When is Sav expected to return.

Does it bother anyone else that we have to play Arsenal before the semi. For some reason it does me, perhaps I feel it will give them a better chance of sussing us out. We need a totally different game plan for each game, let's lock up shop for the Leaue game then go for the jugular in the semi. That will confuse 'em. Not as scary as they were but still very very good on their day They did struggle against notlob and Sheff U some perhaps we can get some joy from this. Still vehemently opposed to both the Semi and Final being played in Cardiff.

I don't undestand the fuss about the penalty either. There is no way it could have been waved off. Clear cut and just. MGP skinned the player by stopping the ball dead, player took him out. 100% penalty, no arguments. Also in agreement on the shout for Neill, nothing there. In fact if Neill had been concetrating on getting in there instead of how to win a pen we could have been a bit more comfortable. MGP sooooo unlucky with the free kick early on.

Thank you Colin

OK Then, and I'll bid you a goodbye. Enjoy your future visits to our fabulous forum. Fans Forum for East Lancs Premier Football team, still.

You are deliberately missing the point. Wherever I post I use the same name if available . I am not ashamed of anything I post anywhere. You obviously are afraid of the same transparency. Thanks Al I was looking for words like that. I do too, but mr steady knows that.

Aliases are only used by persons who have something to hide or be ashamed of. Are you afraid that your Dingle mates will not approve of your use of this site? I think it's more than that Al. If he is who I think he is then he is quite a scoundrel. Very hateful towards anything Rovers, clearly revealing his name would expose him to that. Credit to the ones that came on here under no false pretenses, one can always respect that. As for you mr steady, if I am wrong that's fine, if I am not then you really should seek some form of help, you have issues. The be all and end all of it for me though is, you have zero credibility so I'm done here.

Are you telling me your willy fell off or you don't vist any clarrot message boards. My guess is you are being evasive, in reality. If you can not reveal what you post as elsewhere then I can only assume you have much to hide. Me I'm USABlue, here, there and everywhere. Nothing to hide see.

Likewise you with the Rovers comments, I don't really think there was sarcasm in my post. Of course not ALL clarrots are the way I have described, only just about everyone I have ever met. Your embellishment of what I have written is a little irritating too, I don't think I said you were the MOST hated. Just that you claim to be "proper" fans watching a "real" team when if fact you act all aloof when dealing with fans who actually earn those titles. So maybe I am wrong about who you are, as I asked a long time before what is your clarrot handle, that will eliminte just about any doubt. I don't think you will reveal it because then I will know your true side, won't I?

Sarcasm being the lowest form of what?. Mr, look, if you ever took in what you read instead of applting your clarrot bias to everything you would understand fully that the majority of Rovers fans are very concerned about our attendances. Where do you think the scoffing of yours originates? It's from years and years of your lot mouthing off about your support, youv'e been harping on about it as long as I can remember. Even when you were massive, well in the First Division, (oh that's right you were massive) you often only pulled crowds in the low teens of thousands. Yet even then you thought you were so frickin well supported. Sure you would get the big crowds for the big games but often times you had only 13-15,000 for the visits of the less attractive teams. Remember this was back before the days of live footy on the box. You still regard yourselves as something special, your not, get over it, drop your mythical beliefs and then perhaps the tone will change around here. Real football team you call yourselves, what is that exactly? You are an arrogant bunch living on the past glory of a couple of good seasons over 40 years ago, think about it, 40 bloody years. You scoff at teams fans who only a few short seasons ago you rubbed shoulders with them, you scoffed at them then, citing your "history" and massive club theory. It's why you are despised by many of the REAL proper football teams and their fans.

My American mate loves mushy peas. Has the canned ones sent to him but does not like them as much as the chippy ones. Ooops forgot Nelsen's a Kiwi.

Did I see that the clarrots only had 12K for the visit of Sunderland. Given that Sunderland would have brought a few I wonder how many clarrots were there. Funny to see too how they are calling Sunderland useless, they must be closing the gap on them as well. The Foxes will likely have their thoughts on us so perhaps the clarrots can win one.

Personally, I think the braggin rights are settled. We won, their away support was good but it was always going to be after a draw, they fancied their chances and wanted to see them beat us. However, the game is over and I thin that it is time to move on, even I have grown tired of this "rivalry" this time around. Come back when you are close . Or we had dropped to your level. For now it's on to the important things in life, like Everton this weekend and the NEXT ROUND of the cup. Premiership survivial is the most important but we are close to the final, all teams left, if we get past the rapidly closing the gap Leicester, are top notch. Our name on the cup for the SEVENTH (how many burnleys on it? with ALL that history must be a bunch ) time would be nice but not up there in the big scheme of things. Premiership survival then Hughesy to show the savvy he has in the transfer market thus far, but for a striker or two and we are good to go next season. On last spat at t'clarrots, if you think cotterill is so brilliant with his BORROWING of players what do you think of Sparky with his FREE transfer PERMANENT signings of the loke of Nelsen, 600K less than panicbuyi, must make you well sick. You RAVE about Cahill he's not close to Nelsen and he's not yours. THE GAP IS AS WIDE AS EVER, rock on agent Kilby.

Closing the gap rubbish. Teams over acheive and teams underacheive in the FA Cup it's what make the competition so great. Just ask Burnley they themselves should know as well as anyone having fallen to Non League Telford. They were also victims of one of the greatest FA Cup upsets of all time, First Division Burnleh losing at home to Non League Wimbledon. I don't hear Sheff U fans crowing about "closing the gap" on the Arse, or any of the other lower teams fans who did well against more talented opposition. Let's give 'em a break eh, sit back and smile, knowing it's all they have to cling to. It is a sure sign of how low the clarrots have fallen, time was a defeat to BRFC was just unacceptable, by any score at any level, now they are over the moon to have only lost by one. Pitiful really.

Obviously as a clarrot you'd love to play us every season cos that would mean you were on level pegging. You could make up stories about not hearing Rovers fans, how you outplayed us etc etc ad infipukem and do it every year. Personally I would take great great pleasure to see your club and it's fans suffer the same fate your "illustrious" butcher chairman Bob Lord bestowed on Accy Stanley. I would, nothing would give me greater pleasure than to see your team and it's stupid "once were a big club" fans disappear off the face of the planet. Once were a big club? You revel in a "history" that is non existant outside of a two or three year period in the sixties. Yeah, I'd like to see you in the pie and peas league, no peas hold the gravy. "Closest you've been to us in years" "the gap is closing" How fecking sad is it that a "once were big club" drools at the fact they only lost by the single goal to their most hated rivals (the ones THEY once scoffed at). It's a sign of just how pititful your team is, you boast of players with clarrot and blue blood, YOUR BEST PLAYERS ARE BORROWED. Your other STARS are now playing in the prem reserves for their respective teams. Bring back Stan the man, he had you in the running for two years straight, but agent kilby refused to back him, now you have rented ground, rented players but you think you are big time. Can't wait for the day the Stanley pass you. Any of you remember a non league wombles beating a first division burnleh a the Morgue. It was a cup match, would a realist say that the wombles had a better team, no, it was the cup things happen. Day in day out youd be mullered in this division. Later clarrots.

I think thats a fair quote Jim - the other game being a draw! It is, but at the rate we have been going it will take about 100 years for us to actually play 10 games. LS1882, those who say Burnley matched, or even more than matched in some cases, are on a par or slightly below the folks who think so highly of Savage in terms of Football knowledge don't you think.

No one has time to post about him American. After all the bad mouthing he got before we signed him everyone is now so busy eating humble pie they don't have time to post. Watch 'em come out of the woodwork with the "I told you so's" first time he makes a mistake though.

I am really starting to feel sorry for these clarrots. They are just mentally challenged I think. "The gap is closing" Now let's see. When we played Burnley at the Turf in 2000 they were above us in the league. Same Season at Ewood they were just a few points behind us. Now we are in seperate leagues the gap is closing, they just don't get it. They raise their game for their biggest matches in years but do little but defend. I suppose when you finally score a goal against your hated rivals you will feel a bit cocky. "Outplayed" us? Could some one please provide some stats in total from the two games. If out playing someone gets you beat 2-1 then may the clarrots outplay every team from here on out

Heading in the right direction? Good glad you think so. Let's see, you are 3/4 of a season on from missing relegation by 2 points. Your two best players you owned have been sold off. The best players you have now are on loan and unlikely to become permanent. You no longer own your own stadium. Just about all opponents fans you come up against describe you as "boring, "tedious" etc. Your attendance continues to fall. Credit to Cotterill he has made you hard to beat on a limited budget, that I am sure has not gone unnoticed. Given the loyalty he has shown i the past the first smell of a check book and he will be gone. Sorry I just can't share the optimism for your club. But that's just me.

What an aspiration, to be as good as us. You are proud of your team because the gulf between us is not as big as it was. Quite sad really. So the important thing to you is that you did not get hammered, I love it it's a clear admission by you of your inferiority. Funny, time was any defeat by Rovers was devastating, now you get a hard on if we do not hammer you, you lot really have slipped, I love it. I could not have wrote it better myself. Non stop singing? Hah. Not a bad stat? Not a good one either, it led to a loss which gets you nothing exactly. Now please return to your board under your real handle and be your true venomous, hateful self, I have grown tired of your holier than thou two faced stuff. I know who you are. For the rest of the clarrots, if the "gulf" has really closed that much why are you not in the mix for promotion. Now Preston one could say the gulf has closed there. You play out of your skin for two games, we play poorly and you think you have accomplished something what is it ? 5 shots at goal in 180 mins of football. You are proud of that? good on yah.

Totally untrue, you are stroking numbers, if you wish to go that route you should include Burnleh AND pendle, NO?. But that is all by the by, whether your population outnumbers ours 2-1 or ours outnumbers yours 2-1 is irrelevant. You scored 50% of the goals we did. You go home, we go on, glad you are proud, not sure what of. Sounds like your team are even taking football back to the 70's 10 men behind the ball, all defence etc. Anyway no need to go on about it, we have bragging rights till next time. But hey, you did score, something you'll be able to tell your grand kids. I wuz theyer when t'Burnleh scored agin 'tRovers.

Glad to be wrong, just got home from work missed the end of the commentary. Glad we won it I had a bad feeling about this one. Late goal I understand, good. On the bright side for the clarrots they did score, I suppose they will be erecting a Micah Hyde Statue outside the Morgue now in honour of their only goal in a quarter of a decade. Well done lads, dingles out put 'em down again without playing our best.

Why oh why Bothroyd? Where's Stead, where's Johnson. What if it goes to penalties who do we have BOTHROYD SUCKS BIG TIME. At least it sounds like he is now.

Yup! I am terrified, I think the clarrots are going to sneak this one.

The two are not mutually excluse by any means. Hope you have a nightmare tommorrow And for many nights after, reliving a defeat, recurring over and over and over.