Savage is like one of those people who has a massive unfortunate birthmark on their faces. Everyone looks at it, no-one likes it, it wont go away but its just doing what it was made to do. And if it`s on your face, you just have to get on with it.

Having watched the match and the celebrations, and read all the reports and stories, I get the impression that we have actually won the Ashes already. We are one defeat, nay one batting collapse away from losing the Ashes still. Theres a lot of hard yakka left in this series.

whadda mea m we?

England are beter ar cricket hten Sustralissa , they are rubbushd and they niw they are! Waaaaaaaaaaaaa! pound fir oubid it s Ebgwaldn all the wqay!

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We had all the quality play last night. As everyone has said, Kuqi is no Lineker in the box is he...but bless him he tries really hard. Swap Kuqi for Bellamy last night and we would have won easily for me. Whatever happened to Robbie Keane? He was captain last night and didn`t touch the ball all match! Top marks for both sets of supporters too-BBE impressed me in the Darwen End, and even the Riverside woke up. Spurs fans were great too, probably 4000 all of whom got behind their team. Another reasonably enjoyable night at Ewood...who`d of thought it!

Aye Tait deffo in for Dizzy, Pidg got a crook elbow. I`m sure he1ll play though... Looking at the weather though I reckon you`ll need the Thorpedoe to field in the covers.

In fact it would make for a very interesting poll-What do you think is the biggest contributing factor in the alarming decrease in our crowds? Overprice tickets? Poor standard of entertainment? Lack of atmosphere these days? Petty stewards? No terracing? Unable to identify with players these days? Price of refreshments?

Add to that Alan that the quality is pretty crud too!

If you ask me, and normally no-one does, I reckon we`ve had it really, in terms of 25 K home crowds. Less and less are interested these days, and there`s little chance of them ever coming back. Take the United game last season, what was it 25,000? 8K of which were United? Its become the game that ate it self to death.

Its like being Nostradamus. Without all the deaths.

I stand by my earlier comments.

sparky hughes ha s obvioiusly been teaching pedo abd tugay how to do a spoedtacular volly fromt 30 yRS. BECAUSE BOTH OF THREM DID ONE YTODAY

Mido, oh whoa whoa oh oh wea ohh. Boz Scaggs

no wyq we wil beat by spufdds, cos we ahve the nafic sign over them. If kuqi plays for rovers theh so can I. and I`m disabled. wat with my t4endency to gwqmder offside. its my lacklm of pace that. get in mey frein d tugay, you ate truky ny turkishgh date. 160000 cant be wring.

sorry about spelling, but Kuqi was first dividsio at best. he really is rubbish. my god Joe craig pisssd up would have been beteer. too goals were absolutly fokin magic and Fulham, well thye were basoltyu sheeit muliliia men. we will nevr see two beetr evoleys at ewood tagian, but they wetee waste ao on fuham. I`m vart happy, we won and we won well,but emerton, kmeezezcgrist, my cat dodo bettere. onwards and upwards, speuds next, and there sheetre.

One game in and Hughes is already facing a big big challenge. It appears at this moment in time he has put all his transfer eggs into two baskets, the majority in Bellamy and a couple in Kuqi. One game in, a 3-1 tubbing off a team that finished 6th in the division below us last season, and his panacea is going to miss the next 4~6 weeks. This is your team now Mark, and questions are being asked. A 4-0 dump on Fulham would be a good answer.

oh FFS who the hell are Fulham? C`mon Rovers we should win this 3 maybe 4 nil. Christ lets get a grip here. Easy, easy easy...

Badger Bitter, is really bad.

It makes me feel guilty for watching Rovers. That`s a bit below the belt.

FFS. Good start to the day.

Cletus, what your describing there is more of a Shanghai. A press gang is usual 4 or more people. A shanghai can be as little as 2 people. If in doubt, please refer to the working example portrayed in our training movie Saps At Sea, featuring messrs Laurel and Hardy. This should clarify any queries you may still have.

Sorry Ux, got a previous appointment with Dr Carslberg. Maybe after Spurs game eh?

I`m not being funny, but I seriously think we could win this 1-0 or even 2-1. I know I`ve set the cat amongst the pigeons there but what the hey, I`m just the eternal optimist. A goal fest has been on the cards all season for us and I just think its now time to go onion bag crazy! Go Rovers!

Particulary if it also involves having to watch Rovers as well.