sorry was this the same Cole that was slated from here to austrailia for being useles, slow and disinterested? I said at the end of last season he was important to us but buggerall of you listened. Its amazing how quickly peoples tunes change. I myself have now come to the conclusion that possibly maybe Hughes might, one day, actually work out okay. Possibly

DISCUSSION ABOUT MGP

wait a second, Rovers have the majority of the ball, has a large amount of pressure, ball breaks, midfielder runs 3/4 the length of the pitch past a number of amusingly weak tackles, squares it for the striker to score. Rovers conceed a goal on the counter. Now where have i seen that before? The minute Brown started that run I knew he was going to score. Why? Because I have been following Rovers for quite a while. It always happens. That will teach people to be confident in Rovers, always expect the unexpected.

what shocking refereing decisions? Does he remember the 4-0 drubbing two seasons ago Does he? Does He? DOES HE? Guess not. Oh well god bless spurs, always cheer me up when im down

what worse than Ashley Ward? Grabbi? Kidd's signings? are you drunk? Mad? or both?

I AM SURE THAT WHEN MGP IMPRESSES IN THE RESERVES HE WILL BE GIVEN HIS CHANCE. UNTIL THEN KEEP HIM WELL AWAY FROM THE TEAM. NOW CAN I CLOSE THIS THREAD UNTIL SOMETHING CHANGES? Sorry for the large writing but hopefully it will get through

Do you not remember the 4-0 drubbing at WHL the year before, the European Qualification, the most pointless act ever - The throwing of season ticket books on to the pitch by the spurs fans. A great day of football.

HE HAS NOT BEEN PLAYING AT ALL WELL IN THE RESERVES SO WHY THE HELL SHOULD HE BE GIVEN A CHANCE IN THE FIRST TEAM??? DePedro looked better than he did

Just done the monster truck mission and bought the Garage. Its a great game. Has Glenn been seen recently? Im getting worried

No i think youre being kided (? is that a word?) They tried Winterval a couple of years ago, much to the derision of all of Birmingham except for the small minority of PC ###### that I have grown to know and love due to working around and with local councils. (not allowed to call accident black spots, black spots anymore) Ethnic groups were amazed and a little worried as they a)didnt give a stuff about what december 25th was called b)recognised it as what it is a comercial frenzy, losely based on a religious thing; and c) were worried that if the council "banned" Christmas the next logical step was to ban all religious festivals Just the Evening Mail getting its knickers in a twist me thinks.

without souness cole wouldnt be at Rovers in the first place

Anyone got a link to the photos of the twits?

IN NO SHAPE OR FORM DOES THIS EXCUSE ANY TYPE OF RACIST ABUSE. HE MIGHT BE A LAZY SOD WHO WAS A LET DOWN FOR ROVERS (EVEN IF HE SCORED 15 GOALS IN HIS FIRST SEASON) BUT THAT’S NOTHING TO DO WITH HIS SKIN COLOUR.

this the Andy Cole you slated for the past two and half seasons Jim?

Centre backs were great today - let down by the full backs. not to bad a birthday present, coz at half time i was ready to hang myself. Negatives 1) Jay McEveley - I thought was very poor today and shown up time and time again. 2) We are averaging 3 goals conceeded a game at the moment. 3) Tugay - is not fit for a starting place at the moment 4) still bottom of the table Positives 1) We came back from 3-1 down to get a draw and should have won it at the end 2)Steven Reid - Wow set up one goal, scored a corker, was good all game. 3) Thompson and Ferguson - worked very well 4) Gallagher - did well for his goal 5)Todd and Johansson - let down by full backs first half, great second half 6)Substitutions - both worked 7) we should be able to start getting some wins now

took me a while to do Zero's 2nd mission (and the PS2 and controller got thrown across the room a few times) thourghly enjoying the whole thing though - just done the ambushed truck mission for the pimp.

you mean the Heskey who only looks like a good footballer when he plays Rovers?

shame hes not a birmingham anymore

amen - how hard is it to come up with some ambassador role - same pay (or near same pay) and an undefined role - i know at least 2or 3 people in my company with that kind of role. Im not going to be able to sing "Tony's got his suit on" anymore

as much as id like to grab the glory - i just forwarded the questionaires on

Another Reply from one of my Collegues - Sorry Claire thought I might as well just post it. Michael England another Bluenose 1) Much was expected of Brum following an expensive summer. Where has it gone wrong so far? [Michael England] Changing the emphasis of the team from defensive to attacking - all of the players signed are more likely to turn up in the opposition half than defending in ours, but havn't looked like producing the extra goals that the new style of play needs. Forssell getting injured hasn't helped, but Bruce is a berk for basing his plan for the season around a loan player. 2) Are you glad that Steve Bruce didn't take the Newcastle job? [Michael England] To be honest i'm not sure. Yes he took us up within half a season of being manager, and yes the last couple of seasons have been ok, but we've only won about 7 out of the last 33 games, so on current form i don't think his job is that safe. 3) What are your thoughts on Rovers so far this season? [Michael England] Not exactly a great season so far is it? Sourness lost the players by the look of it & ran before he was pushed (why the feck did newcastle want him for christs sake?). Pinning your goalscoring hopes on bothroyd, stead, & the taxi headbutter is a tad desperate as well. 4) Newcastle then offered their job to Souness, he buggered off, and now he have Hughes. Do you think we'll be better or worse under Hughes? [Michael England] Worse. I'm part welsh, & hughes is definately living off the period of games where they beat germany & italy - they havn't won in 19 world cup games or something silly, and played some terrible football, so i wouldn't be surprised if you're playing burnley again next season. 5) We've had mixed reports of David Dunn from Brum fans. What do you think of him? [Michael England] Fat get who can't put his socks on without gettng injured. 6) More importantly how is Tiny Taylor doing?! ;-) [Michael England] Who?????? Oh, you mean that ballboy we paid 1.25m for. 7) Who have been your best and worst players this year? [Michael England] Gronkjaer doesn't know the meaning of 'teamplay', heskey & yorke may as well spend saturday afternoon's in the players lounge for all the good they are doing on the pitch at the moment. Melchiot has to be the best of the new bunch - im surprised chelski let him go for nothing, as he looks a level above the rest of the squad. Julian Gray has surprised me as well - not sure about him being talked up for england, but sven could do a lot worse on the left side. 8) What style of play can we expect from you on Saturday? [Michael England] Lots of neat passing between defense & midfield, then down the wing for gronkjaer / gray / lazaridis to shank it aimlessly into the box for heskey & yorke to stand next to each other and watch it get headed out by a defender. 9) Which Rovers player are you most scared of? [Michael England] er, can i get back to you on that one? (ferguson maybe, emerton possibly.) 10) Any memories from Blackburn v Birmingham games that stick in your mind? [Michael England] A game 3 or 4 years ago when we still had francis as manager, we played a midweek game when we could still have got automatic promotion to the premier, lost 0-2 (i think duff scored the second) - I'd been dumped by my bird & made redundant in the couple of day's previous, so i snapped, stood up & launched into a quite amazing torrent of filthy language aimed at the players & manager. The boke sitting next to me the proceeded to ###### me one. Not the best of weeks really....... . 11) Where do you think both teams will finish at the end of the season? [Michael England] I can see blackburn going down, as hughes is unproven & there doesn't seem to be anyone in your squad that can spark a game into life. As for blues, we need to fluke a few more wins like liverpool to get things going. 12) And finally - last season the three games between Rovers and Birmingham brought 10 goals. Do you think we'll see the same kind of high scoring or do you think it'll be a bore draw? [Michael England] we've scored more than 1 goal in a game only once this season & you ain't exactly top of the scoring charts. 3-3 it is then. see you in a couple of seasons......... . .

just finished catalinas missions (and the last race - he does look familiar hmmm). What should I do next - haulage or the TT missions (whoever that is)

liar

.... and rovers to be docked 1 point, and Citeh awarded three for this travesty

Full time 1-1 Cheers Mr Clatenburg