That changes nothing from my reading of what he said. Words to the effect of " I'm happy here but if something else ( better ) comes along we'll see ".

I think it's known as " Flying a kite", you get one of your journo mates to release the rumour and wait and see what happens- Chelsea and co step in, it's your lucky day, if nothing happens you just deny all knowledge.

If he wants to go sell him, in the words of the immortal Bill Shankly talking about another player " He's got a heart as big as a caraway seed ", he's just used us as a stepping stone and his level of comitment has never been great to me. Darren Bent would be a good bet , younger, faster, as good a finisher and with a heart a good bit bigger than a caraway seed.

Did he come out at half time ?

Or Nelsen.

Only two ! What's wrong with his agent ?

Dead right, I couldn't care less where he's from or what colour he his, he could be from Mars as far as I'm concerned. He's alienating the Rovers faithful because of his attitude pure and simple. The reason most people on this board idolized Bellamy and Jansen wasn't because of their ability alone it was because they were prepared to bust a gut for the team,

I saw that pen in the Charlton- Wigan game, absolutely ridiculous, it's 0-0 five minutes from the end of a relegation dog fight, a ball is knocked into the box, there's a bit of a challenge , a Charlton player falls over and the ref gives a pen ! In that circumstance he's effectively given one team three points, in my opinion at that stage in the game the referee has got to be SURE it's a pen and not just think it might have been ! Saw in the paper at weekend we're leading the penalties list in the premiership, 10 against and 8 for in 31 games - ridiculous.

Watched Mc Eveley playing for Derby on the goals programme, he's not got any better has he ?

First tackle a sure booking, you can't go in like that in todays football, really stupid thing to do. The second one was harsh, I thought both players were holding each other- if we would have had the ball and made that pass at that point we would have probably got the free kick, that's how it is with modern referees, he just gave it to the attacking team.

I don't know wether he'll go or not but quite a few of our rivals will have plenty of dosh to spend in the window. I'm thinking Portsmouth, Villa, Everton , maybe City, Tottenham ,maybe even West Ham, there'll be plenty of interest.

Phil, Ooijer broke his leg a while ago not 5 hours before the transfr deadline. !

Report in todays " Observer " - " Blackburn blocked a £1 million Wigan move for Andy Todd just five hours before the transfer deadline" ! Just what is going on ?

John Coddington, worst penalty taker ever seen at Ewood, 40 yrs later I'm still chuckling !

Yeh , I can see how he gets injured as well , his commitment is tremendous and he seems to go for balls that aren't really his. He gets more of these than his share but is exposing himself to unscrupulous opponents putting a sneaky boot in.

Mokoena? he used to captain South Africa !

It would be foolish to play any of the returnees tonight, it's no way to start a comeback on a treacherous pitch.

I agree with most of what has been said about Gallagher but I also think he's a natural finisher, he senses where the ball is going and is good at getting on the end of goal mouth chances' he's also got a cool head in front of goal. However given the way we ( and most premiership teams ) play these days he's never going to get the chance to play alongside a good target man with two wingers firing in crosses all afternoon, if he'd have played for somebody like Reading last season he would have got loads of goals. I'm afraid that style of play has gone out of fashion especially when you're struggling and Gallagher looks likea fish out of water playing in any other position at our level. We can't afford both Gally and Jeffers and of the two I just about prefer Jeffers.

For a tall guy his heading is woeful, he doesn't seem to relish the bodily contact that comes with making contested headers. Something needs to be done before the long ball to the far post becomes a tactic for all our opponents.

My information came from the article he ( Nelsen ) wrote in the programme for the Wigan game. The injury was so serious and unusual that Rovers couldn't find a football injury specialist to treat it, they had to go to Scandinavia to find a doctor who specialised in ski-ing injuries to get him operated on. Excuse my trepidation but that sounds serious to me- I'm keeping my fingers crossed but if the lad is back to top form before the end of the season I'll be mightily relieved.

You're wrong there Joey, Most teams had a Tugay-esque player in their team then. From our own Bryan Douglas, there was Jimmy Mac at Burnley, John White at Spurs, George Eastham at Arsenal, Johnny Haynes at Fulham, Bobby Collins/Johnny Giles at Leeds, Alan Suddick/Alan Ball at Blackpool, Jimmy Bloomfield at Birmingham, Ian Gibson at Leicester, Pat Crerand at United, Terry Venables at Chelsea- I could go on and on, names that may mean nothing to you but I would give my right arm for any one of them to be playing for the Rovers on Saturday. Another thing they played where the boots were flying in the opposition half not in the " Glory Hole" in front of your own back four.

Good post, you forgot that Sol guy from Wolves ( Korean or Japanese ),I think they paid about £1 mill for him, I'd have had him like a shot.

When you are due to play another team and you're trying to figure out who is likely to win a good way is to see how many of each team would make up a combined team, well here goes. I've played to a fair standard and watched more games than I care to think about over the years and I try really hard to be objective but I 've got say if you had a combined team from the early sixties and now only Brad Friedel and maybe Lucas Neill would get in it , If Ryan Nelsen was fit and on his previous form he would get in and Tugay would be good enough apart from the fact that you would have to leave out either Bryan Douglas or Ronnie Clayton to fit him in. The rest of the present team would be no where. Would any other romanticists who have actually seen both teams like a go? Just a point- In 1963-64 First Division season Andy Mc Evoy scored 4 goals in one game twice as well as 3 hat tricks, Fred Pickering just made do with 3 hat tricks before he left for Everton ( got a hat trick on his debut for them though ), but then again you can't really compare can you ?????????????? We don't have that many SHOTS in about 5 games never mind goals !

There's still nothing like that walk from the station up to the ground, even now the feeling as you approach the ground is great. I loved the old ground but nothing's forever and facilities wise the new ground is superb. Things I miss are standing by the low wall on the Riverside, being able to change ends at half time, the cantilever stand at the Blackburn end. Hopefully when I go to the great changing room in the sky my ashes will be scattered in the goalmouth at the Blackburn end.