How much is a place in the Premiership worth? How valuable was the Axe's contribution when we went 4-5-1 and secured Premiership safety? How much is the Axe potentially worth then? As a rule of thumb, any in contract mid-20s semi-regular Premiership player is fetching £2m-ish these days. Just look at the pile of footballing non-entities who got traded for a combined £150m in January. Defoe and Anelka have made an impact- has anybody else; any single one of the other transferred players in January???

Just changed my mind- seen that Malta beat Leichenstein 7-1 tonight with Michael Mifsud scoring 5.

What on earth is the point of international football? Let's scrap it. The Axe is going to be popular if that rules Roque out for any length of time.

Having just lost another wonderful friend (only aged 50) to tobacco-induced lung cancer I would happily make tobacco a class A drug if we have to have drugs made illegal to keep Blue Phil happy. I have known plenty of junkies and none of them have died from it.

Just switched it off. I see Laugherty is like Healy- dynamite for Northernm Ireland, rubbish everywhere else.

Wasn't Bill also Vice-Chairman of the Football League? Just checked- he was President of the Football League. There is no doubt Graham Kelly had a soft spot for Rovers and for the town club teams in general. When you look at his successors, I think Graham Kelly can be seen to have done a pretty decent job.

Ooh, I love a good conspiracy theory, eh? They are so much better with the added eh. So anyone watch the u-21s? I know Matty got booked, did anything else happen?

There is a simple blockage in your understanding. Decriminalisation does not equate to "giving up" on controlling hard drugs. If you ever see TV ads for any alcoholic drink in the USA you can immediately see and hear that decriminalisation of alcohol did not go hand in hand with abandonning measures to discourage inappropriate use.

But the State already colludes in the killing of its own citizens from tobacco and alcohol through roads, medical mal-practise and running the armed forces. What we are arguing about is not whether drugs are desirable or not but what is the best way for society to police them, limit their use and help the people who use them and want to desist. Prohibition through criminalisation and harsher penalties is clearly as disastrous an option for controlling substances as it was for controlling alcohol in the States.

Just shows how blazee we are about having international players at Ewood, I hadn't noticed we had an international friendly week now which of course screwed the traditional Easter fixture list- happy days playing Good Friday, Easter Saturday and Easter Monday are no more. Anyway, Roberts is playing World Cup in one of the Virgins, Emo is not in China, but MGP is in Podgorica and Zura, Ooijer and Bentley should all see action in various far flung places. The big worry is South Africa v Paraguay in Pretoria. Just hope the Axe and his colleagues don't chop Roque. We could have three quarters of our forward line seriously jiggered and jet lagged for the Reading match.

Definitely includes purveyors of tobacco and alcohol even if topping the bosses of Nestle and Cadbury's is taking it a bit too far.

Hammers fans debating whether he is greedy or not. Nice to see they are on the ball and topical down there.

A real shock. I was at Hull University at the same time as Anthony. The guy was just an incredibly nice, decent person with an astonishing intelect- one of those people who simply has that aura of being incredibly bright. Everybody knew who Anthony was and I don't think I ever heard a bad word said about him which is remarkable in a large University. He did some incredible things with the University Gulbenkian Theatre and with Hull Truck Company down at the decrepit Spring Street Theatre.

Of course they are AESF, starting with this week-end's game..... err, it's against us forget it.

They also make you paranoid

Slowly but surely, the arguments for decriminalising drugs grow more persuasive and closer to the "establishment". The Times this morning. A bloke has just been given 12 years in Malta for growing cannibis- bonkers!

No charges in the Jonny Evans case.

Daily Telegraph mocks ID cards

An LSE professor explains the dangers of the ID card system. I will repeat, I feel far more threatened by this legislation than I do by Al Quaida or the IRA before them.

I think Lucas scored 2 on the BBC player rater against Liverpool on Wednesday

Makes me want a pint of mild- that's for sure!

No doubt it will be closed as irrelevant when drugs are decriminalised.

The cheddar cheese butty I was eating is now decorating the office. That should have come with an ROFL warning!

I'm just happy that our lot only have babies to rock when they score a goal! That said, I am sure Derb's pointing at an imaginary wrist watch as he encouraged the team to celebrate the goal in front of the Rovers supporters contributed to Rob Styles' 5 minutes added time at St James' Park on Saturday!

Jimmy Hill was such a sanctimonious git. I match sponsored that game.