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Yes I am but I'm just as comfortable using a pick or hybrid picking. I've got a 1975 cream coloured Strat too but I very rarely play it nowadays. Prior to Christmas I was playing my Classical almost...

My mate has an Eastman and we had a jam session about a month ago. I liked it but was not totally taken with it. The same mate came with me to Richard's Guitars and we both agreed that the Furch was...

Not overly challenging but it's got a very unusual guitar tuning (not standard). Give Tommy Emmanuel a listen. He's rated as quite possibly the world's greatest acoustic player and you can see why.

Oh yes. Had the guitar for a fortnight and I'm still deeply in love with it (but don't tell the missus).

Spruce top, black walnut body, mahogany neck and an ebony fingerboard. But most importantly...

For all you guitar players out there.

I finally decided to splash the cash on a decent acoustic guitar but which one ? The obvious choices like Martin and Taylor I discounted because I didn't...

Aren't these figures rather meaningless ?

Surely the only figure that matters is the number of attendees on match day.

Take Rotherham for instance. They average over 10k for home matches in...

Ah right. The Charlton brothers were from Ashington I believe.

Remembered Darlington just after I posted it ! Gateshead were also a league team in the 50's. Didn't know there was ever a County Durham FC though.

Amazingly he played 3 games for them.

I wonder if he's the only player that's played for all 4 of the league teams based in the North East (Hartlepool were at the time).

Prior to Goldstone, he was with us for 9 years with little or no financial backing from the Dewey brothers, so it was always going to be a struggle but towards the end of the 60's our league position...

Yeah, that's why I put a question mark against King's name. Same with Murray apparently. He joined us in 1962. Nevertheless, still an impressive list of signings.

Absolutely right. Strange for TOBW to highlight players signed by Scoular in his last year as our manager. Even more so when you consider the plethora of good/great signings he made before then:...

That's the one anomaly that came to my mind too so for you to mention it only gives weight to my argument that there were very few poor signings.

What you haven't taken into consideration or maybe was unaware of was that Scoular never had a great deal of money to spend. If we managed to get 2 or 3 new players a year we were lucky and they were...

Scoular didn't suffer fools gladly that's for sure. A very, very tough man and yes I suppose he would be considered a bully in today's more 'enlightened' times.

He did have the good fortune that a...

A great Clough quote was, "He's a hard man is Jimmy Scoular. He had me against the dressing room wall when we beat them 5-1 at their place".

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Lennie Lawrence, a good solid likeable manager who got us promoted in his first season and thereafter did well to establish the club in the Championship.

My main...

If we really must extend his contract and I'm not for one minute advocating that we do, perhaps a one year extension with an option for an additional 12 months if certain parameters are met. For...

I know exactly what Eric means. We were safe after the Stoke home game and there were still 2 games to go. We've seen today what can happen when there is nothing to play for.

Last season in our...

As usual a good write-up Bob. I would imagine you're quite relieved to have a break from commenting on this dross week in week out.

From being ambivalent towards Bulut's potential contract...

The Morrocan who scored a hat-trick against Villa tonight.

Yeah but at least they had a few seasons in the sun...

Time to move to Cyprus then. Support Apoel or Limassol and the weather's great.

Without any evidence to back it up I get the feeling that the SNP's fortunes are on the wane and will be very surprised if their drive for independence gains any traction in the near future. That...

LIke Rooney, Lampard and Gerrard.....