Beren

Just lacking a little bit of crispness in our passing.

Raylor misses out again. Eep.

No Rodagella and Caldwell starts!

Pretty antsy now, hurry up 3pm.

That looks decent.

Hope Everton annihilate them. Don't think they will now I've openly said that, mind.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/b/blackburn_rovers/9093173.stm

Didn't think the line-up was awful - clearly good enough to beat Montenegro, but trying to play the killer ball from your own half is never going to be terribly effective, and then the vicious cycle of crowd expectation/England rushing moves kicks in... Almost funny.

Currently Birmingham, Liverpool and Wolves.

Votes for Man Utd and Liverpool!! Chose Blackpool (mainly because of Holloway), Fulham (good football generally) and Arsenal (good Arsenal fan mates/good football).

To be fair to the FA, they tried doing Essien for a hard tackle the ref had incorrectly down in his report as a fair tackle, and FIFA threatened them with all sorts of sanctions. Sadly the FA are tied down by FIFA who have no sense. If Newcastle want some justice, they will have to take the legal route. I'm picturing Lionel Hutz as being the only who would take this case on.

Fantastic photo, that! Harper and Jose looking grumpy, Shola's smile bragging that he's still at the club, Krul with singularly windswept hair, Tiote suspicious of cameras, Hughton a shortarse... Bags of character!

Davies Teddy Sheringham is still only a spritely 44, Fabio.. might want to get him in the mix for 2012! Delighted Carroll gets a break

Feel better than after the Stoke match. Bring on Wigan, I guess

Positives We probably deserved a draw. Jonas Gutierrez played fantastically/consistently had a decent end-product. Good response after the Stoke defeat - no problem with spiralling deflation it seems. Campbell did brilliant for Colo when he came on. Hughton brought himself to substitute Nolan! Tiote. Krul beginning to command his box a bit more/come off his goal line every now and again. Negatives We got nothing from the result. Ben Arfa injury looks serious. When Carroll comes on we play long ball/hit'n'hope. Routledge was very poor. Perch continues to look shaky. Shola played poorly. The ref did us no favours. Edit: Oh, and Nolan was so anonymous it's barely believable he played today. [/iMO]

It appears as though I'm fairly alone in feeling pretty optimistic about this one, then?

Ameobi ftw

Ketchup?

Hope Johnson gets benched again.

Wigan win would be nice. Wolves deserve relegation.

Tried to exploit Barton's reputation with the refs and has subsequently won himself a reputation among such titan thug non-footballers superstars such as Cattermole. Justice for a moron.

Henry sent off!!

I'd be ashamed of the victory.

"Taking screenshots in Mac OS" Well done though