Paul Hunt sacked

Not off topic, really though.

I can't help but feel that these "crisis" talks are about 12 months too late and won't solve anything. Kean will stay, we'll reduce the wage bill by selling anyone who generates the slightests interest - say we're going after Premier league quality players and end up with League 2 reserve players.

This was the grand plan from the start.All things that have happened selling and buying revolves around Anderson and Venkys with Kean as a strawman,just wait a few more weeks and then the truth will all come out!

I don't know which is worse:

a) Being relegated through a master assett stripping plan desgined by an agent
or
b) Being relegated through complete ineptitude and stubborness.

zaphod with all due respect from a Bolton Wanderers fan you simply don't know what you're talking about. It's obvious from your posts that you've listened to the 'experts' on sky and the beeb and taken what they said as gospel without bothering to actually look at the club itself for yourself.

The simple fact is that I have known and still know many Rovers fans very well and count some of them among my oldest friends. I'm 42 and over the years I have seen both our clubs under some truly clueless managers but what;s been done to Rovers is far beyond that. Their owners are completely out of touch with reality and have no understanding of either football in general or the club they own in particular. The manager they appointed is not just clueless but completely inept on a mind boggling scale that frankly defies belief. The fans are the paying customers and surely if they are receiving sub standard service, shoddy workmanship and no value whatsoever for their money they're entitled to express their disapproval. I find it odd that when other fans boo (Arsenal for one earlier this season) no one has said a word against the fans but as soon as it happened at Ewood Park there was a mad rush to condemn the fans as 'disloyal', 'unfair' and even 'abusive'.

As someone who went to see them play not just against us but others (with my uncle who sadly suffers from being a Rovers fan despite the best professional help available ) I found them to be frankly extremely restrained given the utter dross being placed in front of them.

Rovers fans are among the most passionate and loyal in the game and are also far more knowledgeable than many people realise. To label their current plight as their fault is at best ignorant and at worst wilfully insulting.

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I had one of my many ill-advised drunken rants on here last month, this time directed at your fans after the 2-1 game at the Reebok cause I saw a few of our lot getting started on as they came out of the away end exit.

But have to say I do regret it now, the Bolton fans on here and other forums have been brilliant in terms of backing us up and showing sympathy the past week. Its greatly appreciated in the light of so much ignorance from elsewhere. Cheers!

Any news on the Prophet Kean's conference? I can't check Sky sports news and it itsn't on their website yet.

Blackburn manager Steve Kean has refused to discuss reports claiming the club's deputy chief executive Paul Hunt has been sacked.

Sky Sports reported earlier on Wednesday Hunt had left his position at Ewood Park a day after a letter in which he told owners Venky's that Kean should be removed surfaced in the media.

Kean, speaking at a press conference, said: "I am aware of the speculation but I can't, at this moment, confirm it. That is all I want to say on that matter. I just want to talk about the Chelsea game."

Confusion surrounds the situation at the club, who were relegated on Monday after a home defeat to Wigan, with nobody else at Ewood Park able to comment on reports.

The Rovers press department have been unable to obtain information from Venky's, further highlighting the difficulties in communication between the club and its distant Indian owners.

Hunt has been the most senior official at Blackburn since the departure of chairman John Williams more than a year ago.

Difficulties

His letter to Venky's, written last December, warned of growing financial difficulties and the threat of relegation from the Premier League.

He also urged Venky's to allow him more executive power to run the club on their behalf and called for Kean to be sacked.

Hunt's fears regarding relegation were realised on Monday after a defeat by Wigan.

Hunt wrote of Kean: "He has lost the crowd and as a result of this evening's game (against Bolton) has lost the dressing room as well - the players no longer want to play for him.

"It is a shame and disappointing but we must act now to save the club."

Hunt's fears were realised on Monday with few of the recommendations in his 2,500-word letter being acted upon.

I like this:-
Kean, speaking at a press conference, said: "I am aware of the speculation but I can't, at this moment, confirm it. That is all I want to say on that matter. I just want to talk about the Chelsea game."

He is bending the truth here is he not.
Mr Kean is he sat at his desk?
What desk? I just want to talk about Chelsea, avoid the truth and hope we win, then I can say we beat the champions league finalists to the bosses. They will then tell me I am great and reward me with a new improved contract.

Mafiaboy, in response to your statement that if we should survive it will be down to the fans you are partly but ONLY partly correct.

We have a manager who some of us feel should be gone already and some (like myself) who believe that our current predicament is as much down to the worst injury list I can remember which has stretched back to pre season with the loss of two of our best midfielders AND our most promising defender in the space of a week. Only one of them is back and that only happened in the second half of our last game. (Lee)

We had the opening fixtures from hell, five of last season's top six in the first seven games and we took some kickings that dented confidence which led to us being on just nine points after eighteen games.

Owen, unlike Kean was able to turn that around and since then we have amassed a further twenty six points from nineteen. To put that in context had we matched that performance in the first half of the season we'd now be on fifty two points and well into the top half of the table.

As it is we still need to beat stoke away and hope man city beat qpr in order to survive. However, there are major differences between us and rovers regardless of the outcome.

One, we have an owner who genuinely cares about the club and its fans. Two. Our chairman is willing to listen to us and proved it by appointing Owen in the first place. Three, the owner and chairman actually understand football and don't make crass idiotic comments about replacing a very fine manager (Sam Allardyce) with a 'bigger name' then put a completely incompetent twerp in his place. Four, Owen coyle for all his faults admits it when things are going wrong, he doesn;t say 'Everything is wonderful and rosy' while the ship sinks under his feet. He doesn't blame other people for his mistakes either. He most certainly doesn't blame the fans for our losses and he would't DREAM of suggesting that we're heading for the Promised Land when we're battling for our very survival.

He doesn't come out week after week toeing the party line either. He is NOT the absentee owner's mouthpiece. In short, the relationship between club and fans works because unlike the Venky's who are as chicken as their products our senior people are there for us to see and hear. The manager goes to the supporter's association meetings and he too listens to our opinion and treats it with respect even if he doesn't agree. The Venky's and their mouthpiece couldn't even spell respect for the fans much less practice it despite the fact that those same fans are their core customer base without whom there'd be no point in having a Blackburn Rovers Football Club at all. The truth is that for any smaller club like ours to survive in the premiership everyone needs to be on the same page from the owner to the boardroom to the manager to the players and staff to the fans. However at Rovers the management plainly don't care about the fans and plainly don't care about the club. For the venky's it was supposed to be a commodity that would help them sell more chicken nothing else. For Kean they are his only chance of a manager's job anywhere and he's buried his nose in their buttocks in order to save his own skin. The players have basically seen that and all they want is their money (with a few exceptions).

As a result the fans who are far from stupid and are in no way disloyal to their proud club have become angry and why not? They've seen the heart and soul torn out of a proud club with a proud heritage and for what? We nearly saw the same in the Megson era.

Unlike Blackburn's useless self serving money grabbing owners OURS listened, remembered that the fans come first and acted to heal that breach. That's why we trotters to a man will sing our hearts out on Sunday. And it's why the Venky's should pack up, leave the Rovers to owners who know what football is and what a priceless asset the fans are and take their brown nosed mouthpiece with them.

Wow. That is a quality post.

I would save your breath PP. There will be another plank on here tomorrow spouting the same ill-informed nonsense. Cheers, anyway.