Also, Paul, don't underestimate the influence of the BBC on attendance. I've decided not to go because I don't want to take my young kids. Last time round I went alone and enjoyed it enormously, but I'd hardly describe the atmosphere as family friendly. This way they can get an idea of what athe derby game is about and we'll all go to the replay at Ewood (only joking).

I think people are going a bit over the top on this ticket thing. Don't infer from the passion to attend the match on this MB that there's massive interest from Rovers fans generally. If you've got a season ticket, and ring/visit the ticket office early enough, you'll get a ticket. I've never failed to get a ticket on this basis for any match I've wanted to attend in the past 15 years or more. And it's on BBC TV on Sunday afternoon. Don't be surprised if they're trying to give them away the week before the match.

There'll be Rovers fans in the Crown & Anchor in Thousand Oaks for sure if it's on TV. PM to LA Rover for more details.

I suspect this will be picked for a live game on TV. When was the last time we played 'em in the FA Cup - anyone know?

Fergie has been ruled fit to play and is in the squad for tomorrow's match. Get him played and move on.

I thought it was glaringly obvious how much we missed him last night. Thompson wasn't in the game, Bolton were running the midfield all game and Savage looked exactly what he is - a willing runner with little skill. Let's hope Williams sticks to his £6m valuation and we have a midfield replacement lined up already.

I rang last Friday for a ticket in the Blackburn End for a friend and was quoted £28. You could've sat in a warm pub, watched the game over three pints of bitter at less than £6. The quality of football on offer last night was dire with half a dozen, at least, of our lot looking like the mediocre journeymen they are.

I haven't got the facts to hand but, before Garner, the Rovers goalscoring record was held by Tommy Briggs - 140-odd goals in total for Rovers. Unlike Simon who spent a leisurely 14 years racking up his record total, our Tommy did it in just four full seasons. He scored 30-plus league goals in three consecutive years (1953-7, I think). We were in Division 2 and, despite Tommy being so prolific, we just failed to go up three years running (sound familiar, Simon?). I think one season we may even have scored 114 league goals and still not gone up! Tommy was a self-effacing chap and apparently pretty popular with the fans. Must be in consideration as a partner to you-know-who?

Just a reminder: the greatest strikers do not have to be players we've seen play. As previous picks have shown, some of our earliest stars have been recognised in this poll as true blue greats. The obvious answers (to me at least) would be Shearer and Garner, but I reckon I need to see some of the histories of older players, which our historians are no doubt already working on, before I vote. It would be good to have another player stake a genuine claim for one of the two slots. I'll go get me history books....

One reason people stop going to Ewood is that, for nearly two years, the "entertainment" on offer has been dreadful. Factor in a couple of years in the second dvision, plus a relegation season before that, and, to be honest, it's difficult to recall the last truly positive, sustained session of bright, entertaining football at home. If I didn't have a season ticket, I sure as hell wouldn't make the effort to see 20+ games a season at Ewood. Rovers do deserve a Premier League team. There's nowt in the FA rules say you havre to fill your ground to gain entry to the top division. I can't believe people are still getting wound up about attendances. Relax and get over it. Oh and final point: I distinctly remember enjoying watching football immensely back in the 1970s-1990s. It was great fun, some decent football, exciting often, players of character, great terrace-led singing. Yeah, there were also some boring bits, crap bits and scary bits. And Ewood wasn't full then either. Plus ca change...

I thought Rangers had already had a £3m initial bid turnded down by Rovers? If that's their opener, presumably they'll go higher.

He really does need to get a haircut as a priority. He won't get my support unless he does.

That seems clear then. Rovers can now issue a statement saying Ferguson has handed in a transfer request and the club will listen to offers from any club prepared to meet Rovers' valuation of (oooh, shall we say) £6.5 million? If the fee is not met, we do not sell and Ferguson gets on with it. The ironic parallells with the unsavoury Savage situation will not be lost on many in the football world. Roll on February 1 and an end to these unedifying and moronic transfer window speculations. The players concerned should have more integrity than this.

Nelson, too, should continue with Paul G up front.

1-0 Pederson chipped the keeper

Perhaps the club have spoken with Barry on the transfer speculation and they now want to talk to his agent to suggest the transfer rumours end forthwith? And, yes, if he did return to Rangers, I'd expect to get what we paid for him - if not more - given he now has Premier League experience.

On the issue of pricing, I believe it's too much. To put it in perspective, you could go and see Manic Street Preachers for £22.50, Harry Hill for £17.50 or even eat a three course meal including wine at Heathcote's Michelin-starred restaurant in Longridge for £25 all in. Other leisure operators have to price their product competitively to attract customers. Football seems to me to be driven the other way around, i.e. this is how much it costs to buy players and pay their wages, now who can we get to pay for it?

I've sat at Old Trafford and felt we'll get nothing all day, but that's been down to Man U being better than us on the day and Roy Keane, usually, running the show. I don't believe referees are biased to big clubs. With regard to penalties (just one contentious area) successful (usually big) teams get more bodies in the box and thus more opportunities for fouls. Saying refs are biased towards big clubs just doesn't explain why they then go on to have a poor game reffing Rovers -v- Fulham, say.

I think the results of the 2nd midfielder contest should remind us all that recent memories of Duff do not make him the automatic choice. Let's find out about some of the other left-sided players to have graced the team during the past 130 years.

This idea that you can only make a decision based on players you've seen play is an interesting one. Sherwood was a good player in a good team and for a time he ran the show very effectively and was a pleasure to watch. But when the team fell apart he wasn't good enough - either as a footballer or as a leader - to keep it together and his own game disintegrated along with the rest. Because I saw the entirety of Tim's Ewood career is the very reason I would not vote him an all-time great Rover. The legend of Forrest, on the other hand, and his achievements over a long and distinguished Rovers career, have been passed down by supporters over the generations. We can read about his exploits now and we can see his sepia-tinted portrait in the history books, and I can imagine Jim saying to Tim, "Show us your medals, son!"

Given that Hughes would have got to know Tony and his work very well from his playing days at Ewood, it's not a sudden decision to want him out. Reports on BBC Five Live suggest Glyn Hodges, Wales' under-21 manager, is his replacement. Got to be a good thing. Parkes usefulness always seemed to me to be in his neutrality and ability to steady a rocking boat. Good qualities in a crisis, but perhaps he just isn't forward thinking enough for Hughes who, it seems, has determined to make Rovers as up-to-date as he can. Nevertheless, much respect to Parkes for everything. I thought he'd already had a testimonial? Can't remember when, though.

I voted for Forrest first time round, so I'll have him again. Five winners medals in the FA Cup, old black 'n' white photos of "the Northern horde" going to London....up for t'cup... He starred in two great teams playing a major part in establishing Rovers as one of the famous clubs, with a glorious past that, like the 1995 feat, can never be taken away from us, no matter what they call their daft competitions these days.

On the assumption Jansen is not injured, it would appear Hughes is seconding Souness' opinion that the lad's lost it.

You could maybe have a side poll of Best Rovers XI with votes cast only for players whom members have seen play, thereby getting round this issue of older players/members. I can accept that players such as Douglas or Crompton were great (my dad's told me often enough), but I find it hard to vote for them in a poll having no personal basis for making the vote. That's why I'd plump for Hendry or Garner or whoever.

I thought the whole point of Jack Walker's trust fund set-up was so Rovers could not be sold thereby assuring our club's future for the long-term. Giving away control of the club to an outside person/company - however well-meaning they may appear to be - would run counter to the point of the trust, namely to safeguard the longterm interests of the club (although I concede they might try to position any sale as just that).