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I'd rather see Matteo and Short.

Any two from Amoruso, Matteo and Shorto would do me fine.

So that's Dickov for £150,000, de Pedro for nothing and Matteo for nothing (but maybe some transfer budget will be used to pay his wages).

That's pretty good horse trading.

Now will someone PLEASE take Yorke off our hands. He's about as useful as an aertex johnny.

I can't see them having any problem getting rid of Matteo permanently.

Someone will take a chance on him ...

I'd much rather we got him on loan for a season first to try before we buy - like Babbel, for instance.

Ha ha!

Yeah, that'd go down a storm with Leeds. "We know you're skint, but do you mind if we have him on loan for a season? Whaddya mean 'get knotted'?"

I can't remember the last time I rose to the bait on here Tom!

The point about multi-quoting and inline pictures is valid though as it affects available memory on the server. More pointless photos, more pointless quoting = more memory used = more money to run the site. *

The sheer amount of cobblers talked on here has increased as well. It's a bit of a pain in the ringer to have to scroll through countless posts of dribble (not talking about funny posts here, talking about dribble!) Some will doubtless find it fun, but not me!

* Ooops, been ages since I sent any dough

I don't think that's the point though Tom.

To continue the pub analogy, there's some serious debate, some good laughs, then there are some people either trying to get the rise out of others (spoling for a fight?), or have had too many and are either just talking rubbish or are repeating things that were said 5 minutes before.

First of all, not sure where Kamy comes in Den? Unless Paul deleted his post!

First of all, I've turned my images off via Ikonboard settings because it's such a pain in the harris reading posts that are broken up by pointless bleeding images (looking at you, AESF!) I know what Tony Blair/ David Beckham/ David Blunkett look like FFS! I've just given up reading some people's posts because they're so long-winded or because I know what they're going to say. Perhaps other people have too, hence the problem. If there is a limit to the number of characters that can be displayed in one post, I think it could do with lowering!

Another bugbear, as stated above is multi-quoting, quite possibly the laziest sin ever. I can't see the point in it. If your replying to the imeediately previous post, hello!, you don't need to quote it! How thick/ boneidle are some people? Is there no way to parse someone's thread so that if tehy have more than two opening quote tags, they get stripped out (along with accompanying text) to just give one quote within a quote? Also, if someone just has one quote to compare the text contained within to the immediately previous quote and if it's the same/ similar, DELETE it. It's either that or full-frontal labotomies all round. Looking at some multi-quotes is like looking down the Time Tunnel.

As for declining standards, I think people will always look for ways to abuse the board. I don't think standards have gone down, it's just that people have found new ways to be stupid. It's certainly better than the Ranulf Westwood days, although we still have our share of wind-up merchants. Not enough to keep Adopted Scouser happy though, he likes a good barney, just so long as he's a spectator!

Should he accept a mind-boggling salary down at the Bridge and stab Liverpool fans in the back?

Why would it be stabbing Liverpool fans in the back?

That team has underperformed for a good few years, last year they finished 30 points behind the champion. Why shouldn't he consider moving on? He can't win much silverwear once he's retired.

As it is, it may well have been some of those nice death threats to his family that persuaded him to stay (although that could be tabloid BS).

Granted though, it should have been far from his mind during the tournament.

You mean do what Tottenham do?

Almost sign a top player to excite the fans?

you asked for this bri,go to all posts by a nember in your profile.

april 10 2004,17.40.

on page 18.

your quote starts

SOUNESS HAS TO GO,I CAN'T SEE ANY OTHER OUTCOME --------

That was after the Leeds game.

Seeing as you seem to be so conversant with my posts you'll probably be aware that not long after that I held my hands up and said "what do I know about football?!"

I'm certainly not denying I made those comments, but I'm sure that I wasn't the only one who was frustrated by the result against Leeds and lashed out accordingly. I haven't completely changed my mind and say "Souness must definitely stay", I'm prepared to wait and see how the new season goes.

Mind you, I don't know whether I bother arguing sensibly with you, you're clearly on a wind-up!

i do not like souness as rovers manager.

Nooooo, stop coming out with that daft talk, I don't believe it!

He's obviously rated by the board, so unless last season was an ominous sign of things to come (and I'm you believe it was), then Souness will remain in the job.

And you'll continue to whinge and whine. To no effect. And maybe throw in a few insults about "glory-hunting supporters who don't even live in Blackburn going back to support Man Utd and Liverpoo".

I thought Charlton were buying him for 5 mill?

Twaddle, we're talking about the world ganging up on us here, taking revenge for our great nation bestraddling the waves and teaching savages how to cook things other than their relatives.

They're jealous of our way of life.

So what do they do? They disallow our goals.

Tossers.

He doesn't want to go, we can't afford to sack him (he's on a very lucrative contract), therefore he stays.

Not a damn thing you can do about it!

And I think with the style of football he has England playing in, we won't play badly enough that his position becomes untenable. He'll certainly do enough to make sure he's fairly secure, but we'll still win s0d all!

Depressing, innit?

"In my sort of job, you can't afford to give many tosses about what people think."

Probably good job mate!

An 'orrible little man, who has ideas far above his station. Campbell that is, not Garner!

and there was me thinking he'd just done his shoulder in.

What was that a symptom of? Swine fever?

Nope, not at all.

It was some Swiss chocolate-munching cuckoo-shagging git with a fanny for a chin that did it.

Thank you Phil, I was beginning to tire of this "the ref got it right" nonsense about the laws of the game.

I still genuinely think it was a goal and we were stuffed because Johnny Foreigner didn't want us to win.

Only another 2 years and we can have another crack.

The problem with international tournaments is that if you screw up, you have to wait another 2 years to try to put it right.

Despite pathetic playground taunts from Revidge, I maintain that I support both England and Blackburn equally. There's no conflict, the two peacably co-exist.

And yes, I am still mega-flipped off about Thursday.

If you want to equate the emotions, losing to Germany in the semi's (twice) was as bad as screwing up in the play-offs with Rovers. Gutting.

I blame Tony Blair myself.

Is it the one where you get to wear a skirt and get to call Jimmy Hill a poof?

Sorry, I'm washing my hair that night!

Neither.

For all of these people that don't care about England, but care passionately about Rovers, let's have a hypothetical question.

Let's say England win Germany 06, how will you react? Personally, I think I'd probably drink myself to death, and generally go bonkers. Will you lot be joining in, or will you be sat at home with a sixpack droning on about how "winning a World Cup is alright, but it doesn't compare to Rovers beating Bolton on a wet Wednesday in November"?

Cant really say I blame the referee too much.

I DO! He's a bent GIT!