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    lancs1985 wrote:
    alphajono wrote:
    midas wrote:
    notchuffed wrote:
    What amazes me in all this saga is the vitriol, foul abuse and implied threats directed at this manager. When it boils down to it this is only a game which has become a vast commercial enterprise. Nobody is going to lose their lives as a result of BRFC being relegated. Nobody is going to be severely maimed or disfigured. The question I would ask of these so called "fans" who spit out such apparent hatred of a man who in the end is only doing a job with what seems to be very poor assets or backing from the owners and little or none from the so called supporters is "What would your reaction be if you or your family were to be subjected to such abuse?" Do you expect the man to stand there week in week out calling his team squad and denigrating them? Of course not! He has to keep encouraging them and try to get the best out of a poor bunch. To me the losers in BRFC are not just the Manager and team but the true losers are those so called supporters who do not offer support. A supporter is someone who is there in the bad times as well as the good ones. My summation of the "BRFC supporters" calling for boycotts, abusing the manager whilst anonymously hiding behind their pseudonyms brings to mind they should be called "Rats" and of course "Rats" are known for being the first to leave sinking ships. So where is your integrity, true support, your desire to see the club get out of its problems - gone like the delight a lot of you had when Venkys bought the club off the Walker Trust. In a lot of BRFC supporters eyes Jack Walker was and in true supporters eyes still is a legend. The worth of a true BRFC supporter is also legendary by the fact it is a Myth. So get behind the manager not in his face, after all once the team are on the field there is little or nothing he can do to change what is happening in the game if the players ignore him except perhaps, in his substitution. Less than 500 supporters going to an away match less than 30 miles away shows the worth of BRFC supporters which, apart from those who went is worthless
    Yikes!!!!! (puts tin hat on and awaits the stream of abuse and vitriol directed at notchuffed!)
    I have never heard such a load of old tosh in my life...get a grip man
    abuse, you call that abuse chanting for him out and boooing him, get in real world for christ sake you pillock!!
    if it was at any other club it would be a hell of lot worse!!! and aswell how can his famly recieve abuse when they live down south you top hat, they go to school down there and kean goes down twice a week!!!
    he deserves every bit of abuse possible its down to him why club is like it is, he should have balls to tell them corrupt indian bastards that the club is screwed and things arent good over here but yet he just goes to india tells them everything is fine we have a squad whats capable of chapmions league football, (championship if lucky)
    steve kean and venkys can rot in hell for all i care, theywill never be made welcome at ewood or in england,

    and every local business and every company in blackburn shold be writeing public statements to whats going to happen to there buisness's cause blackburn as a town is nothing with out brfc!!!
    lancs 1985, would I be correct to assume that 1985 is the year you was born?
    I only assume this as for a 27 year old your comments are unbelievably immature.
    To suggest I do not care as you have earlier today is talking like you left your brain at the breakfast table this morning.
    My point earlier was simply to suggest that it would be nice to go to a game and everybody get behind the team.
    Instead you carry on trying to incite a riot.
    I am not a Kean or Venkys fan in any way at all and I believe they have invited trouble upon themselves. However I wish the likes of you and Morst would give it a rest.
    Yes they were appalling against City but did you really expect to get a result?
    More importantly is we all get behind the team and hopefully get a result against Villa.
    Unfortunately I suspect I have just waisted 3 or 4 mins of my time writing this post."
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We'll all pull together after Samba's exit, says Blackburn Rovers manager

STEVE Kean believes everyone at Blackburn Rovers will now be pulling in the same direction after insisting he had no regrets over how the Chris Samba saga was handled.

Less than 24 hours after Samba’s departure to Russian outfit Anzhi Makhachkala, Rovers returned to the Premier League drop zone after a dismal 3-0 defeat at high-flying Manchester City on Saturday evening.

Kean had been adamant Samba was not for sale throughout the January transfer window despite the player’s determination to quit Ewood, even turning down two offers from QPR, but Rovers finally granted the player his wish once the English window was closed.

The timing of the sale leaves Rovers with just three senior centre backs for the Premier League run in but, despite seeing his still without a clean sheet all season, Kean insists at least now he knows all his squad are playing for the same cause.

Kean said: “From our point of view, Chris never withdrew his transfer request. He wanted to go, he made that quite public.

“On a positive side, now we know everyone we have in the dressing room wants to be here. We will all be pulling together.

“We wish Chris all the best, he was very vocal in public about wanting to leave and he’s got his wish. I hope he does really well out in Russia.”

Kean insisted he didn’t hold talks with Samba to try and talk him round, with the player having not featured since the start of January.

He said the player would have been welcomed back into the fold had he been prepared to apologise for his public comments, but Kean admits that was looking increasingly unlikely.

He said: “I’m sure with any manager or bunch of team-mates if somebody is genuine in their apology, they want to be back in the squad and apologise for their conduct then I’m sure everybody would have accepted Chris back in again.

“But he wanted to go and he’s left and we wish him the best – he was a great servant while he was here.

“The pivotal point was that Chris didn’t want to apologise, didn’t want to withdraw his transfer request and was very adamant that he wanted to leave and that played a big part of it.”

Samba’s departure, hot on the heels of Ryan Nelsen’s shock switch to Spurs, leaves Rovers short of defensive cover as they battle for their survival.

But, when asked if he regretted not selling his former skipper earlier, he was emphatic in his answer.

“Without telling the figure, the figure we got was different to the figure we were offered in January,” said Kean.

“We were strong in our stance to say that the bid that we got in the January window was undervalued for what we thought Chris was worth.

“He was the captain of our team, he was very experienced so we felt it was a derogatory offer and we refused it. We made a strong statement to refuse it.

“The offer we received now was substantial.”

Samba insisted that Anzhi’s ambition played a big part in his decision to move to Russia. The Dagestan club, who are owned by billionaire Suleyman Kerimov, recently appointed Guus Hiddink as boss and have Samuel Eto’o in their squad.

“I see it as a new challenge,” Samba said.

“Everyone wants to work with a manager who has recognition like Hiddink. I want to try. Why not try?

“It’s a little club who wants to become a very big one in Russia.

“A very powerful owner who wants to transform the club, bring the club to greatness.

“He proved it in bringing in Eto’o and a manager like Hiddink.

“There are a lot of players who are going to come and add to the project I think.”

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