You beat me to it Jim.

People in this area didn't work down the pit. Burnley,on the other hand, was a different kettle of fish.

However bad Matteo has been Amuroso has been dreadful.

Earlier in the week Hughes was saying he was going to meet up with Reid to see if he wanted to appeal.I've heard nothing since.

Scotty's posts are always good or excellent.

The questions for me are how long will he last and how focused will he be to keep his position without straying too far away.

None of them are really premiership standard. None can be guaranteed to score a worthwhile number of goals.

I'm not sure this is the place to post it.......but we have a pretty poor team and squad.Certainly there have been some improvements since Hughes has arrived but there are still enormous problems. The only time recently that Neill has been effective as a defender is when Flitcroft played in front of him .JM is not a left backor at least not a very good one.The best centre back we have is Short but Nils has played quite well since he came back so that the best combination would be those two. Ferguson has many admirers on this website. I'm not a great fan-he does not dominate matches for 90 minutes.Thompson will probably not have the self-control to protect the back four if he plays in the middle.Reid-some people nominate him for man of the match on Sunday but he has admitted in the LET he was poor in the first half and there is a question about how many of their goals he was responsible for.Emerton has really improved a lot recently but he was poor on Sunday.Has he now been sussed as some people suggest? We don't have a decent striker.Period. End of discussion. So we need a right back, a left back, a centre back for cover for Sort/Nils, a centre midfield player to cover for Thompson's suspensions/Ferguson's ineffective half(I forgot to add that Tugay is only effective when played in an advanced role and could be an alternative to Ferguson for 30 minutes in a match)as well as a reliable goal scorer.

Certainly there should be a better liklihood of entertainment from a good film. If excitement means you have to stand, maybe you're just thinking about yourself.

Is the appearances fee now a definite or a putative fee as was originally muted?

It really is excellent that more and more Rovers' supporters are becoming aware of the great history of the club. I've voted for Forrest.

I noticed that Fulham have either won or lost all their home matches!

We'll have to agree to disagree. Given Reid's role in the goals we conceded,his elbow incident and almost setting them up late on,I still have to disagree. I wasn't aware of much end product from Emerton.

There's a reference somewhere else to the Speedie incident and I think he's supposed to have said that Atkinson should not have been sacked.

Good post Paul McGarry. Late in the 2nd half when we were attacking/taking a corner, didn't Reid do a pass to someone 25 yards away that went to a Birmingham player and they went down our end and nearly scored? I thought Reid improved dramatically after his goal- a confidence player. I thought Emerton had a poor game yesterday.

I don't think it's Yorke making a big fuss-it seems to me that Yorke went and complained to his manager and it was he who turned it into a big fuss.

It might have been a bit more unbalanced then,but with Duff in it was better. Dunn-£5.5-how many games played? Ferguson-£6.5-£7.0-how many games played?

Yorke had a good first season with us-winning goal at Highbury etc but had trouble playing with Andrew Cole. Very interesting interview with Gordon Taylor on Radio Lancs who was at the game-he said that he didn't know anything about it till he got home,it was totally different to the Madrid situation, the Club acted very quickly and was regarded favourably as regards racism.He was concerned that people might be looking to make a mountain out of a molehill for their own reasons.

There were certainly people there who don't go regularly.

He had the chance to gloat in front of the Blackburn end but didn't take it before the players came over to him.

Then maybe neither is a great striker.

I think their goals were all scored by midfielder players.

Some good posts-the last one and DP as well as Jim, as usual. Todd-out of position quite a few times,Ferguson often does not seem to be working hard enough,Emerton had a poor game compared with recent performances,Thompson was knackered by the end. So, to get a point after the half-time score-and not to lose it as we did so often last season after coming back-was good.But we're still bottom. We need to start winning.

We're a whisker away from a very good team-view me at the end of next season.We need to bring in players during the transfer window and we need to continue to develop our strengths. Quote from Souness on teletext to their fans.

Alan75-was that hopscotch?