[Devongone]

Ashover is on the River Amber. Head for the hills means Buxton, the highest town in England and the coldest place I kept goal too.

Matt wants a striker but I just realised - what happened to Kairo? He was supposed to be one of the best players in the division at King's Lynn. We gave him the best part of 2 games and he appears to have been disappeared. Are we keeping Danny Rowe? We BOUGHT these players.

Bob's Board may not be the most sensible barometer of opinion but Mr Rowe certainly seems to be losing a lot of his gloss on there. I suppose it is Luke Rawson's dad who is saying what a horrible person James Rowe really is. Certainly his treatment of Luke and others like young Sharman has been abominable. I can understand that the accident of Covid forcibly interrupted their career development, but to ditch them on the basis of not being given a chance just seems capricious.

As Dancing says it does seem a bit like trial and error, but Joel Taylor gave every sign of being a success and he has been sold to a rival. Go figure.

As for togetherness and team spirit - if the team we end up with starts winning that in itself will develop team spirit, but the Rowe way forward leaves a road strewn with body bags. Football managers are often not nice men. Successful men are driven. Many are psychopaths or sociopaths. I'm sure Mr Rowe wants to reach the top. But no one has grabbed him so far - possibly the chaos frightens them off. If we win the National League, yes someone will grab him, but he will need to win again and again to maintain his reputation. He certainly doesn't seem to be winning friends.

[Dancingwilldoit]

There's gold in them thar hills I tell thee.
Ashover has 90% of the buildings above the River Amber. Darley Dale looks down onto the Derwent all except for one estate which they have managed to build on the old flood plain.
Buxton is a nice place but theres something about that says NO. I know its full of pensioners waiting out their days but it always had a weird feel about it for me - sorry Matt it just the way I feel.
Matlock tomorrow, lets see what happens there.

Dev, I think Mitchel is on International duty.

[Devongone]

International duty all last season too? Mind you if I played for Grenada I'd never be away. It's lovely. Have you ever been? I did one day off a cruise - loved it to bits.

I considered Vineyard Terrace in Darley Dale - quite open to Darley Dale actually. Ashover is too small for me. Small town is what I really want. Small garden, bit of view. Buxton wasn't the coldest place I ever played - that was Whaley Bridge, and I don't want to go there.

Time for us to get a whole new team before Matlock tomorrow.

Sounds like I'd fit in well at Buxton.

A lot of Matlock is high above the river, you'd need a Tsunami to get wet.

[spireitematt]

There's gold in them thar hills I tell thee.
Ashover has 90% of the buildings above the River Amber. Darley Dale looks down onto the Derwent all except for one estate which they have managed to build on the old flood plain.
Buxton is a nice place but theres something about that says NO. I know its full of pensioners waiting out their days but it always had a weird feel about it for me - sorry Matt it just the way I feel.
Matlock tomorrow, lets see what happens there.

Dev, I think Mitchel is on International duty.

No offence taken because I don't live in Buxton.

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International duty all last season too? Mind you if I played for Grenada I'd never be away. It's lovely. Have you ever been? I did one day off a cruise - loved it to bits.

I considered Vineyard Terrace in Darley Dale - quite open to Darley Dale actually. Ashover is too small for me. Small town is what I really want. Small garden, bit of view. Buxton wasn't the coldest place I ever played - that was Whaley Bridge, and I don't want to go there.

Worried about the dam? Whaley Bridge is alright.

[Dancingwilldoit]

Sorry Matt, I thought you were a Buxton lad.

[Devongone]

If I move hundreds of miles I want more than alright. Totnes is alright, but it doesn't suit me. Others love it.

I like Buxton.

I don't know Glossop well enough to imagine what living there would be like.

Chinley - I'll never forget jumping out of a train there aged nine into 18 inches of snow on the station, so that's out. And the League of Gentlemen hasn't helped around Hayfield etc. Could never go to a Butcher and would be permanently on the lookout for Papa Lazarou.

Bakewell is lovely but a bit too far up its own bottom. I love the villages, but I fear I'd be cut-off and lonely.

Wirksworth's odd but in a good way, always liked Matlock, like Darley Dale, but Two Dales, Rowsley, Ashover are too villagey.

A two-bedroomed cottage in Holymoorside would be ideal, but they're very rarely on the market and when they are there's a reason ...... I could do Newbold, Somersall, Walton, Brookside, Ashgate, Brockwell, Old Brampton, bits of Brampton, even Hady and bits of Whittington I'm not that fussy. Barlow would be nice or Cutthorpe, they're close enough to town ..........

Today it's too hot to think. Hope it's cooler in Matlock.

[Dancingwilldoit]

If you think Bakewell is up its own arz then Walton is even further up it.
Have to laugh but not so long back Walton was the area because Brookfield school was supposedly the best. Shuffle forward to last year and lo and behold the best school now is Parkside which scored better than St Mary's RC which was even below what was Newbold. Brookside was miles behind but I dont think St Augustines & Boythorpe have the same attraction for the wannabees.
Wingerworth is a different place since the coking works went as is Old Tupton.
Theres so much new housing being built in the general area atm it just seems crazy. God knows where they think all the people will come from but they all seem to sell quickly.

High 20's currently so Matlock will be very warm tonight.

[Devongone]

Walton always was ...... and the bigger it grows the worse, but it has the great memory of one of our cricketers chasing a ball so enthusiastically he went head first into the dam. Better still when he climbed out he was covered in long strands of pond weed. At low moments I could always think of that.

Old Tupton looks nice now.

I've seen a lovely cottage new on the market in Matlock Bath. Am I going to try?

Does Brookfield School still have the huge playing fields it had when I was there ....... back when the Grammar School turned into a Chesterfield School and went to Brookside? It ought to be popular if only for access to sport. At that time the nearest "good" schools were Staveley Netherthorpe and Tupton Hall, St Mary's was tiny secondary modern and junior school, Newbold Green was punishment for failing the eleven plus, Violet Markham was for girls who liked sex more than reading and St Helena was our equivalent as a girls' grammar school. It was a frighteningly elitist system, but we did have lots of good teachers (not too many of whom were budding sadists) and academically and sportswise we could compete with any school of our size anywhere!

[spireitematt]

If I move hundreds of miles I want more than alright. Totnes is alright, but it doesn't suit me. Others love it.

I like Buxton.

I don't know Glossop well enough to imagine what living there would be like.

Chinley - I'll never forget jumping out of a train there aged nine into 18 inches of snow on the station, so that's out. And the League of Gentlemen hasn't helped around Hayfield etc. Could never go to a Butcher and would be permanently on the lookout for Papa Lazarou.

Bakewell is lovely but a bit too far up its own bottom. I love the villages, but I fear I'd be cut-off and lonely.

Wirksworth's odd but in a good way, always liked Matlock, like Darley Dale, but Two Dales, Rowsley, Ashover are too villagey.

A two-bedroomed cottage in Holymoorside would be ideal, but they're very rarely on the market and when they are there's a reason ...... I could do Newbold, Somersall, Walton, Brookside, Ashgate, Brockwell, Old Brampton, bits of Brampton, even Hady and bits of Whittington I'm not that fussy. Barlow would be nice or Cutthorpe, they're close enough to town ..........

Today it's too hot to think. Hope it's cooler in Matlock.

Glossop's alright it borders Tameside and it's not far from Greater Manchester, plus I think it has a bus which goes to Holmfirth or it did do, also it's got a big Tesco's. Chinley's alright it's got a very accessible train station to Manchester and Sheffield, then you aren't far from Buxworth, Whaley Bridge or Chapel-en-le-Frith either. Then there is Furness Vale which is between Whaley Bridge and New Mills

Ben Foster the Watford goalkeeper has his own Youtube and he does a lot of cycling and he came up to the Peak's the other month and cycled from Whaley Bridge over to Buxton then to Tideswell and down into Castleton then past Mam Tor and then cycled back towards Whaley Bridge.

[Devongone]

Played footie at Buxworth once, can't remember anything about it or the game.

Last night's Chesterfield team looked more like a proper team. At least we won at Matlock, more than Mansfield managed - they lost to Grimsby the other night too.

You know when we had our best ever season in Division 2 and finished fourth, Grimsby were finishing about 13th in Division One. How the world changes.

Additionally I'd still like to know what is happening with Kairo Mitchell. I know he played for Grenada in World Cup Qualifiers in June - they seem to be losing to everyone. In one game he and Ricky German substituted for one another which might not be good omen. In the Concacaf Cup going on at the moment in which they mostly lose 4-0 he hasn't been involved. Where is he and why?