Have you looked at this from the "something interesting" thread MGP MGP is obviously at his best coming in from the left or taking free kicks where his left foot is an asset. OK he might not be Damian Duff, but he's doing a job OK. To be honest I really can't see why you are bothering. He's our joint second top scorer and our top scorer in the Premiership. Whatever happened to "if it ain't broke, don't fix it?"

If I were in anyway connected with BWFC I'd have serious reservations about Sam Allerdyce. It was about six years ago when we played then in the old first division that he was interviewed before a match at The Breezeblock with us. I remember the interviewer saying someting along the lines of " I bet you are wishing both you and Graeme Souness were playing today." To which Sam replied something along the lines of " And I bet neither of us would have stayed on the pitch" Followed by a big smile. Tonight's "Match Of The Day" post-match interview had him on for 15 seconds, reading from a piece of paper quoting fouls committed for each team, and yellow and red cards handed out. He is very quickly becoming the most moaning, whinging, ref-bating manager that there has ever been. And that takes some doing. Is he possibly heading towards burn-out?

You're definately a glass half-empty man. By the way, the government is tapping your phone, reading your e-mails, and there is a crack squad of Muslim terrorists assembling at the end of your garden ready to strangle your puppy and serve it up on a bed of pillau rice. For god's sake man, take it easy. The way you get yourself worked up about everything, you're going to have a thrombie soon.

You are assuming that Saha would have done exactly the same if Todd had done something differently. That does not make a good point.

A decent game. We now have our work cut out to get a win at The Theater Of Dreams (or a 2-2 draw AET) MH has yet to lose a game against RFW so there is a little bit of hope there, but I can't help thinking that if this was the situation 4 or 5 years ago we would all be thinking that we were doomed.(note to self..repeating Revidge's comment) There's definately a realistic spark of optimism around the place and it isn't too misplaced. Just a few notes from the game: Tugay had a bit of an off day by his standards. If he was on song we would have looked a lot more dangerous, we all know how good he can be, but tonight wasn't one of those. Shefki was himself to the lowest common denominator. A great lump. Nothing wrong with a great lump, but he really needs to get his brain into controlling "the first touch." He was pretty woeful tonight. Man Of The Match for me was Mickey Gray. He ran his legs off, dealt reasonably well with My Little One Trick Pony (who had a very good game) and he did some sterling support work for MGP. All in all fairly good night. Now if Wigan can get past Arsenal & we can get past TRS then I'm sure that most people in football, bar the obvious two and the TV people (up yours TV people) will be happy. And just as a footnote: Been in the Blackburn End for donkey's years. Always had a chat with the guys around us. Two callow, spotty youths appeared on the row in front of us. They turned round to all behind them and started"F*****g support your team and sing." And they went on and on and on. They had moved a bit further forward by the second half. So if anyone reading this was sat in The Blackburn End rows 9-11, seats 50-60, and you haven't got acne, gentlemen I salute you. Although I've got to say that "Shut the **** up or I'll take you down below and give you a good kicking" was a bit OTT. Deserved though.

Constructive criticism 4.6.3 Ewood Park Station Build station at the back of Ewood – on the Blackburn to Manchester line. I remember this suggestion being dismantled on here a year or so ago. The proposed station would be used very infrequently (25 times a year maybe?) and would have to funded by Railtrack who would no doubt laugh at the suggestion. Ewood is reasonably well served by Blackburn, Darwen & Mill Hill stations. I think that this should be deleted as it will dilute the other points. Sorry that this is a bit to close to the deadline.

This just crept on me from the Sam Allerdice v Allan Green Thread. I just thought I'd create a league table of managers who you just want to smack in the gob. The worst are at the top. The good guys are at the bottom. Feel free to have a juggle. (i)Jose Mourinho: Rich as Croesus still moans like a c**t whenever one of his players cripples another and vice versa. He could have 11 broken legs in the squad and still win the Premiership. You've got English as a second/third language as an excuse for the moment. (ii)Sam Allerdyce: I am fast going off Sam. I used to think he was a good guy doing good things with a small team on a limited budget. However his past six months of unfettered moaning and griping about just everything from offsides, to the state of the pitch, to fixture congestion, onto his players going off the The Africans Nations Cup just about gets on my busoms. Shut your gob Sam. (iii) RFW: What more can we add to the genius of RFW? If anything he has been a victim of his own success in the past. Who can ever forget the grey shirts at Southhampton & the rugby match played at The Theatre Of Nighmares two weeks before. Plus his refusal to talk to the BBC and MUFCTV. (iv) Harry Redknapp: I was going to put Harry at about (ix) but then thought about it a bit. He left West Ham in a hissy fit, then the did the same to Portsmouth, Southampton & as he's back at Portsmouth he's having a whine about how the squad isn't just the way he left it. Plus he twitches. You watch him on telly. He's like he's got an electronic cattle prod up his rectal passage. (v) Arsene Wenger He did not see the incident. If he had a handbag with a brick in it he would be dangerous. Quick handshake to oposing manager, then "WHAP" (vi) Graeme Souness: That complete cow "Lady Luck" was a prominent feature in his last year or so with us. He's dropped her since he went to Newcastle and replaced her with diatrabes aimed at the ref, & moaning at injuries (vii)Steve Bruce: Bernard Cribbins is a serial moaner from sending-offs to free kicks to penalties to throw-ins. He's learnt from the past master(see iii) (viii) David O'Leary: Not as bad as he was at Leeds, but still prone to outbursts of self-pity and moaning about having a small squad. Then some penalties (ix) Chris Coleman: Not bad actually. Usually calm and collected, but can get a bit angry when he sees a dubious decision. (x) Alan Pardew (see ix) (xi) Alan Curbishley (see ix) (xi) Steve McLaren: (see ix) sorry, getting a bit lazy... (xii) David Moyes "The Gargoyle" as Liverpool fans fondly know him, is usually eloquent and fair-minded and has been known in the past to admit that "the boy deseved that booking" & " I thought the sending off was a little bit harsh." That's his own players BTW (xiii) Bryan Robson generally keeps his gob shut. He knows he's facing a hard task and has decided not to blame it on everyone else. (xiv) Raphael Benitez: One of the most restrained and laid back managers. Most people were rather surprised by his condemnation Of Bolton last week as he usually doesn't speak out. (xv) Stuart Pierce: How the heck Psycho does't transfer his pitch-side angst to the TV cameras & the press is beyond me, He should be there in front of the sponsors' names screaming abuse at the players, the backroom staff, the supporters, the board at MCFC, the shareholders, Manchester City Council, and everyone who didn't buy The Lurkers first record. He'll crack one day and it'll be great. (xvi) Mark Hughes (xvii) Martin Jol: a bit like (xiv) really. He doesn't have a tendancy to get all precious. (xvii) Mick McCarthey: Mick is well and truely screwed so there is little point in him complaining about an offsided flag when thay have lost 5-0 again. He's resigned to his fate. (xviii) (thats 18 BTW) Paul Jewel: Gob shut, mind open. Good bloke.

Just to interrupt the ticket bleating for a minute........... Thank you Mr Fleming. Ticket bleating to recommence 1....2....3.....NOW

Works for me too. No queueing, no 60p per minute phone line. No £1 surcharge. Not exactly rocket science is it?

You Sir, are nothing but a cheap trollop. However if you use your boy marmite-soldier credentials to leave a delay fuse, with a suitable incendiary device stashed away I'm sure that I, and the rest of the football world, will forgive you. Let me know when it's timed to go off and I'll get my City-supporting mates to start fires all over Manchester just minutes before. Distract the Fire Service & all that. Cunning plan. It worked for The Luftwaffe.

Good assessment & I agree with you. A game of two halves (groan) and we were rubbish in the second. Still, as has been pointed out...3 games & 9 points over the festive period, and we've played better than that & lost. Chins up each & all, we're in eighth place now.

(i)Errr Cletus, which part of the lyrics of "Jingle Bells" do you find "Christian?" (ii) I too had the unfortunate pleasure of being sat behind some racist morons. I was somewhat mollified by the fact that they also managed to insult the rest of the fans by calling us c***s because we didn't join in their moronic fog-horn one liners. (iii) Theno: if you think that "Paki" is nothing more than an abbreviation of the person's country of origin then you are fooling no-one but yourself. (iv) I am well able to celebrate a great win at Wigan and be ###### off at the moronic racists. I have this ability to be able to think about two things. So please don't tell me to forget one of them in favour of the other. (v) "Jingle Bells" was great at Wigan.

Just IMHO but I don't think I have ever seen a player kick a ball so hard and so fast in all my life as Reid did today. It was a fantastic strike. Plus he did it with a Wigan player bearing down on him at top speed. Just like after the Fulham match we seem to have "two goals of the season" in a single game, because MGP's was an equal of the one he scored against Fulham.

He could have faxed it. Probably The Walker family refuse to invest in a fax machine.

(i) "There's Only One Simon Garner" the autobiography. Guess who it's written by? Originally £9.95 less a few bob because it came via this site (ii)"Get A Grip" by Tim Barlow. Originally £5. A book from 2000 describing 20 years of following Rovers. Both in very good condition. I'm not going to split them, they are sold as a package. Postage & packaging for UK is £1.75. If any of you guys and gals abroad are interested they weigh in at about 560g, so you can price up at the "printed papers" section of royal mail Or pre-match meet up outside the Rovers store. Auction ends at midnight Thursday 12th December in time for possible hand-over at the Notlob game. Otherwise soon after in Oxfam in Clitheroe. Happy bidding.

Magnificent, A top preview and thank you for highlighting the lounge lizard's completely bobbins predictions. Neil, I take my hat off to you.

Hobart? Twinned with Burnley?

(i)Just as a matter of history, Wigan is/are known as pie eaters because in the 1920s the miners were forced back to work after a strike and thus had to eat "humble pie." Here you go. here (ii)Dave Whelan's offer is absolutely nothing but an excuse for the Wigan supporters to sing "Who ate all the pies? Who ate all the pies? You fat @#/?s You fat @#/?s You ate all the pies." A nice bit of red cabbage as a side accompanyment would be a lovely touch. Or maybe a gherkin (iii) If Wigan play against us like they did against West Ham we are in trouble. Mind you we haven't got West Ham's defence, so onward and upward my fellow travellers.

Got up to Ewood. Parked the car & went for a pint. Game off, so I went back to the car to find someone had stolen the engine. What kind of swine would do a thing like that?

Oh, give up you moaners, it happens. I did about 10 miles before I found out and turned round, so that's 20 miles worth of petrol lost. No big deal for me. I bet lots of others have been far more inconvenienced. Charlton fans travelling to Newcastle, Torquay fans travelling to Stockport & Sunderland fans will have a lot more to gripe about. Does the sun shine on the pitch on 28th December? I would have thought that a combination of Darren Moor, The Darwen End & The Jack Walker Stand would have pretty much stopped this happening. As for testing the efficiency of the undersoil heating system when the temperature drops to -2c. It can only be done when the temperature drops. Just as a footnote: Radio 5 received a call from "Jan" based in London. Driven up from London, had arranged corporate hopspitality. If it's you Jan, then my heart-felt commiseration go to you, must be a real pain in the proverbial.

You've got fat legs and Chris Evan's agent tells me he's denied having sex with you. So that's you comprehensively screwed. Merry Chrimbo

Nice one CN. After the JJB had a 4-3 goal fest against City today, a 0-0 looks on the cards.

Phillip, (i) Is that 4,000th goals in all competitions since Rovers were formed? (ii) What are we on now? or(iii) Do you have a link to a statto site? or have you just been counting for the past 130 years? Anyway, Sunderland's away record this season is P8 W1 D0 L7 F7 A15 The win was at Boro, which, as we all know, is as easy as falling off a log. Our home record is P8 W5 D1 L2 F13 A9 So a 2-1 win looks about the right score if past results are anything to go by.

Too blooming right. There is nothing better than a decent pint of mild. It's getting hard to find. Especially when the mega-keggaries are intent on selling something blue in a bottle with a wedge of lime stuffed in the neck. 20 years ago The Buck Inn in Clitheroe used to sell a beautiful pint of Thwaites Best Mild. It's a f*****g disco now.

I'm quite looking forward to a Rovers v Athletic final. Hopefully at The Theatre Of Merchandising. Wigan can beat Arsenal OK; admittedly we will have our work cut out to beat the Scum over two legs, but it's do-able. Difficult but acheivable. Now then. If you are a nefarious FA executive fixing a cup draw to maximise TV audences. Do you draw The Scum v The Arse over a two-legged semi final or keep them apart for the one game final. The plot thickens......