Was a close one - I missed my last bus home too No way could I have left at 9:35 when Leeds had just scored to make it 26-24!! Ref was rubbish, for both teams really - Richard's and Carmont's tries were both forward I think. Thankfully they went to video ref for the Leeds try right at the end, though did think for a while Ganson was going to give benefit of the doubt.

Looking forward to Wednesday, hopefully we don't get complacent after the past three excellent wins and slip up.

Couple of photos from Friday:

Cracking game last night and nowhere near as difficult as many predicted. Totally dominated Huddersfield. We now appear to be building up a head of steam and moving up through the gears. Bodes well for the business end of the season.

Sam Tomkins? He's the Magic Man! Great crowd too, at just over 19k.

Boooooooooooooooooooo He is brilliant

Was expecting a bit more from Huddersfield tbh, but thought that Harrison Hansen was immense and good to have Hock back as well.

Need to capitalise on this good run and make sure we carry on vs Leeds and Cas in the game in hand. Rugby on a Wednesday night going to be weird!

Pixars run is over. Cars 2 currently at 33% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The original is widely considered their worst film up to now but it's a monster merch seller ($10 billions worth) so you can hardly blame them for making a sequel.

Ah well Brave is out next year and looks awesome.

The animated short before Cars 2 is menna be really good though!

Absolutely brilliant game from Wigan at Saints last night - just destroyed them. Forwards just too strong and the kicking game was fantastic. Was a bit worried going into the second half as Wigan have developed a habit of letting strong leads slip in the second half, but even though Saints got those two tries Wigan remained in control.

Brilliant atmosphere too, had the Dela Cavese going for a good 20 minutes over half time and Kyle Eastmond getting some stick "You can shove your rugby union up your arse"

Messi 53 - 53 Ronaldo

Each of them scoring one goal more than Rovers cobbled together in all competitions this season (end of season dvd gonna be a cracker )

Enjoy!

Fifa are investigating the Nigeria vs Argentina game for match fixing. Not that I expect them to do owt about it, but it was never a pen in a million years!

Dodgy Ref!

Warrington are (unfortunately) going great this season. Just watched them destroy Leeds at Headingly and won 112-0 the other day. Hopefully they'll hit a wobble sometime soon!

David Yelldell is playing in the German Cup Final for Duisburg on ESPN. Gonna see what we missed out on

Just watching the Europa Cup Final. Why have they built the stadium like that? It looks silly with one end of 10 rows or something, and the other end 3 tiers high.

what a ridiculous but cool game!

For any of you who like Rovers books I spotted this on ebay.

Century of Soccer

It is from our 100th anniversary in 1975

The final try yesterday was right in front of me, which was cool!! Brilliant end to end game, two excellent teams really. But you cannot get any better than a last minute winner vs Saints Really glad that Richard's is back - the lack of a kicker hasn't been good for us, and he is a big threat down on the wing.

Great atmosphere too, this is from before kick off in the home end. Looks pretty cool, although the woman in the bottom was the worst flag waver ever!

Cletus - if you do go, one thing you may find a little odd is that away fans are free to sit anywhere they want and are often in the home fans without any bother.

Awful from Wigan last night. After last weeks great comeback last week, just weren't at the races!

Interesting idea for the next England game, fans to pick the team vs exiles!

Mad end to the game at St Pauli. With a couple of minutes to go someone threw a plastic glass of beer from the crowd. It hit the linesman, he fell to the ground like Ronaldo. After some faffing around the referee (the German version of Mark Clattenburg) abandoned the game. The officials all left the pitch, leaving the players standing there.

Bad for St Pauli. Now lost 6 in 6 and not looking good at all.

He's called Dustin. Stu Wilkys alter ego, Can't remember his screen name either!

It's Chase - Drift Peasant on here

Never thought I'd be writing in here!! but I've just read Blood, Sweat and Tears. To be honest I only downloaded it because it was free but it was good. I liked it that much I paid a whole £1.99 for the second book!

It is really a collection of blog posts of a fella who works for London Ambulance Service and his daily "adventures".

From amazon:

A beautifully written insight into the stresses, strains and successes of working for the London Ambulance service. Is there anyone who hasn't wondered about the state of the occupant of an ambulance, screaming along with its sirens on and blue lights flashing? Have you? And have you wondered about the other people inside the ambulance, maybe fighting to save the patient's life? Or have you considered that the ambulance may be another 'maternataxi' ordered by a woman who can't be bothered to book a real cab and who then complains she can't smoke on the way to hospital? And that the medical technician inside might just be desperate to get back home from a busy shift, to have a cup of tea and catch up with his blog? Meet Tom Reynolds. Tom is an Emergency Medical Technician who works for the London Ambulance Service in East London. He has kept a blog of his daily working life since 2003 and his award-winning writing is, by turn, moving, cynical, funny, heart-rending and compassionate. It is never less than compelling. From the tragic to the hilarious, from the heartwarming to the terrifying, the stories Tom tells give a fascinating - and at times alarming - picture of life in inner-city Britain, and the people who are paid to mop up after it.

Short film about St Pauli

Big game for St Pauli today vs Eintract Frankfurt - both have lost 5 out of 6 games, so should be a cracker!!

This is a new football magazine/book. For the first edition you can pay what you think it is worth and download it as a pdf.

The Blizzard

Well an interesting round of games this weekend. Cas unbeaten still and Saints getting beat at "home" again (shame!).

Just got back from Wigan who were pretty lucky for the win but I'll take it! Thought they were poor in the 1st half, especially the kicking game which was well off. Bit better in 2nd half, but then made it difficult for themselves when Joel Tomkins went and got sent off. I didn't see the original incident that caused the first fight, but Tomkins was stupid to go in again straight after.

Strangely though, Wigan looked better with the 12 men and got a try to level it, then a penalty.

Should be an exciting season for Wigan. The WCC was a really good game, but just couldn't get that try at the end. Really awesome to have nearly 24,000 home fans in the DW too.

Also liking the fact that Leeds have lost twice already this season

Has this been posted?

http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/1376081/95e67e5b/schwalbe_voor_gevorderden.html

Surely takes play acting to a new level? hehe

haha that's funny!

Well before I left for Rovers I thought that just incase it was rubbish I'd record Bayern vs Dortmund. Turned out to be a very good decision.

It was a very good game - Dortmund won 3-1, which I think should see them go onto win the title. Within 20 minutes it was 2-1 to Dortmund - their second one was a lovely goal. Bayern then had a goal disallowed for offside, but it was probably marginally onside.

Dortmund are really good to watch at the moment. The average age of the team is 22 years old and they have some really great young players such as Sahin, Götze and Großkreutz.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKma6yxyptE

On the theme of German football, they have a great football show on Saturday evenings with highlights from the games on that particular day. Can't remember the channel, think it's N1 or something similar. The point is, unlike over here with MOTD, each team seems to have equal coverage and they include a few second and third tier games as well. No bias towards the big clubs like Bayern. Very refreshing.

For people here, the Bundesliga Review on ESPN is pretty good too.

A couple of links which are both a bit daft, but who cares

http://damnyouautocorrect.com

http://whydidyoubuymethat.com/

As Barca scored the 2nd/3rd (can't remember which) the commentator said that it was the 400th goal of Pep Guardiola's reign!!! :!:

I find that odd too, I always thought the Copa America was never broadcasted that well here. The African competition is crap in comparison to the Asian and South American ones.

Hmm not so sure about that. The bits I've seen of Asian Cup have been awful. Caught about 5 minutes of Qatar vs China, I've seen better down at Coppull United!

The coverage on Eurosport is erratic (as Eurosport tends to be anyway) - I'm sure one game they only showed second half cos cross country skiing was on:D