At least andy todd and matt jansen should get another chance. Im sure all jansen needs isa run in the team and the new manager wouldnt be afraid to drop stead if he starts playing badly. My main worry is the transfer window in january. I have t say though, if we fail to get strachan, which we probably will. And we are forced to look lower league... Steve McMahon - Plays attractive football, he is a winner, got Blackpool promoted from 3rd division at first attempt, following season won LDV, next season consolidated place, next season won LDV again. He is a good manager, Blackpool are just a mockery of a club with an idiiot as a chairman. Im convinced McMahon would do well in the prem with a good squad (which we have) and good resources.

STEVE MCMAHON! although i can see me being the only person on here saying that so... Mark Hughes Paul Jewell Strachan Insidently, why all the hate for houllier being appointed. Hes a good manager, was just under intense pressure at liverpool to make them great againl. Could do ok for us.

I am in absolute SHOCK!!!!!!!!!!!!! I got a text message from the club when i was half asleep in bed this monring and had to read it 5 times, i almost had a heart attack. Unbelievable. Totally unexpected. Get sir bobby in! or STEVE MCMAHON! Blackpool fans hate him but he is a quality manager if he has the resources.

Ticket came through the post today. Im on Row T!! Now im no St james park expert but im sure thats nearly in the clouds.

I wonder how matt jansen is reacting to this news!!! Bet he thought he was in with a shout when hearing about yorke

Id just like to point out that my comment about 7 goals for perugia was slightly incorrect. Alan got it right, was 7 for coventry, 3 for perugia.

well he scored 7 goals in serie a last season, more than yorke would. He is a the ripe old age of 22. We need competition up front. I dont see a problem. What the hell do you expect? Ronaldo? Shearer? perhaps we should of bid for rooney? behave

txt from club

on loan until end of season from perugia with a view to a permanent deal!

The club has just confrimed the talks via text 'ROVERS can confirm that celtic have been given permission to talk to yorke in view of taking over his contract.' Now watch souness have a 'no way am i selling him' yorke style change of heart towards jansen.

Im going on the train via carlisle. Hopefully we should sell out our allocation. I was looking forward to it but now Bobby has gone im dreading it. Last time this happened they beat shef wed 8-0

Gutted at the end but you have to be pleased with that point. I am a happy man. We are unbeaten at ewood after 2 games!!! I am also so happy that brad has restored my faith in him. FIREDEL! Good days work. Everyone played well. Pedersen needs a few games, bet he didnt know half the players names today. Emerton was good! 1 worry, where was gray? was he injured, please god tell me souness hasnt fallen out with him.

Very harsh. How can you even attempt to analyse his managerial skills when he is still a player. H could be good as a manager, could be bad. But pick his favourites? where the hell did that come from.

Im sure hes not fit. If souness hadnt been such an idiot todd would have at least played a game in pre-season and had a chance to get fit. And what if Todd wasn't fit to play pre-season? why wouldnt he be? He started training the same day as the rest of them. At the end of the day he was wrong to refuse to play. Souness should of fined him. Not hold a personal grudge against the fans player of the season and refuse to include him in a squad ever again.

Im sure hes not fit. If souness hadnt been such an idiot todd would have at least played a game in pre-season and had a chance to get fit.

Good Morning!! Well ive had time to relect and i have to disagree with what most on here are saying. I agree with most of what is being said about soueys tactics and i think if he doesnt start getting in right soon and were still in the bottom 3 by the end of september he will be gone. Basically a defeat to Portsmouth at home and i dont think he will find any excuses. That will be the final straw. As for last night. We were playing against an amazing team. I thought we did ok. We were missing several key players. I dont have any complaints about the game. In fact for me that game has pleased me alot more than the last 2, sounds stupid i know but its the first time in a while we have looked like a premiership club, and in the 2nd half it was without playing well. Basically its in the mentality, i get anoyed watching rovers because every time we lose the ball i get nervous because we look like a nationwide club and look like we can crumble and concede at anytime in any way possible. Last night i thought we had a strong fighting mentality and playing anyone else apart from arsenal i think the scoreline would have looked better. If we can play with that mentality and keep our key players all season we will do fine. However, that is credit to the players, not souness. I still think he needs to sort it out and he has until 5:45pm on the day we play portsmouth to do this. If we dont get anything from that game, even if we beat united or newcastle he should go. He needs to stop messing around and get it sorted. Find his best 11 and play them where they need to be played. He needs to swallow his pride and drop emerton when thommo is fit. He needs to swallow his pride and drop matteo when amoruso is fit (or play him at the back). He also needs to swallow his pride and stop being such a kid with andy todd as in my opinion he could have done a better job than nissa while amo was injured. This is Blackburn Rovers, not Souness Rovers and the sooner he realises that the better.

Look what i found... I just closed the page where i got it and i cant find it again. I hope its the real one as ive just sent a very polite email which outlines a few facts. d'Urso's e-mail addreess removed by Paul

Arsenal 5 - 1 Rovers Friedel neill Matteo Amoruso/Short Gray Emerton Tugay Flitcroft(sigh) De Pedro Stead Dickov Enckleman, yorke, jansen, short/nissa, douglas Im writing this one off to be honest.

Sorry greg but that was one of the most pathetically immature comments ive ever read.

Not too sure about that but i hope your right!!

The ref lost us the game BUT i am endging closer and closer towards the souness out brigade, if we lose our next 3 games which are going to be difficult then lose to portsmouth on 18th sept i will be gunning for his head on a plate. Im sick of the club revolving around him, he just cares about his own personal pride. Any normal club would just fine players, but he takes it personal and doesnt let them have a sniff. Todd should have had a chance in pre-season and after his performances last season should be in the squad today. Instead we had short and nissa, who arent a premiership partnership. He starts the game with a stupid selection, how can flitty not be good enough for the bench against west brom, but then suddenly warrant a starting place against southampton. Flitty is not good enough to start, if he does start its in his position, not on the right! Matteo should be at the back, not in left midfield. Stupid team selection. Wen the changes were finally made we looked ok, but to me we just look like a first division side, always vulnerable and look like we could crumble and concede any minute. We played against a very poor team today who are far from their best and lost. Id like to kill the referee but there was some terrible defending on our part for their first two goals. I have to wonder if souness has taken this club as far as he can and i do fancy a fresh aproach, if results dont improve by the end of september then a whole new management team to freshen the club up, give all players clean slates it could be good for us. Hat off to Dickov! Pitty we dont have 11 dickovs in the team Another example of selfish souness. Andy cole, let our top scorer go for nothing when he has a yer left. I see he scored again today. Friedel, why the hell play an injured keeper when you have a perfectly good one on the bench!

Im sick of this, referees are just a total disgrace. And why wasnt ferguson sent off!! He got 2 yellows so he should have been off. Referees dont know whats going on, im so angry.

Im not in the anti souness brigade (yet) but there has to be changes now! Get nissa off and put matteo there and bring on gresko for the left. Get flitcroft off for neill and put emerton on the right. Tugay and ferguson in themiddle. We need width, we werent too bad for first 30 mins but were creating nothing because we have no width, were giving stead and dwight nothing to work with. Also why play an injured friedel when we have a perfectly good premiership keeper on the bench? If he cant take goal kicks then hes not fit to play, what if he was to make a clearance and hurts his muscle again? Substitution wasted!!!

Unlucky, hes out injured

Cant believe flitcroft is starting. Im not looking forward to the game at all now.