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Crewton

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  1. I haven't been recently, but it's never disappointed me. The chicken liver puree starter was always my favourite.
  2. When I was a kid, a trip to Matlock Bath was as good as a trip to the seaside, for all those reasons.
  3. I'd have to agree with you. Both Doom Bar and Pedigree are not the beers they used to be. It's still possible to get tolerable pints of either, but if they're anything less than immaculately kept, they're rank. Bass is similarly prone to being badly kept.
  4. It's worth pointing out that Derby's two Wetherspoons, the Babbington and the Standing Order, are two of the best around and serve both Real Ale and the other stuff. They also open early for the classic Spoons breakfast, for which many regulars dress appropriately.
  5. 😂 It wasn't "Warne's approach", it was Rotherham's reality. As soon as any of their players wins admirers, they're off. When has he ever said anything that supports your theory?
  6. I said his win ratio was better, that Robins wasn't actually a "young manager" and pointed out that his notable success had come with a club enjoying much larger gate revenues and an uninterrupted 7 year stint in which to continually develop and evolve his team where transfers out were used positively in that process. Warne, by comparison, usually lost some of his best players after promotion, often on Bosmans, and the team was never strengthened for the task ahead. Put it this way, 10 years into his managerial career, Mark Robins would never have appeared on a list of fans' picks for DCFC manager.
  7. Well, I wouldn't be going to the Neptune if I wanted to sample the best Ale in town and my time was limited, that's for sure, but it does have character as a former Bass house and DCFC fan favourite.
  8. Sorry to correct @Gee SCREAMER !! but Pugin designed loads of churches, both in Britain and in Ireland, but he's right to point out St Mary's as a fine example. It would be remiss not to mention the Joseph Wright of Derby paintings which have a room to themselves at Derby Museum on the Wardwick, as he was one of England's greatest painters and is particularly associated with the Lunar Society and the English Enlightenment. It's also a short walk from there to the Old Bell Hotel, another of Derby's "oldest pub" contestants.
  9. Not untouched exactly, because bombing was far from precision. But it survived structurally intact. https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/ruins-cologne
  10. He was always too good for Birmingham.
  11. But which of them could we have actually signed? Alfie May cost a fee and wanted to go to Charlton. Poku signed a 4 year contract for Boro in 2021 for "a substantial 6-figure fee" (BBC) and would have cost us allot more than that to sign. Dion Charles signed for Bolton when we were in Administration for £325,000. Devante Cole signed for Barnsley in summer 2021 when we were under a soft embargo in the Championship - he'd have been out of our reach after Administration. Stockley went to Fleetwood last January for an undisclosed fee, Paddy Lane same to Portsmouth . Hoskins has been under contract at NTFC for 8 years continuously and they would have wanted a large fee for him too. Chris Martin probably liked the idea of staying in Bristol. Jordan Rhodes might well be on a bigger salary than Collins. I don't see the point of fantasising about strikers we couldn't have signed.
  12. Yeah, I just heard a piece on R4W@1 - very troubling situation. Who'd fancy sending their troops in to sort that out? The UN doesn't seem to be doing anything other than providing humanitarian aid and support.
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