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  1. iTrip are unlawful in the UK - They are effectively radio transmitters and so need to be regulated/licensed. That's not to say that you can't buy one off e-bay off course. Other transmitters have the same issues. You can always hard wire it to your alpine, but that is a little inconvenient.
  2. I have had dealings with both Whelan and Hemmings. I can tell you that they pathologically hate each other. They are both obsessed with being the richest man in Lancashire and it really annoys Whelan that Hemmings continues to be substantially richer than him. They are therefore extremely competitive. If NobEnd come up, they will spend, just so that they can finish above Whelan's Wigan. Bring them both on, shorter distances for away matches, and probably more travelling support at rovers. Neither will make any impact on their first appearance.
  3. Wear and tear on his back caused by the fact that it was forced to carry an extra 2 stone around constantly. I can't say that I'm any different, but then I'm not a footballer.
  4. For all of his individual failings that mostly relate to his pace or occasional howler, whenever Amoruso played last season we looked a better side all round. He has a certain presence, some kind of gravitas that just seems to make those around him play better. He may not be individually the best option, but everything else that he adds to the total team performance I think he is worthy of a look in. No doubt that Todd and Nelsen are the lead pairing, but with suspensions looming, I would quite happily see Amaruso in ahead of N-EJ.
  5. This comes up very frequently on here in one guise or another. By far th eworst player that has ever donned the blue and white is Martin Dahlin. He was over paid, over weight, entirely disinterested and just about summed up Hodgson in one signing. I'd have a hundred Ashely Wards before another Dahlin.
  6. It's a no brainer that Shearer was always going to walk away with this. For my money the best player we ever had, and probably still the best striker I have ever seen. It should also be a certainty that Simon Garner gets the second spot. But just to make sure, I'll quote David Randall of the Independant on Sunday and add a few words of my own. Den - Get the red pen out. Every League club has a folk hero; a player who becomes at first a favourite with the fans and then something more: a legend, a totem, a symbol of everything supporters believe their club stands for. There is Tosh Chamberlain at Fulham, Rodney Marsh at Queen's Park Rangers, Peter Osgood at Chelsea, and at Blackburn Rovers, there is Simon Garner. Even today, 10 years after he last played for the club, the chant: "There's Only One Simon Garner" still regularly echoes round Ewood Park. Quite how a man who never even got a kick in the Premiership could have become the club's spiritual mascot might seem a bit of a mystery, but all is explained if you pick up his autobiography. For in telling his story - Blackburn's all-time top scorer, a succession of ever-lesser clubs, and a divorce so messy he was sent to prison (where the man-of-the-match award was an ounce of tobacco), right down to his present contentment in Berkshire -- he inadvertently reveals why he had such rapport with the crowd. To the fans, Garner was always one of our own. Even after he'd knocked in a Saturday goal or two and had pride of place on the back of the Lancashire Evening Telegraph, he always had time for a laugh, a fag and a drink with them. Or with anyone, for that matter. Newly signed team-mates were liable to be judged on their ability to smoke or drink,a nd Simon was the man to judge them. He earned good money (£600 a week at its peak), but not silly money. He lived in the town, not on Nob Hill. He drove a decent car, not something out of a Bond film. He never pretended. No airs and graces off the pitch, and no dives in the box on it. And if Rovers were a goal or two to the bad, and time was ticking on and you had no more fingernails to bite, there was always a chance that Gamer would turn it around by popping a couple in. But, above all, in the pre-Jack Walker days, the club's fans knew that if there was a Blackburn occasion, good or ill, then there would be Garner, chest puffed out, doing his level best. He was there with Jim Smith (who concluded a rollocking on smoking by offering him a cigar), there when Jim Iley arrived ("very dour… he made Howard Wilkinson look like Ken Dodd"), he played and drank with Howard Kendall, and was with Bobby Saxton's side when, in a vital game against Wolves, their manager, Tommy Docherty, sat in on the Blackburn team-talk and then calmly stood up saying "Don't worry about our lot; they're crap". He was there for the descent into the Third Division, the climb out of it, and those agonising seasons when, three years in a row, Blackburn reached the play-offs, only to lose. Even Garners high times had a Blackburnish quality: a win at Wembley in 1987, but it was only the Full-Members' Cup final; and as Garner broke the club's scoring record in 1989 the celebrations had hardly started before news came through of an unfolding disaster across the Pennines at Hillsborough. Three years later, Garner was still here as King Kenny and Uncle Jack arrived to transform the club. And when Blackburn reached the play-off finals at Wembley, Dalglish made sure the old forward was given one of the three non-playing places on the bench. So there he was, smoking agitatedly through an entire pack as his club reached the Premiership, just like any fan. And when, at Blackburn Town Hall, the team were feted on their return, there, of course, was Gamer again, grinning and happy and slightly inebriated. And what did the crowd sing? "There's Only One Simon Garner..." Garner may not have scored a hatful of premiership goals, won a plethora of international caps, but what he did do was serve our club faithfully for 14 years of his life. He went up and down three divisions with us, and scored a hut full of goals in each of those divisions. His goals got us into the play-offs three years running, and if we'd seized an earlier chance, who knows - he may have scored a hat full in the Premiership. Probably not the most gifted player ever, or the hardest worker, but second only to Shearer in terms of his greatness in the history of Blackburn Rovers. Vote Garner. Not that you weren't going to already, of course....
  7. I'm not a fan of introducing technology into football - wire up the officials to each other (which they effectively already have done - the linesmen have buzzers in their flags connected to the ref to get his attention). If they can use video evidence to charge Rooney with violent conduct, surely they can do the same to Carroll and charge him with unsportsmanlike conduct? He knew it was a goal and deliberately cheated.
  8. Savage must be on good money at Birmingham, so if they are prepared to pay him for sitting in the reserves for the next 4 years, I would be very surprised. Gold has gone from saying that Savage is happy and staying, to saying that he can go if they get a replacement, to now saying that he will rot in the reserves rather than sell him. There's nothing like a good consistent point of view from your chairman. I'd want to leave if I was Savage.
  9. I've said it before and I'll say it again, Savage is an excellent player and we should have bought him when he left Leicester. If he had played for a fashionable club then he would be ranked right up there with Roy Keane, but he better going forward. Anybody that saw him at Ewood in the season that Leicester went down has to agree with me. They were a shocking team and yet Savage beat us on his own that day. He is a class player, and he also winds the hell up out of the opposition and their fans. He and Thompson would be a nightmare to play against. Throw in Dickov as well and we would hardly ever have play against 11 men! Everton have bought Beattie, so not only does that reduce their war chest, but it boosts ours. We should do whatever it takes to get Savage.
  10. I don't believe that you can really describe Ferguson as a cock-up. He has run our midfield on his own for most of this season and looks better every game.
  11. Cudicini will want regular first team football. He will get that at Arsenal. Given that he is qualified to play for England this year, I would also like him to have regular first team football - He is miles batter than David James!
  12. That's just crazy talk. Dickov in goal? Are you mad? Wenger will buy Cudicini from Chelsea.
  13. absolute dribble! I think we all know that that last two spots were probably the easiest ones to predict. We are voting for legends here. Not best players. It may well be that the best players will also become our legends, but it doesn't necessarily follow. Simon Garner is an absolute shoe in for a legend spot, but what did he actually win whilst at the club? In years to come, Damien Duff will still be a hallowed name around the corridors of Ewood. He was majestic, and as a few others have said, worth the entrance fee alone. Sellars, Brotherstone, even Wilcox will all be remembered fondly, but Duff is the one that we will rave about. To me, that makes him a legend. He may not be our most successful player, but if go on medals alone, then there will be nobody in the team that didn't see national service in the Crimean War! Of all the players on the list, the one that I would like to see playing today in a Rovers shirt is Duffer. And thats not just because the others have all retired.
  14. Not sure about Garner, Chesh. We'll have to wait and see on that one. Duff was one, if not the best left winger, but does that make him great? Don't forget it was wilcox that was part of the title winning side, not duff. Given teh level of support that Sherwood got, I cannot imagine Duff not getting in. He's probably the best left winger in the world (although that Robben bloke looks half decent as well). As for Garner not getting in - Methinks you are having a larf.
  15. It's basically all over bar the shouting now. Not just on the Sherwood/Forest vote but the whole thing. I cannot see the next three positions being filled by anybody other than Duff, Shearer and Garner. And quite right too!
  16. Great report in the telegraph: "Only two Blackburn fans were apparently involved, the vast majority welcoming Yorke's arrival as a substitute with more traditional insults regarding his lack of industry and parentage." Marvellous!
  17. 5 Live reported this morning that Yorke had said it was just 2 people so at least they are getting some perspective on it. Yorke was roundly boo'd because he was an expensive waste of time in a Rovers shirt. He did three fifths of rock all for us and just drew big wages. That is why he was abused. I for one joined in with the booing. He should look at the likes of David Dunn and see how to generate some respect from the fans. Did anybody else hear John Barnes on Radio 5 this morning? I couldn't understand a word he said!
  18. I have sat only a few seats away from Dunn on several occasions at Blackburn. He still watches the games and gets far more animated than most in the Jack Walker Upper. Another example of a great talent that fell out with Souness. Cheers Graeme.
  19. Batty was not a good ball player, he was a midfield enforcer. He only passed sideways and backwards because that was his job. For my money, Batty in his hey day was one of the best midfield bully boys around. He did his job perfectly, freeing up his midfield partner to be the creative genius. However, his misdeld partner was Sherwood. Given that he was paired with such a prolific defensive midfielder, you would have expected Shewood to blossom, to shine, to weigh in with a huge pile of goals given that Ripley, Wilcox and Batty were never going to trouble to golden boot awards committee. I don't know what Sherwoods stats look like, but I certainly do not recall him banging in a hat full of goals during his time at Rovers. For the central attacking midfielder in the best team in the country, he should have done a lot more. He just cannot be called a "great" player. You'll be calling David May a great player next.
  20. Sherwood was an average player in a very good team. Would we have won the title without him? Most probably. Would we have won 5 FA Cups without Forrest? No chance. It's heartening to see such a healthy debate given that the next three positions will effectively be uncontested. It's the only position left to actually get uptight about!
  21. If it stays tied, can we not undertake the poll again, with just Sherwood and Forrest as the options? Personally, I think that Forrest is head and shoulders above Sherwood. You can only measure people aginst their per groups and I don't see Sherwood having a raft of medals or international caps to his name. Batty was far more influential in our championship side than Sherwood was. Frankly, any old midfielder could have played behind Shearer and Sutton and inbetween Wilcox Ripley and Batty and we would still have won the title. Sherwood was not even one of the best players in the championship side, let alone one of our greatest midfielders ever. In my view, Shearer, Sutton, Batty, Hendry, May, Berg, Le Saux and Flowers were all far better players in their positions than he was in his. This is clearly backed up by the number of international caps they received (Except Sutton who famously dispatched toys from pram). I will be embarrassed for all of us if he gets in.
  22. That picture is totally inaccurate. I evicted the lot of them after their rent was late. There are now 47 assylum seekers in there all paying £180 a week.
  23. We'll beat them, no problem. Teams always seem to struggle after Champs league games so this is a good time to play them. Duff seems to fall over all the time at the moment so he is really not the player he was when he left Rovers. They are not that strong up front, and whilst we are not exactly breaking the back of the net on a regular basis, we are due a goal or two from who ever plays up front. 2-1 Rovers, our great record at Stamford Bridge being maintained.
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