How dare you! How dare you! I think you'll find that's just a cover version and the mighty Motorhead's version is far superior. It drives me mad when bands get undeserved credit for covering other peoples songs. How's about Rovers coming out to the Grammy award winning "Whiplash" by Motorhead then? or "Overkill". Or "Ceremony" by New Order. I was actually quite happy with "All These Things That I've Done" by the Killers that they started playing recently.

Wing Commander Pringle! Hope you are well. Are you referring to the rumoured and made up story of Blackburn Rovers forming a feeder club system with Tamworth Academicals (and getting rid of the existing relationship with Italian Serie G club Circle Bilge), developing great bonds between the two clubs, encouraging fans to travel to both teams games, sharing resources and as you mentioned, maybe even kit manufacturers? (i.e. Nike) 'Cause if you are I reckon you're talking out of your hat. Puma. That's what I've heard. Ruddy great Puma's on the loose down at Ewood. That's why there are no queues outside the ticket office, too dangerous. Williams should be out there with a shotgun if he's serious about having a reasonable attendence tomorrow. But no. What does he do? Nothing. He's probably feeding the rascals.

Tremendous OJ! Next programme... Chris - "Hello and welcome back, I'm here with Blackburn Rovers who if you'll recall have just reached the Quarter Finals of the FA Cup! So how's your week been Blackburn Rovers? I'd imagine "Cup Fever" has really hit the town and everyone's really excited?" Blackburn Rovers "I've never seen anything like it, it's crazy town up there. Sorry, no, I'm only joking. No ones right bothered to be honest." Chris "How strange. Never mind, cheer up. Here's your next question. Good luck. Can Blackburn Rovers reach the Semi Final, goodness me you must be excited, yep, that's the Semi Finals of the FA Cup!! for the first time in 45 years!! when they play League Division Two (old money) side Leicester City at Home on Sunday?" Blackburn Rovers - "Well I'm not really sure" Chris - "Take your time - you've still got three life lines" Blackburn Rovers - "Um, Ah, Um, er.... Can I ask the audience please Chris?" Chris - all of a sudden laughing almost uncontrollably - "Ha Ha Ha No!! You'll have a job!! You haven't got one!!! Ha Ha - They're all down the pub!! Ha Ha - they can't be arsed!! They're too busy writing letters complaining about how they can't get tickets for the final!! Ha Ha!! "I blame Dougan"! Ha Ha Ha!!" We'll win. 2-0. Stead and Dickov with the goals. Gate?? Attendence?? 23,712. Clearly where we've gone wrong is by making the ground too big (as someone has already posted). Reduce it by 5,000 and hey presto! Sold out every week and no need to read through the last 6 pages.

Actually, you got that right. That's why he's top of my list as well. He might be Dutch but his spelling's an absolute bloody disgrace. It's not good enough Ferguson, extra trainings required and pronto. 1. Van Nistelrooy 2. Ferguson (Alex) 3. Ferguson (Barry) 4. Christine Ronaldo 5. That recorded voice at the Rovers ticket office. I've gone right off whoever that is - "Recorded Voice Out!!"

To those of you making the trip tomorrow (I'm gutted) - you better come back hoarse. If it was anything like last time then it's quite simply one of the best days out you'll ever have. Come on Rovers!!

Well said Uxbridge. "Why did Fergie leave Rovers?" 'cause he's a loser. He couldn't hack it in the big league. Simple as that.

Sky Sports News are doing a nice build up to the game. They’ve just shown your typical Dingle type in their ticket office. “I had ticket for t’game and put it next t’bed for't safe keeping. Only dog chewed t’up. Must be t'Blackburn fan 't 't”. “Have you kept the dog?” asked Sky’s time travelling reporter. “'t 't I’ve got t’replacement ticket now and will be supporting t’lads” replied the Dingle as the joke / question flew over his head.

MCXMCXCM1875 - or whatever he calls himself - is "offline" but has just texted me asking me to point out that the record scorer in derby matches (presumably he means with Burnley rather than Bolton - (that's just for you Barry)) is Jack Southworth with 12 goals. So there you go. Like I've nothing better to be doing . I just hope that no one else already mentioned this very valid point as I've lost touch with this thread. It just had to be Garner though didn't it?

Well that link was helpful, cheers. Like I'm supposed to believe that a claret has even signed up and registered for the Oxford English Dictionary on-line . Believe me I can't be bothered. Anyway Cambridge are happy with it and it's actually in the Compact Oxford English Dictionary on my desk, page 1106. Either way I'm now losing the will to live, as I suspect anyone else is who's having to read this rubbish. I feel like I'm on bloody Countdown. While I'm here I'll predict that we'll win on Sunday. 2-0. Dikov and Savge. Good Evening.

It's spelt, erm.......spelled. I don't want to be pedantic (which of course means I'm about to be pedantic) but you can use either "spelled" or "spelt", neither are incorrect. So, in summary, apart from your choice of football teams, and not being able to spell, what else are you @#/? at?

"That's when I looked round and Rangers really started tugging" I'm speechless, that's even worse than being "tapped up". The lengths some clubs will go to to sign a player.

Cast your mind back Zak. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it 25 years since you last beat us? In fact in those 25 years you've managed to be in the same division as us on two occasions. Nice one. You must be very proud that we still actually give a flying (please don't use that F word again Bob) about you. burnley - look forward to next Sunday - your nightmare will continue. "....and it's, No, Nay, Never....". (Well, not in the league anyway...)

Interesting. A poll perhaps - 100 Dickovs or 1 Drogba? Morning all... It's a good question that. That's a very good question. While Dickov has many qualities I don't think we should have 100 Dickovs. For one, the squad would be far too big. Too many strikers. And all called Dickov. How would Hughes know which one to pick? One of the Dickov's might do something brilliant in training and Hughes would want to pick him for the next match, only for one of the other sneaky Dickov's to take the other Dickov's place. How would Hughes know the difference? I tell you, he wouldn't. I don't like the sound of 100 Dickov's. No thank you. But I would take a hand full of Dickov's instead of just the one Drogba. So long as the hand full of Dickov's don't mind having their squad number tatooing on their forehead to avoid confusion. They'd have to have different numbers mind or it's still going to be confusing. Besides it'll never happen anyway now that the transfer window has shut. I blame FIFA. Chelsea have conceded just 8 league goals this season. Time for them to concede another tonight. Heaven knows how or who. 1 - 1. Let's say MGP for us and Lampard for them.

Reckon so Hughesy - with Nelsen also expected to sign and Xavier still lurking about I'd say that the Gabbidon deal ain't gonna happen. Cardiff probably wanted too much money.

I took a look at this last week - trains from Blackburn have to change - I think at Bolton itself (any ideas?) - and take approx an hour. They leave at 12.00 arrive at Horwich 13.03 - 12.15 and arrive at 13.28 and 13.00 arriving at 14.03 and 13.15 arrving at 14.28. This is from thetrainline.com. It's a bank holiday but that's what the website states anyway. I've no idea about the return journey though.

Would it? I wonder where Newcastle's manager may turn for a replacement goalkeeper? He's got a lot of "previous" for returning to raid former clubs. You may have a point though RR - Brad hasn't been shedding many tears over the departure of our previous manager, he may not want the move (and we may not want to sell). As for this criticism of Friedel - sorry I disagree - maybe on a couple of occasions he has been a little slow to narrow the angles but I think some people are being extremely harsh. He's in my top five keepers in the Premier League, no danger. If we were to sell, would many of us be happy with "The Enk" as our new Number 1? I doubt it (or maybe that's just me). We'd probably have to spend the vast majority of money recieved on a top class replacement. So what's the point?

It seems a lot, lot longer than that somehow.

Oakside Nursing Home - how long have you been living over the pond then Jim? You kept that quiet. They must really love you in the States. "That goddamn miserable limey". Thompson was unlucky if you ask me. Sure, he could have been shown a straight red for his first booking, but the second booking was a bit of a joke (from what I saw on Football First). Anyone of a number of players could have been booked in that "handbags" incident - strange that the officials singled out our unfortunate, quietly spoken, midfielder.

Bah, humbug. Anyway, 3-3.

Do I really need to answer that? I could probably make a case for swapping our entire current squad for just Shearer, Newell, Sherwood, Moran and Hendry. Sure, we'd have no goalkeeper but we could give it a go!

If I remember rightly, and I've just got this off Soccerbase, that team included the likes of May, Wright, Price, Sherwood, Hendry, Moran, Ripley, Super Atko, Shearer and Newell and, er, Tony Dobson. You'd swap our current squad for that lot?!?! Are you mad? There's only Tim Sherwood who went on to achieve anything (Sky TV pundit).

With Tugay out I'd imagine Thompson will come in - he's played more than Flitcroft who has hardly figured at all recently. Nils Ewic Nissa Big Face Johannssson could well have fun and games when he comes up against Routledge. This should make for quite an open game I'd imagine so I can see plenty of goals in this one. 3-3. Bright, Southgate and Osborn for them - Ripley and a brace for Shearer in reply.

Does anyone remember that our friends from down the M65 suffered a bit of bother with Cardiff a few years back? Nothing too sinister, just someone shooting at one of their coaches as they drove towards the stadium with an air rifle. Just pre-match high spirits I'd imagine, a couple of lads getting giddy and caught up in all the excitement.

OK - maybe this could go in the Transfer Topic thread, although that does tend to focus more on names of players we may / may not be interested in. January is coming as we're all aware, just after Christmas I believe, which means the transfer window opens. Over the last few weeks I've changed my mind on numerous occasions as to which position(s) we should strengthen first. First of all a defensive midfielder, but then we looked well at Fulham. Then of course the right back position, only for Neill to play OK against Spurs. Then there's the two centre halve positions. We also seem to need a quality striker. We also have a "job lot" of left backs (Thank you allan) with not one showing any real quality IMO. I could go on about more or less every position. Friedel looks OK though. Basically, what I'm saying is that the priority seems to change from game to game. It's a sad reflection on the state of our team you could say, well I could, and just have. So - my question is this. If you're Mark Hughes and you're able to make just two signings (let's presume we're skint - I have no idea) which two positions would you strengthen? No names please, that can go elsewhere. Maybe we could run a poll?

Are you surprised though Bryan? This is a BIG club we're talking about here and don't you forget it. We'll win 2-0. Dickov and Thompson doing the business.