We desperately need a new pair of full-backs, any winger watching that game would've been rubbing his hands. Lucas Neill doesn't seem to give a toss, what a liability. We've got 5 weeks to get off the bottom or we are screwed. Seems a long-time since the last win, and the last clean-sheet! if only we can get the defence sorted we are laughing. Inconsistent though our attacking play is, we did show class at times. Reid's goal had a big deflection, but he played really well, bit tasty in the tackle. It's just the poxy defence. Don't know why, but Brad doesn't seem so secure these days, maybe picking the ball out of the net is getting to him?

bit drunk smorry.

Anyin here remember a big runkour that we were going to buy Trevior Senior from Reading? Long time ago, and probably totally irrelevat! Just before the start of the Walker era.

Never heard of this Morten Gamst Pedersen? Who is he? Foreign or something?

Just imagine how those in Blackburn must be feeling, will cost them an arm and a leg. £100+ for a day out?

I thought it was Man City he wanted to sell Bunter to, not Newcastle? But yes, I think teh majority of people are in the: "Good move, badly executed" camp.

Perhaps there's too many options in the vote? Realistically, Batty, Atkins, Parkes, Kendal, Metcalfe, Barker and Quigley had not a hope of winning but between them they have polled 38 votes. 18 were for Batty and Atkins, votes which probably would've gone to Sherwood. I'm guessing a large majority of the remainder would've gone to Forrest. Which means it would still be neck and neck! Doh! I think CheshireBlue's doing his usual wind-up act. I'm sorry, but I thought Batty was a terrible ball-player. A good thug to have in midfield, but could only pass it backwards or sideways. Sherwood on the other hand, believe it or not, was actually quite a decent player. He scored some cracking goals. One against Sheffield Wednesday was an absolute screamer. I do remember Batty scoring a screamer once as well, but it was very much out of character for him. But not worthy of inclusion into our greatest-ever team.

He was offered an ambassador's role. Presumably he wasn't swayed by the "all you can eat Ferraro Rocher" inducement! (Geedit?!)

There's only one potential problem position. Duff is a virtual certainty I'd have thought. Shearer too. I'd go for Tommy Briggs I think his name was for the second striker's position. But sadly Garner will probably get it! I'm amazed that there's not been more of the more recent players get in. If you think about it ... Rovers have been going for 130 years. Most on here have just watched them for say 30 years, that's 10% of the time. During that 10% of the time, there's been stand-out players in each position, sandwiched by mediocrity, which makes the 95 team perhaps seem better than they are. Compared to teams of days gone by, when we were dominant for long periods, those players that were special in those days don't seem so remarkable as we had a number of strong teams that were established for a long time. So not only do the early players suffer from the telescope effect of more recent (but not as remarkable?) deeds carrying greater weight and a lack of living memory, they also suffer from the unique 10 years which we've had. Crap to good to greatest to bad to good to terrible to awful to good to awful again. So it's quite pleasing that a lot of older names are there, we're not doing too bad.

Ha! 46-all now. Forrest to serve ...

If that's the way it is, so be it. But don't get the hump if employees move on. It cuts both ways so you can't whinge if you're on the receiving end.

"Wearing a blueberry, burbleberry, turtlelorry, bollards to it, a checked cap is like making love to a beautiful woman. First, you've got to try it on for size. Then, you gotta adjust it a few notches to make it good and tight. Then you gotta pull it right over your head!"

We'll be lucky to finish 17th.

1-0 Rovers, Thompson scores. Loved the quote about Dunn being a fat get who cant put his socks on without getting injured!

RIF? What the hell's that? America is the land of the free ... market. Everything is dictated by that. Reminiscent of Norman Tebbit's "get on yer bike" speech, methinks. Funnily enough I work for an American firm, and they announced last year that they were making people redundant after merging with another firm ... but didn't say who was leaving for weeks and weeks. Did wonders for morale! I'm still here luckily, but it's still a blot on the horizon, you never know when they might pull the same stunt. Think the answer is to keep your CV looking good. If the boss knows he's going to sack you two weeks in advance of telling you then he's not teh sort of boss I want to work for. It's a two fingers job, and go and find a decent employer. Probably outside of the US! "grow up", "get with the program", "smell the coff-eee", "coming down the pipe", "having 'issues'", urgh, I want to sit down and try to forget about all that jazz!

That's true. Anyone looks fast next to him. Having speedy defenders as an assurance against leaking goals is a misconception methinks. Organisation and reading play is so much more important I think.

Where does this utterly daft preconception come from that Short is slow?! He ain't!

Although I agree that there should be no sacred cows at Ewood, and we cannot afford to give Tony a token coaching role, the whole sacking saga seems to me reminiscent of the unhappy ship we had when Rovers were last relegated. OK, so team spirit is better, but this is the sort of clanger that would've been dropped in teh Kidd era. The impression I had from John Williams' comments was that it was a provisional agreement to terminate Tony's contract that was made on the Tuesday and that it was rubber-stamped the day before Tony was due to be told. If that is true then they needed to have acted earlier and there MUST be a way of finding out who leaked this information. It's just not good enough to brush it under the carpet and move on. Hughes has done a good job in polishing a turd, but teh team still has problems, big ones, we're in danger of being left adrift in the bottom 3 (look at the table if you dont believe me!), and can't bring any players in for another 6 weeks. Perhaps this could've been left until the end of the season, especially as I can't imagine the benefits being reaped immediately. How many kids would you want to draft in to a relegation battle? All a little bit sad.

Well, unbeaten for three games, another late equaliser, must mean our fitness isnt bad. And off the bottom, so good for morale. But no disguising the fact our problems haven't been solved, we still cant score more than we concede (and we almost always concede ...). Been a problem for a year now, should have been sorted by now (mentioning no names, Graeme!)

If we could see past the "Tony is a great servant" stuff for a sec (well-intentioned and deserving though it is), can we please not lose sight of teh fact that Rovers have agreed to termnate the contract of teh reserve team coach. If it wasn't for the years of service it'd be completely unremarkable. Yes, it looks shabby, and I bet the board wish they'd done things differently. But that's it. No-one's died.

Almost?! Does that mean there was a slim chance that he could have been there for all perpetuity? Maybe if he wasn't immortal they'd have put him in a giant jar, filled it with aspic and kept him in the boardroom.

Now the LET is saying that Parkes met Hughes yesterday and was sacked by him. The Sun leaked information that Hughes met Parkes yesterday and sacked him ... so how could Parkes learn of his sacking via the Sun, unless the report is wrong or TP wasn't paying attention?!

Matteo's back in the squad!

Full article here.

I certainly don't have a problem with him, I think he's top man. He's done a lot for the club (including saving us from almost certain relegation), and I think we should all be grateful for his work. He had to go at some point though. Nobody stays at a club forever, but not many stay at a club for 30 years (certainly not in the modern era), and I'm sure Tony will look back with great fondness on his time here. Sparky Marky Ewood Parky is his own man, and I'm sure he's doing this for all the right reasons. Perhaps Tony felt his place here was so assured it was rubbing off on some of the players and they were taking things for granted? Who knows? In any case TP's place in the panthenon of Ewood Greats is assured, and the Ewood Revolution rolls on.