Fans booing, and demanding change.

[Fader]

As you can see from my avatar, I’m a massive Blackburn Rovers fan. Always have been since I was a boy, though have to say I’m currently perplexed by the state of affairs.

Steve Kean did manage us to relegation last term, and start this season with a draw followed up by a win yesterday. Yet the fans in the stand, not that there were many of them yesterday from what I saw this morning on Sky Sports news, were booing the team when they went 1 nil up and demanding the head of Kean.

Now I love my club, and yes it hasn't been a great since the departures of Hughes and Allardyce, but I can't say I agree with my fellow fans booing the team and demanding the head of the manager when they are off to an undefeated start. Agreed it hasn't been exciting or loaded with goals, but the season is barely 2 games old and it all seems a little ridiculous to me to be doing this so early. Yes there was the debacle of last year, but that’s past and this is present.

Venkys have seen us as a cash cow to offload players and put their awful logo on our shirts, that thankfully isn't there so far this season. They've also made ridiculous comments regarding some players, Morten Gamst-Pederson in particular plus a stupid comment about the manager.

For me the frustrations needs to be aimed at the owners, the players are only the tools of the manager of which his purchases are governed by the chicken munchers.

Not really sure the point of this thread but just wondered what peoples thoughts are about booing your own team and demanding the manager to vacate his position when in all honesty we'd get no-one better in under the current ownership
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[Slime]

My great grandfather used to play for Blackburn Rovers before WW1. Just thought I'd put that out there.

Slime.

 

[GreiginFife]

Seems much of the hostility to Kean is legacy from the relegation season Fader. Some people can't and won't see past what's now consigned to history.
Football, sadly, has the highest volume of blinkered Neanderthals masquerading as "fans" of any sport out there.

 

[DelB]

Football, sadly, has the highest volume of blinkered Neanderthals masquerading as "fans" of any sport out there.

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This!

After the fantastic spectacle provided by the London Olympics, football just isn't at all entertaining, in the main.

 

[birdieman]

The Olympics were great but they are novelty sports that, athletics and boxing aside, we only want to see every 4 years for week or two. Football is great, it's the world game that isn't prejudiced by how rich your country is (thinking track cycling/equestrianism/rowing), it's more passionate that just about any other sport and most of us can happily watch it twice per week! Can you imagine watching the fellow who won the clay pigeon shooting gold every other week or rowing - once a year for the Oxford/Cambridge race is more than enough.
Football has it's problems I agree but imo a bit of needle, aggression and rivalries amongst fans and players is no bad thing, it what keeps it interesting and breaks up what can be a hum-drum working week for millions of people.....the modern day Colisseum if you like. People, especially men, need an outlet, somewhere to show your emotions, be part of a tribe, scream and shout and football provides that.
Diving, cheating, comnning the ref will always go on, it's part of the game and always has been. It's what makes people talk about it. If you clean the game up too much it just gets boring.

 

[thecraw]

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This!

After the fantastic spectacle provided by the London Olympics, football just isn't at all entertaining, in the main.

I guess we're not talking about the farce and crap on display at Hampden during the Olympics?

Football fans are never happy unless they moan anyway.

 

[bladeplayer]

Firstly let me say i also think what is going on at Blackburn is a bit mad , SK seems to be taking alot of stick , for what tho? , ok he may not be a great manager but venkys appointed him .. venkys sacked BIG Sam , the rep from venkys that gave his talk at the fans meeting should be sacked for what he said about pederson & in his reply of "we already have that position filled" to the smartass who said he knew nothing about football & wanted to be the manager ..

Secondly i must agree with Greigs starement "Football, sadly, has the highest volume of blinkered Neanderthals masquerading as "fans" of any sport out there." every ordinary football fan can see this, its even clearer to them than to non football people , Football probably also has the highes number of true honest to god sports fans of any sport out there ..

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This!

After the fantastic spectacle provided by the London Olympics, football just isn't at all entertaining, in the main.

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Football is a million miles away from the olympics or athletics tho , it is impossible to compare the 2 or its fans .. il even exclude myself from this as im a long distance Everton fan.. but football fans are born & bred in the area , some even in the shadow of the stadia , have grown up being part of their club , they bonded with their mates & their dads , cheering , laughing & even crying & growing up as part of the club ..

for every idiot football fan there are alot more decent people following the game ..

 

[Slime]

The Olympics were great but they are novelty sports that, athletics and boxing aside, we only want to see every 4 years for week or two. Football is great, it's the world game that isn't prejudiced by how rich your country is (thinking track cycling/equestrianism/rowing), it's more passionate that just about any other sport and most of us can happily watch it twice per week! Can you imagine watching the fellow who won the clay pigeon shooting gold every other week or rowing - once a year for the Oxford/Cambridge race is more than enough.
Football has it's problems I agree but imo a bit of needle, aggression and rivalries amongst fans and players is no bad thing, it what keeps it interesting and breaks up what can be a hum-drum working week for millions of people.....the modern day Colisseum if you like. People, especially men, need an outlet, somewhere to show your emotions, be part of a tribe, scream and shout and football provides that.
Diving, cheating, comnning the ref will always go on, it's part of the game and always has been. It's what makes people talk about it. If you clean the game up too much it just gets boring.

Totally agree with birdieman here, in fact the only thing I didn't enjoy about the London 2012 Olympics was the fact that many people used it as an excuse to slag off football by way of comparison, which is totally crass.
And yes, there is a lot of cheating in football, but, the rest of sport is in no way guilt free either!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/ol...mpics-Drug-cheats-prospering--Dick-Pound.html

Slime.

 

[RGDave]

My great grandfather used to play for Blackburn Rovers before WW1. Just thought I'd put that out there.

That's cool. I wonder if he also had a normal job at the time?

My grandfather was a golf pro before WW2. He also sold insurance.

 

[Dodger]

Pal of mine played for Rovers early 90's so always take an interest in their scoreline.

Have to say the treatment of Kean by the fans has been shameful.

 

[A1ex]

This is down entirely to the FA and the Premier League. They allowed tinpot owners to buy clubs and send them to ruin.

Feel sad for Blackburn fans in all this. They were a steady Prem side untill the clowns took them over and appointed a yes man. Steve Kean should be driven out of Blackburn and made to feel unwelcome everytime he goes out. He's basically a puppet and happy to earn money when he knows he's sending Blackburn further and further into the mire. He has no shame at all.

 

[Fader]

Pal of mine played for Rovers early 90's so always take an interest in their scoreline.

Have to say the treatment of Kean by the fans has been shameful.

The early 90's a wonderful period in our recent(ish) history.

I'm not in agreeance with any of my fellow fans that are acting towards the managers and players in this way, its Venkys who are at fault.

I also find it a litte irritating with the constant Olympics/Football comparison. Different arenas, different sporting spectacles plus a lot of what we see in the arena at the Olympics is as passion filled as a football stadium or has the devoted tribal following. Its easy to say Athletes are better examples, but then they're only in the limelight to the nth degree once every 4 years not like the daily basis of footballers.

 

[Dodger]

The early 90's a wonderful period in our recent(ish) history.

I'm not in agreeance with any of my fellow fans that are acting towards the managers and players in this way, its Venkys who are at fault.

I also find it a litte irritating with the constant Olympics/Football comparison. Different arenas, different sporting spectacles plus a lot of what we see in the arena at the Olympics is as passion filled as a football stadium or has the devoted tribal following. Its easy to say Athletes are better examples, but then they're only in the limelight to the nth degree once every 4 years not like the daily basis of footballers.

A period that saw Neil's backside infested with splinters.

 

[Slime]

Steve Kean should be driven out of Blackburn and made to feel unwelcome everytime he goes out.

Hello..................real world calling............get a grip man!

Its easy to say Athletes are better examples, but then they're only in the limelight to the nth degree once every 4 years not like the daily basis of footballers.

Until they fail a dope test! It's not just footballers who have bad apples amongst them.

Slime.

 

[bladeplayer]

. Steve Kean should be driven out of Blackburn and made to feel unwelcome everytime he goes out. .

CRIKEY ...Thats a bit OTT dont ya think ?

Rest of your post i couldnt disagree with but if this is what football starts to become then maybe athletics IS the way to go eh

 

[Doon frae Troon]

SAF rates Kean highly, but what does he know!

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I don't think the comments by the owners at the fans meeting about Kean and Pedersen were the brightest thinking. I know he tried to apologise but in my mind the seed had been sown and Kean was/is on a loser with the fans. I have to say I'm not overly convinced he is the best man for the job and not convinced either that they are strong enough to go up automatically.

I would hate to see anyone lose their job but it is an inevitability in football and I think it would be prudent to perhaps start the re-building process in terms of strength of squad and fans loyalty and support. It has happened at Fulham. I remember a guy called Alan Dicks coming in and almost doing enough to get us out of the league completely. The only redeeming part was the playground humour when what remained of the faithful started chanting "Dicks out".

Many clubs have these hiatus moments in their history and its how it is dealt with and learned from that dictates whether the pain is short term or Blackburn go the way of Leeds, Sheffield Wednesday etc and drop all the way down before saying enough and putting the foundations of recovery in place

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Latest news
Steve Kean calling for the Blackburn fans who demanded his resignation to resign.

 

[Piece]

Didn't it all start with Big Sam being sacked by the Venkys because they wanted a bigger footballing name? Then they appointed Steve Unknown Kean! Presumably because he was cheap and was/is a puppet manager?

 

[MegaSteve]

Don't really know why the Venkys bought themselves a football club or what they know, if anything, about English football... Don't know enough of Steve Kean to form a reliable opinion...

One thing I am fairly confident of though is the fans of Blackburn, on the terraces, have most likely supported them all their lives... Hand their hard earnt cash over on a regular to continue to support them and can offer their opinion of the club in any way they [short of with violence] they see fit...

Steve Kean, to his credit, has [in the past] said as much....