bob fleming

You're quite right, Kuqi equalised with a 25 yard screamer, I remember now. I still think that Roberts is a good signing though.

It’s a good job you’re in Australia SAR otherwise we’d have to have a kick about. I’d turn you inside out that often you’d end up with twisted blood. Well maybe not. Anyway as for lacing your boots, I bet you don’t even wear boots, probably ‘pumps’ or ballet shoes. You big girl.

July 2006 - "Good afternoon everyone, we've just signed Craig Bellamy, we got him on the cheap. However we'd just like to take this opportunity to point out that if he plays a blinder this season a Champions League club can buy him for a paltry £6 million quid. We're not happy about it but his agent insisted on the clause. We just thought we'd better bring it to your attention." Happier now Blueboy? You missed out James Beattie, joey_big_nose and USABlue. Other than that I can't think of any others. Jim Bowen? (probably too old now, he's catching Tugay up) I hope you asked him how many of their prolific strikers scored 14 goals last season? Still so long as he's happy. There's a lot to look forward to in the Championship. (try and keep a straight face here) For what it's worth I'm very happy with the signing. As others have said he caused us and others problems last season. Thought he looked strong and held the ball up well. He scored the equaliser for the piemen against us back in April.

I doubt Ronaldo has any. BTW your contribution to this thread has done my blood pressure no good whatsover.

Just Ibrahimović who can leave to a club in the North West of England who play in Blue and White halves for a steak pie, a packet of polo mints and a 12 hour old kebab. It just needs Hughesy to "test the water" now.

My Grandad used to race greyhounds as well. It was hopeless, they'd win everytime, they were just too quick for him. Mind you he was 78.

Well said Eddie. That's more or less what I was going to type.

I read about it a while ago - this is the gist of it. - it's a Euro thing.

--> QUOTE(Ste B @ Jun 14 2006, 22:27 ) 415396[/snapback] What is a joke is that a Rovers shirt is apparently Nazi imagery, as JPW wasnt allowed into the Aus v Japan game with it. That's the Lonsdale logo Ste. I kid you not.

It’s not all it’s hyped up to be. The Welsh, admittedly not all of them, install 3.0 litre Cosworth racing engines in giant daffodils and race them around the streets of various Welsh back water towns. It’s never well advertised as invariably the daffs and taffs collapse half way round the first lap and the whole thing ends in disaster. It looks good on paper but in reality is a great big bag of @#/?.

It's a funny place to go on honeymoon but so long as he doesn't go to Liverpool he can do what he likes as far as I'm concerned.

He's at it again. Something needs to be done. Not only this but he was also a complete idiot on They Think It's All Over last night. Thick as two short planks.

Bit of an error there dillo_dillo. You've put "I" instead of "He". (cheap shot number 768 in a never ending series)

Pleasure: - n1 : a pleasure rumour: - a half truth, probably overhead coming from an inebriated shaun wright-philips in a night club at 3.30 a.m. extremely unlikely to occur in the time scales stated, if ever.

Agreed. Reidy needs to work on getting a massive comb over between now and the start of next season. It makes sense (on every level) and he'll look bloody good.

But my mate who i go with forgot to do on early bird so called a couple of days later to be told he cant renew until prices set..so now he's not bothering, if he's honest he just can't be arsed but Rovers have pulled out all the stops to find him the excuse he was looking and made it easier for him to stop going.

This may have been posted elsewhere. According to TalkSport this morning Ballack is on £130K per week. AFTER TAX. So that's £200K a week. I don't know what he sees in the place to be honest.

No thanks Colin, the thing I do on here is great - gives me a whole month to get it together. I'd struggle with the deadlines. Well done LD - your Tuesday column was about the only thing worth reading about the Rovers in the LET. Happy retirement!

I was going to sit down with den at the end of the season but after messing him around for a bit I'm going to hold on until after the World Cup and keep my options option. If I'm honest I'm hoping for a multi-million pound deal from www.rovers.co.uk but if that doesn't happen (mainly because Grooby's a bit tight) I've always got brfcs.com to fall back on.

Good post AMU. Looking back I think you're right to an extent. If my memory serves me right Jack's involvement came about when we got Bobby Mimms in, which he did on the quiet before January, that was followed up towards the end of the season with the signings of Tony Dobson and Steve Livingston from Coventry who were instrumental in keeping us up. I think those two cost about £750,000 ?? So although pulses weren't exactly racing at this point we'd spent more in the last 6 months than in about 20 years. Don McKay went and then the master stroke. Kenny Dalglish and Ray Harford were taking over. It was announced on the radio on the morning of our home match against Plymouth Argyle (which we won 5-2 I think (ironically, see elsewhere in this forum)). There was an air of expectation as to who we would get, we'd bid for Gary Lineker in the summer and even Frank Sidebottom was making jokes about that, so we needed a high profile manager. No one could have predicted that we'd get Dalglish though. It really was unbelievable. They weren't laughing quite as loud now. (Correct me if 'm wrong on any of these points people, it's been a few years)

No, I'm going to give that a miss and wait until next season for all things Rovers.

May. The End Game. “Never cast a clout until May is out” they reckon. Which apparently means; don’t go out without a coat until after May because of the unpredictable weather. I jut used to presume that you were more likely to get a punch in the face on June 1st. Anyway, the next eight days would decide our season. Will we be off to Europe next year? Will it be via the InterTonto? Will I get to a game (or two)? More importantly can we win another game in Europe? And even more importantly than that, after April, can we win another game this season? Saturday 29 April - The race for 6th: - PLD PTS GD 6th Rovers 35 54 +4 7th Newcastle 36 54 +4 8th Bolton 35 52 +8 9th Wigan 36 51 -4 Charlton Athletic 0 - Blackburn Rovers 2. OK, we’ve had a good season. We’re a hard team to face but we are beatable. Alan Curbishley resigned just before the kick off. That’s how far we’ve come this season. I don’t remember any managers resigning in 1994/95 when they had to play us. Managers, established Premier League Managers at that, retire rather than have to face us. It’s all credit to Mark Hughes in my book. Before the kick off we were all thinking, “Oh great he’s resigned this’ll be one last effort for the man”, then afterwards some of us were saying “We won only ‘cause he’d resigned and they were shell shocked”. Well make your bloody minds up will you? In truth Charlton’s form had been awful for the last few games and they had several players missing. Half man / half gonk, Tugay returned and made a massive difference in our midfield, we ran the show. Steven Reid opened the scoring with a header on 42 minutes and then the Welsh Weasel forced a second when Chris Powell put through his own net from 70 yards. Great stuff from Rovers in testing / easy circumstances. 6th spot was definitely on. Elsewhere, the football world is left reeling as founder members of the G14 and the English equivalent of Real Madrid are relegated. How was this allowed to happen? I for one feel cheated and the Premiership will not be the same next year without the weekly (or should that be weakly?) comments from “Big Clubs” many spokespeople. If it’s not Gold it’s Brady, if it’s not Brady it’s Sullivan, if it’s not Sullivan, it’s Elephant Man. A veritable conveyor belt of unpleasant and annoying people. Good riddance. Do us all a favour, don’t rush back. Tuesday 2 May - The revenge of the sixth: - 6th Rovers 36 57 +6 7th Newcastle 37 55 +4 8th Bolton 36 52 +7 Blackburn Rovers 1 - Roman Abramovich’s Chelsea 0. Well, what can you say? Well for my point of view not a lot that hasn’t already been said on brfcs.com. One of the greatest nights at Ewood for ages, with scenes reminiscent of VE Day (who can forget the celebrations all those years ago when we went two nil up against the Germans in 1945?) Steven Reid netted his second goal in as many games when he breathed heavily on a Robbie Savage free kick just before half time. Apart from some of the Chelsea players falling over clumsily in the second half in a pathetic attempt to win a penalty that was all that was needed to see off the most expensively assembled array of footballers English football has ever seen. Events took a bizarre twist after the match as Jose Mourinho, who must have still been drunk from celebrating their premier title win at the weekend, actually gave us some praise. It just didn’t feel right. What else happened that week? Well the Welsh Weasel was named ‘Player of the Season’ and Steven Reid’s goal away at Wigan was named ‘Goal of the Season’. Quite right too in my book. There were other awards such as the ‘Quickest Booking’ of the season, ‘Stupidest Haircut’ of the season and the ‘Least Appearances from an Italian Centre Half on at least £1 Million a Season’ of the season award, but I don’t think you’re bothered about those. Meanwhile, Mark Hughes and all his back room team (Eddie and Jim) all signed new contracts that will keep them at Rovers until the summer of 2009!! Great news! Is there a clause though? Again no one has a clue. Perhaps we could have a pointless debate? Sunday 7 May - The race for sixth: - 5th Arsenal 37 64 +35 6th Rovers 37 60 +7 7th Newcastle 37 55 +4 Looking at the table going into the final game of the season most of us had quite frankly become a little complacent about qualifying for the UEFA Cup. Not me. Oh no. As we’re all aware, and many like to constantly remind us, you can take nothing for granted in football and Rovers always make things difficult for themselves, always do things the hard way and ultimately let us down (Let's face it, apart from the two cup wins, two promotions and the Champions of England thing it’s almost certainly been one let down after another over the last twenty years). So going into the Manchester City game I was surprised the vast majority of fans thought we’d already done it. I was extremely nervous and was just waiting for the 22 player fight, the pitch invasion or an unsavoury “incident” involving Roarina and Ken Beamish that would see us have 10 points deducted by the FA. Hey! But what do I know? None of us those things happened! We’d done it and qualified for Europe again! We rounded things off with a comfortable win. Johnny Slippers with the first after "England’s Number 1", (if I wasn’t English that would be really funny, stay fit Robinson) David James dropped a cross at his feet. He couldn’t miss and didn’t. Then in the second half big Shefki doubled our lead with his eighth goal of the season, not a bad return. You’ve just got to like the fella. Conscious that we’re in danger of not topping the “Bully Boy League” Tugay decided to get himself sent off with a poor challenge that the City player completely over reacted too, rolling around on the floor like a big girly rolling thing. Regardless, Hughes should now walk away with the May Manager of The Month Award. The players wore next season’s home shirts and as many experts predicted we’re going to wear Blue and White halves again. A good decision in my view. Some crucial questions; Are they halved or are they quartered? And perhaps more importantly will there be a DVD? Do they do DVD’s? Will they start doing mini kits in the “club” shop again? Will they ever know when they’re getting new stock in? Will I get conformation or a “thank you” for renewing my season ticket? When’s the new home shirt out? When’s the away shirt out? Where’s Todd? When does mega flop Sealdinho’s contract run out? Does anyone know what I’m on about? Elsewhere on this day the original “big club” Tottenham Hotspurts, missed out on 4th place and qualification for the Champions League because they came down with the ten bob bits. I’ll just get my violin out again. Well, what a season that was. All credit to all the players and staff. A phenomenal performance. Can we do as well next year? Well “hopefully” is the ultimate answer. Of course it’ll be harder and the squad will be put under even more pressure due to the amount of games we’ll have to play (they’ll be two in Europe don’t forget). Who knows what will happen? If Boro can get to the UEFA Cup Final and get beat 4-0 then why not us? Let’s not forget on our day we’re more than capable of getting beat by anybody. Can we break through into the Top 4 in the Premier League? I don’t know, we’ve come a very long way in a very short space of time, let’s just celebrate that. Hopefully Hughesy will be able to add to his squad as he’d like and take us to the next level. I know one thing though, if we score as many great goals and win as many games as in 2005/06 then we’ll be very happy fans. I just hope more people get down to the games and back the club. So that’s it. No more football until middle / late July when Rovers will no doubt start their pre season friendlies. It’s a long time to go without. However ‘cause I’m good to you guys I’ve been looking on tinterweb and discovered that the following games are on!! The FA Cup Final - tomorrow, Liverpool v West Ham (I’ve got 1600 spares tickets if anyone’s interested) The Champions League Final - Arsenal v Barcelona May 17, England 'B' v Belarus Thurs 25 May, England v Hungary Tues 30 May and England v Jamaica Sat 3 June. Not only that, and hardly anyone’s mentioned it, but there’s also something on called the '2006 FIFA World Cup'. It's on in Germany and apparently there’s 64 matches on TV between June 9th and July 9th. Other than that though there’s almost no football on whatsoever. Something should be done. It’s a national scandal. I’m not sure whose to blame so I’ll blame Sven Goran Eriksson. That’s yer lot for this season sportsfans. Have a great summer, keep taking the tablets.

They're scared of Lee, that's why the sheep hired the bull to keep him out. You can often hear him in these parts frollicking in the fields at night. I thought it was the squirrels at first. Most unpleasant. Really great pictures dillo. Reminded me of what someone said about HD TV recently, "it's clearer than real life!".