I’ll be honest here; this is a must win game. After this game we have league games against Everton and Villa, with a league cup game v Notts Forrest thrown in between those games.

Then after Villa and the retrn of big Brad and Stephen Warnock, we have Le Arse, Chelski, The B@stards, and ManUre.

This is a must win game.

Hopefully we will have a lot of players to choose from. Emerton is close to making a comeback, and Dunn, Reidy and Grella all should have used these 7 days extra to get back into shape and fit. Here’s the team I would put out:

——————-Robbo———————
Jacobsen Samba Givet Chimbonda
Dioufy Dunn Nzonzi Pederson
Benni (if fit) Kalinic

Wolves have earned 4 points from their 4 games but should be ours for the taking. If we go out and play solid defensively (like we have been lately) and our strikers can get some shots on target, we should pull out the 3 points.

Any thoughts about the game? Your XI you would field? As always, let me know and UP THE ROVERS!

MGP diving was one of the most disgusting things I’ve seen in a good while. And to be wearing our shirt and behaving in that disgraceful behavior that week in and week out contributes to the decline of the quality of football is just… ugh. Terrible. Probably the thing I’ll remember most when i think back on this game.

EDIT: Now With Highlights!

Second off: There might be a poll every week if they win every time I put one up. Okay, it was the first one, but why not right? Also, I was expecting just myself to answer in the poll, so I was really excited to see a lot more then just me. Thanks a lot to everyone who participated, and hopefully more will in the future.

Third: Rovers coming back hardcore and stealing those points away from Fulham. Up to 15th, 4 points back of 10th! That win made the future extremely bright and showed a level of grit and determination I haven’t seen all season. Fantastic all the way around. I guess I’m coming around to Spit the Diouf, because I was kinda happy to see his name on the score sheet. Also, Roberts scoring and MGP having a good game? Let it go on forever!

Too happy to talk about Le Arse this weekend, but hopefully their CL slugfest tired them out and we’ll get the scrubs.

UP THE ROVERS!

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Warnock – “No unrest at Rovers.” — SkySports
That’s great Warnock. Really. I appreciate the effort. Now, lets see how that great camaraderie is making your game better on the pitch. Thanks in advance.

Now this next article comes as a great bit of news to me. Shows the Rovers using some pulling power and beating out some big rivals for this kid’s commitment.
Blackburn Rovers win race to sign Arsenal wonderkid. — Lancashire Telegraph

Now earlier this week, there were some stories saying that our Roque wanted to hop ship and head to Man City. I dismissed this as rubbish right away and now there’s an article proving my point.
Roque Santa Cruz agent slams Manchester City link stories. — Lancashire Telegraph

The Mail Online has a story about Paul Gallagher wanting to leave Rovers for good. Hm. I’ll leave this one open to debate. Discuss.
Gallagher tells Ince: I want to leave Blackburn in January. — The Mail Online

And last but definitely not least, our own Brett Emerton scored two for the Aussies against Qatar. maybe he could work some of that magic this weekend.

The second half was a shit show. Did we have any shots? Did we even touch the ball? I don’t know. More than 24 hours later I’m still livid about it. Rant time:

Warnock: WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU?!?!?! Cause it sure isn’t in the back four, doing what you’re paid to do: PLAY DEFENSE! Don Fabio over there setting up the England better lose your number because he will never call you again. Has the hype about you transferring to the sinking ship got your panties all up in a bunch? Wake up and start fucking playing.

We better not lose to Fulhamerica next week.

Our defence is going to have to sort itself out if Arsenal are coming to town, with Van Persie, Cesc, Theo and Nasri all tearing it up at the moment. However, Arsenal don’t like travelling to the North West so lets hope we get in their faces.

I’m cautiously optimistic that we may get a result here, but it’s hard to tell what is going on during the internationals. There have been hints at some trouble:

1. We were not very good at West Ham – some errors were of the schoolboy variety.

2. Benni Mac says that everything has gone downhill for him since Ince came in. So why would we not sell him to Sunderland? Why does Ince not want to play him?

3. Ince hasn’t flatly ruled himself out of the Newcastle job. Is he quietly hopeful of an offer?

The last two points hint at problems between the manager and players, and the rumours of a revolt from a month or so ago spring to mind.

I hope I’m blowing this out of proportion.

Anyway so back to the game. This would be a handy one to have new signing Grella on hand, but he’s a doubt and probably won’t start. Dunn and Ooijer are serious doubts. Robbie Fowler will be in the squad apparently (why???).

I sense the lineup could be as follows:

Robbo – Emo, Nelsen, Samba, Warnock – Reid, Mokoena, Andrews, Gamst – Roberts, Santa.

However I would like the lineup to be:

Robbo – Simpson, Nelsen, Samba, Warnock – Emo, Reid, Mokoena, Gamst – Villanueva – Santa

We’ll see what Ince goes with…

I don’t know about everyone reading this out there, but I don’t want Le Arse to see a cent of this sale money. I know it is the way things work now but it is ridiculous. Only we should be able to add clauses to make us more money and block clauses when they stop us from making money. Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to take off my blue and white tinted glasses.

The fact that we had around £10mil to work with now plus the £5mil for good ole Sparky Marky, now added to the £3mil we have available if need be from the Trustees finally in addition to the £7-£12mil from the possible sale of Bentley gives us ~£18-£25mil for a kitty this summer. I think that will do just fine, don’t you?