If Rovers gave Sergio Peter a few games between now and the end of the season and Chelsea came in with £12 million+ then id be a very happy rover. Its a business at the end of the day

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Kaaching is what i'd be saying if that happens much like the duff sale. Too bad we bought Ferguson though.

my bet for PS3 is Early 2007

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I bet november 2006

Steven Reid

Michael Gray

Andy Todd

Shefki Kuqi

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Michael Gray has been great recently, 10 times better than Matteo

Jansen's no longer premiership quality, low Championship at best. Good luck to him though

Kuqi for once looked out of his depth today, his been playing well lately but i would have rather seen Bells on for Kuqi than Dickov. Second half I felt we were just going through the motions most the time, not wanting to score a 3rd. Can't complain about a win though, their hard to come by in this league. Long may our form continue!

didnt get the game yet but i will as soon as its out here... sounds good especially if the coments about it being better then fm2005 are true ... one question about the patch though, will it have any affect on the no-cd crack ?

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Ahem move along

Seriously though i'm no stranger to piracy (so what, i'm a student)

Hughes annoyed by teletext

3-0 Rovers - Peds, Bellamy, Emerton

I really reall hope Reid doesn't play.

I'm hoping for a front two with Bentley behind them tonight. How many times do we have to see Reid before we realise he's completely crap?

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His a good sub, hard working but more of a holding midfielder. However we have too many of them.

Believe it or not, but I think we'll lose 2-1. I hope not though!

Championship manager is always right! Maybe we should sign Andri Sigporrson!

We managed to get an update in our house at uni but my friend supports Bumley (shocking I know) and before I could copy the option file he edited Bumley in over Rovers!! So I have an obivious problem (other then living with a Dingle)

Does anybody know a good option file to get for updated kits etc??

I'm not exactly a whizz on PC to PS2 transfers, what do I need? and how does it work?

Any help would be super.

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Don't take that! Edit his Football manager data file and set all the Burnley player names to Dingle and set their skills all to 1.

On the basis that  6,000 people died from drug abuse out of 500,000 habitual drug users over 5 years and 500,000 people died from tobacco out of 18,000,000 habitual users over the same period in the UK, tobacco must be about three times more dangerous on the numbers at the foot of this article.

Apart from that, I think the article re-enforces my view that drugs should be de-criminalised. No doubt David Cameron and George Osborne are wishing they were.

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Drugs are illegal, cigs are legal. If Drugs were legal the number of users would go up as would the deaths. Bad idea.

Weeed can be legal as it's not as bad as other drugs.

Also a couple of months ago I came onto a Pro Evo thread on this board and basicly said it was a crap game and I don't like it.

I was very very very wrong.

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We forgive you, don't let it happen again though!

Blackburn Rovers vs Birmingham City

Match preview

Next Saturday we welcome possibly the biggest team in the premiership, Birmingham City. Known throughout the world and celebrated as the undisputed biggest team in the footballing world. Well that’s what they like to think, in reality Birmingham will do well to finish in the top half. I decided to ask some of their fans a few questions:

1. How do you think you'll do this season?

Looks like a struggle unless we can hit a winning run. I would say we're looking at 14th place.

We aint gonna be top 6

2. Who do you feel will cause problems in the rovers side?

Bellamy, Pederson

Either Bellamy or Savage, depending on who gets to the hairdressers first!

3. Whose better, Savage or Dunn and why?

Dunn is the most natural gifted British player since Gazza

Dunn, natural talent with a fire inside

4. Are Birmingham a bigger team, if so why?

At the moment yes - bigger crowds, more financial clout. Over history no - you've won more trophies.

Of course! I'd like to think!

5. Pandiani, useless?

The jury is still out IMO. I don't think we've seen the best of him yet though.

Not at all, just needs to get settled into the system and take his chances when they appear.

6. Lastly, How do you think rovers will do?

15th place.

As my boss is a BRFC fan, i'd love to see em go down, just for the fun I could have, but they prob wont, mid table at best, same as us

Likely Injuries

At the time of writing Nafti is the only Birmingham City player who is out injured over the long term. David Dunn made his first Premiership appearance this season against Aston Villa today coming on as a substitute.

As for Blackburn Bellamy is a doubt and probably will not play, Gresko is also a doubt and Matteo is out till November. So it looks as if Shefki Kuqi will be called into action again alongside Paul Dickov or Matt Jansen.

Past Meetings

Last season there was a 3-3 thriller at Ewood in a game where Blackburn came back from a 3-1 deficit at half time. Overall our record against Birmingham at home is not great, as you have to look back to the season of 2000/1 in Division 1 when we beat them 2-1 at Ewood with a goal in the last minute from Matt Jansen. However the last time Birmingham beat us at home was in 1968 in the old division 2 (Now known as the Championship). Overall in all competitions we have won 39 games, there’s been 24 draws and Birmingham have won 40 times.

Former Rovers

David Dunn, Damian Johnson, Martin Taylor and Alex Bruce have all been contracted to Blackburn Rovers. David Dunn was a firm favourite with the Blackburn Fans as he helped us get promoted to the Premiership. He was sold by Graeme Souness for 5.5m pounds in the summer of 2003.

Players to watch

Birmingham’s top scorers this season are Heskey and Jarosik who are both threats. However Birmingham have only managed to score 7 goals this season (same total as Blackburn). Many would predict this game to be a boring 0-0 draw but that is what everybody thought last season and the game was quite the opposite! My prediction is a 2-2 draw in a well thought match.

Kevin Davies: I could do a better job as England target man than Peter Crouch!

Yeah in your dreams mate!

It should be harder. I'm able to win most games with 6 star difficulty (Which can be purchased with PES points) easily on PES 4.

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The difficulty would be good if the psp controls weren't so hard to use. Hopefully they update that for pes5 on the psp.

ps theres a pes5 demo for the ps2 in the official playstation magazine. Enjoy!

How? It says 29.99?!

The new autosidestep sure does suck, there is a way to turn it off but i don't know what it is in japanese.

Quote from sky sports:

"Hughes delighted with victory

Mark Hughes thinks the 2-0 Carling Cup win can kick-start their season."

Yes, well done sky

An interesting revelation from Lee on the official site.

We did not play 4-5-1 yesterday.

It was supposed to be 4-4-1-1 with Bentley in the "hole".

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Ah the Hole, the most useless position in the park, we might as well have played 4-5-1!

4-0 to Man U

I'm not too optimistic today after yesterdays performance

I thought the team played ok on the whole, I thought Savage was great at closing players down but yet again we lacked the ability to score goals and if we fail any longer we can wave bye-bye to the premiership. This is a stark warning for our aim for a draw mentality!

What is worrying me is that I have yet to experience any thrill or excitement watching Rovers under Mark Hughes.  Other than the Burnley games - and Ian Duncan Smith could be managing and those fixtures would still be exciting.

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You were excited during the 0-0 draw with Burnley at Turd moor?!

I've got we9 (pro evo 5) on psp, I'll get some video's for you if you don't mind dodgy quality and the quicktime format. It's a lost harder than pro evo 4, hard to score. I cant even win on 3*! Even 1* is more difficult!

Lol, it looks like something Anne Summers sells!