He had a couple decent darts down the left, but he didn't show any great pace or any real final product. Really he just benefited from a couple decent balls to him and the fact that Arsenal's defense looked lost at sea at the beginning of the match.

I knew someone would bring this up. I've watched the entire match and have to say he looked a bit like a lost puppy. Just like was always the case when playing for us there was no lack of effort, but at the moments when in the past you would have expected him to produce a moment of skill he was sadly lacking. Apart from one cross early on in the game and then a fortunate bounce from his tackle that lead to the goal he offered little to the attack other than tireless running. Of course this was beneficial to the Bolton cause as it was very much backs to the wall stuff for them, but in my opinion Jansen is now a poor man's Dickov.

I think we should enter. Treat it just like friendly matches and experiment and rest players. Most of the teams in the competition we should be able to beat, if we don't get through then we haven't lost anything.

All I can say is that I urge all of us not to get too depressed and critical of the team. It is true that two weeks in a row we have been well below par and well beaten by two teams who based on league performances this season we would hope to take at least points from, but it isn't that simple. Everton are on the up at the moment, a team in form, much like ourselves, and there is no disgrace in losing to them, even if they were down to ten men, once they get a lead they very rarely surrender it, bad day at the office. Last week we had another bad day and lost to team we really SHOULD beat, but West Brom are very good on their day. Football is like this, youre cream of the crop beating Manchester United next week and just after you struggle. Look at West Brom today, Chelsea, it isn't something that we alone suffer from. In two weeks time if we've picked up points we'll probably be back in as one of the top teams to get into Europe and we'll be very happy. We've been fortunate that in the past two weeks we have dropped points but the teams around us haven't picked any up either. We've missed two good opportunities to win, but our situation isn't much worse.

Crap crap crap, and I'm really depressed about it, but I know that it will turn around. Just part of being a football fan, especially a rovers fan.

To think Souness intentionally messed things up at Liverpool so that he could get a nice cheque as he left is ridiculous. He has potentially jeapordised the rest of his career in order to fast-track money he would have recieved anyway, why would anyone do that? If he is purely money run then he could have probably left football ages ago and retired with a nice sum of money, if he has any interest in being involved in football but also likes getting money (don't we all) then there would be no benefit in him messing up his own cv when already under contract.

Yes, let's sell our most talented player because of one season plagued by injury. Especially when we'll have to sell him for a cheap price due to this season. He's produced great results during the time he's been able to play, I'm sure he'll be able to get through this poor injury spell.

Just take a look at any website like the official site, bbc, sky or whatever and look at fixtures/results and it should give you all of the information you need.

Didn't he start a game for Southampton and was substituted after about 20 minutes? Might be wrong, but that is always what I've thought. Good post overall AESF but you're a bit hard on a couple of Souness signings. Dwight Yorke was very good the first season he was here and really thing went south when he and Souness seemed to have a few problems. For the price he came in at you could say that the results of the first season pretty much justified it, I think most of us were excited when he signed, I certainly was. Amoruso will never escape the fact that he was a member of a horrible team and an even worse defence. However, at times he was the only one who looked halfway decent and was a major part of the improvement in our form that saw us stay up. Not a great player, but for 1.3 million not that awful of a buy, I think he was a bit hard done by. Now for the most controversial one, Barry Ferguson. From where we are now it was a horrible waste of money, but back in December of last year I think most Rovers fans were starting to think he may just have been worth it. The fact that he then sold us up the river in late January could never have been predicted.

He played as a wingback in the dutch league. He can play both at the back and in midfield but prefers to play in midfield, it was his reason given for joining us over Newcastle.

O2 is about all I can think of.

With Bolton playing Wigan and Man City playing Everton this weekend we could really do our position a lot of good if we win this weekend regardless of what the other results are.

Just a note on the Birmingham game from last night: I thought Johnson's tackle was quite poor and deserved a red card, not sure why everyone thinks that jumping in with two feet isnt a poor tackle.

Please don't encourage JM to be more of a prat than he already is.

I think Steve Howey just said "doesn't mean ######" on SSN, did I hear that incorrectly?

Sorry Jan, but if you honestly believe that then you are an idiot. I can understand Souness being unpopular, he didn't do a good job, but to hope that he or any member of his family die is ridiculous. I care about our football club as much as anyone and the memories of sitting here last night and physically shaking while we held on to that 4-3 lead is very fresh in my mind, however, football is football and no one deserves to die because of it.

Why would he leave us for them?

That would be perfect.

Doesn't look too bad in my opinion, but maybe they'll slightly modify their logo for the purpose of being put on the shirt anyway.

I heard that too but it just made me think that he was worried about his match fitness.

I don't think this is great for us, he was doing a poor job and that was wonderful. This season they are too far behind us to catch us really, but it was nice if things had stayed how they are and we wouldn't have to worry.

A nice little report

Usually in the morning at 8:30 I think. Not sure if it is the same on this one though.

1-1 (Saha)

Great preview Colin and a real coup.