Blackburn Rovers blog: Venky’s should accept they’ve made mistakes (From Lancashire Telegraph)

Good, fair piece Dan.

Interesting to see Liverpool challenging the right to negotiate overseas contracts, the fact we have Indian owners might well help should it become law? But back to the present, Venkys need to appoint a proven Premiership manager over the next couple of weeks.

'...running out comfortable 3-0 winners in a game in which we had 30 shots on target!

Hopefully that will give the players a bit of confidence'

Would a goal every 10 shots on target against a half-rate team really give you confidence?

Venkys are as clueless as our manager, the one man who could have assisted and guided them through the difficult initial settling in period, they cold shouldered and got rid of. Mr Williams leaving the club is by far the biggest mistake that Venkys have made, even worse than appointing Kean as manager their tenure has been one long catalogue of errors. The question should be when if ever will they learn from their glaring mistakes i for one wont be holding my breath.

Since the brilliant manager comment , I believe that Rao had warned kean in no uncertain terms results must improve , so lets see what happens after the QPR game , they got rid of Jenson behind his back , just like he did with sam, so hopefully kean will be next out .He is realy out of his depth as a manager . Mark hughes for a return under marks terms though .wake up Venkysor we are a lost cause .

jinkyjase wrote:
Good, fair piece Dan.

Interesting to see Liverpool challenging the right to negotiate overseas contracts, the fact we have Indian owners might well help should it become law? But back to the present, Venkys need to appoint a proven Premiership manager over the next couple of weeks.

Jinky - do you see the funny side of a club from a left wing, bolshie socialist city leading the grab for cash revolution? SURREAL!
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33rd.............

Gaz M wrote:
Venkys are as clueless as our manager, the one man who could have assisted and guided them through the difficult initial settling in period, they cold shouldered and got rid of. Mr Williams leaving the club is by far the biggest mistake that Venkys have made, even worse than appointing Kean as manager their tenure has been one long catalogue of errors. The question should be when if ever will they learn from their glaring mistakes i for one wont be holding my breath.

This is fantastic point and I agree that this has been the biggest error that venkys have made. John Williams had a consistent record of making wise decisions throughout his time in charge as opposed to the consistently bad decisions that now occur time and again which leaves me baffled to understand how venkys run a successful business!

Gaz M wrote:
Venkys are as clueless as our manager, the one man who could have assisted and guided them through the difficult initial settling in period, they cold shouldered and got rid of. Mr Williams leaving the club is by far the biggest mistake that Venkys have made, even worse than appointing Kean as manager their tenure has been one long catalogue of errors. The question should be when if ever will they learn from their glaring mistakes i for one wont be holding my breath.

John Williams left because they signed Kean, if John Williams were still at Blackburn we would have a proper manager and some sense of direction.

Where did it go wrong for us?

First we let the USA grab its independance, then we gave India back!!

If we carry on we will have a southerner in charge of the Country, and foreigners in charge of Blackburn!!

Im just hope if we do go down then the LET will refuse BRFC advertising space in the paper. This would be real ethics!

After WW2 Germany wernt allowed to have an Army. This has save them Billions and means they have money to infest in other areas of there economy.

Surely then they should start each World Cup Qualifying campaign with a minus 5 points deduction?? Discuss...

Such is Venky's naivety and ignorance in all things football, i'm convinced that they think they have done nothing wrong, and that everything is fine down at Ewood.

I think they believe everything that Walter Mitty tells them, and it's only due to bad luck that we are second bottom, and that very soon, we will be climbing the table and challenging for a CL/EL place, and all of Europe's top players will soon be queuing up to sign for us.

The truth however, is very different. And until Venky's realise the error of their ways, then our spectacular demise will continue unabated.

A fair article. Some comments on other's comments. I agree that getting rid of/letting John Williams go, was a huge error - but he has gone. Do any of those advocating the return of Mark Hughes know whether he would accept the job if Kean went and he were offered it? I'd love it, but I'm not sure that he would see a return as part of his career development. If he wasn't enthusiastic, who would the fans want? Martin O'Neill - can't see him accepting the constraints. Alan Curbishley - too far North. Who?

Good article Dan, A bit of steel for a change.
What worries me is that if kit man kean was a manager at any other club in the entire league, he would be long gone by now. So one asks, why is he still here.
It cant possible be for footballing reasons so it must be something else, but what. Will we ever find out, why has BFS, Danish Pastry,Tom Finn or the brillant John Williams not commented, have they all had to sign a affidavit. All i know is that i have had enough and i am seriously thinking of not attending anymore while this Baffoon is in charge.

RIP BRFC

Not bad piece especially under the LET banner.
I don't want Venkys to do a Tony Blair and sob some sugary "sorry" in public, I want to see that they have Rovers' interests at heart which means telling Airmiles that he has four games, irrespective of excuses, to get a grip otherwise it's outski.
There is a serious problem tho' with the next manager, anyone with a brain is not going to take Venkys conditions of a monthy to Pune and Anderson's malign self-interest.
Also, in the long run, the virtual sacking of Williams, will be seen as a bigger blow to Rovers overall welfare as an over-achieving provincial club than losing talent like Jones, who after all was destined to go sooner or later.

I repeat, Venkys should fly in to Manchester and get down on their knees and apologise to John Williams. Admit they made a mistake, and put him in total charge of the club in the UK. I believe he would walk back to Ewood unless he's made ceo or chairman of City, provided he is given assurances that he's in charge. He can then sack Kean and approach Hughes in the right way.

For the love of god just get this kit-man out of our club.

Why is he still our manager? WHY?
-D.K.O

Good article Dan, unfortunately the chances of our owners admitting they were wrong to appoint Kean, much less removing him in the immediate future are pretty slim imho, despite the fact it would appear to the majority they have made a big mistake. Having worked in the Indian subcontinent for an major Indian airline I found admissions of fault very hard to come by, even when faced with potentially dire consequences. Saving face is everything in business over there and having sacked Fat Sam and by default backed Kean, they will not want to go back on that. It may have to get a lot worse yet ......

"I do believe the trip to India has been worthwhile. With the owners being from India, a pretty much untapped market in the world of Premier League football, Rovers can really establish themselves there if the marketing is done right."

I'm afraid we were just pioneers, opening the doors for the big clubs to move in whilst we langish in the Championship next season. The Blackburn Rovers brand will count for SFA unless we regularly feature in EPL games on far eastern sat TV as at the moment. Venkys can't you see the patently obvious?

Stone Island wrote:
Such is Venky's naivety and ignorance in all things football, i'm convinced that they think they have done nothing wrong, and that everything is fine down at Ewood.

I think they believe everything that Walter Mitty tells them, and it's only due to bad luck that we are second bottom, and that very soon, we will be climbing the table and challenging for a CL/EL place, and all of Europe's top players will soon be queuing up to sign for us.

The truth however, is very different. And until Venky's realise the error of their ways, then our spectacular demise will continue unabated.

I think the Venkys are astute business people, so they will have done their homework and will know when they can't lose financially, and it appears they must be safe what ever happens to the Rovers.

At last a reporter on the LET with b*lls. Are you reading this Andy, Gally & Jason W. Go get em Dan.

"i ++++ing hate blogs".....who said that?

STEVE KEAN = RELEGATION. 100%.

thresholdweller wrote:
A fair article. Some comments on other's comments. I agree that getting rid of/letting John Williams go, was a huge error - but he has gone. Do any of those advocating the return of Mark Hughes know whether he would accept the job if Kean went and he were offered it? I'd love it, but I'm not sure that he would see a return as part of his career development. If he wasn't enthusiastic, who would the fans want? Martin O'Neill - can't see him accepting the constraints. Alan Curbishley - too far North. Who?

there is no way MH will come back to BRFC it is known that our owners will have nothing to do with his dodgy Iranian agent so nobody should hold there breath as far a MH is concerned

On another note the QPR game is a should win for BRFC its not even a draw and a loss would be unforgivable. If we by chance win and thats a big IF then the momentum for getting him out next home game could be hampered. I am not saying for one moment I want us to lose but winning isnt going to be helping the cause for getting him out, and that is where I have a conflict in myself, I so badly want this loser out yet I want my team to win.

On another note class article and blog Dan....at least a article with some balls, and relates to the fans of this club... I would like to see you write more instead of the other cut and paste jokers who write on the LET

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i think the article is too dismissive of some of the points made by key players at the club. to dismiss Nelsen, Samba and Dunn just highlights how out of touch we all seem to have become. Dan, are you suggesting that these players are wrong or that they are somehow being asked to say something in which they don't actually believe?
if it's the first point then i worry about our arrogance, if it has indeed got to that stage. yes kean has not done well, and there have been some poor results, but let's really think about it. things have really decended since the 0-4 to man city. we should not accept defeat easily, but city are currently averaging over 3 goals a game and have a squad worth a crazy amount of money. there were calls after the fulham game for that to have been a must win for a 'club like rovers'. this was a draw, away, at a team who just put 6 past another prem club. newcastle out fought and out thought us - it happens; everton we should have won; wolves we were poor but could easily have picked something up... i think what i am trying to say is that i see that the new owners have come in to our club and are looking to do things differently. i think the players see that too, and i guess i am prepared to be much more patient than a lot of other fans. i also realise that things cannot always be good. i thought more fans of our small town club recognised that fact too.
what i can't abide is the character assassination of our manager and owners when we have absolutely no idea what it's like to do their jobs. i was all for ince to be removed, but at no point would i have vocalised that in the way some are doing now. i saw that ince was doing what he could, but was flawed. the same could be said of kean, but i can see he is doing his best, so for that he will have some respect. now that we have the owners' ear, we have a forum through which to have healthy debate. i very much hope that brings a stop to this misguided campaign to disrupt the managment. i fear it won't though, as people won't get the instant perfection that they seem to want.

This is old hat how many posts have said the same thing about firing j Williams off?
I would be interested to learn what our fellow fans said to the Raos out there in India.I hope they stated all these facts starting with the sacking of BFS not my favourite but there is a proper time to change managers and it wasn't when we had no replacement.
The main concern now is how we are going to change a shambolic team into a team of winners and in my eyes we do need Mark Hughes back even though I doubt he would return.Martin O'Neil seemed to lose it at Villa so it is difficult finding someone else if Mark isnt interested,maybe Benitez would come but other than a win in the Champions league(phew!) he did not set Anfield alight in the league.I think we may be better appointing Glen Hoddle and demoting Kean to the coaching staff again as it is a tactician we need now to organise the side to stop leaking goals.

garyintandem wrote:
I repeat, Venkys should fly in to Manchester and get down on their knees and apologise to John Williams. Admit they made a mistake, and put him in total charge of the club in the UK. I believe he would walk back to Ewood unless he's made ceo or chairman of City, provided he is given assurances that he's in charge. He can then sack Kean and approach Hughes in the right way.

No way will JW ever come back to Ewood mate...except with City when they play us.

He was a good man to have on the board and he did a very good job at the Rovers in the 14 years he was here - but things change (and dont we know it) and people move on and he has another job now that is much better paid and much more exciting than anything he ever did down here.

For those who still worship at the church of JW then maybe it is a good time to recall some of what he said when Venkys first bought the Rovers:

"We do not want negativity around the place. That could work to our disadvantage by playing into the hands of our upcoming opponents. We need solidarity in every area. Football is a precarious business, fuelled by opinion, but I repeat that this is a time for everyone with a love for Blackburn Rovers to really show their support. This is not about individuals, either. It is about the club – first, second and third."

Wise words from a wise man which are worth remembering now especially by Venkys who could also learn from them and try and work harder to put some pride back into the town and the club.

Stop being so pathetic guys in your desperation. There was only one person with the initials JW who was important to Rovers. The rest is popcorn.

I think Venkys have good intentions but that doesn't win us games before buying the club they should have looked into football futher they are trying to make Blackburn Rovers an international name but that won't happen if we are in the Championship you can tell when sacking Big Sam and hiring Kean that they was trying to show the fans they have ambition and trying to move the club forward and also show the fans they are decisive they knew who was there man was the moment they sacked Big Sam this obviously proved to have a negative effect and I completely agree with these comments they need to admit they are wrong give Kean his old job back and bring in someone the fans will love before it's too late when we are a Championship team no half decent manager will come to us and Venkys become as hated as Kean who should have resigned some time ago if he cared anything for the club, players, fans and his own future the longer he stays manager of Rovers the less chance he will ever get a job in football again

Balaji told me personally no one said Kean was a brilliant manager. He was very upset and angry about the report.
Ever heard of creative reporting, Dan Clough? Something you lot should know about - most journalists seem to be pretty good at it...