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I've had positive talks with Venky's, insists Blackburn Rovers boss (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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I've had positive talks with Venky's, insists Blackburn Rovers boss
10:00am Friday 28th September 2012 in Sport
STEVE Kean has insisted that he has had ‘positive talks’ with Venky’s this week amid continuing speculation over his future as boss.
Kean is understood to be on the brink but Venky’s opted to delay a decision to remove him as manager.
The Scot has spoken to Venky’s this week but said: “I have had positive with the owners.
“Both of the main directors have had constructive conversations, all I can say is there have been positive talks with the owners.”
And Kean said the situation would not have an impact on Rovers when they travel to Charlton Athletic in the Championship tomorrow.
“The speculation and the media hype has not affected us leading into a massive game,” he said this morning.
“It has been a positive week inside the club.
“It is nothing new. I’ve had it many times.
“We have a strong dressing room full of strong characters.”
Danny Murphy is doubtful for tomorrow’s match against his old club because of injury.
Martin Olsson is available but brother Markus is not yet ready to return, with Colin Kazim-Richards also still out.
Comments are closed on this article.

Comments (209)
10:03am Fri 28 Sep 12
Keith Myath says...
10:05am Fri 28 Sep 12
peely says...
10:08am Fri 28 Sep 12
dallydally says...
10:10am Fri 28 Sep 12
happycyclist says...
10:10am Fri 28 Sep 12
oldblue says...
10:15am Fri 28 Sep 12
MxMave says...
GET IT THROUGH YOUR HEAD MATE, YOU'LL ALWAYS WALK ALONE. YOU DAMAGE THE TEAM EVERY SECOND YOUR LIP-SHAKING, SWEAT COVERED BALD HEAD MAKES AN APPEARANCE.
10:16am Fri 28 Sep 12
ewood1952 says...
10:16am Fri 28 Sep 12
bburnrover says...
He is in charge at Charlton be interesting how we play without Captain slow in midfield.
10:19am Fri 28 Sep 12
fiftyphead says...
.....etc.......etc!!
!
They can all just F**K OFF.
10:23am Fri 28 Sep 12
garydavies2304 says...
10:23am Fri 28 Sep 12
bluerob says...
Short term pain, long term gain.
10:23am Fri 28 Sep 12
bluerob says...
Short term pain, long term gain.
10:25am Fri 28 Sep 12
bow1974 says...
10:25am Fri 28 Sep 12
Wockneys says...
Boycott on the 6th of October.
10:26am Fri 28 Sep 12
davemal says...
10:28am Fri 28 Sep 12
rovertillidie says...
The delay in sacking him is yet another example of Venkys lack of knowledge of how football works. The only logical conclusion I can draw is that Kean has been offered another position in the club or within Venkys empire (hopefully as far away as possible from Ewood) and has been asked by them to keep things ticking over while they sort his replacement. Football doesn't usually work like this as the manager is in most cases is removed and his assistant takes over. Says to me Eric Black is not wanted either by the way!
The manner in which they are dealing with it is to try and replace him without him being seen to be "sacked". As always their communication is awful and the way they are going about it is uncommon to football....but it probably is more akin to the way things are done in business.
Either way I am praying for at least a draw on Saturday as this week (3 games culminating in the Wolves home game with anticipated protests/boycotts etc etc) could potentially put a big dent in our season.
Venkys need to act and act fast, my hope is that by the international break we have a new manager who doesn't "take the positives" out of every backward step but actually delivers an overall positive result and can bring this club back on track. At the end of the day it is about results on the pitch, and to a degree Kean has had those this season, but he has not had the performances to match as we have not been comfortable winners in any game whatsoever.
10:30am Fri 28 Sep 12
ewood1952 says...
10:31am Fri 28 Sep 12
stick to football says...
For those inside the ground for the next home game - turn your back on the play for the first 5 minutes - it will get the attention of the nationals - they cant ignore the fans anymore
10:31am Fri 28 Sep 12
ponyton says...
10:31am Fri 28 Sep 12
nil bye mouth says...
10:33am Fri 28 Sep 12
Bangkok Rover says...
Looks like the boycotts have had a real impact. Hopefully he'll be out before Wolves but if not, a mass boycott would seem to be the best way forward.
10:33am Fri 28 Sep 12
onlyonesimongarner says...
10:37am Fri 28 Sep 12
carribbian says...
10:38am Fri 28 Sep 12
wolsty says...
10:39am Fri 28 Sep 12
bluearmy81 says...
10:40am Fri 28 Sep 12
MxMave says...
10:42am Fri 28 Sep 12
MxMave says...
10:43am Fri 28 Sep 12
ewood1952 says...
10:43am Fri 28 Sep 12
jaysay says...
10:46am Fri 28 Sep 12
The-Jerome-and-Steve-Show says...
No honour
No pride
No truth
No morals
No hoper
What kind of man embarasses his own family like this masn does, imagine the shame his wife and children must feel.
kids at school Kid one "my dad owns a shop"...............
........... Kid kean "well my dad is on tv everday and in the papers and is famous" Kid one " No your dad is a drunken fool, who everybody laughs at as they know he cannot do his job or tell the truth"
10:49am Fri 28 Sep 12
bluerob says...
This is our only chance, for once we all need to be together on this .
11:02am Fri 28 Sep 12
anthanyscamp says...
One way or another he will be out of a job in the near future, it's just unfortunate that he's in an industry that rewards incompetence and failure with millions of pounds.
Hopefully he'll be out by the Wolves game and if he's not, Venkys will have to suffer the humiliation of a home game with an almost empty ground, apart from the away fans and stubborn rovers fans.
My main concern is that Venkys will not have learned from this experience and continue to alienate fans. So that some fans won't return until Venkys sell up and move on, which I hope will be soon but I can't see happening despite their obvious inability to run a football club well.
I just hope the rovers action group can raise enough money over the next few years, incase Venkys do bail out they leave rovers in a financial mess, by that time 10-15 mil might be enough to stop the club ending up like Portsmouth (a league 1 team with £61 million worth of debt)
11:05am Fri 28 Sep 12
pedro w says...
11:10am Fri 28 Sep 12
Forever-Blue says...
YOU ARE GETTING SACKED. FACT
He really is deluded to the point were i actually think he needs mental help.
11:10am Fri 28 Sep 12
buzzinfly says...
There is no doubt that BRFC now reads Steve Kean FC.
Steve Kean , the most deluded man in football, the turd that you can't flush away.
I was a mild and meek man, untill he appeared. Now I would like to say one thing STEVE KEAN JUST F**K OFF. YOU LEECH. I CAN NOT STAND THE SIGHT OF YOU. GET THIS A**EHOLE OUT OF THE CLUB. FFS.
11:11am Fri 28 Sep 12
anthanyscamp says...
11:16am Fri 28 Sep 12
ponyton says...
11:16am Fri 28 Sep 12
handsj14 says...
11:22am Fri 28 Sep 12
londonrover says...
oooooooooooooooooooo
ooooooooooooo.
11:22am Fri 28 Sep 12
DanBlackburn says...
Lack of a co-ordinated message as ever.
Clueless amateurs. How they ever made money in their other businesses I will never know.
Boycott 6th November. It is the only way.
11:23am Fri 28 Sep 12
sonny says...
11:25am Fri 28 Sep 12
Road Runner Road Runner says...
I've had positive talks with the owner ? Ah well, not over footballing matters then because that is a plainly obvious shambles regardless of the creaking lofty position.
I would expect nothing less than a 'positive week inside the club' you utter buffoon, but that said just what is your positive ? From my perspective it does not equate to cohesion or organization.
I just cannot stand you around any longer such is my disdain toward your attitude for BRFC.
Unbelievable :(
Arte et labore
11:33am Fri 28 Sep 12
anthanyscamp says...
Danny Murphy 'injured' is no loss to the team, as he was an absolute passenger against Middlesbrough who too slow to even foul let alone tackle opposing players.
Stick our favourite pensioner Pedersen in the middle along with etuhu and hopefully he can spray some decent balls up to Rhodes, since he will probably be sitting 10 yards inside our half again for most of the game.
Ps. if any travelling fans see kean before the game can you please taser him and stick him in a storage container somewhere!
11:35am Fri 28 Sep 12
bigste says...
11:44am Fri 28 Sep 12
noirbrook says...
11:48am Fri 28 Sep 12
buzzinfly says...
11:49am Fri 28 Sep 12
Duni Akwe Tu? says...
Those who protest in the ground are perpetuating Steve Keans tenure by suppying Venkys with funds to keep Steve Kean in Drambuie for the considerable future.
Venkys do not care about anyones opinion, they have made that more than clear. Not one protest brought any kind of responce from Venkys.
The low attendances are affecting them because it means less rupees. The only way we can bring change is by this route. An attendance of around 5000 would bring more media publicity than any protest ever would.
A yellow, green or blue t-shirt aint gonna change a thing, as lovely as they are, but cutting of their income via attendances is slowly pushing Kean out of the door, if he remains come Wolves a mass non-attendance will finally push him out.
11:55am Fri 28 Sep 12
lowelife says...
11:58am Fri 28 Sep 12
garyintandem says...
12:01pm Fri 28 Sep 12
andychoc says...
Kean out, kean out, kean out, kean out!
I wont be boycotting the wolves game but ill be in full kean out voice!!!!!
12:02pm Fri 28 Sep 12
andychoc says...
Kean out, kean out, kean out, kean out!
I wont be boycotting the wolves game but ill be in full kean out voice!!!!!
12:03pm Fri 28 Sep 12
tom2malta2 says...
12:07pm Fri 28 Sep 12
hezy35 says...
12:11pm Fri 28 Sep 12
Rovers til I cry says...
12:13pm Fri 28 Sep 12
Roy of the says...
By the way, I checked Jerome Anderson's SEM Group website. I note he has a UK office, a New York office and another.............
. in Portugal.
12:13pm Fri 28 Sep 12
OnePostThenTheOther says...
12:13pm Fri 28 Sep 12
RachRovers says...
12:17pm Fri 28 Sep 12
the_iconoclast says...
12:19pm Fri 28 Sep 12
manin8lack says...
12:19pm Fri 28 Sep 12
Bazzer says...
12:20pm Fri 28 Sep 12
jackmetickler says...
even if it is only for the first 15 mins as suggested.... in a way even better as this gets it across that we arent prepared to abandon the club but just want this mess sorted NOW.....
If you have already bought your season ticket then they already have pocketed you money but at least we can show solidarity eh!
12:20pm Fri 28 Sep 12
A Darener says...
That will mean his definite sacking on Monday.
Trouble is it has ruined another weekend for the fans. More waiting for the inevitable!
If nothing has changed by next weekend then it has to be...
ALL OUT BOYCOTT!!!!
ps my score thumbs up/down doesn't seem to work anymore! is there a probem?
12:21pm Fri 28 Sep 12
bluerob says...
12:22pm Fri 28 Sep 12
ponyton says...
Nuno Gomez does not play 90 minutes but still get his full 50,000 pounds a week.
Kean and Hendry , pathetic pair of fraudsters between them 40,000 pounds a week.
Rhodes 50,000 pounds a week., decent but way too expensive .
Between the four of them you could play the total wages of all the players and management/coaches of both Brighton and Huddersfield the average wage of Huddersfield is 4,000 POUNDS A WEEK and Brighton players get a bit more, Murphy wages would cover all the wages fro Huddersfiels totalk first team squad, Kean in desperation brought in two old guys that no one else wanted and pays them both 50k a week then brings in a so called defensive coach (who is hopeless) and pays him 8,000 pounds a week, a lot of money we did not need to spend ,throwing away millions every year for rubbish.
12:23pm Fri 28 Sep 12
ROVERSCAN says...
12:23pm Fri 28 Sep 12
benal13 says...
!!!!
12:30pm Fri 28 Sep 12
benal13 says...
12:32pm Fri 28 Sep 12
bit nearer than a long way from home says...
Kean will be gone before very long
Kean Out!!!!!!!!!
12:35pm Fri 28 Sep 12
Bluey - BBurn says...
12:36pm Fri 28 Sep 12
A Darener says...
............ Will moan at anything!
Join the Boycott 6th Oct. 2012!!!!!!!! You know it makes sense!
12:36pm Fri 28 Sep 12
OnePostThenTheOther says...
Total crank and a crackpot. You'd be lucky to find one it's like in each stand. Maybe it could be identified when it jumps up and. elts out "Steve Kean's Blue and White Army.
Cue more dogsh!t about real fans and why after 37 years I'm about to go and watch two other teams play each other.
12:36pm Fri 28 Sep 12
1riversider says...
LETS ALL GO TO EWOOD PARK, ASSET STRIPPING WHAT A LARK
12:39pm Fri 28 Sep 12
Dan11 says...
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If the Venkys want to lose even more supporters and match day revenue from home games, and alienate the fans even more, they are are doing a great job of it. Just keep Kean as manager and they will find out, it is going to get a lot worse in terms of boycotting and loss of revenue and losing paying customers!
12:43pm Fri 28 Sep 12
earwego says...
en/news/596/exclusiv
e/2012/09/28/3409430
/-?
Sherwood expected to turn down Blackburn job
"The 43-year-old is, however, very wary about which job to take as his first in management and is likely to consider Blackburn as a huge gamble given the record and reputation of the club’s owners".
Notice it mentions the owners,not the fans.
12:48pm Fri 28 Sep 12
Bill Carson says...
1:10pm Fri 28 Sep 12
londonrover says...
1:11pm Fri 28 Sep 12
merlinrabbit says...
1:13pm Fri 28 Sep 12
stony bloke says...
1:14pm Fri 28 Sep 12
stony bloke says...
1:25pm Fri 28 Sep 12
earwego says...
1:27pm Fri 28 Sep 12
jack01 says...
Anyway, all that is irrelevant. Kean and his 'team' were in on the takeover, hence how he got the top job straight away and hence how even when faced with financial ruin Venkys still cannot sack him. I'd like a read of their 'contract' with Kentaro.
1:29pm Fri 28 Sep 12
spike t says...
1:30pm Fri 28 Sep 12
DaveTd says...
There are other things to hurt yhe organisation and that is to withdraw from lotteries food bars programmes and shop even if you have to go the ground until he has gone.
1:32pm Fri 28 Sep 12
eddie the eagle says...
1:35pm Fri 28 Sep 12
harwoodblue says...
1:42pm Fri 28 Sep 12
the_iconoclast says...
Like I say we're well positioned, give him a chance this season, things aren't going too badly.
Would a new manager necessarily do better than where we are now?
I know performances haven't been good but we're getting the points.
Would you want Alex Mcleish or Tim Sherwood? I wouldn't.
Klinsmann, Benitez, McCarthy or Redknapp would do for me.
I really don't understand, maybe I'm an idiot, why people are so upset with Kean. Has he done that much to offend people? We got relegated, we're doing OK. Teams go down, teams go up, but for gods sake don't throw your toys out the pram.
YOUR CLUB NEEDS YOU!
Boycotting may get rid of Kean, it might kill the club. Who knows? Venkys may get tired of Kean, or tired of the circus and totally give up. Who will replace them? I know I've not got a spare 10m or whatever it'd cost.
Anyway, basically, getting united behind whats there instead of united against whats there or staying divided will give the club a huge boost at this moment. Cue the I'm an idiot replies. Cheers in advance.
1:44pm Fri 28 Sep 12
Only1Garner says...
1:50pm Fri 28 Sep 12
Matt Newcastle says...
2:01pm Fri 28 Sep 12
jim 2012 says...
2:05pm Fri 28 Sep 12
proud burnley lad says...
2:05pm Fri 28 Sep 12
doomchanter says...
The fair weather (boycot) fans are just spitting out their dummies.
One more win and you will see this season out!
GOD SAVE THE KEAN!
2:05pm Fri 28 Sep 12
makaveli96 says...
2:08pm Fri 28 Sep 12
givet82 says...
2:09pm Fri 28 Sep 12
jim 2012 says...
2:14pm Fri 28 Sep 12
bluerob says...
Is your bodyguard driving you down or have the players allowed you on the coach ?
2:15pm Fri 28 Sep 12
givet82 says...
2:15pm Fri 28 Sep 12
1riversider says...
For your benefit, this is in English - GO AWAY YOU DINGLE MORON
2:17pm Fri 28 Sep 12
bluerob says...
2:18pm Fri 28 Sep 12
Brunzig says...
Ive got two words for Kean and his cronies **** OFF! Your not wanted at our club, you never was! When he goes he can take this **** he brought in with him!
2:21pm Fri 28 Sep 12
shebby kean says...
If you want Deadwood then don't expect us to stand in your way - you can have him.
Your performance at the Lane last season was the worst I have ever seen by a Premier League team - you truly are a national laughing stock.
2:22pm Fri 28 Sep 12
givet82 says...
2:24pm Fri 28 Sep 12
givet82 says...
2:28pm Fri 28 Sep 12
BJS says...
2:29pm Fri 28 Sep 12
givet82 says...
2:37pm Fri 28 Sep 12
French Rover says...
ABK
2:38pm Fri 28 Sep 12
petergray says...
Promotion or not, league champions or not, FA cup winners or not, win or lose on Saturday or not our club is in a downward spiral that may well be terminal and although our negligent, deluded owners are the cause of all our problems there is only one thing that can be done to initiate our slow and painful recovery.
Until kean goes no other conversation about our club has any relevance - including the dangers of getting the next manager wrong.
Once kean has gone then we can unite as a club - who knows we may even join in with the chant "new manager's" blue 'n' white army at Ewood again!
With this in mind I feel that those who have made very good points here about the importance of backing the team and warning about the dangers of getting what we a wishing for need to realise this one point - our club as a united entity is dead and gone. The first stage of getting it back again for those that will remain is getting kean out.
Nothing else matters.
2:42pm Fri 28 Sep 12
the_iconoclast says...
Personally I think whoever the manager is we should get behind them. Kean, Sherwood, Klinsmann or Eddie Howe. Keans obviously taken us to the championship but we're 3rd. I think people should have thicker skins and get over whatever has irked them and get behind BRFC. Give the club some momentum rather than acting to drag us backwards. I know a lot of people have big issues but I honestly don't understand them. Most of my family are with the boycotters. If this carries on it could be the end of Kean or the end of Blackburn. Who will replace Venkys? If we get behind all at the club we've got a good shot at returning to the premier league and things may be reconciled with venkys too. The only things I'm unimpressed with are the performances and the stay away fans. We are getting results. Venkys don't want the club to be a failure and we aren't. If we start to drop, Kean will be out ASAP. In the meanwhile enjoy doing well in the league, cheering and being positive at matches, as opposed to the pantomime people seem to think they're buying tickets to at the moment.
2:48pm Fri 28 Sep 12
CARover says...
An empty stadium is needed for the Wolves game, come on lads send them a message they may understand, stay away for one match
2:55pm Fri 28 Sep 12
shebby kean says...
But your cynicism is understandable as there have been so many false alarms about Kean's imminent departure.
You should have backed him to still be Blackburn supremo at start of current season after you went down in May - he was 100-30 with Hills.
What I don't understand is the state of people's teeth in your town. I saw Panorama a couple of weeks ago - it was on the Shatworth estate. Don't you have dentists in Blackburn?
PS Blackburn is a low wage area so Kean earns more in a week than the average bod earns in a year, so would you walk if you were him?
3:04pm Fri 28 Sep 12
givet82 says...
3:09pm Fri 28 Sep 12
jim 2012 says...
3:30pm Fri 28 Sep 12
The Mighty Weetabix says...
Is the use of the word "insisted" here somehow meant to imply that Kean isn't to be believed. Scurrilous.
3:33pm Fri 28 Sep 12
oldblue says...
3:37pm Fri 28 Sep 12
Rovers 1495 says...
3:47pm Fri 28 Sep 12
OnePostThenTheOther says...
Going down there is just prolonging the futility. His position is untenable, and has been since we scraped survival on the last day of 2010/11.
3:56pm Fri 28 Sep 12
RUinsane says...
I suppose there is one positive to come out of it from our point of view. Murphy's injury. Superb that means Michael Stipe will not be on the pitch so we will be playing Charlton with 11 players instead of 10. Kean hand in your resignation and take murphys law with you coz he's pants.
4:00pm Fri 28 Sep 12
guiderover says...
4:12pm Fri 28 Sep 12
OnePostThenTheOther says...
Having said that you have definitely got the better manager. Maybe we could do a swap then your brilliant fans could all get behind Steve Kean. Oh wait a minute.......
4:22pm Fri 28 Sep 12
chrisstuttard says...
4:26pm Fri 28 Sep 12
handyamBRFC says...
who do you want..as new manager??
who will we get..as a manager??
whos available..?? who do you rate..??
Lets now begin with a conversation on who we now want and may have to have for THE POST OF BRFC MANAGER...???
come on lets see you write in... and also tell us what palyers we dont need at Ewood and who we actually need..?? what palyers can we attract to Ewood.?
4:28pm Fri 28 Sep 12
buzzinfly says...
4:29pm Fri 28 Sep 12
ponyton says...
SKY SPORTS (2/6/2011) IF BIG SAM HAD BEEN THERE THEY WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN RELEGATED,IT WAS A BIG MISTAKE LETTING HIM GO !
RADIO FIVE LIVE SPORTS 03/062012 HENDRY BACK STEVEN (KEAN) I BELIEVE THE MAJORITY OF SUPPORTERS ARE BEHIND HIM .
SKY SPORTS 20 /06/2012 I`M DELIGHTED TO BE APPOINTED COACH AT ROVERS ,I`VE BEEN OUT THE GAME A LONG TIME , I AM HERE TO SORT THE DEFENCE OUT, STEVEN`S A GREAT COACH..
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DAILY RECORD 15/06/2010 I COULD NOT GET MY HEAD AROUNG GUYS WITH ENGLISH ACCENTS WEARING SCOTTISH SHIRTS ,IN MY OPINION IF YOU WERE NOT BORN IN SCOTLAND YOU SHOULD NOT BE PLAYING FOR THEM.
SCOTTISH DAILY MAIL,8/09/2012 JORDAN RHODES SHOULD BE THE FIRST PERSON PICKED FOR SCOTLAND.
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COMMENTS FROM THE HONEST AND THE NON LIAR HENDRY , OF COURSE WHEN HE MADE THE COMMENT ABOUT GUYS FROM ENGLISH AND A VAGUE CONNECTION TO SCOTLAND , NOT ALLOWED TO PLAY FOR SCOTLAND HE WAS A PUNDIT FOR SCOTTISH FOOTBALL MATCHES FOR ESPN IN SCOTLAND, WHEN HE MADE GOOD COMMENTS ABOUT BIG SAM IT WAS BEFORE HE GOT HIS JOB OF SORTING OUT THE DEFENCE BY HIS MATE HE CALLS (STEVEN)....
HE`S NOT SILLY ENOUGH TO MAKE COMMENTS ABOUT HOW GOOD BIG SAM IS NOW OR HOW RHODES SHOULD NOT BE PLAYING FOR SCOTLAND NOW.
4:35pm Fri 28 Sep 12
handyamBRFC says...
who do you want..as new manager??
who will we get..as a manager??
whos available..?? who do you rate..??
Lets now begin with a conversation on who we now want and may have to have for THE POST OF BRFC MANAGER...???
come on lets see you write in... and also tell us what palyers we dont need at Ewood and who we actually need..?? what palyers can we attract to Ewood.?
4:35pm Fri 28 Sep 12
UKdarran says...
4:37pm Fri 28 Sep 12
RUinsane says...
For me sherwood is a no go, no experience. What about Oli Gunner?
4:38pm Fri 28 Sep 12
lru.net says...
4:38pm Fri 28 Sep 12
ponyton says...
4:42pm Fri 28 Sep 12
RUinsane says...
4:56pm Fri 28 Sep 12
givet82 says...
4:56pm Fri 28 Sep 12
givet82 says...
4:57pm Fri 28 Sep 12
silverstan says...
5:02pm Fri 28 Sep 12
BeatleBill says...
ntelligence.com/2012
/09/28/kean-won-stay
-of-execution-at-bla
ckburn-after-wifes-1
1th-hour-call-to-own
er-280902/. Particularly jaw-dropping is the following line: "Mrs Desai is known to want to improve relations with fans groups. Via Shebby Singh she has told one supporters’ group that if they nominate three Rovers fans who need ‘life-changing medical treatment’, then Venky’s will arrange and pay for such treatment." Do they really think Rovers fans are so stupid as to embrace Venky's for their philanthropy rather than their ability to run a football club? Merely a distraction from the real problems at Ewood.
5:07pm Fri 28 Sep 12
ponyton says...
5:18pm Fri 28 Sep 12
James.NoNayNever says...
5:25pm Fri 28 Sep 12
P888HOW says...
hes on £400,000 a year ,and he`s " HONEST "
5:29pm Fri 28 Sep 12
Cricketanton says...
By Nick Harris
SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year
28 September 2012
Steve Kean earned a ‘stay of execution’ at Blackburn Rovers after his wife Margaret called the club’s co-owner Anuradha Desai to say she believed sacking him would be unfair, sources in India and England have told Sportingintelligence
.
Insiders say the decision was taken to sack Kean last weekend and plans for his dismissal were so advanced that a press release confirming the news was in circulation at Ewood Park on Monday morning, signed off by Venky’s and ready to be posted on the club website.
But in an 11th-hour intervention, sources say, Mrs Desai took at least one call from Mrs Kean to protest at what was then believed to be an imminent departure.
It is not known whether Kean himself and / or Kean’s agent, Jerome Anderson, also spoke to Mrs Desai but the sacking did not go ahead as planned and the press release was not issued.
Rumours persist that Kean will be leaving the club anyway in the next few weeks – but nobody at the club or in India will confirm this, leading to fresh confusion and anger among fans. Rumours that compensation remains the only sticking point cannot be confirmed.
This is not the first time that Kean has apparently been on the brink only to be spared by Mrs Desai. To Sportingintelligence
’s knowledge, he has been close to the sack at least three previous times only to argue successfully he should stay – or have unconfirmed other parties make that case on his behalf.
Sportingintelligence called Mrs Desai at her family home in Pune, India, this morning to ask about Kean’s situation. A secretary said she would return the call but this has not happened at the time of writing.
Kean said earlier today he had held ‘positive and constructive’ talks with the owners.
On Tuesday, Venky’s ‘global advisor’ Shebby Singh, said he had ‘no comment’ to make about Kean’s long-term future but that Kean would remain in charge for this weekend’s match against Charlton.
Singh has declined to comment further.
Blackburn director Paul Agnew said earlier this week that he had no knowledge that Kean was about to be sacked.
Anderson has not responded to messages. Rovers MD Derek Shaw is away today and unavailable for comment.
Blackburn were relegated from the Premier League under Kean last season and are currently third in the Championship with 14 points from seven games.
Crowds at Ewood Park have plunged this season, raising concerns over the club’s income streams. Blackburn have no shirt sponsor and a fractured relationship with other sponsors and local businesses.
Singh took day-to-day control of the club as the owners’ hands-on representative in England over the summer. He is understood to favour a change of manager, as do both Mrs Desai’s brothers and co-owners, Balaji and Venky.
The brothers, along with virutally all senior club and Venky’s insiders, have urged managerial change on multiple occasions during the past 14 months but Mrs Desai has always overruled them to keep Kean in place.
Mrs Desai is known to want to improve relations with fans groups. Via Shebby Singh she has told one supporters’ group that if they nominate three Rovers fans who need ‘life-changing medical treatment’, then Venky’s will arrange and pay for such treatment.
What many fans would rather see is a new manager and a fresh start but it remains unclear when such change might happen.
5:35pm Fri 28 Sep 12
Wockneys says...
5:36pm Fri 28 Sep 12
Bill Carson says...
By Nick Harris
SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year
28 September 2012
Steve Kean earned a ‘stay of execution’ at Blackburn Rovers after his wife Margaret called the club’s co-owner Anuradha Desai to say she believed sacking him would be unfair, sources in India and England have told Sportingintelligence
.
Insiders say the decision was taken to sack Kean last weekend and plans for his dismissal were so advanced that a press release confirming the news was in circulation at Ewood Park on Monday morning, signed off by Venky’s and ready to be posted on the club website.
But in an 11th-hour intervention, sources say, Mrs Desai took at least one call from Mrs Kean to protest at what was then believed to be an imminent departure.
It is not known whether Kean himself and / or Kean’s agent, Jerome Anderson, also spoke to Mrs Desai but the sacking did not go ahead as planned and the press release was not issued.
Rumours persist that Kean will be leaving the club anyway in the next few weeks – but nobody at the club or in India will confirm this, leading to fresh confusion and anger among fans. Rumours that compensation remains the only sticking point cannot be confirmed.
This is not the first time that Kean has apparently been on the brink only to be spared by Mrs Desai. To Sportingintelligence
’s knowledge, he has been close to the sack at least three previous times only to argue successfully he should stay – or have unconfirmed other parties make that case on his behalf.
Sportingintelligence called Mrs Desai at her family home in Pune, India, this morning to ask about Kean’s situation. A secretary said she would return the call but this has not happened at the time of writing.
Kean said earlier today he had held ‘positive and constructive’ talks with the owners.
On Tuesday, Venky’s ‘global advisor’ Shebby Singh, said he had ‘no comment’ to make about Kean’s long-term future but that Kean would remain in charge for this weekend’s match against Charlton.
Singh has declined to comment further.
Blackburn director Paul Agnew said earlier this week that he had no knowledge that Kean was about to be sacked.
Anderson has not responded to messages. Rovers MD Derek Shaw is away today and unavailable for comment.
Blackburn were relegated from the Premier League under Kean last season and are currently third in the Championship with 14 points from seven games.
Crowds at Ewood Park have plunged this season, raising concerns over the club’s income streams. Blackburn have no shirt sponsor and a fractured relationship with other sponsors and local businesses.
Singh took day-to-day control of the club as the owners’ hands-on representative in England over the summer. He is understood to favour a change of manager, as do both Mrs Desai’s brothers and co-owners, Balaji and Venky.
The brothers, along with virutally all senior club and Venky’s insiders, have urged managerial change on multiple occasions during the past 14 months but Mrs Desai has always overruled them to keep Kean in place.
Mrs Desai is known to want to improve relations with fans groups. Via Shebby Singh she has told one supporters’ group that if they nominate three Rovers fans who need ‘life-changing medical treatment’, then Venky’s will arrange and pay for such treatment.
What many fans would rather see is a new manager and a fresh start but it remains unclear when such change might happen.
5:51pm Fri 28 Sep 12
vicn1956 says...
DON'T ATTEND THE WOLVES GAME!
5:57pm Fri 28 Sep 12
Tatts1000 says...
6:01pm Fri 28 Sep 12
ossyrover1 says...
6:14pm Fri 28 Sep 12
dangerous dave says...
Everyone should boycott the next match and show total solidarity about wanting this idiot and his cohorts out of the club!!
Hendry has done nothing in terms of tightening up the defence and our so called Operations Director is again as silent as the grave!!!
The whole bunch are a disgrace.
OUT WITH KEAN HENDRY AGNEW SINGH VENKYS IN WITH THOUSANDS OF FANS.
6:16pm Fri 28 Sep 12
P888HOW says...
shows what kind of man you are.pathetic.!!!
6:16pm Fri 28 Sep 12
jim 2012 says...
if shebby get's his way i think an empty stadium at next home game will help
go to ewood but don't go in the ground till half time
6:24pm Fri 28 Sep 12
in moses we trust says...
6:25pm Fri 28 Sep 12
eddie the eagle says...
6:25pm Fri 28 Sep 12
Captain Dreckley says...
BACK THE SUPPORTERS TRUST
Kean out
Venkys out
6:28pm Fri 28 Sep 12
jim 2012 says...
6:29pm Fri 28 Sep 12
andychoc says...
You will ALWAYS be 2nd best in the east lancs derby!
KEAN OUT
R.T.I.D
6:29pm Fri 28 Sep 12
P888HOW says...
they wont put the cameras on till the ground fills up.
there is only one way, a full Boycott. bloody hell wake up plz.!!!
6:33pm Fri 28 Sep 12
P888HOW says...
6:42pm Fri 28 Sep 12
merlinrabbit says...
6:44pm Fri 28 Sep 12
chrisstuttard says...
6:46pm Fri 28 Sep 12
andychoc says...
7:01pm Fri 28 Sep 12
jim 2012 says...
and you can not see past laughing stock
media quote,you are right the performance was the worst tactically inept performance by a rovers team
in 137 years of blackburn rovers
but that is not the fans falt
steve kean turned this club in to what you see today and no one else
7:03pm Fri 28 Sep 12
sean_brfc says...
7:09pm Fri 28 Sep 12
carlmc1 says...
7:15pm Fri 28 Sep 12
kazz says...
7:15pm Fri 28 Sep 12
kazz says...
7:15pm Fri 28 Sep 12
juanbbien says...
7:16pm Fri 28 Sep 12
GameRoverMan says...
7:16pm Fri 28 Sep 12
carlmc1 says...
7:18pm Fri 28 Sep 12
Xander_ says...
7:19pm Fri 28 Sep 12
Hovis1945 says...
7:20pm Fri 28 Sep 12
GameRoverMan says...
Yiha!
7:21pm Fri 28 Sep 12
thresholdweller says...
7:21pm Fri 28 Sep 12
Lancs - pensioner says...
Lets do it for our club, simple!
Boycott Boycott Boycott Boycott Boycott Boycott Boycott Boycott Boycott Boycott Boycott Boycott Boycott Boycott Boycott Boycott Boycott Boycott Boycott Boycott Boycott Boycott Boycott Boycott Boycott Boycott Boycott
Force the Baffoon OUT
7:21pm Fri 28 Sep 12
RUinsane says...
7:22pm Fri 28 Sep 12
Stone Island: says...
7:22pm Fri 28 Sep 12
kazz says...
7:23pm Fri 28 Sep 12
Lancs - pensioner says...
The Wolves game!
7:24pm Fri 28 Sep 12
lightamatch catcharabbit says...
7:25pm Fri 28 Sep 12
givet82 says...
7:26pm Fri 28 Sep 12
goldfinger59 says...
http://www1.skysport
s.com/football/news/
11676/8118734/Steve-
Kean-has-been-forced
-to-resign-after-his
-position-as-Blackbu
rn-manager-became-un
tenable-
7:26pm Fri 28 Sep 12
GameRoverMan says...
7:26pm Fri 28 Sep 12
wampam says...
7:26pm Fri 28 Sep 12
blueblooded says...
7:27pm Fri 28 Sep 12
Lancs - pensioner says...
7:28pm Fri 28 Sep 12
edmy says...
Kean quits! Blackburn boss forced out after Venky's try to interfere with teamBy Matt LawtonPUBLISHED: 19:09, 28 September 2012 | UPDATED: 19:22, 28 September 2012
Steve Kean’s turbulent 22 months in charge of Blackburn came to an end on Friday when he quit as the Championship club’s manager.
Sources at Ewood Park have told Sportsmail he decided to walk out because he believed the club’s Indian owners were trying interfere in his team selection before Saturday's match at Charlton.
THE NEWS MOST ROVERS FAN HAVE BEEN WAITING TO HEAR
7:28pm Fri 28 Sep 12
kazluvsrovers says...
7:29pm Fri 28 Sep 12
forever_rovers says...
7:30pm Fri 28 Sep 12
Dan11 says...
Official on sky news. One of the greatest days of my life.
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An article says its because of the Venkys trying to interfere in team affairs
7:30pm Fri 28 Sep 12
blueblooded says...
HUZZAAAAAAAHHHHHH!
7:30pm Fri 28 Sep 12
merlinrabbit says...
7:31pm Fri 28 Sep 12
givet82 says...
7:34pm Fri 28 Sep 12
trampus says...
.....stating that he has he left the club in a position of automatic promotion! Deluded even till the end, which probably does not amaze anyone! I pray they have someone lined up that is a proven manager! Party on Blackburn!!!!!!
7:34pm Fri 28 Sep 12
Rovers1975 says...
7:34pm Fri 28 Sep 12
Duni Akwe Tu? says...
Finally the stubborn turd has been flushed.
7:35pm Fri 28 Sep 12
Nuttall Street says...
How can you say it has been a positive week and expect to be taken seriously? If this has been a positive week what does it take to make a negative week? (I suppose lending your life savings to the defensive coach would do it.)
I was not going to say the following until I read Kean's insulting drivel, but I had a dream that I was at the Charlton game and all the fans were chanting "Kean Out", when all of a sudden Kean reached Inside his ghastly MacIntosh and pulling out a revolver put it to his temple and blew his head off! Now I will be going to the Charlton game and no doubt the fans will be chanting "Kean Out".........
7:35pm Fri 28 Sep 12
merlinrabbit says...
7:38pm Fri 28 Sep 12
RUinsane says...
7:38pm Fri 28 Sep 12
RUinsane says...
7:39pm Fri 28 Sep 12
RUinsane says...
7:40pm Fri 28 Sep 12
greenscreener says...
Lets pack Ewood out against Wolves and show the world what BRFC are all about.
7:43pm Fri 28 Sep 12
kiwipom73 says...
Unless we see the back of Kean Anderson and Co and an experieced Manager come in, then this silly saga/soap opera will continue....
Of course to rid the club of these Venky,s is the only TOTAL solution.
7:48pm Fri 28 Sep 12
edmy says...
7:53pm Fri 28 Sep 12
unclejacklegend says...
8:11pm Fri 28 Sep 12
jogalot says...
8:21pm Fri 28 Sep 12
Mattrovers says...
8:27pm Fri 28 Sep 12
Rovers1975 says...
8:29pm Fri 28 Sep 12
wampam says...
s blue an white army " will do. congrats to boycotters...you made this happen. now we can reunite.... no divisions please.it is done. next ... lets unite to ruin andersonshite
8:41pm Fri 28 Sep 12
jonjonweatherman says...
10:01pm Fri 28 Sep 12
The Mighty Weetabix says...
He is taking the positives.
10:03pm Fri 28 Sep 12
The Mighty Weetabix says...
LONG LIVE THE KEAN!
9:01am Sat 29 Sep 12
Tatts1000 says...
9:02am Sat 29 Sep 12
Tatts1000 says...
11:24am Sat 29 Sep 12
handyamBRFC says...
BRFC New manager...??
who do you want..as new manager??
who will we get..as a manager??
whos available..?? who do you rate..??
Lets now begin with a conversation on who we now want and may have to have for THE POST OF BRFC MANAGER...???
come on lets see you write in... and also tell us what palyers we dont need at Ewood and who we actually need..?? what palyers can we attract to Ewood.?
12:01am Mon 1 Oct 12
The Mighty Weetabix says...
Then we can get Alan Shearer as manager. He'd be good.
We should also keep Colin Hendry on because he won the League with Shearer.
Hendry would be especially good for getting the beers in and getting smashed out of his head, tanked up on 9% lager and being so sh1t faced he loses all his money and then bullies his elderly neighbours into handing over their life savings.
EVERY club needs a total degenerate alcoholic f*uck like Hendry.
2:13am Mon 1 Oct 12
The Mighty Weetabix says...
He's proper positive
H-I-V