I forgot ask, how many Rovers fans were at the game?

It looked quite full on the telly.

can't say i'm happy with lily savage joining the rovers

Congrats Waggy!!!!

First use of the phrase `Lily` in reference to Savage!!

Superb!

You win £5! *

*£5 not actually won, offer made up, your house is at risk if you set fire to it, Ask for written details

I`m happy to have him in the team...but he is a bit of a w@nker though isn`t he.

Don`t care though if he does the biz on the pitch.

If you know what I mean.

Not doing a poo on the pitch, I meant doing the business on the pitch IE playing well and scoring etc.

Not scoring in the drug purchase sense, but getting a few goals for us.

I`m a firm beleiver in committees. Every thing a captain does, a team of at least 6 players meet, have an agenda, take minutes and vote on the outcome of any decision then inform the ref either heads or tails and take it from there.

So the poll really should be..

"Which SIX players would you want on the Committee?"

1 AndyTodd

2 Craig Short

3 Paul Dickov

4 Brad Freidel

5 Lee Grooby

6 Neil Kinnock

7 Nai Bevan

8 Pitt The Younger

9 Pitt The Older

10 Pitt The Dingle

11 Pat The Butcher (AKA Colin Hendry)

12 Spit The Dog

13 Micky Quinn

14 Sweet Gene Vincent

15 Lord `Your Boys Took One Hell Of a Beating`Beaverbrook

16 Ernst And Julio Gallo

17 Henson And Bedges

18 The Great Cheese God

19 Matthew Hoggard

20 Wandering Luxemburgo

21 Andy Todd

?

Ok Barry thats fine you wanna leave.

Please tell us why.

And dont let the door slam on your arse as you go.

Davey I am, as usual in the Darwen end. I`ll see you at the bar at half time!!

I would put Stead and MGP up front, he cam obviously finish and would probably create more for Stead.

In fairness, city centre Glasgow is different planet from town centre Blackburn.

But he wouldn`t actually live or go in either regardless of where he played would he?

I originally voted not going too much to pay.

I have changed my mind, now after two wins and more confidence.

Funny how £24 doesnt seem as much when your winning.

MGP doesn`t seem to have a right foot(see goal) but boy does he have a left one(see goal).

Didn't he score with his right?

Yes with his right, and the ball must have been chipped from the outstide of his foot, cheeky or what?

Hmmm, I was watching it in the mirror whilst brushing me teeth.

Here's something that Blues fans and Rovers fans can all agree to laugh about. Apparently Alex McLeish is thinking about buying Martin Taylor as a replacement for Jean-Alain Boumsoung!

Whats our cut of the sell on fee?

50%?

That`ll be £1.50 then!

MGP doesn`t seem to have a right foot(see goal) but boy does he have a left one(see goal).

I though looking at the team sheet, we might get steamed down the left, but I reckoned without the brick wall of Nelson, and Todd,Mokoena and NEJ. Awesome.

Three of our bookings were a little harsh-Emerton, Nelson and Mokoena.

Mokos ankle tap when the boy was through looked bad, but if you see it again he trips himself up.

Two sendings off were correct,-tip to Lualua-don`t headbutt Toddy!

FIRST DOUBLE OF THE SEASON-AS PREDICTED BY ME IN THE PREVIEW!

SECOND ONE DUE NEXT MONDAY!

Yeeeeeeeessssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!

It were my lucky preview that won it!!!

I like days like this.

Gonna stare at ceefax page 324 for about an hour now.

Sorry, MB I meant Tony Parkes here.

That team basically starts big and gets smaller and smaller till you get to Dicky.

MGP starts, Tugay back-could get torn a part here...

Macabi Tel Aviv get 50%!!! of the sell-on fee and have a written requirement that the player HAS to be sold if an offer of more than £6m is received.

If thats the case, and that information is freely available, then why are Newcastle offering £10M?

Oh yea, I forgot-Souness is in charge.

Never knowingly underpaid.

Maybe this will keep his mind off scoring a hatrick this afternoon.

Or maybe not.

Barry goes, Barry stays, Barry wipes his arse-who cares?

If you wanna go, then go on, feck off, we`ll get someone else in.

If you wanna stay, then say so, and while your at it start behaving like the Captain of one of Englands finest football clubs. Lead us, captain us, on and off the field and start earning some of the obscene amount of money that me and the rest of the members of this board have ploughed into the club over the last few years.

Jesus, theres no shortage of people who can contribute as much as you currently are in our midfield and probably for a lot less dough.

I didn`t mean him, I meant the other one, spelt with an A !

The clinching discussion probably went like this:

Cardiff- looking at your recent cup attendances, we anticipate around 9,000 Rovers fans and 1,000 Cardiff fans.

Rovers- we normally drop our prices to encourage more to come; typically a reduction by more than half.

Cardiff- For us to agree to you dropping the prices by more than half can you must guarrantee that we will get the take from a gate of over 20,000. Can you do that?

Rovers- No

Cardiff- Charge a price for us both to make the most money then. After all, we do not expect to be still in the Cup so this is our last payday from the competition this season.

Philip, I`d like to think that somewhere along the line, someone said

"Any money is a bonus, why not consider the fans here and give them a chance to see a premiership team for tenner(or so)"

What about the Bournemouth game you may ask. Only 7,000 odd turned up? Yea well thats 7,000 odd who got to see a premiership team,ahem, for a tenner each. Good Pr, despite the result in the end.

I doubt wether any budgets for the year took into account any FA cup income from the gate, so it`s all bunce.

Just a thought.

`Ahhh up Pompeii, up Pompeii`, the cry rang out across the seething masses. No it’s not a football match at Fratton Park, but a scene from the Frankie Howerd Oscar winning titter fest, based slightly on loads of people being killed by a volcano. You see it was here that the now famous cry of, ermm, “ Up Pompey, Up Pompey” was first heard. It occurred during the infamous `Volcano Derby` match between Pompeii and Etna, a vital relegation grudge match in Serie A. Howard made a small fortune out of the film, mocking the locals by portraying them as sex obsessed hedonists. But the Pompeian’s had the last laugh as Howerd himself died later that year whilst filming the now notorious epic `Carry On Dying` with Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey and Sid James.

So, as a tribute, the Burgers of Portsmouth, Howerd’s home town, decided to twin themselves with the now pile of ashes that used to be Pompeii. So now whenever the local football, or `Calcio` team play, the fans are made to sing the old song by the council at least ten times a match. And a fat bird has to ring a bell as well.

Ironically, next Saturday Portsmouth play against Blackburn, a town named after a small village near Etna which also burned under the boiling lava, called Burnblack, which brings me very poorly to the preview.

I have a couple of memories of away trips to Portsmouth. The first time I went was for a league division 2 match, around the mid 1980s. You had to have a travel membership card those days, and we went on train from Chorley. We set off around 2am I think on a Saturday morning and the journey took what seemed to be 10 hours. On arriving at Portsmouth station we all walked along the main road, and I could hardly tell a word the locals were saying. All I can remember is they wore lots of long sleeve paisley shirts, in purple and orange. I wasn’t even sure if I was even still in England! Arriving at the ground it looked OK(times have changed) and there was some sort of half timbered pub building near the entrance, which I think is still there.

A look around Fratton Park

Oh look, there it is.!

Anyway the match started and Rovers were getting paggered. Two down after 15-20 minutes and I was getting angry. Then one of the goalscorers Mick Channon, gets subbed. I let fly a volley of abuse, some of which was industrial and next thing I know a copper is pulling me out of the ground and throwing me out. All that way for a 20 minute two goal defeat. Then I had to wait at the station till after the game on my own, which was not a pleasant experience.

The other trip I remember was for an FA Cup 3rd round match. Traveling down on the official coach this time, in freezing cold snow and ice. All I remember about this tie was it ended 0-0, with Chris Thompson missing three open goals at our end.

Recent games have been OK for us, last season winning two-one and a decent draw in the league cup. I think that game was the one were Aaron Flahavan passed out and Blakey stopped playing and helped him.

I also seem to remember a second division match down there where we were two down at half time and ended up winning four two? Garner getting at least three of them?

Anyway, come Saturday all is forgotten and Rovers should look to gain three points against a fragile team, whose main threat for me is pace. And skill, also long range shots.

But who cares about them? Look what we have got:

FREIDEL-Last seasons leading goalscorer.

NEILL- One of only two Aussies in the world to be crap at sport

NISSA-Loads of hair, blocks attackers view

TODD- Hunter, Smith, Case, Harris, Souness-he would waste them all.

MATTEO-Sounds like an Italian,plays like a pizza

TUGAY-Never has a passer of the ball been more aptly named.

EMERTON-See NEILL

FERGUSON-Cultured, sophisticated, great passer-Cannot be Scottish!

REID-Souness got the wrong Reid, and then lost the receipt

DICKOV-If he were a dog, he’d be one of them little yappy ankle biters, that do really sticky sh*ts.

STEAD- On day release from Nicky Clarke hairdressers.

If this lot turns it on on Saturday, god help anyone who stands in their way. Could this our first double of the season?

As to the managers, both bosses are relatively inexperienced in their current positions. Some would say Hughes achieved more as a player than Joe Jordan. They would of course be right. But big Joe, was always a favorite of mine in the olden days, simply because he was the first footballer to have no front teeth. He was also the BIG FEE MAN for Leeds on the football cards I used to collect.

Sparky, (he used to be an electrician) has won virtually everything in the game and played under the main man himself, Sir RFW. His pedigree alone should be enough to motivate and organize better than Joe.

So all in all I predict 3-1 to the Rovers, and this to flatter Portsmouth.

Will I win £5?

We shall see.

PS Is it me or does Gordon McQueen look like OddBodd, the monster out of Carry On Screaming?

£24!!!!! Get Bent!

I was hoping a £5 all round, get 20K in, get a good atmosphere and support the team. They could have made loads of money on pie, ale and chips money to compensate. But no, £24. They really are taking the p!ss.

Gutted absolutely gutted. I CAN afford th pay it, but thats not the point. Loads of people can`t, and this was an ideal opportunity to get some new fans in and re-build a customer base thats been dwindling for 2 years.

PR and business disaster.

Heck the press wires have gone mad with the news that Nelsen has joined Rovers.

Expect a rush of new kiwi and DC fans as members of the site.

Anyone remember any other Kiwi's who have played in the Premier or old 1st Div.

I remember a fruit winning goal of the season at Anfield once.

Why all fuss?

It`s only like a ref missing an obvious handball and not giving the penalty?

No to technology, let the humans make their mistakes.

Theres a song in this.

`Toddy take a, Toddy take a bow,

Boot the grime of this world in the crotch dear,

And dont go out tonight,

Go out and find the one that you love and who loves you,`

With apologies to Mozza.

And AESF.