To be honest you never know with these things, I always vote on the basis that the best I have ever seen play for Rovers. So my next vote will either be for Sutton or Jansen, in this case Jansen. Shearer got my vote because I had the pleasure of seeing him in a Rovers shirt, if I had become a Rovers supporter within the last 5 years though, then I would have voted for Jansen first up. So you never know with these things. Then I guess we should rename the squad to best 10 in Eddie's lifetime, instead of best 10 EVER. Thank you for that. I wasn't saying everyone should judge players based on my lifetime. All I'm saying is how on earth could I know if some player in the 50's or 60's was better than a player of more recent times. I've never even seen video footage of many of these let alone seen them at first hand. I judge as best I can, and really the only way I can do that is to judge the players I really know. I don't begrudge the fact that some of the older members have seen Rovers for decades and so can pass comment on hundreds of players who have put on the shirt, I'm limited to my own experiences since I was 6 years old, and in my case that only goes back 11 years. I'm sorry I'm young.

My worry was actually you were talking about people like me, I'm not exactly a local lad in origin or location. Unless of course you considered Chesire mixed with Guyana to be local haha

And where have all these "Noveau Rovers Fans" gone then?

I agree with you, but saying he was a poor buy, or that he isn't up to standard, is not the same thing as saying he isn't a footballer. Grabbi wasn't great, but hell he was a footballer. Savage is physical, but with obvious skill as well, if he didn't have it then he wouldn't have played at the top level for such a long period.

To be honest you never know with these things, I always vote on the basis that the best I have ever seen play for Rovers. So my next vote will either be for Sutton or Jansen, in this case Jansen. Shearer got my vote because I had the pleasure of seeing him in a Rovers shirt, if I had become a Rovers supporter within the last 5 years though, then I would have voted for Jansen first up. So you never know with these things.

I don't get it. You come here, have a go at a player and say you say with Chelsea fans, and think somehow we are going to not have a go at you? I thought he was one of the better midfielders on the night. He didn't bully, he has a physical style, what do you call Keane? I think he's already shown us that he has consdierable footballing talent to go along with this. Utter garbage. You may not like him, or his style, but if you say he's not a footballer, then that's just nonsense.

Glad to see more positive noises being made. I think if we played like that for the remainder of the season, we'll have no worries. We'd beat most like that. If one or two of our attacking players can just get that something extra going forward now and then in a game, we can more than make do for the rest of the season and bring in a new striker and other faces in the summer.

Hopefully he's more like David. I don't think Goliath coped well with things flying around his head .

Wow I seem to be the only one who took positives from that.

Not a classic game, but I though we played very well. Organised and solid, lacked that cutting edge but we already knew that. Encourage all the same by the fight and performance of the players. We probably would have beaten anyone but Chelsea tonight. Shame about the penalty miss, but not the end of the world. We really have got a real bargain in the form of Nelsen, that guy looks more than capable at the back.

See this is a game, I don't mind we are losing, because I actually think we've been decent. Really that is all that matters.

Why total destruction of their team? If we are the better team we will win, hell if we are going to win I'd still say we won't be the better side. They aren't unbeatable.

Alright Ulrablue, that's total crap. End to end game, passion, quality, excitement. You don't get games like that in other leagues. Great stuff, very entertaining.

It's one of those weird ones, where you know they'll get 5 or something. I know I'm talking crap now, and they won't, but you know what I mean? As long as we go out and play well I'll be happy, regardless of the final score, just have a good feeling about this for some reason. Though for the past couple of months I've had a good feeling about all Rovers matches.

It is hard to be aggressive when you only have 14 players...

Pompey drawn level against Boro

Elsewhere Charlton and Boro both winning.

God can you say anything else?

Well my dad is a lifelong united fan, so I always feel a bit bad for him, he looks so sad, and I think of me after a Rovers defeat, but then I remember its United, and rub it in.

I'll start it off then...I hope it's purple

I've always be tempted to become involved in this discussion, but gave up months ago as it is dominated by you metal lovers. Not my cup of tea I have to say, well it was for a phase, but got past that when I was about 14.

I'll be watching as well, also want Arsenal to win.

Oh give it a rest. Pointless crap. Stay on the topic and make football related comments that do make sense, rather than your subjective view of the world. He's gone, some of us will have wanted him to stay, some of us will have wanted him to leave. I'm quite sure that most of us were excited by the prospect of the Savage/Ferguson midfield pairing, however, once Bazza became set on leaving the club did their best to get a good fee for him, and I think they did quite a good job. No good either having a go at each other or the club now, not going to help anyone out.

If we can get the first goal, then that will crucial, after reviewing all the stats, Chelsea have only gone behind to start games 3 times this season, and only winning those once, so if we can get that first goal then it could be very important.

Difference is, at least Todd refused to play because he felt he deserved more, in a strange way it almost shows his feelings for the club. Whereas Ferguson refused to play because he simply wanted out.