Eddie

Same goes for me. So we don't stand a chance.

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I still think Grabbi was a good footballer, just never worked for him. Turned out to be a total waste of money, but I'm sure he wasn't the worst footballer.

Actually, I think there would be a fair few who wouldn't mind trimming 5k off the size of their ground.

Have to think Arsenal will win this, but it will be a great day, just nice to even be there. Great preview as well, possibly the best ever, must have taken some time, well done. Arsenal 3 - 1 Rovers Still holding out hope for Rovers 1 - 0 Arsenal

Great result. Good to see such a big win in a big match. Really everything has been said, but well done lads, and to all of the supporters who made some good noise. Really made my weekend.

No one else on here has come up with a cheap player, guaranteed to come and to be a success. Why take a gamble when the guy you have has years left and is doing very well?

He supposidly did quite well on trial here a couple months back, scoring a couple of goals in practise matches. Can't say I've ever taken notice of him when watching the MLS but obviously he did something right while he was here.

Brought Jack Johnson up on here a while back no one picked up on it though. Writes some great stuff, I've known about him for years because of living in California, but I've been amazed at how little attention he's had over in Europe. I think it will be on the increase though as he's about to come on a European tour that is being promoted quite a lot and selling well. If you like him also take a look at a band called Dispatch. Not exactly the same kind of stuff, but have that nice acoustic sound to them. No longer together and played their last concert in Boston this summer which was amazing but still have quite a few cd's all of which are very good.

God alone knows what you consider a good right back. LDRover, all they need to do is take the year option, that would mean his contract ends quite far from now and we are back to having to make a high bid. Anyway I'm going to just stop participating in this, Neill is the scapegoat for many, if he is so poor why do we currently have one of the best defences in the league, a defence that he has been everpresent in?

Yes but isn't the dispute because he wants a new long term contract but the club have a year option so are unwilling to give it as they see no point? That doesn't exactly force them to sell.

Mark Delaney. No thanks. We'd never get him anyway. Not without offering a highly inflated price, and I have to say I'd rather have Neill.

That's not actually true. He was offered a contract, but it was only until the end of the season and he felt that didn't offer enough security and so decided to take the safer option of going back to San Jose.

Where are these better right backs? Of his age and that we could afford? Oh and who would come to our club? I can't think of one who meets all of those criteria. He may have some faults, and has for quite a while been playing poorly, but over the last few months his form has picked up and he is the player we once knew, a quality right back.

I only saw Wales play bigger teams, like their games against Italy, and there they were set on defense, so I'm not really one to comment. It is important to remember though that at the moment the Welsh National Team is in a "needs must" situation when it comes to play defensive football with little flair in order to get results.

Hmmm not very moderator like now is that

That's not too bad really though. 250 / 16 = 16 pounds (rounded up) That can't be that much more than the train ticket would have been is it?

He actually hasn't had that much time to get back to his best. If you think only recently has he been given a run of games since coming back from injury, and the signs seem to be there, so would everyone stop talking about him out him in just because we lost one game!

Imagine if we draw with United! Then things will really be getting bad...

As mentioned earlier, had Reid or Emerton put away their chances we would have been hearing none of this.

Back to reality isn't it. After a few weeks of praising the team from head to toe one defeat in a close game to one of the best sides in Europe, even if they were missing a few players, and suddenly we are the worst team around and every player is getting stick. It's at times like these that some of you really, really annoy me.

Thompson was a bit selfish today and didn't deliver the ball as soon as he should have, but his dribbling skills, passing ability and shot still make him one of our few genuine attacking threats. In recent weeks I've actually felt like we've been seeing more and more of the Thompson of old, but just my opinion I suppose.

1-0 win or 4-0 loss You take your pick. Rovers have been treated to an array of footballing talent and skill over the last 10 years, now we are where we probably should be, I wish some of you could just get a reality check here. The football we play isn't that bad, we simply lack a good attacking threat that would turn some decent build up into anything. There were times today when three of four nice passes were put together but they can come to nothing because there was nowhere to go with them. It really annoys me to see some of you blabbing on about how boring we are, I wouldn't mind if we put every man within our own penalty area and never ventured forward, Rovers are never boring for me.

This could be a big psychological one. Perhaps winning once means there's no way we could win twice, but also think what it could do for the confidence of our boys.

Quite right, who need sexy football? We are taking the game back to its rougher roots, to how it should be played.