Rovers stunned by Appleton exit, says Dunn (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Rovers stunned by Appleton exit, says Dunn
10:25am Saturday 23rd March 2013 in Sport
BLACKBURN Rovers ace David Dunn admitted the players have been left stunned by the third Ewood Park managerial casualty this season, but has vowed not to let it derail their Championship survival bid.
The long-serving midfielder revealed he felt Michael Appleton was the man to bring stability back to Blackburn, after a season of change and turmoil.
The 37-year-old’s dismissal, just 67 days after he took charge, has put Venky’s running of the club under the spotlight again, with football officials including League Managers’ Association chief executive Richard Bevan slamming the decision as “nonsense”.
Speaking exclusively to the Lancashire Telegraph, Dunn accepted a run of one win from 10 league and cup games, including an FA Cup quarter final exit at the hands of Millwall, had not been good enough.
But after picking up the pieces of the ill-fated reins of Steve Kean and Henning Berg, he felt Rovers were on the right track under Appleton.
“I certainly felt he was a good coach and he brought some good members of staff with him. I feel disappointed for him because having been there, of all the stuff we’ve had to put up with in the couple of years this was the one time it was starting to feel like getting back to being a proper football club,” said Dunn.
“I’m sure Michael Appleton would have been the first to admit that results could have been better and maybe should have been better. But likewise I think we needed to perhaps go through those disappointing results in the short-term to have any success in the long-term.
“It’s necessary now to have some stability to the place and perhaps he could have done that.
“I don’t know who made the decision in the end to relieve him of his duties but it’s disappointing.
“I’m sure to a lot of people in the outside world ... well, it doesn’t look good.
“It deflates me.
“It came as a shock to say the least,” added Dunn, who heard of Appleton’s exit after seeing it on television.
“For whatever reason the club may or may not have for doing it, it isn’t ideal to have five, maybe six, managers in a season.
“Things certainly need to be sorted.”
But Dunn stressed that whatever goes on behind the scenes, the players and coaching staff will pull together to keep Rovers up.
Although they find themselves just four points above the drop zone going in to the last nine games of the season, the midfielder is confident they can overcome the latest managerial upheaval to steer clear of relegation under the watch of Gary Bowyer, who has been placed in caretaker charge for the remainder of the season.
“I’m quite a positive kind of person and I would always look at that game in hand and think if we win that we can move up the table quite a lot,” he said.
“We’re disappointed with certain things, but I still have confidence and faith in our group to go on.
“It’s not easy but we’ve just got to focus on our next game against Blackpool, and I’m sure Gaz (Gary Bowyer) and Terry (McPhillips) will set us up right.”
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Comments (141)
10:40am Sat 23 Mar 13
leitchy says...
They will get it right in the end ! ! Perhaps they will get a top class manager next and things will change?
10:49am Sat 23 Mar 13
Harwoodstblue says...
As far as the next manager is concerned I have no faith in Venkys appointing the 'right' man.
10:50am Sat 23 Mar 13
kazz says...
10:57am Sat 23 Mar 13
sonny says...
(though saying that he's likely to be the next victim of scabby singhs BS and find himself replaced by the pahetic useless parasite knobhead murphy)
11:08am Sat 23 Mar 13
Rovers 1495 says...
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Do everyone a favour Wankys and f*ck off back to where you came from
11:51am Sat 23 Mar 13
Scamp Kingsley says...
11:57am Sat 23 Mar 13
Donmartin says...
12:09pm Sat 23 Mar 13
Scamp Kingsley says...
12:14pm Sat 23 Mar 13
blueblooded says...
The right manager is important for certain, but Venkys MUST by now realise that their boardroon at Ewood are incompetent and unlikely to bring the glory days back to Rovers?
Both Singh and Shaw/Agnew have had their choice managers to replace the woefully inept Kean that the Venky's themselves instalked. How about listening to the fans and bringing in a decent board room back to Ewood Venkys? John WilWilliams may no longer be available but there must be many experienced administer s from that era before Venkys who would return just to bring stability and experience back to the back room.
And to those who are now asking for further boycotts. Now is not the time to turn your back on the club. YOUR CLUB NEEDS YOU.
Leave your concerns for the clubs decline until the summer when we should ALL unanimously call for Venkys to learn some lessons and make great changes to the way this club is mismanaged, unless they are happy to lose everything they have out into it and everything they could have gained.
In the mean time, lets get behind GB for the next nine games and hope we can avoid the unfathomable repercussions of further decline.
RTID.
12:24pm Sat 23 Mar 13
Dukes says...
12:28pm Sat 23 Mar 13
kazluvsrovers says...
who Venkys will want to manage the club next season.
Hope the team plays for you Gary, lets hope you scrap the long ball play and get the team passing to each other.
I will never boycott any of the matches if you are a Rovers fan you will support them through the good and the bad times.
Lets hope for 3 points against the donkey lashers!!!
RTID.
12:56pm Sat 23 Mar 13
alfa111 says...
1:06pm Sat 23 Mar 13
BRFC75 says...
A Better idea, SINGH ,prove you are not a TOTAL effing halfwit you take the job , lets all see what you are made of ,don`t put GB under that .
Singh, I know what you are made of ****,wind and charisma.
1:12pm Sat 23 Mar 13
BRFC75 says...
USA has bob HOPE, johnny CASH and stevie WONDER and thanks to Venky`s Rovers have no HOPE ,no CASH and no effing WONDER!
1:14pm Sat 23 Mar 13
glp says...
2 years of shameful incompentence by the clueless owners have destroyed a fantastic football club. Thankfully they cannot take away my 39 years of wonderful memories of the former Blackburn Rovers Football Club.
1:20pm Sat 23 Mar 13
Donmartin says...
You big stupid dim witted overgrown clown.
Try to concentrate on Burnley stories........they are your club after all.
BOO HOO BOO HOO
1:28pm Sat 23 Mar 13
Donmartin says...
A: So they can look like their mothers
1:30pm Sat 23 Mar 13
Donmartin says...
A: A Shepherd
1:32pm Sat 23 Mar 13
Donmartin says...
A: On a hedgehog all the **** are on the outside
1:35pm Sat 23 Mar 13
gaylegarnerkennedy says...
RTID
1:42pm Sat 23 Mar 13
noddy57 says...
1:50pm Sat 23 Mar 13
35yearSurrenderMonkeys says...
Shame appleton didn't cut it, but the axe was justified, we need to get it right this time or its curtains.. There will be a massive clearing of the decks this summer. I am hoping that the new guy will at least try and bring back Rochina but that looks dead in the water. He never played in a team with a midfield grafter in it and I think it could have worked. Instead he played with Murphy the slug. Murphy with one foot nailed to the floor. The telegraph suspended spot the ball when murphy was playing as in all photos he was just stood there pointing at the ball for someone else to close down. I'm glad he was stripped of the captaincy and I hope he doesn't get back in either, He is the reason we are down here and appleton just lost it with his lazy inept performances. Pity on appletons part he didn't take him out sooner, he might have saved his bacon if he had.
2:04pm Sat 23 Mar 13
Scamp Kingsley says...
2:14pm Sat 23 Mar 13
Donmartin says...
I'm pretty sure the sort of thing you are suggesting is illegal.
I'm not a minor; but please keep your filthy suggestions to yourself you pervert.
Dirty Dingle Scumbag.
2:22pm Sat 23 Mar 13
A Rover 45 years and over says...
2:29pm Sat 23 Mar 13
noddy57 says...
2:55pm Sat 23 Mar 13
mjp 53 says...
A A mirage
2:57pm Sat 23 Mar 13
mjp 53 says...
He might actually lose some weight,lol
2:57pm Sat 23 Mar 13
mjp 53 says...
He might actually lose some weight,lol
3:01pm Sat 23 Mar 13
chickenfarm says...
3:07pm Sat 23 Mar 13
owd nick says...
Put this idiot in a cage with a mirror and he would talk s**t to himself all day.
We need Shebby the snake as far away from the team as is physically possible.
Don't see why everyone, players, staff and fans alike can't get behind GB anyway and see what happens, 10 to 12 points from 9 games should be enough.
Then the recriminations can start but the main thing we can do until the end of the season is get down to Ewood and help the team.
Irrespective of what I think of Murphy or some of the other players I will be getting behind the team, as always.
3:07pm Sat 23 Mar 13
Donmartin says...
What about Jensen......I suppose he was just born a fat b*st*rd?
BOO HOO HOO
Dingley Dangle Doo
3:07pm Sat 23 Mar 13
gleechy says...
3:25pm Sat 23 Mar 13
kenbro says...
If you were the father of such a boy now, would you let him sign for the Rovers ? The old professionals are mostly mercenaries and as long as the weekly cheques keep coming they are OK, but what about our youth squad ? A lot of our promising lads might be getting out of our madhouse, and who could blame them ?
Another thing. If Venkys wanted to get an honest appraisal of their actions and some realistic suggestions of how to clear up their self inflicted mess, they could call Dave Whelan. An hour with Dave would open their eyes, and I'm sure that ex-Rover Dave would be happy to do it.
3:26pm Sat 23 Mar 13
philmoulden says...
PROTEST TO PUNE
this summer?
sure to disgrace the vvankys
3:46pm Sat 23 Mar 13
Donmartin says...
You just couldn't make this up!
Thank God for Burnley Fans.
Useless Spineless Brainless Lying Dingle Scumbags.
The FA should investigate how one township is capable of producing such offensive ignorant 'people'.
Kick Burnley Out Of Football.
3:47pm Sat 23 Mar 13
nil bye mouth says...
3:54pm Sat 23 Mar 13
leitchy says...
4:00pm Sat 23 Mar 13
srvp28 says...
As for Dunn being shocked at Appleton's sacking, it just goes to show that the players thought he was the right man to bring stability to the club. Seeing as how they worked with him every day I think it's safe to say they have a better idea of what was and wasn't working than any of us. One win in ten isn't great but the only real shock result was the loss to Peterborough. We lost to Hull, Leicester and Bolton away, hardly unexpected outcomes. I think there are some fans who have been spoilt with Premier League football to the extent that, coupled with their frustration at the way the club is being run, their expectations have become slightly unreasonable.
You can't sack every manager if they go ten games with only one win, it's neither financially viable of morally acceptable. We need to rebuild thisclub starting with the team. Calling for the manager's head if he doesn't deliver instant success isn't helping matters. Irregardless of who's in charge, there are no easy games left. Hopefully, Bowyer will get some of the injured players back in time for the run-in otherwise, with limited resources at his disposal, he's in real danger of dispelling the myth that he's the Saviour of Blackburn Rovers.
Hope nobody takes this too personal as I've been guilty of some of the above too.
4:03pm Sat 23 Mar 13
dangerous dave says...
OUT WITH THE LOT OF THEM
4:35pm Sat 23 Mar 13
dallarover says...
I don't know if Appleton will ultimately be a good manager or not but I am convinced we had a high probability of relegation while he was learning and Gary and Terry do give us a better chance. Right now we just need to get to the end of the season in the same division. Also, a great pity the firing bug didn't catch on 18 months ago........
4:36pm Sat 23 Mar 13
vicn1956 says...
Chickens and roost now is it?
4:38pm Sat 23 Mar 13
bburnrover says...
I dont think Bowyer will keep us up the midfield is too poor with Lowe in it and all those failure managers played him.We need a proper manager now and there are two good ones who got their teams up so why not one of them now?
4:41pm Sat 23 Mar 13
dallarover says...
4:58pm Sat 23 Mar 13
Sherwoodforest says...
Team GB and Danny Mourinhio, roll on next season.
5:07pm Sat 23 Mar 13
merlinrabbit says...
5:20pm Sat 23 Mar 13
merlinrabbit says...
5:25pm Sat 23 Mar 13
merlinrabbit says...
5:27pm Sat 23 Mar 13
Scamp Kingsley says...
..........zzzzzz....
...oh sorry I fell asleep with boredom at your non-existent wit loser.
5:31pm Sat 23 Mar 13
Donmartin says...
One bloke was digging holes by the side of the road and his mate was following him filling the holes in.
They carried on doing this street after street until I just had to ask them what they were doing. This was their reply.....
" We are actually a three man team; but the lad who plants the trees has called in sick"
Thick Dingle Morons.
5:32pm Sat 23 Mar 13
Sherwoodforest says...
5:32pm Sat 23 Mar 13
alfa111 says...
5:36pm Sat 23 Mar 13
indiana patel says...
They don't want a top class manager like Benitez, Di Matteo,Di Canio etc etc.
They want likes of Berg Appleton Kean and Bowyer.
Indians do not like spending vast wealth and are not good philanthropist .There are hundreds of Indian billionaires around the world in UK 10 Indian Billionaires in US 4 billionaires In India 200 dollar billionaires including 100 or so private billionaires , in Middle East there are 15 Indian Billionaires.
BRFC need somebody like John William to head a consortium to buy back BRFC from Venkys.BRFC is going downhill since Venkys took over the club.Jack Walker spent millions at BRFC and millions to put Rovers back in PL.Venkys have brought all these players on loans and not bit intrested in buying big name players or big name manager.
5:42pm Sat 23 Mar 13
Sherwoodforest says...
What will happen though, i hope, is Shagnew and Singh will be potted and replaced by a competent administrator (Tom Finn would do it) and a new 'global advisor' id have Tony Parkes.
People say im a dreamer, but im not the only one.
5:44pm Sat 23 Mar 13
Sherwoodforest says...
5:45pm Sat 23 Mar 13
srvp28 says...
5:59pm Sat 23 Mar 13
Donmartin says...
Try doing something other than inanely commenting on a football club that is way beyond your understanding.
Did you fall asleep in 1995?
Wakey Wakey and face the truth.......Burnley Bore you to sleep you MUPPET.
6:14pm Sat 23 Mar 13
M.DANNY says...
6:17pm Sat 23 Mar 13
BJS says...
6:33pm Sat 23 Mar 13
alfa111 says...
6:33pm Sat 23 Mar 13
kazluvsrovers says...
Ewood last week??? looked good to me...
6:39pm Sat 23 Mar 13
RespectTheK-Dog says...
Hope so you fat pr.ick
6:41pm Sat 23 Mar 13
RespectTheK-Dog says...
Shebby is just DYING for someone to ask HIM to manage the team
You may as well let him
6:43pm Sat 23 Mar 13
RespectTheK-Dog says...
6:58pm Sat 23 Mar 13
Donmartin says...
Dyche is hanging on by a thread.
Only a miracle could elevate BFC into the Premiership....you don't belong there.
No shame in that......lets face it you did well to avoid extinction.
Maybe some Russian gangster could buy Burnlee?
Chim Chim Cheroo....never win OWT.......Boo Hoo
7:05pm Sat 23 Mar 13
Captain Dreckley says...
7:06pm Sat 23 Mar 13
Donmartin says...
Dingles on the starboard side.
Kn*b off back to Bumlee stories please.
Bumlee B******ds Tw*s and C*nts
7:26pm Sat 23 Mar 13
pepperpot2296 says...
!!!!!!
7:59pm Sat 23 Mar 13
merlinrabbit says...
7:59pm Sat 23 Mar 13
forever_rovers says...
Venkys need to slim to a Venky who can then appoint a CEO who can then appoint a manager, and back him!
Come on Venky family...who is in charge?
8:03pm Sat 23 Mar 13
pepperpot2296 says...
This dreadful slide started the day they sacked BS and replaced him with woeful KEAN, but slide is gathering pace, because of the standard of recruiting of new players, plus the fact the players themselves have shown very little fight or pride in wearing the famous blue and white shirt. The likes of Jack Walker and Ronnie Clayton must be turning in their graves.
8:03pm Sat 23 Mar 13
merlinrabbit says...
8:26pm Sat 23 Mar 13
alfa111 says...
8:52pm Sat 23 Mar 13
Harwoodstblue says...
It was a great improvement in the second half against Burnley but was it just a blip? I hope not, but at this point none of us know how we are going to play between now and the end of the season.
9:00pm Sat 23 Mar 13
MickyRover says...
But if there was ever going to be a consortium of such, why doesn't one of these local business men supporters try heading one?
9:04pm Sat 23 Mar 13
Harwoodstblue says...
9:09pm Sat 23 Mar 13
merlinrabbit says...
9:16pm Sat 23 Mar 13
goldfinger59 says...
9:16pm Sat 23 Mar 13
merlinrabbit says...
11:11pm Sat 23 Mar 13
alfa111 says...
Venkys out, i give them max twelve months and they will sell, been saying this for a few months now they are looking to get out of football now BRFC has been well and truly taken a part.
11:22pm Sat 23 Mar 13
Norma_scock says...
11:39pm Sat 23 Mar 13
whappen says...
1. something that can be shown to be true, to exist, or to have happened
2. the truth or actual existence of something, as opposed to the supposition of something or a belief about something
3. a piece of information such as a statistic or a statement of the truth
4. the circumstances of an event, motion, occurrence, or state of affairs, rather than an interpretation of its significance.
"Truth"
1. correspondence to fact or reality
2. something factual: something that corresponds to fact or reality
3. a statement that corresponds to fact or reality
4. something that is so clearly true that it hardly needs to be stated
5. something generally believed:
6. accuracy in description or portrayal.
"Insignificant"
Irrelevant, inconsequential, trivial, petty
"Bitter";
1. angry and resentful
2. painful or very hard to accept
3. expressing intense hostility
As usual, none of the first two due to being the last two; see inferiority complex;
An overdeveloped sense of being inferior to others.
12:35am Sun 24 Mar 13
handyamBRFC says...
fairly soon....!!
Lets hope Venky's don't go for another untried manager.
For sure this time it has to be tried and tested manager.
with proven experience......!!!
We need stability, and success.
above all else we need a manger who can get on with all concerned especially winning over the fans and uniting everyone at the club.
We need someone to bring in quality players from the Uk and abroad. someone with connections to clubs and players.
We need someone who can take us back to the Premier and that requires someone who is hard working, someone who is not coming only for money, someone who can lead by example, someone who is motivated, someone who can deliver the results required by all fans, someone with charisma, style and passion.
well lets just hope and pray maybe..!
always
Arte et Labore
4:06am Sun 24 Mar 13
Roverthere says...
Appleton's sacking was a bad decision being rectified. Let's give a little credit for this, although the delivery was disgraceful.
Come on you blues.
4:09am Sun 24 Mar 13
BRFC75 says...
8:35am Sun 24 Mar 13
srvp28 says...
This mess has absolutely sweet FA to do with Colin Hendry. If you hate him so much might I suggest you take a drive out to Brockhall, wait until he arrives and hand deliver your 'Hendry Out! Petition' signed by... erm... you.
9:18am Sun 24 Mar 13
Dublin rover says...
9:21am Sun 24 Mar 13
dangerous dave says...
!!!!!!!!!!!! No we need to start building this club with a decent Board of Directors , an experienced Manager and if by boycotting the club we can hit the Venkeys hard in the pocket hopefully new Owners the cancer is in the Board Room and until these people are removed the Club has little hope - Havent heard a word from Venkeys, Shaw, Agnew, Singh, Coar or the add on's Hendry and Murphy and not likely to whilst they are lining their pockets - and as for Agnew so much for wanting to communicate with the fans!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OUT WITH THE LOT OF THEM
9:47am Sun 24 Mar 13
owd nick says...
There will be far batter jobs coming up between now and the end of the season as chairmen in the PL and Championship press the panic button over Easter, Villa, Wigan, Sunderland, Norwich, even West Ham, and it wouldn't surprise me if a higher placed club dumped its manager either.
Sad to say it's a vicious circle now, we need a good, experienced manager to get us organised and sort out the wheat from the chaff, but we aren't going to attract one until the club sorts out the boardroom battles once and for all.
10:39am Sun 24 Mar 13
srvp28 says...
Mrs Desai is a stubborn old battle-axe who doesn't like being told what to do. If you try and steer her to one side she'll pull to the other. Indian people are notoriously proud and selling up while the club is in this state would cause them no end of embarrassment. Unless somebody offers them a ridiculous amount of money, which they can pass off as a brilliant business move, they won't be going anywhere in a hurry.
On another note, what, and why, are you expecting to hear from Murphy or Hendry?
11:20am Sun 24 Mar 13
BRFC75 says...
Why can`t Singh (the global advisor) work with the rest of the board ?
Is there more plotting going on we have no knowledge of, why has Singh so much power , how has he the power to go behind the backs of the rest of the board and sack the manager, irrespective of the managers results.
There is no transparency now.
11:36am Sun 24 Mar 13
gleechy says...
11:38am Sun 24 Mar 13
Donmartin says...
Like Burnley FC.
That's how I know you are telling porkies........you naughty little dingle.
I've just got back from church; where the message is to pray for those less fortunate than ourselves...so I forgive you.
In future just ignore anything not to do with your own club please; or just concentrate on your other hobbies.
Now; back to all things Dingle........did you know Burnley was voted in the top 5 worst places to live in the UK? It also featured heavily on the BBC documentary about 'grooming'. ( not dogs )
I suspect you won't find these facts 'dull' ?
Now crawl back into your stinking cesspit and leave normal civilised people alone.
Dingley Dingley Dangley Doo.
12:01pm Sun 24 Mar 13
merlinrabbit says...
12:07pm Sun 24 Mar 13
alfa111 says...
12:17pm Sun 24 Mar 13
Donmartin says...
I have worked with quite a few lads from Bumlee and one of their favourite tipples is.............AFTER
SHAVE!
I think Barnoldswick is technically in Yorkshire; which explains a lot of their problems really....but not all.
My wife recently left a teaching post in Burnley because of the staff and I would urge anyone to avoid the area at all costs.
Dangerous Dingle Dingbats
12:55pm Sun 24 Mar 13
Chris P Bacon says...
1:06pm Sun 24 Mar 13
Mr John says...
1:09pm Sun 24 Mar 13
Donmartin says...
Sorry mate.....you can always move?
Appleton's gone....so what? He deserved to. Rovers have plummeted to the same level as Burnley and the whole nation is laughing at us?
Wakey wakey.....BFC are lucky to be in existence.
Dingle in Denial. BOO HOO
1:48pm Sun 24 Mar 13
Chris P Bacon says...
1:59pm Sun 24 Mar 13
hasslem hasslem says...
2:04pm Sun 24 Mar 13
Donmartin says...
I didn't know you meant that................
....................
.....no no no Mr P!
That is a joke I made up to poke fun at Burnley Fans.......it didn't actually happen mate.
You know how you made up your jokey name ( crispy bacon ....good one! )
The rest is fact:-
i.e. Burnley voted in top 5 worst places to live in uk ( Google it )
Burnley featured heavily in BBC Documentary about grooming ( Google it )
BFC almost went out of existence.....etc. etc.
Oh and........ Dingley Dangley BFC fans are MORONS ( no need to Google it .....you are the proof Mr P )
You make me laugh Mr P.
2:20pm Sun 24 Mar 13
Chris P Bacon says...
Go on Dungy, it's all yours.
2:56pm Sun 24 Mar 13
RoversMCMLXXV says...
3:00pm Sun 24 Mar 13
RoversMCMLXXV says...
3:00pm Sun 24 Mar 13
RoversMCMLXXV says...
4:13pm Sun 24 Mar 13
bburnrover says...
5:47pm Sun 24 Mar 13
Donmartin says...
Mr P................you need to do some more work on your reading and writing skills pal.
Still......it will come. In the meantime; have you any humorous or interesting views on anything?
You make me laugh Mr P.
Dingley Dingley Dongle Doo DOO
6:45pm Sun 24 Mar 13
icannotrace says...
.
Dangerous Dave is right GET RID OF THE LOT OF THEM
7:41pm Sun 24 Mar 13
modan says...
Venkys will now appoint a big name manager now.Shaw made a huge mistake by bringing Appleton at Ewood.
Venkys will not sell Blackburn Rovers FC and Venkys are here for a long haul and there were reasons why they bought the club.
There are no intrested buyers for BRFC and there were no intrested buyers when Walkers put the club up for sale.
Indian press says Venkys want a big name manager and will pay £50,000 a week to get the top name.Benitez is the man Venkys want.
People in Blackburn says Venkys are chicken farmers thats is derogatary comments about a family like Walkers are Billionaires bussinessmen in India.Venkys are Billionaires their assets are worth more than £2Billion and their Venky business has annual turnover of £1Billion an profit of £100 million a year .
The Venkys bought a small club in East Lancashire with gates of 24,000 and they were offered other clubs too.They have made mistakes but now they want to hire a big name manager and get Blackburn Rovers back in PL.
India is the second fastest growing economy in the world after China by 2025 India will be economic Superpower and will have the third largest economy in the world after USA and China.
India is the second largest Investors in UK investing £24Billion a year and created thousands of jobs for British workers .
There are 1.4 million Indian dispora living in UK and 30,000 Indians living in Blackburn with Darwen. UK and India enjoy special relationship and India is a English Speaking country and a member of the Commenwealth.
India population 1.2 Billion and friend and ally of UK EU USA Israel,Russia and many friendly neighbours like Bangladesh,Sri Lanka and Nepal.
India is the world's largest democracy with free elections ,free press free courts and freedom of expression.
India has 350 million people on poverty and Indian Goverment is spending £70 Billion a year on welfare to lift millions of people out of poverty every year.India wants to eradicate poverty by 2025.
From 2015 the western countries ike USA UK EU and Japan will no longer give economic aid as they say India is a rich country spending billions on defence and space proggrames should help it's poor people.Indian goverment says the $4.5 Billion economic aid from western goverments is peanuts when India spends £70 Billion a year to help it's poor people.
India is a aid donor now
$5 Billion to starving Africa
$2 Billion to Afganistan
$1 Billion to Bangladesh
1 Billion to Sri Lanka Nepal and Bhutan.
"India is a rising superpower" Dave Cameron PM UK
"India has Emerged" Obama President of USA
www indiaskyscrapercity.
com
8:03pm Sun 24 Mar 13
stefjam says...
8:11pm Sun 24 Mar 13
RoversMCMLXXV says...
aaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggg
gggggggggggghhhhhhhh
hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
i thought you'd been sent to prison for ever modan for crimes against relevance and reality
8:27pm Sun 24 Mar 13
modan says...
8:51pm Sun 24 Mar 13
Tom F. says...
8:54pm Sun 24 Mar 13
RoversMCMLXXV says...
That's as comical as one of your previous classic statements claiming 30,000 Indians from Blackburn would travel to Wembley to support Rovers! you really are a pillock modan.
Some say you're a dingle but I'm not having any of it. You're nothing but a racist Indian propaganda machine and a fool.
9:44pm Sun 24 Mar 13
whappen says...
There are no assets to strip and Blackburn Rovers was never going to be a money-maker for anyone, that's why it was sold.
If you seriously think getting relegated was part of their plan (massive loss in income, value of club plummets) then I can't quite square up your assertion they are canny business people who know what they are doing.
And your wrong; making millions in one industry does not give you the devine right to know how to run a business in a totally unrelated one.
Bottom line is, they DO NOT know how to run a football club. They have been shown to be inept and bare faced liars which will ultimately cost them money and, quite possibly, us our club.
9:53pm Sun 24 Mar 13
greenscreener says...
Relegation was never part of their plan because their ignorance and arrogance led them to believe that they could apply the Indian business model to football. The principal that 'we will find lots of people who can do that job cheaper' might work in call centres and production lines but not for anything that requires real experience and skill.
9:56pm Sun 24 Mar 13
modan says...
As for your derogratery statements about a crime in India about a gang rape is vile as If i were to explain of a shooting of small children in the US or rapes and murders in UK.
Venkys are owners of BRFC
Directors of BRFC Shaw Agnew and Shebby Singh.
You too is an imbercile and belongs in loony bin where your sorts belong.A brag worst than a Burnley fan disrespectful to owners of BRFC .
10:27pm Sun 24 Mar 13
Bazzer says...
10:44pm Sun 24 Mar 13
greenscreener says...
I think we are all painfully aware of who owns BRFC, and what a right 8ollocks they are making of it.
It appears that, like you, they are more interested in trying to tell the world how great they are than they are in football.
Stick to what you know, eh ? :-)
10:49pm Sun 24 Mar 13
modan says...
I want Venkys to appoint a big name Manager and invest in good quality players.Get Rovers back in PL.
Remember it was Walkers waned to sell BRFC and the Board then under Coar and Williams approved the sale of BRFC to Venkys of Pune India.
The name of many towns and cities have changed the renaming of cities
Mumbai formerly Bombay renamed in 1995
Chennai was Madras renamed in 1996
Kolkata was Calcutta renamed in 2001
PUNE was POONA
5:46am Mon 25 Mar 13
whappen says...
"Poverty in India is widespread, with the nation estimated to have a third of the world's poor. In 2010, the World Bank reported that 32.7% of the total Indian people fall below the international poverty line of US$ 1.25 per day (PPP) while 68.7% live on less than US$ 2 per day.
According to 2010 data from the United Nations Development Programme, an estimated 37.2% of Indians live below the country's national poverty line. A 2010 report by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) states that 8 Indian states have more poor people than 26 poorest African nations combined which totals to more than 410 million poor in the poorest African countries.
According to a 2011 poverty Development Goals Report, as many as 320 million people in India and China are expected to come out of extreme poverty in the next four years, while India's poverty rate is projected to drop to 22% in 2015. The report also indicates that in Southern Asia, however, only India, where the poverty rate is projected to fall from 51% in 1990 to about 22% in 2015, is on track to cut poverty in half by the 2015 target date.
The latest UNICEF data shows that one in three malnourished children worldwide are found In India, whilst 42% of the nation's children under five years of age are underweight. It also shows that a total of 58% of children under five surveyed were stunted. Rohini Mukherjee, of the Naadi foundation — one of the NGOs that published the report — stated India is "doing worse than sub-Saharan Africa.
The 2011 Global Hunger Index (GHI) Report places India amongst the three countries where the GHI between 1996 and 2011 went up from 22.9 to 23.7, while 78 out of the 81 developing countries studied, including Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Kenya, Nigeria, Myanmar, Uganda, Zimbabwe and Malawi, succeeded in improving hunger conditions".
So £70billion shared out between 68.7% of 1.2billion - over 800million. That's about £90 a head, a year.
A noble effort given the numbers involved, but I don't think it's champagne and caviar all round just yet.
And if India follows the economic model of the west then beware, comrade. The rich (including your soul mates the Venkys) will get richer and, come the obligatory crash, the poor will get the short end of the stick, as usual.
In short mate, I admire your loyalty and optimism, but don't count your (ahem) chickens just yet.
(Ganesh bless Wikipedia!!)
8:45am Mon 25 Mar 13
fanny.tickler. says...
8:47am Mon 25 Mar 13
Bazzer says...
And what right did India have to change the names of British founded cities?
8:56am Mon 25 Mar 13
dangerous dave says...
OUT WITH THE LOT OF THEM
9:12am Mon 25 Mar 13
BritishRover says...
"I want to go up and not go down, period. Mathematically , and I don't want us to go down,"
"Let this season finish . For this season, we are not looking to just avoid relegation as we think we still have a chance to go up."
As much as i hate the venky's lets see if this guy follows through and invests in the club at the end of the season! Other than that if venky's dont put money in the club next year THEY MAY AS WELL LEAVE!
BRFC
9:28am Mon 25 Mar 13
French Rover says...
Blackburn is my lifelong commitment’ – Venky’s managing director Rao
The Indian also defended the decision to sack Michael Appleton, their third permanent manager of the season, and says he still has hope that the club will be promoted this year
EXCLUSIVE
By Ayush Srivastava
Blackburn Rovers managing director Balaji Rao has defended the decision to sack Michael Appleton and insists the Indian family see the club as a "lifelong commitment".
While the decision to part company with the former Blackpool boss was met with wide-spread dismay amongst the fans of the Lancashire based club, Rao says he felt it was necessary to get rid of the former Blackpool boss in order to save the club from being relegated for the second year in a row.
"I want to go up and not go down, period. Mathematically , and I don't want us to go down," Rao told Goal.com.
" Gary Bowyer will continue to be the manager for the rest of the season.
"Let this season finish . For this season, we are not looking to just avoid relegation as we think we still have a chance to go up."
Rao also brushed aside all the rumours of the Venky’s possibly selling the club in the future, even if they did get relegated, adding: "Blackburn Rovers is my lifelong commitment. I love the fans ."
Blackburn recently loaned out striker Edinho Junior to Indian club Shillong Lajong, with Rao stating that Rovers are hoping to expand in his home country.
He added: "Edinho is a good player and this is good exposure for him. It is also the first time that somebody with his caliber has come to India.
"For Indian football we have great plans. We are getting our own stadium up, and we are also looking forward to starting an academy.
"We are also planning to have our own team here in India. We will 100 per cent use Blackburn Rovers’ brand for the club. Yes I think I would prefer Pune, since I am from the city itself."
9:34am Mon 25 Mar 13
French Rover says...
Rao loves us Rovers fans and the club is his lifelong commitment.
Well if that is true Rao - it looks like the club is in for a long and bumpy ride but if you want it to survive under your ownership then you had better get the right people into the club and quickly. Until the squabbling selfish self promoting sisterhood of Agnew, Shaw and Singh have gone there is no way anyone can believe your words.
9:40am Mon 25 Mar 13
BritishRover says...
It does sound as if Venky's are using are club to advertise Football in india.
Just to fill their filthy pockets! I can tell you they are only in football for the profit even if it means destroying the Mighty BRFC.
9:45am Mon 25 Mar 13
merlinrabbit says...
9:45am Mon 25 Mar 13
merlinrabbit says...
9:56am Mon 25 Mar 13
merlinrabbit says...
10:03am Mon 25 Mar 13
BritishRover says...
But since the appleton sacking im slowly losing hope!
Still im not as optimistic as Modan is Haha
10:28am Mon 25 Mar 13
fanny.tickler. says...
Music to my ears.. In Venky's we trust. Goodbye Championship, Hello League One!
11:32am Mon 25 Mar 13
Roverthere says...
3:36pm Mon 25 Mar 13
alfa111 says...
3:39pm Mon 25 Mar 13
alfa111 says...
3:39pm Mon 25 Mar 13
alfa111 says...
7:31pm Mon 25 Mar 13
kazluvsrovers says...
If I win the lottery Modan I will buy you a bloody house in Bombay!!
just to get rid of you!!
7:42pm Mon 25 Mar 13
modan says...
The western governments are to stop all economic aid to India from 2015.Dave Cameron PM UK and Obama president of USA says India is a rich country with $2 Trillion GDP now can help it's poor people when India spends Billions on defence and space proggrames.
India will have a larger economy than France and UK with $3 Trillion economy
in 2017.
By 2020 India's economy will be around $6 Trillion overtaking West Germany.
By 2025 India's economy will be around $8 Trillion overtaking Japan and will have the third largest economy after China and USA
The Indian government says all poverty will be eradicated by 2025.THey have eradicated poverty of 400 million people beetween 1988 to 2010 by way of jobs creation and provding low cost homes with electricity running tap waters.
I do go to India to see my uncles and grandparents and seen for myself that people lives are improving with running tap waters good housing good education and people in India have cars motorbikes television computers and mobile phones.There are 1.2 billion people in India thats more than continent of Europe and Africa combined together.India's biggest challege is to eradicate poverty and provide poor people some employment housing and education.
India today is a emerging economy the second fastest growing after China.
India has modern motorways, nice modern cities ,shopping malls fantastic universties schools,hospitals airports railways metros etc etc.
10:06pm Mon 25 Mar 13
greenscreener says...
F'kin brilliant, Indians, all bloody billionaires, and now they all have their own taps (!), and we get Miss Management and the Brothers Grimm, couldn't run a f'kin bath between 'em and not content with keeping their ignorance and arrogance safely tucked up in India have to come all the way to Blackburn to ruin our little corner of the world.