I'm getting the train over but, if it goes to extra time and penalties, anyone know if you can get a late bus back to Blackburn?

I know Boro still sing "Who's that team they call the Boro" and I think they are the only team I know that still sing it. However I remember it very vaguely from the 80's being sung by Rovers fans and my Dad says it was sang long before that. If so, what were the words?

The one worrying thing was that late on they had a few headed chances that they put harmlessly over or wide. However they were unmarked (I think from set pieces) and on Weds night we'll get punished. Other than that we were very good today. Bellers again looked different class with two cracking finishes. Tugay was excellent at times in the midfield and Peter had a good debut. Hope Grays back on Wednesday night though. Every time Matteo comes back into the side it takes him about 6 games to get back into it. He looks once again a bit like a footballing slug with poor distribution which at times last season he showed he's not.

Hope there's at least 22,000 tonight. However maybe the queue this morning was cos Man U tickets went on sale. With Man U and Bolton coming up it will definately affect the attendance. We play Portsmouth on sky next week. 17,000 anyone?

Anyone know how far it is from the station to the ground. If I can only get on the train which gets in to Wigan NW at about 2.40pm how much game will I be missing. I'd be suprised if we sold out this week. I know it's popular but 5,400 is a hell of a lot of tickets. If only we'd got that many at Celtic

This is the Racing Posts preview of todays game. Gits

I thought it was a very poor penalty. Not very hard and not in the corner. Some may say that he 'shimmied', saw the keeper go right and then stroked it left but I thought he was just very lucky the keeper went the wrong way. He's still different class though

Not knocking you but I'd give the game a second watch on the TV. I thought the two Rovers fullbacks were our best two players. Opinions - who'd have 'em.

Lower tiers hold 4,500 so half of the bottom tier is 2,250. Even allowing for segregation they filled at least half of it so I'd guess they brought at least 1,000.

Unfortunately he won't go away for a while. Another of his garbage-riddled spouts was when he suggested that lowly teams in the Premiership play weakened sides against the top clubs ( link ). West Brom obviously had their reserves out today to beat Arsenal.

Sky Sports News (and website) are reporting Billy Davies as having admitted an interest in taking Jansen to Preston on loan.

Chris Armstrong just before we signed Speedie.

Quite enjoyable and a good professional job by Rovers. Bellamy is lightening quick and must have been onside for at least a couple of the 5 times he was flagged offside in the first half. Bentley looks good on the ball but I feel he may drift out of games for periods. As mentioned earlier I was impressed by the Huddersfield fans at kicko ff time but they must have been scrumming for tickets all through the first half as it seemed like another 1,500 had appeared by the second half. Their side though were competent without being spectacular. The only real negative point I can muster would be Emerton who was largely ineffective and very rarely attempted to take his full back on.

In the summer Mark Hughes and John Williams promised a more attacking approach. Today was the first time this season we've been at home with both new signings fit. We are up against a team ravaged by injuries and desperately low on confidence that have only 1 point and 1 goal all season. Why are we still playing 1 bloody striker !!! Obviously it is our intention to carry on in this method because two backup strikers in Gallacher and Derbyshire are loaned out for the season. Today we were the better side beaten because the other side had better strikers. Two better strikers. Say what you like about Souness but until he fell out with them at least he had an attacking side. We dominated a game but apart from set pieces struggled to create proper chances. However, it took not one goal but two before we introduced the second striker. 20,900 on with probably about 3,500 from Newcastle again leaves only 17,400 home fans. Sure it's on TV blah blah blah but it's frustrating. If we aren't going to attack a team at home today when are we going to attack one?

Looking around a couple of Newcastle sites and came across this interesting avatar. Familiar ??

Believe me I hope I am way off Greggy! However the likes of Coventry and Southampton stopped in the top flight when the gap between the rich and the poor, the wages between the top class and the average, were not as far apart as they are now. Every season 1 or 2 of the promoted clubs fall but not always all 3. One slip now and it's curtains. Had GS not gone to Newcastle it's debatable whether or not the sky money would have saved us then. Had we got, say, Dick Advocat as manager it's questionable whether we'd have been able to bully our way to safety. Your right in the fact that we have to produce youth or buy inexperience, blood them well and sell for a profit. If MGP scores 5 or 6 more like yesterday before Christmas and,say, Liverpool come calling with £7 mill, like it or not the board will probably sell. Again a risky gameplan. [ Thinking about this tho, if we could sell Emerton to Newcastle for 2.5mill that would subsidise our gates for a season. Hmmmm] Ye fellow Rovers minions cannot see what Hasta has forseen.

Agree with most there Drog apart from your solution. I can accept that we are a small town team in the big league. However I also know that since we lost jack we are punching above our position. There will come a time, and it's sooner than people care to admit, when we settle on our level which is unfortunately below this one. The geographical location means the attendances aren't there to sustain Premiership football and won't be unless we become successful. Like it or not I believe we will follow the lead of Sheff Weds, Forest, Derby etc... in falling from the top flight and then hoping rather than expecting a return. Even if we did return it would be brief. However I would rather find our level and compete with the dream at the back of my mind than lose Rovers in any form of merger. If that happened I'd lose my intense interest in football. People may call me pessimistic etc... and I really hope I'm wrong and we are a top flight side for years, nay decades to come. Unfortunately 23,000 gates won't ultimately help us, let alone 16,900. To try a more cheery tone, I know quite a few people (about 7 actually) who've got tickets for Weds nights game but didn't bother on Saturday citing the cost of two games in a week as the reason. With a larger following from the cockney glory-boys we may be able to brush this attendance under the carpet as a one off (but I'm not holding my breath!) One other thing in our favour is that we have 4 big clubs within 40 miles of Ewood that when doing well can fill the Darwen End adding much needed coffers. Now and again even Notlob can bring a few aswell.

Officially it looks like the new macs won't support Windows but may be able to run it. There's lots of talk on the web about it. Bit of info here.

I think it would struggle with games. The 32mb graphics card is a bit of a let down on the Mac mini. I was setting one up for a friend last weekend and it felt a bit sluggish actually compared to the G4 powermacs at work. With regard to macs being non-upgradable, until the ipod came along Apple made most of it's money from selling mac hardware. They sure as hell didnt want anyone else building the machines. Microsoft on the other hand sell Windows as an OS and don't care what your running on. It'll be interesting to see how things pan out next year when Apple switch to using intel processors. Theoretically you would be able to install OS X and Windows on one computer. Even if they don't go that far emulators like virtual PC will run at almost full speed.

Pre-season form means bugger all. I think I'm right that before the year we won the league we didn't win a pre-season game at all culminating in a 3-0 defeat at Hibs. However I expected us to get beat and am not too down yet. If we haven't got a win after the Tottenham game I'll panic.

Run outs for them not too many. Runouts for me - loads! One annoying things is that twice the game has frozen after a dismissal. I've left it for about 10 minutes and it is just locked.

I am playing 20/20 and have just bowled Australia out for 70 off only about 13 overs. No smashing me out of the ground. Line and length mate.

I think because the vast majority of software used both in business and at home is only available for (or in some instances such as Office only believed to be available) for windows. It's a bit of a catch 22 because developers won't write software for the mac as is only holds a small percentage of the market, and the market can't grow it's share due to lack of sotware. From first hand experience I can say that many of the more common online poker sites only have their downloadable software available for windows. The ones that did reply when asked stated that they wouldn't commit to the development cost of the mac software as they felt the extra users wouldn't jusify their cost. (On a side note I dont believe this to be true. There are large numbers of mac users who want to play on reputable sites. Surely the first one that actually does it and publicises it will get a large intake of mac users as they've cornered a niche). It took Betfair 3 years to sort OS X compatablility and even now it only works properly with the clunky Netscape. Despite looking after a deparment of about 15 macs at work and having one at home, I still have an almost obsolete Pentium II running Windows 98 at home just to get round the above. Hopefully the release of the Mac mini will attract more casual switchers, especially those who have fallen in love with their ipods and want to see what else apple can do. Glenn - Thanks for the figures. I thought the article was sky-high optimism.

I bought Cricket 2004 last weekend in preparation for the ashes. I cana see all it's faults but, as it only cost me a tenner, I'm getting quite into it. The only problem I've got is as stated that even the likes of Bangladesh and Canada can start smashing you out of the ground when need be. To solve this I end up having to put all my fielders bar about 2 on the off side. Anything on the stumps or down leg side gets hit for four or six but any ball thats not tossed up on the off side the cpu struggles with.

In the latest copy of Macworld theres an article that states that the given figure of only about 2% of computers being Macs is misleading. The general point is that the general consumer figure is becomming a higher than that but as most major large companies use windows as their main busness platform that keeping the figure down. The article writer states that alomst 10% of visitors to his non-mac related website are running OS X. Out of interest can this figure be recorded for this site (and Lee if you're reading what about the official site)?