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[ADG]

Oh fuck. The last time we played Auxerre they gubbed us 3-0 and it was embarassing to watch and that was at Ibrox. We'll be lucky to come away with a point in that game.

Edited October 3, 2006 by ADGray

[The Kraig]

Auxerre are a different team now. They'll still beat us though. Especially if Le Guen doesn't give them a right good kick up the arse soon.

[Lineker]

Turkey? Fuck off. Germany is where it's at.

Wait, Yids going to Germany? That sounds vaguely familiar....

[Thrilla]

Fuck yeah, there isn't a team in Rovers' group that I consider a major threat to us. Feyenoord are a weaken power, Nancy are non-descript, Basle and the Poles should be victories.

So yeah, the cup is coming to Ewood this season.

[Thrilla]

Holy crap, Blackburn in Europe on TV today. There are three games back to back on Channel Five this afternoon/evening, starting with Rovers away in Poland against Krakow at 3:30pm (3:45 kickoff), then Besiktas v Tottenham at 5:50 (6:00 kickoff) and then Newcastle v Fenerbahce at 7:55 (8:00 kickoff) and then Mock The Week is on. No gym for me today it would seem.

Anyway, all the games for today

UEFA Cup - Thursday, October 19, 2006

AZ v Braga, 19:15

Austria Magna v Zulte-Waregem, 18:30

Basle v Feyenoord, 19:15

Besiktas v Tottenham, 18:00

Club Brugge v Bayer Leverkusen, 19:45

Eintracht Frankfurt v Palermo, 17:15

Liberec v Sevilla, 20:00

Livorno v Rangers, 19:45

Maccabi Haifa v Auxerre, 19:45

Newcastle v Fenerbahce, 20:00

Odense BK v Parma, 19:45

Osasuna v Heerenveen, 19:45

Panathinaikos v Hapoel Tel-Aviv, 17:00

Rapid Bucuresti v PSG, 19:00

Sparta Prague v Espanyol, 19:15

Wisla Krakow v Blackburn, 15:45

[Thrilla]

Fuck Polish teams, we shouldn't be one-nil down at half time. We have looked shaky at the back at times but nothing terrible, Pedersen and Nonda both should have scored as well. We should be able to crawl a draw out of this, which wouldn't be too bad of a result for us.

And Channel Five's coverage so far sucks, Roy Hodgson on commentary? Fuck that.

[The Kraig]

This looks like a pretty damn good match. I just got in for the second half, but Blackburn and Wisla, should be close. Blackburn being one of the better teams in England and Wisla being arguably the best team in Poland.

[Liam]

Fuck Polish teams, we shouldn't be one-nil down at half time. We have looked shaky at the back at times but nothing terrible, Pedersen and Nonda both should have scored as well. We should be able to crawl a draw out of this, which wouldn't be too bad of a result for us.

And Channel Five's coverage so far sucks, Roy Hodgson on commentary? Fuck that.

ITV and Channel 5 should never do sports....ever (unless its CH5 doing US stuff, which is ok).

[The Kraig]

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOALLLLLL.

Robbie Savage used to be 100% knobhead. Now he's maybe 34%. (¬_¬)

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Fuck Polish teams, we shouldn't be one-nil down at half time. We have looked shaky at the back at times but nothing terrible, Pedersen and Nonda both should have scored as well. We should be able to crawl a draw out of this, which wouldn't be too bad of a result for us.

And Channel Five's coverage so far sucks, Roy Hodgson on commentary? Fuck that.

ITV and Channel 5 should never do sports....ever (unless its CH5 doing US stuff, which is ok).

Channel 5 make baseball entertaining (well as entertaining as possible)

[Thrilla]

FUCK YEAH~! Savage is a 100% awesome, I understand why fans of other teams don't like him but when he's on your side you just have to love him. And Bentley scored the winner, about time he got a shot on target during that match. Right result in the end I say, we had the better of the first half and dominated the second half, shame Nonda didn't get to score as he had a few good chances, but we got the away win we needed. We should really win our two home games (Nancy and Basle) which means our away game (Feyenoord) shouldn't really be a factor.

The turn around in that match was Tugay, his marker just seemed to disapeer during the second half which meant Tugay could control the midfield for us. Him and Savage tie for my man of the match, they just work so hard for the team and well as a unit, unlike a certain player doing commentary for Channel Five used to when he played for us >_>

[9 to 5]

My man of the match was Savage tbh, just did more over the enire game than Tugay. Great start if not the best game ever.

[Thrilla]

True, Savage was a workhorse for the 86 minutes he played, but in the second half Tugay just turned it and it really got the team going. Either way, we won and soon enough a trip to Scotland will be on the cards. Oh yes indeedy.

[9 to 5]

Book the train then. >_>

I was impressed, we never looked like we were behind or giving up at all.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

YAAAES! Get in! Silence those dirty greasy Turks...

[R.W.]

The only Rovers player I wasn't impressed with today was Pedersen. Everyone else put in 110% effort, and got the job done.

[The Kraig]

Dirty diving Italians. The referee was pretty poor tonight as well. :ohwell:

And Rangers still won 3-2, a scoreline which flatters Livorno.

Well done Blackburn, and COME ON Newcastle, 1-0 over Fenerbahce!

IT'S A UK RAMPAGE.

Edited October 19, 2006 by The Kraig

[Liam]

IT'S A UK RAMPAGE.

If Newcastle hold on, it's pretty impressive that all the UK sides (aside from Arsenal) won in Europe this week.

[gunnar hendershow]

Arsenal are the blemish on an otherwise perfect week for the U.K.

[therockbox]

I like how all the Newcastle fans were moaning about Sibierski but he's actually doing better than Martins >_>