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  • "Venkys you are ruining our club.
    Steve Kean you are ruining our club.
    The squad of players is also to blame too.

    Last seasons team was probably not as strong as this seasons team.
    We had Diouf, De Santos, and Jones last season.
    This season we have Rochina, Yakubu and Lowe that have all come in.
    With the exception of Jones I do not think the squad is any less capable of keeping us up.
    I just feel a lot of the players' body language and performances this season suggest we are not gonna get out of this mess.
    Yes.. Steve Kean needs to go but he will not walk. I think he needs to get his team selection and formation right before he does anything.
    Yakubu has done really well this season and would do even better with someone to play off.
    The only reason Kean will not play a 4 4 2 formation is because he has not got the players to do it.
    Sadly, our team lacks a natural leader (Jones was that last season and he was only 18). The players look like they are all waiting for someone else to get hold of the game when I wish someone would just grow some cahoonas and be the first to do it. This would give both the fans and other players a lift too.
    Our midfield is where we need to strenghten.
    Dunn is too slow and cannot last 60 minutes, Nzonzi is another David Batty, Pederson gives the ball and fouls away far too much and Hoilett looks as though he does not want to be here (he is the only one of the four of any class).
    The question is who do we get in?
    We have owners with no ambition and a manager who has no balls to tell the fans what is really going on behind the scenes and that he has no money to spend.
    At least if he did that he would get a bit more respect from me.
    The fact that he is staying does not suprise me. Would you walk out on a weekly wage or job that you are never gonna get again in your life!! His missus is probably telling him the same. He is getting as much cash in the coffers as he can and as long as he keeps backing up the owners they will keep him in a job.
    I really hope we can get out of this mess, starting this weekend against West Brom."
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Blackburn Rovers blog: Time to call truce

1:00pm Thursday 15th December 2011 in Blackburn Rovers blogs Photograph of the Author By Andy Cryer , Blackburn Rovers reporter

THIS may sound controversial to some but Blackburn Rovers’ best, and only, chance of staying in the Premier League lies with their owners Venky’s.

Yes, their first 12 months in charge of the football club has been an unmitigated disaster and there are few signs of things improving.

But if they don’t improve we might as well all start planning for trips to Doncaster, Bristol City and Burnley now.

All these calls for ‘Venky’s out’ are understandable – as the calls for Steve Kean out are – but if the Indian poultry farmers take them to heart then Rovers are left up the creek without a paddle.

We need them to come to Ewood Park, start seriously planning for January and, more important than anything, invest significant cash into the transfer pot to give Steve Kean’s men a chance of surviving in the Premier League.

Would you do that when you have thousands screaming abuse at you every time you show your face? Most people would certainly think twice.

Don’t get me wrong, I get the anger, I get the concern and I get the frustration. We are all feeling it at the moment.

But, with little more than a fortnight left before the window opens, there is no white knight ready to ride into town in time to solve these current woes.

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The reason why Rovers are where they are is a combination of lack of investment in the squad in the summer and some very poor signings. Venky’s and boss Steve Kean have to take equal responsibility for that if the claims all signings were the managers are to be believed.

Venky’s have already backed their manager vocally but they need to back him with cash now and if they don’t then their commitment to this club is there for all to see.

It is obvious there are discussions going on with Barclays Bank, although predictions of financial armageddon seem way over the top, but if Venky’s are as wealthy as they claim to be start putting your own money into this mess.

They need to know a football club in the Championship would be almost worthless to them.

At the moment it is like a stand-off, with the owners in India – after a bad experience at Wigan – and the supporters here.

We need them here and we need them doing what they shuld have done a long time ago, and that is leading from the front.

I’m not asking anyone to cheer manically the next time they see either of the Rao brothers or Anuradha Desai, I’m just echoing yesterday’s call for a truce to give them the chance to sort things out.

If they decide not to take this ‘last chance’ then that is up to them. But at least we would have tried.

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