Would you like to expand on that?

Do people not remember the finalists of the past two seasons Southampton and Millwall, I mean we are a better team than both of them, really being scapegoats can be annoying. As you said philipl...sorry hadn't read your post

Not known yet, have to wait and see who the TV companies pick, most probably sunday though.

I now see us as either being totally ripped apart or sneaking it. If Arsenal are on form we don't stand a chance, if they aren't then our tight defense and work ethic could see us through. We are now more suited for games we aren't supposed to be on top of, so who knows. The thing is a month is a long time and a lot can change. Form, suspensions, injuries could all change how we feel going into the game, hopefully it will work in our favour, but are we that lucky?

Did he make a meal of it? Perhaps. Certainly didn't dive. In the first place his challenge is a foul as he gets a good piece of MGP who doesn't go down so would never get the penalty, there is then a second foul as Pedersen turns around but finds his way totally blocked by Kenton. Both parts of the incidents are fouls, it was a fully deserved penalty. Neill's on the other hand certainly wasn't, it was a minor pull back but if they gave those they would be calling fouls every 30 seconds, he simply was actually well challenged from behind if you look and so ends up not getting any true contact on the ball.

We all know what your favourite book is now. Bit of a fantasy eh?

Probably not that bad. We'll have what 25-30k? I'm just guessing there. So the tickets will go on general admission I'd say, you could do it. If not get someone from the board to pick one up for you.

Hot balls? Ouch ;-) I tried very hard to phrase that in a way that no one would manage to make vulgar in any way, sadly couldn't manage it.

Yes but people will always have the theories that certain balls or heated or some other reason. Probably is right sometimes.

I don't think we'll win no matter who we play. I suppose though in order Newcastle Manchester United Arsenal Though I think United are in the best form of the lot I think they are less likely to simply turn it on and give us no chance like Arsenal might and that we stand a fighting chance. I don't know, pleased we are there, just wish there was another easier team in the hat to look at and wish for. Oh well, great to be the only small team left, if we only win 3 or 4 games this season I'd be over the moon if two were in the cup

Going to have to take issue with that. Sickening way to lose? Leicester deserved nothing, zilch, nil from this game. The Leicester defender goes to ground to play the ball in the box and brings down MGP, he gets up tries to step/jump over the defender who brings him down again. This was a nailed on, bang to rights penalty, it's in the rules so they lost. Leicester showed the attacking ambition of a road-kill. They deserved to lose and it would have been a travesty if this had been a draw. Not a great performance I agree but then the opposition chose to defend with 11 men and play the entire game in their half. This is how you lose games of football. Leicester did not create a single chance, it was 30 minutes before Friedel touched the ball.......and we have to feel sorry for them? Rovers haven't put in great performances in the cup? I'd argue with that. Against Burnley (twice), Leicester and to a lesser extent Colchester, we were asked to play against teams with only one intention - stop us scoring and hope they can nick one. In each game Rovers did not make mistakes, concentrated hard, took the game to the opposition for 90 minutes and WON. Burnley created four chances in two games, Leicester none at all today - they where there to be beaten. What else are the team supposed to do? Arsenal, Chelsea, Man Utd etc all struggle to beat teams who are determined not to lose. Look at the game against Chelsea at Ewood, we made them look very, very average as we tried to avoid losing first and foremost. I'm delighted with the whole team, I feel they are playing for the club and the fans. It's not the greatest football, but it is WINNING football. Given our current squad I'll settle for that. Would we rather have four wins and a draw out of five or the gutless stuff Souness gave us? You choice, I know who I want to support. Totally agree with that great post. As I pointed out, had that been one of the big teams they would have been praised for their professionalism of their performance and overcoming a tricky tie, for us, it's that we were crap.

Pretty sure they lost to Celtic earlier on

weekend of the 16/17

We didn't look like scoring much, though to be fair neither did they. Other than times when we let them dictate the pace of the game we kept the ball very well and had it under control. It's becoming our style of play, and we'll find a way to get that goal, could easily have had others really had little dickov half chances, pedersen's free kick or neill's chance gone in rather than getting a penalty, which by the way I thought was one for sure don't know what the BBC folk were on. One or two shakey moments, but perhaps that was the occasion getting to the players who knows, but really we did what we had to. What really annoys me is how we are attacked for the media for boring games, boring play and lacking any creativity. It's true we set our stall out to be solid and work from there, but had Arsenal done what we did today, which is exactly what they did against Sheffield United and even to some extent againt Bolton yesterday it would have been praised as the performance that was needed on the day, for us, we are just crap and boring. Oh well, as long as we keep winning I don't mind.

Only about a day late on the pickup there Rover6 Hoping for a win but never know in these cup ties, though we SHOULD go through.

JAL how on earth did you get all of that from us having blue shorts? We did beat burnley didn't we? We did take it seriously didn't we? What is your problem?

I wish I could

Baros gets liverpools third Henry puts Arsenal 1-0 C'mon Arsenal

I don't want Chelsea to win the competition, but people on the mainland are so up Barcelona that I would like an English team to knock them out. Have Chelsea go out in the next round.

i cant believe how high up Everton actually are i suspect next season will be a back to usual one for them Either that or the Champions League will allow them to attract a higher quality of players and we could see them start to sustain that sort of position. Or everything could go wrong, finishing fourth they would still have to go through qualifiers before making the real competition, if they are knocked out of that and don't improve their team over the summer, could really be from heros to zeros.

I will be chearing on all of the English teams tonight, certainly want at least two of them to go through, though I woudln't be that surprised if they all went out...

Yes but this is through a central role. His physical strength, tackling, passing and forward runs make him great in the middle, out wide though we don't take advantage of those skills as much and his crosses aren't that great.

Sure you were...

He looked at you and shat himself?

Does anybody know what the terms of the compensation package was that n'castle had to pay us? I believe it was somewhere around 300,000 pounds, but we then gave the Welsh FA basically the same package I think.