Eddie

I'd hope to have more of a spine than that.

He's said nice things now, in after-the-fact smaller issues. When was presented to the press he hardly said a good word about us and made it clear that he had wanted out for a while. It's easy to say a nice thing to a newspaper that you know will be read almost exclusively in Blackburn, when the world's mics were pointed at him he chose to take the easier option...something that seems to be a trend of his.

For someone who constantly champions younger players, I would have thought you could at least Souness credit for developing Duff, Jansen, Dunn, Johnson, Taylor, Nissa, Jay and even to an extent Douglas. Turning them all into players who either made us a profit, performed very well or were unfortunate through injuries (a couple of them a combination of those).

Some things shouldn't be touched, George Lucas needs to learn that. They shouldn't have made the new Star Wars or Indiana Jones. All will make tons of money and there will be people who enjoyed all of them, even from the hardcore fan group, but I don't think that any can argue that they lived up to the originals. The question to ask yourself is if this hadn't been an Indiana Jones film (meaning if the franchise hadn't already established itself), would you have enjoyed this movie?

Why shouldn't they be allowed to put him on a short-list? All that means is that he is one of the names being considered. Should they decide he is the man for the job they would have to approach the club first. There is nothing illegal about that. We will have a shortlist at the moment for possible Hughes replacements. Hughes will have a shortlist of players to look into for the summer, all of whom are currently employed by someone else. So long as there is no direct contact between the club and the individual before they have the consent of the club that holds the individuals contract there is nothing illegal about it. I'm also not sure on this, but the fact that Hughes has a rolling contract might mean that we aren't able to reject an approach for him (not that we would anyway).

No way he turns it down if he gets the offer. More money. Chance to win something. Team he supported as a boy. I still don't think Chelsea will offer him the job and if it were up to me he wouldn't be top of my list.

What about the great sides they had in the 50's and 60's? They certainly had a dark period, as have most clubs, but they do have a very good history.

Well you say "things that have gone in their favour" as if they were totally unexpected. 4 was basically a dead cert. When you have that much demand even a basic grasp of economics would tell you that you can afford to increase the price. 1 and 2 were certainly possible. You can never bank on winning the premiership or the champions league, but United had a good of chance as any team and were the only realistic challengers to Chelsea last season and came into this season as favourites. 3, well we all knew that was coming really. Exact figures may not have been known, but they will have known all along that the deal was going to have to be renegotiated and that, given the popularity of the premiership, it was going to go up.

Noooooo don't say that. They are evil and retarded and United will be gone soon because they are on the brink of the biggest financial implosion the business world has ever seen! Oh, but apart from that they just won the Champions League and the Premiership and are laughing all the way to the bank on those winnings. Not to metnion having probably the most highly valued player in the world in their squad. Big trouble in little trafford by the looks of things.

I have one, think it's a medium, I'll check when I get home.

I don't know who I'd replace him with. I don't know who is free and who would be interested. It's very difficult to know with managers. If it were my job I'd have a list of names, as it is, and as none of our opinions matter, I have simply expressed my opinion on the season.

Ah we will have the joy of Brian Lara... "It's a 4, a 6, caught, dropped....he's bowled him!" Gower is always on top of things.

I think Bellamy has to be blamed for Bellamy's demise.

I actually think it is far better for Rovers to have one dominant force in the league. We'll never win the title, so have the other three weaken so that we might at least make the champions league.

I like having you around, with you talking no one can possibly say that I repeat myself.

You can progress and still be resigning players. There was a time when we would have loved to have had Shearer back, or Duff back before injuries ruined him. He isn't the same player, that is why we shouldn't sign him. He isn't very good.

First of all, I don't think we make it through a 20% reduction as easily as you put it. Second of all, there would never be a scenario where there is 20% all round, unless it's imply TV revenue. If United saw their income fall by 20% we would see ours fall by a ton more than that. The day United start to see a serious decline in their revenue is the day we should all be very worried.

We'd be a lot more screwed.

He'd be a fairly typical Harry signing.

Looks like he'll have to take his date elsewhere... (Prepared for board to jump up in defense of ozzie).

Had he never played for us no one on here would be interested.

Yes, I do. I think Hughes is doing a great job in the transfer market, but the rest I'm not too impressed with. I don't like him nearly as much as most on here do, but I certainly wouldn't get rid of him at this moment in time. I would think about it if he failed to address some things in the summer and if we got off to a bad start whilst playing the horrible football we've seen for most of this season.

To which he will respond that had they had first team experience earlier on it may well have had a crucial impact on their development. Just thought I would save us some time.

I've put some money on him to score.

I think Rover 6's point, not that I totally agree with it, is that several players who have broken through in the end were not the ones most highely touted in the youth or reserve sides. We have to try and get youngsters a run-out, but really the only way to do is is through the cups.