Bowyer Takes The Reins

So, Gary Bowyer is taking charge of the Blues until the end of the season. He was unbeaten in his last run and I went to the Barnsley game, which was a 3-1 win away from home. It was the best game I had seen since the 3-1 away win at West Brom, which was Steve Kean's first win as Blackburn manager. That was in 2010, a long time ago. Bowyer also managed to beat Nottingham Forest and Bristol City, and managed a draw away at Wolves. So some very good results there for him. Hopefully he can lead us to survival. However, if this is succeeded, then I fear that the Venky's will make the rash decision to make him the permanent manager, and we all know what happened the last time they did that. I think that the stability of keeping him in the job until the end of the season will help the players a lot, they know him well and have already been managed by him so this will be a boost for them all. Also, as long as he does stay until the end of the season, he will be able to establish his tactics and get the players to play to their strengths in each game. He knows how they like to play and what they need to do to help each other play well, which he did well in his previous stint. However, a recurring problem that needs to be fixed is the lack of service to Rhodes. We need to get another striker who can hold the ball up and then let more men get forward. We also need a midfielder who can pass, but I think we can rely on Dunn for that after his recent good form. If we kept Jason Roberts, we would be able to hold the ball up and attack more effectively, he was amazing at picking up the ball and out-muscling defenders to advance on the attack. Rhodes would be able to play with Roberts well as he would be able to feed off Roberts and break the opposition defence. If we can get behind the team on Friday and support the players we might be able to beat the Seasiders. It will settle the players that Bowyer is in charge until the end of the season and then if the fans can get behind him and the team then they will react well from it. Thanks for reading.

Shebby Singh or Paul Agnew and Derek Shaw

After reading a few articles on the BBC website, I realised that the feud between Singh, Agnew and Shaw needs to be sorted. Agnew and Shaw didn't have a say in the appointmetn of Berg, that was all Shebby Singh. Then when Shebby got rid of Berg, Appleton was appointed, he was recommended by Shaw and Agnew. Then Shebby sacked Appleton. This clearly shows that something needs to be done between these three. Shebby is hated by the fans, and in my view, Agnew and Shaw haven't done anything wrong, but that is just my view, others might think differently about them but I don't see a problem with them. Agnew has been at the club for about 16 years, and he was promoted to the board after being in the press and public relations position. Shaw was previouly the Chairman of Preston North End, this is a good experience and it helps to have experience. Singh has no experience in English Football, playing, coaching, managing or directing. This clearly shows that Singh needs to be axed. The Venky's need to get proven proffessionals to run the club. John Williams was a fantastic Chairman at the club, and when the Venky's told him to tell Big Sam that he had been axed, that was one of the last straws for him. He now works as a director at Man City alongside Patrick Vieira. He left the club because the Venky's haven't got a clue what they are doing. Each sacking of the managers that have been here at Rovers since they joined, have been controversial, and all but the Berg sacking were stupid. Okay, Kean "resigned", I doubt that this is true but they said he did so we will go with it, but each one is at the wrong time and unjustified. Huge changes need to be made at Rovers, not just in the Boardroom but also in the squad, too many old players who will be on huge wages need to be axed, along with Shebby. Thanks for reading today's post.

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Appleton - Sacked By Letter

According to reports, Appleton was sacked by letter yesterday, and he found out on TV before he found out himself. This is an utter disgrace. They don't even have the decency to tell him face to face. They are cowardly. Venky's are spending so much money on paying off managers, that they will have nothing left soon. It seems as if Paul Agnew and Derek Shaw don't have anything to do witht the termination of Appleton's contract, but it is Shebby Singh, who has never met Appleton, or chose him to be the manager. Now Venky's need to look seriously at the boardroom, and either axe Shebby, or Paul and Derek. This is disgraceful what they are doing. Shebby doesn't seem to get along with Paul and Derek and it was his decision to hire Berg. He then looked at Tim Sherwood, captain of the side that won us the Premiership. Now it looks like Shebby was trying to bring in a manager who used to play for the club. This sounds good, but I would rather have an experienced manager than just someone who played for the club. We need someone who gets involved with the players and who will talk to the players individually. It has been said by a few players that Berg didn't talk to any of them. This is clearly not good enough, we need someone like Billy Davies, who was available when we had sacked Berg, he goes deep into detail about his players. Here is a video of what he does on a day to day basis at Forest. We need someone like this to come to the club. A few managers off the top of my head who should be considered (however they probably wouldn't want to come to a club in this state):

• Nigel Adkins
• Owen Coyle
• Paolo Di Canio
• Phil Brown
• Brian Mcdermott
• Alex McLeish
• Mark Hughes 

These men would probably do good jos, or at least try, they should be considered by whoever chooses the manager. Thank you for reading, see you next time.

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New Prospective Owners

So today, I bought the Lancashire Telegraph newspaper and part of the several pages of the latest Rovers news, there was an article about a local business with both the owners of the company being fans of the blues. This looks like a very good prospect. They said that they might include fans in the running of the club. Many people, who are linked with the club have made statements saying that it is in a terrible state. Jason Roberts was one of them and he posted a tweet "I am LOST for words...and never been more concerned for the club than right now..." This shows that many high profile people are realising the desperate state of the club. Robbie Savage was also featured in one of the articles. He said that he was stunned by the dismissal. Now I have seen that a few people are happy that Appleton was sacked, but I am not one of them. He was going through a bad spell with a lot of injuries. Yes, the Millwall replay was an utter disgrace, and the Burnley game was lucky, but he needed time to make change. He had the same squad as Berg, apart from Rochina, who was stupid to let go, so he didn't have the full backing from the owners like they said. I don't understand how wwe couldn't push the Campbell and Thomas deals through in time. Thomas arrived at Ewood well before the closing time and everything was agreed, how could we not get it ready in time. Anyway, that left us with no key signings. We did loan Campbell, but yet again the lack of service problem shone through again. Rhodes could be on so many more goals if we had a central midfielder to dictate the play. Lets hope that Jones and Dunn cann form a good partnership. Hopefully the Rovers Trust or this new prospective buyer can come in and Venky's will sell up. Thanks again for reading, I'll be getting blogsout nearly everyday, or every other day so stay posted to keep updated.

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Appleton Sacked - Time For Football Fans to Come Together

So, today, the owners of the club decided to terminate the contract of Michael Appleton after 67 days in charge, that was 15 games. Previous to this, they sacked Hennning Berg after only 57 days. Nobody was calling for them to be rid of, and yet it took them a very long time in footballing terms to get rid of Steve Kean, who the fans wanted to go. The mistakes they have made may just cause us to be relegated to League 1, then the biggest game of that season would be against Preston. It seems that fans of other teams, who have stable ownership and no such problems are blaming the fans of the club for this current situation, I would like to see what they would say to us if they had the Venky's as their owners and we blamed them. The fans did nothing wrong, we welcomed Venky's into the club when they first bought it, and then the turmoil began; they sacked Big Sam for reasons unknown. And then promoting a first team coach to the job of manager was a big mistake. In all fairness, Kean tried his best and put up with a huge amount of stick from the supporters throughout his reign. He just isn't cut out to be a manager. He finally left the club when we stood at the top of the Championship. I mean, let him go at the start of the season or when we don't look like we will be going back up, but when we are top of the league, it is just a joke. There are a few clubs in the Football League and Premier League who have, or have had bad owners, and the FA let them come in and ruin our clubs. Now, as a lifelong Rovers fan, even though I am still young, this has caused me a lot of distress. I enjoyed going to the games last season, and a few this season, but since I couldn't afford a season ticket, every time I go to a game, I am giving the owners more money to take away and put it in their pockets. Something needs to be done about this and the Rovers Trust looks like a good option, but due to the loss of support for the team, I don't think that many people will pledge to the cause, this will just show if fans of other teams actually care about this major problem, or they will just let the Venky's and other owners come in and destroy English teams. This is a time when fans across the country need to come together and show that they care about football. People blame us fans, saying we protest at the games, and don't get behind the team, but just you think about having owners who don't give a sh*t about the club or its fans. It is so difficult to push that out of your mind. If we are relegated, I can see us staying in League 1 for a long time, we will lose a lot of our players and then Venky's will just say they want out and stop pledging money to the club, and won't be able to find any buyers, and that will be the worst days in my life and many others lives. The FA should bring about more rules on foreign owners, Venky's didn't know you could be relegated from the Premiership, how are these people suitable to run a club, that is a founding member of the Football League. Thank you for reading, and here are a few links you may want to visit:
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