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Blackburn Rovers hoping for swift appointment
7:52pm Friday 28th December 2012 in Football
BLACKBURN Rovers have tonight issued a statement confirming they are aiming to appoint a new manager as soon as possible.
Rovers sacked boss Henning Berg on Thursday after only 57 days in charge and have put reserve team manager Gary Bowyer in temporary charge for tomorrow's Championship fixture at Barnsley.
The club have now released a statement saying they are hoping to put a new manager in place swiftly, although they stressed an appointment is not imminent.
The statement read: "In light of current rumour and speculation, Blackburn Rovers would like to reassure supporters that the club are seeking to appoint a new manager in the shortest possible time."
Global advisor Shebby Singh added: “We are undertaking a proper process and though no announcement is imminent, we are working hard to make the right appointment as quickly as possible.”
For more news about Rovers' current situation, see tomorrow's Lancashire Telegraph.
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Comments (92)
7:56pm Fri 28 Dec 12
steralc says...
Doomed doomed doomed
Ha Ha
8:00pm Fri 28 Dec 12
wayne007 says...
8:03pm Fri 28 Dec 12
yellow man says...
8:06pm Fri 28 Dec 12
icannotrace says...
8:06pm Fri 28 Dec 12
icannotrace says...
8:06pm Fri 28 Dec 12
wayne007 says...
8:09pm Fri 28 Dec 12
McRover says...
8:11pm Fri 28 Dec 12
L.D.BLUE says...
8:15pm Fri 28 Dec 12
BeardwoodB says...
They just don't have a clue what they are doing.
Absolute shambles
8:18pm Fri 28 Dec 12
Dublin rover says...
8:19pm Fri 28 Dec 12
bburnrover says...
8:22pm Fri 28 Dec 12
jackmetickler says...
8:29pm Fri 28 Dec 12
R.I.P. Rovers says...
8:30pm Fri 28 Dec 12
noddymcleod says...
Remember, there's no rush because each week without a manager saves the wages bill.
Will the new manager be in place by the January window ? Doubt it. Which means that Shabby will be in charge of transfers - perhaps one of the reasons Bergo had to go.
I'm expecting a new "Buy three Portuguese and get two more free" spree. Seriously, the Venkys have to start off-loading some of the high earners, or the end will come even more quickly.
Interesting to hear Shabby admit that he hadn't personally spoken to the man he sacked - he was showing some Malysians round instead- what a poltroon (posh word for coward).
I'm already looking forward to next season's fixture list to see when we play Fleetwood.
Happy New Year to all who wish Rovers well.
8:33pm Fri 28 Dec 12
icannotrace says...
8:36pm Fri 28 Dec 12
dangerous dave says...
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!
BBC and National Press Singh says not in any rush to make an appointment then in next breath a statement that an appointment will be made as quickly as possible - the left hand does nt know what the right is doing - and if there is to be an appointment looks like whom ever it is will have to accept coaching staff appointed by Shabby Singh & Co - what a way to run a club - this man makes me feel sick to the core - sacks Berg then takes his Malaysian guests on a tour of the Clubs facilities - this man is in cuckoo land - who the hell does he think he is - we know an absolute idiot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hate to say it again but the 'cup match' is the one to make these idiots sit up and take stock of what we think of them - they cant fudge the gate receipts because everyone has to pay - dont go - dont go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!]
OUT WITH SHAW AGNEW SINGH HENDRY VENKYS AND BOYCOTT THE CUP MATCH
8:38pm Fri 28 Dec 12
RoverFanInTheUS says...
•He's already under contract (Cheap)
•He loves the club but older and under performing so easy to offer the role to stay around
•It's bat s**t crazy... Which is basically how Rovers operate these days
8:39pm Fri 28 Dec 12
gaylegarnerkennedy says...
VENKYS OUT
8:41pm Fri 28 Dec 12
Ray Gunn says...
8:41pm Fri 28 Dec 12
kazluvsrovers says...
Shabby the liar, how depressing, tough times ahead for us Rovers fans.
Venkys out ASAP please,
Whatever it takes before its too late!!!
8:46pm Fri 28 Dec 12
leitchy says...
8:48pm Fri 28 Dec 12
roverinmanchstr says...
I'll be watching Gary Flitctoft's Chorley ....Anyone else???
8:48pm Fri 28 Dec 12
kazluvsrovers says...
Im sick of lining their pockets when they dont give the fans anything back.
Get out Venky tossers you have ruined our club!!!
8:50pm Fri 28 Dec 12
leitchy says...
Taxi 4 Shebby.....
8:57pm Fri 28 Dec 12
CARover says...
Only the desperate will want to work with you and your masters, Jordan Ali, no thank you.
SS you are out of your depth, wrong choice in Berg so no faith with any of your decisions, speedy appointment….. Shebby define speedy?
May be you cannot go back to your short list after passing on the previous applicants so who will come to Ewood now? I am doubting whether you can pick you own nose, the failure of Berg and his staff should all land on your desk so hopefully you are next to go or do the right thing and resign
You have left me as one totally disillusioned supporter
8:59pm Fri 28 Dec 12
merlinrabbit says...
9:01pm Fri 28 Dec 12
Scamp Kingsley says...
9:01pm Fri 28 Dec 12
merlinrabbit says...
9:11pm Fri 28 Dec 12
merlinrabbit says...
9:12pm Fri 28 Dec 12
Shane says...
9:21pm Fri 28 Dec 12
Dukes says...
VENKYS OUT.
9:23pm Fri 28 Dec 12
burnleyfan4life says...
9:24pm Fri 28 Dec 12
kazluvsrovers says...
I hope nobody goes.
I hate Venkys with all my heart!!!
9:24pm Fri 28 Dec 12
BananaClarets says...
9:26pm Fri 28 Dec 12
Lancs - pensioner says...
Until Venkys sack HIM the club has had it,
Like some others have stated, it's time for a mass boycott, if you still can't stay away then at least start singing,
SINGH OUT VENKYS OUT for 90 minutes.
9:29pm Fri 28 Dec 12
kazluvsrovers says...
Can you blame him?
9:31pm Fri 28 Dec 12
one more season says...
NOTHNG ELSE HAS SUCCEEDED IN GETTING RID OF THEM SO PLEASE GIVE IT A GO.
MAYBE AN EMPTY STADIUM WILL SHOW THE WORLD AND THE MEDIA WHAT WE REALLY THINK OF THEM.
9:36pm Fri 28 Dec 12
burnleyfan4life says...
9:42pm Fri 28 Dec 12
Stone Island: says...
9:55pm Fri 28 Dec 12
silverstan says...
9:57pm Fri 28 Dec 12
Irish knowledge says...
10:00pm Fri 28 Dec 12
RoversLXXV says...
10:00pm Fri 28 Dec 12
CARover says...
10:04pm Fri 28 Dec 12
RoversLXXV says...
10:06pm Fri 28 Dec 12
daver72BRFC says...
10:09pm Fri 28 Dec 12
RoversLXXV says...
10:16pm Fri 28 Dec 12
L.D.BLUE says...
10:23pm Fri 28 Dec 12
bluenorwichrover says...
RTID
10:30pm Fri 28 Dec 12
bluenorwichrover says...
10:32pm Fri 28 Dec 12
FCBurnley says...
10:35pm Fri 28 Dec 12
glp says...
10:45pm Fri 28 Dec 12
burnleyfan4life says...
10:50pm Fri 28 Dec 12
To.guy says...
10:52pm Fri 28 Dec 12
To.guy says...
10:57pm Fri 28 Dec 12
To.guy says...
11:05pm Fri 28 Dec 12
one more season says...
Would you buy a used car off any of them? then dont keep giving them your money.
COMPLETELY BOYCOTT EVERYTHING BLACKBURN ROVERS UNTIL THEY SELL UP AND GO.NO MONEY, NO VENKYS CIRCUS.
11:06pm Fri 28 Dec 12
kazluvsrovers says...
11:25pm Fri 28 Dec 12
earwego says...
28 Dec 2012 22:28
Derek Shaw insists the club faces major financial peril if the former TV pundit carries on in charge
Rovers managing director Derek Shaw flew to Venkys HQ in India for a personal summit with owner Mrs Anuradha Desai to ask for Singh to be fired.
Mirror Football
have us fans got an ally in the board room?
11:28pm Fri 28 Dec 12
earwego says...
.uk/sport/football/n
ews/blackburn-direct
or-derek-shaw-calls-
1508938?
11:31pm Fri 28 Dec 12
wayne007 says...
11:37pm Fri 28 Dec 12
Road Runner Road Runner says...
Barnsley anyone ?
What a site it will be tomorrow on the touchline come 3 p.m.
We are there for the right reasons, but can the same be said of others ?
Were the famous Blackburn Rovers..............
..
So it goes.
Arte et labore
12:01am Sat 29 Dec 12
moh says...
12:08am Sat 29 Dec 12
A Rover 45 years and over says...
12:17am Sat 29 Dec 12
leitchy says...
Taxi 4 Shebby....he is lining his own pockets, on venkys behalf.
12:19am Sat 29 Dec 12
handyamBRFC says...
hotly tipped 4 BRFC manger
S singh
Mr Ali
Mr patel
and Mr khan
yes you've guessed it a bad Indian curry made with Venkys speciality chicken ......one that will make the club straight down the toilet. ha..ha...!
1:00am Sat 29 Dec 12
noddy57 says...
1:23am Sat 29 Dec 12
Donmac46 says...
1:42am Sat 29 Dec 12
baldie says...
1:57am Sat 29 Dec 12
gaylegarnerkennedy says...
2:14am Sat 29 Dec 12
Blackburn Yoof says...
Anyway, go on Brfcs.com and read the 'new manager' thread on there. it might open some eyes. All the above is on there. It might be rubbish but it's good to have both sides to the story.
4:01am Sat 29 Dec 12
BRFC75 says...
The diseased Rovers will never get on the road to recovery until the gangrenous Singh has left the club.
He has no experience ,totally out of his depth ,he was a football pundit in Singapore , and only then as the token local that all the foreign football channels employ, his comments were laughable.
Get Rid of Singh,and then the parasites that live off puss and poison will be shown the door very quickly .
The man that was brought into drive Steve Kean around when Kean got convicted for drink driving and came in under the title "defensive coach" does anyone know any reason why he is still there ?
Everyone I speak to is at a complete loss as to why HENDRY kept his job and we lose all these good men ,anyone know ?
Why have we lost honourable men and good coaches like Eric Back and we retain the services of the defensive coach ,then assistant to the reserve team manager and now back as first team coach again, the whole scenario is just ludicrous.
We need to bring in a very experienced man not as manager but as transitional overseer,someone to sort out the mess Singh and the previous manager )Kean) has put us in ,bring in someone like George Graham/Walter Smith/ Joe Royle someone to oversee a hiring of a new manager and then a completely new capable coaching staff ,the job now is too much for a manager to walk in and sort out .
6:53am Sat 29 Dec 12
makaveli96 says...
How can UK law let this happen after all our Grandads went through?
Discuss the Lisbon Lions and how near all there players lived to the ground? Discuss loyalty?
Discuss supporting your own?
6:57am Sat 29 Dec 12
cloggyjimmybrfc says...
This email is to say that your not wanted at ewood,never have been,never will be.
If you want to compare football c.v."s please let me know,as ill walk all over you with mine and im nowhere near qualified to run a multi million pound football club,you should be ashamed of yourself trying to buy off the action group to keep them quiet,also trying to be "one of the lads"doesnt wash with ANY rovers fans,apart from the idiots from B.R.A.G.,
There are now plans in place to get ewood empty over the course of this miserable season that the poor hard worling rovers fans has had to put up with this nightmare for over two years.
Your manners and the way you conduct yourself in public is othing short of embarressing,if you think laughing to every question on the radio lancs talk in is the way to conduct yourself then you need to learn manners,i dont see any rovers fans finding anything laughable or funny about what is going on at ewood.
You can,if you have the bottle,forward this email to your employers because quite frankly,they need telling straight.
The entire boardroom,along with yourself and the owners need to do us ALL a favour and leave this club because quite frankly your emptying the ground and it wont be long before the most ardent fan wont come back.
The last thing i"d like to just confirm to you with 100% fact,you said on radio lancs that 50% will hate me,50% will love me....you had better buy yourself a calculator and reassess that perecentage.
A very angry and lifelong rovers fan....
P.S.
Dont bother trying to **** me with politician talk shebby,ive been all over the world and met the likes of you in every country...
7:03am Sat 29 Dec 12
makaveli96 says...
Remember the dirty blanket protests at the maze prison in Belfast?
What about the women rights campaigner that threw herself under the horse?
What about the Berlin Wall?
What about REAL protests!!
It's our Ground, our Club, our Blackburn!!!!
7:08am Sat 29 Dec 12
makaveli96 says...
Isn't this against all the stations beliefs?
It's a local station!!
Well done on Twaites Brewery on having all the pumps removed from
Ewood!!
We're in this together!!
7:19am Sat 29 Dec 12
philmoulden says...
7:24am Sat 29 Dec 12
makaveli96 says...
When we had Standing in the Blackburn End, and the REAL 5000 fans attended!
This was the real era at Ewood! No frills, just local fans watching THERE team!
7:28am Sat 29 Dec 12
makaveli96 says...
7:30am Sat 29 Dec 12
Cumbrian Blue says...
I am sorry it hasn't worked out for HB as I am sure he is genuine guy and was in it for the right reasons.
Other than stating all the obvious points about how poorly SS is handling his role - it is totally bemusing how the club and Agnew in particular can allow such dross to be banded about by the media. If ever the was a need for a PR strategy and solidarity from WITHIN its now! Instead we have a non-existent PR machine...or do we? It strikes me the in-fighting continues. Who is leaking the rumour in the first instance? PA and DS?
Wake up and smell the coffee Venkys - SS is not up to the task. You need to listen to proper experienced football people (and I suggest you look further than your current stock of so called Diectors).
Appoint an inexperienced MANAGER (yes you need a MANAGER) at your peril.
Rumours of a group of coaches with no manager is absurd. Akin to a ship without a Captain, a Cabinet without a PM or an army without a General.
Success comes to people who are open to change and prepared to embrace it - but it also comes to those who realise the it comes about by doing things in a certain way. I'm all for change - but to create a new system of management which flies in the face of anything else that has ever been proven to work in football - or even appointing some far from appetising coach - is nothing short of ridiculous at this stage in proceedings.
What makes this farce even more galling is that we won't be able to make the most of the Jan. transfer window either.
The whole thing is a bl***y disgrace.
Please let us have our club back - even it it means we must rebuild from the lower leagues. We just want to see the back of you ALL.
7:30am Sat 29 Dec 12
makaveli96 says...
They were good times!
7:35am Sat 29 Dec 12
makaveli96 says...
Mike Dean could of been killed.
7:36am Sat 29 Dec 12
makaveli96 says...
It's her own version of sign language, sew to speak.
7:40am Sat 29 Dec 12
makaveli96 says...
"Hey! It's Christmas." I protested.
"Yes and it also happens to be my mother's funeral." she snapped back.
8:16am Sat 29 Dec 12
cloggyjimmybrfc says...
com/events/513748991
980937/permalink/514
330458589457/?notif_
t=like........No more messing around now...get on this....
8:43am Sat 29 Dec 12
French Rover says...
9:06am Sat 29 Dec 12
BeardwoodB says...
I know a few Barnsley fans and they said they are awful.
9:50am Sat 29 Dec 12
OnePostThenTheOther says...
Clueless and classless and that includes the nouveau-riche t0ssers that you conveniently had to show around on Thursday. Get out of our club you vacuous embarrasment
10:42am Sat 29 Dec 12
Roverthere says...
11:24am Sat 29 Dec 12
blue12 says...
2:30pm Sat 29 Dec 12
jeffbett says...
12:24pm Wed 2 Jan 13
stony bloke says...
7:05pm Thu 10 Jan 13
Bill Carson says...
Garner said, "Is Michael Appleton the right man for the job? I don't know. But I have been on the internet today and I see he has a worse win percentage than Steve Kean and he is not the experienced name the fans want so he is on a hiding to nothing from the start."