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Friedel- 6 Neill - 4 Johannsson - 8 Short - 6 Mcevely - 7 Emerton - 8 Ferguson - 8 Tugay - 6 Reid - 7 Dickov - 7 Bothroyd - 8 As for the match, excellent performance. But why on earth did friedel not come out for the second goal? He'd have got it before Baros touched it, if he'd of come out.

Good finish as well!

Every time we play against a team who's striker hasn't scored for a while, he scores at least twice against us. Gudjohnsen, Phillips etc. Next on the list could be Djibril Cisse....

Or does 92er mean the last first team match that he played 90 minutes and survived, without picking up an injury?

Also, a 2-2 stunner at Ewood right at the very start of 2002/2003. The time when Grabbi scored that header........

Friedel Neill Todd Short Gray Emo Fergie Flitcroft Jansen Dickov Bothroyd I'll go for a 1-1 Bothroyd ( 22 ) Luis Garcia ( 71 )

Before we play him Tony Diamond, he needs to adjust to the pace of the English game. Then the ' next Beckham ' speech by Souness might be more realistic. Though I hope he isn't the new Beckham for many reasons.............

Seen as we are struggling to find goals, why not give Gally a go up front?

Huh? WHERE IS DICKOV?????????

Chelsea 2-2 Rovers Chelsea open the scoring after 6 minutes and 2 seconds, Eidur gudjonsson heading home from a Tiago cross. Just 23 minutes and 27 seconds later, Mateja Kezman fires home after a scrambel in the rovers box. However with only seconds until the half time whistle, Paul Dickov slams the ball home from close range. Rovers bring on Jay Bothroyd to help search for an equaliser, and after 92 minutes Bothroyd latches on to a Emerton cross to sidefoot past Petr cech. Hughes and all the staff run on the pitch in celebration. Of course, chelsea complain.

emo fergie tommo pedersen/de pedro/jansen

Yep, and i'm sure we all are

Ratings: Brad Friedel: 5 Lucas Neill: 3 Lorenzo Amoruso: 1 Dominic Matteo: 5 Michael Gray: 5 Brett Emerton: 6 Barry Ferguson: 7 Tugay: 0 Steven Reid: 4 Youri Djorkaeff: 6 Paul Dickov: 6 Subs: Craig Short: 8 Matt Jansen: 6 Jonathan Stead: 7 Team effort: 1

If I were boss, i'd get rid of: Lucas Neill: Last good game he had was October 2002. Lorenzo Amoruso: Big, slow, clumsy. Steven Reid: Maybe i'm being a bit harsh there. TUGAY: NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS. GET RID OF NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jon Douglas: Why the 4 year contract? Them immedietely. Consider everyone else except: Paul Gallagher: Want to see more of him this season. Jonathan Stead: Will overcome this nightmare Barry Ferguson: Our best player Paul Dickov: Always gives 110% and never lets you down Brett Emerton: Been excellent this year

Dario Marcolin

International players? Exactly how many of them do we have? Boro have way more internationals than us, so that's a positive thing.

There speaks the voice of experience. To anyone who does not vote for Bryan Douglas, the greatest player to wear a blue and white shirt, I hereby give warning that I shall personally come round to their hovel and stand on their heads. Sorry, I weren't around in those days! Never seen Douglas play, but as far back as I can remember Ripley was an excellent winger.

There can only be one winner- Stuart Ripley

Me too. I agree with everything you are saying, TrueBlue.

Could we have done with him back? Anyone any idea how he is doing at....um.... where ever he's gone?

That's absoloutely fantastic. There are only 3,000 more for Rovers games. Wasn't much of a game, though, and the goals were at the opposite end to me. Typical.

Rovers 1-0 Jonathan Stead ends his goal drought ( I know i say this every week but he will score this time! ) with a fine finish from David Thompson's ( if he still exists ) through ball. Stead came on for Youri Djoarkaeff in the 62nd minute after struggling with a knock picked up of Zenden. Attendance: 2,000 ( With 1,500 Boro fans )

Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr......

11,000 have been sold according to the girl I spoke to at the ticket office. Thats brilliant, when you consider there are only 6,000 more at Rovers games!

Well you'll see a few more next to you on Friday - that's if you're going ! I'll be there. Thankfully we haven't bought the tickets, it could end up being a rip off.