Illogical. Pubs and football grounds ..... public places. Private homes ..... not public places. Not difficult is it ?

Strange how Neill's form has improved in World Cup year. The LET says "long-term" deal but I understand it will be for as many as a further four years, which is far too long for an average player who will be 33 by the time the new deal expires. Older players such as Neilll should be on one-year deals and have to prove each season that they are worth another one. With a four-year deal tucked into his overtailored trousers, Neill might well revert to the mistake-ridden comfort zone he has frequently inhabited in the past.

Drinks all round then. Mine's two sugars. Tottenham were so fortunate to win the game (and beat us) they must be destined for that fourth place. Bad luck on West Brom too; I bet Steve Bruce breathed a sigh of relief.

Sir Robert McAlpine warned in 1999 that the project was "unworkable" .... which is one reason why Bovis pulled out, but Multiplex were determined to go ahead with construction at virtually any price in order to break into the British market. Wembley is an embarrassment to the FA but the greater blow has been to Multiplex, who have lost credibility because of their inability to manage the project and have seen the company's value reduced sharply because of the decline in the share price. I doubt if the founding Roberts family are happy either, having forked out a considerable sum of their own money to keep the project going. Thankfully, unlike the Millennium Dome, none of the cost overrruns from the project are being picked up the taxpayer and are entirely a matter for Multiplex.

Don't worry about it Exiled. He's actually an Englishman with a mighty big chip on his shoulder because he couldn't hack it here and ran away to a convict colony. Hence his bitterness.

This article sums it all up. http://sport.guardian.co.uk/london2012/sto...1725858,00.html Basically, Multiplex bit off more than it could chew, ie management failure from the outset. If dave the machine minder could read he would realise that.

Listen to him RAF: he's an expert on copying machines.

I'll make a comment: you're talking nonsense as usual. Search the web and you'll find any number of stories of management failures regarding the Wembley project. Multiplex may be a big company in the tinpot economy down under but have been found out in the big league.

Roberts, that's the chappie. Went to his house on Shadsworth once. How many Rovers players live on Shadsworth now ?!! Rovers' crowds of that period were generally 17,000 to 20,000 as I recall with more for the Lancashire derbies. Interesting that Rovers' gates are slowly reverting to that level now, showing that the inflated crowds of the Walker years were an aberration.

Great post, Tyrone, though Hendry cannot be compared with McGrath, the former a centre half and the latter an old-fashioned left half. Wasn't Bobby Jones an Aussie ? Agree with the rest of your joint 1960s/1990s team though many on here would never have it. Did you see the game at Villa when Ferguson dribbled round the entire defence and walked the ball in the net ? Even the Villa supporters applauded. That team had everything and to think, ten years later, the attack was being led by John O'Mara !

An Aussie laid the drains for our nursing home. Two months later, after several floods, they were relaid by a proper workman. Water flows uphill in Australia apparently.

Correct. The decline in Rovers' attendances can be traced back to the summer that Souness allowed David Dunn to leave the club. Pedersen is not a particularly brilliant player but he has become a talisman for alot of fans.

One of the funniest sights of the season was watching Steve Bruce squirm his way through tonight's embarrassment at St Andrews. Strangely, the Brum fans did not turn on their embattled manager. Perhaps they were too stunned by events on the pitch.

I interviewed Bobby Moore in the mid-1970s and dared to mention this game. Gentleman that he was, Bobby went into raptures about Bryan Douglas and the way Rovers played that day. It remains the most astonishing away Rovers victory in my lifetime. What Bobby did not say was that West Ham came to Ewood a few days later and won 3-1.

And mine was a comment about your hypocrisy. Keep up the good work Nick.

And how many folk pontificating from abroad ? Stop complaining, jump on the next £15 flight from Malta and get to Ewood.

Says he always criticising Blackburn and who ran away to the glorious environs of Merseyside.

Yup, you really missed something there. I saw Duggie and Shearer play more than 100 games together for Rovers and they really were magical.

Lovely writing, beautiful matches. I remember the Liverpool like t'were yesterday: they were 2-0 up, we pulled it back to 2-2 at half time and scored the winner in the second half. Duggie was brilliant. The Scouse hordes were not happy, throwing beer bottles around the Darwen End even then. Ron Kennedy was a Blackburn freelance for years, not sure what happened to him.

Because the players have 24 hours (or thereabouts) less recovery time before the match away to Birmingham City on the Wednesday night ? Ask any professional footballer and he will tell you that rest and recuperation are vitally important at this stage of the season, which is one reason why Rovers ought to thump Middlesbrough this weekend. Rovers have a real chance of qualifying for the Champions League; to handicap themselves in this way doesn't make sense.

Weak leadership from the Rovers management, putting in jeopardy potential Champions League points rather than risk upsetting Liverpudlian sensibilities by refusing to switch. The least Liverpool can do now is roll over and let us win 3-0.

Quite. There are some on here who went over to the dark side more than 30 years ago and have not returned once to see their family, never mind to watch Rovers. They should be ignored.

The ex-pats on here couldn't even be arsed to come over for the Worthington Cup final at Cardiff - Rovers' first significant final for more than 40 years. And they even had the gall to moan about the cost of flights.

Using language like "rubbish" doesn't really help. Liverpool fans have strong feelings on the subject that one may or may not agree with but they are entitled to their views. I'm sure Williams and Finn will handle this matter in the same sensitive manner as their handling of the dismissal of Tony Parkes. Apologists for the esteemed Rovers management team may as well brace themselves now to have to change their arrangements for the Liverpool game.

After the Lord Mayor's Show at Tottenham, a dire performance and a 0-0 draw.