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Apologies for taking the thread off topic - the last word on beer from me in this thread but hopefully people will find some of it interesting. I always classed the Revidge run as starting at either the Knowles Arms at the bottom of Pleckgate Rd or the Hare and Hounds at Lammack Rd depending on which direction you were coming from. (There's still the Wilpshire Hotel, Rising Sun and Brownhill Arms left in the Brownhill area. The Bulls Head has been a Co-op for many years which I refused to go in for ages on principle. The landlord of the Rising Sun is a keen Rovers fan, the outside of the building has been painted blue and white, there's a room with Rovers memorabilia and last season he was doing cheap Japanese bottled beer if Ohashi scored and a disgusting blue cocktail of some sort called a "Cantwell". Not certain if he's still doing those) After that it's a completely barren wasteland now pub wise. Depending on how far you wanted to wander off a straight line, you had at one time The Knowles, The Royal Oak, The Sportsman's, Hole ith Wall, Hare and Hounds, Corporation, Dog Inn, Quarrymans, Gibraltar, (The Gib) Alexandra Hotel, (The Alex) Leamington, Fox and Grapes, West View and Woodlands. The Knowles is now a fully fledged restaurant (Ego) and you can just get a drink in there but the bar area is a fairly joyless experience. The Royal Oak on Pleckgate Rd is I think open but up for let and the last two standing the Hare and Hounds and the Alex went in the last couple of months or so. Sue the landlady at the Alex died and Robbo the guy who had the Hare and Hounds sold to the Issa's which I was very upset about in both instances.

Desperation or inspired?

It's ok, the squad's better than last season apparently.

Maybe Lee Harvey Oswald acted completely off his own bat as well.

Whitbreads were Duttons but you're right there used to be 3 major breweries in town. Whitbreads Brewery was on High St where Morrisons is now before they moved to Salmesbury.

Nixon hailing it as an astute Waggott masterstroke at 20 k p.w.! Lol.

You mean people who want the best for the Club here. Didn't Ferguson win the League at Man Ure AFTER the Glazers took over? From his point of view, what was there to moan about? (And at this point Im going to try and avoid being reeled in any further)

This subject has probably been discussed in detail in the past but does it matter that much whether a CB is right or left footed?

The difference being Ferguson wouldn't just put up with it and bat on as though absolutely nothing had happened.

I certainly thought 100 was a bit of an exaggeration but who knows? She said at the time that you can tell from some of the buildings they used to be Pubs

So do you think when Ferguson was at ManUre the Board would have sold a key player behind his back?

Wow, 3-0 before we hit the 46th minute.

2-0 Arsenal HT We had the Polar opposite of the Liverpool v City game, when a goal that probably SHOULD have been ruled out for offside for a player blocking the keeper's view, wasnt. I absolutely despair with VAR. Most of the time you just get the wrong decision being made twice.

The problem with that stat is that as usual it paints a fairly misleading picture. From the equivalent stage last season we won our next five games up to and including Luton at home. Six on the bounce in total prior to the annual collapse. So we would need fifteen points from the next fifteen to still be three points behind where we were last season by the same point. If we manage that, I will be sitting up and taking notice!

I was once speaking to a lady born in 1920 who said she remembered as a young girl Rovers bringing the FA Cup back on the bus in 1928. As a side note also claimed that when she was young there were around 100 pubs between Witton lights and the town centre. Not everything changes for the better!

You'd think so wouldn't you, but this is Rovers you're talking about!

Id be happy with one plus O Riordan. The general point I was making was that I dont suppose our January budget will be very big so I wouldnt want it all blown on CB's. As regards Pratt, he came in and seized his chance with both hands. Surely you have to give him the opportunity to kick on and be considered a first teamer? Until he proves otherwise it would be harsh in the extreme to dump him and forget about him as soon as someone else comes in.

Great post.

And the sideways header at Bramall Lane.

Im not Cantwell's biggest fan but I do think if fit he should be in the line up. Extrapolating a fairly limited snapshot of results and claiming results are better without him in the side is imo a bit like blaming Jordan Rhodes for the fact we didnt go up when you've got players like Jason Lowe playing behind him.

Lol. So to clarify your original response to RF 99 then you think Cantwell SHOULD be let go?

As usual we probably wont get anything we REALLY need in January but I hope we don't go too overboard at CB. Pratt showed he was a viable option the other night and is there any other reason why one of the other young CB's couldnt come in and do similar? At the very most Id bring in one CB and recall O Riordan. Midfield is going to need major surgery sooner rather than later. Tronstad and Cantwell look as though they'll be heading for the exit door, we don't know yet if Baradji will be a viable option, Henriksson's poor and Tavares looks a complete dud. I think we also need major strengthening up front. I've never rated Kargbo and in an ideal world he'd be replaced. Im also probably one of the few left who thinks Gueye would be a useful asset under a different Head Coach,but, if VI isnt going to use him we might as well sell him and either way we need an additional striker as well. There's a LOT to do this January, not just at CB. I ain't holding my breath.

Yet in your contrarian mode you were probably lobbying on behalf of VI and claiming that "results didn't match performances" earlier in the season.

I mean whist we were still in the playoff picture last season Gestede actually admitted the priority was not getting in to the play offs but "building" for this season in the Championship! You wouldn't get that at ANY other Club anywhere at any level.

Yes, he's been really open and honest about Brittain, Travis, the reasoning behind selling Hyam in the last few hours of the window without a replacement, Baradji, Cantwell, why Tavares has disappeared off the face of the earth etc etc......