I too went, best live band I've seen and there's been quite a few!

New Kings Of Leon album is sublime

I think I can manage £50 If you've got a paypal account I'll send it to you now........ Or if you prefer cheque Pm me an address, up to you.

Difficult to play a good pass when Thommo in front is playing too narrow and Dickov marked by 2 6ft+ centre halves is the only outlet. I've no doubt that choosing to play his way out of trouble by playing intricate one - two's with Todd and Flitty is probably on Sparky's 'most banned' list! My vote for post of the year. I've been trying to get this point over for years with Lucas. It was the man himself who first pointed it out to me. He said the centre halves usually give him the ball, if Thompson is playing he is very rarely an outlet so he usually has to either find a forward's feet or play the ball into the corners for someone to chase. No Alan Shearer Mike Newell or Chris Sutton to win a header for our full backs. You've got a crush on him because you cleaned his fish tank

What the fork is soccer?!?!?! It's football and maybe it's just me but the price will never put me off football, yes it pee's me off but like any junkie I need my fix and football is my smack

I would have thought a lot of Arsenal fans are pretty certain they'll make the final and are saving themselves for that, wrong as it may be, lets hope we can ###### on their chips. Coupled with the fact they get to visit the MS a lot more than us and are likely to do in the near future.

Extremely embarassing However, I'm pretty certain ticket sales would be higher if the semi was at Villa Park, on the Saturday at 3pm. Regardless of that it's a once in a lifetime opportunity for crying out loud, wouldn't miss it for the world. Further proof that Blackburn's not a football town, same old excuses (which will of course no longer apply if by some slim chance we get to the final).

Exactly. Don't think anyone knows the true extent of Matt's problems. I've had life threatening car smashes but never has it stopped me doing my job as well as I could before. I always knew there was a good reason for not driving through Oswaldtwistle (in addition to it being the wrong turning on the road to anywhere) To be fair my first smash was over Stanhill (not strictly ossy ) and my second was Haslingden. I wasn't driving in either

Exactly. Don't think anyone knows the true extent of Matt's problems. I've had life threatening car smashes but never has it stopped me doing my job as well as I could before.

Never understood why Arsenal never splashed out on a world class keeper in the summer, Christ they need one. Major plus point that Henry is out. I think we can edge this one 1-0.

FAO any ossy based rovers - we're running a coach/hotel package, going down on the Friday, returning Sunday afternoon. There might be a few places spare if anyone's interested, if your easily offended though keep away, last time was a bit messy

I wouldn't be too bothered about the style of play adopted by sparky's men. When he came here the alarming problem was clearly the defence, the job he, and his men have done is amazing when you compare it to the late Souness era. His main objective was keeping us in the premiership, best way of doing this - don't concede goals, you can't lose if you don't concede. I think next season we'll see a more attacking emphasis, hopefully he can uncover some attacking gems to match the defensive ones he's brought in. I honestly can't remember watching Rovers and being so bloody confident we won't let a goal in. Hopefully we can confirm premiership status a few games before the end of season and I think he'll start tinkering then and during pre-season. Another plus point is the way Hughes is always full of praise for his players post match. Has to be said they're also full of praise for him too, liked the way Sav said last night that you'd run through brick walls for some managers, Hughes being one of those. I can't imagine anyone ever saying that under Souness. I also find it hard to imagine any of the lads will fall out with Hughes anytime soon either - clearly Souey's biggest fault. Most, if not all of the negative comments about Hughes come from rival fans/managers, says it all really, if we bother them that much we must be doing something right

Well, a fiver on a 0-0 at 9-1 looked good odds and so it was, combined with the cheltenham winnings the drinks are on me on saturday I'll admit that I couldn't be arsed to go tonight as I finish work too late and it was also on sky (shoot me). Fair play to those who went though, clearly audible on sky. I doubt Anfield has seen a better defence all season, bearing in mind we had NEJ (complete with sh*t tash), Neill and Matteo on the pitch at times thats remarkable. P.s anyone think Matteo looked pretty damn fast tonight for some reason?

An absolute joke if we play at noon on the Saturday. The whole pathetic organisation of the semi's really does beggar belief. I don't know of a single person who thinks the arrangements are sensible. I'll go whatever the kick off time as I've never seen my team in an FA cup semi final, the FA themselves are doing a damn fine job of wrecking the whole event though.

Agree with that, he's really starting to irritate me. Moan moan bloody moan all the time, can only imagine how annoying it must be for the opposition fans. As soon as I heard the team and that Dickov was the lone frontman I felt negative thoughts flooding into my head. I was really hoping Stead would play from the start, with or without Dickov.

We discussed the same last night. Got potential to be a good area to sit (or stand in last nights case) in the section towards the Darwen End. i was sat there, right next to the Darwin end, and except from the fifteen minutes at the beginning of the second half when the whole ground went quiet, i was on my feet singing from start to finish- quality atmosphere. Something tells me it will be a bit different against leicester though Was like an away match in there last night. You're probably right though, against Leicester it'll probably be crap. If away teams were given the Riverside portion of the Darwen end every game then It'd be a good place for banter though. Full marks to the stewards again though, anyone wishing to stand was ushered to our section to sing their hearts out for the lads.

We discussed the same last night. Got potential to be a good area to sit (or stand in last nights case) in the section towards the Darwen End.

T'was a quality night in the riverside last night. Fair play to the stewards who didn't complain about us wishing to stand too

A very dull 0-0

Who compared him to Beckham? Presumably the press? He couldn't be more different to Beckham if he tried

To be honest the B'burn end wasn't very loud at all from where I was stood (block of riverside nearest Darwen end).

20 of us are all set for an Ossy-B'burn pub crawl commencing 11am Tuesday. Riverside beware

My 5 ordered on Tuesday arrived this morning

Probably because a large number don't use Email on a regular basis?

just over 1minute per person is extremely quick. I know, they're working flat out. Took me little over a minute once I got through.