Fair enough if you want to place all the blame on the British workforce. All I know is that Multiplex is losing money hand over fist and seem pretty incompetent right now.

From what I've read Multiplex aren't an international company, or at least they weren't before bidding for the Wembley project. They showed arrogance (which has proved to be expensive) regarding working with a 'parent' company here in Britain - apparently it's the norm to partner up with a local construction firm during your first foray into a new market, they help you access a stable/trustworthy workforce, suppliers etc, etc. As it's turned out the price of the materials has risen from the agreed/estimated costs and Multiplex have been left without a clue thanks to them being novices here in Britain. Not that I can back this up with a link mind, but the article is around somewhere!

Hence why a lot of people didn't want the Olympic games in 2012.

There's no way we could afford him, even if he fancies a return to Blackburn. Chelski obviously don't need the money and could easily release him on a free, but they'd surely look to financially cripple us in any transfer dealings - if they'd even let another team in the Prem (I was tempted to say rival, but checked myself!) get stronger. As for Gamst, well whatever I may feel about his all-round game, he keeps on scoring. With the lack of another viable option (both on the scoresheet and the left wing) I'd suggest we don't sell him unless we get a ridiculous offer.

Isn't that the thing though, Norway's David Beckham and all that jazz?

10 in the league, 1 in the cup in 30 games overall. From what I've read he's not really improved i.e very talented, but his effort/work rate is questionable. Granted a return of a goal every three games from left wing/midfield (which is where he's been playing) is pretty damn good - Pedersen-esque even - but his attitude worries me Thankfully it's Hughes and not me making the decision on where Paul goes from here - he's talented enough to excel at the top, but whether he wants to is another matter. Could come back to haunt us ala Beattie if we sell him on now, after all he's still only 21!

Yeah, but from what I read the new manager likes the long ball system and Matt is too slight to be an effective player upfront - he scored a hattrick on his Plymouth reserves debut, if that's anything to go by

Slight difference between League 2/Division 3 and the Prem, but obviously his scoring goals for fun is promising. According to the Wrexham fans he's lightning quick, finishes well and works hard - a class above the rest of the players at the club. I've not seen enough of him to judge whether he's found his level, or if he can continue to score goals higher up the leagues - hopefully he can because we need a quick striker, and more importantly an Academy player to break through into the first team (Peter is coming through, but he's not quite there yet). I'll leave that up to the coaching staff/fans who turn out for reserve games to comment on

I'd rather make certain we pick up the three points thanks.

What's that, 8 in 8?

Hence my 'we're one injury away from slipping out of this chase for Europe' post

If Henry bothers to turn up that is - such a one man team.

That's making the 'I'm in heaven' forum

Theno's not going to be happy until the overseas supporters buy a block of seats, rename them, donate the tickets to underprivileged Rovers youngsters, put on a mini-bus, buy them all the latest kits etc, etc......

I honestly see Bolton challenging for the Champs League - whilst their football is @#/? and 'plays the percentages' (i.e you're going to eventually put one knockdown/goalmouth scramble away) few teams can handle them. We're one of them I feel, but I can see Spurs, Utd, Chelski and Liverpool struggling with them. Not to say they'll beat them all, but I'm not marking it down as an automatic loss. If anybody's going to lose out it's us - we're one injury away from falling out of contention, especially considering how shakey our defence/keeping has been this season.

Do you have any idea of the percentage of increase in price for next year?

You're missing an asterisk there - when healthy. Friedel's going downhill quite rapidly, but he's still better than anybody else we'll probably get, which just goes to show how good he used to be!

Just watching MOTD, Butt has handled the ball pretty much on the goalline. Very similar incident to Savage (though nowhere near as threatening); one gets a second yellow, the other a corner - such inconsistency.....and people wonder why referees are abused.

CheshireBlue should put a mini-bus on

They were backed up into a tight spot though, in all honesty. I'd have prefered we stand up for ourselves and refuse to reschedule the game, but the amount of bad publicity this would have caused probably wasn't worth the hassle. This is especially so considering we are quite able to move the fixture without too many problems.

They should donate their SKY fee to a worthy cause, Rovers' coffers - and I'm deadly serious!

Believe me, they're not missing out on much, the Jack Walker upper isn't what it's cracked up to be!

Speaking of which, rumour has it Henry has verbally agreed to join Barca. Now whilst that's bad for the Prem as a whole, it'd be great news for the ever improving Rovers, what with L'Arse being a one man team and all

I can't see how people are calling this a banana skin, Boro have a high quality squad (when fit!). They also have something that we dream about, three strikers who can score goals - which could very well be the difference on Saturday. Our defence has been shakey at best of late, this is one of the last teams I'd have matched them up against in their current state. We'll be lucky to get a win I feel, a draw would be a decent result though.

Does that mean that moving it to Sunday has lost the club £160k in TV money?