should rovers win on thursday and results go our way, we'll more of less have qualified - rendering the feyernoord game almost meaningless. UEFA bookings: suspention after 3 cautions, also carried into next stages! rovers players on 1 yellow card : brad, tugay, ooijer, bentley, nonda.

Hughes wants a bumper crowd. http://home.skysports.com/list.aspx?hlid=4...s+for+fans+lift

good on the WAGS! these idiots are an embarrasment. it's happening at every away game now. i'm expecting more of the same at villa on sunday.

stick to your guns, fife and dont give into them. as the great julie andrews said :- Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

even allowing for the fact that they've no jobs/ responsibilities, i'd like to think they'd learn!

very good points. SKY were pioneers of football broadcasting and revolutionary. the camera work and commentary are still the best around (alan parry and marwood aside). the main problem is with the pre match build up /guests and discussion. it is being dumbed- down. you see the same guests and interviewees week in and wk out. i think the fact that they are getting more and more subscribers, has led to complacency and an inferior product.

was the same of SKY. rovers werent mentioned until 3:45! the panel was balanced aswell--- with hartson and "i spoke to my dad.." redknapp. SKY's gone really sh.ite over the past few years.

chipperfield is an ex bus driver isnt he ? has sterjovski only recently converted to midfield ? i'm sure he played upfront against man utd last season.

players switching off is all it is. our own corners also need working on. did anyone else notice everton's goal at the emirates? cahill hid behind yobo and then darted in to score. we've not been a threat from corners for about 10 years! we need a return to the 'wilcox and sherwood' inventive set-pieces.

here's basel's 1st team squad : http://www.fcb.ch/start.html constanzo is a decent keeper (got to uefa final with alavez), baumann is a top class defender and petric is the up and coming star of croatian football. most of the forwards are big lads!

apart from falling asleep at the corner, i thought gally did alright yesterday. he'll get his chance in the coming weeks and i wouldnt be suprised if derbyshire makes the bench also.

worryingly, the mistakes have come from players in all different positions :-liverpool - emerton bolton- neill west ham - gallagher. it's a collective problem. corners will dominate this weeks training sessions.

if he doesnt get a knock in the next few days, nonda will be fit and play.

agree with phillip, wham were very lucky- however we had too many players off the pace. tugay, axe, bentley and gray were shocking. i never want to see gray in a rovers shirt again... he looked way overweight and not arsed. if we'dve got back to 1-1, we'dve got atleast a point, one of those days.

as does andy todd. anyway, he's off.... and, from the man himself, :---- "everton have made enquiries." he gets on well with my brother, before any1 asks.

stand on your head to read them, presty!

as if i'm arsed!

i agree with you. he's turned into a jumped-up 'prima dona.' an example of this occured in the 2nd half of last nights game. a riversider had a brief joke with ashley cole, cole was laughing and putting his thumb up. terry proceeded to berate the linesman and steward and said : "you should be fooking gettin him kicked out!" cole shook his head at terry to show there was no offence. 'working-class hero' ? my arse! on the game itself- i may be being harsh on jay, considering his inj and lack of 1st team games (a few round me were getting seduced by him cutting out a few routine cross- passes) ,but i didnt think he looked up to it. his contract expires this summer aswell. i thought we shaded the 1st half, but looked jiggered in the 2nd. henchoz, bentley (in CM role) and peter were terrific.

we'll be lucky if there's 10 on! (thousand).

question for lee.... how many are expected on tonight ?

nothing to do with my brain, you moron. i saw him practising pens before the game at boro and then checked it out.

Hughes is taking it seriously.... (more than we are) http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,27-2420590,00.htm

great preview ! very nice of ray winstone to contribute an' all. bout time we broke the curse. WHAM 0-2 ROVERS McCarthy (2).

--> QUOTE(Ste B @ Oct 24 2006, 13:23 ) 454902[/snapback] You could use the Online Ticketing System... or at least you could if THEY ACTUALLY BOTHERED TO SELL TICKETS on it. if only! last time i rung up the girl was panting! obviously asthmatic.... ?

that's what I hear. on sunday, I was told by some wag, that rovers had "already sold 3,500 tickets" obviously they hadn't, but it wouldn't surprise me if the written apps were approaching that figure. on a side issue, just rung up for villa tkts and was 40th in the queue! man utd tickets went on sale yesterday, so looks like sunday might have re-ignited the interest! if that's the case, i'm happy to be inconvenienced.