The Stranglers - Hey! (rise of the robots).

The Bronx - History's Stranglers

Return of the Mack - Mark Morrison

The incredible return of the great white dope - bloodhound gang

The Crystals - Then He Kissed Me

Against me! - Thrash Unreal

Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode

22-20's - Shoot Your Gun

Catch 22 - 1234 1234

Johnny Cash - Folsom prison blues

Have we got two Pedersens? Because the one I and most people have been watching has been plain not nearly good enough for most of the last two seasons, and for most of the games he's played this season hasn't even put much effort in either.

In the first leg of the Villa tie, he wimped out of every tackle and header, and it was without doubt one of the most uncommitted performances I've ever seen from a Rovers player. Whilst I didn't boo him off, I can totally understand why others did. The second leg was much the same, except he was in a position where he didn't need to tackle as much so it didn't negatively impact the team as much as usual. And I wouuldn't really call the goal he scored against City important when we got dicked 4-1!

I agree about Benni though - one excellent season, and since then he's largely let himself and Rovers down apart from the odd goal.

The Benni from his first season would be a big miss - the current one isn't and West Ham are welcome to him.

Although we all know he's bound to score against us right?

I don't think pedersen could do anything right in your eyes so I'm not gona try and convince you otherwise.

My post was about comparing players and the crowd reaction to them.

Pedersen: a player who gives his all, he might not be the best tackler or the strongest player but he seems committed to the cause and rarely looks like he can't be arsed. yet; he gets booed for not playing well.

McCarthy: a player who has been unfit for 2 - 3 seasons, rarely tries his hardest, shows no respect to his team mates or fans. Yet he gets cheered for it and people seem to gloss

over the fact that he's failed to play well and get fit with "he's earned respect for that one season when he played well"

hense; fickle @#/?s

What really annoyed me about the 1st leg against Villa was that when Pedersen was doing badly, people started booing him.

A player that was trying his hardest; and has done so throughout the majority of his career was being booed.....

Then when McCarthy came on to replace him, Pedersen got booed off and McCarthy got an all mighty cheer.

Am I the only one that saw this as daft?

People boo a player that has played badly (yet scored 2 important goals in 2 previous games) and gives his all every game.

Then the same people cheer a fat, uninterested, lazy gob @#/? like he's the second coming of christ.

Now the same set of fans say they're glad that McCarthy is off because he's showed no respect in the last week.

For me the seed was planted ages ago. He hasn't showed any respect in the last 2 years. He was unfit when we needed him most last season. Then still isn't fit for the new season.

some people need to open their eyes more....fickle @#/?s

I've thought about the situation long and hard and it's definitely most unfair. The squad should jolly well all be in early as far as I'm concerned.

But the thing is, No other player is continually missing their weight targets.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/burnley/article6962748.ece

If only Benni had the same mentality

I'm not saying Sam is wrong in his assessment on Benni's fitness.

Benni's professional is at best questionable.

All I'm saying is that Sam has had over twelve months to get him fit but waits until we've just played two games in three days and one week before the Transfer Deadline to give individual training. Why not do this say two months ago or is it an attempt to get a saleable asset to hand in a Transfer Request?

Anyway does Benni's interview translate into a Transfer Request?

Whichever your view it is now time to move on and gives him what he wants.......so long as he takes that dead weight who played alongside him on monday with him.

He might have, you never know.

The case might be that Benni has had enough of this happening and feels like he's being picked on, so has thrown his toys out of the pram.

Just a possibility.

Sam has been trying to sell Benni since last season. Benni has not been professional since the end of the first season at the club. Benni has been unfit since the beginning of last season, why wait until the week before the Transfer Window to attempt to get him fit?

Whoever is saying what just means that it becomes a very public rift which means any interested party either loses interest or is not prepared to gamble on an unfit sulk meaning that they'll only take him on loan or at a much reduced fee.

This means Rovers cannot get a replacement for him meaning we then are stuck with the unfit sulking player until summer.

It would have been better for ALL parties if this had been dealt with better.

I'm guessing Sam has been trying to get him fit for a while now, hense not starting him and publicly stating last year that Benni was not up to the job because of his fitness.

I admit I've had issues with hitting the weight targets the manager has set and that's my fault, but I put 100 per cent in on the pitch and always try my hardest. It seems I'm being punished more than others.'

McCarthy has been fined twice this season for failing to hit weight targets and he acknowledges Allardyce wants him to get fitter

Right Sam is trying to force Benni out the door but by saying he is overweight and lazy is hardly the way to go about it. All this is doing to dropping people's interest and thus the price.

None of this is good for Rovers.

No, Sam is telling the truth, Benni IS overweight and Benni IS lazy. He's being paid a reported £35,000 a week and he can't even get himself fit. It's just poor professionalism.

What would you have done? *look at the scales* "oh bloody hell Benni you're still a little over weight and it's been almost a year now. But never mind, we still love you...you have a biscuit and get yourself home"

Sam didn't give the interview, Benni did. Sam's not pushing him out, Benni's doing it all by himself.

"'I don't want to make trouble. When the fitness coach told me I was coming in early the next day I just accepted it. I don't want to start moaning in front of everyone and rock the boat."

...just go to the paper then Benni

This is being repeated so often it's turning into an urban myth. McCarthy wasn't unfit and his fitness didn't deteriorate during last season. Allardyce played a 6 foot 7 defender in his position - end of.

As he's said to the press today, he's not the type of player Allardyce wants. Which is a crying shame, because he's a very talented player, fantastic to watch and he scores goals - if a manager is able to use him properly.

I suspect that if (when) he does leave in January, what arrives as a replacement will not have a fraction of Benni's ability or get near his goalscoring record at Rovers.

Not happy.

so his double chin and pot belly must have be an urban myth as well then.......

Well it makes me wonder, if that is what Sam thinks - why didn't he sell him last january? When supposedly Sunderland were after him for a grand fee. He could have used the money to bring in his darling, Kevin Davies.

He probably thought that Benni would try his hardest to get fit and help the team out in times of need.

But; he didn't, he became even more unfit during the arse end of last season and couldn't be relied on.

It still baffles me on how a "professional athlete" can become unfit during a season. (injuries a side)

I think that says a lot about what kind of mentality Benni has and it sums up how much he actually cares for the football club as a whole.

I think the problem with Benni is that he's not fit enough for Sam's standards. But also seems to think he doesn't need to get any fitter because he's so talented.

In an interview; Sam said that he doesn't doubt Benni's ability or skill, it's just his professionalism and fitness that is being questioned.

A song going round the workshop this morning

to the tune of "thats amore"

"I like chips, egg and gammon,

he leaps just like a salmon,

that's Lionel Messiiii"