The boy's doing well......Mmmmmm

It's clear from your comments that you completely underestimate a lot of our players. Especially if you think that our squad was punching above it's weight when in truth it was very organised and tight knit and more than deserved the many UEFA cup places it got.

"Most of them aren't that good, but is that Keans fault? "

Who else's fault is it? The tea boy's?

Kean's failings are well understood - its acknowledged that he's a man out of his depth. His good qualities and what he has brought to the club in his previous tenure as coach are where he should have remained.

Its not his fault he was promoted but so far he has unimpressed. You talk about not being able to attract talent but compare us to Swansea, Norwich, Bolton, West Brom etc. We were a mid table club in one of the top European leagues - that is not an unattractive proposition for MOST footballers, bar the top cream.

Kean's other negative is his willing support for what is largely understood as the true problem - the Venkys for whom he is a willing puppet as they line his pocket whilst the club declines and the rumours around his involvement with the lying Anderson and his potential involvement in getting his current role through disposing of our ex-manager.

Too long a sentence ....add that he's a lying odious character and why should we like him?

But of course we're not objective. As fans you wouldn't expect us to be.

Release clause was Venkys fault - Willing Kean's puppet masters.

Diouf i despise and wouldn't want him near my home.

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Stupidest comment I've ever read regarding a footballers value on the pitch. Filtered, god knows why it took me this long.

I agree Sam was an effective manager, but that doesn't make Kean bad. Like saying Coyle isn't necessarily a bad manager just because he hasn't done as well at Bolton as Sam.

Wigan, Bolton, Wolves and QPR are no worse in quality than Blackburn, but i don't see this level of feeling against their managers.

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"Wigan, Bolton, Wolves and QPR are no worse in quality than Blackburn, but i don't see this level of feeling against their managers."

Wigan - always have struggled. Under-resourced and used to losing best players. Martinez has shown an eye at bringing some in and the few Wigan fans there are understand he is making a silk purse out of a sow's ear. Has defied the odds season after season.

Bolton - favoured son. Huge debt. Injuries. Coyle rescued them and has proven himself as a manager elsewhere.

Wolves/QPR sacked their managers and have only just got new ones.

Rovers - manager taking mid-table team on downward trajectory whilst being a willing part of regime which has alienated fan and reduced the quality of the playing squad. Mgr refuses to accept faults, refuses to engage with fans and is not good enough. Has built his own team.....whilst is steadily losing.

And yeah the stuff about Diouf was stupid. Diouf is a professional. Hard working, passionate. A winner who makes the most of his limited talent. Was an effective player for a number of teams and is judged on personality. Pur-lease.

FAO Henriks forehead etc.

Owen Coyle's record at Bolton:
PLD 102
Won 35
Drawn 18
Lost 49
Win % - 34.31

Considerably better than Steve Kean's....^^^^...but both of them hopeful chancers with no experience at this level and it is showing.

selling, releasing or alienating first team members at the time including Jones, Roberts, Diouf, Emerton, Salgado, Samba, Andrews and Kalinic.
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Getting rid of that lot was wise. Salgado for example is old. Roberts reeks of mediocrity. Diouf i despise and wouldn't want him near my home. Of that lot only Samba has genuine quality, and he wanted to leave.
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Getting rid of them may have been wise had most of them not been a part of a fairly successful squad. Salgado isn't just useful on the pitch, he has a wealth of experience that the younger players could learn from, but Kean forces him to train alone. Andrews has been sold to West Brom, and in his 2 games they've scored 9 goals (with him grabbing 2 I think), so to say he is useless is wrong imo. Emerton was just coming into form at the end of last season before he decided to release him.

Kean himself has bought: Dann, Yakubu, Vukcevic, Rochina, Petrovic, Formica, Marcus Olsson, Goodwillie, Slew, Orr, the infamous Ribeiro and Anderson, and made loan signings of Santa Cruz, J Jones and Modeste.
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Most of them aren't that good, but is that Keans fault? What better players could he have signed that would have chosen Blackburn over other richer and bigger clubs? And we all know why Anderson was signed, that clearly wasn't Keans choice. At least Kean isn't playing him.
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The manager splashes out £2o-odd million on rubbish players and it isn't his fault? Be serious man.

If it wasn't for the sheer luck of us signing the in-form Yak
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So he makes a good signing, yet you call it luck? Yak is a goalscorer, that type of player is priceless to a struggling club. Maybe you should be grateful Kean understood that?
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If you look at what I actually put, I backed up my opinion with the point that Kean only went for the Yak as a last option, having failed to attract anyone who he actually wanted, a panic buy if you will. Luckily for him it has turned out well, I do not however think it gives Kean any more merit as a manager.

I know you won't change your mind of Kean. Just pointing out some facts that show your league position is not entirely his fault.
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It's partially the players fault, partially the owner, but as you have pointed out yourself multiple times, it is becasue Kean is significantly worse than our previous manager, therefore the majority of the blame lies at his feet imo.

Three points against Villa and you'll be much happier I hope the planned protests don't harm the team.
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I can't see the 3 points making people much happier. Hundreds, if not thousands are planning to boycott Ewood next season regardless of this season's outcome. A win or two here or there isn't going to get Kean support at all.