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YOu know, I'm OK with this for a bit, anyone who may pay attention to any of my posts will remember I mentioned th eonly way I can see Kean making it is with an experienced #2. Will they or won't they (the owners) allow him to bring in his own assistant. If we judge this man's character as we see it then he is not going to bring in anyone that can out shine him. So hope fully it will be the owners telling him here have some of this.

Now there's a surprise

That looks good. But then again trailers always do.

Anybody into this band, loving them myself, best thing from these shores in a long time. Coming to your shores before they play Arizona, so anyone who goes a report would be good, PM me.

And we still go on about Neill, will we ever let this go?

Echo is about right.

Not Pro Dunn at all and was very leery of him coming back but to be fair to the lad he did have some really good games last season. I've read a lot of this persons crap about Dunny and he simply can't do enough for them yet the same person who finds fault in everything he does is quick to dismiss any compliments Dunny gets as coming from a "pro Dunn Camp" Sick of hearing your diatribe actually, grow up, admit you were wrong and give him stick on an off day and credit for when he does well, you might just be a little more relaxed in life

Eddie I do believe you have missed the most important part of abbys question. Who would you replace him with? 7th Place and you want to sack him, close enough anyways, bit silly really.

Mmm, we have several players that were "not good enough" for their former teams and they seem to be doin OK at Ewood. So your statement SG194, are you saying then you have 100% trust in the Barcodes judgement of players? I am not saying we sign him, not advocating a duffers come home campaign, just saying we should not be so quick to rule it out without our own evaluation from our Manager and coaching staff. If they deem it worthy of dropping a few bob on him then I'm with them. If not then I trust their judgement in that too

Definately worth a gamble, if the monies are OK. Could he be any more disappointing than MGP has been this season, could we rekindle some of what he has lost. The career destroying machine that is Chelsea FC screwed him up. They sign the best left winger in the country and immediately start playing him on the right, I see even at Newcastle, Duffers is on the right. I don't think he has LOST the ability to take on his man I think it was just coached out of him at Chelsea, now may just be a confidence thing. Another thing I feel is that the lad has lost the joy of playing, that he does not love his footy anymore, another side effect of Chelsea I think. I am sure Sparky and his crew could bring back that passion. Worth a shot, but not for a King's Ransom

I can't believe we are still on about Neill, he's long gone and it's about time we got over him.

I was one who defended Souness almost until the end. On reflection I think a lot of that had to do with the Promotion and the Worthy cup win. His charisma also, I think, had me fooled too. The confidence with which he speaks is very alluring. His whole persona has a way of making you think he is something special, thankfully Fat Freddy fell into the same trap I did. Having had time to ponder and look over what he did my views have changed a bit. Again on reflection, Jansen tragedy aside, he sold two of our "crown jewels" on he got his hands on some of the funds and made this team his own, well that's when it went tits up. I am sure as I am sitting here had he not left we'd have gone down. Thank god for Sparky and Fat Freddy.

Yes, I did actually manage to stay awake the whole 90. Oh and if Beckham gets the nod ahead of our David I'll be miffed. I think Bents did enough last England game to have earned a second opportunity.

One way of looking at it. I had not thought of that.

Quite possible, though Samba has had a little distraction of having a child, or his wife has. Time will tell, I think Samba's done alright of late, Nelsen, don't know who that is out there with his name on his shirt.

I wish we could all just move on and leave Lucash in the past, the history books. An average performer who saved his best performances for pre contract seasons. Let's move on people.

The boy Barton needs some serious couch time Is it true Allardyce told him he should be doin a good stretch in between games

Wondering if Gamst is a bigger problem that we think, seems like a few players had a bit of a go at him today.

I had not heard about the pre contract agreement but there are some that suspected Mourihno was doing this to force the hand of one of the big clubs in Europe. Of course the FA have Drug their feet long enough to let this happen. We will see. Looking at Chelsea early on is/was Jose really the man for the job? Don't know.

Huh??? Did'nt Croatia just turn us over TWICE. It is winnable though we should be inspired by a desire to get revenge on the Croats. The FIFA Gods have been reasonably kind. Now it is up to us to cock it up.

And that is too bad it really is. I was hoping for great things from Keane, not because I like him, simply because if he had any kind of success he would have leap frogged Sparky in the when Ferguson leaves sweepstakes. I think he has spent unwisely, too much money on players simply not good enough at the Prem level. Oh how's that much touted Chopra doing, is he injured or something.

Did not realise he was THAT old.

Great shout, never entered my mind I just thought him too old now, what has he been up to?

Interesting rule, it's called home grown but it really is not specifically targeted at home nation talent. All it means is if you sign a foreign player at 18 and keep him on the rules are met. Or your foreigner has to have been at the club for three seasons. Does it favor the big clubs again? possibly, I mean they can afford to keep "qualifying" players on the books for that specific reason. So the limitation, in a nutshell, means that any club could not go out and sign any more than 16 Foreigners to play immediately, or for three seasons. As for Bents, he simply falls into the association side of the rule. If my interpretation is correct. Also, if the player is English he still falls under the same rule umbrella? For example, a 16/17 year old Wayne Rooney would have been ineligible under these stipulations. Lastly, does this now mean all players must be at least 18 years old, the wording is not too clear, do they have to have been registered for three seasons between the ages of 15 and 21 or does being on the clubs books since 12 or 13 count?

Based on what he has done at Watford that's not a bad shout, the man certainley has the passion about him. He's gelled a bunch of mis-fits there, oodles of fire and personality. Somehow I think his lack of top flight experience will rule him out, beside I sort of have my eye on the guy for next boss of Rovers when Hughes moves on.