my word do I feel connected to our supporters. We have to keep going and ensure that our Rovers is a club we can feel proud of again.

I really wish I'd thought to take a pen and paper to the Chelsea game yesterday so people who might not be active online could have added their names, and the many sympathetic Chelsea fans could have got involved too.

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The sheer volume of comments killed the server. Glenn will have a look at the memory allocation settings tonight, but in the meantime I have resumed the petition under a new post here. I have pasted in over 750 names that were passed on to us and collected by Ste B and we hope very much that nobody has been left out who wanted to join the petition. Major kudos to Glenn and Ste in admin and to Kamy for their roles in making this happen.

As for the response, sod the server: I am utterly staggered and totally humbled by this response. I went through over 4,000 names yesterday to purge the list for presenting to Mrs Desai and had to do it manually. The number of women who were posting - many quite clearly on behalf of families, the range across the generational spectrum which was clear not only from the names but also from the additional comments, the international nature of the signatories, the groups of mates who had got together to put their names forward: it is astonishing. This is history. Any local historian should be putting down the dates and the numbers.

Mrs Desai may not have understood what a football club was, but she is a highly intelligent lady and will understand fully what constitutes a community and the nature of history. Once she realises that she risks being associated with the destruction of a community that she is supposed to represent in her capacity as chairwoman of Blackburn Rovers FC, she will feel obliged to take the necessary action, I am sure.

May the weight of history crush those who seek to pervert it. Keep the signatures coming.

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Mike E World Cup

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Great work to everyone who put their name and a special thanks to the good people at BRFCS for taking the time to collate/compile, etc...

Here here! (Or is it 'Hear hear?')

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