Benni will not go to Manure, they will want someone who is a better player than him. Benni is a good player but he is so lazy at times nevermind the amount of times he is found offside. As Billy Castell said, they will go for someone like Luca Toni or David Villa.

If Benni has a successful second season and improves his all round game he may be able to get himself a move to one of the top clubs in the Premiership but i think his goals have masked a few inept performances. Then again a striker is judged on his goals, and goals he has scored.

Savage may not be the most technically gifted player in the team but he gives his all and thats all i ask of our players. Give him the armband!!

Savage IMO sets the pace for our side, a bit like when we were down before when we had Dickov, they both run about like head-less chickens but it serves as a motivator the rest of the players.

Neill Out Sav In

Up until this season when i moved to Bolton, i rarely ever got chance to go to Ewood Park, now i'm a ST holder and i'll be renewing it next season even if we get relegated, i'm follow a team not the results. Yes, it would be nice to win every week but thats not going to happen with us, i go to Ewood to get behind the lads and the fact that a Rovers win guarentees a good mood for me for the rest of the week. I'd still turn up to Ewood everyweek even if we were playing in the conference and i'd hope every other fan would too. Its the club we love, thats why we turn up LDRover!

The way we are playing and with Reading playing some very good football, added to our dreadful away form this campaign, i can see nothing other than a Rovers win

Hey we've got to kick start our season somewhere and TBH if we don't kick start it against Reading, it could be a while before we pick up some points with our fixture list.

I liked the look of Derbyshire as well, i've been one of the few wanting to see him get a chance to prove himself and with Nonda being well out of form, i hope he is given a chance to show us what he can/cannot do. IMO he cannot be any worse than Nonda at the moment. He gave his all when he came on and thats all i ask of our players is that they try their hardest.

Saturday 9th December see's two teams meet who should be further up the table then they currently are. This is very early in the season to be saying this but this is a 6-pointer even with the barcodes win last night over Reading reality of it is simple, they need points, we need points. At the start of the season this fixture would have been looked upon as being as fixture between two top-half teams both in the Uefa Cup. Instead it is a bottom half of the table scrap between two sides distracted by the Uefa Cup and ravaged with injury problems.

Both sides have a host of names missing from their squads with us missing players like Ryan Nelsen, Steven Reid, Jason Roberts, Zurab Khizanishvili and Francis Jeffers, could probably add Brett Emerton to that list now. Newcastle have players like Shola Ameobi and Michael Owen missing indefinately and with having injury prone players like Damien Duff in their squad, they were tempting fate with an injury crisis.

Both sides campaigns this season have been blighted by injuries and with fully fit squads, both teams should make their way back up the table.

After Tuesday's pathetic performance down at the Valley, we need a big performance against the barcodes, players like Gamst and IMO Benni who i don't see what all the fuss is about, need to step their game up. Gamst looks like he cannot be bothered anymore, he looks tired and he looks like he has no desire. As for Benni, the guy never gets in the box to get on the end of a cross and is constantly being caught offside. On Saturday, Benni should have no excuse for getting caught offside as Newcastle's defence has to be one of the worst in the league. Big Titus Bramble is a big strong but slow centre half, a player with a slight bit of upper body strength and some pace can make a fool out of him, here's hoping Benni can do that. Although Bramble may not even be fit for the match as he missed Newcastle's superb win over Reading, coming for 1-2 down to win 3-2.

The Bardcodes are relying on a blend of youth and experience to get them through their problems with players like Ramage, Taylor, Huntington, Pattison and Rossi(on loan from Manure) all making appearances this season. We do not have any youth team players who are making starts for us, only Sergio Peter has had a start this season even with our injury problems. We did see Matty Derbyshire get a run out against Fulham but that wer for about 3-5mins and we were 2-0, just closing the game out. Newcastle are finding out if their youngsters are capable of playing in the Premiership whereas we are just putting up with out of form players like Gamst and Nonda instead of giving some players who possibly deserve a shot a chance. IMO Derbyshire would struggle to do worse than Nonda, because Nonda doesn't look interested at the moment, the lack of effort and passion he displayed against Charlton appauled me.

Probable Line-Ups

Rovers

Friedel

Neill Henchoz Ooijer Gray

Bentley Savage Tugay Gamst

Nonda McCarthy

whereas if i were in charge we would be playing the following line-up with our injury problems.

Friedel

Neill Henchoz Ooijer Gray

Mokoena

Bentley Savage Tugay Peter

McCarthy

That would offer us the protection of playing an extra man in midfield because we cannot even win the ball at the moment nevermind create anything with it. I would have put Derbyshire upfront on his own but that us never going to happen.

Newcastle United

Given

Solano Taylor Ramage Babayaro

Emre Butt Sibierski N'Zogbia Milner

Martins

One To Watch

Obafemi Martins, once regarded as the next big thing in world football, but has so far failed to deliver on that name-tag. On his day he can be a real threat to any defence and IMO will probably cause our centre half pairing a lot of trouble on Saturday provided he is given the right service. When Michael Owen returns from injury, i can see Newcastle having one of the best forward pairings in the Premiership. Hopefully we won't be seeing Martin's signature celebration on Saturday.

Prediction

Rovers 0

Newcastle 1

I cannot see where the goals are going to come from for us, we are not creating many clean cut chances and the ones we do create, we are wasting. The team is carrying to many players such as Gamst and Nonda IMO, drop the dead-weight and we might have a chance of turning our season around

Attendence-1 man, his dog and about 4000 barcodes.

Rovers 0

Fulham2

I can see this going absolutely tits up today, we just do not have a striker that is willing to get in the box to get on the end of the chances we create IMO and we create few chances so we have to have players in positions to take them when we create them. I just think that after their win against Arsenal on Wednesday they will be buoyed up and will hit us on the counter attack through Collins John exposing the lack of pace in our central defence.

2 & 1 for me

I would rather we got a Spanish side or German team in the next round, trips to those countries could be a good laugh. Spanish fans are really passionate so we would at least got some noise out of them unlike the Dutch fans and the Germans, well German beer could be fun again after what it were like during the World Cup.

Macky (SNR) in the Grasshopper, what a legend, It were one of the best songs i have heard. You don't need racist singing to have a good time for those yobs that were, all you need is the passion what that guy has. If only we had another 5000 just like him.

Is there anychance that i can see this picture of the fans singing the "we are rovers, we hate p****". I were stood towards the far right at the back and could probably have seen it all.

One thing i do know is that i were singing during that song but p**** replaced by Burnley as it should be.

I'm sat at Bristol airport as we speak waiting to check in, i cannot wait now till i get onboard the plane and then the European adventure starts. See you all in Dam Square tonight then guys!!!

Less than 24 hours till i set off down to Bristol for my flight. Me and my friend should be in Amsterdam for about 6pm GMT/7pm GMT+1 so wheres the party at the night before the game, i am not planning on getting drunk while im there, not if its true what i've heard people saying about the Feyenoord fans looking for some trouble. Think i'll try and stay out of the way of that i think.

As much as i hate Vinjay's rants his passion cannot be ignored, i second wakefieldrawls idea, Vinjay for BRISA.

We are punching above our weight as a club at the moment and it cannot carry on like this because sooner or later we will come unstuck as other clubs get more and more wealthy due to rich foreign investment. With our gates ever decreasing and merchandising not being enough to survive on we need to be doing well or the club could find itself working its way down the level of which Notts Forrest find themselves today in 10/15years time.

Anyone flying from Bristol on the 22nd on the mid afternoon flight?

Depending on traffic OhmiBRFC you should be in Hull for about 7ish at the latest mate so you should have an amount of time to pass before your ferry leaves port.

My tickets arrived this morning, cannot wait until Wednesday now when we fly out from Bristol.

As for pubs in Hull mate, the port is in East Hull which is an absolute S***hole, having lived in Hull for 18 years i think i can safely say East Hull is one of the biggest dumps i've seen. If your looking for a drink before you board the ferry and want to take a taxi to the port, go for a drink in town centre or go to West Hull and go to pubs like Silver Cod or Cross Key's which is in the near-by village of Cottingham.

Rovers 0

United 5

We are due a good spanking by the scum and it will more than likely come on Saturday

If any of you guys going on ferry via Hull want any directions once you reach Hull give me a pm and i'll more than likely be able to help you out, since i've lived there for the last 19 years.

Just about to leave for train station to get the coach from Blackburn, i've got a good feeling about today, just think that even without Sav & Emmo, possibly two of our best players this campaign we will beat Villa.

Villa 1

Rovers 2

Rovers 1

Basel 0

David Bentley with another European screamer!!!!!

Has anybody got a spare seat in their car/mini-bus for the game tommorrow going from the Blackburn/Bolton area? Mate has just let me down and i have a ticket for the game. Would be willing to pay a substantial amount towards the fuel costs and a half time pie

How do i get these option files onto my Xbox 360? Can i use a pen drive and just connect it via the USB sockets.

Got it on Xbox 360 and i am very impressed with it, me and my flatmates have been playing it all afternoon. Top game and at £39.99 its a bargain.

If some places are selling it today, i may venture out on my crutches and spend some of my birthday money on it.

On the GAME website they have it availible to buy now, yesterday it has preorder next to it.