Blackburn / Venky's

[Silver Fox]

has been dealt an appaling hand this year that he has somehow dealt with in the face of ridiculous abuse from the most retarded fans in the world*

How has he been dealt an appaling hand? He has been promoted into a job way beyind his capabilities having never managed anywhere near that level before, his win ratio is appaling, he has taken a midtable club steadily downhill over 18 months in charge and you saw yesterday just how lame they are. Hands tied perhaps? Well, he could always quit if he felt that his position was untenable.....but see above the links between his agent and Venkys.

Dodgy. As. F*ck.

Calm down dear, I just don't think he was ever given a chance by the Ewood park mongbase, I'll concede that he can't really beef about the Venkys not getting their wallets out if he (or at least his agent) is as in bed with them as it appears

[floyd__streete]

Calm down dear, I just don't think he was ever given a chance by the Ewood park mongbase, I'll concede that he can't really beef about the Venkys not getting their wallets out if he (or at least his agent) is as in bed with them as it appears

13 league wins in 18 months. Hardly done himself any favours in the results sense. I expect that you bleated how unfair it was when Bullivant was bombed out, or when Rodgers was.....ah ok scrap the last one.

[rhroyal]

Not a big fan of that article. Terrible Man Utd analogy; the yellow and green protest is ingenious as it allows fans to support the team and club whilst voicing discontent at the owners. Blackburn have done nothing like that.

My old housemate is Blackburn fan and suggested most people don't know what's it's like to see bad management nearly see your club thrown down the pan.

I'm too young to remember our truly dark times, but I do remember being aged 11 at the start of 2000 when we were, for all the world, looking Division 3 bound. It was entirely down to bad management and players underperforming. We made our point in brilliant fashion with PANTS against Wrexham (one of my earliest Mad Stad memories) but still got behind the team for the majority of the season. We handled that well.

Blackburn fans just haven't. I don't know how much impact a loud, supportive crowd have. But if you want to see what a bad impact fans can have, just look at Blackburn and West Ham this season. The issue for Blackburn is that the true targets of their anger are never there, so they take it out on the players and staff who don't deserve so much of it. And it hasn't helped a bad situation at all.

[Man Friday]

Calm down dear, I just don't think he was ever given a chance by the Ewood park mongbase, I'll concede that he can't really beef about the Venkys not getting their wallets out if he (or at least his agent) is as in bed with them as it appears

13 league wins in 18 months. Hardly done himself any favours in the results sense. I expect that you bleated how unfair it was when Bullivant was bombed out, or when Rodgers was.....ah ok scrap the last one.

beef or chicken

[Man Friday]

Not a big fan of that article. Terrible Man Utd analogy; the yellow and green protest is ingenious as it allows fans to support the team and club whilst voicing discontent at the owners. Blackburn have done nothing like that.

My old housemate is Blackburn fan and suggested most people don't know what's it's like to see bad management nearly see your club thrown down the pan.

I'm too young to remember our truly dark times, but I do remember being aged 11 at the start of 2000 when we were, for all the world, looking Division 3 bound. It was entirely down to bad management and players underperforming. We made our point in brilliant fashion with PANTS against Wrexham (one of my earliest Mad Stad memories) but still got behind the team for the majority of the season. We handled that well.

Blackburn fans just haven't. I don't know how much impact a loud, supportive crowd have. But if you want to see what a bad impact fans can have, just look at Blackburn and West Ham this season. The issue for Blackburn is that the true targets of their anger are never there, so they take it out on the players and staff who don't deserve so much of it. And it hasn't helped a bad situation at all.

No, apparently just the owners and Kean, not the rest of the staff and not the players.

[Jerry St Clair]

What we all forget is that Blackburn have the largest proportion of season ticket holders living within 5 miles of the ground in the whole Premier League.

Many of these poor people live in Darwen. No wonder they're so bitter and twisted.

[Ark Royal]

I think the fans criticsim of Kean was harsh and it clearly didn't help the team in any way. Had they given their full backing then who knows? It would have taken 3 more wins over the whole season to stay up. Having said that 13 wins from 58 in the league since he took over simply isn't good enough. It must be almost impossible for him to be able to stay there next season, the fans are going to want promotion, they clearly aren't good enough for that at this moment in time and a poor start and it wouldn't surprise me to see them in the bottom third of the Championship next campaign.

As for the Yak, anyone else like to see him at the Mad Stad next year?

Depends if it's the Yak that scores hat-tricks or the Yak that turned up for Leicester and looked useless

...and they would have to widen the Basingstoke Road to fit his arse.

[FiNeRaIn]

Useless yak who scored 11 goals in 20 games at leicester

[Wimb]

Useless yak who scored 11 goals in 20 games at leicester

I was referring to his useless performance in the 3-1 defeat at the Madejski when he looked unfit and disinterested.

Yak may have scored 11 in 20 in his time there but 4 of those goals came in the last 3 matches of the season when they played Watford, Doncaster and Ipswich all of whom were on holiday mode. Out of his other 7 goals, 3 came against 'Boro in one game, and the other 4 came against Millwall, Derby, Preston and Bristol City.

A goal is a goal but I'd hardly say a few goals against lower half Championship teams makes him a must have buy

[FiNeRaIn]

It doesn't the fact he has consistently scored premier league goals makes him a must have buy. He's scored goals wherever he's been against whoever, thats the point. Even the time where you pointed out he was useless he still ended up with a better goal ratio than 1 every other game. He's obviously got weaknesses to his game, but we could do a lot worse than the Yak.

[Wimb]

It doesn't the fact he has consistently scored premier league goals makes him a must have buy. He's scored goals wherever he's been against whoever, thats the point. Even the time where you pointed out he was useless he still ended up with a better goal ratio than 1 every other game. He's obviously got weaknesses to his game, but we could do a lot worse than the Yak.

Fair play and I can't dispute he scores goals.

The point I was making though is that you do see him go through spells of being ineffective and looking like he can't be bothered. With the team ethic we have here (and the presumably tight wage structure) I wouldn't want to risk such a large investment on a player like that. If we have money to burn on a 'luxury' player fine, but like Shaun Goater his goals sometimes mask flaws that can help weaken the team. There's got to be a reason that the likes of Everton and Leicester haven't tried to keep him around....

[Royal Rother]

Times may be a-changin' but there ain't no way that Yakubu has the DNA of a McDermott player.

[Friday's Legacy]

Unconfirmed reports coming out of India that CEO Paul Hunt has been sacked. What a club!

[Terminal Boardom]

The Venkys are fast turning into a reincarnation of the mysterious Bhatti Brothers who took Wolves all the way down to the old 4th Division. How anyone who owns a football club does not have some form of representation at games is beyond me. That smacks either of ignorance or arrogance. But I don't recall too many Blackburn supporters complaining when talk of Champions League and Ronaldinho were mentioned.

Something has gone horribly wrong at Ewood Park but while Venkys remain out of sight and earshot, it will not get any better. In Yakubu, Robinson and Hoilett they have really good players who would have no problem finding another PL club. Their problem now is how to adapt to life in the Championship. There are some far bigger clubs at that level and they will find it a struggle. Can't wait for the Blackburn v Burnley games next season

[Wimb]

The problem is that they are no bigger than the likes of Burnley and Blackpool and most of their parachute money will be swallowed up paying off players on massive Premier League wages. They've averaged around 22,000 in the Prem and lost 20% the last time they got relegated so it'll drop to 18,000 at the least.

Without Walker's millions I really fail to see how they'll get back up.

[Friday's Legacy]

Paul Hunt's sacking has now been confirmed. You have to ask, how does Steve Kean have so much power? He seems invincible.

[FiNeRaIn]

He's not going anywhere, if blackburn fans thought he'd resign now they've been relegated theyve got another thing coming lol

[Archie's penalty]

Yep my brother is a Blackburn fan and he's livid at Steve Kean for basically being the only person who's in touch with the Venky's.

He basically has engineered everything here. He's a massive oxf*rd.

http://www.sportingintelligence.com/201 ... sis150101/

[Ian Royal]

I'd always thought Kean came across as a genuine, intelligent, committed decent guy. Even if he was out of his depth. But this is getting beyond belief. His position is surely utterly untenable now!

Out of interest is there any development opportunities for their stadium location? This is starting to head towards the first hints of destroying the club to sell up land and make money that way.

[Archie's penalty]

I was shocked when my bro started telling me things about the situation. My mind has been totally changed.

He's completely manipulative, he needs to get out of the club now.

I really hope things work out with the Russians...