Hoddle was nowhere near as bad as Keegan or Mclaren.

Well, obviously you are, otherwise you would have typed: "Do you have a video link?". I caught it on continental Eurosport last night.

Scored an absolute belter last night. Pedersen couldn't have done it better. Free kick out wide, 20 ish yards out, top corner, keeper rooted.

No, it's the way you make pronouncements about things, as if you're a guru sat in his underpants on some misty mountain top. You don't express an opinion, you give us the truth according to rover6 eg "Hughes has made a mistake". If you couldn't tell that the second statement you've quoted was tongue-in-cheek then you relly are out-of-touch. I wouldn't stop anyone having an opinion. It's the way you express your point-of-view that irritates me, it's as if you know everything about football and you are educating all of us plebs. Sorry to single you out, but I had to say something after reading the same pompous (yes, I'd say they were pompous) armchair diatribes again and again and again.

Oh get you, sweetie! Have you got your managerial tracksuit yet with your initials on, so you can feel like a proper manager when you're playing Championship Stuck in Your Bedroom Getting Bleary Eyed 3? I'm sorry but your "I will tell Hughes where he is going wrong from behind my PC" attitude is quite honestly a little bit irritating after the 5,000th judgement based on media reports and televised games.

Yes, because we have an ancient team of has-beens, don't we? Warnock, Reid, Emerton, Pedersen, Derbyshire, McCarthy, Bentley ... they're all queueing up for the knackers-yard. You have a hard-on for young players. I'd rather see a team that wins.

Isn't the number 19 shirt the one his hero Gazza wore in 1990?

Dunny for Hollands! Dunny for Hollands!

"Clubber, what's your prediction for the fight?" "My prediction?" "Yes, your prediction." "Pain."

He was a soldier of fortune? You make it sound like he used to strap grenades to his leg, put a kukri down his belt and run onto the pitch with an AK-47. Whaddya mean, he did? Lucas Neill wasn't that bad. i don't think he used Rovers any more than we used him, given that he wanted to leave in the Summer. he's no more a mercenary than any other player.

Complete non-story. Just one player's opinion. And a gobby little shop-steward streak of brown stuff at that. So, Hughes is wanted by Gabby Neville once Fergie retires. Hardly worth getting agitated about, is it? That's not to say it won't happen, but the headline "Hughes wanted to replace Fergie" is misleading and hysterical in teh best tabloid traditions.

Or the Nezmeckii deal or whoever he is. Or that Swiss bloke ... But somehow I think we will be concentrating on a central midfielder ...

I'm forever blowing double bubble!

It took me a while to realise this isn't the big strapping lad we've got who is of course Keith Barker. D'oh!

No worries yoda, just attach some 'roo bars to the players, that should sort it.

You make it sound like he's off to climb the North face of Mount Eiger. Going off to play for West Ham is hardly a radically different challenge. Fair play to him, I don't hold any grudges but I find it hard to believe he's not gone there for the cash, when: a) He's left for a team worse off than we are, and no guarantee of bettering, only they just had bundles of cash He turned down Liverpool's offer of £30k/week c) He's getting £60k/week at West Ham. Now, I may be doing him a disservice, but the idea that he just went for the dough did pop into my mind. Anyways, I'm not that fussed. Good luck Lucas and thanks for all the hard work and karate tackles.

Bloody hell I'm away for a few days and there's an extra 24 pages. S0d reading that. How do we all feel about the lack of insider info from Brownie now? Good luck Lucas. Shame it came down to this, I think in hindsight the club would've liked to have got rid of you earlier.

Could've been flan.

You said "flake" when you meant "flame". A "flake" is a chocolate bar.

Hahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Poor old Brucey! Happy days indeed.v

Wiggy was talking about trying to get Jansen back to being his old self again (I think).

I think it's worth the £1m just to pi55 Big Sam off.

Oh no, it's that 'orrible bully. Run for cover lads! (Think it's only in the 'paper and not online at the minute ...)

I'm guessing it will be: £750k and a penny initial fee with the following to be sent to Birmingham dependant upon appearances: - 22 green Bukta tracksuits, slightly worn - A dozen rolls of barbed wire to keep the zulu's off the pitch - A selection of classic bongo books and films to keep David, David and Karren happy - Some unsold Graeme Souness books - "Souness - the Management Years" That should swing it.

You can't teach that sort of thing. You're born with that sort of touch and awareness.