Midfield was a let down - didnt pressurise them and players like Mendes & Davis had a field day, our 2 full backs passing was shocking and Dickov just moaned the whole time! I would have brought Kuqi on at 2-1 to mix things up a bit.

It is slightly worrying we've not played well at all for the past 3 games. But on a positive side we havent lost and got 5 points.

Its on foreign telly for all Blackburn pub-goers

The wonderful world of Steve Bruce.....

Transfers:

Transfers fees paid: £38,650,000

Transfers fees received: £10,450,000

= - £28,200,000

Interesting Moves:

Out:

Andy Johnson, a mere £750,000 - scored 71 goals in 129 games and earned an England call up.

In:

Emile Heskey: £6,250,000

Martin 'Tiny' Taylor: £1,250,000

Luciano Figueroa: £3,000,000 - didnt play a single game

Robbie Blake: £1,250,000 - played 2 games, at a cost of £625,00 per game

Jesper Gronkjaer: £2,250,000 - played just 13 games, at a cost of £171,153 per game

Walter Pandiani: £3,000,000 - played just 20 games; at a cost £150,000 per game

''Success'':

2001/02: Promoted from 1st division via play offs.

2002/03 13th Prem

2003/04 10th Prem

2004/05 12th Prem

2005/06 18th Prem, going down.

Tickets sold for Sunderland; a grand total of: 898.

Re-arrange these words:

Banana Potential Skin

The wonderful world of Steve Bruce.....

Transfers:

Transfers fees paid: £38,650,000

Transfers fees received: £10,450,000

= - £28,200,000

Interesting Moves:

Out:

Andy Johnson, a mere £750,000 - scored 71 goals in 129 games and earned an England call up.

In:

Emile Heskey: £6,250,000 - Donkey

Martin 'Tiny' Taylor: £1,250,000 - Nuff said

Luciano Figueroa: £3,000,000 - Didnt play a single game

Robbie Blake: £1,250,000 - Played 2 games, at a cost of £625,00 per game

Jesper Gronkjaer: £2,250,000 - Played just 13 games, at a cost of £171,153 per game

Walter Pandiani :£3,000,000 - Played just 20 games; at a cost £150,000 per game

''Success'':

2001/02: Promoted from 1st division via play offs.

2002/03: 13th Prem

2003/04: 10th Prem

2004/05: 12th Prem

2005/06: 18th Prem, going down.

Some other team will be caught up in this cycle next year

Villa unbeaten in last 8 away

10 games left; 6 of the teams are in bottom 10 - 2 of which are in the bottom 2

Only 2 of the teams are above us...and these are both at home.

Spurs have got Chelsea, Arsenal & Man United to play

Bolton got Liverpool, Chelsea and United to play but rest of fixtures are relatively easy.

Europe????

If we win 11-0 next week we go 4th. 12-1 will do

It's all about the 1st goal...

Everton's record scoring and conceding 1st.....

Scored First:

P W D L F A PTS GD

14 10 3 1 17 6 33 +11

Conceded First:

P W D L F A PTS GD

11 0 0 11 1 26 0 -25

<< Derbyshire off to Wales >>

Is Bellamy back?

How many tickets have we sold?

My team:

FRIEDEL

---------

NEILL

TODD

NELSEN

GRAY

--------

REID

TUGAY

SAVAGE

PEDERSEN

--------

BELLAMY

BENTLEY

**If Bellamy fit - Pongo in

Roeder is on SSN saying fans never falterd from 52,000 in 45 years

LOL LOL LOL LOL

Top 5 lowest averages for a season...

LOWEST AVERAGE

1 16,883 1990/91

2 17,350 1980/81

3 17,736 1981/82

4 20,926 1978/79

5 21,656 1987/88

NUFF SAID

Apparently Newcastle have signed a new sponsorship deal with Knorr and have developed a cube with Black and White stripes and Souness's face on it.

It's called it the "laughing stock" !! - Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of supporters.

With one fit striker why have we not asked for Gallagher back?!!?!?!?

Walker vs Glazer

Passion vs Plastic

Stock Market vs 3 Day Market

Every Week v Two Day Trips a Year

People vs The Machine

Hot Dogs vs Pies

BRFC Everytime

Man Utd (from): Van der Sar, Howard, Neville, Ferdinand, Brown, Silvestre, Vidic, Pique, Evra, Fletcher, Giggs, Richardson, Van Nistelrooy, Rooney, Saha, Rossi.

Blackburn (from): Friedel, Neill, Khizanishvili, Nelsen, Matteo, Bentley, Tugay, Savage, Pedersen, Kuqi, Enckelman, Emerton, Bellamy, Gray, Peter, Todd, Reid

Good article on Hughes here; shame he's linked with United.

http://www.teamtalk.com/teamtalk/News/Stor..._972865,00.html

Any more news on Bellers for tomorrow? If he is out, I think we'll play:

FRIEDEL

NEILL

ZURAB

NELSEN

GRAY

BENTLEY

TUGAY

SAVAGE

PETER

PEDERSEN

KUQI

Or if Gally comes back...

FRIEDEL

NEILL

ZURAB

NELSEN

GRAY

BENTLEY

TUGAY

SAVAGE

PEDERSEN

GALLAGHER

KUQI

How inevitable was last nights announcement!?!!

He should have left 2 years ago, never mind waiting til after the world cup. Thanks for the 5-1 Sven, and erm...erm....erm.... close the door on your way out.

I would go for O'Neill, Pearce and have people like Bobby Robson, Peter Taylor as backroom staff.

I doubt it would work with Allardyce - a lot of his work ethic is based on the levels of fitness they have to reach day in, day out using computer-based equipment etc etc - only seeing the players once or twice every few months would make it hard to stick to this regime. Why has Steve Bruce and Steve McLaren even been linked??? How can you trust someone who spent £1.5m on Martin ''Tiny'' (I can think of a lot worse nicknames) Taylor? Must be having a laugh!! McLarens spent a fortune on idiots like Hasselbaink, Viduka and let them take the p*ss and cant get them motivated.

Basically we need a manager that will know his best XI - Eriksson, with only months left to prepare, still doesnt.

.A

I hope Lady LUQUE is on our side

I'll be at St James's!

We've sold 900 tickets for this one.

For those who aren't going, its on foreign telly: -

> TPS Foot

> ART Sport 1

> Canal+ Sport