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What an unprofessional old boot she really is. The woman really has no class.

Or the game.

I think he's got him mixed up with Mick McCarthy. Well about the steaming in bit anyway

I liked Benni despite his problems. However the way he's handled this combined with today's statement has made me think differently. One season wonder. Glad he's gone, but on the other hand it looks like we aren't going to replace him. So we've been short-changed... Again.

I think you will find that's Minty from Eastenders

I remember this differently. On the back pages of the Telegraph were IF IT AIN'T BROKE DON'T FIX IT, which was a quote from Ray Harford himself regarding the Rovers squad. However I remember reading in the tabloids before Dalglish left that he wanted Zidane and Dugarry. Then he left under mysterious circumstances. So am I led to believe it wasn't Harford who put the block on Zidane and Dugarry and it was JW all along?

The Wii is lots of fun as a party game console, same as eyetoy or singstar. Playing on your own I don't think it's as good really, playing with others it's lots of fun. I haven't played Zelda so I can't comment on that as a single player experience.

I think there will be goals in it, but I reckon it will be a 1-1 draw. Hope I'm proved wrong by stunning displays by Savage, Kuqi and Pederson making it 5-1 to BRFC

'Grooby' is quite a distinctive surname, it's almost completely necessary. Sort of name you'd find in an old kids tv show. 'Groobies Giants', Groobie Hill, Hong Kong Groobie, Groobies Leg, Groobies Magic Torch, Groobie Bobs, Groobie and the Teen Angels, Groobie Plays Pop, The Groobie Bunch, Chorlton and the Groobies (I could go on...) Anyway back on topic

A young A-grade striker. It's been a while...

He's the one I wanted from the start, but due to the press wanting to believe that Rovers were bottom of the list of potential clubs that he would go to, I believed the hype and thought he was going to Everton. Can only win from this deal in my opinion and I believe his worth will go up too Where are they getting the cash from though. The other week they were happy with the squad... Not that I'm complaining

And you can always be sure of the Geordies crying at the end of the season on Sky Sports, it's become a footballing tradition. And every five years an alleged scandal involving the chairman and a hooker

Around 1990ish I started supporting them properly, after a mate at school got me into going to the games. My Dad has been a supporter since he was a kid, so have always followed the team though purely by default. About 1993 got my first season ticket. Didn't get a season ticket last season though, as my Job kept me from quite a lot of games the season before

So that's telling us! Who are you, Stan Collymore?

He began the match with a spiteful foul on Joaquín and then sent the Spanish keeper Casillas flying through the photographers. He ended the match in a fit of childish petulance by stripping off the black armband worn in memory of Emlyn Hughes and hurling it to the turf. The following month against Bolton, in a flash of temper, Rooney raised his hand to Ben Haim's face. Wayne was yesterday booked against Liverpool for recklessness again. When will he ever learn? At Goodison Park, Rooney literally had more yellow cards than goals. His disciplinary record for a striker is dreadful. I remember in particular one disgraceful two-footed challenge that he made while playing for Everton - for which he was rightly sent off. Don't know about anyone else but he sounds like Fergusons ideal player

I would give him a good reception, as I liked him and was a bit gutted when he left. He seemed to go crap when Jansen had got injured then was out for ages, and the arrival of Yorke seemed to bring out the worst in him too. But I wouldn't cheer him because of recent events, I would have given him a good reception anyway. Cheering him because of what happened at the Birmingham game might seem sporting, but it might also appear that as individuals and collectively we have something to prove - which I don't think the majority of Rovers fans do Basically if you thought he was good whilst a Rovers player, show it. If not, give him some ( politically-correct ) grief. Or do nothing at all, ignore him and support your team.

Is that not like saying "Well we have a defensive crisis... Perhaps Jansen, Stead and Gallagher should learn to be defenders?"

Yes! And a lot of supporters give Emerton grief for this, without fully realising that it's not his preferred position. At times he looked really fed-up with having to backtrack to get cross the ball with his other foot. I'd much prefer to see him on the right. Then again Reid played well there.

"Morten hasn't been playing for us recently because....uhhhhhh.....well, I don't think he's good enough." That would achieve what? Since when have we expected our managers to go to the press and justify his team selections? And very very unlikely seeing as the club paid 2.5m not so long ago for him. I reckon he'll get his chance sometime, he's been talked up too much not to.

The thing is. A reporter walks up to you when you are minding you're own business and asks you what you think. You briefly tell them your thoughts, and they release one sound-bite to the press. Reid, or any other black player, is more than likely not going to be happy. But what's to say that he didn't also say that it was blown out of proportion with only a couple of fans amongst over 20,000 being a problem - but that would hardly thicken the plot - if you're a tabloid journo (or a wannabe tabloid journo). So it doesn't get in the paper.

Much agreed

I'm in agreement. Infact insulting him for his skin colour was just plain stupid and nothing to do with football - giving him grief for his attitude when a Rovers player had EVERYTHING to do with football. So these few (and by that a mean, less than a handful) of people who took part in the racism yesterday actually made Yorke (and everyone else) miss the entire point of why Yorke was getting some (non-racist) verbal abuse.

That's going a bit far. If this hadn't been highlighted by the press you wouldn't have known about it, so how does it affect you enough to not want to go anymore? I wouldn't let a couple of people ruin my entertainment. And on the wider issue, I think the club needs to make examples of these people as soon as they can be identified. Yorke deserved some grief, he's an arrogant waster who showed no passion for playing in a blue and white shirt - and at the time he was a Rovers player, he was reportedly the highest earner too. So give him some grief by all means, without resorting to the lowest form of insult. I can't see how having a go at the colour of his skin would reflect quite how crap he was as a Blackburn Rovers footballer. He has more than enough shortcomings as a footballer to take the mick out of which shows that these people are obviously not real fans anyway

While I think Tony Parkes is and very well should be an Ewood Legend, I think that him leaving was always something that was going to come up some day. It's just Mark Hughes happened to be the person who did it. However the 'leak' of his departure was truly pathetic, and a terrible way to treat someone with Tony Parkes history with the club. And like some members have said, it's just so unprofessional and if he's thought that little of, then how are the rest of the staff (inc playing staff) treated? Like cattle? It's not Hughes fault though. Yes he made the decision, but he didn't decide how the decision was going to be made public. So chanting 'only one Tony Parkes' will be sending some echoes of discontent, which may have an effect on the players - and at the moment we need to stay in the premiership. If there's one thing to gain from this, it's that Hughes obviously isn't keen on 'hangers on' (though I hope that's not how Parkes will be ultimately seen) BUT if this is the way forward then hopefully they'll get rid of all the other hangers on, and those that don't seem to ever do their jobs properly. And perhaps then there will be some professionalism to the set-up at Ewood Park.

I also thought that Batty was a much better player than Sherwood and I wish we had someone like him now. Someone who could really bully the opposition midfield, but do it with some intelligence so not to get sent off every match. I can't believe Sherwood is almost the top midfielder too. Is this the same Sherwood who 'gestured' to a berating Blackburn end? Is this not the same player who started a revolt in the changing rooms? Is this the guy who strolled across the pitch in his suit, coming in through the Walkersteel stand turnstyles while the rest of the team were training? I think I remember Dalglish (may have been Harford) once saying that the thing with Sherwood is that everyone remembers every bad pass in a match, and never the really good ones. And I think that sums him up because some matches there weren't any really good passes to witness. He could play brilliantly some days, and some day he couldn't pass a ball to someone a couple of metres away. It's the same with Atkins (though Sherwood was much better than Super Atko). Good servant though he was, he was never a great player. And the Super Atko tag was always in-jest wherever I was standing/sitting. And believe me I got around that ground when Atkins was playing - Blackburn End, Blackburn End Enclosure, Darwen End, Walkersteel. Not once did anyone shout super Atko for a bit of skill - more they did it when he passed it to a member of the opposition and people were taking the p***. The thing about Atkins was that most of the time he gave 100% - but that doesn't make him great. But it's an interesting debate chaps