not sure about that heard it's fresian down there this weekend

You can tell there's no mods awake Everyone's making hay while the sun shines Could go on 'til the cows come home this ....

Why did it take you 24 hours ? Have you been in a coma ? You can't have spent the time thinking up the answers - they're all sh!te

Dwight smoked all the grass, nothing left for the poor bullocks only Sand Ra Ra Ra

where've we herd that before ?

I thought FIFA was replacing numbers with letters from this season ? A to Z then AA AB etc something to do with some refs getting confused with too many numbers to deal with

Please quantify "the 'disasters' of last season" Where's your evidence that Souness has "changed very little" Why do you think Lopez is / might be / would be .. better than Yorke ? Why don't you offer to pay Lopez's wages ? Or suggest some sensible schemes whereby our club could raise that money ? Which managers in the Premier League DO YOU RATE ???? Please make a list of all the money Souness has wasted HERE --> Just for balance, list his sales (including Blake and Egil) HERE --> And as a tie break (I've sent this to Souey as well - we're judging your reply against his in Blues after the West Brom game) - only fair ... what have you won in football .................................... (2) .....................................

Can't take the credit I'm afraid - it's off the Mailing List but the Belgian-based contributor posted it anon

one feels duty bound to pass on THIS LINK TO SG SCHORNDORF FUSSBALL not least because there are several great pictures of players in the new kit which looks fantastic by the way, and one at the foot of the page of a mod, looking somewhat less fantastic.

Douglas scores so finishes 4-3 Jordan says all that's courtesy of him and he's not drunk and they're now going out on the bier with some Ulm players, including one called Dennis who scored one of the penalties

Dickov has hit the post with no 4 they've scored their next one Douglas can clinch it here with our 5th

their third has gone in Steady's taking our third scores bottom left so now 3-1 Rovers

Friedel saves again Emerton taking the second now ... goal bottom right

Friedel savved their first Amo scored our first top left

Yep. It's not ongoing until kick off.

UK TIME !! 4.30 CET ooooooooooooopps CET stands for completely eccentric time of course it's 6.30 local

UK TIME !! 4.30 CET

So tonight sees the second game of the German tour ... will be interesting to see who plays tonight. Rumour has it that Souness will start with no fewer than five mystery triallists ! Furthermore, he has sent the hit squad (Parkes and Saunders) round the hotel rooms of every travelling Rovers fan and issued dire warnings that the identities of the mystery players are to remain under wraps. As I understand it Andy Neild has been incarcerated in Rovers German base until after tonights game. And Deutsche Telekom are under strict instructions not to allow any calls to get through to Radio Lancashire. Apart from that, I've got an inkling he'll start with Dickov and Jansen up front.

Happy to confirm that Jordan is NOT implicated in the current player-name-revealing scandal which is threatening to engulf Blackburn with Darwen and possibly Western Civilisation as we know it.

Recently, for better or for worse, Rovers have bagged a host of players who have been courted by other clubs. In roughly chronological order and with apologies for omissions - Emerton, Ferguson, Gray, Stead, Dickov, De Pedro, Matteo spring to mind. With that record, the concept of Souness blowing a fuse over one fans call to Radio Lancs over "A. Triallist" is completely ridiculous. Now let's get a little bit serious for a moment. We just had the Maradona junior saga, which kept a few folk amused for a short while, before he got an imaginary injury, went to Dunfermline, almost signed there, almost went home, almost signed again, played OK on the links at Troon, and finally went home to Italy. Argentina. Sorry, Ewood. Oh, Italy. In the meantime Rovers are having a bit of a giggle out in Germany. Mystery Triallist racks up a brace. Judas Jordan (48665 consecutive games and counting) tips off the locals back in Blackburn. No Nonsense Neild splashes the exclusive accross column 6 page 19 of the LET. Spoilsport Souey denounces the dirt dishers and claims his top secret target has been exposed to the visually challenged scouting systems of Chelsea, Man U, Arsenal and Bolton. The £24 million Drogba deal at Chelsea is in danger of collapsing as Mystery Traillist is psycho-analysed by Gerald on his late night Radio Lancs phone in. At last red top reporter "revelations" Revidge romps in to read the riot act. "What are you doing Souness you fool, Mystery Trialist is the talk of Great Harwood thanks to your indiscrimanate fielding of the boy in a meaningless pre-season game in southern Germany. Why didn't you book the Strangeways gym to give him his run out ? Now even Wendy and Roar know grrrrrrrrrrrrrr" FFS bring the season on quickly, sane and sound people are posting utter drivel. Normal life is being turned into a conspiracy theory.

You tell us. Is there any point being alive ?! © ~=Basil Fawlty

A rare contribution ........ edit - Paul McGarry's provocative post has been removed by mods so this became meaningless

FFS grow up Either it was an off the cuff joke to Andy Neild for his "tour diary" or ... much more likely, Souness has rewarded the fans who have made the effort to travel to the game with some inside information but asked them to keep it to themselves. The latter is exactly what happened when there were just a handful of us out in Germany in 2000 - Souness left the pre-match warm up to someone else and gave us 30 mins of his time - his exact words were "ask me anything you want" but he made it clear what was not for wider consumption. Likewise this April the London Branch had a Q and A with John Williams and again - although he hardly blew the lid on any major secrets - there were a couple of times when he asked for titbits of information not to "leak out". There were 30 or so people there, several use this site, nothing has leaked that shouldn't have. Either way why are the anti-Souness club trying to make something out of what is absolutely nothing. It's not even made it from a BBC Radio Lancs phone in to the BBCi website, it's not even made it to the trashy football news sites - in fact it's not been mentioned beyond this site and a one sentance comment in the inner pages of the LET. But people who have an agenda are portraying a one liner from Souness - completely unaware of the context in which it was spoken - as yet another sh!t reason to hound him from the club. You should all get a bloody life, or target someone else. Go find a dodgy neighbour or a child molester or something.

Not as ridiculous as your post Rev For goodness sake lighten up ... it was probably a comment made in jest. As the guys who are out there will tell you the staff and players are absolutely brilliant to the fans who travel to pre-season, loads of access, off the record chats and photos etc etc. FFS next time Souness sneezes at Brockhall and doesn't use a hanky are you going to issue another public reprimand ??

Stop! In the name of love ...