Grumpy Git

On 12/02/2022 at 09:59, Eddie said:

I like staying in Oostende and then using the train to get around (Brugge is only 15 minutes away, Gent 40, Brussels just over an hour). Oostende is also very good for the coastal tram, which runs from De Panne on the French border to Knokke on the Dutch, and costs around €7 for the whole day.

The hotels we've used in Oostende are Hotel Du Bassin (right opposite the railway station) and Hotel Botteltje, about 50 yards from the beach and a couple of hundred from the tram stop. Botteltje also has around 400 different Belgian beers. Other great bars in Oostende are Manuscript and Lafayette, which are opposite one another and nice for sitting outside people-watching, and 't Zeezotje, which serve great mussels.

We've stayed in one two hotels in Brugge before - Hotel Koffieboontje, which is right next to the Belfort and the famous Markt square, and The Park Hotel, on 't Zand Square (but that was on a coach trip through Shearings 20 years ago). There are budget hotels and 5-star hotels and everything in between all over the place, so I'm sure you'll find something within your budget.  Brugge is a fabulous city with great architecture (much of it dating back to the 13th and 14th Century) and two brilliant breweries within the city walls (Bourgogne Des Flandres and De Halve Maan), both of whom do brewery tours and both are wonderfully situated. 

Great bars in Brugge include Cafe Rose Red, Staminee De Garre, Le Trappiste and 't Brugs Beertje, Bauhaus and The Beer Wall, but there are hundreds. This city takes its beer seriously.

Remember the golden rule...

 

Can you get Fosters in any of those bars Eddie?

33 minutes ago, Hector was the best said:

In those mad 15 mins at the start of the second half Lawrence was doing his best to WIND UP Gallagher, what a stupid prat he is.

His contribution to our cause is to get sent off ,miss 3 games and last night did nothing apart from missing a sitter. What a plonker.

Aye, he's not got much 'upstairs' has Tom, strength of a carthorse, speed of a racehorse and the brains of a rocking horse.

1 hour ago, cannable said:

I’ve always been fond of 34 because of Thorne

Is Thorne on the no. 34 route?

Anyone on here in the 'Spoons in the town centre?

15 minutes ago, angieram said:

 

Beware anyone wanting to eat before the game, the Golden Cup doesn't serve meals midweek.

"Sausages"

MM has acted like the lowest of the low. If he really cared about DCFC (and he's as loaded as he makes out), he wouldn't have put it into administration, end of story. If he never had the cash to match his spending, then he's nothing better than a Derbyshire Del Boy anyway.

16 minutes ago, Unlucky Alf said:

If you're lucky enough to get through, Or an Officer on Duty maybe, And here they are below

Aye, imagine how many of Derbyshire's finest would turn-up if the house was in Chad?

Have a look at how much of your Council Tax goes to the local plod when the new bill arrives soon, (for them to tell you they're too busy to come out when you need them)?

55 minutes ago, Rammy03 said:

Constantly refers to his players and his team as 'they' not 'we.' Says 'they capitulated' 'downed tools.'

All is not right there it seems.

He's a crap manager with the history to prove it.

The best thing that's happened to us all season was him getting that gig.

1 hour ago, SBW said:

I think it is looking more and more like Barnsley are going to be the ones that we need to beat out.  They seem to have recently awoken and they annoyingly have the belief.  They performed a minor-miracle the year before last in staying up and I read that Woodrow (their talisman) is close to a return soon. 

They also have to play Bristol, Reading and Peterborough at home.  

I think they will be the ones to finish above.  Reading look like they're heading on a one way ticket to League 1.

Er, don't we have to finish above Reading and Barnsley?

Whoever negotiated the £2M fee for Jozwiak needs a medal bigger than a barrel top.

Hope they're in charge of the PB process?

7 hours ago, Ram-a-lama fa fa fa said:

.........which allow a team like chelsea to pay £29M a month in wages.  

how can that be right?

it’s scandalous 

I agree.

To put this into perspective, that wage bill would pay the annual salary of about 10,000 nurses.

I need to try one, there's nowt like a nice pie.

Time to chalk-up another 6 point opponent. Its not something we've done a lot of recently.

No match thread up yet, but does anyone know an away friendly pub in Blackburn near either the main station or Mill Hill station?

7 minutes ago, BucksRam said:

Am I sad in being pleased to have popped on here for a nose only see see I was looking at page 1000.  Small things.  I'd have been a bit disappointed if it was page 1001 and I'd have missed it by a couple of posts.

Almost A Space Odyssey innit

4 minutes ago, Curtains said:

M

I'm with you 100%.

Yours,

James Bond

Chelsea's MONTHLY wage bill would just about buy our club! ?

But the big question is:

Whos's going to get the 20,001st post?

2 minutes ago, Topram said:

The meeting will be absolutely useless just like that statement that Amanda put out earlier, no update at all

Semantics. Politicians are good at it.

4 minutes ago, StarterForTen said:

Just clicked on the Derby Telegraph Rams news page to see a 'Corner Flag Story' bout what the new owners of Derby County need to do....

....turned out to be yet another clickbait re-hash ball-socks .

Bar Studs.

I'm still struggling to get my car running on WD40.

In a nod to Quantuma, Burt Bacharach has rewritten his Gene Pitney hit:

Forty eight hours from Tulsa

26 minutes ago, i-Ram said:

Keep him guessing Comrade.

Yeh, don't tell him Pike.

Got mesen a ticket for Blackburn. ?

24 minutes ago, EtoileSportiveDeDerby said:

The bus is full and leaving in 5 mins. Safe jouney and Welcome to the UK.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60640460

It's just like a scene out of "Little Britain" with immigration officer Ian Foot..........

"If in doubt,  keep 'em out"