4 of us confirmed with match tickets. None season ticket holders and none of us had been to the euro games from this season. see you all in dam square!

in this very media led world, we're often seen as such a tiny club & one of the big reasons must be that the camera's point to the riverside. surely it wouldn't take much cash at all, to relocate the camera's to the riverside. The difference in how our club is 'perceived' could be enormous.

we don't know what the offer from liverpool was. the press may have speculated - but we don't know that 2 mill was on the table. all we do know - is that the offer of warnock + cash was rejected by liverpool.

booked. arrive amsterdam thursday morning and go back saturday. staying at the sofitel amsterdam.

He's playing well, so I'd be inclined to keep him in the side (so that we get a fee for him in Jan, or better still swap hyim for Warnock) but I'd now definitely take the captaincy away from him. It's the highest honour you can have to captain your club or country and he's basically saying he's not bothered about it. Swap him for Warnock and everyone is happy! If lucas neil had made it very plain to the management and players that he is definiely leaving, yet was still given the captaincy - I wouold have to respect MH's judgement. We will now find out whether he was totally honest with MH. If not, I bet you a tenner Tris that he won't be captain for the next match!

thanks!

just because its in wikipedia, doesn't mean it's correct!! try quoting the FA rule book!

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would be interesting to know whether he does have major ambitions to be a number 1. Do we know why he fell out with Steve Bruce so spectacularly?

come on fella - best way is just to ignore - you know he only says it so that someone will bite! On an unrelated note - when does the rovers site update it's video match highlights?

I also wouldn't call it 3 woeful seasons. I think it's more to do with people expecting him to be chritiano ronaldo beating his man everytime. Fact is, he ended up as our leading goal assister in each season. He was overhyped when he came, which led people to believe he was a different type of player than he actually is.

suggest everyone re-reads this thread from the beginning & it might stop some of the hysterical reactions we often see on here. He was easily the best player on the park last night. well done emo - keep it up.

better still - do what we did when we were on 5 years ago and sing 'Burnley fans eat bananas with their feet' all the way through the show!

don't hold back! tell us what you really think! we don't exactly have a lot of choice. we can only sign players who are out of contract. and we didnt know the extent of admirals injury before the end of the transfer deadline - otherwise I'm sure we would have had someone else... i don't see that hughes had a great deal of choice.

barca have been very very clever here. unicef have the shirt sponsorship, but then they have sold sponsorship packages to 4 or 5 other companies that will 'support' unicef and barcelona basically getting their sponsorship cash whilst still keeping the moral high ground.

I think he's got a perfectly valid point. I wouldn't be offering him a new deal, as he didn't show anything in games to suggest he was a top6 midfielder. In an ideal world, we'd have 2 players competing for every position. That would only be 22 players and our squad i bigger than that!

ashley ward always gave 100%

apologies if you felt that was an insult. just a bit of fun that's all! in anycase - 'idiotic comment' - did you not hurl the first insult?! as for no comeback - we disagree thats all! i've never rated Kuqi and never will. You obviosuly do and I'm hardly going to change your mind. So might as well just leave it be!

you're ability to 2nd guess the transfer market is about as good as your judgement on strikers

touche

you're right - we would probably have finished 4th with a decent strike partner for bellers

does anyone have any videos of him scoring goals? sorry - mistake with the keyboard!! I'm saying we need to wait and see how they turn out. I'm lookign forwrad to seeing them play as much as everyone else! I could have scored the goals that Kuqi did last year!

MH bought kuqi and there is no way you will ever convince me he is worthy of a place in a side challenging for Europe. Granted - we had no cash and so MH had to take a punt on him, but his record signing forwards isn't proven yet! Bellamy - great buy Kuki - terrible mccarthy - time will tell jeffers - ditto roberts - ditto i'd rather we kept gallagher, loaned out derbyshire and sold kuqi to go along with the 3 new boys. totally agree with that. Great thing about dickov leaving, is that hopefully our relationship with the referee's will be better now. One thing Big Sam did a couple of years ago, which i thought was genius, was to invite some of the refs to train with the team, so that they could help the team to interpret the new laws being introduced. What it most probably did, was allow some of the players to get to know the refs and vice versa. I bet some 50-50 decisions would surely then have gone in their favour in the future!

Bellamy could create goals and chances from out of nothing. To be perfectly honest, I don't know enough about roberts or mccarthy to totaly judge yet. Is roberts another dickov type player? one that will run all day and try and out-muscle opposition, os is he something a little classier? Same goes for McCarthy - I hope he's lightening quick, with a great first touch, an eye for goal and a good header of the ball, but time will tell! I will, as always fully get behind whoever is wearing the blue and white, but lets just wait and see how good these 2 are together. Who do we play pre season at ewood?

I'm not disagreeing with that roversmum - I actually think hughes has done a great job of securing a decent front line for next season & i hope it all works out well. My point is that I disagree that we have a better team now that bellamy has gone.