Could his injury problems have partly been caused by the amount of driving he's been doing? Several players have found their hamstring problems have improved when their car's been adapted for them. If, as he says, he's spent a lot of time driving up and down to see his little girl and other family and friends perhaps he's less likely to get injured if he's here. I know it's not all benn down to that but could have been a contributory factor.

Hughes has said that he would have no problem playing him if he's still at rovers tomorrow, because he's never let him down in terms of committment in any game he's played so far.

actually a lot of those who work around the club are rovers fans - when your income depends on it you'd be daft not to be. Don't mean the players or management but the ordinary emplyees.

Sums it up quite nicely. I have always supported Lucas through the criticism of his behaviour and attitude but now I really would like to see West Ham relegated even more than before. I can't think why a professional player who wanted one last chance at a big club would settle for the cash and go to West Ham. I know about his ambitions after football but it still seems to me that real footballers want to win things and what is Lucas going to win with the Hammers? He's certainly going to finish off any chance they may have had of winning the Fair Play League.

Wasn't his point that it was impossible to set those low prices before the start of the season and not that you couldn't charge them at all?

She's also the mother of his daughter.

If we can offload Gallagher then I for one will be delighted, especially if we can get a sell-on clause included. He has shown no sign of being Premiership standard on a consistent basis and if we get rid then at least we'll see the back of the "Gallagher should be given a fair chance" brigade.

Well, it's just possible that he won't get a better offer than he gets from Rovers in terms of cash or the quality of club that want to buy him so he's really got to be careful what he says. No point in alienating the club that have already offered you a good contract if the only club that decides it wants you in the transfer window is a rubbish one. We all think we know that Liverpool want him but then it might all go wrong for him, we might not let him go in January because we can't find a replacement and Liverpool might change their mind before the summer. Who knows?

Basically he said that whether he leaves or not in this window is up to the manager and the chairman but that unless he signs a new contract he will be leaving in the summer. exactly what Hughes has said and exactly what we've all known was the case all along. Mark Hughes won't sell him unless he has someone else guaranteed to come straight in and do a good job and Neill knows that. He's not asking to go, just telling it straight. I don't think he was any worse or any better yesterday than at any other time recently and those who think he was deliberately doing as little as possible need to look at what happens on the pitch and not at what they think is happening or expect to see happen.

There is quite simply, no substitute for live football. As someone said, it's in your blood. It's part of what you do in your spare time, so much a part that you can't imagine not doing it. We go as a family, 4 or 5 of us or even more when my daughter comes over from Germany. It's our entertainment. So although I do feel £36 is a bit steep I've paid it as a one off for this game for my daughter who's coming home from France because she's been watching 3rd division Laval games since September and can't wait to watch Rovers again. She's at the Emirates today and will be at the other games played while she's home. We can't afford it either but we'll miss out on something else rather than miss Rovers. Not saying it makes us better than others who don't go - just explaining how it is.

No thanks but if we're making a Christmas wish list I'd take the Duff we knew before he went to Chelsea and the Matt Jansen the season beofre he got injured Ain't going to happen unfortunately

Do you really think he'd be taking a pen in that situation? You can be sure the management team have thought about the possibilities and will decide what happens. Besides which would you as a Liverpool fan ( many of whom dislike Neill intensely) want to see a player who could stab his team mates in the back coming to your club. I'd back Lucas to score if they were to let him take such a pen.

I still can't get my head around so many fans wanting Dunn back. If Hughes decides he's worth the risk then I'll respect that but I personally don't think he's a risk worth taking. There weren't that many fans who didn't think he'd got too big for his boots before he'd left or too fat for his trousers. Perhaps he will respect Hughes more than Souness but I don't see us getting the Dunn who scored that fantastic goal against the Dutch under 21s back and that's the Dunn I'll need to see before I really feel it was a worthwhile move to bring him back.

Unless they've restocked since last week they haven't had woolly hats for more than a year. They no longer carry the range of sweatshirts, fleeces, jumpers etc that they had even when Sportsworld first took over. The club are aware of the problem and I did hear from someone who knows that there are steps being taken to address the problem but it will take a while, probably not this season.

Yes, but you fail to remember that one was by a rovers player and the other one wasn't. We all know that fouls against our players have to be at least twice as bad before anything gets given

Abbey didn't you on a previous page start a thread where you asked who's this board's biggest idiot and admit it was you?

It's good to see that at last the sensible members of the board are standing up to be counted and, if not support Lucas Neill, at least accept that at no point has his behaviour warranted some of the vitriol aimes at him. As has been said, if we want new players we need to show them that though our support is limited in number, we are supportive of our manager and his decisions, and after all that's what this thread is about isn't it? Is Mark Hughes right to make Lucas Neill captain?

So if the players are asking you to get off Neill's back who is causing the problem? Not Lucas Neill as far as the players see it but a small section of fans. If you love the club as most on here seem to do then why not listen to Savage and Hughes and do as they ask?

There is no in-fighting at the club as far as anyone's aware. The problem is with a small minority of fans who seem to think it's acceptable to boo one of your own players just because he's said he wants to leave either in the next window or at the end of his contract. There doesn't seem to have been any falling out between Lucas Neill and his manager, board or fellow players so why fans can't just get off the manager and captains' backs and let them get on with their job, I don't know. I don't ask Mark Hughes or Lucas Neill how to do my job and I don't think they need fans telling them how to do theirs.

Notice that Hughes also said he needs the crowd behind him. He still hasn't decided whether he's going to let Neill go or not so there's no point in booing - if he ends up staying till summer and leaving on a free it'll be because at the moment our manager can't find anyone he prefers at a price we can afford and we as fans need to respect that decision.

To whoever commented on the fact that the pitch looked poor last night, when you've had more than a month of rain as we have then what pitch in the world is going to look brilliant. I was down at pitchside on Tuesday and I seriously wondered if we might not be able to play if we had the level of rain we'd had earlier in the week again.

Can you get it into your head that we know he doesn't care about the club, but that just makes him like the majority of other professional players? Most of them play for their club because that's the club who pay their wages and the best club they can play for at the time. While Lucas is prepared to play for 90+ minutes for us whenever he's asked to, and try to earn as far as footballers ever do the wages he gets then I don't care that he doesn't feel about the club like fans do. That's a rare quality in a modern day footballer.

How is Lucas Neill taking any of us for a ride? He was alert enough last night to pick up one of the very few decent balls into the box, bring it down and put it in the net. He may be error prone and may want away but he was still playing for us at 92 minutes. i'll take that level of committment till he leaves whenever that may be.

Try telling us something we haven't already heard a thousand times