I'd only be saying similar things to others who posted in this topic but Mark Hughes is the manager of BRFC now and the board have to give him his full backing and if Hughes feels that Tony has no real proper role in the new regime building, then so be it. I know Tony has been a terrifice and loyal servant to the club but nothing lasts forever and we can only thank him for his service and not curse the club for making a decision based on fact.

Yet seemed to be building up a great understanding with Stead and 'tutor-student' kind of partnership. Talking about players after a chance for the first team (Gally) I hear Neil Danns has returned to Ewood to force himself into the first-team, anyone think he can?

Despite the recent determination to earn a draw and the fact we got one of those penalty-things we've heard about at other clubs, the fact is we have to be beating sides like Norwich and Man.City. Once again Paul Dickov seems to be the only forward proving himself and getting goals but we desperately need a victory and to stop going a goal behind and giving ourselves more work to do. Some may not like Rodney Marsh but he did actually hit upon a few things. We may have been fighting and earning a few draws here and there but we are still a very dissapointing side and we need victories.

Actually DUH

He was the one who got drunk with Kev Davies on the night before our 0-0 draw with Man.Utd that relegated us in '99. Was he actually any good? Or is he in your 11 just because he never established himself into the first-team?

Man.City usually have a bad result after a good one, so taking into account they earned a draw at Old Trafford.....means a victory for Rovers! I'd have: Friedel Neill Todd Johansson McEveley Emerton Ferguson Reid Gamst-Pedersen Dickov Stead

Oooooooooo handbags! I bet cuidado's has a facepic of MGP embroided into it

Well obviously

She's pretty hot!

Shame Andy didn't score

Is it safe to believe you like MGP?

I did earlier. I think it was Reid he brushed off, yes?

Actually I think Fettis had two games under Kidd during the relegation season and played quite well. As for Rovers worst player in terms of pure ability, I will back-up claims that Grabbi actually did have some good skill but it just never worked-out for him. Egil wasn't too bad. Surely the award goes to Darren Peacock or Dominic Matteo.

Basically I think Souness balanced it out in terms of positives and negatives. Granted it was an utter disaster last season but at least he managed to get the team sorted out (of course a lot of the credit actually going to the players) to get a little end-of-season run together to avoid relegation- although we should never of got into that position in the first place. Souness deserves a lot of praise for inheriting a miserable side back in 1999, then managing to get us promotion and establish us as a Premier League team again. Of course then he deserves equal criticism for clashing with so many players and letting quality like Andy Cole and David Dunn leave solely based upon personal clashes. Also, despite banking £20m+ from the sales of Duff & Dunn we never used the cash to great effect. Players like Lorenzo Amoruso and Dominic Matteo destroyed the tough, gritty defence we had built up in past seasons. But this is all in the past now and we should just focus our thoughts on our current manager and just remember the good times under GS.

Well I think part of the Gally-fans will be pleased that Bothroyd faces a suspension. Surely Gally will feature now?

Going a bit far aren't we? Every player makes mistakes and think if Sir Alex had sold Keane because of 'mistakes'. I think Bothroyd will learn from this- he has to- and I heard he was actually posing Norwich quite a threat (in a footballing sense ) before going a complete idiot.

Blackburn manager Mark Hughes was delighted with the commitment of his side following their 1-1 draw with Norwich. Despite being down to ten-men following Jay Bothroyd's sending off - Blackburn came from behind to level 1-1. "Obviously at that point [the sending off] you fear the worst, you cannot do that no matter if you are the victim of a nasty tackle you cannot lash out on a football pitch," said Hughes. "But to be fair second half the lads were superb and on chances in the second half I thought we shaded it and that was with one less man. "We had great energy and two or three weeks ago we could not have sustained that, so we have shown how far we have come. "The determination and commitment meant we deserved it."

Yeah not a bad result and good spirit to come back.. Can't help thinking what could have been if Bothroyd hadn't of been such a fool..

1-1 Dickov

Nearly knocked Reid out when he scored against Liverpool last week.

1-0 to the Canaries..

Is it just me or does Bothroyd look like the guy from N.E.R.D. ? Got his attitude too

Apprantly McEveley has just hit an appauling pass and gave it away with Norwich nearly scoring as a result.

Can't be any worse than Neill..

Bar Short- biggest blessing of the season. I find it quite hilarious how the media will portray us having defensive problems on reflection of Amoruso and Matteo being injured