Hughes got the tactics all wrong last night. This is probably the first time I have said this in his reign, but it was very poor on his behalf. The team we had out last night, was perfect for the previous match-an awkward away game in the prem league. Last night however, we were playing an average Greek outfit in europe which we needed to score at least 3 goals and he plays the same team! 4-5-1 simply not goo enough. We should have been playing an attacking 4-4-2 formation with all the big boys back playing-Bentley on the right, mgp on the left with sav and Dunn in the middle. McCarthy and Cruz up front with Derbs to come on as an impact player if and when we needed him. Tugay and Makoena are not just not the right combination in the circumstance we needed

Same situation with me really, im only 20 and i never saw the great man in action! The only footage ive seen of him is on the official 91-92 season review video! Still looked a supreme finisher!

At times there is a slight difference. I believe that the reason that black people are better at sprinting and white people at swimming for example is because of a particuler gentic issue to do with the ankle/something around that area-which means that black people can run faster and white people swim faster. Not a steryotype-just a medical fact-or at least that what i understood. Either way-none of this is relevent to Blaclburn or McCarthy-although i havent read throught the rest of the thread i presume that lazyness is being equated in some way to being black/african or something. Load of horsesh1t

Back on Topic-Cant hold the ball up for sh1t and is a lazy bassa, but scores 20 goals a season. Sounds good to me!

Would be fantastic to have Reid energy and drive in the team again. As the poster above said the Chelsea game is not really a good game to be returing for, but hopefully we can gently get him back to match fitness in the 2 games in the uefa cup and the carling cup, with him perhaps being ready for a full throttle return vs brum in the league on Oct 7th?

What a strange situation. A player who reported to training as per normal y'sday and today, has somehow been interpreted by the media as some sort of stike or deliberate no-show! Did they literally just make it up or what? I mean transfer rumors is one thing, this is just stupid! 'Right then boys what shall we go with on the back pages 2moz boys?' 'Torres maybe, Serena at wimbledon?' 'Hows about..... Benni didnt show up at Rovers y'say for training' 'er.. you what boss?' 'Just bloody run it....' I mean how do these stories come about?!

Just looking through my post history on my profile and found this little beauty. Thanfully as the poster a couple below said, 'im more likely to believe Hughes then yourself'

I think its quite incredible that the Welsh Fa have allowed a manager who puts personally vendetta's above his nations progress and results, to continue in his job. Savage is not the only one, there have been another 2 or 3 who have been frozen out by To$$er-ack, only to be replaced by league 1 players-is it a supprise theyre doing crap now?

Some very simple observations. If Benni does go it will be nowhere near the £6m figure. We are under no pressure to sell and if someone doesnt meet our minimum requirement of £10m i would have said, then ok we'll keep him, doesnt bother us. He will not go on the cheap, if we do sell him, i expect to be able to rebuild the entire strike force with the kinda money.

Well if nobody offers us more then 8 mill, then its simple he wont go. We will not be forced into selling on the cheap, £12m and higher

Everybody has a price these days. However, he has 3 years left on his contract, there is not clause and we dont need to sell. The balls in Chelsea's court, if the sun is to be believed, come and make an offer, £15m? We could do alot with that kinda money!

Wouldnt be against Nonda saying per say, but it does depend massively on the price. £2m would seem a little a steep, considering how notoriously careful we are with money these days under Hughes. Esp when he would be only a 4th striker perhaps, if we signed a Bellamy or Bent in the summer

My limit is £30 unless it is a special game (1st game at Emriates for example) so will not be going to OT this time. They can shove their £36, funny how they were complaining that we charged them that as a cat A+ game. Im bloody glad now!

Hold on a second, Bellamy major flaw is that he not a great finisher or natural goalscorer. Id say thats rather important being a striker and all. McCarthy has the both of them and will end up with c 25 goals in all comps this season. Brilliant return for £2.2m.

97-98 season, Sutton, Owen and Dublin all finished joint top prem goal scorers. Surpprisingly enough, guess who was the only 1 of the 3 not drafted into the England squad....

That site is brilliant, absolutly brilliant. There is one part i agree with and thats the section moaning about united's champs league win in 98-99! Great stuff-smart site and all

Isnt saying that Souness must have been wrong with regards to Todd (simply because he is Souness), rather a silly childlike daft point? Just a thought mind you, just a thought.

Has he buggered off yet, wish this would get sorted out, whether he stays with us or goes to one of l'pool/west ham. All this speculation is a mite annoying imo.

West ham will give us more money so thats all im bothered about. I dont want him at Ewood anymore and the quicker he goes the better, the only unhappy player at a very happy football club! I not really that bothered that he wants to go to west ham, a club not doing better then us, which was his orginal reason for moving. He has gone stale, a move would do everyone good!

I hate to say i told you so, but there were even more on then i estimated, 29350 our highest crowd for over 3 years. Goes to show that the potential is there. Imagine how many we could have had on if the prices were 12pnd adult & a fiver for kids, and the game wasnt on tv; 40k? More maybe. Our board know that they can get away with charging the prices for l'pool and man u, we musta made our highest ever gate reciepts for a league game considering the prices and the amount of season ticket holders we have. Half the crowd were walk ons!

Firstly id just like to apologize for the way the message came across, very unsympathetic. Now id just like to address a number of your points. I am not one of those people who believe the club does everything right. I am in the middle probably, i will critize when neccessary, but i also feel that sometimes the club gets the hard end of the stick. I have repeatly stated in the past that we should screw the 1.5m or whatever we would loose (sky money makes it up anyway) and just have 12pnd adult and 5pnd child ticket prices. And yes the prices are ridiculus. However, why does it have to man u or liverpool? You could take the grandson to Bolton or arsenal or chelsea, arent these games big enough to garner intrest and get yourself onto the database that way. The point im trying to make is that the ONLY 2 game in the year are united and l'pool where this practise is upheld what else can they do, l'pool have sold out its a boxing day game. You telling me there wont be knuckle-draggers everywhere if we had a open sale policy? Whilst i feel sorry for the old lady in question, there are a million and 1 ways to get on the database and she's had more than enough time to do it. And btw, the club charge 36quid cos they know this game will sell out (or almost) Boxing day, liverpool in town, bellamy back, i expect at least 28k.

Im sorry, but i have no sympathy whatsoever. It is repeatedly stated that for Liverpool and Man u ONLY you need a prior purchase on the database. Everybody knows this, why do people moan ever time one of these 2 games come along. The club are doing the right thing, unless you wanna loada bloody red fans sitting next to you in the bbe Why is she on the database previously you only have to go to 1 game to get tickets? Why should people get tickets for l'pool if they cant be arse with any other game. Club spot on imo.

Last kick of the ###### match. Im having a very @#/? day

Im returning from my semestre of study abroad in America at UNCW, so will pick up a young persons half season ticket which is cool. At least 1 is gonna b sold then!

For the rubbish that is in there, he does make a couple of good points. Firstly, where he mentions our fans putting the town down, with reference to Becks, 'Actually consider it a possibility as the club is strong enough to appeal to Beckham. Of course fans prefer to put the club and town in the same context openly mocking the 2 process. You wonder why attendances are dropping. Keep putting the club down.' Whilst we all realise that Blackburn is not Barcelona, there are plenty of worse places in England/the world to live. Secondly we all know that a player lives in leafy cheshire or central manchester depending if they like the country or city life!! Secondly, the point he makes about Dunn has a reasonable amount of truth to it. Whilst i would personally like Dunn back if the fee was right (500k ish) because the risk is low, thoughts of paying £2m or beyond seem very much along the lines of 'hes a local boy' I would like to see Vinjay reinstated on a final warning, where is allowed to post about JW and the running of the club in this thread perhaps and then he must not post about it in all the others. The first time he violates that, hes gone for good!