That's Goldie isn't it?

What, the Blue Peter dog? You might be right but I remember him/her as having slightly longer hair.

and if it is Nemo Slater_Scott, what on earth is he doing fronting Marillion? Doesn't he know his dad's out looking for him!?

No, its the Jaws toothed Drum and Bass star.

And No, the ever popular big scottish Dick isn't fronting Marillion anymore, thats why his dads looking for him.

I know that empty feeling well. It's not helped when you get reminded of it at least every other week either. I've kept fairly calm about it and laughed it off so far but i still feel it bubbling away inside (unless that's the parsnip soup I had for lunch) and one day it's going to blow.

You don't want to be around when that happens, Scotty, I'm warning you.    

most certainly not ... messy things, parsnips

Bloody hell, you just try and get a thread on track, and the usual suspects go and drive it off subject...  Might just have to rename it to "Does Parsnip soup make you fart"

currently listening to ryan adams esp the song so alive wich is just class.

P.s. can some one help me ryan adams released a song last year wich was a good un but for the life of me i cant think of it do ant of you lot know what it is

Summer of '69 ?

Dont you pay any attention Sox, Fleming and clive.. a couple of freeforalls just what this site needs!

No, it is NOT what this site needs..

What it needs is the official board opening up again.

Expect some sort of a crackdown in the near future.. probably just after we start winning again.

The Irish bloke with the wellies.

Of course Jim Davidson would be out of the question to replace Souness, as he'd offend Tugay, Andy Cole and Dwight Yorke within about 3 minutes of arriving.

Jim Davidson would refuse to be the manager due to the Wheelchairs on the front row.

some of the players that have been playing recently are reserve players at the best of times: mahon, danns, douglas, johansson, taylor.

Taylor played more games than Berg last season, and as many as Short.. and we kept a good few clean sheets.

The problem has been never being able to pick a settled side from one game to another.  

Of course Souness will sound miserable - he'd just found out a player he'd been chasing for weeks had turned him down.  Hence the "it feels like a kick in the @#/?" quote.   What do you want him to do, go around smiling like Yorkie..

<< Souness Managerial Record >>

Interesting..

Statistically almost identical to his record at Liverpool.

Souness Must Go?

Where is the logiic in that? Yes we lost a 3-1 lead, but was Souness the one on the pitcjh who lost it?

Oh please!

By all means, feel free to argue in favour of Souness - but this well-worn argument is totally stupid.

Was Brian Kidd on the pitch when we were stinking up division one?

Was Graham Taylor playing alongside Carlton Palmer for England when he was England boss?

Were they still culpable for the bad results?

Would having Todd and Short, available have made a difference to Souness' "performance" on Saturday?

Or even Ferguson, Flitcroft, Amoruso, Thompson, Reid, Mahon, a fully fit Jansen

Now financial restrictions mean we have a small squad, we cant afford to lose this many first team players.  I'd expect many other managers would be struggling as well.

you could and should have replaced that lastpost with

"you talk a crocl of crud rover6"

That is exactly what I was trying to say.

On another note, to anybody in the souness out camp, what would you propose we replace him with  We are not going to be getting a manager currently employed as we wont be paying compensation.

Which leaves us with a long list of already failed managers, and a few young wannabes.  - Tony Parkes, Glenn Hoddle, Howard Wilkinson, Luca Vialli or any other recently retired international don't exactly inspire.

I certainly dont think Souness is 100% perfect though, in my mind his biggest problem is his loyalty to his backroom staff who are definitely not up to the job.

He's never cut it as a top Premiership manager - and he still hasn't. If we survive this year and go on to better things, I'll change my view.

So you would rather replace Souness with the far more experienced and successful Paul Sturrock then

And Jack did (allegedly) persuade him. But KK came calling the day after and his mind was made up.

If I was in his shoes, I would've left as well, to be honest.

I've also heard many other rumours about that day, including one where everything was almost signed, sealed and delivered until one of the parties got a @#/? up phone call saying "do you know how much you have cost me you c***"

None of us will ever know the truth, but as Bryan said - if I was Shearer then I would have made the same decision. Move on, it was 7 and a half years ago and consigned to Rovers history.

Who knows what will make a good manager - personally I think its 95% luck... Tony Adams is struggling, Chris Coleman is flying, people such as McMahon will have to wait forever to get even half a chance.

Speaking of Jack getting it wrong, Kevin Davies anyone?

Grrrrr.... So we should have paid him 5 years of wages before he bothered to put even a half season of reasonable football.

INMO, Easily Rovers WORST ever signing, at least Grabbi put some effort in and had an excuse for being homesick.  Davies had played 300 miles away without complaining until he moved an hours drive from Ewood.

It was five minutes before Dallalighio was told that that wasnt the Webb Ellis Trophy

More Final Photo's

That Gregan fellow reminds me of Ian Wright... both annoying little shysters who play for scummy teams.

Seems our Kangaroo Jockey friends have been inadvertantly helping Jonny Wilkinson

Animal welfare campaigners are calling on Jonny Wilkinson to ditch the boots which have helped kick England through to the Rugby Union World Cup final.

Activists are angry the 24-year-old fly-half is wearing boots made using leather from kangaroos killed in Australia.

The conversion specialist uses Predator Mania boots by sportswear giant Adidas, with whom he also has a lucrative sponsorship deal.

Adidas claims the boots, which cost £120 a pair in the shops, are engineered to provide more swerve and accuracy.

Other sports stars who use Predator Manias include David Beckham and Zinedine Zidane.

But campaigners from Vegetarians International Voice for Animals (Viva!) claim the leather used in Adidas boots and others encourages the slaughter of millions of wild kangaroos every year.

"Three million kangaroo skins a year are exported from Australia and the vast majority are used to make football boots," said Viva! spokesman Graeme Wotherspoon.

"We would urge Jonny Wilkinson to boycott Predator boots and move over to ones made from synthetic alternatives."

The official number of Australian kangaroos killed - the quota for 2003 is 6.5 million - does not include the baby kangaroos who also die as a result, according to Viva!

Adidas said the cull of kangaroos is to control population figures and is closely monitored by the Australian Government.

Although to be fair, I don't mind league, it's union I can't stand.

Nah, leagues crap. They just stay in lines, running forward, lookin like a herd of elephants or something. Union is miles better, its a proper game, not a formation

As opposed to "RUN,KICK ,LIFT HIM UP TO CATCH IT,ALL PILE ON,WHISTLE FOR SOME OBSCURE PENALTY,KICK A PEN,KICK AGAIN ALL PILE ON PENALTY FOR GOD KNOWS WHAT ,OH ITS TO FAR WE WILL KICK IT OUT AGAIN?"

Hope they win but union is defo egg chasing.

oops i missed kick it out again,lift him up kick it out again

missed stuck up buggers too ie.harry and his free hospitalty packages....bet he didnt queue up early to get his ticket for the final

How can YOU criticise any form of rugby when you follow the Homosexual American version.

Stop, start, watch it on video, get the coach to look in a play book, spend 14 hours putting on all the soft padding, make the game last 4 hours with no action.

I've played the game for the last 25 years and it's a hell of a lot more fun to play than football, especially if you're my size

Which is why at school the ball players played football and the fat oafs played rugby.

I thought the only sport when you were at school was Archery

Being drunk and falling asleep at a radiohead concert is probably a blessing in disguise.

In other music news, Busted have complained that being labelled a boy band is offensive.   Much like their music.

I was told by Bellamy11 and T4E that they said beacuse they write their own songs, they are a rock band.

What a load of crap, they're pop #### and the sooner they disappear the better.

If they are a rock band then let them play the Leeds festival or next years Download festival, if they are really serious then let them appear at the Bulldog Bash.  It will be worth going just to chuck bottles of p1ss at them.

Being drunk and falling asleep at a radiohead concert is probably a blessing in disguise.

In other music news, Busted have complained that being labelled a boy band is offensive.   Much like their music.

I don't want to tread on anybody's toes but how's about a poll on whether we should have a poll?

We would need 25 people to write a letter demanding a poll first, and then a vote of confidence in the leader could be made.

I'm sure I read that somewhere...  

Oh yes, I've said it every game I've been to- including the WC Cup final!

Of course I'm a Celtic fan as well!

But not a Tim

do you enjoy the attention of being controversial or do you really believe the garbage you come out with?

Thats the most clear cut case of the pot calling the kettle sooty arse I've seen in a while.   Please have a point to your posts.

Having thought about it a bit more, I would like to see, any one of , Paul Sturrock (Plymouth), Gary Megson (WBA) or Iain Dowie (Oldham) take the reins at Rovers.

Yes, they would all do well at Division 1 level, but who do you realistically want to take over Rovers in the premiership and attract players of the calibre of Ferguson and Emerton because these managers wont.

For fans of Metal / Punk - may I take this opportunity to recommend Motorhead's box set "Stone Deaf Forever" that's just been released. 5 CD's, 99 tracks - 19 unreleased old songs - digitally remastered and all that caper. Cost £ 42.00 - cheap as chips if you ask me. Play loud and nothing will ever sound the same again.

You will never be happy until everybody owns a Motorhead album

I assume you will be HERE ON MONDAY