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Yeah let's blame Pears for everything - I heard he was responsible for the Great Fire of London and the release of the Covid virus as well. For the avoidance of doubt Im not his biggest fan but he hasnt done anything wrong today.

Pathetic. We've carried on today like we played in the second half against Bristol City. Where's the team gone that played in the first half? What's happened to Alebiosu? Like he was substituted at half time at Bristol and replaced with his twin who can't play. Looks like 5 wins in a row for Eustace. But he's a shit manager because he says "y'know" a lot or something. Derby fans singing "John Eustace - he left 'cos you're shit" They're not wrong. Happy 150th anniversary everyone from Venky's.

And have we ever done anything from one of his long throws? Might as well just have an uncontested drop ball and just give the ball to the opposition. Slightly better in general the last few minutes though.

Is the shirt with the gold bits going to be going on general sale? Not sure a gold transfer of the badge next to the actual badge really works. Looks what it probably is, last minute thing cobbled together without any thought.

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Miller's not too bad going forward but can't defend to save his life.

There we go. Dreadful defending from Miller - seems to be a regular occurrence. We look really poor today. Throw in a couple of injuries and suspensions and we can't cope.

You couldnt make it up about the Club making a big thing about people supposedly being allowed to drink in sight of the pitch for the "legends" game then being forced into a humiliating u turn 2 days later. If this idea was on the cards it should have been sorted and either cleared with the relevant authorities or discussed and dismissed as a non starter weeks ago. At this point it comes over as if they're actively trying to antagonise people with the white smock and now this.

It's factual about what happened to Plainfield Asset Management Chaddy. Williams/or whoever was purporting to be Williams was probably pulling poor old Walter's chain as well. I found another LT article with comments attributed to Hubert saying "Williams's" Company Princeton Global Housing had secured contracts worth £750m to build houses in the Gabon. I could find any trace of that Company on the internet either then or now which is odd to say the least if they were as big as claimed.

You're better than that Andy. Eustace was brilliant for us and also attempted to stand up to those twats. Your ccomments sound petty and vindictive.

Another beauty from 1905/06 presumably in slightly lighter Cambridge Blue.

Yes I would buy something similar to that shown on the picture of Crompton. I very rarely buy shirts these days but was hoping to get the anniversary shirt as a one off. However I wouldnt even have that white monstrosity (which doesnt even represent Club Colours) as a gift. You could do far worse than reproduce faithfully that first known strip from the Alexandra Meadows photo in 1878. It's quite quirky with the different coloured sleeves, the correctly proportioned Maltese Cross and the small numbering on the front of the shirt. And of course blue and white halves.

You wouldnt reproduce a picture with a bloke in it who was never actually the groom either.

Shows how easy it is to con people, (initially at least) From what I can see Plainfield Asset Management was set up in 2004 to manage funds of other people's money. Whether the Company itself had any actual intrinsic value, or connection to the person purporting to be Dan Williams, or potential involvment in a Rovers takeover ,who knows, but in any event as I posted earlier they were declared insolvent and wound up in 2013 and as early as 2008 (when negotiations were still supposedly ongoing) they were deemed "93% illiquid" and investors were barred from taking their money out.

There's a few different possible variations of him "existing". a) He actually was Dan Williams an American Businessman who was genuinely minted and who could afford to take over the Club but who backed out of any deal because the terms weren't right for him. b) He actually was Dan Williams an American businessman but someone who in reality didnt have a pot to piss in. c) He was someone who for a laugh invented the persona "Dan Williams" - lifelong Rovers fan hailing from Lytham St Annes turned American multimillionaire (who no-one's ever previously come across or heard of) - and invented any personal link with potential backers some of whom might have existed. I can't decide between b) and c) myself but I'd be incredibly surprised if it was a). Still not a scrap of info about him on the Internet to this day apart from the alleged attempts to take over Rovers and the Rhinos neither of which came to fruition Going back to Nixon (which was the original point) he backed this bloke like he was Shaikh Mansour even though he was almost certainly b) or c). Which again leads to suspicions that he is open to promoting agendas for cash, however vacuous they may be.

Yep that my next thought! Seems they're 5th favourites at around 11/1. Morocco heavy favourites at a shade over 2/1.

Sadly there are barely any pubs left to crawl between these days.

Runs from Dec 21st to Jan 18th I think.

Absolute disaster for us if we lose him for up to a month plus warm up/ recovery time either side of the tournament.

(Opens can of worms) 🤣 Id agree with that. Bristol Rovers are quarters not eights.

Not sure why we just didnt go with that first known strip. Would have been sufficiently unique with the design, the Maltese Cross and the small numbers on the front of the shirt underneath the cross. Some beauties slightly later on and in the early 1900's as well.

The Cup actually came back to Blackburn 4 years in a row - Blackburn Olympic won it in 1883. Their ground apparently was at the top of Shear Brow on the site of St Mary's College. Wouldn't it have been cool if both Clubs were still going?

Again, it seems from that article that no-one over there had ever REALLY heard of him either, from memory I couldnt find any trace of Princeton Global Housing at the time either. Reliant on a mystery partner again as well. WUM or if he did actually exist a fantasist imo.

Don't think "the incline" would have stretched anywhere near as far up as the the Dog Inn and Revidge. Maybe part of the way. There's a mild incline from Leamington Rd up to St Silas's Rd then it gets a lot steeper the other side of St. Silas's Rd. Don't think we need to look any further than shirt of two halves excellent post and Roger B's dilligent sleuthing

I had a quick look at that again last night and found a 2008 LT article from Andy Nield saying the "deal" was off with someone purporting to be Williams saying Rovers wanted too much money etc etc. At the time there was no trace whatsoever of Williams or his Company or any of his business activities on the Internet nor any photos of him, the only photo purporting to be him was that single College graduation style snap. Nield's article said that Williams' partners would have been a Connetticut based venture capital Company called Plainfield Asset mananagement. A search of Plainfield Asset Management now on Wikipedia shows that that it is a defunct Company started in 2005, was wound up in 2012 and by 2008 was "93% illiquid" with Customers barred from withdrawing their investment. I thought at the time, and am even more convinced in light of the above, it was a complete hoax, if anyone thinks different, that's fine.