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why bother to go when you can watch it on TV? well, personally I know there's nothing like a live match, especially a live evening match when you're enclosed in Ewood and it's dark outside the glow of the floodlights. If we don't go there'll be no live football because you can't play in an empty stadium. I always tell kids who say to me that they'll watch it on TV that they just do not know what they are missing. It was awful on sunday though seeing just how empty Ewood looked on TV. I keep trying to persuade my pupils to come but would welcome support from the club in the form of leaflets and posters when there are special offers on. Quite often I tell kids about cheap tickets and they haven't been aware of them. They tend to walk around with their eyes closed most of the time.

Glad I'm not the only one who wondered which match Gavin Peacock had been watching. Sky are not normally to be praised for their unbiased opinion but on this occasion they seemed to be much more prepared to give us the benefit of the doubt. They still felt Tugay gave away a pen but that sending off was unnecessarily harsh

See also that the New Inns over towards Great Harwood has huge signs saying that the Spice lounge is now open. Do they know something we don't?

Not only that but not all decisions are of equal value. You might get a dodgy pen against you one week when it matters to the score line ie means that the win/draw/loss changes. Then the next week you might get a dodgy pen for you when you're already winning 3-0 and, other than your goal difference, it doesn't matter.

He was excellent for Wales the other night though, albeit against poor opposition. Perhaps he's finally grown up - some people take a long time to do it.

Wasn't for one minute suggesting he should have said it. Just that you can see why he might think it. Refs should always have the sense to keep their opinions to themselves while they are still involved in the game, otherwise they are not acting in a suitably professional manner.

If, as he says, he doesn't care whether he's invited back then why did he bother with the initial communication or the reply and why should we even consider whether it might be proper to invite him back? The guy claims he doesn't like Rovers fans anyway so let's forget about him, if in fact he exists, and get on with discussing or club instead of his rants.

I think Mourinho's a very dangerous character. If a situation can be inflamed, he'll inflame it. He never tries to defuse situations. Other managers have the occasional rant when something really upsets tham but he seems to find some conspiracy against Chelsea every week and cannot accept that his own team contribute anything to the on-field problems that occur. I have no great liking for Graham Poll but, if he did say Chelsea need to be taught a lesson, I can see where he's coming from as the arrogance of club and manager is often breathtaking.

Was he not also offered the chance to meet JW face to face and talk about what he saw as the issues but did not take the chairman up on the offer, preferring to slag him off on here at every opportunity? I personally have no problem with his right to think and say whatever he wants but I do not want to see his anti-rovers tripe on this message board. I'm not one of the in-crowd and know nobody else who contributes. I just like to read and respond to people's points of view. You couldn't read Vinjay's because they were so vicious and obnoxious and you couldn't respond to anything in them because he'd try to twist everything you said to his own point of view. Please, don't allow him back.

Hope that's not famous last words there and he doesn't score a hat-trick against us!

Money's no good if you can't buy a player to replace the one you lose. The timing of Liverpool's bid left us no chance of a replacement unless they'd let Warnock leave as part of the deal. That's the purely practical reason why it couldn't be allowed to happen. with time to thrash out a deal if anyone wants Neill in Jan then it may well happen. Lucas Neill himself said it wasn't the right deal at the right time for us and he accepted that.

I don't think he's not good enough is enough. He's not hardworking enough; he has mostly come on when the game's been going our way. I just don't see him as the player who can take a game we're losing by the scruff of the neck and turn it around. He never looks interested in doing any of the mundane jobs that need doing to help the team. I agree his positioning can be good but then his shooting is often not up to the same standard. If we'd progressed in the Carling Cup or if we draw relatively low level opposition in the early FA cup rounds then I'd expect to see him starting but at the moment I can't see why he'd keep any of our other strikers out of the starting line up.

To be fair to Alan Green, who I don't often agree with, he asked the guy if he'd been watching the same game as him and when he then came out with the "Blackburn don't deserve to be in the prem and when they split the prem in half it will be great to be rid of teams like Blackburn", Green told him he was spouting rubbish and got rid of him fairly fast.

I know my dislike of the guy is totally irrational but, hey, I'm female - we're not meant to be logical, are we?

Don't know if it would be a good move football wise to sign him but I'd probably have to loan someone else my season ticket as I don't think I could stand watching him play for Rovers. There's something about him that makes my flesh creep and I can't understand the fascination he seems to have for other females. I'd have to stop listening to Rovervision interviews too as he makes David Bentley with his "I mean" every few seconds sound articulate. Have spent years making little girls re-cover their French exercise books whenever they tried sticking pictures of Beckham on them, so from a personal point of view I hope it really is just a pipe dream.

Remember the time at Bolton where he sat with the fans, queued for drinks with everyone else and bought drinks for some of the fans.

Tugay speaks perfectly good English but as someone else said he doesn't like interviews and so doesn't do them. Let his football do the talking. He has real respect for Rovers fans. My family are now on tugay watch to check when he's about to be subbed. we spotted the long walk some time ago and as soon as Tugay appears on our left we know he's going off!

Personally I like the fact that the ground isn't all modern and state of the art. It's quirky and slightly scruffy on one side with real class on the others - a bit like the town and the people who go to the ground. It takes all sorts and there are those who really like sitting in the Riverside, some of them far posher and well-heeled than most of us. For them it's a bit of a retro thing - reminds them of where the club has come from and I don't see why we as fans or anyone else needs to apologise for that.

Good. Having seen the backpeddling in the Italian league over the points deductions handed out, you start to feel that all anyone has to do nowadays is appeal and they automatically get their "sentence" reduced. About time someone found out it doesn't always work like that.

Why would Rovers want a new ground? Clubs that have moved from their traditional base don't necessarily attract bigger crowds unless, like arsenal, they already have the fan base but can't expand their current ground to accommodate the people who want to go. Ewood is not hard to get to - the station's not far, buses go past and the access to the motorway for away fans is as good as anywhere else in Blackburn. And at least Ewood has character. All these soulless bowls they build now are what rob the grounds of atmosphere and the pitches have to be relaid year in, year out because they don't get enough light and air. The Riverside is cheap and while people are prepared to sit there, let them. Do think we might shove away fans in the corners of the Jack Walker stand though to help make it more difficult for them to support their teams.

Ehiogu said last night it would probably be end of the month. Can we wait that long for Brett? Don't think many of us ever thought we'd be worried at the prospect of his missing 6 weeks of the season!

Does this now mean that we might get some sympathy from the media? I won't hold my breath!

Lack of a creditable opposition. They can basically say what they want and do as they want because they dominate football coverage in this country. When you hear what they charge the BBC and other stations just to show clips from games they cover you realise the ridiculous situation that has been allowed to develop in this country. We need a more level playing field and more competition then we might just get a better, less biased coverage.

yes but one you can do something about - the other you can't and shouldn't want to. He should be able to be proud of being a black south African doing well in international sport particularly after the history of apartheid

Nobody seems to have mentioned the part the pitch played in rovers performance. Not an excuse as Wenger tried to make it in Moscow but it just seemed very slow especially in the first half compared to the pitches in the Prem. It made slick passing very difficult as the ball seemed to slow down. Got better in the second half when the dew started forming and it got damp on top.