Finally, my Rovers shirt (with Dunn's name on the back) is up-to-date again except for his old number. Well, never mind, I'm very happy with his return.

i can't wait any longer for the new season. this is a massive signing and i didn't really believe that we could get someone like bellamy. as mentioned before, with bellamy and stead, that could have been a great partnership upfront. but i'm just happy now anyway.

first game against sunderland at ewood. stead to score a hat-trick

i just finished to read 1984 by orwell. great book. has anyone read american psycho? even better. looking forward to reading how to be good by hornby.

we will lose 2-0

when we were 1-0 up i really thought we would win this one with our great defence, but now i'm really disappointed.

it's quite funny to see gers supporters' real problems.

i think we'll lose this one. the baggies really need the 3 points to still have the chance of survival. we have just assured our pl place next year. i don't exactly know how motivated our lads will be for this one. though i still hope for a win.

I'm pretty confident about this one (after the palace game). i think we will win 2 - 0. would like to see a 4-4-2 again for the last 30 mins. stead and gally (if he's fit) together once again. tugay will probably show us why we will need him for the next season. (got a feeling about that)

I think/hope we will beat them 1-0. MGP to nick the winner, although I'd really like to see Stead on the scoresheet again. MH will motivate the team for another crucial game which could save us for sure. 

My first correct prediction (yeah!), although I have to admit, this one wasn't too hard.

I think/hope we will beat them 1-0. MGP to nick the winner, although I'd really like to see Stead on the scoresheet again. MH will motivate the team for another crucial game which could save us for sure.

we somehow always seem to play better against top teams. so i'm not really confident about this one. i don't dare doing any prediction.

We've got a solid defence now, but our strikers and attacking moves are terrible. A draw would be the best result we can get. Hoping that Stead will start and bring in some young spirit.

2 - 0 ManU

I'm very disappointed. In the first half we played some decent moves and Arsenal couldn't put a string of passes together. I thought If we are to win this one, we should score now. But we didn't. How should we? With Dickov upfront and mostly just little support there's no chance to score against Arsenal - and even their "reserve team". With Dickov it won't come good in the long run. Actually, I don't really look forward to seeing him on the pitch again. (Bellamy got his first hat-trick at Celtic).

Pedersen did some nice moves and passes, but in the end I thought, Rovers never really believed that they could get something out of it.

I somehow think we will beat them 2-1. MGP and Stead to score the goals.

But if we beat them on Saturday, then I will be quite hopeless. I don't think we will win against Arsenal twice within such a short time.

Two new purchases yesterday:

The Apostate by Luceferion

and

Warnings/Promises by Idlewild

Lucky guy. I still have to wait for the Idlewild cd, because over here it will be released next month.

Sounds like you like it.

I totally agree with Drummer Boy. GS did a lot for this club. I just think, that we should have separated a little bit earlier. He couldn't do more for us, he took us to the limit of a partnership between brfc and gs. but he definitely deserves some credit here!!!!

There are so many that I really hate. But these are the ones that came first to my mind:

- Jose (yes, he's really arrogant!!!)

- Blatter (corrupt and always some new strange rules he wants to introduce)

- Diouf (eh?)

- Cristiano Ronaldo (as said before, nancy boy and therefore not robust enough for the pl)

- the national teams of Brazil and Germany.

- ........... and many more

Yes you're right. It was quite embarrassing for Young Boys to lose against My Pa.

My local team is Young Boys Berne (YB). I used to go to the matches when I was a little boy. And now I started to do that again. Like this I can see some live football games for little money. They will have a new stadium this summer because of the Euro 08 in Switzerland/Austria. The whole town of Bern is really excited about that.

There are always teams that you like more than others. I actually dislike almost every big team all over the world and I like to see them beaten by a small club. e.g. last year I really hoped that Wisla Krakow would kick Real Madrid out of the CL-Q. I was once in Krakow and really liked it there.

But there's no way that another team could stop me from my love and affection for Rovers. Rovers will always be number one

Oh gawd I hope Hughes manages to string together a good team come summer - one that can push for Europe (UEFA cup). And that Rangers fail to qualify for CL and get to meet Rovers in the UEFA cup.......and get a decent bashing! Should shut him up for good 

Let's just win the FA Cup and then we're in Europe. Just as simple as that

5 looks most likely to me. But I'm still hoping 4 will come true.

This is my first prediction on the messageboard. So I have to start optimistically on this one.

2 - 1 Rovers

Savage and MGP to score