Have to say I was wavering about going to this game, it was a toss up between Rovers V WBA or de-frost the fridge and creosoting the fence. But, after two wins in two and a feel good factor that George Bush would invade Canada for, I think I just might be in the White Bull on LBR again this Saturday lunch time-under the new Gazebo-all weather supping at it`s most convenient! Happy days and a nil-two home defeat for the newly crowned kings of the ill-fated 4-4-2 format.

I think it was one of Philipl (many) links pre-match that quoted Paul Scholes as saying if we cant beat the likes of Blackburn( and Fulham) then we won`t win the title. Well Paul, giving Micky Gray and MGP the ball in your own penalty area at one a piece with 10 minutes to go does not exactly help you achieve the win that your dim witted Utd-centric ginger little brain belives is written in the footy stars to happen. Boo-hoo, come on Fulham next week I say. Champions league, your having a laugh!

Does anyone know where I can purchase the DVD of the match from?

Was working yesterday so couldn`t go-but please tell that we sung..... "CAN WE PLAY YOU EVERY WEEK!" "ARE YOU BURNLEY IN DISGUISE" And so on.

Me and Philipl saw it coming

Football Eh? Bloody hell!

Looks like an attacking team to me! My £5 is safe with Sparky

Waggy, which one is you? And who`s the hunchback in themiddle?

Sound idea, £3.00 a kid would be brilliant. Serve em right the little barsterds, make em watch Rovers every other week!

At 10/1 Rovers must be worth a fiver. Jeez thats taking the plss that is. What are the odds on us getting a penalty?? And the odds on us actually scoring it?

She sits next to me in the Darwen End.

I note that our cheapest CAT B matches are the lowest priced in the whole Premiership at £15.

I wasn`t saying our away following is absymal, which in fairness it is(Goodison last season) (which I went to BTW), I was merely saying I wish every away game following we had was like that of Huddersfields last night. I can only speak for myself, and for that matter control the games I go to and the amount of songs I sing, and beleive me Jimmy although I don`t travel from the Netherlands I really do my share of away games. I can remember a time not too long ago where we would have sold out 3,000 tickets for the match in Manchester this Saturday but now we cant sell our allocation of 1800 or so. But we are going round in circles now so I will shut me pie-hole.

BTW, does anyone else think that David Bentley truly beleives he`s David Beckham? Even the way he kicks the ball is the same.

Sorry. I have a strange form of Tourettes, where by I can`t help but make stupid childish comments at random moments... !

Well, something about footall keeps some people happy, IE How many Huddersfield fans came over last night? 5~6,000? The price was obviously right for them and the chance of turning over a bigger team, a prem team provided enough incentive for them to make the effort. To be honest, I was quite jealous of them, loads of passionate singing, good atmosphere in the away end and they were in the game for most of the match. Not been like that following Rovers for a while, maybe since Sheff Wed in Semi away at Hillsbrough?

Well now its Bellamy against Huddersfield, last night(3rd Goal).

If you`ve ever seen the Peter Sellers character in Dr Stranglelove who cannot control his right arm from forming a Nazi salute, then you will have recognised him as the linesman on the Jack Waker Stand side of the pitch during the first half. Unbeleivable.

According to the reporter on talkSPORT radio this morning, Jon Stead looked like he was just wandering round in a daze during last nights cup tie at the Stadium of Light. Poor kid.

As I posted in the Huddersfield thread, there are no guarantees in paying to watch professional sport. One week it might be a pile of crapola, the next week, the same team play like world beaters. The difference now of course is that the stakes are much higher. As a lad I used to pay £2 or whatever it was to get into the BBE and if they were shoite, which they invariably were, then WTF? £2 wasted. As Jimmy Cloggy says, to see a shoite game of footy and spend hundreds of pounds in the process is another thing all together. I think it`s Paul who was praising Lancashire Cricket for the entertainment at the 20twenty games-Pound for pound entertainment that plsses all over Premiership football these days. Football used to be unique in so far as people would turn up regardless of the dross served up-the emotional bond to your club would pervade over the lack of quality. But with millionaire dead eye players infecting our clubs like Dutch Elm disease, the emotional bond is loosening and that, tied in with the crappy negative dont-lose-at-all-costs tactics and £30 admission prices PLUS wall to wall TV coverage, which for me by the way doesn`t work as I would as likely not watch a game on TV `cos its boring as I wouldn`t watch a game live, means....attendances will dwindle till any or all of the above factors are dealt with. Football in this country is the peoples game, the workers game not the plaything of the Prawn Sandwich types. The sooner it is given back to them, the better.

I haven`t missed a League cup game since West Ham away(2-0 BTW) mainly because the majorityof these games are very cheap to get in to. That and I`ve nowt better to do most Wednesday nights. The breadknife insists on watching the Bill and I hate it.

This is one of the bizarre things about watching football-there are no guarantees. You could watch 37 league games out of 38 and see crud week in week out and the fact remains that the 38th could still be an absolute craking match. It`s just that at £10 to watch, the gamble is reduced considerabley than that of £30.

I bet Eileen Drury didn`t see that one coming.

Not the Biffin Bridge?

Is he still doing that one-eyed bird off of Futurama?