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Have two World Cups gone by or one? Come on Mr Frenchie Intellectual, you do the maths. I really can't see it happening for him, he's been out almost as long as Collymore and he's talking about a comeback. Except no-one's taking it seriously as we all know he's cracked ...

How long is he going to keep trying to get back into football? We're talking about something that happened two World Cups ago ...

Isn't he signed up to Aspects of Love?

Think we'll lose 2-0. Another tern for zee vurst!

Will you please lay off teh guy, he is down to his last FIVER for goodness' sakes.

"they only offerred me £55K" The tightwads! How's a man expected to keep his dignity when he receives so insulting a salary offer? £55K/week is barely enough for the weekly shop at Tesco's. Footballers these days are living on the bread line and SOMETHING MUST BE DONE. Football has entered a new age of Dickensian wage slaves, toiling away day and night, 7 days a week, for a pittance.

If you want to do an opinion poll to see what the result of the general election would be, you don't ask the entire voting population who they'd vote for, you'd select a random sample. Granted, we do not have a random sample here, but there is an overwhelming majority in favour of packing the drummers off to the Siberian Philharmonic. Is this messageboard representative of such a skewed sample of Rovers' fans that such a reult can be disregarded? Does John Williams go out into the street with a clipboard canvassing the man in the street? Is that how he can disregard the views on here so easily? Or is he just copping-out? Maybe he should try sitting next to Cozy Powell reincarnated for 90 minutes, get a close-up experience.

Don't mean to halibut in but I can assure you down here in Dover we are not letting him have his sole back. referees need to be put in their plaice.

"Here, have an ice cream. Now #### off."

Jan sticks up for Todd because she likes his sexy sixpack. Jan sticks up for Todd because she likes his sexy sixpack.

Most people want them to eff off anyways, so I don't see the point in the big hissy fit. Just supposing everyone had their brains and ears removed and more voted for keep than don't keep then you pick the biggest sub-vote out of keep to decide what to do. It's only a bleeding messageboard vote, not Demond DimbleBumble Bee on General Erection night.

down the post office? on the dance floor? down the pub? on the croquet lawn?

Have to agree with Aggy about teh early crossing - what did they hope to achieve with it when the Chelsea defence was already in place? I seem to remember some comment somewhere (maybe I am imagining it) about the coaching staff encouraging ealr crossing. But here it just seemed like needless sacrifice of the ball, sticking it into the 6 yard box for its own sake. The whole performance seemed under-powered to me. They need to change their tablets.

Not a top flight goal, but it was the 91/92 season, home game against Leicester, Kevin someone or other, went on to play for the dingles. I can still see it bouncing off Mimms onto the dimgle and past Mimms for a soft goal. Top flight one, I'd say any Man Utd one!

Really unconvincing all-round against a at-times poor Chelsea. Is this the same side that finished 6th last year? Jeez, we don't look like it. At no point did I ever think we could score.

Will be working in Bavaria when the tie is played, whether or not they'll let me get the time off for it, I don't know. Train times are here: http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/e

Bong and a blintz? Cigar and a flapjack?

Er, think it should actually be: "You know what it is, you're just being flippant."

bang goes our unbeaten start to the season. :-(

I dunno, maybe teh coaching team can get hold of him and coach some hitherto unseen ability out of him. We could have the next Slim Jim Baxter/ Jairzinho/ Maradonna/ Geoffrey off of Rainbow on our hands. What is clear though is that having scapegoats is verboten. And that means no criticism of players! You're allowed allowed to pass comment on a player if you say that he is absolutely terrific, a World-beater and very nice to his Mum as well, of course.

Why is it when a Rovers player gets criticised some people's reaction is: "Rovers fans have always got to have a scapegoat". Why can it not be accepted that it is just an opinion. I mean there's no reason to have a scapegoat is there, there is nothing that's gone wrong for him to be scapegoated for, is there? I just don't rate Emerton as a player at all. I think he's just really ordinary, that's my opinion.

It doesn't follow that people who are good at picking players would be working in football. The only way to get into the industry is to be a half-decent player. Anyone who's in the industry but who isn't playing (agents, physios etc excluded) is a former player. I don't know maybe all us Emerton-haters have it completely wrong, and scuttling diagonally up the pitch and then turning round and passing it backwards or conceding possession is all part of some tactical masterplan, and repesents the height of football skill. If so, as someone not in teh game, it goes right over my head, I'm sorry to say.

What is it that you like about him so much, Brownie? The dead-eye 100% accuracy when shooting on goal? The touchline-hugging marauding runs? The dribbling skills which leave opposition defenders chasing shadows? He is the poor man's Stuart Ripley.

Duggie had his home phone number on the back as he could never remember it, and Ron had pi to 9 figures on his as he was always getting asked by school kids and it was always tripping him up.

Absolutely huge? More like gargantuan, enormous, rather jolly large, almost beyond the bounds of human mensuration.