Rovers looking for a fourth Iberian (From Lancashire Telegraph)

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  Jack Herer wrote:
  

  French Rover wrote:
  

  Jack Herer wrote:
  

  Irish knowledge wrote:
  

  Jack Herer wrote:
  

  Irish knowledge wrote:
  Hello, I read all the comments on here everyday but rarely post. However I've decided to take some time out today to add to the debate.
  
  Last season was a total joke. Kean should have been fired and everyone knows that. He lied consistently and treated the supporters like enemies. He stood up for Venkys when he should not have had to and had to answer questions which managers should not be getting involved in.
  
  However, Venkys have at least put a backroom team in place now. Admittedly I do not know anything about them, but at least we have some sort of structure to manage the side of the business that Kean should never have been involved in.
  
  Also I have been impressed with the Danny Murphy signing and am unconvinced about the other signings thus far. Time will tell. But thats what makes the start of every season exciting, did we sign a dud or gem. Every team mostly signs duds.
  
  A lot of people are saying that we should be spending all the money that we received from transfers and that Venkys are pocketing it. Do fans want the club to go bust? I know we have parachute money, but what happens if spend a load of money on players who turn out to be flops. Venkys are right not to blow the money on players who are not good enough for the premiership (if they were, they would not be going to a championship team). We also need to reduce our wage bill now that we don't have the TV money and I would have no problem whatsoever in selling Robinson (Bunn and Kean perfect replacement), Nzonzi (over rated, not a winner of a player, just moans on the field), Hoilett (quality but out of contract so no choice, hope he joins english club so Rovers get the money), Pedersen (not up to it and on high wages) Formica (v average player IMO, does not get involved), Martin Olsson (wants to leave so let him go) We need to cut our wage bill to survive if that is what fans want. We also got some quality youth players who deserve a chance. Would some fans prefer a situation where we spent fortune, paid high wages, missed promotion and went in to administration just so they could say...I told you so! A big part of everyones lives would then be missing.
  
  Our squad for the championship should be:
  
  GK Bunn/Kean
  RB Orr/Lowe
  CB Dann/Givet/Hanley/Ja
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ck O'Connell
  LB Henley/Josh Morris
  RM Vuckevic (other youth team suggestion?)
  CM Murphy/Petrovic/Silv
  
  
  
  
  
  
  a/Lowe/J O Sullivan(or other youth player
  LM M Olsson/Nunes
  Striker Rochina (our best player imo, needs to play up front)/Goodwillie (should do good in championship)/Nuno Gomes (the sheringham/hughesie player)/Leon Best
  
  So if we get silva and maybe a right winger, we should be strong.
  
  For all the booers, I booed at my tv while watching at 8am on a sat morning in Canada. But this season, please just don't go to the matches if you are going to boo. If after 7/8 games we are struggling, then go ahead. But for all the new players joining, it is embarrassing and detrimental to a strong team spirit needed to get out of this division. I for one am looking forward to following the team, be it that it will be hard to see all the goals now.

  Oh look - another brand new poster asking everyone to back the regime.
  
  Sorry mate, this has happened too many times for people to think you are genuine.
  
  The truth of the matter is this; it doesn't matter what you say, or I say, or Santa Claus says, the fans aren't coming back whilst Steve Kean is there. Some feel so strongly about it - they love their Rovers so much, and they want it back, and they want to go to the match - that huge amounts of fans, hardcore fans, are willing to carry on showing their vocal displeasure with him on match days as well.
  
  I don't think there will be many fans who don't join in with "Steve Kean out" chants. I'm guessing the players will get cheered, as is right, but our manager is looking at a season of serious boos.
  
  The club needs to face reality on this situation, rather than vainly posting on sites like this. The fans have made up their minds. This is football. Every other club in the world understands that. Our club knew that obviously when it was under the masterful steering of John Williams and before that the amazing generosity of Jack Walker. We are the only club in the world that doesn't understand that any more though.
  
  So we instead get new posters telling us we need to give Steve Kean another chance. You are wasting your time though - nothing will change unless he goes. End of debate and that's just the cold hard truth.
  
  Why would the owners not do the obvious therefore and get the fans flooding back? It just doesn't make any sense. Stupidity only washes so long as an excuse.

  It really doesnt make sense, I know. They should have sacked him many times last season and especially when we got relegated. That would have been the easiest time to do it. I really don't understand why he is still here but he is. I am hoping I can just catch the goals somehow on the web now and not have to listen to his post match interviews this season coming. If they sacked him, attendances would double that is for sure. He has had way to many chances and is a complete idiot. But maybe even if we only have 5k supporters in the ground with no boos, we can start forming a strong team spirit and playing some good football because we have good players, not because we have a good manager.

  Wow - only 5,000. We may get more going to some away matches. Imagine that!
  
  It's gonna look bad week in week out isn't it - there is simply no two ways about it. There's no way Steve Kean will be able to spin it. If he says the fans are staying away because of relegation then he will alienate those who are attending even more, because they personally know those fans staying away and they know it's because of Steve Kean. Everyone knows it. The whole town knows it.
  
  What are our owners planning when they allow something so patently unpopular to our fans to continue? The really weird thing is that they are willing to spend the same money it would take to get rid of him on a new player.
  
  Like I said earlier though, it's good to debate this now, but it makes no difference to what is going to happen. Those who are staying away have made up their minds, and those who are going to attend but still protest have made up their minds too. I'm only telling you the truth as it is
  
  What will the viewing public think if they see continued protests against Steve Kean when the ground is so empty anyway? They'll realise that everyone, stay aways or attendees, they all want to see the back of our manager. But he's still there.
  
  How is that ever good advertising for the Venkys?

  it wont be empty jack......it wont be full either but there will still be 15k plus on for the Hull game which is pretty decent considering everything that has happened.
  
  If Mrs Desai does step down from the Rovers board then that leaves Kean really out there on his own - and unless he wins every game then the Rao brothers will have him out of Ewood double-quick.
  
  Then the 15k plus can get back to 20k plus and we can start to get our club back maybe?

  I think it's a wonderful thought but no way will it be 15k under the current cloud surely.
  
  The figure of 5k from these new posters is closer to the truth I feel. I thought Lancs Pensioner's 7.5k would be low, but I genuinely think now that the club already know the scale of the problem, and it's extremely serious and they now realise that it's not likely to change unless Kean goes.
  
  We'll wait and see of course, but if a pro Venkys poster is saying 5k, then that could be the best indicator yet. That figure probably tallies with what everyone has been saying in the real world as well.
  
  We can only see what happens a month tomorrow though. 5k or 15k?

  By and large the 'money' they are 'spending' is coming from player turnover (anyone of us could do that).
  Irrespective of whether Kean is retained or not, money is being pocketed from these 'turnovers', both in and out.
  It matters not to the people involved where this leads us, because if, as, and when Kean is ditched the new man will then want to bring in his choice of players. Which means more ins and outs, and yet more money pocketed by individuals.
  Its all about money."
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