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Blackburn Rovers fans put trust in Garner (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Blackburn Rovers fans put trust in Garner
10:20am Wednesday 18th April 2012 in Sport
By Andy Cryer, Blackburn Rovers reporter
Blackburn Rovers legend Simon Garner has joined a fans’ campaign to bring the club into community ownership.
The club’s record league goal scorer has become a non-executive director of Blackburn Rovers Supporters Investment Trust, who are aiming to take ownership of Rovers.
Garner will appear at a special question and answer session the trust has organised for invited guests on Saturday.
The former striker, who scored 168 goals in 474 league appearances between 1978 and 1992, said: “I firmly believe the future of the club would be best served if the supporters were in control and guiding it forward.
“Blackburn Rovers is still very close to my heart. I spent the majority of my football career at Ewood Park and I will always be a Rovers supporter.
“It would be great if other former players also joined up. I know when I was at Blackburn all the players had a special feeling for the club.”
The trust is the brainchild of Wayne Wild, director of Darwen-based WEC Group Limited and finance expert Daniel Grabko.
Other high profile figures who are backing the trust include local MPs Jack Straw, Jake Berry and Graham Jones.
The aim of the investment trust is to raise funds to buy the club by issuing a sufficient number of shares to meet a realistic valuation at the time of purchase.
Wild said: “At this stage we are asking Blackburn Rovers supporters if they would be willing to buy a share in the club. The more fans who pledge to buy a share, the stronger and more credible our bid will become.”
Comments are closed on this article.

Comments (134)
10:24am Wed 18 Apr 12
Frisson says...
10:39am Wed 18 Apr 12
RTID_norway says...
Visit http://www.brsit.co.
uk/ and sign up for your share!
10:40am Wed 18 Apr 12
burner says...
10:41am Wed 18 Apr 12
a_true_blue says...
BRFC FOR EVER
venkys, kean and ja leave now
10:44am Wed 18 Apr 12
a_true_blue says...
10:49am Wed 18 Apr 12
hasslem hasslem says...
.
time to get the likes of gally, wilcox and hendry on too. surely, people like don mackay could have a do. rippers still lives local but not sure he has any emotional attachment to rovers.
11:05am Wed 18 Apr 12
gudari says...
11:06am Wed 18 Apr 12
ChrisAcc says...
11:16am Wed 18 Apr 12
Only1Garner says...
NUMPTY OUT!!!
11:30am Wed 18 Apr 12
Rishtonian says...
Even if they did sack Kean
Would any self respecting manager work for them?????
OUT with Venky’s
Then we will also be rid of back stabbing Kean
11:33am Wed 18 Apr 12
A Darener says...
"There's only one Jack Walker".
Surely they must be a millionaire somewhere who can come to our rescue. Scour the country, scour the world. He or she must be out there.
11:37am Wed 18 Apr 12
philmoulden says...
KEAN OUT
VENKYS OUT
ANDERSON OUT
11:38am Wed 18 Apr 12
Rishtonian says...
11:41am Wed 18 Apr 12
philmoulden says...
THERES ONLY ONE SIMON GARNER
ONE SIMON GARNER
THERES ONLY ONE SIMON GARNER
ONE SIMON GARNER
THERES ONLY ONE SIMON GARNER
ONE SIMON GARNER
THERES ONLY ONE SIMON GARNER
11:41am Wed 18 Apr 12
A Darener says...
11:42am Wed 18 Apr 12
flyingv1 says...
11:42am Wed 18 Apr 12
Iiii1111 says...
11:45am Wed 18 Apr 12
Iiii1111 says...
11:49am Wed 18 Apr 12
samsno2millfan says...
Credibility is key.
Rippers is with a firm of solicitors as well - useful contact to have.
A Darener - Searching for a sugar daddy or expecting one to come forward is pie in the sky.
And if anybody comes on saying "Be careful what you wish for", you have my permission to go 'round and beat them with a stick...
11:51am Wed 18 Apr 12
Road Runner Road Runner says...
or maybe we could recruit that slippery snake Alister Campbell ! On second thoughts, maybe not !
How about Maggie 'T' she knows a thing a two about dismantling an industry. Ruining lives and community's !
He - He !
12:05pm Wed 18 Apr 12
samsno2millfan says...
Of course somebody would have to cover the 7 or 8 mill. (or thereabouts) a year ST sales would have brought in to the club.
Forget sugar daddies - look at the more realistic options.
12:05pm Wed 18 Apr 12
onlyonesimongarner says...
But watch this space, there are strong rumours of a Walker Trust Buy Back.
12:07pm Wed 18 Apr 12
hasslem hasslem says...
.
nowt wrong with getting them involved as long as it is for the right reason and not as some sort of beauty(?) parade.
.
ex players is important and credible as is the likes of local mps etc as they can help open some doors for the trust.
12:15pm Wed 18 Apr 12
Road Runner Road Runner says...
Divisive and Complicity are the allegations that we put to them ?
I say this, how many years have 'THEM AND HIM' had involvement in OUR club BRFC ?
18 months
How many years have, we, the supporter had ?
Thousands of years combined in our 136 year old history.
I know who I believe in this awful forsaken situation.
What is the agenda of ALL BRFC supporters ?
Is it to oust THEM and HIM for no other reason than gross mismanagement or is because we are dullards and are selfish in our aims ?
Thousands of years we have combined in supporting our club. I would suggest our voice, our reasoning is totally justified in asking for a transparency that befits the running of BRFC.
In a nutshell someone said the previous day:
Relegation is a part of football that we all accept. Being TAKEN DOWN is a whole different matter.
On that premise I do voice my disapproval and insist that, we, as fellow BRFC supporters with a conscience stand up and be counted in this matter until we have the answer(s) that allows for our club to regain that which as been built over our history.
Arte et labore
12:19pm Wed 18 Apr 12
Morst The 88th Min Heartbreaker of Dingles! says...
.
But good luck guys as I know you mean well and have the club at heart.
.
34th.......
12:19pm Wed 18 Apr 12
Morst The 88th Min Heartbreaker of Dingles! says...
.
But good luck guys as I know you mean well and have the club at heart.
.
34th.......
12:26pm Wed 18 Apr 12
A Darener says...
Quote above from
Rovers web site. Hopefully on the 30th they will have an even bigger clutch to hang onto.
12:30pm Wed 18 Apr 12
jackmetickler says...
We have to be ready with a viable alternative to liquidation when the administrators takeover should there not be a suitable buyer come along.
As much forward planning as possible and organising funds and pledges will make the task so much easier when it happens...
just look at Pompey.... there supporters trust has been organised at last minute and now they are struggling to be ready with viable funds before the administrators chose liquidation... ... hope they make it though cos they great set of fans.
12:33pm Wed 18 Apr 12
bankhall says...
12:40pm Wed 18 Apr 12
nil bye mouth says...
1:04pm Wed 18 Apr 12
Iiii1111 says...
1:08pm Wed 18 Apr 12
Road Runner Road Runner says...
John Bond ?
Or was it that you wasn't there ? Or maybe you conveniently forgot that shameful past, eh ?
Arte et labore
1:33pm Wed 18 Apr 12
Billypieman says...
1:33pm Wed 18 Apr 12
Sherwoodforest says...
www.brsit.co.uk
www.brfcactiongroup.
co.uk
as delia once said "lets be avin you"
1:37pm Wed 18 Apr 12
Sherwoodforest says...
www.brsit.co.uk
www.brfcactiongroup.
co.uk
as bruce lee once said " long tongues have empty heads"
1:41pm Wed 18 Apr 12
j bee says...
2:04pm Wed 18 Apr 12
Heelwalker.1 says...
2:25pm Wed 18 Apr 12
nellymatt says...
2:31pm Wed 18 Apr 12
Bombay Duck Club says...
not condemned Venky's as unfit to own a football club. BRFC contributed greatly to the careers of these two players (and vic a-versa) so it has been very disappointing that they have not been assisting the fans efforts to get rid of these parasites.
Best wishes to all fans for an emphatic demonstration on Saturday that leaves Venky's and Kean in no doubt that they should not show their hideous faces at Ewood Park again.
VENK'S OUT! KEAN OUT!
2:36pm Wed 18 Apr 12
Jimmy Jambone says...
That's the reason you're in the situation you are in and the reason everyone is laughing at you. Blackburn Rovers are the beggars of English football.
Moochers and Looters the lot of you.
2:41pm Wed 18 Apr 12
Ralph Jones says...
2:58pm Wed 18 Apr 12
MxMave says...
3:09pm Wed 18 Apr 12
MORTEN GAMST 84 says...
3:15pm Wed 18 Apr 12
blueandwhite1971 says...
3:19pm Wed 18 Apr 12
blueandwhite1971 says...
MORT
WEZ
RRR
RTID.
ARTE ET LABORE!
THE ROVERS ARE TAKING THEIR CLUB BACK!
3:24pm Wed 18 Apr 12
lowelife says...
Remember the words of Edmund Burke:-
"All that is needed for evil to suceed is that decent human beings do nothing".
3:26pm Wed 18 Apr 12
blueandwhite1971 says...
ARTE ET LABORE!
ARTE ET LABORE!
ARTE ET LABORE!
3:50pm Wed 18 Apr 12
vintageclaret says...
Mind you being at Bollywood you already have an idea of what Hell is like - all chicken and no beef
4:00pm Wed 18 Apr 12
FCBurnley says...
1/ Venkys dont want to sell
2/ You aint got enough money or expertise.
Other than that everything is perfect.
Just out of interest, how much would you expect to pay for the club (a) if you survive and (b) if you get relegated ? I assume somebody has already done their due diligence !
4:00pm Wed 18 Apr 12
blueandwhite1971 says...
4:10pm Wed 18 Apr 12
dallydally says...
4:17pm Wed 18 Apr 12
samsno2millfan says...
Certainly can't be Blackburn.
4:17pm Wed 18 Apr 12
merlinrabbit says...
4:19pm Wed 18 Apr 12
samsno2millfan says...
Oh yes, almost forgot, then f@ck off.
4:19pm Wed 18 Apr 12
blueandwhite1971 says...
1875.
4:23pm Wed 18 Apr 12
samsno2millfan says...
Pathetic really, but there you go.
Oh, by the way, would you f@ck off as well?
4:25pm Wed 18 Apr 12
FCBurnley says...
4:26pm Wed 18 Apr 12
blueandwhite1971 says...
4:27pm Wed 18 Apr 12
samsno2millfan says...
4:28pm Wed 18 Apr 12
samsno2millfan says...
4:28pm Wed 18 Apr 12
blueandwhite1971 says...
4:37pm Wed 18 Apr 12
Morst The 88th Min Heartbreaker of Dingles! says...
.
Great win in the semis 3-1!
.
34th.....
4:38pm Wed 18 Apr 12
Stone Island. says...
Why are you not as fussy about soiling your traccy bottoms?
4:54pm Wed 18 Apr 12
Plasticbertrand says...
4:57pm Wed 18 Apr 12
4youreyesonly says...
5:10pm Wed 18 Apr 12
Stone Island. says...
INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM IN!
Get these scoundrels investigated!
5:14pm Wed 18 Apr 12
craftandgraft says...
The club want to buy some decent fans.....
'Even the old grannies in Bournemouth were better than this lot. We can bus them up on a Friday and they can have a trip out to Lytham. They'll make more noise and recreate the fortress atmosphere we're famous for. '
www.brsit.co.uk.
Arte et Labore.
ps. they'd be more intelligent and cleaner too.
7:02pm Wed 18 Apr 12
merlinrabbit says...
7:03pm Wed 18 Apr 12
fondarovers says...
7:04pm Wed 18 Apr 12
Stone Island. says...
7:08pm Wed 18 Apr 12
Stone Island. says...
7:08pm Wed 18 Apr 12
Morst The 88th Min Heartbreaker of Dingles! says...
.
Lets get this cancer out of our club ASAP and stop fannying around!
.
34th......
7:11pm Wed 18 Apr 12
Stone Island. says...
7:17pm Wed 18 Apr 12
craftandgraft says...
Eddie Howe has said.....
' it's ok we have 2 nd and 3 rd generation local skunk growers who are willing to step in '
www.brsit.co.uk
ANDERSON OUT.
Arte et Labore.
7:20pm Wed 18 Apr 12
craftandgraft says...
' they were all trying to b*gger me in the showers '
The 'club' has yet to make an official statement.
They're all I'm Last Orders.
www.brsit.co.uk
Arte et Labore
7:31pm Wed 18 Apr 12
craftandgraft says...
' our 3 fans who are computer literate only go on the rovers stories....and we are really fed up with it.....there's little point carrying on'
Eddie Howe.
www.brsit.co.uk
Arte et Labore
7:42pm Wed 18 Apr 12
Dchampy says...
7:43pm Wed 18 Apr 12
craftandgraft says...
www.brsit.co.uk
Arte et Labore
ps paul fletcher was born pauline
8:14pm Wed 18 Apr 12
craftandgraft says...
Get on the Burnley FC story.... 2 comments .....from me!
www.brsit.co.uk
Arte et Labore
ps it makes sense.....wake up - it's reality.....don't pander to anyone....f**k Kentaro...we are from BLACKBURN.
8:41pm Wed 18 Apr 12
blueandwhite1971 says...
i also sleep with my sister,bother donkeys, breed flying pigs and believe the moon is made of cheese.
arte et labore!
8:45pm Wed 18 Apr 12
craftandgraft says...
As if division
www.brsit.co.uk
:)
wez
8:49pm Wed 18 Apr 12
FCBurnley says...
8:50pm Wed 18 Apr 12
Shane says...
This is a not going to happen. It's a non starter.
You could get Barak Obama on the board but this will not happen.
Does Jack Straw "really" believe this is a viable proposition? Of course he doesn't he's just saying the right thing. He's a politician and that's what he does, lie.
What you need to do is support your club for the remaining games and hope by some miracle you can get enough points to stay up, not mincing around on a march.
Then just maybe, just maybe there is someone out there with nothing to do with their millions other than throw it down a premier league toilet.
Venkys thought they could run a PL club as a going concern.
I've got news for them. No you can't a PL club is a money pit that only a handful of clubs have any chance of making a profit and BRFC is not one of them, never has been , never will.
If "the trust" believe they can run the club they are as deluded as the Venkys.
Would I as a prospective owner with millions to waste want to waste it on BRFC with supporters as fickle as you bunch. Not on your nelly. You lot have shot yourselves in the foot big time rightly or wrongly.
You have a couple of games to try and save BRFC from going down a slippery slope. If I were you I'd focus my energy on this not on some fanciful idea that a community trust is a viable option. You are all grasping at straws, excuse the pun
9:06pm Wed 18 Apr 12
craftandgraft says...
get real !
you have no point to make.
Do a crossword or something.
www.brsit.co.uk
ANDERSON OUT
Arte et Labore
9:13pm Wed 18 Apr 12
Ewood-b-happy says...
9:15pm Wed 18 Apr 12
blueandwhite1971 says...
Sad
Talentless
Emptyheaded
Void of tactics
Errand boy
Knowledgless
Eggheaded
Annoying
Numpty.
1875.
9:23pm Wed 18 Apr 12
Melanie :-) says...
Your kind of snootery, multiple standards, disproportionate criticism and over all schewed view of Blackburn Rovers and their support s is exactly like those disgraceful hacks in the media that have hung BRFC out to dry - the same middle-class journalists on triple figure salaries that do not pay to watch Premier League football.
Blackburn Rovers have never really been forgiven for winning the Premier League by people like you, have they?
Fickle?
Caring passionately about our club? Wanting the community to have a stake in an institution that represents one of the grandest and oldest names in the history of English football? Despising the power, corruption and lies that are at the heart of this whole sordid business?
Fickle?
Blackburn Rovers are the greatest and most successful town club in the history of English football and were the first giants of the English game; this has meant that per capita, Blackburn Rovers have always enjoyed staunch, passionate, popular and loyal support.
Fickle?
Rovers fan boo - fickle. Anyone else - it's passion. Rovers fans leave early - fickle. Anyone else leaves early - the parking facilities are notoriously bad. Quiet Ewood Park - Rovers fans are fickle. Anywhere else - it's an anxious silence.
To football snobs like you and the London based southern-centric media, Blackburn is a dirty northern slum town and Rovers are a small club with sh*t support.
Plastic sky era fans like you would prefer the PL to be a CITY league. The likes of Wigan and Blackpool and Burnley are acceptable because they can be patronized and pose no real threat; Rovers are a different proposition and are capable of mixing it with the big boys - a footballing anomaly - a big club in a small town - too big to accept the mediocrity of Fulham, Bolton, WBA etc and too small to challenge ManYoo, ManCiteh, Chelski and TheArse.
Football snobs like you and media whores care not.
No more mealy mouthed words from you, please.
9:27pm Wed 18 Apr 12
blueandwhite1971 says...
arte et labore
1875
9:33pm Wed 18 Apr 12
Cha'mone MF says...
9:39pm Wed 18 Apr 12
4youreyesonly says...
9:44pm Wed 18 Apr 12
blueandwhite1971 says...
9:58pm Wed 18 Apr 12
RTID_norway says...
9:58pm Wed 18 Apr 12
4youreyesonly says...
10:26pm Wed 18 Apr 12
reggie0008 says...
Im sick of the negative press us Rovers fans get while sidestepping the main issue of how Venky's passed the laughable fit and proper test as they are clearly asset stripping our club, and they are going to leave us with an almost impossible rebuilding job when they eventually get bored and leave.
10:40pm Wed 18 Apr 12
glm1970 says...
10:44pm Wed 18 Apr 12
burnleyglentoran says...
CHIM CHIMANY
11:00pm Wed 18 Apr 12
samsno2millfan says...
Now would you mind....?
11:09pm Wed 18 Apr 12
samsno2millfan says...
Go to "200%" then "Blackburn Rovers; When owners turn chicken".
11:13pm Wed 18 Apr 12
Heelwalker.1 says...
Melanie's post went right above his head. ..Typical.
11:24pm Wed 18 Apr 12
FCBurnley says...
12:10am Thu 19 Apr 12
Gennoe1 says...
12:12am Thu 19 Apr 12
Billypieman says...
12:55am Thu 19 Apr 12
Jimmy Jambone says...
How are you measuring 'great' and 'successful', how are you measuring 'town club' and how do you support your claim that Rovers were the first 'giants' of the English game? How do you measure that?
It sounds to me suspiciously like you chose some vague and wooly notions in order to try and make an emotional point.
Typical Communist.
6:39am Thu 19 Apr 12
makaveli96 says...
Surely we can just take our club back, its our land!
Or is this not PC!
I mean, after all the Germans did in WW1 and WW2, yet Bayern are still allowed in the Champions league. What was the point, people have short memories!
6:41am Thu 19 Apr 12
makaveli96 says...
7:02am Thu 19 Apr 12
craftandgraft says...
www.brsit.co.uk
ANDERSON OUT.
Arte et Labore
7:20am Thu 19 Apr 12
Shane says...
Given your recent history with managers and how they are treated do you really think he'd take the job anyway?
7:39am Thu 19 Apr 12
craftandgraft says...
Eddie Howe is one of the finest young managers in the whole of the world.....even he can't help that sorry little team.
John Bond, Stanley Ternent etc etc.
Ken Dodd could do a better job for your club.
I was at BFC training ground the other day....it was hilarious!
www.brsit.co.uk.
ANDERSON OUT.
Arte et Labore
ps. i'm surprised you were'nt arrestedin last nights clampdown on amphetamine dealers in lancashire.
9:02am Thu 19 Apr 12
samsno2millfan says...
Shouldn't you be in bed? Your daughter/mother/niec
e/aunt will be asleep by now.
Oh not to worry, gran's been having trouble getting away at night, bless her.
Or f@ck her, your choice.
What didn't you understand when I politely asked you to f@ck off, comrade?
Let me explain;
v; f@ck (fk) Vulgar Slang
.
1. To have $exual intercourse with.
2. To take advantage of, betray, or cheat; victimize.
3. Used in the imperative as a signal of angry dismissal.
v.intr.
1. To engage in $exual intercourse.
2. To act wastefully or foolishly.
3. To interfere; meddle. Often used with with.
n.
1. An act of $exual intercourse.
2. A partner in $exual intercourse.
3. A despised person.
4. Used as an intensive: What the f@ck did you do that for?
interj.
Used to express extreme displeasure.
Phrasal Verbs:
Now concentrate......
f@ck off
Used in the imperative as a signal of angry dismissal.
Word History: The obscenity f@ck is a very old word and has been considered shocking from the first, though it is seen in print much more often now than in the past. Its first known occurrence, in code because of its unacceptability, is in a poem composed in a mixture of Latin and English sometime before 1500. The poem, which satirizes the Carmelite friars of Cambridge, England, takes its title, "Flen flyys," from the first words of its opening line, "Flen, flyys, and freris," that is, "fleas, flies, and friars." The line that contains f@ck reads "Non sunt in coeli, quia gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk." The Latin words "Non sunt in coeli, quia," mean "they are not in heaven, since." The code "gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk" is easily broken by simply substituting the preceding letter in the alphabet, keeping in mind differences in the alphabet and in spelling between then and now: i was then used for both i and j; v was used for both u and v; and vv was used for w. This yields "fvccant vvivys of heli." The whole thus reads in translation: "They are not in heaven because they f@ck wives of Ely (or members of their immediate family - in your case)."
Any clearer?
NOW gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk off.......
9:31am Thu 19 Apr 12
vintageclaret says...
Must admit to feeling sorry that your team is going down but you must appreciate that with all the aspersions cast over the years towards BFC and fans all the gleeful comments had to happen. Perhaps in some way a small revenge for the plane going over the Turf with the banner. Hope we have someone who has the money does the same over Bollywood on May 5th the last home game in the Premier and with your present set up could be the same over the next 2 seasons spiralling out of control to oblivion.
9:48am Thu 19 Apr 12
samsno2millfan says...
9:57am Thu 19 Apr 12
Shane says...
10:16am Thu 19 Apr 12
Shane says...
Yes everyone get on the Shearer wagon. If he get's offered the job, which BTW he won't, and has a brain snap and accepts how long before you "the world owes me a living" brigade start wanting him out when he never wins a game.
Get back to the lego son or support your team
10:22am Thu 19 Apr 12
Shear_Brilliance says...
This is proven by the fact that they come on a Blackburn Rovers forum and slag them off.
Stop trying to argue with us about a subject you clearly know nothing about.
Let's talk about the impression you receive when you go to Burnley:
- Rusting disgusting stadium which you can't even fill and shocking facilities.
- Can barely produce 20 players a season.
- Burnley academy, when did they produce anyone half decent?
- Lets be honest Burnley haven't amount to anything other than a Championship side for the past 40 years you never have been good enough to mix with the big boys and never will.
12:40pm Thu 19 Apr 12
French Rover says...
1:17pm Thu 19 Apr 12
Reg Rover says...
Blackburn’s disaster of a manager, Steve Kean should leave Ewood immediately.
His position has become even more untenable than it was. Never mind his dismal record; the worse ever in history by a Blackburn manager, it is his continued lies and deceit that condemn him.
We do not want such a dishonourable man in charge of our famous club.
His latest tirade was to ‘play his usual blame game’ by blaming Gael Givet for the dismal surrender at Swansea, stating Givet refused to play. Kean later back tracked on that statement by saying “Givet’s head was not right to play”.
Givet countered Kean’s statement by issuing his own on Wednesday on Sky Teletext it read “I wanted to play. I wish to make it clear that I have never refused to play for Blackburn Rovers. It was manager Steve Kean who decided which players would be selected for the match at Swansea”. If ever a statement condemns a manager as being an out and out liar this one does. And I know who I prefer to believe.
This is the latest in a long line of lies and untruths from Steve (the man who cannot win football matches) Kean, how many more do we have to put up with?
Kean’s misleading statements are too many to list, we all know them but here are a just a few reminders.
On Ryan Nelson’s unexplained departure in January Kean said “he is not fit to play football”. One week later Nelson was playing for Spurs against Stevenage in the FA Cup on a very difficult pitch, the match was televised and Nelson nominated man of the match. Nelson has been a regular member of Spurs squad since, making several full appearances and cameos from the bench. How Rovers have needed him.
Kean stated Chris Samba would not be sold but once Samba blasted Kean and the owners by exposing the farce behind the scenes at Ewood, Samba was swiftly sold for twelve million pounds. Kean applauded the sale saying “at least everyone here now wants to be here”. Something I very much doubt.
Even in Crown Court and on oath during his drink drive prosecution Kean was at it again. Stating his drinks had been spiked in the Ewood board room. A suggestion quickly dismissed by the judge saying there was no evidence what so ever to support Kean’s claim.
You see Kean plays the ‘blame’ game, nothing is ever his fault.
He has very cleverly laid his get ‘out of jail’ plans once Rovers are relegated. The majority of blame will levelled at the fans and their protests as being disruptive to the team. But let us not forget these protests did not start until late December when Rovers were marooned at the foot of the table.
Hence Kean’s much publicised and hyped body guard, totally unnecessary and a waste of money. Another example of Kean playing the blame game and milking public sympathy from a gullible media.
I could go on and on, but it gets tiresome my thoughts and opinions of Kean are well documented on my website, www.regoftherovers.c
o.uk
At first nobody took much notice, now everyone including my 22,000 followers can see through this fraud that is apart from Mrs Anuradha (I like to be entertained) Desai and her useless brothers Ventkatesh and Balaji.
Any man who knives in the back the man who took him from the dole que and gave him a good job, as Kean did to Allardyce is despicable.
Let us not forget this is the man who has seen two assistants leave him in less than a year, this is the man who has seen ten senior players sold in less than a year, or have their contract’s cancelled. Some have spoken out against Kean such as Samba, Andrews, Diouf, and Roberts others have picked up their severance pay and been glad to leave in silence.
Can anyone work with Kean, certainly former chairman John William’s couldn’t, he stated so to Mrs Anuradha Desai in February 2011 and departed soon after that. Let us not forget John Williams had worked in harmony with the likes of Graeme Souness, Mark Hughes and Sam Allardyce over the past fourteen years and with no problems. Two months of Kean was too much for him to stomach.
This man should leave Ewood immediately if Blackburn Rovers are to have any future.
At least the team would have half a chance in their last two home games against Norwich and Wigan, the supporters would be lifted, the gloom would be gone, as it is Norwich and Wigan are away bankers !
Reg
1:24pm Thu 19 Apr 12
Sherwoodforest says...
1:33pm Thu 19 Apr 12
burnleyglentoran says...
NO NAY NEVER
2:56pm Thu 19 Apr 12
Reg Rover says...
BRFC action group are to hold a protest march against Venky’s ownership prior to Saturday’s game against Norwich. They say in their statement released via Sky Teletext.
“To the people of Blackburn this is no longer just about losing Football matches, this is about the very future of the football club and the very fabric of Blackburn. Our football club is a 137 year old institution which has seen its traditions and values destroyed in less than 18 months. “it takes only a few hands to bulldoze our club but it will take many hands to rebuild it and the whole community needs to come together to breathe life into Blackburn Rovers. Venky’s cannot make us feel inferior if we do not give them our consent, words divide us, action unites us and if we are unified there is nothing we cannot achieve”.
Fine words, well said and well meant.
Not being a member of BRFC action group may I be so bold as to offer a slogan for Saturday’s protests that will cut to the heart of the Rao family.
MADE IN LANCASHIRE, DESTROYED IN INDIA.
First used on my website 16th May 2011. Please feel free to adopt if deemed suitable. This slogan on large banners beamed back to India TV would rankle the arrogant Rao family and displease and Indian nation who are a very proud people.
Reg
3:13pm Thu 19 Apr 12
LongWayFromHome says...
Im in!!!
Im going to start a "Kean out" ISA with my Bank
4:57pm Thu 19 Apr 12
Melanie :-) says...
do.com/
New Ewood Park web site.
9:26pm Thu 19 Apr 12
Shane says...
Can anyone tell me just how many of these £1000 shares have been sold so far? And I'm taking here about "sold" not just people who have "expressed an interest".
10:47pm Thu 19 Apr 12
Melanie :-) says...
Another bitter Dingle?
Another football snob?
Another one of those "you're getting what you deserve" or "you're getting what you asked for" or "everything's come full circle" type of smearing insults that actually mean nothing, just empty epithets?
11:44pm Thu 19 Apr 12
Bazzer says...
12:15am Fri 20 Apr 12
Melanie :-) says...
4:07am Fri 20 Apr 12
Shane says...
4:24am Fri 20 Apr 12
Shane says...
1. BRFC are in grave danger of being relegated
2. If BRFC go down there is every possibility, under the current regime, that they will be in free fall and there is a possibility that they could go into administration.
3. To help avoid this situation, loyal BRFC supporters are organising a march to protest against the current ownership and manager...something they have been doing with great success for months :) These "loyal" supporters will then enter the stadium and commence to boo at every opportunity. Remember this is all happening before and during a game that they must win to try and save the club from potentially going into extinction.
PATHETIC
Is this really what you want?
Do you want me and others to come on these posts and tell you "I told you so" when you're struggling in the championship with no points and no money?
I may be arrogant Melanie, but I'm not deluded and stupid.
6:45am Fri 20 Apr 12
craftandgraft says...
Kurt Nogan left Turf Moor because he could'nt keep up with the drinking culture at the club.
That's the only culture you have or will ever have.
Please do us all a favour and comment on your 'team's' own stories.
www.brsit.co.uk
Arte et Labore
7:26am Fri 20 Apr 12
Shane says...
7:51am Fri 20 Apr 12
Shane says...
Therefore the question now is how many people have made an expression of interest?
I read the "trust" believes that £10m is enough to start. That's only 10,000 £1,000 shares..easy!
1:00pm Fri 20 Apr 12
Melanie :-) says...
The effort you put into your derogatory remarks is testimony to that.
There is nothing wrong with supporters of a football club staging a protest expressing deeply held concerns that they hold regarding how their club is being administered.
We are working-class people in a depressed area that care deeply about the heritage of one of the grandest and oldest institutions in the history of world football.
We take great pride in the achievements of BRFC from the days of John Lewis to the days of the late, great and much missed Jack Walker and recall with great warmth, affection and fondness what one of the finest sons of the town did for the area by providing jobs, latterly buying BRFC and the joy and pleasure that adventure brought to many people.
All you can do is scoff. All you can do is sneer. All you can do is snigger.
You cannot conduct yourself with honour, decency and integrity - much like the owners of BRFC and the manager of the team.
All of whom have lied to the fans about transfers, accounts, players, meetings, in court, in the media etc.
You like KDG, True Blue 84, Liiiil et al have questioned people's mental health, physically assaulted, verbally threatened physical assault, threatened to report people to the police, disdainfully smeared from the side lines and conducted yourselves with studious, unwavering arrogance and contempt for the common fan.
You have sought to smear and blame the fans for the demise of a once proud football club that was widely regarded - within the game - as one of the best run football clubs in world football.
Kean, the Venky's, scabs like KDG, True Blue 84, Liiiil et al and the disgraceful antics of Jason Roberts shouting down the mic on national BBC radio every Saturday night at Rovers fans with jaw dropping contempt when they dared to question Kean and the Venky's was one of the most appalling episodes in this whole affair and should never be forgotten - or forgiven.
For me, what will long live on will be the playing of extremely loud music by Gerald Jackson on Radio Rovers to drown out the protesting voices of the fans in the Blackburn End and the sneaking removal of flowers in the dead of night form Jack Walkers statue. t
I of course have not yet mentioned the assaults on protesters by so-called fans or the brutal arrest and assault of a father and is 14 year old son at Ewood Park or the vicious assault - again by the police - on fans at the Reebok Stadium or the assaults on protesters by stewards.
That the national media should ridicule, giggle and generally besmearch the name of Blackburn, BRFC, its supporters and the protesters is not surprising. It is to be expected.
That pundits and ex players should at worst smear the Rovers fans and at best remain silent is of no surprise either.
Hendry - silence. Shearer - silence. Gallagher - "Rovers fans are an embarrassment." Garner - left it too late. The LT - should never be forgiven.
As to your questions about how many have taken up the offer to buy shares at £1000 - so what? Just because at this stage it is difficult to tell who has money, who does not, who will buy shares and who will not - proves nothing - and is nothing more than a cynical footballing snobs attempt at denigrating the working-class people of Blackburn and East Lancashire.
6:51pm Fri 20 Apr 12
Bazzer says...
10:02pm Fri 20 Apr 12
Shane says...
If you think this is walking from the Town Hall to Ewood, entering the ground and chanting and booing then I suggest you stay at home and leave supporters who support BRFC, not the owners or manager, to do their best to ensure survival.
11:34pm Tue 24 Apr 12
Darwen Malc says...