My prediction: 2 - 1 to the Rovers. Bellamy and Pedersen to score. Give 'em a good roughing up and we'll be right.

This article, you mean? I concur! That sums it up. He has some sort of crusade against us and has been so since I have been visiting the site since last season. Even now he will not even admit that we are winning nicely. Obviously he did not pick up on the commentators who said we were a real pleasure to watch against Charlton with our fantastic passing game. We were so full of confidence and running rings right around Charlton, making them look very poor.

I think it says it all that Jansen was named in the squad of 15 against Charlton. He still has a future at this club, at least for this season, but will need to bide his time. Kuqi came on today simply because he is the number three striker at the moment, but it is only a matter of time before Kuqi and Dickov do not show enough to warrant being ahead of Jansen, not being quality strikers who can keep the pace like Bellamy unfortunately, which will give Matty a chance that he needs to hold onto very tightly and capitalise on.

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My prediction is a win for Rovers: 2-1. Bellamy and Emerton to score, with Bent slotting home for Charlton. Attendance 20,001!

Oh, Lawrenson is another prick who I forgot to add to my list. I thought there was someone I forgot.

If what Jim J says is true - - then I can hardly agree. Such a comment transcends ordinary self-confidence or even ordinary arrogance. Mourinho espouses garbage that only a deluded man drunk on blinding arrogance is capable of procuring.

I'll have to conjure a new top five list. Some of those hatreds are now waning - at least waning out of my top five. Mourinho and Bruce are the only real permanent ones. Ferguson is a little nicer now that Hughes is our boss, while Roy Keane is getting on a bit. I don't see enough of Figo to warrant a constant burning hatred. 1. Jose Mourinho 2. Steve Bruce 3. Karen Brady 4. David Sullivan 5. David Gold Mark Halsey and Mike Riley receive special mentions for their recent pathetic refereeing displays (Liverpool and Chelsea).

I thought that Robben and Cech were Ranieri signings, were they not?

Who am I kidding? This second half he was shocking. He was giving Rovers yellow cards left, right, and centre, and gave Chelsea all the 50-50s, like the commentator said. I was especially ###### off when Dickov got a card for the smallest of touches in a tackle the deserved no more than a foul, if that. After that, Terry lunges in with a bad tackle on a Blackburn forward (I forget who) and does not receive any sort of booking. Sparky was absolutely right to be fuming and should not have been sent off anyway (and this was before the above-mentioned incidences, mind you, which shows just how poor Riley was). Can the referee's decisions not be questioned these days?

OK. My half-time analysis. Bellamy is on the top of his game at the moment. Plus the boy is pure class. Only he could have scored two goals in this game - none of our other players could manage it. I think Emerton is having a good game. He's having a real go of it and forced Cech into a very good save. He also played a couple of one-twos that came off, including that good goal attempt. I am fuming with Todd and hope he does not get a spot when Nelsen comes back. He is a liability and gave away a silly penalty. Saying that, I will probably forgive him by the time the next game comes. The penalty for us was a bit soft but is technically correct. You cannot put your studs into an opposition player's leg. The referee has had a relatively good game so far. Joe cole is giving us trouble with his pace on our right. Gray is actually playing a good game, both in defence and attack. I think that Dickov should have been given a go at the start because he can cause real trouble in defence with his abrasive style of play. Kuqi has no cutting edge on him, nor any control, and is being found out against a top team. We have been the dominant force in the latter half of the first half. We have been keeping possession very well and Chelsea have hardly settled on the ball in that time. They demolished us in the first 20 or so minutes, though. That is all I can think of right now, rightly or wrongly. I was going to berate good old Hughesy on here for his 4-4-2 tactical choice when we were 2-0 down, but he is manager for a reason, and I am not manager for a reason!

Mark Hughes might have been a good striker for many clubs but he was also a thug. Now his team replicate his attitude on the field. I was reading an interview with Mark Hughes recently - which I am sure was posted on this board - where he said that these days roughing up quality opposition is not an effective tactic. Can anyone recall it and provide a link?

For me, Emre would fill the role of Tugay just fine, but obviously the man who bought fellow countryman Tugay has got him at Newcastle. Plus we might not be big enough for him anyway.

Ha ha! This sort of banter can turn out to be spectacular for you after a victory. You would be able to really rub it in. Naturally, it'll probably backfire. That spells trouble. It's a risky business. Anyway, my prediction is 1-0 to us, with Savage scoring against the Special Ones.

I certainly thought it was clear-cut. Dickov had both his arms held behind his back before the ball even got to him and continued to be held back thereafter. It was a penalty long before he took a dive to the ground. EDIT: Must say I was surprised to get it, though. We usually don't get these sorts of decisions going our way.

Savage: "David Gold said when I came here I was coming to a smaller club. But I think we've proved otherwise today because we are eight points clear of them now."

This is a shameful day for the Big Club, losing to us juniors like that. Well done, Bellamy. The boy's class. He ran rings around their defence.

Aye, it's live at 9:30 on the east coast. A 2-1 win for us will do me fine. Bellamy and Savage to score for us, and some Big Player will score for the Big Club.

That's rubbish what you say about Cisse. He was quality yesterday, apart from his finishing, and he got a goal anyway. On another day he would have ripped us right open and bagged three or more. I'd love to have Cisse playing for us, thankyou very much. He puts Dickov and Kuqi to shame. With Crouch, he is severely overrated by people in the football world, but it doesn't help him one bit that his teammates lump the ball in the air to him from the middle of the park. They should try putting it to his feet because he ain't going to score like that. Pfft. It was Souness' fault, not the fans.

I thought so too. However, if Hughes took Kuqi off then what sort of message does that give him after he scored two goals in the last match? It was a case of man management rather than the best tactical choice.

I'm really ###### off at the referee's performance today. I was absolutely livid. Take the card away today and it was a performance that could have easily snatched three points. I felt very disappointed for the boys as they could really not be faulted for their performance. But perhaps dropping Bentley would be a wise move, because he is a very anonymous player, and really isn't bring Lucas Neill into the game, and we all know that Neill is a threat attacking from the wing when he's on his game.

Australia 5-0 Jamaica at Craven Cottage. Australia played a 3-4-3 formation throughout. Lucas Neill played out the full 90 minutes in the centre of a three-man defence, and I thought he looked alright, despite it being an unusual position for him, and although he was beaten for pace once or twice. He wore the captain's armband for most of the second half after Mark Viduka came off, so coach Guus Hiddink obviously rates him. Bret Emerton started in the centre of midfield, unusual for him yet again, and had a decent game. He was on the park for most of the match and was the catalyst for Viduka's goal and Australia's third. He made a brilliant pass from left of centre at the halfway line to someone (I forget who) on the left side of the box, who crossed it in for Viduka. In brief, both players were nothing special in a special team performance.

My prediction: 2-1 with Pedersen and Emerton scoring. A quick question: What was everyone's overall opinion of Babbel in his time at Rovers. I'm interested to know, considering I wasn't a board member here at the time nor anywhere else to read others' opinions.

Once upon a time I thought that I would be a smart arse and use a UK proxy address to listen to a Rovers game live. To cut the long story short, it ended up being that they didn't broadcast the game on the internet, full stop. Still, worth the try.

Aye, and those pool players like their suits. It's win-win.