New season, time to bring back this fun old thread..

So far this season:

Everton 22 015

Chelsea 19 398

Man City 18 403

Average 19 939

The same fixtures last season:

Everton 22 064

Chelsea 20 243

Man City 25 731

Average 22 679

I know it's still early days. Our average last season was 21 015, so the three games listet bought more people to Ewood than average.

I won't be suprised if we end up with an average attendence of less than 19 000 this season. I know the City game was our last game last season, finishing off a very good season, so you can't really read too much into this. Having said that, it aint looking good.

TEDDY Sheringham will be offered the chance to remain a Premiership player by joining Blackburn Rovers.

The oldest player to appear in the Premiership will be 41 next April but that has not deterred Rovers boss Mark Hughes from making a move for the former Manchester United striker.

Sunday Mirror

that just can't be true...

ROVERS: Friedel, Emerton, Ooijer, Khizanishvili, Neill ©, Bentley, Tugay, Savage, Gamst, Jeffers, McCarthy.

Sub: Nonda, Mokoena, Gallagher, Brown, Peter

Our current strikeforce better than last season, think not. Jeffers is playing too much imo..

What was the final score?

No wonder we let in two goals with our centre half using the old greek stand-up-sleeping technique instead of defending:

You can find pictures from the game here: http://www.redbullsalzburg-board.com/board...y&cmd=sc&cat=71

Anyone we know?

Ooijer is looking a waste of money!!

According to Rovers World Ooijer was much improved today. A bloody shame Nelsen is out for a while.

2-2 isn't too bad, it sounds like it could have ended worse in the end.

Its Salzburg corner, corner, corner and bloody corner!

Benni off Nonda on

We are under pressure now. Off the post again by Salzburg...

What's the point in finishing 6th?

To be the 6th best team in the country is prize enough for me, this silly competition also attracts better players apparently, though I've yet to see evidence of that.

I'd rather finish 8th in the league and go out now than get to the quarter finals and finish 13th-15th.

We'd probably get more prize money that way too.

Is this Souness talking?! What a load of crap. We seriously need to raise the profile of the club, and there is no better way of doing that than success in Europe.

I'm sure the pie shop manager could do that for him

If we loose this one we might well hear the old phrase "it's time to stand up and be counted". This is a very important game for us, and nothing but a win will do.

City have a very average squad, and these are the kind of teams we should get win against, at least at Ewood Park.

Rovers 2

ManC 1

They aren't bench warmers they are player replacements. Do you not prefer Jeffers, Roberts, Macarthy, Nonda, Henchoz to Kuqi, Dickov, Johnson, Gresko and Amoruso?

Call them what you like, they are squadplayers at best. Why do you include Roberts and McCarthy? They where bought in to be apart of the starting XI.

Another point, did we really need to replace players who didn't play at all (amoruso, johnson, gresko)?!

Certainly but as has been stated by Hughes and Williams many times if we cannot improve on what we have got then we will not just sign squad players just to give stupid wages simply to warm the bench.

Jeffers, Nonda, Henchoz.....

The fact is that we can't afford signing quality players, therefore we need to take a hughe gamble on almost all the players we do sign. The statement by Hughes and Williams is laughable when you sum up our transfer activity this summer.

So we needed a supermans performance by Friedel to save a point against Sheffield United

So we sign Henchoz, hm, strangely I dont give a damn. I don't expect anything from him, he won't play much, and he will leave at the end of the season.

In other words, just the same as Jeffers.

Finally a vitory for Rovers!

Sheff Utd - 1

Rovers - 3

I've gotten every result (lost, drew, lost) right so far, so expect another "spot on" prediction by the wizard from up North.

Perhaps the best news I've seen in a while

Dominic Matteo could leave Blackburn to return to Leeds when the transfer window re-opens. (Daily Star)

Don't think this has been posted but according to this guy we have already sorted out our first signing in the January transfer window..

Gomaa makes Rovers claim

So we keep on signing old defenders, while we really lack quality elsewere. We might play with 5 in defense soon..

People like Thatcher should be sent to prison in my opinion. If he had done anything like that on the street he would have been in serious trouble.

IN:

McCarthy

Robberts

Jeffers

Nonda (loan)

Ooijer

Brown

OUT:

Bellamy

Douglas

Kuqi

Dickov

Basically we have just sold and bought a good couple of strikers, while adding Ooijer in defense. Obviously Bellamy was a player of much higher quality than McCarthy and Robberts, so to be honest I don't really know if we have strengthen our starting XI.

I think we may have some money left now that Kuqi also has gone, and credit to Hughes for not splashing them on players he ain't sure of. Perhaps we'll get lucky in Januray and spend some of that money we all like to think we have...

Great video, Unleaded, looks like a quality player!

The video should be in black and white, because those goals where a long time ago.

Did you see the injury btw, damn! I'm amazed that he's still walking today, never mind playing football.