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    RobbyRover wrote:
    Lamp it! wrote:
    Bangkok rover and dibs666 I totally agree. And mxmave, just why did you boo after the chelsea game? Is it because it is nearly pantomime season? You should be ashamed. . Blimey, I remember bill fox getting some stick: 'they don't want to go up'. 'theyve no ambition!'. Hes just pocketing the money and draining the club'. . I also remember Mr walker being ridiculed for putting a 2 million pound bid in for lineker and sherringham! When I think back it did seem silly. But it wasn't. You need ambition. You need patience. You need fans supporting the team. . So Mr mxmave, or r u a woman?, how can you admit to booing after the chelsea game? You have no shame. I feel sorry for you.
    I'll aim this comment at BKRover and dibs as well.

    Rovers at the moment can be compared to the economy. Yet I bet you think that their bonuses should be cut and they should lose their jobs. But why? Shouldn't they be given more time? Surely launching inquests in to bonuses and their dealings will put too much pressure on the bankers and stop then from setting about the task of repairing the economy.

    I mean, why should we use statistics against them? The fact their careless lending broke banks and cost tax payers billions shouldn't be used against them. I bet the people complaining individually make up a very small proportion of tax income so why should they have a say?

    The fact the bankers are so handsomely rewarded shouldn't make a difference.

    Notice any parallels? Or do I have to spell it out
    I think you miss my point about collectively working together to achieve success. I didnt suggest that players and managers shouldn't be accountable but there are appropriate times and places...Rovers fans could be the 12th man as the fans of some other clubs are...I know Rovers fans are at times but right now don't we need that more than ever? I dont need you 'to spell it out' but thanks for your condescending offer. As with the UK economy, the problems are not always the most obvious, and whilst I agree that leading bank figures should also be held accountable there are also more deepset social problems that contribute to the state of the economy.

    Anyway, this is missing the point...I strongly believe we all need to be united right now...performances are improving...we have some good players and could have the makings of a very good side...I know we cant wait forever for us to become a very good side...we really cant afford to go down....but unless the fans get behind the team, then they will also be contributing to the demise of the club."
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Blackburn Rovers blog: Protesters doing nothing to help club’s image

3:00pm Tuesday 8th November 2011 in Dan Clough Photograph of the Author By Dan Clough , Reporter

I HOPE the single-minded protesters are proud of themselves.

Although they have good intentions deep down, they are helping to turn our club into a laughing stock.

If it’s not Venky’s, it’s this group of fans helping to turn the whole of the English football scene against us.

So determined are they to continue what is fast becoming a personal vendetta against Steve Kean, they are actually causing more harm than good to our once great football club.

It’s not just about his record, although no doubt you will argue it is. It’s about him. If it wasn’t, you wouldn’t bring his drink-driving convictions into it.

Now you’ll argue his drink-driving convictions are relevant to our plight. He who is without sin cast the first stone ... which of you protesting on the terraces is without a driving ban or points on your licence?

We played well enough on Saturday to get at least a point.

A point against a team that cost the equivalent of Greece’s current deficit. Now that would have been a good result.

We could, had luck gone our way, have snatched a victory. It wasn’t to be.

It’s the same story when you go back a week to the Norwich game.

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What a boost that would have been had we come away with the points.

Unfortunately, once more Lady Luck was refereeing in favour of Norwich City and our hopes were dashed.

It doesn’t take a footballing mastermind to see that performances are improving.

Or that the players are there, week in, week out, fighting for their manager.

Andy Cryer is right. The atmosphere at the club is awful.

In-fighting is rife. People aren’t happy. But the only people who can change the atmosphere are the fans.

Kean is probably here to stay, no matter what. We just have to get over it.

Give the team as much support as we can, and hope that things get better.

The argument against that will come: “Things won’t get better. They can’t.”

How do you know? I’m fed up to the back teeth of hearing opinions construed as fact in poorly-constructed press releases.

I refer to facts such as: “Rovers WILL get relegated with Steve Kean in charge”, and “fitness has got worse as a result of Steve Kean’s poor training methods”.

How do people know this?

Answer, they don’t.

Here’s my idea of how to handle the Swansea game, assuming Steve Kean is still in the hotseat:

  • Arrive at the ground with a smile on your face
  • Walk, don’t march.
  • Stand for 90 minutes singing positive songs
  • Support the team
  • Applaud where appropriate
  • Here’s the big one. Don’t boo

Let’s see what effect that has.

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