southernrover

All railway towns are inferior to Swindon and the genius of Brunel. Unfortunately their football team is dreadful.

Aye in fairness it isn't dreadful, I would have just preferred the prospect of Halifax, Solihull or Alty going up for various reasons. Bromley are thoroughly inoffensive as a team mind and have come from relatively nothing over the decades. I think I was at that Bristol Rovers v. Bromley tie in the first match at the Mem. As I recall Rovers battered them and really should have finished them on the day.

Bromley is probably the most insipid of the teams who made the play offs (along with Barnet). Drab town, relatively drab ground since they got shot of the old Bench end, another trek southeastward for all concerned. Lived in Solihull for a few years and have always kept half an eye on Moors. Would have loved them up but wasn't to be. Third time lucky next year hopefully (or finish top!). Hopefully next weekend's trip to Wembley proves more fruitful.

Yeah I always assumed it was to look good for marketing and perhaps some manner of ease of accounting. More of a "Tickets issued" than clicks of the turnstile. Haha apologies for any confusion - I'm not a Raith fan, nor Albion, nor Peebles nor any other - southernrover is a play on me being English and my big team down here (Blackburn) I joined here way back when as an outsider to Scottish football with a passing interest and have never bothered to update the name... ended up adopting Ayr somehow and was up at Somerset last night for my annual visit. Hoping to be back more often next season when life settles down a bit. Can't wait for a day in Livingston! For what it's worth, I'd say 2,748 for us v. Pars was fair last night!

Was at Crossgates today. I didn't see Dunbar's first goal properly but it seemed like a keeper error. After their second it was all Crossgates and they pulled one back through a smart header, but then for all their huffing and puffing an equaliser eluded them. One or two of their chances will have haunt them should it transpire they go down by a point. Pleasant little place was Humbug Park, though the best feature of the village itself was the ease of exit Halbeath offers...!

Doesn't everyone do that, by and large?

My abiding memory of that Lowestoft series was the good 30 seconds of footage of Simmons trying to scan his staff ID to open a locked door and failing with every attempt.

Bit of an odd one but in a pub at the moment and three old boys are sat in the corner having come out for one of their birthdays. Just three friends sat over a pint having a chat about the old days and all manner of this and that. So lovely. Must have known each other decades but after all this time, still together having a chat in the local.

Ban all form of noise in pubs. Children, quizzes, dogs, live music, friends, the lot. When I go for my despressing late night drinking sessions I want to stare blankly into the distance over a pint of stout in perfect silence please.

I think I meant grey. I was pissed then and I'm a good way there typing this now in my defence.

Only ever done that once, at kicking out time in the pub where we'd watched England v. Scotland at Euro 2020. I was smashed and then some. Threw up all over a Premier Inn that night and somehow got off scot free. I am eternally grateful for their grey carpets being the perfect colour to hide vomit stains in.

Sorry for being thick but why do people consider Fraserburgh favourites when Brechin have three points and a (slightly) better GD? I presume the combination of momentum from the 4-2 the other week and the fact that playing Strathspey twice is a given six points and considerable +GD?

I've been to Hastings and I've been to Brighton, I've been to Eastbourne too

I think I am reading it right (underneath the gold chain), but why is it people with 'Only God can judge me' tattoos are nearly always utter cretins that any self-respecting deity would detest?

I went to rugby (league) at Whitehaven that Saturday when football was in mourning. There was a minute's silence there but given both the demographic of the sport and that part of the world it didn't feel forced at all. I stayed sat on the terrace and wasn't the only one. Nobody batted an eyelid.

Hopefully someone digs something up on McNulty and we can 'cancel' him, or more preferably launch him into orbit.

SLF never need a review but what a venue Barrowlands is. Wonderful place. There and Rock City in Nottingham need protecting at all cost! Birmi tonight for Priest/Saxon/Heep. Just the 1840 start time for this one. Good job I took the day off!

I should ask, for those who went this weekend, was there any flag drama or did everyone get the photos they wanted?

I'm sure there was talk a couple of years ago of a hopper turning up at Ross County, then walkimg away when they realised they don't (didn't?) issue a programme. Utter madness. My draw to the whole thing tends to be decent enough ground (no public park or high school cages) and a decent day out (nice part of the world, pubs on the way etc.). Plastic pitch, pre season friendly, no programme, no teamsheet, no pies? I don't care. The day I start to take this all that seriously I will save my time, money and sanity and get a new hobby.

Enroute to Glasgow for Stiff Little Fingers at Barrowlands tonight. My first time at the venue but certainly not my first Fingers gig! Can't wait. Methinks a little bit of a Subcrawl may be due beforehand too

The teetotal version of being in the queue at the bar of a pub and the person in front ordering four cocktails. The government should really introduce some form of system whereby good, sound people who only drink proper drinks can go about their leisure free from the influence of the 'my beveridge requires five minutes, eight ingridients and two people to make it' brigade I remember when I was younger my local swimming baths had coloured bands you put on your wrist so they could tell certain groups to GTF if they had been in there too long. Starbucks need to implement this system post-haste by the sounds of it.

Putting the ball in the Arsenal net

What bothers me more I think is when they make no attempt to contain whatever they end up doing. Sat at a table on the train? Aye, sneeze all over it mate, no bother. Got a roaring cough? Into the office you go pal. One of very few positives that could have come from Covid is hopefully a greater awareness by people of even half-arsed public hygiene. Seemingly lasted until about early 2021 at best.

They took him alive

I saw Rival Sons supporting Sabbath on The End tour. Was impressed but haven't listened to them in a good while. I should sort that! When I last saw Priest it was Michael Schenker supporting. I saw Schenker's own tour in London a few months later and some half cut bloke in the front row threw an Oxford United flag onstage. Doogie White was on vocals during that iteration of the band. He picked up and simply said "And I thought Motherwell FC was fucking embarrassing" before launching it back!