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I suspect we wont see Gray in a rovers shirt again. 2-0 down and he's replaced by another left back. I think that says it all really.

I am just going outside and may be some time

Roberts expected to be out for "several months".

Roberts out long term with broken metatarsil.

Must admit it reminds me of the rovers of old - every time WH break, they could score. The injury situation we have, along with our general lack of ideas, is making west ham look great.

How did you work that out Hasta? I said that Emerton was out. P.S. hope Emertons' hamstring injury doesn't keep him out of Thursdays' game.

WEST HAM: Green, Gabbidon, Ferdinand, McCartney, Sheringham, Etherington, Benayoun, Mullins, Spector, Reo-Coker, Zamora. Subs: Carroll, Dailly, Harewood, Mascherano, Bowyer. ROVERS: Friedel, Neill ©, Ooijer, Khizanishvili, Gray, Bentley, Mokoena, Tugay, Peter, Roberts, McCarthy. Subs: Brown (GK), Henchoz, Jeffers, Gallagher, McEveley.

Emerton, Pedersen and Nonda out. Gray, Peter and Roberts in.

Yeah. I'm bloomin' sure that Grooby changed it.

Nonda trained today.

Coach travel.

One thing that has affected gates over the last thirty years, is the fact that prices have stopped people watching more than just their own team. Years ago, I used to watch rovers one Saturday, then went with my mate to watch PNE the next. Imagine having to shed out another £25 to watch someone elses team.

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He's becoming our best player. He's got more confidence in himself, he's starting to pick out the right pass [that was his biggest weakness - used to do well then play totally the wrong ball] and he has a purpose now that he's finding his best position, which is out on the right. Although to be fair, he did well centre mid, last night.

Really? You sure Stu?

No kids around me.

I agree that rovers seem to have their own bunch of people who seem to want the rovers fans reputations dragged into the gutter. What I/we don't want is "another" debate about racism in general, on the messageboard. There's more than enough of it on ICBINF. [that's my opinion, not necessarily that of anyone else].

Two main differences tonight: 1 Chelseas two goals were of real quality. We didn't have that. 2 The substitutions - we were weakened by ours. They were strengthened by theirs. That says everything about the current Chelsea squad.

Hey guys, this is a football thread. If there's something you want to say about the incident in the Krakow game, then fair enough. Let's give the general racism debate a rest eh?

Tony Cascarino on "youre on sky sports" said Wham could beat us because "Blackburn aren't many places above Wham" Hell fire, they are second from bottom with 5 points.

Don't get carried away Prestonwhite. Remember, last season you finished below us, - there's a long way to go yet. Chances are you'll still be below us.

As far as confidence is concerned, you've got to be of strong character to survive in this league. Shearer always going the same way? He went left/right/up/down.

Busy times

Friend of mine who went to his first game for a couple of seasons, said that the outstanding player for him was Ooijer. Anyone else think likewise?

Mike Harrison scored 27 consecutive pens [i think] then missed one and didn't take another. Apart from that, Bryan Douglas used to take them regularly, although I remember him missing one or two.