In the Observer: On Target: Blackburn 3 Charlton 9

i know...

I have now seen two match reports that say we had 3 shots on goal. That must be besides the gials, right?

I was think of physically. Of course not everyone could go but lets imagine a International meeting in Blackburn for August, let's say, the first game of the season. A weekend of activities could be made for those coming from overseas that can't go to Ewood on a regular basis.

I talked in Radio Rovers today and the interviewer suggested that Rovers should do a big meeting for all the fans throughout the world. Do you think it's possible?

GReat win!! Tugay man of the match!! Hope Gray, Nelsen, Todd and Savage can recover in time for next game.

Great! Hopefully some of those yougsters will get a chance in the first team...

Me too. I was hoping he could keep Murphy quiet. Maybe a 4-5-1 wouldn't be that bad today. But I would keep the 4-4-2.

Keane is right... The team is a mess, has no european status anymore, at least not like it was before. They could not even get the phase group in Champions league. Well, in January, there's going to be a lot of trading in Mnure.

Well, if Savage can keep Murphy quiet, Bent won't see the ball much and we can win confortably. 2- 0 MGP and Bellamy

Mau perdedor!!

Well, i got the result right!

It's true it had little diference to the best Hughes has been using but it was in the beggining of the season. from now, players need a rest once in a while.

Rovers 3-0 Jansen, Bellamy and Emerton Friedel Neill, Zurab, Todd, Gresko (if he is fit) Emerton, Savage, Reid, MGP Bellamy, Jansen Att: 12354

There's a guy playing here in portugal (not portuguese) called Benachour in V. Guimaraes. he is on loan from PSG. Might be a good substitute for Tugay. You could see him when he plays Bolton for Uefa Cup. Another player that is on loan in V.Guimaraes is Svard, on loan from Arsenal. He is doing a good season.

Damn, why don't I have a credit card yet

Be careful, Deco is portuguese. (in paper, at least) You could be slaughtered for a remark like that.

I would have said Tiago, former player of Chelsea. but when he was in Braga, 4 years ago. back then, we could afford him. *sorry for mentioning another portuguese player*

Well, that is definetly one of our biggest problems. And our squad is old, I think. Today, we had (all ages by the end of this season): Friedel ( 35 years old ) Neill ( 28) Zurab (24) Nelsen (28) Gray (31) Tugay (35) Savage (31) MGP (24) Bentley (21) Kuqi(29) Dickov (33) can someone tell me how can I find when the contract of each player ends? We have 4 more players over 30 (Matteo, Amoruso, Flitcroft and Todd). Quite an old team. I really hope we can get Zurab in the end of the season.

If it's the one I'm thinking about, it has a hard challenge but Heskey touched the ball before any contact.

Sorry, American but it's not a matter of how you do it. It's a matter of scoring or not. Dickov missed what he shouldn't have missed. Bellamy didn't.

Porr first half, terrible miss by Dickov. Better second hal, specially the first 20 minutes. Bellamy showed Dickov how it should be done. We need someone to think our game. We could have beat them for much more if we were more organized in attack.

I think it will happen by the end of the season.

Great news (for me anyway) Rovers game will be live in local cable tv. First game of the season that I'll be able to watch.

Thanks for the help. He'll probably lose his first team place next season. This season, he has been one of the best.