RIP Fred

So within 12 months we have lost:

Owners

A Manager

2 Coaches

A medical team

A Chief Executive

A Managing director

Several other directors

Several other club officials

Accountants

Kit Sponsors

Kit man

Several decent players

3000-4000 fans

8 league places

Another coach

Several million £s paid to agents

The club must have been in some mess to need all this re-structuring.

The sooner these cowboys disappear back to India the better...and take the scotch @#/? with them.

Things will finally turn nasty on the terraces tomorrow.

But the Tea Lady is still there (I guess) so its OK and SK should be rewarded for keeping such an essential member of staff on board! He deserves to double his wages for this IMHO.

Goodbye and thank you Mark. I think he will do well at City and hope he does. I just wish the club could have given him the finances he needed to take us further and keep him here.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/G14stinks/

get signed up folks.

The petitions statement is

"The members of G14 have for to long now tried to take control of the game of football in europe, I want to boycott anything to do with these 18 clubs,Real Madrid,AC Milan,Ajax,Liverpool,Juventus,Bayern Munich,Inter MIlan,Barcelona,Man United,Borussia Dortmund,PSV,Porto,Marseille,PSG,Arsenal,Leverkusen,Lyon,Valencia, we feel its about time UEFA took a stand against these clubs.

European football is being ruined, and monopolised by these 18 clubs to the detriment of anyone else.

Seeded draws, clubs not qualifying but allowed into the ECL anyway.

The balance of power needs to be more equal accross the board and not just these 18 clubs."

Me too, no chance of us getting to see the Highlights any time soon then!

DRM creates more problems for users then it solves really.

As anything new Microsoft product does.

Who's Jade Goody??

Go to the BBC news pages and just look for stories on Big Brother. It she has caused a big fuss on it due to her comments. Dont want to really see it debated here though so keeping this short.

Hmm I thought, you've obviously never seen him play, he'll be ideally suited to the full contact wrestling of the Champsionship - hauling attackers to the ground in a half nelson is his trademark

Probally why hes gone

Got this image on Shefki falling and crushing him next year.

After what I've been reading, I'm sure no one on here has ever chosen a job because it pays either more than their current one, or pays best of all the jobs they have been offered...

I am looking for a job at the minute and am willing to take a paycut of around 20% to move. So long as it means I dont spend as much time away from home.

Hes off on loan

United strike deal for Rover

THought it was dodgy us not announcing it.

Think we really should get a new song for him - how about

Aga-doo doo doo push pineapple shake the tree

David-Dunn Dunn Dunn, f*****d bolton and fat sam

Agadoo doo doo push pineapple grind coffee

David-Dunn Dunn Dunn came backhome to rovers

To the left to the right jump up and down and to the knees

To the left to the right runs up the pitch and scores a goal

Come and dance every night sing with a hula melody

Comes to play every game plays with a Rovers melody

Think "melody" needs replacing and dont really like the second line. Any ideas?

I am still not convinced this is 100% definate. Why has it not been officially announced - the best sources I can find quoted are his agent (and that doesnt say he has actually signed) and people quoting the Sun (might as well quote - well cant think of anyone more ridiculous). Anyone think MH is having one last go at convincing him? He may have agreed in principle to move to West Ham but Dunn had done the same with Bolton. Maybe Neill has just announced this to try and get more money out of Liverpool, or maybe even us (seriously doubt it but you never know).

who's going to be captain now that it looks like Neills gone and Todd's possibly on his way to 'gers?!

Not a lot of captain material in the first team is there...i'm not a fan of keepers as captains, and Tugay doesn't play all the time so who does that leave?

Dunn of course

I would say Ooijer until the Admiral is back.

Contract has been agreed, his gone. Undisclosed fee believed to be around 2 million

Is this 100%? How do you know?

whats the addy of the bolton board. fancy having a laugh

Hes coming home, hes coming home.

Dunnies come home.

Anyone getting the live video from uefa.com? Too many of you are logged on..

cant even get the BBC audio feed.

It's a 50/50 chance of being either Wednesday 14th or Thursday 15th.

When do we find out? Need to know if I need to book Tues, Wed, Thurs off or Wed, Thurs, Fri

Are we definatly playing on the Wednesday. No chance of it being on the Thurdays or Tuesday?

Neill certainly gave the BBE boo boys an 'up yours' subtle goal celebration tonight. I couldn't stop laughing. Good one Lucas.

Agreed. Thought it was brilliant. Started trying to get a chant of "Lucas Neills a football genius" going but to no avail. He always gives his all on the pitch and has been honest with his intentions. People always say that hate it when a player says hes staying and then leaves i.e. Bellamy. I wonder why they do that though. Maybe its the fact that sad "fans" boo you when your honest. If he wasnt giving 100% fine but he is, his concentration is effect but his effort isnt.

2 & 1 for me

Really like the black away kit.

Tris...under the letter of the law it was a correct decision. What everyone (including myself) has a problem with is that law, under those circumstances a penalty is punishment enough.

I didn't for a second expect Tugay's card to be overturned...I'm quite suprised Ghaly's wasn't though.

Not quite the case imo. I did hold a bit of hope it would get turned around, not much. Its if he is deemed to be denying a clear goal scoring opportunity. Had their guy not gone down I am not sure he would have got to the ball he put it too far infront of him. + He had turned slighly so our defender was within distance to possibly get a block on any shot. But yes if you deem him to be denying a clear goal scoring opportunity if it be intentional or not then its a ban.

Well, ofcourse it's not wise to walk around the town-centre in your Rovers-kit, but that's why I said

Its sad that this is the case, wasnt in Salzbury. It shouldnt be a problem. Having said that given a bit of knowledge about the club and its Firm not doing so is common sense as it will help avoid trouble.

So the FA have turned down both red card appeals.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/e...rem/6165944.stm

And Dutch clubs are not that far off compared English teams in history of European Football.

England : 10 CL wins and 6 Uefa Cups

Holland : 6 CL wins and 4 Uefa Cups

Just give us a few years to catch up on time banned from all Euro club football and that ratio will change