Eddie

youll pick it up as you go along...........same as ste b does on clayton street Best chippy in 'Arrod.. Never heard it called that before...

Now Lofty...I've been here from the start but you've yet to mention me!

This is starting to sound a bit like the American Constitution. Sidenote: You did it to me again Ste when you deleted the poll...and I was just thinking that you had listened to my suggestion and that Lofty's campaign was really starting to have an affect and was improving the standing of the common board member.

...they do actually run the site

You could always just lend them some of the extra glue from your work...could make things a bit more interesting later on

Now now...isn't some of this a bit against the rules mods?

Abbey...I'm rather confused now...

He must be typing something long...it's been a while since he's said anything. Edit: I take that back, and good on you Lofty for fighting the common man's war

I can understand why he can catch your eye. From what you've just said he sounds like he must have a nice body, and he also knows men in high places, good choice.

Everybody who knows me is well aware i've grown too much matey Are you hitting on him now?

Does the messageboard gold still run? If so I think this is a candidate for inclusion.

Lofty, I know from experience that you don't want to get on the bad side of the mods, I suggest you back down from this one, pick your battles.

Perhaps we should turn this into a poll?

I suppose you meant power there and not poor.

Just to tell you Lofty, my post that didnt appear did include the line "handbags down boys"...I think I now have the chance to use it again.

Wish someone would agree with me! In the end it looks like I've created a thread where people are starting to support Rover6! Dear God...

You boys sure are quick to delete topics tonight. I'm not complaining, it's actually quite impressive. Though I did waste a bit of time just now adding my two cents to a topic that was deleted before my post actually appeared. I'm sure there are a couple of you out there who would wish that happened more often though.

I think if I were a neutral I'd pick England and feel quite confident. Being an England supporter on the other hand, they've always slipped up just when things have started to look good (at least during my lifetime). This is the strongest England team for a while though, so hopefully they'll live up to expectations and move on to the semis. So I'll go for England.

I was saying "best" as a reference to the teams who would be considered the best in world football, rather than those who were winning matches at the tournament at the moment. I know this doesnt really please anyone, having said this, I'm not exactly sure why Denmark and Sweden are considered to have done so much better as the results the 3 teams had are exactly the same. Basically my point was, it is a shame that Italy have not progressed, as I would have loved to see them in the latter stages of the tournament playing the sort of football they are capable of. However, as they failed to do this in the group stage, the fact that they have not gone through is totally justified. I would simply have preferred to see matches between teams like England/Italy/Portugal/France/etc... than the likes of Denmark and Sweden. It's the same reason we like playing Manchester United and Arsenal, and it's the same reason why it always feels better to beat likes of United and Arsenal than it does to beat teams like Spurs or Portsmouth.

Thanky you Bellamy, I'll make sure to seperate all of my posts into paragraphs in the future

I wasn't saying that any of those teams would be a cakewalk. Though I will stand by my point that if all of those teams played at their best, Italy would be the best of the lot, they haven't done so and so didn't go through. I would have loved to have seen those Italian players playing the sort of football they could, because on their day they are a match for any team in the world, I don't think they same can be said for Greece, Denmark or Sweden (at least not when it is the other teams day as well if you see what I mean)

When I said it was a shame Italy was out as they were Italy I admitted that many would not like this. My point was, despite the fact that they have not played the best football at the tournament so far, with that being an understatement, they are Italy. Like it or not, as an English supporter, I think I would enjoy England winning the tournament by beating teams like Italy, France, Germany, Spain and Portugal than the likes of Greece, Denmark and Sweden. This is taking nothing away from those teams, they have made it there on merit, and I'm not saying that your history or your size should in any way allow you to progress to the next stage. I was merely saying, I would like to see the "best" teams left in the tournament. Italy didn't deserve to go through, though I think many on here are saying that they played much worse than they did. I will stand by my point that had they taken more of the chances that they had in the Denmark and Sweden games than we would now be considering them one of the potential threats in the tournament, having said this, they failed to take their chances, and I'm not saying that this is unlucky or anything, it is simply part of football. I said exactly the same thing this year in the Champions League, and I thought exactly the same thing during the last World Cup. I like to see the "big" teams play each other, though I do expect that they will play the best football when they did this, Italy have failed to live up to pre-tournament expectations of performance and results. I would like to point out though, lets just say France hadn't had such a good final 3 minutes against England, Mornar had taken his chance for Croatia, and Trezeguet's goal had been ruled out for handball, they would look very similar to Italy wouldn't they? Now are any of you saying that perhaps France doesn't deserve to be where they are? At the end of the day, Italy came very close to scoring goals that would have changed many of your opinions about them, I'm not an Italian supporter, I just find this interesting from a footballing perspective. Edit: Oh and I suppose that English supporters wouldn't know what it's like to watch a team that sits on 1-0 leads, or do they remember England's tactics after the 38th minute of the France game? And I do apologise in advance for any of those who see my opinions and posts as "crap"

The blunt nature of your response Colin makes football discussion rather pointless doesn't it? You lose you lose oh well? Why do we discuss Rovers' results then, we should all just say, "Oh well, we lost, the players knew that could happen, weren't good enough, end of story". Or do the rules change when it's a team you support?

Oh and when you all have an Italian girlfriend...you'll agree with me too

It's a shame Italy are out, not because I enjoy watching them so much, but because they are Italy. I know this will put much of the messageboard in a total uproar, but would you rather have England beat Sweden or Italy? Which would have meant more? There is no doubt that Sweden have played the better football, but to be honest the Italians have also been unlucky, if they had scored more goals during the first hour of the Denmark game, something that they really should have done, we wouldn't even be talking about this, and to be honest we might not have even been talking about a "boring" Italian side.