sorry mate , not making it up, just telling it as she told me, maybe she can't count.

For info the Official Travel have 7 coaches which are all full.

As i found out today

Gotta get train, change at Burnley....should be fun

to be honest i don't rate the swiss anyway. but he can defend and it's a short deal. a win win situation for us really. it's not like he's gonna replace nelsen so why worry?

i'm not worrying atall

just think he behaved like a tit when he left

we should win this, got a feeling we will cant wait to go.

But what a ball ache we have had sortin stuff out gettin there

Goin by train now

I know this is in an international message board, and most people on here have an affinity with the club rather than the town, but is nobody bothered about what Henchoz said when he left last time? He basically called Blackburn a dump if I remember rightly. Now he expects the people from the dump to shell out for his luxury lifestyle again. Are we mugs or what?

Spot on

I was thinking that, i vaguley rember him saying that the weather was shat aswell

and he then moved to the tropical climates of liverpool

okay then

He was a good charcter scored some important goals, espically the one against wigan, will be missed but we got him for free and sold him for 2.5 million

rember the night before quite well

watched theres only one jimmy grimble on sky movies, the off to bed.

Stayed at my mates that night, we woke up at 4:30 dead excited and stayed awake incase we missed the match, rember going down on coach, coach 92. Rember service station blue and white all over. Lost my mate in cardiff walked ground on my own. The match is a blur rember fridels save 1on1 with les on the edge of box!!! I was right online with that!!! Rember rovers scoring me and my mate went mental.

End off game seeing older rovers fans cry with tears of joy

and sherwood on screen

"Sherwood whats the score sherwood sherwood whats the score"

Seeing all the spuds coachs on motorway home, us with braggin rights

Also i rember day the tickets went on sale i cued up for about 6-7 hours for my ticket

I have this game on video to watch, gunna put it on DVD

Up until today's game I did not have a strong opinion either way about the drummer but after today's game I am totally behind the get him out brigade!

Up until last season I have always sat behind the goal in the Rovers end about 5 seats back but last season and the first two games of this season I have been all over the Blackburn End up in the back right hand corner and down at the front left hand side and it is only today that I have seen the negative effect he has on carrying the chanting across the stand.

The chants generally orgiginate from up in that corner and when me and my friend sat there for the Everton game it sounded good and really felt like there was an atmosphere. Today whenever the sound from those fans started the blasted drummer would start - drown out the fans and then you wouldnt really know what was being sung. IMO the sound doesnt carry across the stand well anyway so it is difficult sat over that side to join in but with the drum on top of it as well makes it flipping impossible! I was much more aware of the drum today and really felt he had a negative impact on the atmosphere (although at times i was glad of it as it drowned out that stupid woman!) Not that is a reason to keep it!

I'm sat roughly 10 seats away from him, and when he starts drumming I cant really hear whats being sung until late can be annoying at times!!

Carling Cup second round draw:

Leeds v Barnet

Watford v Accrington Stanley

Crewe v Wigan

Doncaster v Derby

Sheff Utd v Bury

Millwall v Southampton

West Brom v Cheltenham

Peterborough v Everton

Hereford v Leicester

Port Vale v QPR

Fulham v Wycombe

Hull v Hartlepool

Walsall v Bolton

Middlesbrough v Notts County

Charlton v Carlisle

Barnsley v M K Dons

Chesterfield v Man City

Scunthorpe v Aston Villa

Southend v Brighton

Brentford v Luton

Reading v Darlington

Birmingham v Wrexham

Rotherham v Norwich

Mansfield v Portsmouth

Accy have Watford away, be a nice money spinner for them that

I think he played well on wed night and should be given the chance to play there against chelski

After sitting about 10 seats away from the drummer, and going to be all season i can see why people dont like him there,

every time the drum banged it made me want to stop singin as there was no rhythm with the crowd and drummers

we should have a few trial games with no drummers

Takes the biscuit

I had an everton fat sat right next to me for the first half hour, givin grief to everyone around us for singin rovers songs

Thank fully he got him self moved the idiot!!!

wouldnt it be easier for ya to just copy them and let me buy copies?

Well having watched and recorded the Sky FF 55min version, I have to say that we definitely got what we deserved. It's not so much that Pompey were the better side, but rather that they knew exactly how to play us. They (in effect) gave us a dose of our own medicine from a year or so back. They were straight in on Rovers players as soon as we got the ball; absolutely no time to settle or to think. On the day; good tactics to which we had no answer.

Secondly our defence was non-existent; complete shambles all afternoon. Neil and Axe were **********!!!!!!!

Whoever said Neil is better at CB than RB needs shooting. As for Neils two yellows and someone saying the second was a soft one, I say look again. IMO the first one could and maybe should have been a red, and the second was definitely a yellow given that the ref had specifically warned Neil earlier to be very careful. No, folks you can't blame Mr Wiley for that! Neil is a stupid ASS.

In midfield we had the only Rovers outfield player that came out with credit on the day; yes our much maligned and hated Robbie Savage! He was the only one that played his nuts off in MF. Reid was just about OK but probably not properly fit so will say no more on him. Bentley and MGP might just as well have not been on the field at all; nobody would have noticed any difference.

Up front Benni and Roberts did next to nothing, but given the complete shambles behind them I will excuse them (this time).

Brad had a good game overall; not the best he's ever had but good. Brilliant save of the penalty that should never have been.

Then we come to the performance of Rovers favorite ref, Mr. Wiley! Well surprise, surprise , I thought he did OK. He was certainly right in his sending off of Neil. He was slated for not giving Rovers a penalty when the Pompey player lay on the ball on the goal line and would not release it. Well having looked again and again at that incident I am forced to the conclusion that if our man had not stuck the boot in when and where he did (in the groin region) we would very likely have got one. You have to allow that the ref was probably thinking what to do about the situation with the Pompey guy just lying on the ball, when along comes our guy and boots where he thinks the ball is but inevitably catches the pompey guy where it hurts most and he acts accordingly giving Mr. Wiley not much choice, or an easy way out however you choose to see it. Whichever way, the ref did nothing wrong in awarding a free kick to Pompey.

For the rest of the match he was pretty even handed and performed as well/ badly as any other ref on average.

With the one exception of the Todd incident in stoppage time. When you look at it from behind as the ref did it definitely looks like Todd gets nothing on the ball and trips the man; therefore a penalty and red card for last defender. BUT when you see it from an angle further to the right you can see that Todd gets enough on the ball to send it for a corner and the Pompey player just trips over Todd's outstretched leg.

Wiley has agreed to look at it again and therefore give him credit for that. It should result in the card being rescinded.

Overall not a good day for Rovers, but as many others have said already it happend in similar fashion last year. Nuff said.

he lead on the ball causing obstruction, we should have had something, and sol campell dived all over roberts...

We lost 3-1 on the first day last season,

its only the first game, Reading won 3-2 so they must be title contenders yeah?

We played ###### yes, but I'm confident we can bounce back

what will he get then?

seen that on youtube before quality stuff

We have everton on wednesday, so neill will be available on sunday. Glad to see hughes bollock Neill as walked off

he'll have a 3 game ban,

What aload of ###### that was

Playes looked unintrested, had a definate penalty turned down, 2 players sent off, there played obstrucated the ball by diving on it, Mokena was abosulelty crap

and we gave away 3 sofrt goals

were fuked for sunday

No Neill, Todd or Tugay

i would play

friedel

neil todd zurab gray

gally bentley savage MGP

mccarthy roberts

Thats what i would go with aswell

its actually 2001 sorry, i got it wrong, found my stub the other day

2-1 to us

Roberts McCarthy

whys jack walker never had one?

£36 is alot of money to spend.

if you work minum wage from 9-5, and thats without brakes thats £36

then u need to tax that, and then if your payin for your kid

then drinks, food and programmes, you have to work for more then a day for 90 min off football.