Appleton: 'Derby must be a spark for Blackburn Rovers' (From This Is Lancashire)

Not to change their ‘entire mentality’ its to change your mentality MA. Stop telling them to hoof the ball every chance hey get!

Agree with "leonm987" we should have a squad good enough to put the ball down and play it not just hoofing it and hope it lands in front of Rhodes. The defence is shaping up but the attack is suffering, and what the hell are those back heel things Bentley kept trying to do in the 1st leg at Millwall wasted so much possession in attacking areas. Appy jus don't lose to dingles otherwise I will be calling for your head earlier than I had expected.

Positive considered football is all we ask for.

I cannot endure this cowardly approach any longer from within our/my club.

Mitigating factors are always considered, but the utter dross I'm witnessing now the honeymoon period is over as to stop or make no mistake we will slip further down the league, if not the leagues ?

It's time to walk the walk now Michael now that you have talked the talk !

I was sceptical over your appointment but supported you 100%, alas, I am now wavering at your approach to games that are bordering on cowardice for what ever reason ?

Sunday cannot be underestimated as to the magnitude that ALL BRFC supporters feel in beating the Dingles.

Perform as of the last 8/9 games and I'm convinced the good ship Ewood will erupt.

The players have to understand just how important this game is fueling a performance for a win.

Get it done.

No fear.

Arte et labore

Mr Apple could do with a spark up you know where !

how about showing said pain MA that foul mouthed Jacket t!t was laying into his team on the touch line and they were winning and in no danger of losing but not you ! no you stood back a good 15 ft behind in silence this is ewood your ground fecking own it! did anyone else notice after best''s effort we actually ran at them for a while and had them panicing ,and did you notice MA how Jacket made a sub straight away to break up rovers momentum that is tactics thats how a manager effects a game .

Just another load of cheap verbal from the useless Appleton & co god we have really sank practically to the brink of relegation from championship never mind premier league
Out with the lot of them

After every defeat it's the same thing we have the next whatever number of games to show what we can do but nothing ever changes,the next game sinks to an even lower level of performance,these players are proffesoinals have they no pride in their commitment or team spirit towards the fans the answer I'm afraid is no,and it's just not good enough,making out like a victory over Burnley will solve the seasons dire problems and nothing else matters.

Keep the ball on the floor that's all we ask. Hoofing it does nothing except scare some pigeons. Keep the ball on the floor!

Talk about stating the bleeding obvious!

Do they provide managers these days with a book entitled "Cliché's for Every Occasion" ?

No **** Sherlock, it has nothing to do with bravery, that is absolute ****.

It has everything to do with passion, pride and skill, with tactics that make the fans want to get behind you and the players, not the drivel you have served up so far this season.

Stop making excuses for inept players with overblown egos and fat wallets.

Disappointed? You don't know the half of it.

Surely to God there must be 11 players at the club who are actually hurting enough, because there were 8,000 or so fans on Wednesday who could probably explain what hurting actually means to them, I was one of the stupid b^%&$£$s who forked out to watch, and I was past hurting long before the final whistle.

Personally, although I don't like loosing I am not too bothered provided I can see pride, passion, skill and a degree of tactical nounce from my team, I detest tactics that involve 89 minutes of ineptitude and hope to nick a goal when the other side aren't watching.

I am not going to be paying my hard earned to watch the rubbish being dished up by you much longer.

You are the manager, take responsibility and do something about it, or for the love of Christ go.

Rovers to win by two clear goals no problem! Send the claret monkeys home with their tails (literally) between their legs! Make it 35 years of hurt for them and no respite from our domination over the losers from the dark side.

Sure we have a long way to go to get back to being a decent side again (haven't been one for three years now) but I think Apple is right that after the win on Sunday we can end the season on a better note that seemed possible after the cup game.

Roar on the Rovers to yet another win against our oldest enemies and former rivals. (Not been rivals now for 35 years and counting!)

To all you terrace critics support the team instead of snipping from the background. Forget judging MA till next season when he has cleared all Kean and Berg and Shebby;s rubbish out of Ewood. We need everyone;s support to shut the mouthy Dingles up. So shout for our team WHO ever is picked.

Has this bloke got anything new to say?

What about tactics and match planning? You can have all the passion in the world but if I was a player and was not given a clear plan apart from "hoof it up to Jordan" then how motivated would I be?

Also - as I have said previously - where is the LET journalism? Its the same Keanesque repetition of b+llsh+t that has spouted from the club and all the "managers" since Big Sam left.

Come on LET, ask some questions about what he is doing / can do.

French Rover wrote:
Rovers to win by two clear goals no problem! Send the claret monkeys home with their tails (literally) between their legs! Make it 35 years of hurt for them and no respite from our domination over the losers from the dark side.

Sure we have a long way to go to get back to being a decent side again (haven't been one for three years now) but I think Apple is right that after the win on Sunday we can end the season on a better note that seemed possible after the cup game.

Roar on the Rovers to yet another win against our oldest enemies and former rivals. (Not been rivals now for 35 years and counting!)

Just like it was no problem turning Millwall over in the replay!!!! 8,061 home fans,what a total disgrace for a quarter final fa cup game and a chance to play at wembley. in the semi's.

juanbbien wrote:
After every defeat it's the same thing we have the next whatever number of games to show what we can do but nothing ever changes,the next game sinks to an even lower level of performance,these players are proffesoinals have they no pride in their commitment or team spirit towards the fans the answer I'm afraid is no,and it's just not good enough,making out like a victory over Burnley will solve the seasons dire problems and nothing else matters.

I agree. The Burnley game is now being used as a smoke screen to potentially mask what have been truly appalling performances. I know it's a local derby game but don't let's suggest that the only thing that matters this season is beating Burnley even tho it is the last straw to cling onto!!

Looking for a reaction are you MA!! You have been looking for one in the last 5 games...

OUT OF YOUR DEPTH AS A MANAGER !!

IF WE WANT TO MOVE FORWARD WE MUST HAVE AN AMBITIOUS MANAGER AND ONE PREFERABLY WHO HAS TACTICS AND A GAME PLAN....NONE OF THAT YOU HAVE SHOWN UP TO NOW!!

His speech is honest but heard it all before. Actions MA, action is needed! You talk a positive game but your actions on the pitch are negative! Sort it outor leave because at this rate we are down! If you dont beat them on Sunday I suggest for the good of the club you step down and allow GB in charge. I like MA as a guy but he isn't cutting it sadly!

“For two or three seasons there has been a feeling that it is acceptable to lose"

says who??? You ask any fan if they have accepted losing!!! And as for past managers...Well let's not start blaming them for you losing !! Your in charge now so sort it or move on!!

There is not a chance on this planet we call Earth, that you lot would have taken 40,000 to Wembley. Hilarious.

French Rover wrote:
Rovers to win by two clear goals no problem! Send the claret monkeys home with their tails (literally) between their legs! Make it 35 years of hurt for them and no respite from our domination over the losers from the dark side.

Sure we have a long way to go to get back to being a decent side again (haven't been one for three years now) but I think Apple is right that after the win on Sunday we can end the season on a better note that seemed possible after the cup game.

Roar on the Rovers to yet another win against our oldest enemies and former rivals. (Not been rivals now for 35 years and counting!)

We're all that you've got left this season, lose to us and you could well be heading down again..

I am afraid it is MA who needs to change his entire mentality as his team selection and so called tactics or a lack of them is causing all the problems. He really needs to take a good look at himself and the way he is approaching these games because if he doesn't change quickly it will be disaster for all of us. He needs to have a plan B for when things are not working out as he never seems to change tactics during a game when needed. And to stand on the touchline like a figure from Madame Tussauds will inspire no one. How can he expect his players to show passion during a game when he is void of all emotion in his technical area. Come on MA buck up we need you to succeed and you must know what you are doing at the moment is wrong, because if you don't we have picked the wrong guy again..

From the start of the game on Sunday to the final whistle, the fans expect nothing less than 100% commitment. I am sure the fans will get behind the team from the off so don't give them any excuse to start booing. They will be singing songs and creating as good an atmosphere as can be expected from what is probably going to be the lowest derby crowd in years. Those that are there will be backing the players to the hilt, as long as the players respond to them. Get in their faces, pass them of the park, show them that we are a better side than them. Make sure the bragging rights go on for yet another season. The fans are not asking too much to want to win this match, they will accept a draw as a last resort but they will not accept any surrender to the Dingles. Send them back to Burnley with a lesson in ow to win a game of football.

claret777 wrote:

French Rover wrote:
Rovers to win by two clear goals no problem! Send the claret monkeys home with their tails (literally) between their legs! Make it 35 years of hurt for them and no respite from our domination over the losers from the dark side.

Sure we have a long way to go to get back to being a decent side again (haven't been one for three years now) but I think Apple is right that after the win on Sunday we can end the season on a better note that seemed possible after the cup game.

Roar on the Rovers to yet another win against our oldest enemies and former rivals. (Not been rivals now for 35 years and counting!)

Just like it was no problem turning Millwall over in the replay!!!! 8,061 home fans,what a total disgrace for a quarter final fa cup game and a chance to play at wembley. in the semi's.

Shameful from the supporters of Blackburn Rovers. A winnable quarter final at home with a trip to Wembley at stake and a little over 8000 bother to turn up. BRFC you are an embarrassment to English football. Absolutely shameful.

Theres a lot of blame to MA now --Blaming MA for tactical poorness is not the issue, Venkys appointed Shebby Shaw Agnew etc,, who then appointed MA. he was cheap and talked a good intereview, but cheap ,, thats how venkys want it --MA is taking the wage Kean had thats all, and getting his experience along the way.. Maybe the next manager will have worked at Macdonalds serving chicken burgers on £6 per hour. fact is - changing manager will not solve anything

Claretandtrue wrote:
There is not a chance on this planet we call Earth, that you lot would have taken 40,000 to Wembley. Hilarious.

As a Rovers I have to admit, taking 40,000 to Wembley was a ludicrous statement , Cloud Cuckoo Land !

Another thread and predictably enough another set of moaning, whinging, crying Rovers fans replying.

You really are the most graceless, complaining set of horse-fondlers the world has ever seen, and we will smash you into silence on Sunday.

3 Years.

It is genuinely becoming tiresome reading some of the comments being made.

I fully understand how frustrating it is at the moment. I was one of the frustrated 8000 fans on Wednesday. However, some of the comments being made i.e. calling for the managers head are unbelieveable. The Steve Kean legacy is going to take time to fix. Rather than ignite further unrest, we need to give the boss a further 12 months (at the very least) before it is fair to make judgement. We need stability.

I am aware that some of the above comments are from Burnley fans. However, for those Blackburn Rovers fans, we need to give the boss a chance. A proper chance; not a handful of games! Some of the comments being made suggest that some individuals actually get some form of satisfaction from us failing.

Sunday is a great opportunity for us to put right some of the wrong's from the midweek game. Welcome back Todd Kane; he impressed me earlier in the season and I will be delighted to see him back at the club.

1952 rover wrote:
To all you terrace critics support the team instead of snipping from the background. Forget judging MA till next season when he has cleared all Kean and Berg and Shebby;s rubbish out of Ewood. We need everyone;s support to shut the mouthy Dingles up. So shout for our team WHO ever is picked.

I agree we have to give him a chance and I am more than willing to do so, because there is no point in changing managers every time we loose a few games but to be perfectly honest I reacted the way I did in my earlier post because I am tired of hearing the same old comments from him.

He is the manager, he is paid to manage.

"Players not hurting enough" totally unacceptable, his job is to make them hurt enough and if they can't they shouldn't be anywhere near Blackburn Rovers, let alone putting the shirt on.

We have 10 games to go in an appauling season and he is "Hoping for a spark" - He should be providing that spark, that's what he is paid to do.

All I am asking is that for all the remaining games this season, not just Sunday, the players on the pitch show some pride, passion and skill and that Appleton doesn't resort to boring defensive tactics hoping to nick a goal.

I watched Burnley on Monday, they were so bad they made us look like Man City in full flow, to play defensively and invite defeat to a side like that will be totally unacceptable to me.

Because we can't defend for 90 minutes even against crap teams and if he sets us up like that we will loose. All it will take, as happened on Wednesday night, is one player in the right place at the right time and it will all be over.

Because the current crop of players don't have the guts for a fightback.

owd nick wrote:

1952 rover wrote:
To all you terrace critics support the team instead of snipping from the background. Forget judging MA till next season when he has cleared all Kean and Berg and Shebby;s rubbish out of Ewood. We need everyone;s support to shut the mouthy Dingles up. So shout for our team WHO ever is picked.

I agree we have to give him a chance and I am more than willing to do so, because there is no point in changing managers every time we loose a few games but to be perfectly honest I reacted the way I did in my earlier post because I am tired of hearing the same old comments from him.

He is the manager, he is paid to manage.

"Players not hurting enough" totally unacceptable, his job is to make them hurt enough and if they can't they shouldn't be anywhere near Blackburn Rovers, let alone putting the shirt on.

We have 10 games to go in an appauling season and he is "Hoping for a spark" - He should be providing that spark, that's what he is paid to do.

All I am asking is that for all the remaining games this season, not just Sunday, the players on the pitch show some pride, passion and skill and that Appleton doesn't resort to boring defensive tactics hoping to nick a goal.

I watched Burnley on Monday, they were so bad they made us look like Man City in full flow, to play defensively and invite defeat to a side like that will be totally unacceptable to me.

Because we can't defend for 90 minutes even against crap teams and if he sets us up like that we will loose. All it will take, as happened on Wednesday night, is one player in the right place at the right time and it will all be over.

Because the current crop of players don't have the guts for a fightback.

As an addendum.

What would happen to anyone who played for Manchester United who "Didn't hurt enough"?

Let's get down to Ewood in force on Sunday..............
..for Appleton's last game in charge.

M4CCY wrote:
It is genuinely becoming tiresome reading some of the comments being made.

I fully understand how frustrating it is at the moment. I was one of the frustrated 8000 fans on Wednesday. However, some of the comments being made i.e. calling for the managers head are unbelieveable. The Steve Kean legacy is going to take time to fix. Rather than ignite further unrest, we need to give the boss a further 12 months (at the very least) before it is fair to make judgement. We need stability.

I am aware that some of the above comments are from Burnley fans. However, for those Blackburn Rovers fans, we need to give the boss a chance. A proper chance; not a handful of games! Some of the comments being made suggest that some individuals actually get some form of satisfaction from us failing.

Sunday is a great opportunity for us to put right some of the wrong's from the midweek game. Welcome back Todd Kane; he impressed me earlier in the season and I will be delighted to see him back at the club.

Calling for the managers head are Unbelievable!!!!!! REALLY.

No - What is unbelievable is Appleton's total lack of tactical nous.

He has been outwitted, and outmanoeuvred tactically by most of the talented managers he has come up against.

We lost on Wednesday and at Bolton before we even set foot on the pitch.

Playing 4 4 2 with Dunn and Pederson in midfield against their 3 was nonsensical. The guys did not stand a chance. We did not claim ascendancy of the midfield the whole game.

If we wish to create for Rhodes etc we need to gain ascendancy of the midfield battle first and foremost. Givet could have played allowing Lowe to be moved into midfield for his youthful legs if we had players cup tied or out injured. Either way we were desperate to control the midfield in order to create for Rhodes.

Jacket played 4 5 1 and when we tried to play from the back Millwall quickly went to press Hanley Dann Olsson and Lowe with a 4 3 3. Dann and Hanley were put under pressure immediately - They could not find anyone in midfield because Millwall had three in there so surprise surprsie Hoofball. Their front three also harried our back four like Sutton Shearer and Newell used to do.

I could not remember Rhodes Olsson or especially King harrying their back 4 to the same extent and certainly when Best went to the left side he did not either. That to me does show lack of commitment to chase opposition defenders down for the good of our team for the pressure then comes straight onto our midfield and defence.

Defence is a WHOLE team role and shearer and Davies for Bolton would put all our current crop to shame. Best and King just saunter about the place, Best never seeing his role when out on the left to in fact track back to help so again putting pressure on Morten and David.

Back to Appleton - Read the BBC pages Freedman had Appletonn Sussed before the game. He knew Appleton would come for the draw, that we would tire in the last twenty minutes, so what did he do but put a centre forward on (he actually took Davies off) and Chris Eagles and Appleton did absolutely nothing to counter act it.

Oh yes I forgot he put Best on for the last ten minutes whilst our midfield and defence were being totally annihilated and over run.

Sorry we do have the right to question his ability for he is our manager for goodness sake, and one whom which a great many of us did not think suitable for the task of getting us into a playoff place.

Oh - and if he had any gumption whatsoever knowing this fact (inexperience) it should have sparked him into appointing a real quality assistant but instead he appointed his mates one of which was the U18 West Brom coach.

Me personally - I think it is scandalous that Agnew Shaw and Coar thought it acceptable to appoint an apprentice who was going to use our beloved team to learn his trade on the job.

We needed an experienced tactically astute manager to get the best out of the players we have, had we done that I have no doubts that we would be in a playoff place right now, or if not now by the end of the season.

No his inexperience is there for all to see and we should rightly be questioning it for all the managers in the Championship have worked him out already and no he is incapable of making substitutions to affect any match and I do unfortunately fear for our last 10 games and Championship status even with him in charge.

I'm proud of the Rovers fans. Everyone got behind Appleton and now the majority are calling for his head. It's far too easy to stick to your guns because you said he was the man for the job and say "oh give him until the end of the season and see what he can do". I'm happy that 99% of us do see Appletons massive tactical failures and that we arn't doing this whole split "lets blame the fans" thing again like we did under Kean.

Although from this article, Appleton does make some refence to the fans not being behind the team and 40k to Wembley? Think you'll find enough of us have eyes to see that even if we got to Wembley Wigan would have between 95-98% possession (if you counted the ball in the air as our possession).

French Rover wrote:
Rovers to win by two clear goals no problem! Send the claret monkeys home with their tails (literally) between their legs! Make it 35 years of hurt for them and no respite from our domination over the losers from the dark side.

Sure we have a long way to go to get back to being a decent side again (haven't been one for three years now) but I think Apple is right that after the win on Sunday we can end the season on a better note that seemed possible after the cup game.

Roar on the Rovers to yet another win against our oldest enemies and former rivals. (Not been rivals now for 35 years and counting!)

you will have to shout the loudest from frog land frenchy to be heard over here,unless your going to HOP on a plane,poly veu un cupa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

“Sometimes where the fans might want the ball to go forward quicker, we have to be brave and patient and get the ball into wide areas before we get the ball into the box.

I'm sorry Appy, but it's not the fans who wanted the ball to go foward quicker, it's the players (presumably under you instruction or you would have changed it).

I'm growing weary of cliches and spin. First we had Kean who read from the book of blinkered positivity despite all around him going up in flames, then we had Berg who said ...... well nothing really and now we have Appy who reads from the book of "how to sound like your a man of the people when you are clearly out of your depth"

As it took Appy a full week as Manager before a word was muttered to the press or fans, do we take it that he had a crash course with Venky's new PR firm to go through the excuses in advance.

Apart from being shaven headed bald (Mrs Desai must fancy bald men), all managers employed by Venky's have shared other things in common (apart from bad skin complexion) such as NO Experience in management, a terrible win percentage and a complete failure to be able to organise a balanced team that is able to defend as a unit and attack as a unit in the same game.

The only saving grace for Berg and Appy is that they didn't buy most of the dross we have in our squad but Appy is guilty of offloading all our stylish players, who were no world beaters but at this level should at least be in the squad (we could have at least kept one).

Let's hope the midfield loanee can be our saviour. If he can pass a through ball to Rhodes on the floor, he may just be (big if with our tactics).

Come on Appy and the players, show us on Sunday that you are a united dressing room, that you have grit, determination and some skill and put 3 points on the board.

The jury has to be still out on whether we would trust Appy to rebuild for next season or look elsewhere. He has only a few games to prove it but if his plan for the future is to give us more of what we have been watching since he arrived, then all we have done is replace one tacticly inept manager with another one.

As the Burnley fan said on another LET post, 2 sh!t sides with 2 sh!t managers and I'll add to that by saying, in a sh!t league.

THE MYSTERY SURROUNDING THE RUNNING OF BLACKBURN ROVERS AND THE PART PLAYED BY JEROME ANDERSON.

Sports minister Hugh Robertson and former home secretary and Blackburn MP Jack Straw are pressing the Football Association for a response to concerns they have raised over Blackburn Rovers decent into chaos since the club was taken over in November 2010 by Indian poultry conglomerate Venky’s (VHPL).
Jack Straw (pic above) who has been MP for Blackburn since 1979 and became home secretary following labour’s 1997 General Election victory, is so incensed by the FA’s failure to provide answers to questions that Robertson put to footballs governing body last July that he plans to raise the issue in the House of Commons.
The FA since the beginning of 2011 have been examining events at Blackburn in the months following the £26 million VHPL takeover.
On January 4th that year the ‘OLD’ board of Directors wrote to Venky’s matriarch, Anuradha Desai, asking her to clarify what, if any, part had been played in Rovers transfer policy by one of the country’s leading football agents, Jerome Anderson, through his agency, SEM, of whom soccer pundit Charlie Nicholas is a consultant.
That letter, which is in the public domain, also raised concerns that the board were “not even being consulted on some of the most fundamental decisions this or any other football club ever makes”.
These included the sacking of former manager Sam Allardyce and the appointment of Steve Kean as his replacement. Kean who is represented by Anderson and SEM, was already working at the club as first team coach, having been taken off the dole que and given the job by Allardyce in August 2009.
Anderson (the man who ruined Blackburn Rovers football club) and SEM deny that they have acted inappropriately or in breach of the FA rules.
Seven months on Straw is still awaiting their reply. Sports minister Robertson and Straw are understood to find the ruling bodies failure to respond “baffling and unsatisfactory” and Straw is requesting an adjournment debate so he can raise the issue in House of Commons as a matter of wider public interest.
Documents seen by Nick Harris, investigative reporter for the Mail on Sunday suggest that Venky’s openly admitted knowing little if anything about Football when they bought Rovers. They relied instead on a number of advisors both formal and informal.
Anderson said in a televised interview, broadcast by Sky Sports News on January 10th 2012 that he had spent the whole of January 2011 at Blackburn working on club business.
In that interview Anderson said that during the January 2011 transfer window (having got rid of Allardyce) “I basically slept at the training ground for the whole of January and helped the club in so many different areas.” He explained that this work included bringing in new players. He added “we actively scoured the market and were fortunate to bring in two very talented players. Mauro Formica, who has gone on to become a Argentinian International, and a Spanish under 21 International, Ruben Rochina.” Anderson did not go on and enlarge on all the ‘dross’ he also signed wasting Millions of the Venky’s money.
Anderson Lawyers say he did not receive any payments for work he carried out in January 2011 “other than those which are fully documented with the FA for transfer dealings in which he was involved as a agent in bringing new players to the club and would ordinarily have been entitled to a fee”.
In November 2010, at the time of their purchase of Rovers, Venky’s entered into a long-term agreement with the Swiss-based Kentaro Group, who were hired to act as consultant’s to the owners.
Anderson’s company, SEM, have had a corporate partnership arrangement with Kentaro since February 2009 and Anderson is listed by Kentaro as a member of their senior management. Raising the question is there a ‘conflict of interest’ that is against FA rules. Anderson however denies any involvement in Kentaro’s day to day running.
David Newton the FA’s head of integrity, wrote to Blackburn on March 2nd 2011 asking questions about Rovers relationship with agent’s, and what roles, if any, they had in club business. Which would be illegal and against FA regulations.
The club replied 14 days later saying that no such arrangements were in place either formal or informal. Which goes against both the document seen by the Mail on Sunday and Anderson’s January 2011 Sky TV interview. But the letter from Rovers then secretary, Andrew pincher confirmed that Venky’s did have an arrangement with Kentaro under which Kentaro provides consultancy services to VHPL in respect of Football related business.
FA sources say that while they have jurisdiction over football clubs and agents, their authority over parent companies, such as VHPL is less well-defined.
With Rovers affairs now attracting the concerned interest of senior politician’s, the FA ability to govern all aspects of the professional game may again become a subject of even closer scrutiny in the corridors of power.
I could save Jack Straw and Sports Minister Hugh Robertson the bother. The answer is quite simple and straightforward and I have been telling everyone on this site for the past two years. Quite simply Jerome Anderson and Steve Kean allegedly carved up Blackburn Rovers in their own interest.
What Jerome Anderson did to Blackburn Rovers tantamount to ‘pillage and plunder’.
Anderson was put into a position of total power. A football agent running a football club is unprecedented in the history of football, never mind the Premiership. But this is what he did. This is the point behind Jack Straw’s letter to the Sport’s Minister and FA.
To achieve this Anderson had first to get rid of Sam Allardyce, who would not under any circumstances have worked with Anderson. Having got rid of Allardyce, and who can ever forget Mrs Anuradha Desai live on Sky Sports News issuing the statement in December 2010 following Allardyce’s sacking “Blackburn Rovers should be in the Premiership’s top four and playing in Europe and do not play entertaining football and I like to be entertained”. I wonder where she got that statement from ? ‘ NOT ROCKET SCIENCE TO WORK OUT IS IT.
Anderson then allegedly engineered the departure from the board room of John Williams and Tom Finn.
With his own man, Steve Kean, now in place the task was simple. Anderson was at liberty to sign and sell what players he wanted to, with Steve Kean no more than a ‘nodding dog’. Anderson even signed his own son, Myles, and put him on a Premiership contract. Players came and players went. I won’t go into all the transactions, they are well documented and numerous. Never has a football club been plundered and pillaged to such an extent. Even Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United is on record as saying Blackburn Rovers problems and the sacking of Sam Allardyce are down to “the whim of a football agent”. Although Ferguson stopped short of naming names.
Reg.
Footnote: More to follow.
www.regoftherovers.c
o.uk

claret777 wrote:

French Rover wrote:
Rovers to win by two clear goals no problem! Send the claret monkeys home with their tails (literally) between their legs! Make it 35 years of hurt for them and no respite from our domination over the losers from the dark side.

Sure we have a long way to go to get back to being a decent side again (haven't been one for three years now) but I think Apple is right that after the win on Sunday we can end the season on a better note that seemed possible after the cup game.

Roar on the Rovers to yet another win against our oldest enemies and former rivals. (Not been rivals now for 35 years and counting!)

Just like it was no problem turning Millwall over in the replay!!!! 8,061 home fans,what a total disgrace for a quarter final fa cup game and a chance to play at wembley. in the semi's.

Ignore him you'll get no sense from him. Totally agree with you, we were an embarrassment. woeful tactics, got what we deserved. Be a long time before we are anywhere near Wembley, and I include the johnsons paint trophy in that. Only Dunny knew what it meant

Apple clearly is benefitting from the PR advice that Venkys pay a London firm for. He's quickly catching up on Keano in the "man of the people speaks through media but can't motivate his own team" stakes.
Wouldn't we all appreciate a real honesty which said:
"I'm a relatively new manager with a lot to catch up on tactically, but I'm doing my best and will try harder" - that might just get a few fans on board.
He has to play Dunnie, he's the only player with a clue what the Burnley game means to the fans.

Reg Rover wrote:
THE MYSTERY SURROUNDING THE RUNNING OF BLACKBURN ROVERS AND THE PART PLAYED BY JEROME ANDERSON.

Sports minister Hugh Robertson and former home secretary and Blackburn MP Jack Straw are pressing the Football Association for a response to concerns they have raised over Blackburn Rovers decent into chaos since the club was taken over in November 2010 by Indian poultry conglomerate Venky’s (VHPL).
Jack Straw (pic above) who has been MP for Blackburn since 1979 and became home secretary following labour’s 1997 General Election victory, is so incensed by the FA’s failure to provide answers to questions that Robertson put to footballs governing body last July that he plans to raise the issue in the House of Commons.
The FA since the beginning of 2011 have been examining events at Blackburn in the months following the £26 million VHPL takeover.
On January 4th that year the ‘OLD’ board of Directors wrote to Venky’s matriarch, Anuradha Desai, asking her to clarify what, if any, part had been played in Rovers transfer policy by one of the country’s leading football agents, Jerome Anderson, through his agency, SEM, of whom soccer pundit Charlie Nicholas is a consultant.
That letter, which is in the public domain, also raised concerns that the board were “not even being consulted on some of the most fundamental decisions this or any other football club ever makes”.
These included the sacking of former manager Sam Allardyce and the appointment of Steve Kean as his replacement. Kean who is represented by Anderson and SEM, was already working at the club as first team coach, having been taken off the dole que and given the job by Allardyce in August 2009.
Anderson (the man who ruined Blackburn Rovers football club) and SEM deny that they have acted inappropriately or in breach of the FA rules.
Seven months on Straw is still awaiting their reply. Sports minister Robertson and Straw are understood to find the ruling bodies failure to respond “baffling and unsatisfactory” and Straw is requesting an adjournment debate so he can raise the issue in House of Commons as a matter of wider public interest.
Documents seen by Nick Harris, investigative reporter for the Mail on Sunday suggest that Venky’s openly admitted knowing little if anything about Football when they bought Rovers. They relied instead on a number of advisors both formal and informal.
Anderson said in a televised interview, broadcast by Sky Sports News on January 10th 2012 that he had spent the whole of January 2011 at Blackburn working on club business.
In that interview Anderson said that during the January 2011 transfer window (having got rid of Allardyce) “I basically slept at the training ground for the whole of January and helped the club in so many different areas.” He explained that this work included bringing in new players. He added “we actively scoured the market and were fortunate to bring in two very talented players. Mauro Formica, who has gone on to become a Argentinian International, and a Spanish under 21 International, Ruben Rochina.” Anderson did not go on and enlarge on all the ‘dross’ he also signed wasting Millions of the Venky’s money.
Anderson Lawyers say he did not receive any payments for work he carried out in January 2011 “other than those which are fully documented with the FA for transfer dealings in which he was involved as a agent in bringing new players to the club and would ordinarily have been entitled to a fee”.
In November 2010, at the time of their purchase of Rovers, Venky’s entered into a long-term agreement with the Swiss-based Kentaro Group, who were hired to act as consultant’s to the owners.
Anderson’s company, SEM, have had a corporate partnership arrangement with Kentaro since February 2009 and Anderson is listed by Kentaro as a member of their senior management. Raising the question is there a ‘conflict of interest’ that is against FA rules. Anderson however denies any involvement in Kentaro’s day to day running.
David Newton the FA’s head of integrity, wrote to Blackburn on March 2nd 2011 asking questions about Rovers relationship with agent’s, and what roles, if any, they had in club business. Which would be illegal and against FA regulations.
The club replied 14 days later saying that no such arrangements were in place either formal or informal. Which goes against both the document seen by the Mail on Sunday and Anderson’s January 2011 Sky TV interview. But the letter from Rovers then secretary, Andrew pincher confirmed that Venky’s did have an arrangement with Kentaro under which Kentaro provides consultancy services to VHPL in respect of Football related business.
FA sources say that while they have jurisdiction over football clubs and agents, their authority over parent companies, such as VHPL is less well-defined.
With Rovers affairs now attracting the concerned interest of senior politician’s, the FA ability to govern all aspects of the professional game may again become a subject of even closer scrutiny in the corridors of power.
I could save Jack Straw and Sports Minister Hugh Robertson the bother. The answer is quite simple and straightforward and I have been telling everyone on this site for the past two years. Quite simply Jerome Anderson and Steve Kean allegedly carved up Blackburn Rovers in their own interest.
What Jerome Anderson did to Blackburn Rovers tantamount to ‘pillage and plunder’.
Anderson was put into a position of total power. A football agent running a football club is unprecedented in the history of football, never mind the Premiership. But this is what he did. This is the point behind Jack Straw’s letter to the Sport’s Minister and FA.
To achieve this Anderson had first to get rid of Sam Allardyce, who would not under any circumstances have worked with Anderson. Having got rid of Allardyce, and who can ever forget Mrs Anuradha Desai live on Sky Sports News issuing the statement in December 2010 following Allardyce’s sacking “Blackburn Rovers should be in the Premiership’s top four and playing in Europe and do not play entertaining football and I like to be entertained”. I wonder where she got that statement from ? ‘ NOT ROCKET SCIENCE TO WORK OUT IS IT.
Anderson then allegedly engineered the departure from the board room of John Williams and Tom Finn.
With his own man, Steve Kean, now in place the task was simple. Anderson was at liberty to sign and sell what players he wanted to, with Steve Kean no more than a ‘nodding dog’. Anderson even signed his own son, Myles, and put him on a Premiership contract. Players came and players went. I won’t go into all the transactions, they are well documented and numerous. Never has a football club been plundered and pillaged to such an extent. Even Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United is on record as saying Blackburn Rovers problems and the sacking of Sam Allardyce are down to “the whim of a football agent”. Although Ferguson stopped short of naming names.
Reg.
Footnote: More to follow.
www.regoftherovers.c

o.uk

I think I would rather read Modan. The past is past and the damage is done. Sack Shaw and Appleton, bring back Williams and Sounness. Simples

Reg Rover wrote:
THE MYSTERY SURROUNDING THE RUNNING OF BLACKBURN ROVERS AND THE PART PLAYED BY JEROME ANDERSON.

Sports minister Hugh Robertson and former home secretary and Blackburn MP Jack Straw are pressing the Football Association for a response to concerns they have raised over Blackburn Rovers decent into chaos since the club was taken over in November 2010 by Indian poultry conglomerate Venky’s (VHPL).
Jack Straw (pic above) who has been MP for Blackburn since 1979 and became home secretary following labour’s 1997 General Election victory, is so incensed by the FA’s failure to provide answers to questions that Robertson put to footballs governing body last July that he plans to raise the issue in the House of Commons.
The FA since the beginning of 2011 have been examining events at Blackburn in the months following the £26 million VHPL takeover.
On January 4th that year the ‘OLD’ board of Directors wrote to Venky’s matriarch, Anuradha Desai, asking her to clarify what, if any, part had been played in Rovers transfer policy by one of the country’s leading football agents, Jerome Anderson, through his agency, SEM, of whom soccer pundit Charlie Nicholas is a consultant.
That letter, which is in the public domain, also raised concerns that the board were “not even being consulted on some of the most fundamental decisions this or any other football club ever makes”.
These included the sacking of former manager Sam Allardyce and the appointment of Steve Kean as his replacement. Kean who is represented by Anderson and SEM, was already working at the club as first team coach, having been taken off the dole que and given the job by Allardyce in August 2009.
Anderson (the man who ruined Blackburn Rovers football club) and SEM deny that they have acted inappropriately or in breach of the FA rules.
Seven months on Straw is still awaiting their reply. Sports minister Robertson and Straw are understood to find the ruling bodies failure to respond “baffling and unsatisfactory” and Straw is requesting an adjournment debate so he can raise the issue in House of Commons as a matter of wider public interest.
Documents seen by Nick Harris, investigative reporter for the Mail on Sunday suggest that Venky’s openly admitted knowing little if anything about Football when they bought Rovers. They relied instead on a number of advisors both formal and informal.
Anderson said in a televised interview, broadcast by Sky Sports News on January 10th 2012 that he had spent the whole of January 2011 at Blackburn working on club business.
In that interview Anderson said that during the January 2011 transfer window (having got rid of Allardyce) “I basically slept at the training ground for the whole of January and helped the club in so many different areas.” He explained that this work included bringing in new players. He added “we actively scoured the market and were fortunate to bring in two very talented players. Mauro Formica, who has gone on to become a Argentinian International, and a Spanish under 21 International, Ruben Rochina.” Anderson did not go on and enlarge on all the ‘dross’ he also signed wasting Millions of the Venky’s money.
Anderson Lawyers say he did not receive any payments for work he carried out in January 2011 “other than those which are fully documented with the FA for transfer dealings in which he was involved as a agent in bringing new players to the club and would ordinarily have been entitled to a fee”.
In November 2010, at the time of their purchase of Rovers, Venky’s entered into a long-term agreement with the Swiss-based Kentaro Group, who were hired to act as consultant’s to the owners.
Anderson’s company, SEM, have had a corporate partnership arrangement with Kentaro since February 2009 and Anderson is listed by Kentaro as a member of their senior management. Raising the question is there a ‘conflict of interest’ that is against FA rules. Anderson however denies any involvement in Kentaro’s day to day running.
David Newton the FA’s head of integrity, wrote to Blackburn on March 2nd 2011 asking questions about Rovers relationship with agent’s, and what roles, if any, they had in club business. Which would be illegal and against FA regulations.
The club replied 14 days later saying that no such arrangements were in place either formal or informal. Which goes against both the document seen by the Mail on Sunday and Anderson’s January 2011 Sky TV interview. But the letter from Rovers then secretary, Andrew pincher confirmed that Venky’s did have an arrangement with Kentaro under which Kentaro provides consultancy services to VHPL in respect of Football related business.
FA sources say that while they have jurisdiction over football clubs and agents, their authority over parent companies, such as VHPL is less well-defined.
With Rovers affairs now attracting the concerned interest of senior politician’s, the FA ability to govern all aspects of the professional game may again become a subject of even closer scrutiny in the corridors of power.
I could save Jack Straw and Sports Minister Hugh Robertson the bother. The answer is quite simple and straightforward and I have been telling everyone on this site for the past two years. Quite simply Jerome Anderson and Steve Kean allegedly carved up Blackburn Rovers in their own interest.
What Jerome Anderson did to Blackburn Rovers tantamount to ‘pillage and plunder’.
Anderson was put into a position of total power. A football agent running a football club is unprecedented in the history of football, never mind the Premiership. But this is what he did. This is the point behind Jack Straw’s letter to the Sport’s Minister and FA.
To achieve this Anderson had first to get rid of Sam Allardyce, who would not under any circumstances have worked with Anderson. Having got rid of Allardyce, and who can ever forget Mrs Anuradha Desai live on Sky Sports News issuing the statement in December 2010 following Allardyce’s sacking “Blackburn Rovers should be in the Premiership’s top four and playing in Europe and do not play entertaining football and I like to be entertained”. I wonder where she got that statement from ? ‘ NOT ROCKET SCIENCE TO WORK OUT IS IT.
Anderson then allegedly engineered the departure from the board room of John Williams and Tom Finn.
With his own man, Steve Kean, now in place the task was simple. Anderson was at liberty to sign and sell what players he wanted to, with Steve Kean no more than a ‘nodding dog’. Anderson even signed his own son, Myles, and put him on a Premiership contract. Players came and players went. I won’t go into all the transactions, they are well documented and numerous. Never has a football club been plundered and pillaged to such an extent. Even Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United is on record as saying Blackburn Rovers problems and the sacking of Sam Allardyce are down to “the whim of a football agent”. Although Ferguson stopped short of naming names.
Reg.
Footnote: More to follow.
www.regoftherovers.c

o.uk

**** dick, see you crying on Sunday afternoon you dingle scum !!!!

Reg Rover wrote:
THE MYSTERY SURROUNDING THE RUNNING OF BLACKBURN ROVERS AND THE PART PLAYED BY JEROME ANDERSON.

Sports minister Hugh Robertson and former home secretary and Blackburn MP Jack Straw are pressing the Football Association for a response to concerns they have raised over Blackburn Rovers decent into chaos since the club was taken over in November 2010 by Indian poultry conglomerate Venky’s (VHPL).
Jack Straw (pic above) who has been MP for Blackburn since 1979 and became home secretary following labour’s 1997 General Election victory, is so incensed by the FA’s failure to provide answers to questions that Robertson put to footballs governing body last July that he plans to raise the issue in the House of Commons.
The FA since the beginning of 2011 have been examining events at Blackburn in the months following the £26 million VHPL takeover.
On January 4th that year the ‘OLD’ board of Directors wrote to Venky’s matriarch, Anuradha Desai, asking her to clarify what, if any, part had been played in Rovers transfer policy by one of the country’s leading football agents, Jerome Anderson, through his agency, SEM, of whom soccer pundit Charlie Nicholas is a consultant.
That letter, which is in the public domain, also raised concerns that the board were “not even being consulted on some of the most fundamental decisions this or any other football club ever makes”.
These included the sacking of former manager Sam Allardyce and the appointment of Steve Kean as his replacement. Kean who is represented by Anderson and SEM, was already working at the club as first team coach, having been taken off the dole que and given the job by Allardyce in August 2009.
Anderson (the man who ruined Blackburn Rovers football club) and SEM deny that they have acted inappropriately or in breach of the FA rules.
Seven months on Straw is still awaiting their reply. Sports minister Robertson and Straw are understood to find the ruling bodies failure to respond “baffling and unsatisfactory” and Straw is requesting an adjournment debate so he can raise the issue in House of Commons as a matter of wider public interest.
Documents seen by Nick Harris, investigative reporter for the Mail on Sunday suggest that Venky’s openly admitted knowing little if anything about Football when they bought Rovers. They relied instead on a number of advisors both formal and informal.
Anderson said in a televised interview, broadcast by Sky Sports News on January 10th 2012 that he had spent the whole of January 2011 at Blackburn working on club business.
In that interview Anderson said that during the January 2011 transfer window (having got rid of Allardyce) “I basically slept at the training ground for the whole of January and helped the club in so many different areas.” He explained that this work included bringing in new players. He added “we actively scoured the market and were fortunate to bring in two very talented players. Mauro Formica, who has gone on to become a Argentinian International, and a Spanish under 21 International, Ruben Rochina.” Anderson did not go on and enlarge on all the ‘dross’ he also signed wasting Millions of the Venky’s money.
Anderson Lawyers say he did not receive any payments for work he carried out in January 2011 “other than those which are fully documented with the FA for transfer dealings in which he was involved as a agent in bringing new players to the club and would ordinarily have been entitled to a fee”.
In November 2010, at the time of their purchase of Rovers, Venky’s entered into a long-term agreement with the Swiss-based Kentaro Group, who were hired to act as consultant’s to the owners.
Anderson’s company, SEM, have had a corporate partnership arrangement with Kentaro since February 2009 and Anderson is listed by Kentaro as a member of their senior management. Raising the question is there a ‘conflict of interest’ that is against FA rules. Anderson however denies any involvement in Kentaro’s day to day running.
David Newton the FA’s head of integrity, wrote to Blackburn on March 2nd 2011 asking questions about Rovers relationship with agent’s, and what roles, if any, they had in club business. Which would be illegal and against FA regulations.
The club replied 14 days later saying that no such arrangements were in place either formal or informal. Which goes against both the document seen by the Mail on Sunday and Anderson’s January 2011 Sky TV interview. But the letter from Rovers then secretary, Andrew pincher confirmed that Venky’s did have an arrangement with Kentaro under which Kentaro provides consultancy services to VHPL in respect of Football related business.
FA sources say that while they have jurisdiction over football clubs and agents, their authority over parent companies, such as VHPL is less well-defined.
With Rovers affairs now attracting the concerned interest of senior politician’s, the FA ability to govern all aspects of the professional game may again become a subject of even closer scrutiny in the corridors of power.
I could save Jack Straw and Sports Minister Hugh Robertson the bother. The answer is quite simple and straightforward and I have been telling everyone on this site for the past two years. Quite simply Jerome Anderson and Steve Kean allegedly carved up Blackburn Rovers in their own interest.
What Jerome Anderson did to Blackburn Rovers tantamount to ‘pillage and plunder’.
Anderson was put into a position of total power. A football agent running a football club is unprecedented in the history of football, never mind the Premiership. But this is what he did. This is the point behind Jack Straw’s letter to the Sport’s Minister and FA.
To achieve this Anderson had first to get rid of Sam Allardyce, who would not under any circumstances have worked with Anderson. Having got rid of Allardyce, and who can ever forget Mrs Anuradha Desai live on Sky Sports News issuing the statement in December 2010 following Allardyce’s sacking “Blackburn Rovers should be in the Premiership’s top four and playing in Europe and do not play entertaining football and I like to be entertained”. I wonder where she got that statement from ? ‘ NOT ROCKET SCIENCE TO WORK OUT IS IT.
Anderson then allegedly engineered the departure from the board room of John Williams and Tom Finn.
With his own man, Steve Kean, now in place the task was simple. Anderson was at liberty to sign and sell what players he wanted to, with Steve Kean no more than a ‘nodding dog’. Anderson even signed his own son, Myles, and put him on a Premiership contract. Players came and players went. I won’t go into all the transactions, they are well documented and numerous. Never has a football club been plundered and pillaged to such an extent. Even Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United is on record as saying Blackburn Rovers problems and the sacking of Sam Allardyce are down to “the whim of a football agent”. Although Ferguson stopped short of naming names.
Reg.
Footnote: More to follow.
www.regoftherovers.c

o.uk

The plot thickens, new things were bad but not to this extent !! Look forward to your next post. Rovers till I die

MattNewcastle wrote:

M4CCY wrote:
It is genuinely becoming tiresome reading some of the comments being made.

I fully understand how frustrating it is at the moment. I was one of the frustrated 8000 fans on Wednesday. However, some of the comments being made i.e. calling for the managers head are unbelieveable. The Steve Kean legacy is going to take time to fix. Rather than ignite further unrest, we need to give the boss a further 12 months (at the very least) before it is fair to make judgement. We need stability.

I am aware that some of the above comments are from Burnley fans. However, for those Blackburn Rovers fans, we need to give the boss a chance. A proper chance; not a handful of games! Some of the comments being made suggest that some individuals actually get some form of satisfaction from us failing.

Sunday is a great opportunity for us to put right some of the wrong's from the midweek game. Welcome back Todd Kane; he impressed me earlier in the season and I will be delighted to see him back at the club.

Calling for the managers head are Unbelievable!!!!!! REALLY.

No - What is unbelievable is Appleton's total lack of tactical nous.

He has been outwitted, and outmanoeuvred tactically by most of the talented managers he has come up against.

We lost on Wednesday and at Bolton before we even set foot on the pitch.

Playing 4 4 2 with Dunn and Pederson in midfield against their 3 was nonsensical. The guys did not stand a chance. We did not claim ascendancy of the midfield the whole game.

If we wish to create for Rhodes etc we need to gain ascendancy of the midfield battle first and foremost. Givet could have played allowing Lowe to be moved into midfield for his youthful legs if we had players cup tied or out injured. Either way we were desperate to control the midfield in order to create for Rhodes.

Jacket played 4 5 1 and when we tried to play from the back Millwall quickly went to press Hanley Dann Olsson and Lowe with a 4 3 3. Dann and Hanley were put under pressure immediately - They could not find anyone in midfield because Millwall had three in there so surprise surprsie Hoofball. Their front three also harried our back four like Sutton Shearer and Newell used to do.

I could not remember Rhodes Olsson or especially King harrying their back 4 to the same extent and certainly when Best went to the left side he did not either. That to me does show lack of commitment to chase opposition defenders down for the good of our team for the pressure then comes straight onto our midfield and defence.

Defence is a WHOLE team role and shearer and Davies for Bolton would put all our current crop to shame. Best and King just saunter about the place, Best never seeing his role when out on the left to in fact track back to help so again putting pressure on Morten and David.

Back to Appleton - Read the BBC pages Freedman had Appletonn Sussed before the game. He knew Appleton would come for the draw, that we would tire in the last twenty minutes, so what did he do but put a centre forward on (he actually took Davies off) and Chris Eagles and Appleton did absolutely nothing to counter act it.

Oh yes I forgot he put Best on for the last ten minutes whilst our midfield and defence were being totally annihilated and over run.

Sorry we do have the right to question his ability for he is our manager for goodness sake, and one whom which a great many of us did not think suitable for the task of getting us into a playoff place.

Oh - and if he had any gumption whatsoever knowing this fact (inexperience) it should have sparked him into appointing a real quality assistant but instead he appointed his mates one of which was the U18 West Brom coach.

Me personally - I think it is scandalous that Agnew Shaw and Coar thought it acceptable to appoint an apprentice who was going to use our beloved team to learn his trade on the job.

We needed an experienced tactically astute manager to get the best out of the players we have, had we done that I have no doubts that we would be in a playoff place right now, or if not now by the end of the season.

No his inexperience is there for all to see and we should rightly be questioning it for all the managers in the Championship have worked him out already and no he is incapable of making substitutions to affect any match and I do unfortunately fear for our last 10 games and Championship status even with him in charge.

I totally agree but if we leave it to the end of the season before we get rid of him, we will spend the summer scratching round for a new manager and miss another transfer window. Sack him on Sunday afternoon and put Boater back in charge while Jack Straw goes on his hands and knees begging Williams and Sounds a to come back and rescue us.

silverstan wrote:

Reg Rover wrote:
THE MYSTERY SURROUNDING THE RUNNING OF BLACKBURN ROVERS AND THE PART PLAYED BY JEROME ANDERSON.

Sports minister Hugh Robertson and former home secretary and Blackburn MP Jack Straw are pressing the Football Association for a response to concerns they have raised over Blackburn Rovers decent into chaos since the club was taken over in November 2010 by Indian poultry conglomerate Venky’s (VHPL).
Jack Straw (pic above) who has been MP for Blackburn since 1979 and became home secretary following labour’s 1997 General Election victory, is so incensed by the FA’s failure to provide answers to questions that Robertson put to footballs governing body last July that he plans to raise the issue in the House of Commons.
The FA since the beginning of 2011 have been examining events at Blackburn in the months following the £26 million VHPL takeover.
On January 4th that year the ‘OLD’ board of Directors wrote to Venky’s matriarch, Anuradha Desai, asking her to clarify what, if any, part had been played in Rovers transfer policy by one of the country’s leading football agents, Jerome Anderson, through his agency, SEM, of whom soccer pundit Charlie Nicholas is a consultant.
That letter, which is in the public domain, also raised concerns that the board were “not even being consulted on some of the most fundamental decisions this or any other football club ever makes”.
These included the sacking of former manager Sam Allardyce and the appointment of Steve Kean as his replacement. Kean who is represented by Anderson and SEM, was already working at the club as first team coach, having been taken off the dole que and given the job by Allardyce in August 2009.
Anderson (the man who ruined Blackburn Rovers football club) and SEM deny that they have acted inappropriately or in breach of the FA rules.
Seven months on Straw is still awaiting their reply. Sports minister Robertson and Straw are understood to find the ruling bodies failure to respond “baffling and unsatisfactory” and Straw is requesting an adjournment debate so he can raise the issue in House of Commons as a matter of wider public interest.
Documents seen by Nick Harris, investigative reporter for the Mail on Sunday suggest that Venky’s openly admitted knowing little if anything about Football when they bought Rovers. They relied instead on a number of advisors both formal and informal.
Anderson said in a televised interview, broadcast by Sky Sports News on January 10th 2012 that he had spent the whole of January 2011 at Blackburn working on club business.
In that interview Anderson said that during the January 2011 transfer window (having got rid of Allardyce) “I basically slept at the training ground for the whole of January and helped the club in so many different areas.” He explained that this work included bringing in new players. He added “we actively scoured the market and were fortunate to bring in two very talented players. Mauro Formica, who has gone on to become a Argentinian International, and a Spanish under 21 International, Ruben Rochina.” Anderson did not go on and enlarge on all the ‘dross’ he also signed wasting Millions of the Venky’s money.
Anderson Lawyers say he did not receive any payments for work he carried out in January 2011 “other than those which are fully documented with the FA for transfer dealings in which he was involved as a agent in bringing new players to the club and would ordinarily have been entitled to a fee”.
In November 2010, at the time of their purchase of Rovers, Venky’s entered into a long-term agreement with the Swiss-based Kentaro Group, who were hired to act as consultant’s to the owners.
Anderson’s company, SEM, have had a corporate partnership arrangement with Kentaro since February 2009 and Anderson is listed by Kentaro as a member of their senior management. Raising the question is there a ‘conflict of interest’ that is against FA rules. Anderson however denies any involvement in Kentaro’s day to day running.
David Newton the FA’s head of integrity, wrote to Blackburn on March 2nd 2011 asking questions about Rovers relationship with agent’s, and what roles, if any, they had in club business. Which would be illegal and against FA regulations.
The club replied 14 days later saying that no such arrangements were in place either formal or informal. Which goes against both the document seen by the Mail on Sunday and Anderson’s January 2011 Sky TV interview. But the letter from Rovers then secretary, Andrew pincher confirmed that Venky’s did have an arrangement with Kentaro under which Kentaro provides consultancy services to VHPL in respect of Football related business.
FA sources say that while they have jurisdiction over football clubs and agents, their authority over parent companies, such as VHPL is less well-defined.
With Rovers affairs now attracting the concerned interest of senior politician’s, the FA ability to govern all aspects of the professional game may again become a subject of even closer scrutiny in the corridors of power.
I could save Jack Straw and Sports Minister Hugh Robertson the bother. The answer is quite simple and straightforward and I have been telling everyone on this site for the past two years. Quite simply Jerome Anderson and Steve Kean allegedly carved up Blackburn Rovers in their own interest.
What Jerome Anderson did to Blackburn Rovers tantamount to ‘pillage and plunder’.
Anderson was put into a position of total power. A football agent running a football club is unprecedented in the history of football, never mind the Premiership. But this is what he did. This is the point behind Jack Straw’s letter to the Sport’s Minister and FA.
To achieve this Anderson had first to get rid of Sam Allardyce, who would not under any circumstances have worked with Anderson. Having got rid of Allardyce, and who can ever forget Mrs Anuradha Desai live on Sky Sports News issuing the statement in December 2010 following Allardyce’s sacking “Blackburn Rovers should be in the Premiership’s top four and playing in Europe and do not play entertaining football and I like to be entertained”. I wonder where she got that statement from ? ‘ NOT ROCKET SCIENCE TO WORK OUT IS IT.
Anderson then allegedly engineered the departure from the board room of John Williams and Tom Finn.
With his own man, Steve Kean, now in place the task was simple. Anderson was at liberty to sign and sell what players he wanted to, with Steve Kean no more than a ‘nodding dog’. Anderson even signed his own son, Myles, and put him on a Premiership contract. Players came and players went. I won’t go into all the transactions, they are well documented and numerous. Never has a football club been plundered and pillaged to such an extent. Even Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United is on record as saying Blackburn Rovers problems and the sacking of Sam Allardyce are down to “the whim of a football agent”. Although Ferguson stopped short of naming names.
Reg.
Footnote: More to follow.
www.regoftherovers.c


o.uk

**** dick, see you crying on Sunday afternoon you dingle scum !!!!

Does he sound like a f******* Dingle??????????????
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1952 rover wrote:
To all you terrace critics support the team instead of snipping from the background. Forget judging MA till next season when he has cleared all Kean and Berg and Shebby;s rubbish out of Ewood. We need everyone;s support to shut the mouthy Dingles up. So shout for our team WHO ever is picked.

The problem is that we could well be watching third tier football next season. Appleton has inheirited some dross, but his tactics and know how are equally as bad. For some reason he wants a clean sheet and we we concede, he has no plan B. Build form the back by all means, but the fans want entertainment, so please give us some!

Derby must be a spark fo Rovers just look at the table now lying 19th bottom of the league.All these overrated and overpaid bunch of rubbish player should Stick thir heads in the sand.
Dunn a long term sicknote in private industry he would have been sacked
Rhodes just a overated Championship player just take a look at Shearer old dvds and learn from this greatest striker of all times
Etuhu a rubbish buy not fit to wear a Backburn overs shirt
Murphy should hang his boots up and retire
Pederson too old and out of form
Scott Dann inconsistent player makes too many mistakes in defence look old Rovers dvds and learn from great Colin Hendry
Goodwillie a player not good enough in English league
Best didn't contribute anything this season cause of injury but looks rubbish
Young players like Hanley,Henley,Lowe Kean,King, Olsson twins and Kazim Richards strong with pace and eye fo goals these are the players for the future if any chance of Rovers getting promoted back to PL.
Why did Appleton loaned out Ruben Rochina a player with talent to unlock any defence and eye for goals.
Sack Appleton, Agnew, Shebby and Shaws with these clowns in charge Rovers will never be promoted back to PL.

A Darener wrote:
From the start of the game on Sunday to the final whistle, the fans expect nothing less than 100% commitment. I am sure the fans will get behind the team from the off so don't give them any excuse to start booing. They will be singing songs and creating as good an atmosphere as can be expected from what is probably going to be the lowest derby crowd in years. Those that are there will be backing the players to the hilt, as long as the players respond to them. Get in their faces, pass them of the park, show them that we are a better side than them. Make sure the bragging rights go on for yet another season. The fans are not asking too much to want to win this match, they will accept a draw as a last resort but they will not accept any surrender to the Dingles. Send them back to Burnley with a lesson in ow to win a game of football.

It will be a nil nil draw,div.1 beckons.Out with the lot !!!!!!.