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Rovers chase Southampton and Swansea strikers
10:12pm Saturday 25th August 2012 in Sport
Exclusive By Andy Cryer, Blackburn Rovers reporter
BLACKBURN Rovers have turned their attentions to Ricky Lambert and Luke Moore - after finally giving up their chase for Jordan Rhodes.
Rovers are desperate to add to their fire power before Friday's close of the transfer window, despite an unbeaten start to the campaign, and have conceded defeat in their efforts to sign Huddersfield's hot shot.
The Lancashire Telegraph understand Rovers are now plotting an ambitious swoop for Southampton front man Lambert, and are ready to pay significant cash to land him.
Thirty-year-old Lambert has been a key member of the Saints squad who have climbed into the Premier League and it would surprise many if they allowed him to depart.
Rovers are also hoping to land Swansea striker Luke Moore, 26, on loan, who has also enjoyed spells at West Brom and Aston Villa.
For full story see Monday's Lancashire Telegraph
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Comments (126)
10:25pm Sat 25 Aug 12
Ossy blue says...
Tuncay available on a free??? He'd be alreet that lad!
10:28pm Sat 25 Aug 12
Dr Baconface says...
10:29pm Sat 25 Aug 12
Nurseman says...
10:29pm Sat 25 Aug 12
tombo1984 says...
As for Moore, would be a shockingly poor signing.
Rhodes to Moore. Jesus Christ, could our owners and manager be any more clueless?!
10:32pm Sat 25 Aug 12
Phoenix From The Ashes says...
10:35pm Sat 25 Aug 12
Spookyfish says...
If Steve Kean had kept his mouth shut we might have been able to persuade Huddersfield to let their man leave but after the 'Useless One' went public it just annoyed them and they stood firm.
Shebby Singh needs to put up or shut up, he has proved nothing so far and has made signings that anyone could make by landing two players, Murphy and Gomes, on longer term deals than anybody else would give them
10:36pm Sat 25 Aug 12
baldie says...
10:44pm Sat 25 Aug 12
Tomschoey says...
10:53pm Sat 25 Aug 12
proud burnley lad says...
10:55pm Sat 25 Aug 12
Lancs - pensioner says...
Same old bull sh!t, different day!
10:56pm Sat 25 Aug 12
Dr Baconface says...
10:57pm Sat 25 Aug 12
alfa111 says...
11:13pm Sat 25 Aug 12
proud burnley lad says...
11:13pm Sat 25 Aug 12
i8dingles says...
11:16pm Sat 25 Aug 12
proud burnley lad says...
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Dr Baconface says...
11:22pm Sat 25 Aug 12
proud burnley lad says...
11:27pm Sat 25 Aug 12
angryandy says...
11:28pm Sat 25 Aug 12
horsemeat says...
11:28pm Sat 25 Aug 12
dallarover says...
How times have changed though, we'd have laughed at these signings 12 months ago!
11:31pm Sat 25 Aug 12
proud burnley lad says...
11:33pm Sat 25 Aug 12
French Rover says...
11:41pm Sat 25 Aug 12
Dr Baconface says...
11:43pm Sat 25 Aug 12
srvp28 says...
11:44pm Sat 25 Aug 12
Billypieman says...
11:52pm Sat 25 Aug 12
proud burnley lad says...
11:57pm Sat 25 Aug 12
proud burnley lad says...
11:58pm Sat 25 Aug 12
Tatts says...
11:58pm Sat 25 Aug 12
cathedral citi says...
Bonleh..... The cesspit of yarksha!
12:07am Sun 26 Aug 12
Harrime says...
Rhodes would have happened if we'd have just said and offered £6m - but with these chepskates in charge - NO WAY!
Luke Moore - crap, Rickie Lambert - just another 'name' to tempt us - and we won't be - the only way Lambert would happen would be us offering Martin Olsson and Lambert being 'forced' out .. otherwise it's more smoke and mirrors.
Kean will probably then sign Warnock (he does want to come back here!) and claim that he's done a 'wonderful deal' .... but what we need is Olsson to stay and play on the left wing (that's Martin) with Warnock behind and a statement of intent to be made by paying £6m for Rhodes as well and finally keeping N'Zonzi - then we'll have enough quality, not just the 'numbers' that we have at present!
We've spent £4.5m on Best and Etuhu and already got £1m for the Yak, with Hoilett tribunal money to come - so WOW some backing Venkys!
The wage bill? Yes, sure Murphy is on big money - but let's not forget our big earners have already been cleared out of the club on our way down - Salgado, Samba, Nelsen, Emerton - et al - let's not forget other Prem. wages previously under Venkys - like Jermaine Jones and Santa Cruz ... we've got parachute payments too ....
We;ve been and continue to be sold down the river - these couple of results remind me of the turn of the year, drawing at Liv and winning at Man U - oh it will all be OK ... more 'hype', more broken promises and as we get towards another transfer window we acquire more cheap crap and then we'll sell our last bits of 'class' in Olsson (Martin) and N'Zonzi - after they're gone, tell me another player who could currently command anywhere near a £5m+ transfer fee!
Get with it Rovers fans - these results are papering over the cracks, this squad is mid-table Championship at best! Infact this squad isn't a patch on the one that finished 11th the last time we ended back in this league.
It's a DISGRACE the way Venkys are continuing to ignore the fans - just a shame 8,500 of you renewed your season tickets - a gate of 5,000 of which 2,000 were Leicester fans - would have been even funnier!
I'll make a pledge now - if Kean is sacked I'll go to every single home game for the remainder of this season like thousands of others ... however who in there right mind would now take this job?
Venkys would seemingly appoint another 'yes' man - we still aren't getting any 'straight' answers! I'm starting to think that Shebby is just a 'smoke screen' for more Venkys mayhem - while they continue to asset strip our once great and proud club aided and abetted by Keanochio ... I'm sick of all the lies!
1:42am Sun 26 Aug 12
srvp28 says...
However, I'm guessing that as you sat there staring at the monitor, pondering how to get your point across as insightfully as possible, the glare off the screen accentuated your broken nose and harelip, thus awakening carnal desires within your sister who was strewn across a p*ss-stained mattress on the other side of the family's decadent bedsit.
Concentrating solely on our exchange you were unaware that your sister had slipped out of her knock-off, turquoise shell suit - made from imitation nylon - and was now stood behind you wearing nothing but a verruca sock and a claret coloured strap-on.
Still unsure what to say, you decided to go and get a drink out of the toilet. It was then, as you stood up from your mother - who'd been acting as a makeshift seat - that your sister pounced. Grabbing you by the back of the neck she drove your face into the keyboard, all the while untying the knot in the string that was holding your flares up.
As soon as your hand-me-down leg wear fell around your ankles, and because it was your brother's week to wear the Y-fronts, you were ready to be taken. You tried to fight it but your sister, who'd started shaving five years before you, was far too strong. Also, secretly, you enjoyed it. Bang! She rammed your face back into the keyboard, ran her fingers through her hair to grease them up, then proceeded to insert all 6 digits up your back passage.
Replacing her shovel-like hand with the claret coloured strap-on she continued gripping you by the neck and ramming your face into the keyboard. Each time she screamed at you, "who's your daddy?!", to which you replied, "grandad is, grandad is!"
That is the only way I can explain the bizarre arrangement of characters and numbers in your reply to my post.
3:10am Sun 26 Aug 12
Stone Island: says...
6:58am Sun 26 Aug 12
lobby says...
7:22am Sun 26 Aug 12
blueblooded says...
8:07am Sun 26 Aug 12
ossie-rover says...
8:07am Sun 26 Aug 12
ossie-rover says...
8:13am Sun 26 Aug 12
Old rover says...
8:24am Sun 26 Aug 12
maltaman says...
8:37am Sun 26 Aug 12
rankoutsider says...
I was shot down the other week for suggesting that we should be pursuing Guddeti rather than Rhodes - mark my words if we sign him (that may well be on loan) and he stays fit we go up
8:37am Sun 26 Aug 12
Old rover says...
8:42am Sun 26 Aug 12
Iiii1111 says...
8:49am Sun 26 Aug 12
Morst The 88th Min Heartbreaker of Dingles! says...
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Lambert - now that is what I call joke of the week. Only bettered by the winner at the Edinburgh Festival - What gives Kids a bad name - The Beckhams!
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34th.......
8:52am Sun 26 Aug 12
Iiii1111 says...
Can you not see they are con men, only way to rid them is not supporting them.
You really think these shyster are the way forward ? you carry on giving them your support, see where it gets you......Rhoades was for the taking if only the regime had used some of millions they have pocketed....you my friend are a deluded sucker.......I really hope am wrong.
9:29am Sun 26 Aug 12
Old rover says...
9:34am Sun 26 Aug 12
Harwoodstblue says...
9:43am Sun 26 Aug 12
Old rover says...
9:47am Sun 26 Aug 12
Harwoodstblue says...
9:53am Sun 26 Aug 12
Old rover says...
9:53am Sun 26 Aug 12
disciples-of-georja says...
9:58am Sun 26 Aug 12
disciples-of-georja says...
10:27am Sun 26 Aug 12
Forever-Blue says...
10K back when Kean gets the sack.
10:38am Sun 26 Aug 12
Road Runner Road Runner says...
Maybe someone could take a leave out of this fellows book with an honest assessment of his teams performance.
Will be interesting what the post match comments will be after BRFC have played them ?
Arte et labore
10:44am Sun 26 Aug 12
Bigdel says...
11:07am Sun 26 Aug 12
Venkytrash says...
11:08am Sun 26 Aug 12
Road Runner Road Runner says...
We will always be there to support the club !
All that as ever been asked of these people is to put in place a foundation that they so cruelly ripped away creating more than uncertain times for our club, and thousands of folk will return en masse.
Arte et labore
11:09am Sun 26 Aug 12
Road Runner Road Runner says...
A quality piece.
11:13am Sun 26 Aug 12
Venkytrash says...
11:13am Sun 26 Aug 12
RUinsane says...
I tried to paste your comment in google translate but alas, MONG is, as yet, an unsupported language.
Have you had a stroke, can you raise both arms? Its hard to tell as your constant drooling could fool one into thinking you are in need of the emergency services.
You certainly back up the Bumley stereotype profile.
11:14am Sun 26 Aug 12
Accringtonian says...
11:16am Sun 26 Aug 12
GameRoverMan says...
11:28am Sun 26 Aug 12
bburnrover says...
11:56am Sun 26 Aug 12
bring back the good old days says...
Its Venkys managementship!!!
Full stop.
The ticket sales mean nowt, when you take into account wage deals being done with players who we will have trouble moving on as, if and when we fail promotion.
Up to now they have bankrolled the shortfall by wholesale selling of the better players, there is only so long you can do that.
When the tipping point comes and Venkys fail to come forward with the cash that is the point when admin beckons.
Portsmouth, Rangers etc. did not go the admin because of fan attendance.
12:35pm Sun 26 Aug 12
Old rover says...
12:36pm Sun 26 Aug 12
Morst The 88th Min Heartbreaker of Dingles! says...
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Rovers fans withholding ST cash, Shirt sposorship, business sponsorship, hospitality etc etc see the future without Kean and a trusted manager guiding our deals and future.
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Just seen the highlights on BBC - well played Robbo but boy did that stadium look empty - never seen it so empty for a league game. If any rovers fan thinks that is OK that you are toatlly deluded. Kean has to go and we all know he will let us down eventually and is incapable of taking us back to our position when he took over.
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34th... Civil War!
12:46pm Sun 26 Aug 12
Old rover says...
12:59pm Sun 26 Aug 12
Billypieman says...
1:05pm Sun 26 Aug 12
ryanw2313 says...
1:11pm Sun 26 Aug 12
real betis hotpot says...
1:15pm Sun 26 Aug 12
merlinrabbit says...
1:16pm Sun 26 Aug 12
merlinrabbit says...
1:30pm Sun 26 Aug 12
Road Runner Road Runner says...
My take is that I will never credit this divisive b'strd with anything, but I will find it in me eventually to work with this and return to Ewood were I can return and watch the shirt, the badge and players that I adore.
One satisfaction I can take in this is that if he doesn't succeed hen he must be fired, although that said - He as already failed countless times !
I've watched my team fail on numerous occasions and never felt the need not to attend until this little matter reared it's ugly head.
We can, if it is to believed, look forward to successful days thus we can only watch and wait to see if he can deliver ?
Belt up for the ride Old rover the twist and turns will have you going back for more !
Oh, the wonderful world of the football supporter !
Arte et labore
1:41pm Sun 26 Aug 12
A Darener says...
1:57pm Sun 26 Aug 12
Old rover says...
2:09pm Sun 26 Aug 12
baldie says...
Looks to me as if Kean has lost a lot of the power which kept him in a job last season,and that one slip will cost him his job.Well,hope so anyway.
Having said that,i haven't seen a Rovers team throw their bodies at shots like they did yesterday,since Hughes first took over.They're definitely playing for him.
Think we're limited as to a potential replacement if and when he does go.
Neil McDonald was bitter when he left,thinking the job should have been his.We played some good stuff under him when Sam was ill,and he was apparently popular with the squad,many of whom are still here.
Whether he could be tempted back with all that has happened is another matter.
2:15pm Sun 26 Aug 12
maradonner says...
Venlys Blue And White Army.
2:19pm Sun 26 Aug 12
OnePostThenTheOther says...
Haven't you got some greenery that you should be wirrying about tosspot.
Just in case you fiorget your new resolution, here's a reminder:
KEAN OUT
Cue filth.
2:36pm Sun 26 Aug 12
RUinsane says...
Enjoy
Yours truly
one of the 8000.
2:45pm Sun 26 Aug 12
londonrover says...
2:52pm Sun 26 Aug 12
Gaz M says...
3:23pm Sun 26 Aug 12
OnePostThenTheOther says...
Somebody's kettle's broken, hurry up or you'll miss your quota for the day.
You'll have to wait a long time before you can sing "Steve Kean's Blue and White Army", you and the couple of marked-out pillks from Derby.
4:02pm Sun 26 Aug 12
kingy999 says...
4:04pm Sun 26 Aug 12
RUinsane says...
4:29pm Sun 26 Aug 12
Chico! says...
Typical cretinous dingle.
This shack jawed chav is the funniest Poster I've ever seem.
Hilarious!
4:34pm Sun 26 Aug 12
Rovers75 says...
5:13pm Sun 26 Aug 12
bluerob says...
Thats all it needed, we have been badly let down by 8000.
The 10,000 wont be moved.
5:15pm Sun 26 Aug 12
bluerob says...
6:02pm Sun 26 Aug 12
Harwoodstblue says...
6:06pm Sun 26 Aug 12
rovertony says...
6:23pm Sun 26 Aug 12
Rovers75 says...
6:32pm Sun 26 Aug 12
baldie says...
6:36pm Sun 26 Aug 12
Harwoodstblue says...
6:56pm Sun 26 Aug 12
merlinrabbit says...
7:11pm Sun 26 Aug 12
bluerob says...
Had some hard times but it was still my club, now I feel very distant, but I will be back when he has left.
7:13pm Sun 26 Aug 12
baldie says...
7:28pm Sun 26 Aug 12
who deany says...
7:31pm Sun 26 Aug 12
BlueSkies says...
I refuse to go to Ewood while Kean is in charge, I hate the man beyond words (and others too)
Didn't go to a game yesterday but was at Stanley mid-week, will be at Wigan on Saturday, Rochdale the following week, Fleetwood the next and then Stanley the next.
Already booked a hospitality at Anfield for the missus v Wigan Athletic and now have a contact for tickets at Anfield (but not Manure etc).
I'm not prepared to sit home and bemoan not going to Ewood, life's too short and other options are available.
Try it sometime, watching a live game without the emotional involvement is very rewarding.
Obviously look forward to when I am happy to return to Ewood.
7:36pm Sun 26 Aug 12
bluerob says...
Grow some you lot and we can be rid of this idiot and move on together
8:28pm Sun 26 Aug 12
RUinsane says...
Enjoy
Yours truly
one of the 8000.
8:41pm Sun 26 Aug 12
Wild Rover says...
The only thing staying away will achieve is Administration, ruin and more relegation.
Sheep like Rovers "fans" buy in to the boycott bull. They dont realise that it is a Dingle led conspiracy to subvert our club and to try to ruin it
Who else but Dingles would be so hell bent on emptying Ewood
Real fans can see no benefit.
8:57pm Sun 26 Aug 12
Wild Rover says...
Certainly Not a Rovers fan....
8:58pm Sun 26 Aug 12
Wild Rover says...
Certainly Not a Rovers fan....
9:07pm Sun 26 Aug 12
kiwipom73 says...
Venky & Co would only consider a last minutes "7.00pm special @ Morrison,s" deal and do not to expect anything more from conman Kean and Co.
(Possibly SELL one get two free....)
Rhodes was NEVER going to happen....LAMBERT is NEVER going to happen.
Has stated before by many..."who would come and play @ Ewood right now...and with conman Kean has the Manager".
Only desperado "seasoned" pro,s looking for an extra season or two....OR young "out of work" Portuguese players it seem !
If they were serious, there is a need for 2/4 experienced players in their mid-twenties, hungry to show they have still much to offer back in the Premier level...
Singh is NEVER going to be the saviour many are hoping for....the whole problem stems from the Venky,s...so sit back and take in another frustrating season...
9:16pm Sun 26 Aug 12
baldie says...
9:39pm Sun 26 Aug 12
ronnie clayton says...
9:49pm Sun 26 Aug 12
ronnie clayton says...
For Gods sake bring integrity and decency back to ROVERS.
10:13pm Sun 26 Aug 12
RUinsane says...
10:29pm Sun 26 Aug 12
BlueSkies says...
Just take the blinkers off!
Bill Eckersley's testimonial, I was there, great night!
Liverpool, Stanley, Wigan, Rochdale.... love 'em all. Football fan is what I am.
Cardiff, Peterbro, Cambridge, Hereford, Wycombe...., never done Notts Forest but be there soon.
Be happy when you go on Ewood and let Kean know what a good job he's doing. Support the team or support Kean?
I LIKE FOOTBALL!
10:43pm Sun 26 Aug 12
BlueSkies says...
11:10pm Sun 26 Aug 12
Wild Rover says...
I have been posting on here for a few years so I dont think I am Kean, so ask the nurse for some more of those nice Smarties that make the monsters go away
11:10pm Sun 26 Aug 12
Wild Rover says...
I have been posting on here for a few years so I dont think I am Kean, so ask the nurse for some more of those nice Smarties that make the monsters go away
11:22pm Sun 26 Aug 12
Wild Rover says...
My a##$
You are no Rovers fan. Not in anyway so be a man and admit you are a twisted little dingle
12:17am Mon 27 Aug 12
earwego says...
1:46am Mon 27 Aug 12
bluerob says...
7:31am Mon 27 Aug 12
maltese blue n white says...
8:32am Mon 27 Aug 12
Old rover says...
9:29am Mon 27 Aug 12
baldie says...
Suddenly,i'm the spawn of Satan,and you're God's gift to football supporters, yet we were both there together a few weeks ago.
10:58am Mon 27 Aug 12
pepperpot2296 says...
11:55am Mon 27 Aug 12
bluerob says...
I can only assume you are happy with Kean ?
12:00pm Mon 27 Aug 12
bluerob says...
2:03pm Mon 27 Aug 12
baldie says...
There are some on here,Lancs pensioner and Stone Island to name but two,who chose to boycott last season.As i've said before,hats off to 'em.
If you don't want to go this season,then don't go.But don't then come on here calling those who still feel it's right to attend matches.
You're too late,the bandwagon's gone.
3:43pm Mon 27 Aug 12
Rovers 1495 says...
3:58pm Mon 27 Aug 12
roop_-33 says...
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7:58pm Mon 27 Aug 12
rovertakenmb says...
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10:04am Tue 28 Aug 12
bluerob says...
Believe me many of the none attenders are rock solid supporters of many years, who would never have turned their back on the club in any other circumstances.
3:50pm Wed 29 Aug 12
AndyW says...
From a financial point of view, they wouldn't care if the stadium was empty. The money they get from other avenues (not least player sales) absolutely dwarfs season ticket income.
As for 'real fans', absolutely no such thing and it's both childish and stupid to suggest otherwise.
A Rovers fan is a Rovers fan, whether you've been supporting them for 95 years, like these old codgers who talk about 'Torquay away in 1945' like it's some sort of war story, or you've only ever been to one game in your life.
And besides, would a 'real fan' choose to support anything to do with this regime, as it openly and blatently crushes everything good about our football club...?
4:06pm Wed 29 Aug 12
A Darener says...