After several months of voting, on the 11th of 11 positions to be filled and the player you want to win this vote already a clear winner .... you come out with a line like that?! Could you kindly provide us with the blueprint for a version of this exercise - which has both entertained and educated at least 3 generations of Rovers fans - which is NOT flawed according to ianb?? Then perhaps set up your own site to run the vote. You'd be the only one voting so you'd end up happy.

Crikey ... Barry Ferguson has seriously p:ssed you off hasn't he philip!?

BBC Being broadcast at 1.40pm on Feb 27th where you are RR, by the looks of things

That's a great idea ... imagine that, as the players run out of the tunnel the cameras will be on our end anyway, the watching world will admire a sea of blue and white, from the dingledome!!

MGP was rubbish. Call yourself a Norwegian?! I've said from the start he's bloody rubbish. He's too bulky to even get past the Maltese defence and whip in a cross. Hughes needs to get the podger on a strict diet and send him on some 20 mile runs in the Trough of Bowland, lose a bit of weight and get a bit nippy. Meanwhile banish him to the reserves.

Before the ticket allocation argument descends into farce, let's just remember one thing. This is the ONLY possible fixture where ANY Rovers fans are going to end up disappointed. The last time was Celtic away, and we won't be playing them for a while either. Rovers got the allocation sequence spot on. I feel very sorry for people like Paul who had to weigh up a work commitment in Banbury against getting tickets. Paul has a family to support and a job where he has to travel and meet targets, others with fewer responsibilities (or maybe just less responsible) will have gambled with their jobs and queued up (like the schoolkids and their teacher - brilliant story from Roversmum). Any suggestion of Rovers sabotaging their own phone lines is just rubbish. They may have made a decision to move staff from the phones to the windows, but then when people are standing in the cold for 5 or more hours then not to have every window open would have been a poor show. It's far more likely that the phone system had never been tested to such an extent and simply failed to cope. If all the Rovers fans who suddenly want tickets for Burnley had bothered to go to City .. or Bolton .. or Villa .. or even to Boro last week .... maybe the phone system would work properly, and more people would have had tickets before the mad rush this morning.

Savage won't play for Wales tomorrow (groin). BBC link

like he does for Rovers - nothing is coming off for him, and he's had at least one chance when he should have had a go but waited too long and was disposessed - ie just like for Rovers

Oh dear. I suppose it's too much to ask of the moronic faction to leave this pathetic, nonsensical chant on the shelf when we go up the road a week on Sunday.

Carlton Cole off injured on 40 mins ... Stead gets 50 mins to do something (England 2-0 down)

Carlton Cole and Dean Ashton starting up front for England U21s ...

As is someone who refuses to play for their club when his old club comes a calling. I await your analysis of Ferguson with anticipation Smiffy Come on, keep up AESF on BF

Back on topic, anyone else had this email from Rovers ... For £80 + VAT you can get a Sunday Carvery Lunch at Ewood, free parking at Ewood, match day programme, executive coach transfer to Turf Moor, "Reserved seating for the match in the Blackburn Rovers Supporters area ", and Coach transfer back to Ewood. So, in essence, tickets are on open sale now to anyone who wants to pay 100 quid, and you'll get a free lunch as well. So much for ST holders with two stubs. (edit) the only potential drawback concerns the transport arrangements : they really should proof read this stuff before they send it out!

There is nothing strange or unwarranted about it. rover6 posts endless, condescending, opinionated tat about what players should be bought, sold, promoted from the academy, selected, substituted and basically thinks (s)he knows 10 times better than Hughes. However, whereas Hughes sees the players in training every day, has access to the latest technology to monitor them, and has a team of coaches and scouts with whom to discuss their progress and to comb the world for new talent ... ... rover6 relies on radio 5, Paul Sturrock and the odd internet question about what formation we might be playing.

How would you know? At half time you didn't even realise what formation Rovers were playing

It was Todd he turned inside out, not Neill.

Interesting crowd count tonight - 23,414. The highest non-Saturday Ewood crowd of the season (apart from Boxing Day) - and for a TV game as well. Of all home games, the 6th highest of the season, behind ManU, Everton, Liverpool (for obvious reasons), Newcastle (Boxing Day) and West Brom (opening day of the season). Way above the recent Charlton and Bolton games, Charlton was kids for a quid and Bolton the nearest local team. Chelsea didn't appear to have brought the sort of numbers that Colchester mustered on Saturday. All of which suggests that a huge percentage of the bodies through the home turnstiles tonight were there to see Chelsea, not Rovers. Also, the argument that people are walking away due to TV coverage and varying kick off times is looking pretty weak after tonights turnout. When they want to be there, they show up. Shame they couldn't be arsed for an enjoyable (and cheap) cup win at the weekend.

I was going to draw exactly the same comparison with our Everton game. It wasn't pretty, but it was a statement. I doubt that Chelsea will have a harder game than this in their run in to the titile. They may face more cultured challenges, but nothing that tough. It was the manager who told them to throw their shirts into their fans at the end - and that was a stroke of genius. The watching world saw a fierce, graphic statement of unity and determination in those couple of minutes. Nothing will stop this Chelsea team from taking the title this season, and with that base to build on and presumably limitless funds in the summer, they've more or less got next season's in the bag as well.

Bad night for penalty takers tonight, Angel had two saved, and Andy Cole put his effort so far wide it ended up in the Thames.

Hang on. At half time you didn't even have a clue what formation we were playing. But yet barely 20 minutes into the second half, you're telling Hughes how to do his flippin job, and knocking two of the better players on the night. We know you don't go to games, but if you're going to continue to spout "know-it-all" suggestions then at least have the courtesy to watch the damn games on TV. You are - by a country mile - the biggest source of BULLSH!T this forum has ever seen.

Morning indeed. Quite a few people I know give up drinking, or chocolate, for the month of January. You gave up the messageboard. How strange!! But welcome back.

Sorry, agree i misread post. Just figured he was still one of the 27% who still think we shouldnt have sold Fergurson. I shall now state that those opionions of mine are not directed at tris, but anyone who feels we should still have Fergsuson. I haven't actually voted at all!! Because the poll was started before it emerged he'd refused to play against Colchester, so probably isn't a true reflection - I bet most of the 27% (if it still is 27%) have wanted to change their votes from the moment the LET came out yesterday.

Dunn is the last person I'd normally defend, but to be fair to him Kevin Ball did attempt to break him into small pieces with a shocker of a challenge early on. Ball was later sent off. Have they moved the tunnel or is it still in the middle of the away end?!?!?!?!

ultrablue has most of that right. Yes, it was a good game of football, but it would have been so much better without the needless histrionics of several players from both teams. Sky and the papers have a lot to answer for. Ever since the infamous encounter in October, this fixture has been relentlessly built up into a soap opera, not a game of football. The antics in the tunnel before the game smacked of WWF role playing for the cameras. Graham Poll - who I have absolutely no time for - was handed the impossible task of "managing" this fixture, and I honestly believe that his remit was to manage the game tonight. That is wrong, he should be there to referee a sporting encounter. But it's gone so far into showbiz that he's having to use different interpretations of the laws of the game to handle volatile flash points as and when they occur - eg Rooney. It would have been action packed without the pathetic dives from Vieira and Ronaldo, without the in your face dissent of Rooney and Henry and without the sly efforts to cheat the official of at least another half dozen players. All that in the context of a build up which has seen the police having to intervene to calm down the public rantings of the two most experienced managers in the British game, who quite frankly are a disgrace to the game for their pathetic behaviour, which clearly was transferred to their players on this big stage. Poll did very well on the night, and it was a great game, but the pathetic sh!t needs stamping out, fast.

After getting his booking, Rooney appeared to call Poll a "f*****g cheat" ... Poll then called Roy Keane over and I imagine told them both that in any other game Poll would have heard more clearly and Rooney would have walked.