If we had a pacey hard working striker to complement benni we could be in for an exciting season. I cant see McCarthy and Nonda/Roberts as a partnership however.

There will be another ice age but if it is directly due to global warming is unknown. Its possible but they dont really know. It is true that if the gulf stream does stop however Britain will be alot colder. Alot of people think that changing sea currents are responsible for the melting ice in the arctic. One of the main things causing sea level rise is the expansion with heat rather that meltwater influx.

Im doing a course at university and an essay about other concepts of global warming as we speak. The earths history is riddled with climate shifts, during the medieval period a warm shift occured due to increased solar activity and is known as the medieval maximum. The Uk had a climate similar to northern spain. Then in the 18th and 19 century was the little ice age when the thames froze over. So the suns output is a major influence. Also humans produce about 7 gigatons of CO2 per annum, 7,000,000,000,000 tons. I know it sounds alot but this is just 0.03% of the entire volume of the atmosphere ans the worlds oceans absorb about 150 gigatons of co2 a year along with vegetation. Also CO2's ability to trap heat becomes saturated at a certain level therefore its ability to cause global warming is limited. Mars has an atmosphere of 90% co2 and is freezing. Also new studies show that carbon dioxide concentrations follow temperatures not vice versa. This is because as the earth heats up due to solar activity, natural cycles, humans or what not, the oceans which are the biggest influences on atmospheric co2 release much of their dissolved co2. So the hotter it gets the more co2 will be released by the oceans. There is alot of global warming propoganda which is used to promote political issues, and the climatic models used to convince us are just based off scientists guesswork. Did you know in the 70's people were fearing another ice age! It shows how things change quickly. In my opinion humans have very little influence over climate change and most of it is natural. We may possibly be influencing it by a small amout however. This infomation should NOT be used as an excuse however for people and industry to carry on polluting and harming the environment. Cleaner fuels should be researched for the sake of the environments health if not global warming.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrado_Grabbi Answers most of our questions about him. I feel sorry for him, i thought he played alright whenever I saw him play, if hed have got a couple of goals early on mabye hed still be with us. Had an awsome scoring recods for a couple of seasons in italy!

Keep them both. Have faith Roberts will come good whilst Nonda adds depth to the strikeforce. Nonda wont be expensive as roma clearly dont want him that much. A tugay replacement or a right back are the only weaknesses in the squad that I can see, but even that is uncertain with Mokoenas recent display. Cant ever see Bert being a decent right back though!

So what do people think? Stronger upfront this year or last year? Bellamy is a better player (in my opinion) than any of the current forwards we have, but we have a much stronger striking squad than last year. McCarthy, Nonda, Roberts and Derbyshire is a better all round package than Bellamy, Dikov, Kuqi, (who was the fourth?) What would you rather take, the bellamy influence or strength in depth?

Considering he hasnt even been playin in his natural position this year he is replacable. I wonder what reception a loan offer for wayne bridge would meet.

I dont know if this is true but I saw in the Newspaper the other day, Cant remember which one that Darren Clarke has got a new girlfriend only months after his Wife died. Struck me as awfully soon to be "in love" again!

I have an iPod video 80gb, and u can download games for them off iTunes but they cost a fiver each. Does anyone know of any sites that have free iPod games available?

Does anyone have any tips for tackling better. My mate tackles so accurately but never slides, just makes his players stay so tight to mine like glue, no matter what trick or direction I go. Its so hard to break down, but all he says he does it hold square and X (Im sure he just dusnt wanna say). When I do the same opposition players just seem to run through me or past me with a crap effort of a tackle. Are there any tackling guides about?

Also while were on the movie theme, I have the film sin city on my hard drive and it used to be fine but now when I play it in windows media it plays like its on fast forward with loads of bits missing, and on div x player plays at the right speed with no sound. I tried messing with the speed settings on windows media but no success. I copied n pasted the same file to a friends pc and it runs fine. Anyone have the answer?

Hey, does anyone know of a programme that copies DVD films onto your hard drive into a single file. I have done it with other software but the copied or ripped dvd is in numerous different files within a folder. Whats the fastest way to rip dvds into single files. Thanks Ben

Beckham would walk into our team if not on the right wing then in the tugay role. The sponsor and fan base money hed bring to us would be huge, remember his chinese following! It will never happen though!

It just been revealed that West Ham are the latest club to be on the verge of a take over from wealthy investors. Is anyone else worried that so many premiership teams are being bought out such as Portsmouth, Villa, Chelsea and west ham, all of which Bar chelsea were on a similar or lower level to rovers, that we will have to look for investment to compete for to upper reaches of the premiership. With no seemin interest, and being honest, Blackburn as a town isnt as attractive as a london club, it doesnt look likely. I would be all for investement but i know others are against it. What are your thoughts?

£2.5m for Shefki 'No Touch' Kuqi is mega bucks. Replaced him with a all round better player in Nonda, were £2.5m up, less wages and a stronger team. Whats the problem. Sparkys eyes must have lit up when he saw that offer. Kuqi was one of the lest technically giftet premiership players i have ever seen! Were Ok at the back for now until neill leaves, Pretty good upfrot with the same midfield that got us 6th last season. Spend abit in january on an attacking midfielder and were flying.

great news. Roberts and McCarthy Upfront is certainly a Powerful forward line that will cause teams problems. Hopefully with a full Pre Season under him Jeffers can weigh in with afew aswel. Has anyone got any scoring stats on McCarthy? I wonder if this will be our last signing of the summer. Still think we need a creative player.

My Fm 06 is not easy at all, infact quite the opposite. I am real betis who are like Englands Tottenham i suppose, with some great players but no where near good enough to challenge for the title. I am in late 2009 now, and have made progress every season, but as yet I havent won a single trophy. Finished 2nd Last season n got to 1st knock out round of the champs league where Man U beat me and went on to win it! In Spain Athletico Madrid seem to win everything, done the double like 3 seasons in a row now. Anyway think i may be in with a great shout of the title this season. My Fm is not easy, have to make progress step by step, no winning title in 1 or 2 years unless your a top team like Barca or Man Utd. P.s. Bargain of the Century, Striker Fred, 25 years old, Brazilian Striker from Lyon, worth £31m, on a free transfer!!! Awsome.

Oh my god! 4 strikers, 2 unfit, One never even played in prem and the other is Crouch!!!!!!!!! Andy Johnson??? Above Defoe and Bent the leading english scorer in the premiership! What???????/// How???? Hes not even scored that much in the Championship! I dont understand? Whats he thinking?

Does anyone know here Grabbi is nowadays, cant find much info on him. Was just wondering!

OMG thats shocking!!!!

Any decent photos of the new kit from todays game?

Dont know if this has already been posted but says on here that next seasons kit will be work this weekend against City. http://www.rovers.premiumtv.co.uk/page/New...~825485,00.html

-------------Robinson-------------- --------Ferdinand Terry-------- Neville---------------------Cole-- ---------Carrick Lampard------- Beckham------------------Cole -----------Gerrard------------ -------------------Owen--------- Sorry about dots but dont know hot to get it to show the formation instead of lining it up along the left hand side

Does anyone else find the new game stupidly hard?? I had a good first season with Blackburn finished 7th, got into europe. Since then i cant buy a win, almost got relegated and sacked second season after scraping through with about 4 games left despite a better squad. Third season, after only a couple of additions such as Sinema Pongolle and a creative midfielder and an awsome damien duff on season loan (I heard its bad to keep changing the squad) I had a promising start, but again the results have just dissapeared, and now dropping like a stone, and no tactics, squad changes seem to make any difference. Almost as if its completely out of my hands and its up to the computer to decide results. In comparison i won the Champs league with blackburn in about 5 years on the 2005 game. A huge difference in difficulty.