Some way still to go yet he has been goo recently, but Rooney can be an obnoxious little sh1t at times and im waiting for his next little blow out.

No need to fear fellow Rovers fans. Isreal will grab a 90th min equaliser against Russia, meaning Eng scrape through after beating croatia-thus McClaren keeps his job and he would have met his target-qualification. We can then look forward to going out in the 2008 tourlament in either the group stage or at best 1/4s on pens! Fantastic fun.... Or i'll jus stick to Rovers

That Derby game was the first game of the season when we were back in the top flight in 01/02 wasnt it? Yeh same with me, whenever i see highlights of the game the offside decsion still rankles with me as it was clearly onside and we deserved at least a point from the game. I seem to remember a large travelling Rovers support on that day, musta been 3k plus

Supprised that nobody has commented in this section after todays game. I thought he was excellent when he came on, look determined to prove a point, scored, had a coupla of other chances that he fashioned for himself. Worked hard as well, certainly looked to have rediscovered his spark based on today!

US, the fundemental difference is that we were at HOME last night. Im not saying that the team I outlined would have simply turned up and won 3-0, but im sure we would have had more of a chance then the team we had out ysday. The team we had out ysday would have been far better suited to the away leg ironically enough!

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!