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Players out, suns shining. Play can go through until 7 pm.

I wouldn't rule out australia levelling the scores and declaring.

They'll be at least level with us by the end of today, Stu. There's going to be an almighty battle for England to draw this one. We must take wickets in the next session.

If it continues to rain, it's out of the Aussies control anyway.

I think the reaction to Australia taking the light is being blown out of proportion. One session of play was lost. There are still three days to play, with the forecast good. There's plenty of time there for a result, bearing in mind a lot of these games have only gone four days. If the Aussies had stayed out last night and lost 2/3 wickets, their position in this game would have been much worse.

30 minute delay. Play to start at 11 am.

Umpires looking at 10:15. It's dry at the moment and there shouldn't be much of a delay. Good news?

He couldn't drag your lot through though, could he! He isn't THAT good.

I've got a torch Ozz.

Ah, ---- Dunno

PLANETFOOTBALL POSER by Adam Marshall - created on 10 Feb 2004 So the 4th player could have been capped since then.

Hmmm, I don't remember Bryan Douglas being dropped for the "physical games". If you're good enough, you're big enough.

Gotta say, the formation in the last quarter reminded me of Rovers under a certain ex-manager of ours.

Not sure about that. Tait was reverse swinging it late on today.

You never know what a good score is, until both sides have batted. England will only be in a good position if the Aussies don't get a first innings lead of any kind.

Footballs rubbish, bring on the cricket.

No, but it does say this: In a popular feature, we regularly set really taxing, teasing questions to test even the sharpest of football brains. The 80th in the series is: NAME THE FOUR UNCAPPED ENGLISHMEN WHO HAVE MOVED FOR OVER £7 MILLION (IN ONE DEAL).

Why? World footballers - can't see anything wrong there.

Don't know how much credence to give this, but Bellamy is back in full training and could play against Bolton.

These gaps must have some bearing on the attendances. Your average part time supporter wont know when the next match is, where a few years ago you didn't need a fixture list - if rovers were away last Saturday, they are at home this Saturday. There you go, problem solved. But wait, --- in those days we were only getting 5000 supporters at Ewood.

I too thought it was an excellent performance. The only comments fron Jol that I've read, show him to be doing a Mourinho - fudging the issue that spurs were an inferior team to rovers. Have to take issue with Paul. Emerton was clearly pulled back by his shirt, that was a penalty. Kuqi was still being fouled as he went into the area, another penalty.

33,000 in the stadium of light tonight, against the worlds other greatly supported club Man City. Last time the mackems came up, they were getting 45000-48000 gates at every home game. They're down 12000 to 15000 on that figure.

There certainly are quite a few contributing factors, but what Ozziejones wants to know, is which is the SINGLE BIGGEST factor.

We are looking for the biggest single contributing factor for the decline in attendances over the last 2 or three seasons.

The right product at the right price = maximum gates. Any other variable = falling gates. Not an easy one for rovers to get right, but it's the only formula likely to succeed.