Kean calls on Rovers to become ruthless (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Kean calls on Rovers to become ruthless
8:20am Monday 3rd September 2012 in Sport
By Andy Cryer, Blackburn Rovers reporter
STEVE Kean admits Blackburn Rovers have to be more “ruthless” after throwing away a two-goal lead on Saturday – but insists two refereeing blunders were where the real blame lay.
Ruben Rochina’s sublime 84th minute back heel salvaged Rovers a point in the thrilling 3-3 draw at Elland Road as they maintained their unbeaten start to the Championship campaign.
Earlier, Rovers had raced into a 2-0 lead through Markus Olsson’s first goal for the club and a clinical strike from Nuno Gomes but a defensive collapse saw Leeds turn it round to lead 3-2 – with Rovers insistent two goals should not have been allowed.
Centre back Gael Givet will have x-rays on a suspected fractured foot bone today, while his defensive partner Scott Dann will have a hamstring strain assessed, after limping off just 10 minutes into the game.
Kean said: “We need to be more ruthless and we need to take the sting out of games but I don’t think you can legislate too much for the goal that gets them back in the game – it is a foul. If we go in 2-0, it is a totally different game.
“We are disappointed because we were excellent and we feel a big turning point was a blatant foul on Paul Robinson.
“Then they got their tails up.
“Certainly the second goal Gael is nudged in the back, I think it is Becchio, great finish but we feel as though that was a foul too. There were big turning points in the game and we feel we were on the wrong end of a couple.”
Kean was left concerned by the manner of Rovers’ second half collapse though as his side struggled to cope with Leeds’ aerial bombardment.
But was left satisfied with a points return of eight points from four games ahead of next weekend’s international break.
“We are very concerned defensively in the second half,” he said. “Not only long straight balls but the wide free kicks that were coming in, we felt we were far too open so we will be drilling the players on that.
“We feel as though Paul Robinson was not getting any protection at the back post, we were too open, the spaces were too big and we were letting Leeds United players run through what should be a very, very tight zone.
“We are disappointed with that but we will work on it until we can it much better. When Grant came on I thought he did very well, Gael Givet probably should have come off – he took an injection because he might have cracked a bone on his foot.
“He stayed on and Grant wobbled his knee. Everyone was digging in, we have come to a really, really tough venue and we have come back and nicked a point and dug in there. It is four games unbeaten and a good return.”
Comments(86)
Ewood say that!
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8:30am Mon 3 Sep 12
At least we can rest easy knowing kean and his 'coaching' team are going back to the training ground to work on a few things!!!!!!
jinkyjase
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8:35am Mon 3 Sep 12
bypass06
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8:41am Mon 3 Sep 12
Steve Kean invents instant cure for broken bones.
bobinspain
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8:47am Mon 3 Sep 12
Perhaps then, they'd sack the £25k a week pariah that is Steve Kean.
Coeur de Lion
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8:54am Mon 3 Sep 12
bobinspain wrote:Yeah rovers get ruthless sack Kean, there are 6 of us itching to come back.
Were that call for "ruthlessness" to be directed at Venky's, I'd endorse it 100%.
Perhaps then, they'd sack the £25k a week pariah that is Steve Kean.
SimonGarner
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9:05am Mon 3 Sep 12
I wonder what Bill Shankly's approach would have been?
Keith Myath
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9:06am Mon 3 Sep 12
forever-a-blue-jean
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9:09am Mon 3 Sep 12
All we need now is a manager put in place who can coach this squad and guide us back up. We have had a good start but it could easily have been played 4 lost 4.
Come on Venkys you have invested well this summer, brought in Shebby Singh who at least attracts better players and commuincates with the fans. Now unite the fans and remove Kean and take us back up.
I wonder if after the summer spending and if Kean was removed, would the action group back Venky's? I think I would....Over to Mr Mullan???
bring back the good old days
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9:16am Mon 3 Sep 12
CrispyRover
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9:16am Mon 3 Sep 12
RobbyRover
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9:18am Mon 3 Sep 12
He has a good squad at his disposal, all he has to do is put 11 names on a team sheet and let them play their way, Instead he's so scared of losing that once we go ahead we have to sit back and park the bus. It doesn't work! Use the momentum and score more goals! Give yourself more protection! Don't sit back and invite pressure. We're the kings of drawing games we should win then pretending it's a "point earned". Nonsense. Get out Kean and let's have a manager who can adapt to the situation of a game, not just stand there and lick his lips.
dallydally
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9:18am Mon 3 Sep 12
Frisson
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9:39am Mon 3 Sep 12
grouperbobby
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9:40am Mon 3 Sep 12
Lancs - pensioner
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9:40am Mon 3 Sep 12
Venkys just get him sacked, end of.
Lancs - pensioner
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9:43am Mon 3 Sep 12
Kean out
10k fans in.
A Darener
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10:06am Mon 3 Sep 12
Get a good manager innow and we can build on our good start.
bypass06
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10:10am Mon 3 Sep 12
forever-a-blue-jean wrote:Good post,...And i do believe the Action group would get behind Venky's,
Rovers have clearly a squad capable of winning this league by a decent margin. The owners must take some credit for appointing Shebby Singh who appears to have made an impact with better signings than Kean made last year. He also appears to have fans backing which Kean has never managed to do. Before people point out he was wrong publically criticising MGP, he was, I was equally horrified when I heard that comment on TV, but he did have a valid point and it does appear to have motivated MGP but it should have been said in private. He made a mistake and apologised which again is more than Kean has ever done.
All we need now is a manager put in place who can coach this squad and guide us back up. We have had a good start but it could easily have been played 4 lost 4.
Come on Venkys you have invested well this summer, brought in Shebby Singh who at least attracts better players and commuincates with the fans. Now unite the fans and remove Kean and take us back up.
I wonder if after the summer spending and if Kean was removed, would the action group back Venky's? I think I would....Over to Mr Mullan???
as long as they run the club efficiently, and installed a competent Manager.
Venk Off
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10:11am Mon 3 Sep 12
forever-a-blue-jean wrote:Spot on . A decent Manager would have kept us up last year and similarly with this squad we should walk this division .
Rovers have clearly a squad capable of winning this league by a decent margin. The owners must take some credit for appointing Shebby Singh who appears to have made an impact with better signings than Kean made last year. He also appears to have fans backing which Kean has never managed to do. Before people point out he was wrong publically criticising MGP, he was, I was equally horrified when I heard that comment on TV, but he did have a valid point and it does appear to have motivated MGP but it should have been said in private. He made a mistake and apologised which again is more than Kean has ever done. All we need now is a manager put in place who can coach this squad and guide us back up. We have had a good start but it could easily have been played 4 lost 4. Come on Venkys you have invested well this summer, brought in Shebby Singh who at least attracts better players and commuincates with the fans. Now unite the fans and remove Kean and take us back up. I wonder if after the summer spending and if Kean was removed, would the action group back Venky's? I think I would....Over to Mr Mullan???
Funny how **** blames the ref - funny how the ref disallowed good goals for Leicester ( to go 2-1 up ) and Leeds ( 4-2 up ) but no mention of that .
When **** get the sack I will be back
OnePostThenTheOther
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10:17am Mon 3 Sep 12
It's taken you almost TWO YEARS to admit that Kean and that is only one symptom of our defensive frailities. It seems obvious to all but Venkys that you are highly unlikely to be able to fix it.
KEAN SACK
THOUSANDS BACK
OnePostThenTheOther
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10:20am Mon 3 Sep 12
kiwipom73
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10:22am Mon 3 Sep 12
I agree fitness as been a concern over the last two seasons and still is.
Having 35 year old (x 2) hold those positions is a wee downfall with the teams 2nd half performances it seems.
Still, IF the team can kick on from here after the international break they could be very well positioned in two months time (also not in the League Cup, of course helps !).
On the down side....conman Kean would still be at the helm !!!!!!!!!!!!!
senlac1066
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10:22am Mon 3 Sep 12
baz58
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10:23am Mon 3 Sep 12
Rover Pete
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10:50am Mon 3 Sep 12
Venky's - do what he asks - get ruthless,
AND SACK KEAN NOW
jaysay
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11:04am Mon 3 Sep 12
benal13
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11:14am Mon 3 Sep 12
OnePostThenTheOther wrote:could colin hendry be our savioure ?the defence is just as bad if not worse since he came as keans drinking partner he obviously hasnt made the slightest bit of difference just jobs for the boys AGAIN you live by the sword and you die by the sword fingers crossed
“We feel as though Paul Robinson was not getting any protection at the back post, we were too open"
It's taken you almost TWO YEARS to admit that Kean and that is only one symptom of our defensive frailities. It seems obvious to all but Venkys that you are highly unlikely to be able to fix it.
KEAN SACK
THOUSANDS BACK
hugofakenham
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11:22am Mon 3 Sep 12
Lancs - pensioner wrote:what on earth do you want ?
A poor Tradesman that blames his tools springs to mind here. Kean out 10k fans in.
2nd in the table and unbeaten !!
you don't like to admit that Kean may be right and it's you myriad of
doubters that have got it wrong.
Give the man a chance.
He's doing better than Bournemouth Eddie down the road !!
PersianRover
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11:35am Mon 3 Sep 12
Players like Fabregras (of Arsenal) keep the ball in their opponents half. I believe we should mould Rochina as center midfielder, as he his our best passer by a mile. Then make use of Nunes, Formica and Gomes before the striker, as with these players they will keep the ball most of the match, and tire the opposition!
PersianRover
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11:38am Mon 3 Sep 12
When we were ahead last season, and then we lost, do you remember who Kean took off? Rochina and Formica and replaced them with stronger players who could not hold onto the ball, and what happened???
dangerous dave
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11:49am Mon 3 Sep 12
7 goals for 5 against not exactly title winning material - Coach Hendry not doing such a good job coaching defense - cant even defend from dead ball situations.!!!!!!!!!
!!!!
Everyone except Kean knew that we needed to strengthen the defense - but being an he didnt see this as a priority - we could be on for the same goals against as last season which will cost us promotion.
OUT WITH KEAN HENDRY SINGH AGNEW VENKYS
benal13
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11:49am Mon 3 Sep 12
hotpot8200
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11:51am Mon 3 Sep 12
Knob Jockey Sack
More Back
Road Runner Road Runner
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11:59am Mon 3 Sep 12
I didn't realize Dann had been replaced with Hanley ?
Flaming heck where is my head at !
Hmm, maybe that explains the collapse a little ?
Funny old game this football lark or maybe I've lost my marbles, oh well, so it goes.....
Worrying news should Dann and Givet be on the treatment table for a period :(
I did notice Givet limping quite heavily Saturday in the 2nd half, but thought that was his gait after years of football. Obviously not !
Arte et labore
RUinsane
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12:08pm Mon 3 Sep 12
.(BFC = bottom 3)
Well keanochio, every man and his dog said buy more defenders, you could have kept goodwillie and used rochina up top and saved 8 million.
Not blaming Jordan Rhodes who will be a decent buy, but for that kind of outlay you could have got two decent centre backs, or one decent centre back and a defensive midfielder, but you are a twonk and we are only second by mistake. The luck we have rode was the size of a blue whale.
You bought Scott dann last year knowing he was injured / injury prone and let Emerton,Salgado,Samb
a and Nelsen go, nearly your entire back four, then moaned about lack of experience!!!
Bizarre statement from the chancer that you are. Only last week when asked why you didn't get any defenders you said you felt we had players who could fill that role if need be. So Murphy and dunny at centre back next game. The mind boggles.
bypass06
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12:15pm Mon 3 Sep 12
Bolton talking about Protesting.
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Rovers 1495
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12:18pm Mon 3 Sep 12
Lancs - pensioner
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12:21pm Mon 3 Sep 12
hugofakenham wrote:Give the man a chance!!
Lancs - pensioner wrote:what on earth do you want ?
A poor Tradesman that blames his tools springs to mind here. Kean out 10k fans in.
2nd in the table and unbeaten !!
you don't like to admit that Kean may be right and it's you myriad of
doubters that have got it wrong.
Give the man a chance.
He's doing better than Bournemouth Eddie down the road !!
We have give this plonker 18 months and several chances, result
RELEGATION
If you can't see how bad the team is playing and how tactically inept your BOSS is then go to spec saves.
He is useless end off.
bburnrover
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12:48pm Mon 3 Sep 12
Our goals against stats are shocking since Kean took over and it was blatantly obvious we needed a couple of decent defenders and a right winger instead of the 6 cheap Portugese imports Kean brought in.The fact that Hendry's coaching has made no difference points to the lack of ability available as Dann and Hanley are poor defenders and it is obvious to everyone except Mr Magoo.
IrishRover3
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12:57pm Mon 3 Sep 12
benal13
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1:01pm Mon 3 Sep 12
Lancs - pensioner wrote:after youve been to spec savers report to the psyche ward at royal b,burn theres a bed waiting!!!!!!!!!
hugofakenham wrote:Give the man a chance!!
Lancs - pensioner wrote:what on earth do you want ?
A poor Tradesman that blames his tools springs to mind here. Kean out 10k fans in.
2nd in the table and unbeaten !!
you don't like to admit that Kean may be right and it's you myriad of
doubters that have got it wrong.
Give the man a chance.
He's doing better than Bournemouth Eddie down the road !!
We have give this plonker 18 months and several chances, result
RELEGATION
If you can't see how bad the team is playing and how tactically inept your BOSS is then go to spec saves.
He is useless end off.
bburnrover
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1:04pm Mon 3 Sep 12
It's same old same old. Play well, get a lead then lose it. Kean has no plan B - when Warnock had the nouse to switch Diouf to the other wing Kean had no response. Just like so many times last season (Norwich away being the ultimate case in point). It's a sham Desai doesn't have the intelligence to see it.
He has a good squad at his disposal, all he has to do is put 11 names on a team sheet and let them play their way, Instead he's so scared of losing that once we go ahead we have to sit back and park the bus. It doesn't work! Use the momentum and score more goals! Give yourself more protection! Don't sit back and invite pressure. We're the kings of drawing games we should win then pretending it's a "point earned". Nonsense. Get out Kean and let's have a manager who can adapt to the situation of a game, not just stand there and lick his lips.
I totally agree but being realistic while we are at the top the Raos think everything is ok as they like Desai are totally clueless about football tatics they only started watching some of the games last year.I played for 30 years and have watched Rovers and many others for 50 years in nearly all the divisions and I can tell you know that our squad need organising and motivating much better if we expect to stay in contention.
bburnrover
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1:05pm Mon 3 Sep 12
It's same old same old. Play well, get a lead then lose it. Kean has no plan B - when Warnock had the nouse to switch Diouf to the other wing Kean had no response. Just like so many times last season (Norwich away being the ultimate case in point). It's a sham Desai doesn't have the intelligence to see it.
He has a good squad at his disposal, all he has to do is put 11 names on a team sheet and let them play their way, Instead he's so scared of losing that once we go ahead we have to sit back and park the bus. It doesn't work! Use the momentum and score more goals! Give yourself more protection! Don't sit back and invite pressure. We're the kings of drawing games we should win then pretending it's a "point earned". Nonsense. Get out Kean and let's have a manager who can adapt to the situation of a game, not just stand there and lick his lips.
I totally agree but being realistic while we are at the top the Raos think everything is ok as they like Desai are totally clueless about football tatics they only started watching some of the games last year.I played for 30 years and have watched Rovers and many others for 50 years in nearly all the divisions and I can tell you know that our squad need organising and motivating much better if we expect to stay in contention.
IrishRover3
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1:07pm Mon 3 Sep 12
benal13
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1:15pm Mon 3 Sep 12
Lancs - pensioner wrote:dont think SPEC SAVERS would help him he is obviously blind if he hasnt seen whats been going on for the past 2 years !!!!!!!
hugofakenham wrote:Give the man a chance!!
Lancs - pensioner wrote:what on earth do you want ?
A poor Tradesman that blames his tools springs to mind here. Kean out 10k fans in.
2nd in the table and unbeaten !!
you don't like to admit that Kean may be right and it's you myriad of
doubters that have got it wrong.
Give the man a chance.
He's doing better than Bournemouth Eddie down the road !!
We have give this plonker 18 months and several chances, result
RELEGATION
If you can't see how bad the team is playing and how tactically inept your BOSS is then go to spec saves.
He is useless end off.
makaveli96
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1:22pm Mon 3 Sep 12
Hanley far to slow!
Kean, what about Diouf? Why did you believe what Warnock told you? He LIED!!! If had played for us on Saturday we would of won, end of!
RUinsane
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1:35pm Mon 3 Sep 12
IrishRover3 wrote:Spot on, every successful team knows how to play out a game. thats why we are not a successful team. When hughsie managed us the first quality he instilled in the players was to win the ball back and close down the opposition. Would give my right arm for another Robbie savage right now. The season we survived we had Jermaine Jones. But even he was a poor mans savage.
Doesn't Kean know how to play out games when your up a couple of goals, possession is the key, control from the back also, the midfield need to be told they have to get stuck in when the opposition get into our half to win the ball back, remember they can't score unless they have the ball. No sense in hoofing the ball up the pitch, lossing possession and not putting pressure on the opposition, you are just inviting them to come at you if you do that, but keans knows that from the Leeds game off course, idiot!
tootsio11
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1:36pm Mon 3 Sep 12
makaveli96 wrote:we did surrender a 2 goal lead yes
Murphy should retire. He lost the ball to many times to mention!
Hanley far to slow!
Kean, what about Diouf? Why did you believe what Warnock told you? He LIED!!! If had played for us on Saturday we would of won, end of!
kean shouldnt be in charge is
kean is tactically stupid yes
most are valid points BUT everytime a story appears on this site its all negative dont get me wrong everything isnt all rosey in the garden and alot of changes should be made but they wont be so lets try if possible look at the positives
we are unbeaten (not many thought that would be the case after 4 games)
we have played 4 pretty decent teams played poorly in alot of them but still got the points
we now have a break the squad can train together get used to one and other the first half on sat give me alot of confidence i seen a team starting to play together 1 decision turned the game and the crowd near won it but another positive would be after going 3-2 down i thought we lost it but we dug it out got the draw support the players people ya never know what could happen this year RTID
wampam
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1:55pm Mon 3 Sep 12
IrishRover3
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2:11pm Mon 3 Sep 12
wampam wrote:This is Keans team, or is it! If it is Keans team and the players brought in where accusitioned to suit Keans plans for promotion then there is a fault on both sides, Kean not understanding each players abilities and protential, however the fault also lies with the players who don't meet their potential, I think most of the midfield don't have the legs to hold a lead, so this is an issue even though those players are good at what they do, Murphy should never have been bought, everyone knew he'd suffer and will suffer as the season goes on to keep up, Dunn included in that bracket also.
always will support the players,even the bad ones. will never give kean the time of day.get out now.
district01
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2:29pm Mon 3 Sep 12
bobinspain wrote:Does he really get £25k a week?
Were that call for "ruthlessness" to be directed at Venky's, I'd endorse it 100%.
Perhaps then, they'd sack the £25k a week pariah that is Steve Kean.
Football has become a farce. If I was paid that much a week I'd stay just like Steve Kean has! Football is another world where the ordinary folk pay over the odds for the fortunate!
MxMave
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2:39pm Mon 3 Sep 12
benal13 wrote:Some people DON'T go to games, they read LET and Rovers.co.uk official website and this is generally the opinion they get, the "true fan" perspective. Unfortunately the people who do go to the games AND have half a brain realise that even though we scored more goals, we didn't deserve to.
Lancs - pensioner wrote:dont think SPEC SAVERS would help him he is obviously blind if he hasnt seen whats been going on for the past 2 years !!!!!!!
hugofakenham wrote:Give the man a chance!!
Lancs - pensioner wrote:what on earth do you want ?
A poor Tradesman that blames his tools springs to mind here. Kean out 10k fans in.
2nd in the table and unbeaten !!
you don't like to admit that Kean may be right and it's you myriad of
doubters that have got it wrong.
Give the man a chance.
He's doing better than Bournemouth Eddie down the road !!
We have give this plonker 18 months and several chances, result
RELEGATION
If you can't see how bad the team is playing and how tactically inept your BOSS is then go to spec saves.
He is useless end off.
blueblooded
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2:59pm Mon 3 Sep 12
OnePostThenTheOther wrote:Doubt it, he says he wouldn't want the job for the stick Kean gets:
In another article Neil Warnock days he would have resigned long ago if he was in Kean's position. Is he lining himself up for the job?
www.football.co.uk/b
lackburn_rovers/warn
ock_would_not_want_k
ean_s_job_rss3518941
.shtml
blueblooded
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3:02pm Mon 3 Sep 12
Warnock admits that he admires the Rovers manager's dignified way that he has handled the abuse he received before and after their relegation.Before the game at Elland Road on Saturday Warnock told the Daily Star: “I like Steve but I couldn’t do his job. “It’s difficult to be under the cosh like he has been. “I need to be in a happy environment and I could not work otherwise. ‘‘If the fans here weren’t 120 per cent behind me then I’d be off like a shot. “All managers face problems during their careers, that’s life, but if you listened to some of the phone-ins then you wouldn’t work anywhere. ‘‘There are always two or three people who can’t stand the manager – even if your team is top of the league.”
French Rover
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3:45pm Mon 3 Sep 12
IrishRover3 wrote:Good points Irish but Rovers have two weeks almost to get Dann and Givet fit again (plus Kazim-Richards0 - so the injuries should not be a problem hopefully. Also the international break will allow the team to bond a bit and make the players who came in late, like Rhodes, feel more part of a team. The 'rest' can only benefit us and rest assured we will absolutely hammer Bristol City!
Well from here on in it can only get worse, with injuries to Dann and Givet, Dann may not be the best, but he's better than some of the rest, the fundaments of winning games when your a couple of goals up is keeping possession or getting possession back as soon as the other team gets into your half, what it seems like is that the midfeld could not be bothered to put in the graft it takes to track back cos they dont have the legs, also when you want to control the game you bring the ball up from the back you don't get the keeper to hoof it up the pitch, thats how you lose possession, very basic tactics, tactics Kean still hasn't mastered and will never master if notz mastered by now. I think it will be a draw with Bristol city, on the evidence from the past games.
wolsty
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3:47pm Mon 3 Sep 12
OnePostThenTheOther
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3:52pm Mon 3 Sep 12
blueblooded wrote:But he wouldn't get stick if he had this squad at the top of the league on merit rather than luck.
OnePostThenTheOther wrote:Doubt it, he says he wouldn't want the job for the stick Kean gets:
In another article Neil Warnock days he would have resigned long ago if he was in Kean's position. Is he lining himself up for the job?
www.football.co.uk/b
lackburn_rovers/warn
ock_would_not_want_k
ean_s_job_rss3518941
.shtml
I read it that he thought Kean should have done the right thing and stepped down long ago (after the Charlie Adams game, at the end of the 10/11 season, after the Bolton game to name but three)
Personally I'd have Mick McCarthy down here in a heartbeat whilst he's still available.
A Darener
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4:07pm Mon 3 Sep 12
buzzinfly
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4:08pm Mon 3 Sep 12
juanbbien
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4:09pm Mon 3 Sep 12
district01 wrote:Yes it's true the whole football scenario is taking the p.ss out of the Working man,I could not believe the cost for the Leeds game £37 quid for a championship game bloody ridiculous
bobinspain wrote:Does he really get £25k a week?
Were that call for "ruthlessness" to be directed at Venky's, I'd endorse it 100%.
Perhaps then, they'd sack the £25k a week pariah that is Steve Kean.
Football has become a farce. If I was paid that much a week I'd stay just like Steve Kean has! Football is another world where the ordinary folk pay over the odds for the fortunate!
P888HOW
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4:11pm Mon 3 Sep 12
Dukes
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4:32pm Mon 3 Sep 12
simple as.
wampam
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4:34pm Mon 3 Sep 12
AndyW
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4:40pm Mon 3 Sep 12
The first thing Rovers need to be doing, if we're getting ruthless, is finally sending this useless waste of space packing.
AndyW
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4:45pm Mon 3 Sep 12
hugofakenham wrote:Are you for real?!
Lancs - pensioner wrote:what on earth do you want ?
A poor Tradesman that blames his tools springs to mind here. Kean out 10k fans in.
2nd in the table and unbeaten !!
you don't like to admit that Kean may be right and it's you myriad of
doubters that have got it wrong.
Give the man a chance.
He's doing better than Bournemouth Eddie down the road !!
We're 2nd in the table by pure fluke and could quite easily have lost all of our games so far.
Luck only takes you so far and it'll level out soon enough.
As for 'give him a chance'...really?!!
This joker has had so many (undeserved) chances, it's unreal.
The sooner Kean is sacked, the sooner we can start progressing as a club and we can crack on with promotion back to where we belong.
blueblooded
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4:54pm Mon 3 Sep 12
wampam wrote:notice it says "before the match"
kean dignified ? do me a favour warnock. is it dignified to be caught slagging another manager off using foul language,one who employed him at that.? is it dignified to attend court on dd charge with such a feeble excuse? was it dignified when he turned round to the fans last season and told them where to go etc..etc.. what do you know about dignified.? by the way,how is the sewer rat.?you are so dignified-NOT
wonder what he called him afterwards..
jogalot
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5:14pm Mon 3 Sep 12
Kean can say that about every game and it will be true - we need to be more ruthless. It is always true of every team. They could all be doing with being more ruthless. It's a totally empty useless phrase. A totally lame excuse.
Kean's (and Hendry's) defensive tactics are to blame and they negative effect they have on the team. It's been that way since Kean day 1. It will continue like that until Rovers get a proper manager, not a shareholder who only cares about himself.
KEAN OUT! HENDRY OUT!
formerover
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5:20pm Mon 3 Sep 12
AndyW wrote:Spot on.
hugofakenham wrote:Are you for real?!
Lancs - pensioner wrote:what on earth do you want ?
A poor Tradesman that blames his tools springs to mind here. Kean out 10k fans in.
2nd in the table and unbeaten !!
you don't like to admit that Kean may be right and it's you myriad of
doubters that have got it wrong.
Give the man a chance.
He's doing better than Bournemouth Eddie down the road !!
We're 2nd in the table by pure fluke and could quite easily have lost all of our games so far.
Luck only takes you so far and it'll level out soon enough.
As for 'give him a chance'...really?!!
This joker has had so many (undeserved) chances, it's unreal.
The sooner Kean is sacked, the sooner we can start progressing as a club and we can crack on with promotion back to where we belong.
Only1Garner
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5:38pm Mon 3 Sep 12
how about licence-less, defence-less or my favoutite Kean-less
Get out of our club you piece of vermin and then we can get back to being the club we once where.
KEAN OUT!!
A Darener
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5:39pm Mon 3 Sep 12
Only1Garner wrote:You could have said clueless!
Ruthless?
how about licence-less, defence-less or my favoutite Kean-less
Get out of our club you piece of vermin and then we can get back to being the club we once where.
KEAN OUT!!
bburnrover
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5:50pm Mon 3 Sep 12
merlinrabbit
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7:00pm Mon 3 Sep 12
bburnrover wrote:He said he would call him a sewer rat but that would be insultng to sewer rats. He said he hoped he would go abroad- he woudnt miss him. More or less ended his career at Rovers.He is a big hypocrite. He has more faces than the Town Hall clock
What dis Wanock say about Diouf after our game against QPR? Was it scum or something and he expected blackburn would get rid of him.He must have secretly fancied him when he said that what an hypocrit.
merlinrabbit
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7:10pm Mon 3 Sep 12
bypass06 wrote:and Burnley fans jeering and booing and Spurs fans booed their team off. Still there's no joy in slagging those fans off. I agree about Murphy. Too old, too slow,
Wonder if they'll get slated, If they go ahead.
Bolton talking about Protesting.
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dangerous dave
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7:21pm Mon 3 Sep 12
OUT WITH KEAN AGNEW HENDRY VENKYS
whappen
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8:20pm Mon 3 Sep 12
blueblooded wrote:It doesn't take much to look dignified alongside that pr!ck Warnock.
"Leeds United manager Neil Warnock says that he would have walked out on Rovers if he was getting some of the stick Steve Kean has put up with. Warnock admits that he admires the Rovers manager's dignified way that he has handled the abuse he received before and after their relegation.Before the game at Elland Road on Saturday Warnock told the Daily Star: “I like Steve but I couldn’t do his job. “It’s difficult to be under the cosh like he has been. “I need to be in a happy environment and I could not work otherwise. ‘‘If the fans here weren’t 120 per cent behind me then I’d be off like a shot. “All managers face problems during their careers, that’s life, but if you listened to some of the phone-ins then you wouldn’t work anywhere. ‘‘There are always two or three people who can’t stand the manager – even if your team is top of the league.”
Quite possibly the most unpleaseant manager on the planet.
ronnie clayton
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8:35pm Mon 3 Sep 12
jogalot wrote:A good defender positions himself that he does not have to do last ditch tackles,goal line clearances ,a top defender does not have to dye his hair blonde to get noticed on the park ,ask Tony Adams or Bobbly Moore they were great defenders but you don`t remember them for the dramatic last ditch goal line clearance , that actually is very pool positional defending., Hendry`s defending was basically unprofessional uneeded drama.
Kean trying to shift the blame away from himself yet again. He bought a ruthless striker, Rhodes, but what has it go to to with him and the attackers? Nowt! The attack showed it can do it in the first half. The defeat had nothing at all to do with being ruthless.
Kean can say that about every game and it will be true - we need to be more ruthless. It is always true of every team. They could all be doing with being more ruthless. It's a totally empty useless phrase. A totally lame excuse.
Kean's (and Hendry's) defensive tactics are to blame and they negative effect they have on the team. It's been that way since Kean day 1. It will continue like that until Rovers get a proper manager, not a shareholder who only cares about himself.
KEAN OUT! HENDRY OUT!
jogalot
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9:33pm Mon 3 Sep 12
ronnie clayton wrote:I was thinking much the same thing myself, Ronnie. Although you can't deny Hendry was a hero and made many saving tackles, that doesn't mean he knows an awful lot about defending. It was just raw instinct with him I think. Nothing wrong with that, but now he's a coach what is he going to tell the defenders? Probably nothing much about positioning or tactics. His shenanigans off the pitch with his bankruptcy and conning his friends who he is an egocentric barstad rather than a team player.
jogalot wrote:A good defender positions himself that he does not have to do last ditch tackles,goal line clearances ,a top defender does not have to dye his hair blonde to get noticed on the park ,ask Tony Adams or Bobbly Moore they were great defenders but you don`t remember them for the dramatic last ditch goal line clearance , that actually is very pool positional defending., Hendry`s defending was basically unprofessional uneeded drama.
Kean trying to shift the blame away from himself yet again. He bought a ruthless striker, Rhodes, but what has it go to to with him and the attackers? Nowt! The attack showed it can do it in the first half. The defeat had nothing at all to do with being ruthless.
Kean can say that about every game and it will be true - we need to be more ruthless. It is always true of every team. They could all be doing with being more ruthless. It's a totally empty useless phrase. A totally lame excuse.
Kean's (and Hendry's) defensive tactics are to blame and they negative effect they have on the team. It's been that way since Kean day 1. It will continue like that until Rovers get a proper manager, not a shareholder who only cares about himself.
KEAN OUT! HENDRY OUT!
roverfor60years
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10:53pm Mon 3 Sep 12
IrishRover3 wrote:And Ipswich, and Sunderland, and Norwich, and Swansea, and Tottenham, and the rest. Will he NEVER learn?
Doesn't Kean know how to play out games when your up a couple of goals, possession is the key, control from the back also, the midfield need to be told they have to get stuck in when the opposition get into our half to win the ball back, remember they can't score unless they have the ball. No sense in hoofing the ball up the pitch, lossing possession and not putting pressure on the opposition, you are just inviting them to come at you if you do that, but keans knows that from the Leeds game off course, idiot!
baldie
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11:00pm Mon 3 Sep 12
merlinrabbit wrote:So, Bolton's fans are revolting?We've known that for a long time,especially Moses.
bypass06 wrote:and Burnley fans jeering and booing and Spurs fans booed their team off. Still there's no joy in slagging those fans off. I agree about Murphy. Too old, too slow,
Wonder if they'll get slated, If they go ahead.
Bolton talking about Protesting.
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Captain Dreckley
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11:02pm Mon 3 Sep 12
Lancs - pensioner
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11:19pm Mon 3 Sep 12
jogalot wrote:Hi Jog, when Hendry came up against class he struggled, remember Gazza flicking him one way then the other in the England v Scotland game when he scored, last ditch tackles and throwing himself about yes he was brave heart but class no.
ronnie clayton wrote:I was thinking much the same thing myself, Ronnie. Although you can't deny Hendry was a hero and made many saving tackles, that doesn't mean he knows an awful lot about defending. It was just raw instinct with him I think. Nothing wrong with that, but now he's a coach what is he going to tell the defenders? Probably nothing much about positioning or tactics. His shenanigans off the pitch with his bankruptcy and conning his friends who he is an egocentric barstad rather than a team player.
jogalot wrote:A good defender positions himself that he does not have to do last ditch tackles,goal line clearances ,a top defender does not have to dye his hair blonde to get noticed on the park ,ask Tony Adams or Bobbly Moore they were great defenders but you don`t remember them for the dramatic last ditch goal line clearance , that actually is very pool positional defending., Hendry`s defending was basically unprofessional uneeded drama.
Kean trying to shift the blame away from himself yet again. He bought a ruthless striker, Rhodes, but what has it go to to with him and the attackers? Nowt! The attack showed it can do it in the first half. The defeat had nothing at all to do with being ruthless.
Kean can say that about every game and it will be true - we need to be more ruthless. It is always true of every team. They could all be doing with being more ruthless. It's a totally empty useless phrase. A totally lame excuse.
Kean's (and Hendry's) defensive tactics are to blame and they negative effect they have on the team. It's been that way since Kean day 1. It will continue like that until Rovers get a proper manager, not a shareholder who only cares about himself.
KEAN OUT! HENDRY OUT!
Coaching abilitys are not much better looking at our goals against column.
MatthewCA
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7:11am Tue 4 Sep 12
Still in the midfield and defence connection need to build strong. They should control the ball in much efficient manner that the opposition players really come behind and get the ball, be ruthless if necessary that is why games got yellow card and red card, just use it and get the bench players get more chance to play. Get a WIN in important as a team.
Murphy and Dunn should swap and play. Hope Martin Ollson will be ready for next match and control the right back. If you look at the defence players, all are prem experiance players, but quality and ruthless mind is less with them. They need more power on there legs to stay 90mts.
All the best to Kean and his team. Hope Kazim/Rochina and Gomes/Rhodes will be the best forward in the season.
Rovers 1495
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8:18am Tue 4 Sep 12
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So how much did you reckon Witsel was worth, Steve ?
MatthewCA
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11:36am Tue 4 Sep 12
srvp28
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5:30pm Tue 4 Sep 12
Except, of course, that it wasn't a foul. Robinson went crashing into Becchio, trying to catch the ball by the looks of it. He could've punched it clear without getting underneath their player. I'm sorry but when it comes to crosses into the box he's become a liability.
londonrover says...
8:24am Mon 3 Sep 12