Could do with early wickets to get rid of the openers after lunch

6 million it said Perrotta went for. Good thought though lads

Crystal Palace effort

Coventry City effort

Birmingham didn't pay 7 million for the services of Steve Bruce did they?

Don't bother answering I know they wouldn't pay that much for that muppet

The only possibility is that they include Kirkland as an undisclosed fee of over 7 million.

Sky Sports

This is where the answers will be.

Kirkland only went for 6 million

Chris Kirkland

Woodgate has played for England

So who do we have then

Kevin Davies

Carl Cort

Dean Richards

Not sure about Defoe, Jeffers - depends on how you percieve the question

Yeh but they rapped up the 20/20 game

And we all know how important that is

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So Australia are producing female rap artists nowadays. Shouldn't Aussie musicians have a stint in Neighbours or Home and Away before coming to tour over here?

Scott Parker was capped in 2003 and moved to Chelsea for 10 million in 2004. So it can't be him

What about a certain Mr Carl Cort?

Sutton made his England debut in 1998 against Cameroon

Kirkland only went for 6 million

Norway beat Slovenia 3-2.

A goal for Pedersen is not a shock but a goal for Claus Lundekvam is

Who is your brother?

He will still be doing commentary in Australia. Just that now channel4 has lost the rights we have lost Richie.

I've never been so exhausted while being sat in a chair

To be fair the Aussies put up a superb fight. Warne and Lee was superb. If the no balls were less the match may have been even closer

Well played Hoggard and the king of Spain.

This is all too tense!!

I think i'll wash the pots

Katich gone - Too high never mind

Good to see that our league is beating the official messageboard

Team                Manager No.     Av Points
BRFCS.co.uk League      131         185.4
Rovers Messageboard      112         185.2

We are 15th in all the leagues that have more than 5 managers in it

C'mon a wicket before the close will do nicely

Which Rod Marsh?

The talkSport numpty or the Ex England selector?

99-5 Gilchrist in - never thought i'd ever be saying that

End Of Play - lets build on that tomorrow.

Just call me psychic.

I think there may well be another. Jones is all over them.

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Oi Pyskick!

Langers gone

Keep it up!

Could do with early wickets to get rid of the openers

Three games into the season, a win, a loss and the Spurs result means that we are above the big team (Brum) and the clarets, no not Arsenal but Villa whom we meet on Saturday.

The season so far for Villa, started with a 2-2 draw against Bolton. It was a frantic start at Villa Park where by the time Chris Kamara had shouted “Unbelievable!” four goals had been scored. They then lost narrowly 1-0 to Manchester United last Saturday and on Tuesday they had a game against Pompey, in which they had Nobby Solano sent off in a 1-1 draw. This means he maybe missing for the game against us, pending an appeal.

In the transfer window so far Villa have brought in a few solid players to enhance a somewhat ‘small honest bunch of lads’ that O’Leary seems to mention every Saturday in the post match interview. He has brought in Phillips in place of Vassell, Berger in place of Hitzelsperger, Milan Baros to replace the on loan Carlton Cole and Stuart Taylor in place of Stefan Postma he has also brought in Aaron Hughes as an extra player.

At the time of writing, Physioroom.com reports that Berger, Delaney, Samuel and Laursen all have injuries that could keep them out of the Rovers game. Hendrie will possibly be back from suspension and may come in to replace Davis.

Now we all like to predict the outcome of the match and I’m no different. I am going to attempt to use the SOS method, bear with me – Statistics, opinion and simulation (doesn’t involve diving) to try and find an outcome for the match .

The last time Rovers played on the 27th of August we won 4-0 against Coventry City 11 years ago; meanwhile Aston Villa was drawing 1-1 with Crystal Palace. That season Rovers beat Villa away with A Hendry header and 3-1 at home with Shearer grabbing a brace. Rovers went on to finish champions with Villa down in 18th and one place outside the relegation zone.

Out of the 22 games since the Premiership started, the Lancashire side have won 11 games with Villa winning 7 and the other 4 being draws.

The goals scoring overall is a massive difference. 31 goals for the blues compared to the clarets 19 goals in 22 games.

Matches held at Villa Park have equal with 5 wins a piece and the solitary draw back in 92-93 season. However at Villa Park, Rovers have scored 11 whereas Villa has only managed the 10 goals.

Last season it was Aston Villa’s midfield scoring 22 only ten less than the whole of the Rovers squad with 32. They also managed to overturn a first half defeat and convert it into a win on two occasions. If each game finished a half time Aston Vila would now be playing Championship football and Rovers would have finished 11th last year. This is because 2/3 of Villa’s goals conceded were conceded in the first half of games.

Nobby Solano and Juan Pablo Angel were the top scorers for Villa with 9, however this was still less than Dickov with ten who is suspended for the trip to the Midlands club. Another fact was that Andy Todd scored Blackburn’s 600th premiership goal against West Ham.

Looking at the statistics overall it is clear that Rovers have the upper hand on Villa and is why this section results in a Rovers Win.

My opinion is that we are going to lose. Hopefully this will go in the same way as the Ashes thread were I predict against my favoured team in the hope they win. A Villa fan would say that they are going to win and a Rovers fan would say that Rovers are going to win unless this fan is Vinjay. But Aston Villa have more fans than Rovers and this section results in a Villa Win.

I’ll let you lot predict the outcome in more detail!

We all like a good game of Football Manager apart from Eddie whose game never seems to work. So I will run a simulation of the match. I have taken over both teams updated the squads and run what I perceive as the correct teams.

Rovers have started off as a 4-5-1 formation and Villa a 4-4-2. Rovers line up with Friedel, Matteo, Nelsen, Todd, Neill, Pedersen, Reid, Savage, Tugay, Emerton and Kuqi. Aston Villa line up with the same team that played against Portsmouth. Sorensen, Samuel, Mellberg, Ridgewell, Hughes, Solano, Davis, McCann, Barry, Angel, Phillips.

The game kicks off few chances go to Blackburn after a good start with Emerton working well on the wing cutting in and shooting wide. After one minute of injury time it was 0-0. 4 shots each was the story of the first half in a pretty poor match.

The second half wasn’t much better. Moore replaced Angel after 60 minutes and when Reid picked up an injury soon after, Flitcroft replaced him. Phillips had a chance to win it for Villa but Friedel tipped it over the bar.

Neill and Samuel got in a skirmish in the 85th minute and unsurprisingly both were booked. No more chances came and the game ended in a 0-0 draw. A poor match but i'm sure Rovers will settle for a point at the Villa who are looking for their first win of the season and with Baros hoping for goals and clean sheet will do nicely. So I a draw is the predicted result.

So, all three sections have resulted in a different outcome. I can’t decide what the result is; it’s now up to you. Let the predicting commence!

They play in their third kit

Third Kit

thus getting 40 quid more off the fans

I've joined

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