David, you'll be preparing a home-coming party for Mark Hughes and his scratch team of millionaires?

"It's important we do our best and kick lumps out of them - fairly of course," Dunn said. "We must be strong and organised. The main thing is we will have to be really aggressive and knock them about a bit. That's what the manager will be asking from our lads. We have to make Ewood Park a place no-one wants to come to again."

Sam, is this riot, sorry is this right?

"A whole group of new players, or five or six new players, is certainly something that causes you a few problems. I've suffered it in the past myself at previous clubs where nine or 10 new players have come in and we've tried to play them all at the start of the season. While they have been very good players, there has been some disruption there. I hope that might be the case against Manchester City on Saturday. If it is, then we have to try and take advantage of that."

Sam, David Dunn says "I think it is a good time to play City. Unfortunately we don't have the same resources. But what we do have is an even level on that pitch and as soon as the lads cross the white line the money doesn't really matter. It's about how much you want it."

Sam, I thought there would be a home-coming party for Mark Hughes? "Everybody will expect success instantly at Manchester City, that's the pressure they have got to live with. For us it's about trying to spoil their party, being that they think that they can come to a place like Blackburn Rovers and beat us comfortably with that kind of spending. We're certainly going to go all out to make sure that's not the case"

So it's going to be a kick-fest rather than a goal-fest? How's the ref. going to see that? & aren't you going to get their expensive players diving as soon as there's contact? You've said before..

"It just strikes me at the moment that when a player stays on his feet, a referee thinks, 'That can’t have been a foul, because he’s still standing. It doesn’t look like a foul to me, so I won’t give it.' That’s where the frustration creeps in. Players feel they are being denied what is due them and start wondering if there is any point trying to stay on their feet. They inevitably reach the conclusion that, next time there is any contact, they might as well go down. Even if the contact is slighter than before, the inclination is to hit the deck and see what happens."

Let's have a look at these crash-test dummies..

SHEIKH MANSOUR'S MAN CITY BUYS
Robinho £32.5m
Wayne Bridge £12m
Craig Bellamy £14m
Nigel De Jong £18m
Shay Given £8m
Gareth Barry £12m
Stuart Taylor Free
Roque Santa Cruz £17m
Carlos Tevez £25.5m
Emmanuel Adebayor £23m
Kolo Toure £14m
TOTAL = £176m