I sometimes think you talk sense but at others I honestly wonder if you are on a wind up. Leigertwood hasn't even proved himself at 1st division never mind Premier. He's just an average defender if that. He had a stinker in the play off final and has never impressed me at other times. I've been meaning to pull you up on one of your other joke recommendations. George McCartney. I don't know hardly any Sunderland fans that rate him that highly and he's nowhere near as good as Gray. Worse than that he's an awful captain who looks scared to death most of the time. As for Matteo not bad and would be good for a good few years depending on his fitness. If the fee is £1m or less then great.

Ok ok so I should have checked through thread and also made sure I could spell. Cheers Stu you were quite right!

Finally arrived in Manchester yesterday so i expect you will get them fairly soon. Anyone know why they have changed the format for the automatic up ticket scheme? Last year you just applied but this year it says you have to ring up.

What I don't undertsand is that he reckons he spoke to other ex-rovers players about coming here and that confirmed it for him. That can't be true though because Jan knows everything behind the scenes and she said that every ex-player hates Souness' guts. That was the reason they were all going to be so fired up when they beat us and she was right about that wasn't she.

Ok I'll fill a few more in but apologies if I get any wrong. Back row next to Ste B is Tony Diamond inc followed by Atomic Rover and then his son J. Front row next to LATD is me, then I think it's Slater Scott and Promoted 2001 who is fairly new to the board. Afraid I don't know who the fella next to Mushy is though. cheers

I may be wrong but my understanding of it is that both us and brum will be in separate qualifying tournaments. Dependant upon how you do will decide at what stage you come into the tournament on Friday. I did wonder how they could guarantee we had a game on the Friday which was why i didn't book to come out then. Looks like you'll have Blues fans for company but at least it should be decent opposition for the finals.

Was a very funny moment Ste it has to be said. I'd like to thank Smiffy and JPW for doing the organising as it was a really enjoyable day. Shame about the result but we played some good stuff and perhaps should have had a few more. Here's to the next one. p.s. Photo's are great as well really made me laugh.

Working mate and the football season has finished. The football season is never finished.

Dates are at the top of this page.

Fits in well with us that Ste. Our Itinery is :- Stuttgart 19th - 21st Bowfinger - Will have to rent it from Blockbuster Let us know when you sort out the Hotel in Stuttgart.

Well if you've made it clear you won't support Rovers whilst Souness is still here, then why are you still here? Why don't you leave us to supporting Rovers and you go and post your negative smart arsed comments elsewhere.

We're just going for second game or two I think on the same day. It looks like Reutlingen is about 30 minutes on the train from Stuttgart which would make it a good base. We got flights going Monday coming back Wednesday for £40 each. Cheers for the info by the way Lee.

Its only a 6 team tounement group stages on the 20th July Final; is on the 23rd. You are correct about the time of the matches. Jesus don't do that to me. After persuading Scotty to go out there I can just imagine the stick i'd get if we didn't even get to see a match. Any idea's where this 6 team tournament will take place. Heard someone mention it was the same thing Rangers was in last year. Did a bit of checking and that was in Auerbach but was only 4 teams and no final so not sure if it's the same. So you lot are going to Boblingen for the weekend. Nice!

Might do but i'll tell you on the Pre-season friendlies thread just below.

and i'll give you a million if dikov scores 30 goals next season. So you agree that both have absolutely no chance of happening? Why mention it then. Fergie may well have been able to bring through an exceptional crop of youngsters but it will only work if you have the players. You can't polish a turd.

Fairly pleased with this one. You have to sort out the squad and hopefully that's what we've done. It looks like only £100k and won't be much on wages. Interestingly the papers are still using the replacement for Cole angle which I hope is wrong. If Cole does leave I would hope we would replace him with a better player than Dickov. However for what we've paid I can't see how you can complain really.

What flights are you on? Flying out on the 19th and returning on the 21st. Only cost about £40 each from Manchester, cheers for that site by the way. As for the hotel surely it makes more sense to stay nearest the pubs & clubs or am I missing the point.

Cheeky sod . Yes i've booked flights for me and Scotty(although i'll leave the surprise of where i've booked his to till later). Haven't booked a hotel yet as was waiting but that one you mentioned looked fine to me. Just let us know if you're booking in there and I shall do likewise. Should be a good do anyway and am looking forward to it.

I had a look at that hotel Jordan. Seems pretty cheap and central so should be ok. I thought i'd make sure a few other message boarders were staying before booking as I didn't want to be on the other side of town.

The answer is I havent heard anything. I phoned up trying to get some idea of where the reduced prices were telling the girl that I was thinking of moving out of the BBE. (told her I was fed up of having to sing, and bob fleming braking wind) The girl gave me the JW prices as stated above plus. JW lower central £480 JW blackburn end £455 BBE no change in price When I asked about Direct Debit, she said that there was a charge, but she didnt know how much. as they hadnt had all the details yet. and that there was also a charge for purchasing by credit card. I sit in JW lower central and paid £450 last year but that was with a loyalty discount. Not sure how much that knocked off but it seems about the same to me.

Cheers for the help Jordan. Looked on there and can get flights for a couple of nights for £35 from Manchester. Got to sort a few things out first but probably going out 19th - 21st. Can't do a full week i'm afraid.

Singing aye aye deadleg deadleg aye, singing aye aye etc ...

Cheers for that sounds promising but not sure if the dates fit in with my plans. I hope to got though as it should be a laugh.

Thinking about it where are you flying from and who with if you don't mind me asking. cheers

Hmmm yes our future is looking poor isn't it. We have one of England's brightest prospects up front for us, you have one of Chelsea's on loan. Good luck for next year and if you want anymor cast-off's then i'm sure 'Graeme' will oblige.