10 or so of us are heading over on a train from Bburn around 10.30, not checked times yet. Is there anywhere with a decent beer garden?! Could do with one if the sun's out again

One thing Yorke is good at, if he puts his mind to it, is creating chances. POTENTIALLY him and Stead could be a very good partnership, just a case of whether or not he's got the desire.

Matteo's putting in a MOTM performance so far.

I'd say the line-up is pretty much irrelevant at this stage, Sporting and Bray will probably see the final plan coming together.

Well I went and queued up after work last night and was quite alarmed when the lass behind the counter demanded ticket stubs from Celtic away, Trelleborgs away and a pair of Dean Saunders socks, due to high demand. I was left disgruntled to say the least. Well done Rovers, that's one less fan you'll have in Ireland.

Not sure if it's been reported yet, probably has, but just read about Tugay getting knocked of fhis bike last night and the driver fleeing the scene. Scum of the earth the people who do that

It's a pre-season bloody friendly for Christs sake. Saunders took a penalty last season

Why does it look like that? Fergie will take the Penalties next year, but like you say we'll probably never get one. I don't think Ferguson is going anywhere near a penalty if we get one after the two he missed in one game for Rangers. Probably will be Amoruso. And what about the hatful of others he scored?

Why does it look like that? Fergie will take the Penalties next year, but like you say we'll probably never get one.

He did actually. He was very critical of the training setup, and rightly so at first.

Quality We seem to lose a decent player every close season and lets face it Coles not up there with Duff or Shearer. Life goes on. I'll remain an Andy Cole fan, except of course when we play Fulham. At the end of the day he got to the stage where he couldn't work with his boss, I've been in the same boat, either I walked or clouted him.

Odd formation, we finally get a left winger and we play him on the right? Oh I see, Dean Saunders wants to?

Exactly, if it was a well known player then one of the lads in Germany would have recognised him. Either way it's no big deal, we have trialists at Brockhall every bloody week

whats the women doing with her left hand? Inspecting the emboidery of his exclusive Lonsdale robe, why?

Finally, it's clicked Talk about gullible

Have you downloaded the latest update patch? He scores like 30 a season for my rovers team in 2005

The trialist is Anwar Patel, 17 year old asian lad from Oldham - on sky sports news now.

Hate to be the bearer of bad news but the mystery trialist was Dean Saunders trying out some orange boots

He's been @#/? lately and is supposed to be signing for the magpies, making way for Shearers return to Ewood.

The whole situation is typical of rovers, particularly under Souness. We've taken 5 steps forward and then about 20 back. A couple of good signings and everyones looking forward to the new season. After this whole situation with Cole blew up, I'd say the majority aren't looking forward to the new season at all now. Now the timing of all this is another issue. Surely if we knew Cole was gonna leave AND wanted a replacement we'd have slapped Cole on the transfer list WEEKS ago to give us enough time for a sale and the purchase of his replacement, wouldn't we? Now to me this indicates either we aren't looking to replace him, or the slimey @#/?s have waited till the paying public have splashed out on their ST's and we'll rush a new signing in. Either way it stinks to high heaven. A strikeforce of Stead/Gally/Dickov is destined for Div 1. I'm not bothering to even include Jansen or Yorke as they're finished. Stead did thrive off the space Cole created for him, of that I have no doubt. Yours faithfully, A truly ###### off roverite

Where on earth do they get these ridiculous figures for his wages from?

Cole's actually quite handy I'm led to believe. I teach kick boxing and he seemed willing to sign up too.

The most shocking part of this story is that Ossydave knows a talking horse. Funnily enough I once spoke to Ruud VN too, what an arrogant clown

Duff did too............. Let's ignore that though, he's to blame for the season ticket fiascos, the kits and the leaky defence, God damn him

Cole will not go Fulham, from the horses mouth. He'll finish his top flight career at Rovers and either drop a division or retire after seeing his contract out. Funnily enough he speaks very highly of Dean Saunders too