bob fleming

I'll go along with that. A one trick pony with limited ideas, it doesn't ring true. It's probably Catherine Tate.

Typical Gates antics, first delaying the release of SP3 for MS Exchange 2003 and then turning his attentions to the Children’s Vaccine Program before Blackburn Rovers. If he can put it off he will do, any old excuse.

Yes, probably. But once they’ve sorted that out maybe they could turn their attentions to Ewood?

I thought Dunn left purely because of Souness? Plus the £5m no doubt suited us. Duff kissing the club badge is just a stupid habit, it means nothing, they're all at it. As for Gally, got to agree that we'll never really know until he's given a proper run of games. Can't see that happening, I don't think he's strong enough. If he's going to fit in anywhere it's prbobably as a right winger. Has a good cross on him I seem to recall but then that was three years ago.

Whilst Vinjay is obviously turning into Inspector Clousea’s boss, this stood out, although I’m not sure of the validity of the quote: "While the BRFC board are responsible to the shareholders, the board also has a duty of care to its stakeholders, the fans. The board while charged with finding new investment would take a view on whether or not new investment in the club would be in the club’s best interests.” I’d be interested in knowing how the search for new investment was going. Have we made any inroads? Anyone interested? How are we going about this? Has anyone actually rang Bill Gates? Of course I appreciate that we probably shouldn’t be privy to this information but all we hear at regular intervals is that the club is looking for new investment and that's where it ends.

Caption Competition Sherwood and Thatcher blow their tops at Graham Poll's inappropriately timed and quite frankly crap Tommy Cooper impression during the Worthington Cup Final of 2002. Nice preview bellamy11.

Welcome ot the board Joost!

Magic cake. Just eat a slice and you'll become invincible. The Amsterdamians swear by it.

Legend has it that there was a bunch of Rangers fans sat in their local boozer in Glasgow five years ago, watching the game live on Eurosport. One of them spilt his pint and they all got soaked. They’ve never been back. I’ll take my chances in Holland.

A lot cheaper. Their loss.

Obviously Beckham would have to drop his wages if he were to come here, but why wouldn’t he? He’s made his money now surely? Dropped from the England team, bit part player at Real, what better way of going out and proving yourself again than in the Premier League. Why not us? It’ll all boil down to what he wants to do, does he want to be remembered for what he has done in the past? Does he want to prove his many doubters wrong (who say he is finished at the highest level) including the England manager? Or will he simply decide to end his career in the U.S. where whatever he does and how well he plays will never be treated the same as in the EPL? Stranger things have happened, although I doubt it will. If he does arrive expect Sportsworld at Ewood to run out of the letters "B" "E" "C" "K" "H" "A" and "M" within 20 minutes.

We're not playing Reading until the middle of May!! This could well sway things.

Sorry, disagree. What about their fans?! Complete pain in the arse. They also have Ronaldo (nowt to do with the England thing by the way) I can’t stand the fella. Gary Neville. Fat Wayne (best striker in the world with about 30 goals in three seasons in the Premier League). Sir Alex Ferguson (who I admit you have to raise your hat to for longevity) not realising that they’d just relegated us and his ex-right hand man. They gave us Brian Kidd. Still bleating constantly about us buying the title. The media stating constantly how wonderful their football is and everyone buying into it regardless. Commentators saying things like "Oh what a fantatstic ball that was!" in an over the top stylee as Rio Ferdinand launches a 40 yard pass into the stand. Rooney being starved of service and yet he drops deep 90% of the time to get the ball. That’s without even trying.

Bit harsh that LD, sure they've lost 3 on the bounce in the league but they're doing well in Europe.

I like that. I like that a lot. Pin that up somewhere someone. Nice one vyeo. Rovers 2 Manchester United Esq 1. No idea how.

Oooooohhhh!! Listen to him! All laar de daarrr and high and mighty. Just because you've seen the reserves. Well I haven't seen the reserves play for years and years now but I have followed them closely on BRFCS.co.biz.com.uk. If that excludes me from having an opinion then I'm going to report you to the in-transit moderator. Are you actually daring to suggest that my reading a few snippets of match reports on the internet and in the local paper means that I can't form an illconceived opinion?

Duff began playing for Rovers 'A' Team as it was known back then in the Autumn of 1995. Which would have made sense as he'd have just left school and was 16. This differs somewhat to Wikip... sorry, Rover The Moons chain of events and proves that not everything you read on the internet is the truth. Rover The Moon talks a lot of sense. As for Derbyshire and Garner I'd like to back Tris' point up and suggest that they should be in the first XI NOW. Please note that if they ever do make it and become regular first team players I was the one saying that they should have been playing a lot sooner, that I know more than the manager and that basically the whole idea was mine (and not Tris').

Never heard of 'em. At what age was he? 14? It's like saying Rovers bought a player of Langho Juniors or Ozzy St Mary's. I take it you've never actually seen Taylor play then? Which doesn't help your arguement does it. The fact that you've never seen him play and Hughes etc see him on a day to day basis clearly doesn't place you in a better position to make a judgement. Or maybe it does, maybe I'm losing the plot.

Celtic in Ireland?! Didn't play for the Youth team? Wasn't a Youth player? Such a short sentence, so much rubbish. Which is an improvement on the paragraphs you normally churn out. Hopefully Taylor will get his chance at some stage. At the end of the day you've got to go with Hughes and his team though. UEFA qualified coaches all of them. You'd think they'd know when they see a player who is ready to make the step up. In the meantime we'll have to disregard the coaching staff at Rovers and have to listen to a couple of members of this messageboard who get to a game once every blue moon. Out of interest rover6 and Rover The Moon when did you last see Taylor play?

In England as well Alan. Who'd have thought it? Last one to leave turn the light off will you.

Fatigue, injuries, Martin O'Neill. Mickey Gray. I can see no logical reason whatsoever for predicting a Rovers win. So, predictably, I'll predict 2-1 to Rovers. That's my prediction. Peter Withe for them, Chris Thompson with both of ours.

It wasn't last year in the League Cup I can tell you. Very quiet. Filling in the gaps, rebuilding the Riverside in line with the other three stands, unfortunately it isn't going to happen unless one of the Trustees in Jersey (if that's where they really are. ) has one too many and signs off a cheque for us at Christmas. Do we really need a 40,000+ stadium when we can only get 13K for a European match at £15 a pop? I suppose the atmosphere would be better in an echoey sort of way. The Mancs would be happy. The stadium is probably too big anyway at the moment. In an ideal world you could take the top off the Darwen and Blackburn Ends and stick them on the Riverside to create three stands the same height and then the Nuttall Street towering over the rest. Perhaps that was an oversight by Jack in using Grade 1 steel instead of lego.

Full report required please...

Where's Todd?

That's what I heard as well, that's our only chance really. "Cor, it's hot again today isn't it? Thank heavens there's a giant iceburg floating down Bolton Road so I can cool down a bit". The thing I don't understand (apart from Logarithms) is these Greenhouse Gases that are making the hole in the Ozone Layer bigger. Why allow people to have them then? And if people are allowed to have Greenhouses those are the people who should be getting taxed heavily, not me, I don't even have a shed. Anyway it's obvious that Global Warming won't effect those old enough to contrubute to this debate at this moment in time. It's our children and our childrens clildren and our childrens childrens children that will be most effected. I can only see prices of property go up in value in those parts of the world that are traditionally cold. Places like Newcastle and Carlisle will become "boom towns" over night (or at least when it's sunny) so if any of you have anything about you, you start looking at getting a little flat or something there for the sake of future generations.