Has the game kicked off then? 18:00 local time is 17:00 here in jolly old England is it not?

Yes, another Henrik Larson!

More like John Hartson

And O'Leary took Leeds to the semi's of the Champions League, and he did bugger all

O'Neill is not inept but all this talk of euro challengers is a bit rich, motivator or not, if you are not tactically sound you will eventually get found out

He also plays ###### football. Bet he'll sign a big man up front for Villa soon.

How much of that are they willing to 'play with' on Villa. I mean, apart from maybe extra recognition for their other business', they wont be making any profits from Villa will they?

In the short-term It will be good for Villa if they do actually spend more than they did under Doug(altough they did actually spend more than most Villa fans will tell you) and they will have a very good manager. Which if he does well, could means Hughes falls down the pecking order as Man Yoo's next boss

I dont think these people trying to bid for Villa are anywhere near the wealth of Pompeys new owner are they?

With yesterdays LET suggesting that Nelsen wont be match fit by the Pompey game, it's starting to seem like Nelsen is turning into a bit of a crock. He pulled his hamstring about 3 times during last season along with already this pre-sason while recovering from breaking a bone in his leg!

Not looking to good for him and us.

Dont think we have a chance of getting top 4. We are not even close to the quality of the top 4 sides. We had our chance last season and we blew it- Really, out of Chelsea,Arsenal, Liverpool and Man Yoo who are likely to have such a bad season to be anywhere near us?

Even last season- there's pretty much no difference between sides like ourselves and Boro,Everton and Villa. It's all about luck really and good management(which we seem to have. Although I seem to recall members such as Jim saying Hughes should go after we lost 3-0 to Newcastle). For example, playing sides when they are in bad runs of form or have bad injury problems.

We could end up finishing anywhere between 5th- 16th IMO

Fat Frank needs to have a look at his own performance before Svens

Bet you wouldn't have done a report if Rovers had won

read the thread and find out. 2 links with streamings of the match can be found

2-0 down.

Sack Hughes!!!

with our starting XI today I wouldn't care so much about the result, cleary hughes is just giving some fringe players a chance in this one..

Well, even if we did have our first 11 our, I wouldn't care so much about the result

How ###### is Matteo.lol

fantastic goal though. 30 yards

Agathe looks a real threat going forward!

i think

Agathe Matteo Zura Gray

Reid Mokoena Sav Peter

Kuqi Jeffers

Phil- You watching some @#/? about schools?

btw-its a 5:30 K/O right?

Any chance you could give us a run down? 56 k here!

Im sure It'll be on the official site soon but basically, he's delighted to join and cannot wait till the season to start. Still thinks he can learn as a player and wants to get better. Thinks his game best suits the premiership and wants to see his great team mates and manager fighting to win the league! LoL.

Said the club is really ambitious and wants to win things with the Rovers

Well, from his interview on RoversWorld- He's certainly been told the right things to say when joining a new club!

Can't really see it, John Williams was quoted as saying there was room for one more striker when Roberts signed. Can't see Gallagher and Derbyshire being allowed to leave.

Not expecting miracles from Benni and Jason, certainly not Hughesey's wildly optimistic 30 - 40 goals but if they can come up with 25 goals in the League between them and MGP contributes another 10 we should be well placed.

Well Hughes told the LET only a few days ago he wanted 2 new strikers in. And yes, Derbyshire seems set to join Mike Newell at Luton Town on a season long loan.#

EDIT:Cant find the article Im looking for but here is a quote he used on skysports on the 20th,

" We've got a number of targets that we're actively pursuing but we need to bring in one more striker [/b]at least and we hope to do that in the next couple of weeks."

great signing!

now whats the point of Jeffers anymore?

Well Gally, Dearbyshire nor Johnson will be here by the end of August, so thats the point- we have 4 strikers now. Still need one more IMO as Hughes has already said

YO! MC Arthy in da house!

but if we were, we wouldn't be able to sign Duffer!!

Or maybe Chelsea are scared of the thought of Mido leading the Rovers front line! thats why we never got Duffer back

The Fox in the Box makes it 2!

Its on the rovers.co.uk front page

as Roberts goes of injured-nothing too serious it seems, goes off holding groin