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    no ney never wrote:
    That they can't even sort out the season ticket issue on top of everything else that's gone on, surely your brist may be better employing some legal brains to see if there's anything in the fit and proper persons or the contract of sale for which some redress may be sought from the prem or venkys. Thing is none of this matters since you're all after the same thing, to own the club for nothing. Still can't see how you can criticise some one who buys the club then begins to recoup that money over a period by taking it out of the club, leaving them as owners at no cost. Only difference is, you think you can do it better than venkys. Problem is, all the rich pickings will have gone leaving you with just the scraps if you're still interested. Burnley FC...by far a much better run club than bstrd moaners. Howe the lads.
    Thanks for your words of wisdom.

    Sorry, I missed this little gem though; "Burnley FC...by far a much better run club..."

    No sh!t Sherlock.

    I think you'll find, if you'd bothered to read any of the comments on every article over the last twelve months, we are fully aware of that fact. Mind you, so are 90 others, so don't feel too superior.

    Hardly a glowing commendation of Kilby, is it, being better than someone who doesn't even exist.

    Naaah, our board's better than your board. Is this seriously how desperate you have become? It would be laughable were it no so f@cking pathetic. You have to feel sorry for them.

    "Burnley FC...by far a much better run club...", gosh you can be really, really hurtful when you want to be, you heartless beast.

    Pathetic doesn't begin to describe it."
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Keeley: Don't have a pop at Rovers fans

10:10am Saturday 9th June 2012 in Football Photograph of the Author By Andy Cryer , Blackburn Rovers reporter

GLENN Keeley has hit out at criticism of Blackburn Rovers supporters after insisting their love for the club has left them ‘torn’ over how to deal with unhappiness at the Venky’s regime.

Keeley represented Rovers for 11 years between 1976 and 1987 and has joined many fans by expressing his deep concern about the current direction the club is heading in under Venky’s following relegation from the Premier League.

Supporters were often chastised by pundits during the 2011/12 campaign because of their protests against boss Steve Kean and the club’s owners, while many fans are now reluctant to renew their season tickets for next season because of a lack of change at Ewood Park.

But Keeley believes Rovers supporters have been left in a no win position and that their protests have simply been because of their deep affection for the club.

“I’ve been really concerned about the bad press that the people of Blackburn have got because of their protests but what do you do?” said the 57-year-old former centre half.

“I really don’t understand why the national media have been so hard on the people of Blackburn.

“This is an awful situation for Blackburn Rovers as a club. But more than that this club is about the supporters and it’s a terrible situation that the community, through no fault of their own, find themselves in.

“How do you get people’s attentions? When you see things that are clearly wrong going on in front of your eyes week in week out, no-one wants to advise the supporters not to turn up or not to buy a season ticket. No-one wants that.

“But at the same time they are torn with a love, it’s like having your child as a drug addict or something, you’re torn between that love and yet on the other side of it you think, ‘This is wrong’.

“I do feel that a lot of the fans are in an awful position.

“How do you make your feelings known? What do you do, protest or stay away? I don’t know.”

Keeley offered his support to the Blackburn Rovers Supporters Investment Trust at a recent open meeting and, even if the group’s hopes of raising £10m and then launching a takeover cannot be realised, he believes highlighting the fans’ current predicament remains important.

“I don’t know if the trust can raise enough money or bring Venky’s to the table, for them this is peanuts,” he said.

“However will it raise the profile of the issue and keep it in the public eye? Yes. Do we need to do that? Yes.

“I know this has got the support of a lot more people than you would realise.

“I know because I talk to friends who are ex-players. It is difficult for some people because of the positions they are in to put their head above the parapet, I do understand that.

“But it’s difficult to see the sense in a lot of things that have happened in the last year and a half.”

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