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    Morst The 88th Min Heartbreaker of Dingles! wrote:
    Bazzer wrote:
    smellthecoffee wrote:
    Coeur de Lion wrote:
    Morst The 88th Min Heartbreaker of Dingles! wrote:
    Bazzer wrote:
    Morst The 88th Min Heartbreaker of Dingles! wrote: Lets have a whip round and set "Killer Keeley" on Kean - hey that would be KKK! . Latest rumour from someone who knows an establised player is that Venky's turned down Walker trust offer to buy yhe club back for the same money. Venky's refused becasuse they believe they have also written off all the debt. . If its true someone needs to point out to Venky's that they have paid off that debt by selling the best assets of the club which has got us relegated and so the club is worth considerably less. Take the Walker Trust offer if it is true. . They are said to be wating for the final payment from the Premier League due later this month and then they may thankfully sod off having pocketed it. At this point I would accept any scenario that gets rid of them and has in position an owner who will trade as a break-even now profir making business - which means the Walker trust or BRSIT. . 34th......
    And you will not moan like hell about the style of play?
    Bazzer - you just don't get it do you? . Yes Keanocchio even beats Jim Iley as worst manager ever at Ewood. But Big Sam was the worst ever style of play and I would never want that back again either. Give me Souness, Sparky, Kenny, Jim Smith, Bobby Saxton, Don Mcakay etc style of play any day of the week. . You really do need to get that Blow up doll of Big Sam and get it out of your system lad! . 34th.......
    It's not an either or! Kean is the worst manager ever period, and only a lunatic would not take BFS back now
    Yes...but Most is a lunatic...and a thick one at that. While there are idiots peddling the bile that Morst does, it gives Burnley fans valid ammunition for Rovers fans being ungrateful. . Like it or not, Big Sam was one of the most successful managers we have had (given the position we were in when he took over and the finances he had at his disposal).
    Quite right. I think it is Morst who just does not get it at all. Big Sam and John Williams were keeping afloat superbly a post Walker ship that was sinking financially. Meanwhile Morst and his ilk were yapping on about playing like Barcelona and drawing up absurd manager wish lists. Also gullibly sucking in the Venky's banter whilst ripping apart the protestors early moves. It it Morst's kind that Burnley fans cannot resist ridiculing. Make no bones about it, Burnley will bend Morst over and stick that "34th" right where the sun does not shine. They could not do that under Big Sam.
    In between the dismal Ince and Kean, Big Sam's record stands out like a shining beacon. His success at West Ham was no fluke either.
    Up Rovers! Up Realism!
    What I see here are two lunatics.
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    Because only a LUNATIC would limit himself to the straight jacket of a choice betyween the devil and the deep blue sea. I would want neither Kean or Allardyce.
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    Open your tiny world up numskulls - there are many, many more managers out there!
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    Hi Tets - Dexter tells me you have not turned up at Church or the postal order since you became famoues (In) on here - still go on and tell us just how much those 34 years hurt!
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    I think it is you that needs to wake up Morst. Running a football club is like any business....to get success on the smallest possible budget. By achieving a top 10 finish and semi-final cup appearances on the budget he had, Sam was/is head and shoulders above any other manager for a club the size of Rovers.
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    If you think there are better managers out there who could have turned the situation around after the Ince debacle - and with the lowest budget in the Premier League - then let us all know.
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    Big Sam's record speaks for itself and your venomous/poisoned comments will not change that. Well done you for playing your part (albeit limited) in pushing for Big Sam to be sacked and sucking up to Venky's pathetic regime. I predicted the Rovers' downfall as soon as Big Sam was sacked (in the face of your pro Venky stance)."
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Keeley: Don't have a pop at Rovers fans

10:10am Saturday 9th June 2012 in News 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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