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gumboots

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  1. It's not cheeky by City fans - it's typical. Remember when they got promoted and gatecrashed the family stand towards the end of the game soaking kids with their beer despite it being a criminal offence to have alcohol within sight of the pitch. they also intimidated a lot of fans outside the ground to try to get tickets before the match. I think I dislike their fans as a whole more than any others although I do know individual nice City fans.
  2. So Lucas has a clause in his contract too?
  3. Have to admit to being a TalkSport addict. Brazil and Beeky on my way to work; Hawksbee and Jacobs on the way home. My only gripe with the station is that they put that idiot James Whale on after 10 in the evening so if I'm driving home from a night out or somewhere exotic like Teesside or Nottingham I can't listen to the radio. Quite often disagree with the rubbish presenters like Adrian Durham and Mike Parry spout but at least it keeps you awake on a long journey even if it's only because you're shouting abuse at the drivel.
  4. Tugay and Savage are crowd pleasers and always acknowledge the crowd at Ewood too. Friedel is just a genuine all round good guy on the field. If you're the captain you not only carry responsibility for your own mistakes but also for the team's performance and so may feel twice as bad and just want to get off the field as fast as possible. Also Lucas had the world cup last minute goal experience - perhaps deja vu just got to him.
  5. The problem area would seem to be first the 16-18 year olds who have to pay young adult prices despite still being in full time education and quite often have saturday jobs anyway to help pay for all the other things they have/want to do. Then there must be a problem with those who have just left Uni and are already saddled with debts of £10,000+ and may be struggling to get a job, buy a car/house etc. Then there are those who have full time employment but are buying houses, starting families etc often on low incomes. There are those who don't have jobs etc When our kids were small we had one adult and one junior season ticket and the little one had a free ticket. Affording that was a nightmare and even now we're probably still paying for those early years in ongoing credit card debts. We can now afford to spend more but not everyone finds themselves in that position. The cost of matches in France is, as in germany etc, much lower than here. We paid 15 euros for our seats to watch Lorient play Bordeaux in August and if we'd gone to watch Lorient - Lyon last week it would have cost the same.
  6. I've asked time and time again where Lucas has actually said himself that he wants to leave. Didn't see the programme last night - too busy watching Peterborough scare Everton - but it sounds like Lucas's agent has been saying a lot of things, not always very reliably, and all the stories about Lucas wanting away that I've seen have come from him so can we please accept that, whatever Mark Hughes' motivation is in giving Lucas the captain's armband and however much some people think he shouldn't have it, for the moment at least, he is our player and our captain and as such deserves our support.
  7. Doesn't matter how much money they have. they can't spend it till Jan so if O Neill wants a player now out of contract players are what's available
  8. Well, the get them early and they'll be rovers for life certainly seems to have worked with my kids. My daughter still has a season ticket despite the fact that she'll be in France for most of the season because it works out that just attending the matches at the start and end of the season and the christmas holidays she's better off with a young adult's season ticket than with individual match tickets. Think the age group where we could perhaps look at our pricing policy is the bottom end of the young adults as my younger son has to have a young adult season ticket despite still being at school 6th form and I know many of my last year's year 11 pupils were looking at the cost of the young adult ticket - a big step up from juniors - and wondering if they would be able to afford it as they are still at college.
  9. Apologies. Those are not the views of ultrablue but of me his elderly mother. Didn't realise he hadn't logged out.
  10. I don't want it.... oh yeah, that right... I DO!! Could someone PM it to me?
  11. You are not alone! I too find myself thinking the ref would have given a free kick against us if we'd done that. I thought it was just the onset of middle age
  12. Would test how much he really wanted to play for Rovers though. Bellamy took a cut in the wages he could have had to play for Liverpool for which you have to respect him even if you didn't like the manner of his leaving
  13. Quite agree. Have never supported a fashionable club and never wanted to. Quite enjoy watching lower league football where you know that the players aren't on huge wages and do have mortgages to pay like the rest of us. I don't want Rovers to go down the leagues obviously but certainly don't want our club to become one where the players are so far from the ordinary people that they can't understand any of our concerns or give us anything to identify with. At the moment we seem generally (with a few exceptions) to have players who haven't got too carried away with their own status and still semm to realise they owe the fans respect. Throwing money at a club often changes that.
  14. Terry was also waving his arms all over the place to make sure the ref looked in his direction. It probably was on reflection a pen but what usually happens is the ref sees something like that starting to happen and doesn't allow the free kick to be taken until he's warned the players. Overall I didn't feel the ref was bad but just couldn't see past the reputations of players so that most 50/50s went Chelsea's way. We didn't deserve to win today but I didn't really think we deserved to lose.
  15. Thing that disappoints me most is that this is all there is for Damien. At the time he went to Chelsea most teams would have liked to buy him if they could have got anywhere near affording him. Now he's going to one of the League's perennial underachievers. I don't begrudge him the move to Chelsea because in the short term it's given him what most players say they want, ie medals but Shearer went to the toon for love of the club and it didn't matter one jot to him that in the end they won nothing, but Duff is going without having any real choice because no other club wanted him enough to really try to tempt him or Chelsea. And that's sad to see
  16. He won't be able to drive anyway cos someone will nick his wheels!
  17. So perhaps that's the real reason jose's selling players and shrinking his first team squad?
  18. So with a first team squad of 20 players, what happens if four of them get injured, go down with a virus or whatever. You're left with just enough to fill the team and your bench and what if lots of outfield players go down and you don't have enough? Seems to me either Jose's on a wind up again or he's playing a very dangerous game.
  19. Was that the match when Anelka ran riot and it snowed?
  20. They might well come back up but they'll probably go down again. Bruce is the kind of manager to get you out of the Championship but doesn't seem to have the staff or the managerial and training skills to keep them there. As for the big money for Heskey, it's partly because Wigan are desperate and partly because they don't actually have to sell that they got so much. Not due to any great negtiating skills. Just in this case a selleer's market. Anyone else sick of seeing Bruce on TV already and the season hasn't even started?
  21. Apology accepted. Know it's not the most feminine sounding user name but I teach German and I like the sound of the German for gumboots but if I put it on in German it takes too long to type every time I need to.
  22. Can I just point out that I am female so "lads" isn't really appropriate!
  23. Only getting ready? Most of us have hated them for years.
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