Hey SR... Is that the pub you were asked to leave last time I was up north ?

Im also going to the Boxing day test, Days 1 and 3 so any rovers supportes in town would be good to meet up...

Not at all confident.. so lets go a positive option 0 - 0... clean sheet AND we go through

Any one remember the 5 - 1 victory there late 80's.... someone hit me in the head with a housebrick when the 4th goAL WENT IN... OH HAPPY MEMORIES... i think

same result would be good!

while a win away would be nice, Id be happy to get a solid unbeaten run together, nice little 6 or 7 games unbeaten.. so I'd happily settle for a draw... I'll go 1 - 1... Lucas Neill (well why not)

Much as I respect what he has done to raise the profile of football over here in Oz..

LES MURRAY... you are crap as a commentator... please dont do it again

totally (well almost) off the topic but with bolton having to play brum twice in their last 10 or so games reminded of the promotion season (80/81 ?) when we played Bury in our last 2 games of the season.. won away 2 - 1 (to gain promotion) then lost 2 -1 at home.... cant remember how it worked out that way but we did have a decent cup run that season..

its on at 10:45pm on SBS.....

originally SBS had planned to show both semis live with no delays, guess they didnt think it would be a stupid kick off time in the UK so now they are delaying it by 2 hours, im guessing so as not to clash with AFL, NRL etc on the commercial channels

okay im feeling hopelessy optimistic..... (6 pints at lunch) so 2-0 to the blues

who cares who scores

must have been the crap beer you guys were drinking, i stuck to the trusty VB all night and felt right as rain.....

look foward to catching up with you all again

okay the kick off time is pathetic EXCEPT for us based down in Oz who usually get treated to 2am or 4am kick offs..

semi will kick off 9:15pm on a saturday night down here, and its live on normal (ie not pay) tv, couldnt be btetter

every cloud has a silver lining as they say

last train is around 1am so its kind of irrelevent unless you leave at half time...

first train sunday is around 7am so that will be the one for me...

I fully intend to last the entire night and happily weave my way home at around 6 am after the bolton norwich match.... so its a question of pacing myself carefully... oh sod that, lets just go hard

PG

Lats time i was there it was pretty much all CUB with a few irish /english ales thrown in (tetleys and killkenny spring to mind)..

anyhow Ill proabaly watch the liverpool match there on thursday morning so will give afull update on beers by friday !

okay boys

8 pm it is, should be a great night.

rovers shirts are manadatory i think

blueboy...

dont suppose you can bring a tape of the burnley match(es) back with you ?? we could even get the charles dickens to show them as a warm up for the arse game...

Im feeling quite confident about this one..... so 0 - 0 it is

Im getting very, very nervous about this one now...

to put it simply WE MUST NOT LOSE.... the score, I dont care.

SR....

keepers arms is a good choice but unfortunately if Celtic have a game live that night it will be shown instead as the Celtic suppoorters club meet there... pretty awesome sight mind you, walking into a packed pub where EVERYONE has green and white shirts on (except me)..

My suggestion would be the Charles Dickens in the CBD.... Other suggestions are welcome (but not the casino)

bobby svarc or joey craig.... both a real let down in the late 70's when rovers almost broke the bank to sign them... craig was an international in a good scotland team as well...

could think of dozens of others...

we need a win desperately ... so an optimistic 1 - 0, don’t care who scores

not optimistic. 1 - 1

Earlier in this thread it was mentioned about rovers attendances, while we aren't great, lets not forget all clubs go through good and bad patches, its based on a multiple of things, not just performances, for gods sakes some clubs attendances go up when they get relegated... you know the situation, poor performances in relegation season, suddenly a burts of optimism when they go down, cus of a few good signings and its all sweetness and light again..

As for ups and downs, does anyone remember a friday night match at chelsea ? just over 7000 attendance in the mid late 80's (Faz''s record appearance in rovers shirt ) as i said things do change, fans are and can be very fickle... it isn't just small town clubs !!!

Just for the record speedie scored a cracker from 30 yards for chelsea !