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Christ, McCarthy is pretty injured, all the players are surrounding him, they got the stretcher out that has the neck brace on, not looking good

We are playing utter rubbish, we aren't playing any of our new signings yet it feels like we are playing with a team that has never played before

A downing free kick, to be honest with the defense your playing today I don't see why we are playing Roberts and not Santa Cruz. Good goal by all accounts, direct free kick

The only way my day could get better is if we beat boro, newcastle tank bolton which looks to be happening, and West ham stay losing

McCarthy with a goal ruled offside, damn you Pedersen!!

You sure he has joined swindon? There is nothing about it on their site

Question: Does Matt Jansen still train with Carlisle? Or has he fallen off the face of the planet? Im hoping for the former because the guy is a Rovers legend and probably would have been playing in the Premier league right now had it not been for Mr Grip telling Sven to pick Keown over him in the 2002 world cup squad.

Your probably going to lose that bet and that's coming from a Rovers fan

Can't be leeds, they are in league one

Good, glad that's settled then

Surely that just means we have a better striker who is consistently scoring? hell if we need to rely on a striker who can score 15+ goals a season then I'm happy to rely on him

Depends on what the other players are scoring. There's a bigger gap between Blackburn's top scorer and second highest scorer than Readings, so there's definitely more of a reliance on one player for Blackburn.

How can it be fair but wrong? He averaged a goal in every 5 and a bit games at Bayern, which is terrible. And even if you 'write off' last season, it still works out at a goal every four and a half games which isn't much better.

Exactly, Derbyshire and Roberts were not regulars, yet they scored 5 and 4 in the league respectively, thats with Derbyshire coming on 14 times as a sub, Roberts 9 and being injured nearly all season. Bentley scored 4 league goals, Pedersen 6, McCarthy 18. So 37 goals between 5 players, 2 of which are midfielders, one of whom was out nearly all season, another who nearly played every match as a sub. So saying that Reading use three players to score so they won't suffer from second season syndrom is a bit wrong, as they have sold one of their best players, and like you say, have 3 people who can score. Blackburn havn't sold any of our squad and have boosted our scoring options with the signings of Rigters and Cruz, who defenders havn't dealt with before, so using your theory, they should be able to score loads? However using the Roque has a poor scoring record in a poor league excuse is fair, but wrong. Bayern wern't exactly known for their service into the box, which is the Blackburn game and the way Cruz plays, being a very good arial threat. He also was out for a full season with the injury Owen and Reid had, and last season should be written off because of this, as he hadn't played for a year before.

United vs Chelsea? I will probably watch on tv, think United will win 2-1

The new rovers away kit:

Fair enough, thats all I asked for

Pedersen, Bentley, Santa Cruz, Rigters, Derbyshire and Roberts?? Fair point though your entitled to your opinion, now to answer what I asked you

Thanks for answering my question there, again, what have Reading done for you to think they will come 7th? Its a simple question, I just want your opinion on it really

Reading 7th? Blackburn 10th? You really expect us to be in the same position we where last year considering we have a full strength squad this year (ie no broken legs, torn hamstrings or torn achilles tendons too our 4 influential players), and one of the most balanced attacking forces in the league? What have Reading done to get 7th Yeah I know i'm biased

He was showed off at ewood today, well I say showed off, he was sat with the directors and they just shoved a camera onto him, first time I found out we had officially signed him

True, my sig is kind of ironic, having the two laziest players in our team, but probably the two best when they want to be.

Seems we are going to get him, around 4 million. To be honest if we did, I wouldn't see any real weakness in our team, can rigters play attacking midfielder? As in just behind the strikers? Because if we played a 4-4-2 diamond we would be pretty good, especially with pedersens and bentleys crosses. As long as our defense doesn't get shot to pieces again like last year, losing ooijer, nelsen and savage screwed us over

Thats my first day table, i'd have villa swapped with wigan if it was my end of season one, I just don't think they will be able to get top half next year

Spurs I see swapping with liverpool, reading I see swapping with derby, other than that, everything else seems about right.