'Ah, there's the rub!' Good call Fife, that was suggested in the pub after the game. Hmmm and on the subject of Amoruso...... 'Oh that this too solid flesh would melt'. or Barry Ferguson........ 'Frailty thy name is woman'.

I'm sorry am I on a Rangers board?

Student eh? I blurdy well hope you know more about your studies that we are all subbing you for than you do about football Savage has twice the on-pitch influence in his big toe than that fraud Barry Ferguson has in his entire body! Anyway being a student you should be capable of stringing a few words together so why dont you write to Mark Hughes giving him your thoughts and suggest to him that you dislike Savage and would much prefer to see Zidane, Vierra, Lampard or Gerrard playing in the blue and white halves. kinell............ who'd have 'students'! Bring on the revolution.........

So you must have well hated Shearer then? Embarrassed when Dickovs in the team?!? I'm more bloody embarrassed at what we have to offer when he's OUT of it! Dunno how often you come up from London but Dickov's absence was felt mightily in the last couple of matches. Our soon to be Nationwide leaguers Gally and Stead could not hit a cows backside with a banjo! Bothroyd? 'This boys cheese has slipped right off his cracker' (q from the superb Green Mile) and Jansens lost his cheese totally nowadays. If we had to sell the lot in the summer I guarantee only Dickov would be playing in the prem next season........... unless Steve Bruce gets hold of the chequebook at Brum. Please try to cultivate less predjudice just cos he doesn't look like a proper centre forward. Since Sav came he'll be Mark Hughes 2nd name on the team sheet or I'm a monkeys uncle.

We've certainly had more than our share of the 'slings and arrows of outrageous fortunes' recently T4E.

What you on about its a cracking pitch at Ewood! That Mourhino is a knob. He looks and sounds authoratitive but he knows absolutel frerk all about English pitches! Its not as if he's manager of Arsenal is it? Chelsea have about the worst pitch in the prem ffs...... and they always have had for that matter! It's a bog that needs relaying every 5 minutes and whilst it may make it look green I can assure you it does not make it 'play' well. Quite the opposite in fact. As for his rifdiculous claims about 'watering' the pitch to slow down their Oh so wonderful passing game. Bollax! Anybody and their mother who has ever played football or studied greenkeeping knows that (until a pitch becomes actually waterlogged) a recently watered pitch actually speeds up a game. Its a drying out pitch that slows the game down and becomes 'cloyey'. What an ignorant d1ck the tiresome portugese ponce is becoming. Rovers did not roll over and die at their feet and that is what he is angry about. I didn't think that the game was overly physical anyway nor did I think that there was much difference between the teams in a physical sense as Chelsea can give as much as they get. Its just that they moan a frickin lot more! After the pen Sav got up straight away, as do most of Hughes's team. Compare that with Duffer and even Mr Oh so hard John Terry! Ol Big-Head was wriggling about like a stuck pig at one stage but then got up and ran to the touchline. Lets hope that all this chucking of mud does not give us a name as a dirty team cos imo we are far from that. Sure Flitty and Toddy are tough and Sav gets stuck in but for us to have all those disciplinary points amazes me. How can we have nearly double Bolton and lots more than Everton and WBA ffs? Its Baffling.

I hope you are wrong Philip. Gotta say I've just read a few posts on a Chelsea mb and they are piggin unreal. They know absolutely sweet FA about football. I swear most of em sound like their interest was only kindled when the Russian gangster turned up. Much as I hate the 'snivelling best mates of the playground bully at school' stereotype Mancs, I have to say that at least they have some 'history' and football knowledge. This lot all sound like clones of Charles Haughtry and Kenneth Williams. They are so false that if Abromovich had put his money in the Royal Ballet they'd all be going there. Puffs to the North and Puffs to the South I'm afraid.

If mourhino is serious in his whingeing comments he is simply NOT a footballing man! I thought he was but I was mistaken and I hold my hand up. He and his team have quite stupidly exposed their Achilles heel! I fully expect em to meet physical opposition and get ruffed up in every future game now. I suggest Mourhino has inadavertantly revealed the underlying reason why English football is watched all over Europe whilst Portugese football attracts little interest. Sky have it sussed and chuck very little money towards sealing the Portugese contract.

Yep you are being daft. Once a cracking player for us that I really rated and enjoyed watching but now we all know that his days in the Prem are behind him. We must get rid cos we are not 'carers'. He is cluttering up the place and taking too much of the wage kitty. We need 3 new strikers not one so he can fill a car up and sod off with all the others except Dickov. Hughes thank flerk does not appear to be as sentimental as so many on here and will surely bullet him.

I thought you said that you had finished posting on here now that the puny footballing fraud has got his babyhouse wish. The soft sod has even gone public in making himself a laughing stock by saying there is more atmosphere in scottish football than English! (They were taking the ###### out of your 'Little big man's stupid comments and Scottish football in general on Granada Soccer night tonight.) Anyway......... where was I?........ Oh now I rem. If it is sooooo much better up there then why do you and your bum chums at Celtic so much want to play down here? And why do NONE of the Prem clubs express any interest whatsoever in wanting to join the mighty Scottish Prem league? And dont refer to Sky money again cos they never expressed an interest before satellite TV was invented. JHC even Carlisle would rather travel to Torquay than pitch in with you lot.

500K? We've any number that are worth that much already.

You're telling me! I didn't know that so many people felt the need to perform mental abloutions to pour metaphorical oil on their own troubled waters. Den only asked for people to vote in some pointless poll ffs!

Well I watched him against the Dutch and he looked like a youth team player..... but then they all did. 2 questions 1. Would gers want him back so much if he was just some johnny foreigner or are the supporters of that club under some sort of delusion that he is one of the all-time great Scottish midfielders comparable to the likes of souness, bremner Mackay baxter etc? 2. Is he gonna wear that daft dead cat on his heeeed again? What was it anyway Rob Roys sporran or something?

Oh Good grief NO! Please stop this ludicrous poll now! Barry Ferguson has been done to death. He wasn't as good as expected, he spent most of his time on his arse and counting his money in the treatment room and now he's gone to where thousands will not even allow him to wipe his own arse. Period. So who gives a flying flerk? Stop crying over spilt milk. Just what is the frickin point of this? Be more sense to have a poll on whether we should have this poll or not.

Not surpised you think that. Tugay was the only decent player we've had off you - frankly you've taken us for quite a few million, what with Ferguson and Amoruso. Still, you can be happy that you have a skipper back who can lead by example and show real moral fibre and courage when the going gets tough... doh! So many whingers on here. Shut the flerk up guys you are making me depressed. Dont forget it was us who started it by pulling their necks out and getting 4.5 million for Colin Hendry right at the fag end of his career. Big Col would have cost us big time cause his pace disappeared overnight and he still had a lot of years left on his contract. Factor that in and things are fairly equal. imo half a result today. We got rid of a vastly overrated player who has not performed to anything like the level expected of a £7m man, and knowing his weak character would have played even worse. BUT we did'nt get the striker that we need most. I'd have been well chuffed if Bellamy had landed, as it is if Dickov gets hurt we will have serious problems even finishing 4th from bottom. Ironic that the two strikers that we have been linked with will now playing pub football together in Scotland. Wonder how Sutty will figure in all this now?

Be marvellous if ticket stubs from both Ewood games v Cardiff and Colchester Utd were required for tickets for't Turf!

In their convoy of vehicles looking like something borrowed from the set of Mad Max! .......... "there was even an ice-cream van bringing up the rear" (Stanley Ternant)

He must know that his way of conducting business humiliates his own club and their fans.

Relative lack of qualty? I can rem far far worse! Trouble is that in the last decade we have been spoiled in a way that the fans of other teams similar in stature to ourselves have not.

I would give a lot of money to see the look on the faces of the Brum management this morning. Humiliation is just not in it! How can such a recently self proclaimed BIG CLUB not only lose its best player to a minnow but also fail to attract a nailed on cert? Messrs Sullivan and Golds will be spitting fury as we speak. Sullivan especially has been humiliated big time and knowing the little big man as we all do i expect this to be a very very big nail in Steve Bruce's coffin. Dean man walking imo.

Not one of them would have stayed if a top club had come in for them. We were their comfort zone. Their loyalty was largely down to necessity. Paul you keep banging on about comparisons with business but in this instance you are letting your Prem League heart run your 2nd div head. Talk to most 'Big' club supporters and I'd wager that loyalty from players doesn't figure that highly. The majority with even half a brain will have always known that their players have only come for the money ever since 1963 and the abolishment of the max wage. I dont want loyalty from players and anybody who does is looking for fools gold. I just want professionalism, ability and passion from our players. When KMD , AS , Sutty, et al all turned up we were paying them then what we felt were considered ridiculous salaries BUT we had far more supporters going in those days. Unfortunately you are right that the newness has worn off, the emphasis of our place in the Prem has changed and thats why we must move with the times. And like it or not (and abbey can carry his piles around in a skip for all I am concerned) we must raise our fan base. Winning the Prem didn't achieve that effect in the long term so use your 'business acumen' for a minute and you must realise that as we cannot move the town so by any means necessary we must eliminate choice.

its illegal to exceed 70mph but I did do once.

They are in the sea off the coast of Britain. I'm sure that after we found the oil for you you would have kept it for yourselves if you could have. Funny but for some reason I cannot rem any stirling efforts made by the Scottish navy to defend em.

Despises eh? I know its all a bit too tough for him down here but he's never actually said that has he? And rem two years ago he despised living in sectarian Glasgow!

Rangers in theory (if they come up with enough to lubricate the move)..... but Newcastle in reality! Kinda strange world of business innit? Seems obvious that Bellamy is not really overjoyed at working with Steve Bruce at Birmingham and that he and his agent are using that as a backstop bid should Rangers cheque fail to meet expectations and BRFC not come up with the wherewithall. ** Its not football this............ its poker! And whilst we dont hold all the aces we sure have a very strong hand! ** If this comes off Brum fans will be apoplectic with rage, Sullivan will fall out of his high chair and the legions of powerful enemies that Steve Bruce has amassed will get their revenge! (I shouldn't be surprised if Dave Whelan doesn't provide BRFC some financial / moral support cos he frickin hates Bruce)