Good old psychometric testing.

Good effort, but the wickets not turning this morning Shane. Sandy's whinging days are behind him( until the next defeat at least). Come back on Tuesday morning.

For top class moaning try this:



So basically, a cry about injuries then.

Sandercock's not going to be whining about injuries, is he - not like he's had to cancel training due to lack of available players? Honestly, I despair of you.

As for Tuesday morning, utter nonsense. You really should pay attention to Mike Smith and Easty. 4th.

I don't remember ever having that conversation with you TBH.

But thinking about it (A new line of thinking with regard to the word Fount).
I would say both work.

Fount (Fountain)- Fountain Pen?
Font (Type Font)-Printing press?

So one could argue that one hints to the pen and one hints to the printed word.

Talk about thread drift!!!!!!!! and from a moderator as well. Can't you PM this derailment?

Sandy doesn't know how to moan about injuries, maybe he can take some lessons?

I see your "Mike Smith & Easty" boast and raise you "Tarquin Fuego". So, that's you lot all the way to Old Trafford then.

Surely you remember!

You made the fountain pen bit up, though. The printing press thing is historical fact. You can't just make it "work" by making it up as you go along!

Webster & Nev in the 19... www.superleague.co.uk/preview/7563

Webster & Nev in the 19... www.superleague.co.uk/preview/7563

I've shown optimism for the squad all year in the face of many Rovers fans who have discredited the side. We finally stick a run of games together and I'm meant to adopt the opposite mentality. I believe in the squad and Sandercock and feel comfortable talking up a side that many have wrote off all year.

You mention a could've attitude I adopted with the Saints & Cas games, Surely it's the same could've attitude you mention if roles are reversed. We however won against Warrington and Hull.

Good post easty I'm now starting to believe in the team and foremost sandy it's just took a while for things to happen but he does seem to be the real deal.

I think the problem Sandy had in his early days winning people over, is he is the polar opposite of Justin. He's very intense and not particularly media savvy. But he seems to have faith in his team, and has regulary said, if they play for 80 minutes, they can be a match for any team in the league. Unfortunately it's taken a while to get anywhere near 80 minute performances out of them.

Yep totally agree with the above it can take a while for change to happen and for the better to be honest I'm glad he's chilled out a bit more cos at the beginning it was boring listening to why we was losing, and I'm glad he not a media freak like Morgan was.

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(Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) Printing a complete set of type of one style and size Also called (esp US and Canadian) font
[from Old French fonte a founding, casting, from Vulgar Latin funditus (unattested) a casting, from Latin fundere to melt;

So that one is not proven conclusively either way. It's also worth looking up the translation of the writings of St John of Damascus referred to as "the fount of knowledge". Pretty early stuff, that is.

That's going to be a bout God and all that rubbish isn't it so I'll not bother.

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Well you might not be interested Sandra but there are enough references to Agar in here to keep the neighbours happy.

If you believe the traditional "fountain or font of all knowledge" being a metaphor for a gushing fountain or pool of God-given knowledge, then yes.

But I'm now convinced by the fourteenth century version - the little melted down blocks or fonts that were the letters on the early printing presses. These first made reading material accessible to the public and gave them knowledge never before obtainable. A much more down-to-earth and socialist theory, with not a deity in sight.

(Sorry, Darth, this probably does belong on the Chat thread. In my defence I did originally post the question on the first Chat thread which lead to our initial (fairly civilized, for us) conversation that you've forgotten

. Move it if you will.)

Is this the thing he wrote in the cave on Patmos? Or is that a different John?

Different St. John. This one was a Syrian priest and scholar.

Is this St John going to the Galpharm on Monday night? If not then fount off the lot of you.

wonder how many would be calling for sandy's head had he not got very lucky in the last 2 games?

St John the Baptist?

Why was we lucky Jake what cos really you shud have beat us even tho for the few weeks leading up to playing us ur team were lucky to get a result and lucky to come back like we did against wire, get ur head out of the sand and admit it we were not lucky, I suppose beating cas like we did was pure luck

Yeah, I'm sure sandy had it planned that way all along

Rovers have a decent team and a very, very good coach. Slowly things are coming together, the progress graph has not had a uniform incline, nor will it have. If we lose away on Monday to a quality Huddersfield team I dare say the doubters will be back out in force. The good thing is we have progressed to a point where people give us a genuine chance away to Huddersfield a team who has wiped the floor twice with Hull FC this season, at home & away, in the league & in the cup.

We are a decent team yes but very much not across the board from 1-17. There are some glaring weaknesses and also particularly early on, several of the better players missing. Sandercock has managed this and a '5 home, 8 away' first half of the season really well. Gentle's '8 home, 4 away' start would have been far easier. While Hull were scraping those home wins against London, Wakefield etc. Rovers were losing at Warrington, Leeds & Wigan.

Inevitably things are now evening up as they were always going to.

People should think about players like Craig Hall, Josh Hodgson and Rhys Lovegrove and their contribution under Morgan and now under Sandercock. These 3 were make-weights in 2011, now they are stand outs. Coincidence? I think not, Rovers fans

Craig Hall in particular. Morgan would never have trusted him to play 6 in a million years. He'd have moved Galea, Murrell anybody. Hall cannot do what Blake Green does at 6 but he can do what Craig Hall does which quite often is scoring and setting up match winning tries.

Actually Hall has a good tackling technique far better than Welham or Dobson, his worst fault is sometimes choosing to go for the creative when the simple choice would be better. A dilemma never encountered by the less talented. But under Sandercock, Hall finally has a mentor who believes in him, nutures him, works with him not against him and gives him his chance. We've seen the results.

Rovers finally showed the ability to defend tough, like a top Super League team in the second half against Warrington. All season long we haven't done that. Can we do it again consistently and complement our attack which is statistically in the top 4 in Super League? Only time will tell. At least we now know we CAN defend because it had seemed at times we could not.

Huddersfield are a team I rate very highly and there is no doubt at all they will sometime recover the form which saw them crush Hull and others so easily. I'm thinking Rovers will be in for a hard night, I think Hudds will be really up for it. Losing runs end, winning runs end I just feel that's how it will be hope I'm wrong.

If Rovers win at Hudds then it's light the blue touch paper. If not it's back to the fight for 7th & 8th with the likes of Bradford & Hull and I'd back our chances.

You forgot to mention hull bobness, oh wait no you didnt .