Rovers V Colchester United

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I've just watched that as well Alan. That was well funny. It was just a man that was so bitter trying to stay so calm.

If I make one more away game this season it will be St Andrews.

I think he's always been very limited and that players need more than stamina to contribute at this level. Until about 20 minutes ago I couldn't stand him.

Funny how things change.

One Robbie Savage, there's only one Robbie Savage .............

First of all Fergie is a great player!

Seriously where do people get this opinion of him as a great player. I've been saying this for a couple of months now. Most of us have seen him probably 25+ times playing whiilst he has been at Rovers and he has never once suggested that he is a great player. He's looked good at times but most decent players can do that.

I feel that when we bought him a lot of people were taken in with the price-tag, the reputation and being a 'biggish' name. People seem to identify him as being the best, most well known member of the squad. But that's all reputation and he has never shown himself to be near great on the pitch. Sure he may be the best midfielder we've got but, if Hughes has anything about him, we should be able to replace him for less than we sell him for.

I'm a bit miffed like everyone else that a player wants to leave our beloved club. However I've said this before - more or less all players that play for any club don't have the same passion for the club as we do. Players come and go and if he wants to leave then let him provided we get what we can from the deal. The one thing that really urinates me off is the fact that in the 18 months he's been here he spent 1/3rd of that time injured whilst we paid his huge salary. As Mr Shearer himself would say :- "There's no loyalty in football."

Edit - GAV manages to write my entire post in about 4 lines"

Breaking News on SSN.

Rovers agree fee with Birmingham for Savage.

Doesn't give an amount yet though.

Izzetnot - this all seems to have descended a little bit - your initial arguments were well balanced - but u just seemed to have slipped further and further down.

His problem is his initial well-reasoned arguments were simply untrue such as the fee they paid for Savage, saying they got Yorke on a free and that Dunn got us promoted twice. When a simple bit of searching and common knowledge proved these to be complete lies he lost his plot.

A couple of comedy links here.

First of all

Sav - man of his word!

And then Robbie Savage is a pretty average player some Brum fans would have us believe. However he was above average enough to come 2nd in this poll for their player of the year 2004. This despite the fact that the voting took place after he'd handed in a transfer request! Dunny and Tiny haven't done too well tho

Brum player of the year 2004

RangerRover - I agree with most of what you've wrote. We'll never know for sure until either the move goes through or Ferguson does actually say what he wants.

The worrying part of you're post though is that Ferguson might actually think he's above a relegation battle. More likely he realises that in England that is about his level. It's noticable that no other Premier League clubs seem to be even sniffing around him after viewing his performances over the last 18 months.

He's a good player but not great and we paid well over the odds for him. Is he any better than a fit David Thompson??

To be fair if ST holders want to go they now have the option for going for a £10. The club have now made it perfectly acceptable and only the snobbish who refuse to move to other parts of the ground will complain.

I wasn't going yesterday. I am today. Well done Rovers.!

Yet again the Myth rises.

Didn't appear to be many Geordies there yesterday.

I don't know Captn. As well as the few behind the goal they were attacking in the second half they had the whole of the stand on which the camera was situated.

I think MGP had a good game and he SHUT a few people up who hadnt given him a fair chance,but who impressed me most was Mokoena.It sounded like he made quite a few good perfectly timed tackles.

Now if only Matteo could defend or pass.

If it 'SOUNDED' like Modoena had a good game you obviouslly weren;t there so how do you know that MGP SHUT a few people up? Simon Garner said apart from the goal he was ineffective on Radio Lancs!

The first goal did look offside but it was hard to tell won't be able to tell proper tilll i see it on telly tonight.

Just watched it. Only just but definately onside.

My mate tried for a ticket yesterday in the Riverside and apparantly it's sold out. Lower tier DE or upper JW were all thats left. Should be almost a full house then.

Rovers 1-0 Newcastle

Ferguson

I'm surprised the Toffees havent already got the sold out signs up on their website but as yet they haven't. However I've seen 4 or 5 of Evertons games this year including last Saturdays derby game and I still don't think they are near top 5 material. Marcus Bent up on his own with Kilbane, Cahill, Gravesen and Carsley supporting should not be the sort of line-up we are fearing in one of the best leagues in the world. All credit to Moyes and their players for showing that tactics, heart and belief can get you so far but I am sure they won't finish in the top 5.

That said it doenst take a genius Rovers fan to realise that any team in this league can cause us trouble due to our well documented faults. The hordes of Scousers behind the Darwen End will make sure that home advantage is reduced somewhat.

I'm going for 1-0 Rovers with us producing a second consecutive clean sheet .

Kevin Kilbane 2nd in the Englsih Prem. What is the world coming to!

mgp, mgp, mgp. give him the chance.

MGP ??

I wonder what Paul Calf would make out of those initals.

Dickov's might not be out. Radio Lancs said he was during commentary as he had collected 5 bookings but then they corrected theirselves 10 mins later and said he only had 3.

Our next four games:

H Everton           

H Newcastle           

A Bolton           

A Aston Villa

Can't see us getting more than 4points from those games..

Hmm. Maybe not but none of them games really frighten me.

Everton are vastly overperforming. Even watching todays Merseyside derby I can't see them as a real attacking threat. As honest a pro as Bent is he was hardly a fearsome lone frontman and Carsley, Kilbane and Gravesen behind don't seem much more potent. I'm amazed they are where they are but their bubble will burst hopefully next week!

Newcastle will be tough but we've already got a point off Man U and Liverpool at Ewood. Villa are inconsistent and as for Bolton see Everton above except their bubble has already burst.

I don't subscribe to all the doom and gloom over this result either. I feel that Norwich's win over Bolton has increased a lot of the anxiety. The big thing was not to lose against a relegation rival and we were successful. We also kept Palace to only 2 chances and created far more ourselves whilst chalking up another clean sheet. Of course therefore it is disappointing not to score and win but we are not the first football team to play well and only get a 0-0.

The fact is that there are several teams at the bottom that are very inconsistent and can look inept including ourselves. If anybody really thinks we are not going to be in a relegation dogfight this season (and most future seasons in the Premiership) then they are in cloud cookoo land. Hughes will try his best to bring in who he feels is right in january but some fans seriously need to take a reality check. We are far more likely to be bringing in an Ashton or (dare I say it) a Blake than we are a Cole.

Back on topic - the result against Spurs was very dissapointing, todays was not.

I hope that Morten will get his time soon - a big talent is being wasted here... And if he don't get to play - I hope he's being put out on a loan to an other club - he doesn't deserve to be in a club that don't want to play him!

And btw; I don't say that Morten will be "the solution", and if he ever gets to play - I doubt that he will live up to everybodys expectations; cuz they're being put up way to high.

Surely the first paragraph contradicts the second one. And judging by the 58 page Pedersonthread if he can't live up to the expectations of most board members (i.e poor) then he definately isn't the solution.

Tore Pedersen

Cost - £500,000

Rovers appearances - 3

Per Pedersen

Cost - £2,500,000

Rovers starts - 6

Morst Gandst Pederson

Cost - £1,500,000

Rovers starts - 3 (currently)

At least we've only had one Grabbi !!!!

I can't believe people are moaning about this! It is 100% fair.

And for the record I have only been to City away and, unless I'm lucky enough to grab a 27 pounder, am unlikely to be going Bolton!

Just watching the FA Cup football on BBC now.

It's poor, amateurish, dull, second-rate, uninteresting and the kind of dross you never get served up on sky.

And thats just the commentary!

We have 2 wide midfielders in Emerton and Reid. Most people agree that third in line is Thompson who is returning from a major injury, not 100% fit but has looked good in recent cameo appearances. Fourth in line is MGP who has not had a run in the team but has looked poor in cameo appearances. We're winning easily 2-0 up at Fulham so Hughes gives Thommo 10 minutes to get his Premiership sharpness back for if (when) Reid is banned. Common sense.

This might ruffle a few feathers.

If Grabbi had only played 2 games for Rovers and then never got another chance his reputation would never have been destroyed. Maybe then we'd have got some of our £6.75million back instead of letting him go for nothing.

Thommo is a proven Premiership player, even in a right midfield role, and it would be foolish not to play him in Reid's absence. Especially in our situation. However MGP might get onto the bench in place of Douglas.

Secondly the Lancashire police can now pat themselves on the back that they caught the indivisuals, even tho they did walk into the police station and give themselves up, then one denied racial abuse in court. The lad is obviously all there!!!!!!!!!

Due to the witch hunt being conducted in the media and even on this board to (rightly) find the people involved it was only a matter of time before he got collared. He might as well hand himself in. What's he meant to do - go on the run?

However what if he called Yorke a 'flippin uselss lazy so and so' and is now being wanted for racial abuse. He should plead not guilty. Why are you presuming that he is guilty. Maybe he is. Maybe he isn't. We don't know. Unlike Perryman his solicitor obviously believes he has can deny the charge. On the pictures I've seen I can only see one person doing the chicken dance.

My biggest concern if I was this other lad is that the police will not want him to be found not guilty as it might give the impression they somehow 'let him get away with it' and thus receive stick from our beloved media.