bob fleming

It could spell the end for Nissa.

Thats what I was trying to say earlier. I think it's the LET just trying to sell a few more papers on a quiet and depressing "Rovers news" month/week/day. On reflection you're probably right. I'm sure John Williams is delighted with it's timing during what is probably the busiest week for season ticket renewals. Let's be honest it couldn't have been timed any worse.

It might have been better to not come clean at all. Just a bit of a quick wash of the face, behind the ears and other assorted bits. Maybe it's a bluff, or a double bluff. Who knows. Smoke and mirrors, all in code, double meanings. Maybe the truth, maybe a pack of lies. I don't know who to believe anymore. We shall see. Anyone had their season ticket delivered yet? This is getting ridiculous. Eight weeks off the new season and still nothing. By the way I don't think the LET would jeopardise their relationship with Rovers by printing something that the club didn't approve of.

Absolutely agree Rev. Obviously it could be argued that Rovers are being honest with the fans, or as previously mentioned, pleading poverty in order to secure new signings slightly cheaper, however... Regardless of whether we are skint or not this isn't going to encourage new season ticket holders or anyone to renew. Therefore we end up even more skint. Wooops, that was careless. All in all it's an extremely badly timed press release IMO. No such thing as bad publicity? Despite this statement I suspect we probably have enough for a left winger and maybe even a centre half. But nothing beyond that (i.e. certainly no Nicky Butt and his poorly knee).

Exactly. He wasn't even on the bench as far as I could tell. Still never mind all that, seeing as we always need a scapegoat I'm going to choose David James. Why have a wall when you hide behind it and can't see where the ball is going? Why have hands when you can tackle with your feet, badly? Why wasn't he sent off? If that was the Premier League he'd have been off in seconds. Still - all is not lost. No one, I don't care who, will look forward to playing England, and that includes France.

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Ah yes - but you're in Leyland. I'll settle for an hour less ale thanks.

Your not going to believe this but it's really sunny. It's getting a bit cloudier as the day draws on though but we should be OK. A real nice summery feel to the place, tempered only slightly by the fact that the pubs shut at 10.30 this evening and I've got work tomorrow - I'm confident of avoiding arrest though

Call me naive but I can't keep up with this at all. soueyisgod is English but lives in Spain but is seeing all these "hooligans" whilst he is in Portugal and not drinking heavily? ptholt is from England, once lived near Glasgow, but now lives in Portugal with his wife and children who are Spanish? Meanwhile the worst offenders to date of Euro 2004 (gosh it's exciting - let's see who has the most arrests at the end of the tournament) are the Spanish. How the hell can I comment on any of this from Blackburn, which I think is in England?

For a minute there I thought you were going to say your wife and kids! (Only joking fella - as was Manchester Blue)

You telling me they don't actually eat people? Yes, I'm right naive me. But happy.

Cheers soueyisgod - that saves me from buying the Daily Mail tomorrow. Hooligans, Binge Drinking, Pub Opening Hours - it's all there. Perhaps a paragraph on Asylum? A little verse on The Euro? You'll have all the bases covered then. I wasn't playing it down, it just seems strange that they've been released without charge. As SG194 has said, be careful, because if the sun's too hot and they have too much nasty lager then England fans do actually eat people. In one. I read it on the internet.

Funny how soueyisgod is playing up what happened last night. An outbreak of violence so serious that the four arrested have since been released by the Police without charge (as reported on Sky Sports News in the last half hour).

Nothing to do with me that I'm pleased to report Alan. Although it has put a smile on my face. Having read bits of that article I noticed that they are also known as the "North American 'stifftail' " which certainly backs up your original post. Perhaps they should be called "Randy Duck" ? Elsewhere the article goes on about culls beginning and culls ending, Beginning and then ending, Beginning again and then ending again. Beginning. Then ending. Begnning again. And then ending again."These trials were to discover the best control method for ruddy ducks. The shootings resulted in some birds dying in protracted agony. According to a Department of the Environment report, one bird was shot 13 times and was still alive when picked up from the water. Another took two hours to die." I'm sure many people will be extremely annoyed that this has gone wildly off topic, something I'm well aware of and feel really, really bad about. However, let's just consider that last paragraph again, it's certainly made me change my mind. We have found our answer. Never mind geese, swans, tiger sharks, and mallards. Randy Duck was shot 13 times!! 13 times and was still alive!! What about that eh? Hard as nails in more ways than one. The ducks duck. A beast amongst birds and a right swine with the ladies to boot. Surely the winner?

Ruddy Ducks catchphrase is, I believe "I can do 'em quicker than they can pull 'em from under me". I believe the word is arrogant. No need for it Ruddy Duck, no need at all. He'll get what's coming to him eventually and I for one will sleep a lot better that night I can tell you.

Nice one Macky. I'm in. bob fleming XI: Khan, Miguel, Puyol, A Cole, Ljungberg, Costinha, Lampard, Zidane, Pauleta, Morientes, Rooney. It's coming home....etc..... x14 in the league at the moment I believe.

Ruddy Duck appears to be a lover rather than a fighter Alan. Wouldn't last 30 seconds in with a Mallard.

Ah well, yes, you see, I missed that Tom. I notice you came across some Mallards the other day when running off and not paying for your lunch. The Mallard is the hardest of the lot. It even sounds hard. "Oh look out here comes Mr Swan", "Oh no here's Mr Goose". "Holy s*** Batman!! Here's comes MR MALLARD!!" I think we all know which has the biggest impact and it has nothing to do with capital letters. I've done quite a bit of research on this subject stretching back well over 2.5 minutes now and the mallard is described by many experts on dictionary.com to be "A large wild duck inhabiting both America and Europe . The domestic duck has descended from this species. Called also greenhead. Don’t mess with these lads they’re well up for it." Tom - I think you had a lucky escape my good man. I'd suggest that if Big Col is ever going to sign you for Blackpool you keep well away from any crazy Mallard "firms". They can break your legs with their beaks I heard, from 25 yards.

There's some good sound arguements in there Bryan, I'm a bit perplexed as to why we need X, Y and Z though. Clearly you're not a proper fan etc as your views are slightly different to mine! Isn't this close season slightly better than last though? Last summer I seem to remember 28 weeks of waiting for Duff to be sold. Perhaps we need to take five minutes, have a look at ourselves, take a deep breath, count to ten, look ourselves in the mirror, stand up and be counted and then continue to slag each other off until August 14? We can then lay into Emerton / Souness / Amoruso / whoever anyone feels the need to, again.

They're all in the squad believe me. I'd have Newell above Sutton. It's all down to personal preference isn't it? Not that it matters one bit but Duff, Dunn and Wilcox were all cheaper than Atko.

*Deep breath* Anyway, for what it's worth, which isn't much, here's my best ever team of all time (1981 - Present )... Friedel Berg, Hendry, Moran, Le Saux Ripley, Batty, Sherwood, Duff Shearer, Garner Subs: Gennoe, Fazackerley, Wilcox, Dunn, Jansen I've only included the players I've seen play, unfortunately I haven't even seen the likes of Douglas and Clayton on TV - they'd walk into a best ever XI - but how would I know? We've arguably had better strikers than Garner of course but I don't care. I would also like to play Friedel in a more central position, but he won't budge, he's providing good cover for Henning though.

Quick! someone get an adult - lofty's lost it completely!!

Tell you what Prophet of Doom your turning into a right Prophet of Doom. You don't sit on the Riverside do you? Is that you with the scythe and that big black cloak thing? Rovers Ticket Office:- "There's a man here who wants to renew his season ticket." "What's his name?" "Prophet of Doom" "Oh no. Not him again" "He wants to pay cash - says we'll lose his cheque and any credit card transactions we'll process twice in error" "It's the same every year" "He says we've never been the same since we sold Oysterhausen and what are we going to do when he can't get in for the first game of the season when the new electronic turnstiles go faulty?" "Give him a free season ticket and tell him to clear off" "Will do Graeme"

You alright 6? You go steady with those optimism pills

I doubt Yorke will be here next season. I presume you mean Stead and Gallagher learning from "Speedies surrogate brother" rather than "stead and cole"? Either way my answer is yes. I'm looking forward to next season far more knowing that I'll be able to watch a player who actually gives a damn rather than "Sammy the sloths surrogate cousin" Dwight Yorke.