For once I agree with you JAL but unfortunately up to now the management have only too obviously shown their worth and the standard seems to be that you get back 25% of what you receive in transfer fees.

I stand by what I said about Benni but I do appreciate your comment about the midfield. Everybody except the management have seen that weakness for years. Unfortunately we have now in addition developed a weakness up front.

No Iceman he doesn't get caught offside from making runs. He gets caught offside because he is too slow and lazy to get back onside after an attack. There is an answer somewhere but it is not McCarthy. If he does not score you have played with ten men, much like playing with Andrews and perish the thought of having them both on the pitch at once. Much better to give Kalinic a run to find out if he is ever going to make it. At 20 he will get better. McCarthy will only get fatter, slower and lazier.

Sorry Charlie. We won't take you there again.

Had a brilliant game. Pity we never played him in his proper position.

One of very few men that nobody had a bad word for. RIP Bobby. You were a gentleman.

And Wee Barry.

See Friday Funnies.

I don't read the bloody Sun anyway. Obnoxious rag.

I thought that personal insults were banned on this messageboard! I don't want to read the stuff that has been going on on this thread between people who all claim to be supporters of the same team. Cut it out please. Calling someone a nonce is about as insulting as it can get!

I wasn't cheering Benni coming on. I was cheering Roberts going off. A diabolical decision by Ince.

We do this every season and some of the suggestions are excellent (Santa Cruz is coming to town) but it never happens! In fact the last one we all got behind was Shearer Wonderland. Anybody got any suggestions to make it work? Maybe something on the PA system before the kick off (with a little help from Rovers)

My favourite is the Walton Arms. Good wines, superb Jennings beer and the lamb joint is to die for. Give it a try and you will not be dissapointed. It's not too expensive either.

I've just read, to my utter disgust, that Rio Ferdinand has been appointed England captain. The man doesn't have two brain cells to rub together and can't even remember to turn up for drug tests. Where are we going?

It's a pity they don't do the same for C. Ronaldo. When you see that Manu. have a penalty you can usually bet that it is from a Ronaldo dive.

Far, far better. Maybe he has taken the hint at last. I live in hope.

About time he scored one wasn't it? (and it was offside) He is a repugnant individual who I do not want to see representing my country. I believe that is AESF's point too.

Apart from being a nauseating individual, Rooney is probably the most over rated player in the England set up. He has never lived up to his early hype, particularly for England. Not the type of person I want to see representing my country.

Does anyone know if there is a new Wilbur Smith novel out this year? I think they are a great read on holiday. If not does anyone know what is the title of the last one published in paperback? Hardback are just too heavy for air travel.

In my opinion he is never going to be a Premiership player. The contract is to make sure we get a fee for him when he goes.

If we can get Bellers back we can afford to get big money for Benni whilst his reputation is high. I don't believe we can play the two together as both need to feel they are the stars of the team and would each probably resent the other. Just my opinion.

If you have not watched the programme it's easy to poo poo it. The major items were facts not conjecture. Do you know for instance that many of the scientists shown as supporting the CO2 theory have resigned because they no longer believe it. Some of them have protested because their names are still there but got nowhere. It is also a fact that in the forties and fifties when the industrial boom meant that we were creating more CO2 than at any other time in history the world got COLDER and scientists were worried about the effects of another ice age. Facts. The facts show that the sun controls the temperature not us and when the temperature rises the sea produces more CO2 than we ever could. Therefore the temperature rises ahead of the increase in CO2 not as a consequence of it. Ignore it if you wish but I am convinced.

After watching that programme I am convinced that the CO2 theory is a load of rubbish and that the latest round of stealth taxes cannot be justified. It was shown that the level of CO2 in the atmosphere is a consequence of rising temperature and not the cause of it. The fact that activity of the sun is the major cause of temperature change (up or down) is pretty logical is it not? It was also clearly demonstrated during the programme. Excellently presented and very factual. We are being conned.