I bet you wouldn't dare call him "metrosexual" to his face though!

Short was a great player for us. Wouldn't class Dickov as good though.

No, SG, completely disagree, still gutted, like the Man City chief executive said today I think we have just lost the brightest young manager in the game. Well done the Trustees - take a bow. Still spilt milk and all that. We've got to do the best we can with the next appointment. I think it doesn't really matter who comes in in the sense that they're liable to struggle unless a sensible transfer budget is arrived at. That's at least as important as the identity of the new man imo. Just hoping lack of funding doesn't prevent an exciting appointment. Wonder if we'll see the mooted 10m pre sale transfer kitty disappear into the ether now?

Bulimia?...................The only thing that fella looks like he's ever suffered from is an over active knife and fork.

Don't really disagree with what you've said there, however it does seem completely unrelated to the points I made in my post?

Strange, in the dim and distant past when live football was on the equally dire ITV and there was no MOTD I seem to remember people bemoaning its' passing and saying how good it was. I've never liked the BBC's coverage of football be it Jimmy Hill, Motson, or the current mob tbh. They always seemed to be like a lot of silly schoolboys snickering about an "in" joke the rest of us as the viewing public hadn't been let in on. Currently most of the problems seems to revolve around the fact(s) that Hansen has become a parody of himself and Lawrenson seems to think he's extremely amusing for some reason. Didn't see Saturday night's show but generally I find Shearer by far the most palatable of the presenters and usually quite complimentary about Rovers. I also thought Setanta's coverage of the Liverpool game and Alan Smith in particular was the worst I've ever heard. Thank god Sky have the bulk of the coverage is all I can say. Not worth getting too worked up about though, the papers/TV have to appeal to the larger sections of their viewing public, so we're never going to get the most favourable press. Apart from nicko that is.

Mokoena had an exceptional run when he first came to the club sweeping up as part of a five man midfield in our initial survival exercise under Sparky. Since then he has never looked anything like the part when playing in a conventional four man midfield, and imo would struggle to hold down a place in a Championship side let alone the Premiership. "South African international" sounds reasonably impressive though so with a bit of luck we should be able to con someone out of 500k for him.

I've read that about a dozen times and still can't take it in. Absolutely unbelievable. The fact that Mokoena is Benni's mate had better be a total coincidence.

I think he was fairly pally with Bill Fox. He certainly attended quite a lot of Rovers games with him at the time.

Unfortunately this latest England game has descended into a circus about whether Beckham is going to get his hundredth cap at a time wwen the manager needs to be looking forward and familiarising himself with his realistic options for the forthcoming World Cup qualifiers. I suggested Beckham should get ten minutes in Capello's first game against Switzerland and I think tnr chided me for being too soft and that was why I'd never be a manager. It would however have had the effect of it all being done and dusted and we could then have moved on. Hope Capello doesn't get sucked down by the whole Beckham phenomenon like Sven did to a large extent.

Neill was awful against Chelsea at weekend, Chelsea's first came from Anton Ferdinand having to try and dash over to cover for him as he was badly out of position and of Chelsea's first three goals originated down that side. The "ammers fan who mentioned "contract negotiation" has it bob on. Nothing quite a few of us on here couldn't have told them mind............

Not nearly as obssessed as you are on picking up on everything AESF says Flops. Anyhow, as much as Ashley is a complete bell end, I have to say Cheryl has been milking the hard done to partner routine for all it's worth since it happened and has never been out of the papers since, supposedly "agonising" about her predicament in a convenient photo shoot opportunity. It reminds me of Heather Mills post separation whenever she was doing anything and there always seemed to be photographers miraculously on hand to witness her "having to lug her own luggage" about etc.

I thought it was an unbelievably bad move to axe Mourinho at the time and Chelski seem to be going from being a relatively dull outfit who win things to a relatively dull outfit who can't win things. Oh dear, what a shame, never mind.....................

Again, just like the comment from Le Chuck which Flopsy agreed with, that's completely uncalled for imo. If you checked back I think it would confirm AESF doesn't give two hoots who he has a rant about regardless of their ethnicity or the colour of their skin. Rovermatt I'm perfectly well aware of the legal definition of libel thank you very much, which is precisely the category the earlier comments fell into imo as another poster said.

Exactly, that rattled the natives cages sufficiently to liven the atmosphere up for a while but even that sort of soon subsided. Don't know if you're allowed those air horns in this country, or where to get them, but the right number of those in the BBE would make it sound like a cracking atmosphere even when there is none if you see what I mean.

Just got back from a weekend in Madrid and we went to see the Real Madrid v Getafe game on Sunday night which is a local derby of sorts as Getafe are based on the outskirts of Madrid. The Bernabau stadium was absolutely magnificent and has a capacity of 87000. It was fascinating to compare the atmosphere from that game to a typical Premiership game or to that at Ewood Park. It was a dire performance on the night from Real who lost 1-0 and who had Van Horseface, Heinze and Robben playing for them. Royston Drenthe who was also briefly linked with us came on and didn't look anything that special at all. It must have been a real off night for Madrid as they had been five points clear of Barca at the top going into Sunday's round of fixtures and that may have had an adverse effect on the atmosphere. Nevertheless the ground wasn't full by any means (I'd say at least 7000 empty seats) and the only atmosphere came from countless air horns which kept the atmosphere reasonably lively despite a complete lack of singing from either set of fans. There was only one very small section of fans behind one goal attempting to sing, which they did more or less throughout. Afficionados of the drummer at Ewood will also be delighted to know Real also had three drummers (probably unofficial) in various points of the ground trying to whip up atmosphere intermittently! If Sunday night was typical I can only conclude that lack of atmosphere is definitely an all seater stadia thing rather than a Premiership thing, and that the atmosphere at most Premiership grounds, Ewood included is much better than that apparent at the Bernabau the other night. As for the game itself, very poor fare, both teams standing two yards off one another and tackling virtually non existent. Again on that basis give me the Premiership any day. One thing I would say though, if anyone is in Madrid, you must do the tour of the ground and museum. Absolutely magnificent. Apparently Real or their players have won over 10,000 trophies or awards during their history.

Yes it is.

That's an outrageous thing to say Flopsy and completely libellous. Yet another example of m/b rules not applying when certain individuals are insulted.

Isn't Dunphy the ex Man Ure fella? I'm not usually one to stand up for Keane but in Dunphy's case it's definitely a case of the pot calling the kettle black.

I'll nominate myself to save Scotty the trouble.

Haven't read through the rest of the thread but I was also going to say, has anyone mentioned anyone APART FROM Garth Crooks?

Out of interest, what have Terry and Lampard done wrong?

AESF, he was also interviewed on Talksport about the infamous "wally with the brolly" incident and the excuse he gave was not that he was trying to keep his little tuft of hair dry, it was due to the fact he liked taking a lot of notes and it was lashing down with rain. Some wag texted in afterwards and said he certainly did like taking a lot of notes, he took 2.5 million of them! Don't know whether to or

Everyone is entitled to move and double their salary and in that sense you can't blame them. The reason I feel badly towards Neill is two fold 1) Instead of being completely honest and coming straight out saying he wanted a move, he pretended he was "keeping his options open" no doubt hoping he would get a less hostile reception off the fans. 2) More importantly, post Jack, I think he's the only player guaranteed a first team place here who has left Ewood solely for financial reasons. Everyone else has either left in an upwards move or seemed able to demonstrate their commitment to Rovers and "scrape by" on the terms offered here.

Amen. In twelve words end of discussion really.