I always think we are more entitled to be known as the railway men than Crewe. A bogey team who have recently been steaming ahead. However Let's hope GM has us back on the right tracks and we can derail them. No more red flags or hitting the buffers I hope and we get all the points the right way and streak ahead. Glad you've got your ticket Donaldo. You deserve first class. I'm going to signal 2-0 to us. Sharp will bend one in. If withdrawn from service then Ironside.

Nookie, with all your railway reference, should you have said "full steam ahead" rather than "streak ahead"? 😎
I also was thinking about 2-0, but three clean sheets in a row....!! I'd love it, but will say 3-1 to the Rovers.
Who to score? We may be taken by surprise by someone from mid-field, or a centre-back at a corner, but will say whoever starts as our frontman, Sharp or Ironside.

Mickey: The “Streaks” were the Gresley A4s of which Mallard was the most famous!

Quite right. Used to sit on Balby Bridge train spotting waiting for them to go by.

Boring fact. Sir Nigel Gresley was the name of one of the A4s and he was chief engineer at the Doncaster Plant works. However he was an apprentice at the Crewe works.

Even more boring fact .Sir Patrick Sterling was the first chief engineer at Doncaster railway plant works. His son Patrick played for Rovers and was mayor of Doncaster.

3-1 to Rovers. A Billy Sharp hat trick.

Rovers 2-1 Crewe
Sharp to score ⚽

More boring facts. I was a fan of the A4s, but never knew them as "Streaks"! I went down to Donny station many times, and really loved it when one was pulling an express that did not sop at Doncaster, and just came thundering through.
Also loved watching the two parts of the Yorkshire Pullman join together. Many passengers were eating breakfast, and occasionally the join was not big bump free, and as a kid, I was amused at what fell over on the tables.
As far as the Rovers are concerned today, we should have won. Hurst after scoring a good goal, shot over from an easy chance, and Billy missed two you would expect him to score, the latter could be classified as a "sitter".
Where was our defence for their goal? No-one willing to tackle????

We used Hexthorpe Bridge as our observation point on the wooden walkway down to the little station that was originally Great Central Rly property on the Sheffield line. There was a statue of Archibald Stirling on the Balby Road side of the bridge.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. The mention of Hexthorpe reminded me of the time there was a ferry over the river Don from Newton farm on the Sprotbough side where we lived. Remember going over when I was very small to visit the exotic Hexthorpe flats.

I remember swimming in the Don too. That's probably why I'm bald and glow in the dark.

I spent the war in Cambridge in whose river, the Cam, I paddled. In common with the Don it contained water, but the resemblance went little further.

Such a contrast could be applied to Rovers’ rather laissez faire approach on Saturday compared with the intensity we see in the PL. Being there did bring home to me the current rather lazy style of passing the ball ineffectually amongst the defenders. If the defenders took the ball a bit nearer to the opposition to actually draw them on to challenge for it and thereby open up space amongst them, there would be a purpose. However, it serves no purpose when the opposition just let them get on with it, knowing that beyond them there were 7 colleagues marked by 10 Crewe opponents.

It just doesn’t make sense when Rovers were the home side and Crewe would be content with a draw.

In fact Crewe were compact and quicker when they got on the ball. So we need to see more energy from the start and acceptance that a team going for promotion has to take the game to the opposition.