waggy you are like a broken record! Brum and Fulham can overtake us at the cost of £500K each (plus Newcastle and Pompey sneeking through to take another 2x £500K). If we win those two games and overtake some of the clubs above us, there are more £500Ks to be won. In short, there are a couple of year's funding of the Academy or a signing still at stake in this season. Nobody is arguing that any of the youngsters are close enough for the first team- even your mate Rover6 is not running an equivalent of "pick Donnelly" for any of the current youngsters. Give them a run now and you'll destroy them rather than save us a transfer fee.

The Baggies went 3-0 up in the first half. We pulled it back to 3-2. I think one of Garner's first goals for us was our second. 18,000 gate and a lot of Rovers supporters there. "oh I do like to be beside the seaside... ...f.... o... West Brom" Remember that one? Like other posters on this web site, I used to go to watch the Baggies in the late '70s when I could. They were a marvelously entertaining side who could destroy any opposition on their day. Sadly, WBA never had the motivation to hit the heights they should have. Junky Johnson was one of the best wingers I have ever seen.

From the BBC: Uefa is considering a change to the rules regarding Champions League qualification that could see Everton overtake Liverpool even if the Reds win the competition this year. (Daily Express, The Times) Looks like I am not alone in thinking its a UEFA rule Rev.

I like our new hard boy image. Was down the Britannia Bar in Gzira watching the Mancs play Souness Pansies and started getting some stick for supporting the Rovers. All I had to say was "we will kick you" and the bar fell silent.

Follow Follow in its entirety shows that Glaswegian comedy didn't die when Billy Connelly shagged Pamela Stevenson under the table in a Wimpy Bar then left for Hollywood.

Cannot give you the link but there was a recent article analysing RFW's most successful Manc sides. The argument was that they did not play 4-4-2 which was what all the commentators were saying they were playing at the time but they had a system which could adjust between 4-1-3-2 and 4-3-1-2. I wonder if that is the future at Ewood?

bellamy 11 that has to be the best link posted ever. It is utterly hilarious!!!

No problem. So what if Rangers had drawn? They still couldn't win the Sunday Pub League.

The "Wee Man" got everything he deserved in the Old Firm this afternoon. Pathetic Ned joined a going nowhere club.

Oops- thought I'd posted in the Nob End thread. On second thoughts, perhaps I have anyway.

Turn it around AR- Hughes has really injected steel into the Rovers but Baggies are fighting for their lives and have some more than decent players. It's got to be at least 50% probability we loose this one. As a draw will be very little use to the Baggies, especially if Southampton make it a week-end of misery for them by winning at Pompey which I think is very much on the cards, fancy this will be a very open and exciting game. Is it on TV?

Got to admit, having PNE in the top division for the first time since 1961/2 would have a certain novelty value.

1864, I suspect you are right but I have the feeling a bubble is going to burst in this game. The Rovers have been doing brilliantly to keep such a tight backline but sooner or later it is going to breached by someone other than Arsenal and the Baggies have the flair players who could bring us crashing down to earth if they are on their game. On the other hand, the Baggies folded big time at the Riverside once they had conceded the first goal. Rovers have been playing well (except today by all accounts) and deserved bigger winning margins in some of the 1-0s. Could this be the game we win big? Enough iffing and butting. Baggies will go into this game rock bottom, get a dubious penalty (making up for the Duff dive two seasons ago) and will beat us 2-0. Good preview Flopsy- shame you couldn't find a moment to explain to your Baggy mates who Richard Chaplow was.

No chat, No Radio Rovers, well what to do?

"Uefa clarifies warning to Everton Uefa has told Everton again they could miss out on a Champions League spot if Liverpool win this season's trophy."

Good to see Sparky is not being intimidaited by all the anti-Blackburn rubbish circulating in the media.

This article says that UEFA will tell the FA to select Liverpool. There is another thread elsewhere on this MB which found a UEFA rule which is definitive on the subject. Use the search engine and no doubt you will find it.

That is the UEFA rule- look on the Champions League Rules in the UEFA web site. So just as Real Zaragoza got crippled by that rule, so would Everton- the second time Everton have been utterly done in Europe by Liverpool. When the red scousers rioted in the Heysel, Everton were easilly the best club side Britain had produced in years in 85/6 and would surely have won the European Cup but for the ban Liverpool brought onto English soccer. 7th place would still get a UEFA slot.

3 places in the UEFA, I believe. If it did go down to 8th, Rovers would be in with as very decent chance of qualifying. At 7th, we have to win all remaining games and hope neither Boro nor Spurs suddenly click into form. Incidentally, if the Intertoto is a nightmare this season, it kicks off a week after the World Cup Final next season.

Did you see Brum's performance? The dingles would have beaten them 3-0! I still fear that City will be good enough to score against us and that we won't find a way back.

Strachan spot on again.

"almost European form"? Gross up the half season from the most recent 19 games to 33 games and extending current form to the whole season would give Rovers 50 points. That is 7th place which this season is worth UEFA qualification. And that has been achieved with no forwards! Of course doing the same arithmetic to the first fourteen games and we would have 23 points and be rock bottom still. Newcastle haven't seen the best of Mr Souness yet

I doubt any harm would be done by Todd's lawyers taking clippings from the relevant rags and sending a "reserving all rights letter" to the appropriate departments. In fact the unreserved dismissal of the case against Todd by the FA will probably assist Andy in going after certain journalists. The club's lawyers taking up the attacks on Hughes will make the papers a darn sight more careful when they are thinking about slagging off the Rovers in future and no doubt Toddy would benefit from some appropriate form of out of Court apology. I did wonder where the newspapers' lawyers were hiding (surely not enjoying hospitality?) when I read some of the stuff in the press about both Todd and Hughes. Like jim, I was surprised to see the extremely liberal and indiscriminate use of words like thug, disgrace, etc. in the context of previous alleged conduct which had little to no bearing on the FA Cup semi-final. Several described Hughes' incredibly distinguished playing career in extremely negative and unflattering terms then stated by extension the type of football team he would coach would be as bad. Oliver Holt's piece in The Mirror calling for Todd to be banned simply because he is Andy Todd (from what I could make out was the gist of his venom) was, in my opinion, over the line as were several comments by Patrick Collins on the Sky programme.

He had a pre-exising condition called "being alive". Everyone who plays pro-sport will have picked up pre-existing conditions (knocks, cuts, breaks, dodgy injections etc.) which would invalidate any insurance policy.

Under what circumstances would an insurance policy for a pro sports person ever pay out, Rev?