I'm afraid I wasn't impressed with Matteo. The number of times a swear word came in close proximity with his name was too often. Usually when we were going 'forward'.

What a pisstake. 3-0? Our lack of quality lost us the match today, our work rate was second to none, as usual. We never looked like scoring, and today it really did look like 2nd Vs 14th. We were never expected to win, but Arsenal today didn't impress me. 3-0.... I can't believe it. Gutted.

86 minutes of battling down the drain.

Not on topic, mode_m, in relation to your sig, Everything Counts is a great song have you heard In Flames version of it?

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Great result, I will look forward to MOTD tonight, even if we are the last match.

1-1

Quality stuff, hats off to the Rovers.

I think the HAHA! is meant to suggest the choice of Carroll was a joke and not to be taken seriously.

Brilliant preview, but don't show the Malcolm Glazer quote ... to any english Man Utd fan... wouldn't hear the end of it. I don't think we have the quality to beat Manchester United, as much as I'd like to see it happen, I have a feeling the Old Trafford curse shall continue. Until we get our attack sorted, we're always aiming for a 0-0 in games like these at most. Optimistically: 0-0 until the 90th minute, until MGP is brought down in the area and Stead, who's come on as a sub, slots away the penalty for a 1-0 Rovers victory. Realistically: Man Utd 2-0 Rovers. We rarely get out of our half.

That has to be a wind up..?

I don't think Dickov deserves this much critisism. I saw the game today from start to finish and whilst I agree he definately lacks the quality that a lone striker needs, he wasn't that bad today. He whines and moans a lot, yes, but today was probably justified, the referee was a disgrace. Dickov did do some things right though, his holding up play(when he received the ball at his feet) was superb, as was his closing down, at one point in the game it was his closing down that directly led to a Rovers chance from nowhere. Like it or not he is our top scorer and works damn hard for this club. I do however think Stead should begin starting, whether in a 4-4-2 or 4-1-4-1 formation. We already know Dickov's (by his own admission) playing at 70%, and that's just not good enough. He needs to rest and get at least to 80/85% before he is starting for us again.

According to prem Plus Todd had a virus and was feeling the affects of it at half time, which is why he was replaced.

I know it was Arsenal, I know we didn't expect to win, and I know 1-0 isn't a bad result.... but a full strentgh arsenal team will destroy us. We lost to an arsenal team which comprised of a fair chunk of 2nd choice players. Still an excellent team, mind, but if we had any chance of beating them it was against this kind of team. Neill and Johansson deserve a special mention for being terrible. Mokoena was very dodgy today... I wouldn't be happy with him as a centre-back, please keep him as a DM. We didn't expect anything out of this game, but we didn't go for it either. 4-5-1, whilst a good system when we don't concede, is useless when we go a goal down. I would have liked to have seen Stead come on over Emo, who was largely useless, and Tugay, who contributed little. We don't score enough anyway and Dickov alone up front will never get us goals. Have to admit we had a few nice moves, but for the most part they came to nothing and our set pieces are diabolical as of late! Until next season at least Blackburn are going to be one of the worst teams to watch in the Premiership, but we can take solice that we will be in the premiership next year, I imagine. Onto the next game! 0-0 all we can hope for against Utd, I fear.

Good, solid, dogged performance. Typical Rovers, brilliant. Another extremely valuable point, well done lads.

Gally on for Stead. To be honest Stead has had very little service to feed off, I thought he was quite solid, from what we saw of him. Excellent link-up play with reid at one point. let's just give Liverpool a goal kick when we get a corner, less chance of getting hit on the break. set pieces are where we can beat them and we've been shocking in this area. Everywhere else we've been completely solid. Liverpool's players seem to have a problem maintaining vertical status. MGP deserves a second mention for his awful set pieces. Goodness me... Matteo - great tackle!

Is MGP attempting to put in sh*te corners? We always tend to take bad corners but this is taking the p*ss. Oh god, not Matteo.

According to Sky Sports Dickov is likely to feature against liverpool. http://skysports.planetfootball.com/list.a...nel=Premiership That's from Sky Sports today. Wouldn't be surprised to see him fighting his heart out for Rovers once more, come Wednesday. Is a 65% - 70% Dickov better than a 100% Jon Stead?

A win we deserved overall, wasn't impressed with our starting 451 formation, but we scrapped the win. Definate penalty. Another 1-0, but who cares, we're through

1-0! We needed a penalty or something like it and got it. Come on!

not particularly exciting but we look like we could possibly unlock them with a counter...

Where is Stead playing? Did he come into midfield or attack? Can't say i've seen much if anything of him.

Neither do we. *yawn*

In the paper there was a section below detailing how we stopped them attacking which also mentioned Mokoena. Not sure whether it's on the site or not...

I didn't condemn them for it, agreed with most of what they said