Eddie

I don't get it, you expect us to lose every game, but if we do, or even draw, you have a real go.

Both shots were said to be unstoppable, but I wasn't there either, so don't know first hand.

Still a good result Jim

Totally right, I don't think any team could have sustained profit on transfer dealings. Unless of course you did put finances before performance, and so disregard all footballing logic to slowly sell off all players and replace them with either totally unproven or basically just worse players.

Savage has his fair share of skill, but he is more of a defensive battling midfielder, which is what we need next to someone like Bazza. Hartson isn't my first choice, but I certainly wouldn't complain to see him and then Stead or Bothroyd upfront. Would at least give our wide players something to aim at. Mokoena looks to be a good prospect and has skill and pace at the back, something that has been lacking in our team. Hughes seems to be going for the right sort of players to me

Dead silence followed by a 5-3 win. I pick 5-3 because I'd love to see his smug face when they are up 3-0, and then watch it slowly go away as we claw our way back. Oh and then he'll probably lose his job. Today he was saying he loves the pressure, it's not so bad as he's with one of the best clubs in the world, and it just comes with the territory. In other words, everything is going wrong, and now he's sucking up to the fans even more.

I'm sure after we start to pick up more points and get a little bit away from the drop zone he will become more willing to take risks, at the moment though I too would be reluctant.

spot on

Total agreement with that. I don't think that is too bad of a result, this was a "must-not-lose" game rather than a must win, and we did just that. Being back in the bottom three isn't great right now, but with our improving performances, especially at the back, hopefully with a few players coming in during the transfer window we can turn the season around and get away from the bottom 5 or 6 within a couple of months. I don't think things look too bad at all really.

Centre Back Striker Centre Midfield (defensive/holding)

5-1 Rovers If we don't play well, at leat I had this minute where we looked good. Going to get back on track this weekend I think though

I've got a ticket for the friday test at Lords

Not too tought, but maybe a little harder than I would have hoped for in the first game.

And more importantly, turn a mediocre season into a good one. Though I can't really see us winning the FA Cup.

I know I would rather die than spend most of my days in a small cell for the rest of my life. Especially if you happen to feel guilty, I'm not saying that they do, but if they do then that really would be horrible and I'd rather be put out of my misery.

Bellamy I think you are right on the mark with that. I think a few on this board are being to hard on the team for yesterdays performance. It wasnt great that is true, but the only thing lacking was the ability to create chances, granted that is very important in football. Maybe it was an off day and we will see the team attacking again as a unit with good movement and creativity as they have been in recent games, if not then we have a good basis, and in the January window we will just have to try and get another striker and possibly a midfielder to add that to the team. We lost, not great, would have been nice to win and would have really helped us out, but I think there are a lot of positives that can be taken from that game, and I'm not that worried.

Hmm...unless of course an investigation into why this happened and how it was able to occur is launched. You also need to remember those on death row are usually still in prison for several years, so the tax money still has to be used. As well as funding the trials because of course there will be several appeals. On top of this dealing with all the demonstrators uses up valual police time.

We weren't really at the races today, having said that, I don't think we deserved to lose. Neither side really deserved a win today, but we certainly need to improve our performance. I don't think it's too much of a setback, we weren't terrible, and there were still some good signs. We just need to find that attacking spark from somewhere. In the recent games when we've attacked as a team with midfielders making good forward runs and using the full width of the field we have had it, but today it really was lacking.

...imagine what the response will be when he's actually played a good game for us

It's also now on the BBC as well. Is Defoe suspended or not? If they are both out then that really is good news for Rovers.

Voted for Duff. Only two on that list that I have actually seen live in person were Wilcox and Duff, and there was no doubt for me that Duff was the better player.

Totally with you on that. I too think that at times the criminal is released to early, but that doesn't mean kill him, just means take a look at the judicial system and make sure people get the proper sentence.

Blue Phil, many of those put on trial in Nuremberg were actually just given prison sentences. They had a special prison made for them. While all of our present day war criminals are sent to prison.

Rovers 3-1 Hopefully we'll get the win as I have a rather annoying football coach who supports spurs.

I know I'm very sad, but I'm happy that the tide has turned in this debate and some reason has been put forward.