Lad...

IE as a standalone program is bullcrap, but if your dumb enough to trust any browser as a standalone, then you deserve all the scriptkiddies trojans and the likes. Aside from the taskbar mess it causes, IE has no problems at all. I have no pop-ups (Google bar), no leaks (well sorted Firewall), even Hotmail doesnt cause any problems (anti-virus). Then there is the contant security patches. If people can give me 10 reasons why IE is worse than any other, then I'll shut my face, but so far, apart from the nonsense loading times, and the one genuine point about tabbed on the taskbar, it has nothing wrong with it.

He looked about 60...

Stop bloody complaining. I live in Cambridge, and I cant drive yet. You know what that means? It means I am the only person for miles that supports Rovers, which means there is no way of splitting costs for a trip to Ewood. And unless I wanna get caught in colossal clog ups of people, I have to stay overnight at the Fernhurst - yes, the feckin' away team stop. So at 40-odd quid per-night at the Fernhurst, ever increasing train prices (think it was nigh on 80 quid last time), and then the ticket prices on top of that, it is rare I get to see an Ewood game because of price. £1000 for 2 season tickets - £500 each? Boo-fcuking-hoo.

My other points are still valid. IE is safe, so long as people don't qualify themselfs as complete incompetants by not following the most basic of downloads. And 50% faster page downloads? What utter tosh. I downloaded Firefox just to see, and there is little or no difference. I despise Microsoft with a passion, but I'm not sitting at the opposite end of the Fanboy scale so much as to not realise a perfectly good product when they release it. The only other browser I would even consider, would be Opera, however, thats based on an opinion of when I used it a few years back.

How old is he exactly? He looked as old as the hills, despite the wig.

IE is the king of browsers. Its just that, like all monarchies, its nothing without its aides. Google toolbar is both convenient, and stops ALL pop-ups, and there are simple programs to plug IE's security features. I'm sure there is something packed into the hundreds-of-megabytes package from MS that puts it ahead of Mozilla - not even MS could fill millions of lines of code needlessly. And before anyone jumps on my back, I know MS are a two-bit company with all the product quality of a third world sewage system, but when you take the time to actually take time and fix it yourself, some of their products are actually worthwhile having. IE is one.

Perhaps he's thinking of putting Emo in CM, and Thommo on the right? No, thats too daft, even for Souey.

Flitcroft has been through highs and lows with rovers, and I think we was a worthy captain, but now I think its just time to move over. He showed last year in Bazza's absence he didnt have the legs for it any more. Good player, solid captain, just cant hack it anymore.

Ferguson (Bazza) is really going to have to work hard then.... Eeer, Bazza is what I call Flitcroft

I think age has just caught up with him. With Bazza back in the squad, he's lost his place to become, more than likely, a Mr. Reliable figure on the bench. Still, I think a Ferguson/Bazza middle two could still work if we got a decent defender (like being linked with Daniele Adani).

They're kebabs that are made out of meat, rather than hospital waste.

To Bohemian Rhapsody 'Javi, just skinned a man, Put the ball between his legs, Kept on going, left him dead, Too long a song for me to be bothered about finishing it though.

IF we have any money, then it should either be stashed away for some younger, already 'good' players, to replace the ageing ones, or to bring in some youth now.

Bye bye Andy Todd, then.

Perhaps the mumblings from southampton is that they were ###### that he and the club wanted more money.

^From the Saints link you gave - it hardly gives the impression he has off field 'problems'. More of an anti-social, or someone who wont add to the dressing room. Should fit in at Rovers, then.

It just seems a tad coincidental that when a player Saints were known to have been following for a whole season goes to Blackburn, all of a sudden, a new poster who is a saints fan turns up, soils the name of the player that he would no doubt have been pleased to have seen at his own club should the move have been pulled off, and the only backup for it is in the seemingly unlikely position that he knows Saints fans who just happen to know De Pedro personally, and therefore have no proof or backup for the story. The fact that he doesnt know what the apparent problem is doesnt really help either.

Thats when your story lost any credibilty it had left.

Granted Neill was bad last year, but I think he gets some unfair critisism, as always happens with players out of form, and the lack of a real Cb partnership meant he was having to fil lthe gaps, and essentailly had more than his RB position to contend with. I think it'll work out for him next year, especially if someone like Matteo could be bought in, and if Amoruso could find some form that he showed last year, when he genuinely looked a good defender, worthy of a move from the North.

So, De Pedro has an "unknown" problem that frightened off Saints, plus he's had a falling out with Sociedad. Sounds like his agent has done a perfect selling job on Souness. Good old, Souey, the Arthur Daley of football. He'll take on all the rubbish no one else wants. You just cant help yourself, can you. Perhaps you should just abandon Rovers, as you only ever seem to stick around to critisize things left right and centre - if ever there was a Man Utd fan in denial...

I suppose this is almost a wry nudge in the direction of when Saints were more or less Rovers feeder club. Flowers, Shearer, Kenna and co... never mind, you got an aging, desperately poor Stuart Ripley in return And De- Pedro, crap or not, will still be better than what we had last season, and whatever he does, it'll give balance to the midfield, allowing the central players to tighten up, not allowing so much to get through to the defenders.

I still hope MGP comes to Ewood, just not this year (or at least untill Tran. Window). If De Pedro can hel rise Blackburn to a 9th-11th place finish, then there will be more money in the kitty to buy MGP as the long term left sided investment - we could even afford him to finish his season in Norway. Cash this year though (what there is of it), chould be concentrated soley on a CB.

Great signing - considering the people who were (appparently) interested in him before the beginnng of last season. While last year I was a bit slack, the year before I was religios with keeping up with the Spannish football, and considering as I hate Madrid in a simular vein as Man Utd, I watched Sociedad closely, and if he can re-produce a quarter of what he did that year, then Rovers will have a great signing - especially as he's free. Might help sort out the goals against column aswell - a bit more balance to the team may stop CM's needed to wander off as cover, and opening up the middle of the park. Balance, at last.

Its a northern club, all the locals are too dim witted to figure out who's who in terms of transfers