All our players seem to be saying the same thing, even those who don't play for us like Dickov and Pongolle. We should have these comments translated into various languages and shown to all targets. This is not the management trying to sell the club but players talking about how they like the training and coaching, feel they are being treated as responsible adults and feel the club is going places and in the midst of the doom and gloom regarding Bellamy it's great to hear. Hopefully, Bellamy will have the good grace to say good things about Rovers too.

And where exactly does Lucas Neill ask for a transfer? I haven't seen anything quoted that says he wants to leave Ewood. I've seen a lot of media speculation and one or two possibly ill-judged comments (which may or may not be correctly quoted) Plenty of rumour but no fact other than that he hasn't actually signed a new contract yet. Leave him alone until we see what's actually going on.

It does if you work with the same people, management etc but rovers is a completely different set up from when he joined and when someone like Dickov is saying he learnt more in his 2 years working with Mark Hughes and co than at any other time in his career you do have to think Rovers is a good place to be just now.

Why should he find it stale here when most of the players are saying this is the most exciting time to be a Rover? I know he's been here a while but things aren't necessarily that exciting elsewhere and unless everything goes pear shaped this season then he might as well sign his contract, stay another year and then if it doesn't work out go at the end of next season. I suspect agent power in some of these rumours - if you don't move on or negotiate a bumper deal agents don't earn as much so they push for moves that the player might consider but wouldn't necessarily seek of their own accord.

Good to hear Bruce say he doesn't have to sell Heskey. Please don't then unless it's to some other rubbish team so he can go down with them again.

Can't imagine what Stuart Pearce saw in Dickov when he played at the end of the season. He was awful at Portsmouth, never up with play and looking thoroughly uninterested in getting the ball or doing anything with it when someone was inconsiderate enough to put it directly in his path. Almost all the Rovers fans were yelling at Hughes to get him off because anyone would have been more effective. Pretty much the same story in the other games he played too. I wasn't one of Dickov's critics before because, as a lot of people have said, he always seemed to put in the effort to make up for any lack of ability but at the end of the season he didn't even seem to be trying and I for one won't miss him.

There's a large part of me that says that Spurs and their moaning fans deserve all they get and it will serve them right if Arsenal win the champions league and nick their place but it doesn't make it right that the champions can't defend their title except at the expense of a team who have worked hard all season and would in most seasons have qualified. What real hardship did it cause anyone when Liverpool were given an extra place last year? I do feel sorry for Spurs if they don't get Champions league because it could have been us and we'd have been really gutted then. Then I think again about those whingeing fans .......

Surely a lot of what they do is dependent on the uefa cup place cos if we don't get it they already know they've got to play the intertoto. That'll shape the clubs planning. Personally I'd like to see them go to France as we always miss the preseasons because of our family holidays.

It will only ever happen if all conditions are right, ie. transfer fee, low wages. I just can't see Hughes taking a gamble on him when there will be a number of other options this summer!

Bit late if he recovers by Wednesday because Chelsea's Tuesday

Can you not see the contradiction??!!!!

Because it is the ENGLISH FOOTBALL TEAM!! lets get down to basics here, this is not club football, we cant pick ronaldihno, so why do you think we can pick Scolari? I know there is no rule against it, but for the sake of the essence of National football teams, the coach should be English. Its not like we are an up and coming footballing country that needs a helping hand from a foreign coach, like South Korea did, like the African nations do. We have a pool of English managers to pick from

But if nobody goes to the ground then there is no product. It's alright saying that people watch it in the pub but how much do you spend there and what will there be to watch in a few years if the club can't raise income ? We can't really afford to go to all the games we go to and we're certainly not well off but as far as possible we try to support the club by attending games. I know the cost of season tickets is high for a lot of people but it's a case of how low the club can afford to make them. You want a high quality product in pleasant surroundings then you have to pay for it.

Perhaps the FA should be encouraged to look at the messageboards themselves and see the opinions of those who were there before they charge managers or players for telling the truth. The officials last night were very poor, equally for both clubs. Dowd didn't look like he knew what he was doing (or like he cared enough about getting things right) for large parts of the game and the players weren't clear what would be given as a foul and what wouldn't. It led to a poor game that satisfied nobody, not managers, players or fans. We did play poorly as we have much of the time recently, and didn't deserve more than a point if that, but some of the poor play by both sides was due to total lack of confidence in the officials. Good refs create an atmosphere where even when they get things wrong, and most of them do some of the time, the players feel that most of the time things will be done properly and they can get on and play their game.

Why is there this automatic assumption that the club would want to sell and Pedersen would want to go? I'm sure he will fancy a move at some point but there were plenty of clubs sniffing around Duff and others. They stayed until they had a good reason to leave and depending on where we finish this season I'm not sure there is a compelling reason to go to United. I know it must be tempting to play in front of the big crowds they get but how sure could you be of playing every week. Pedersen's young enough to wait a year or two, especially if Rovers play in Europe and he looks good there too, and push his earning capacity and his choice of clubs up.