broadsword

This thread really should be locked as it's just one man's elegy to his bessy mate and contains very little debate of merit. You are one seriously irritating prat. Have you got nothing else to say other than to mount a one-man Pedersen-vigil on this 'board? Out of 138 posts you've made, EIGHTY-SIX have been on this topic. And all of those have been ill-thought out rants. Language Timothy - Flopsy

And what is a pre-accusation? Something you do before accusing someone? I was hazarding a guess that you'll criticise Hughes if he does anything less than give "Gamst" 90 minutes action per game regardless of how well he actually plays. I based this on your pathological desire to criticise Hughes, and anyone who supports his stance that Pedersen will get his chance when he's ready. You really are a grade 'A' muppet.

Losing the will to liive here ... will we have to put up with this until he is a regular in the first-team or is sold? If Hughes brings him on as sub, will he be slagged for not bringing him on earlier? If he substitutes him, will he be slagged for not giving him more time on the pitch to prove himself in a game? If he gets injured, will the training regime be criticised? If he's played anywhere other than his favoured position will Hughes get slagged? I think the answer to all these questions is YES. I just can't see an end to this effing bl00dy whinging, it's quite maddening.

I'm despertae to amke a few sub appearances too, maybe I should give Sparky Marky Ewood Parky a bell?

Shouldn't you be renamed "thrush"?

This thread has what is known by engineers to be a poor signal-to-noise ratio. Is there any point to it?

It's good that you're pleased. Good.

Cuidado, you have more tittiness about you than the Daily Sport.

What sort of club is bonfire bonfire? Never heard of them.

NelsEn!

Didn't say he was a bad player, just that he was over-priced.

The Pope?

Wrong. I subscribed to the "consider Souness's future after the end of this (03-04) season". I do and did believe Souness made mistakes. I think the biggest being falling into the trap of excessive transfer activity. But I thought it would be suicide to sack him at the stage it was muted last season. Thankfully, he wasn't and Rovers didn't... drop into the championship. But surely it doesn't cause you personal turmoil to agree with me that Souness was tight-fisted over many transfers, at least as many (really more) than the costly ones? Let's get it right. Yes, I agree he was tight-fisted and signed us some bargains (Stead, Thompson, Friedel). He also cocked up big-time on at least a couple of transfers (Grabbi, Ferguson, Amoruso), in that he paid over the odds. Unfortunately, even though the number of disasters was far fewer, the amount of overpayment was sufficient to negate the good work he did on the (greater) number of bargains he signed. In retrospect he gave us three great years, then completely lost the plot. I was slow to see this as I was weighing it against his three good years of work. But I am very glad he's gone now and Hughes for Souness looks a pretty good swap right now.

Deary me, to have a pop at Brad when we have so many genuinely crap players more worthy of a salvo is bizarre to say the least. Poor bugger's had to watch shots salvoing past him like they're going out of fashion for two years, now he's getting it the neck.

I heard a rumour MGP split a nail in training and grazed a knee quite badly after being tackled in training (lot of mud on the knee apparetly). Can someone please confirm he will be OK? I hope there was a nurse on hand to look after him.

We live in hope, Waggy! Personally I don't think he's shown he's worth 7.5, what do you think? He's not a bad player, but not a 7.5 mill one. In hindsight it was a poor transfer, we could've restructured the team a lot better than we did after Duff went. Buying Amoruso for 2 mill was even worse though. Has anyone ever lost the plot as badly as Souness did in his last 15 months or so?

Would ratehr keep Brad and sell Ferguson. A 7.5 mill move to Newcastle sounds just dandy.

When will you shut you you maddening muppet! Go and screw a reindeer or something.

It's a hindsight/ foresight problem. Hughes has better foresight than anyone on here because he see Pedersen in training every day. But once he's been tried, everyone has equal hindsight. What would happen if Pedersen was a flop? Everyone would be quiet, or be saying that it's Hughes' fault he was a flop, because he didn't try him earlier. We're all (apart from Queer Daddo) eager for Rovers to do well, and we know that we lack creative influence up front, but it all strikes me as wish-fulfillment to say: "Try MGP". Does anyone seriously think that Hughes has a vendetta against MGP which precludes him from being selected even if he was dazzling as Victor Kiam's smile in training? Or perhaps Hughes doesn't know how to spell his name, so just doesn't pick him because it's easier than embarrassing himself by asking how it's spelt? Why let the simple explanation that he's not trying hard enough or cannot show the right attributes in training get in the way? OK, fair enough you need first team games to get first team fit, but if he hasn't got this then surely he would get a game from the bench if he was good enough in training? But he's not. I defy anyone of you to disprove that. Because none of you see what he's like in training. Of course the responses will be:"Yeah, but ..." and all that jive, but playing well for Norway guarantees nothing. He either pulls his spuds out in training or he doesn't play, anything else is compost.

That wasn't Kenny, that was Jimmy Sirrell, ex-Notts County manager. Let's get our facts right!

It may be optimism, but let's qualify it as cautious optimism for teh avoidance of doubt.

Not jokingly in trouble, then? Of course we are in trouble. I do recognise that, even a blind man wearing blinkers sat the wrong way round on a galloping horse going down a tunnel at night can see that. But so are 7-or-so other clubs, they're not all going to go down are they? Forget who we're playing, it's largely irrelevant. We have been making improvements, and we just need to sustain that general trend and we will escape. Even if we are in the bottom-three at Christmas, as long as we're not bottom, that simple truth stands. We could be fourth-bottom at Christmas and get relegated or third-bottom and not, or any other permutation, that doesn't matter so much as the general trend in form (as well as getting some decent players in Jan!) Relegation places are decided in May, not December. To panic about being third-bottom at Christmas is drama queen hysterics of the first-order.

Keane's going to Everton I think.

Eh? The only thing to avoid is being bottom on New Year's Day, being in the bottom three but not actually bottom is nowt to be worried about.

Another clean sheet and a point away - not too bad. Defensively we have tightened up. but we need to do better, and with teh window coming up, I'm confident we can, and will.