Coronation Street fan calls out baffling scene – and they have a point

Watch immoderate aged occurrence of Coronation Street and you’ll announcement however engaged and bustling the Rovers Return is.

These days, though, the iconic pub is overmuch quieter, with punters capable to sup connected their Newton & Ridley pints successful comparative peace. 

But 1 country successful the Rovers during Monday’s occurrence of the ITV soap near 1 instrumentality begging an important question. 

As Daniel Osbourne (Rob Mallard) was seen chatting to ex Daisy Midgeley (Charlotte Jordan), they noticed determination were a hellhole of a batch of bare glasses connected the bar. 

Taking to X, the baffled instrumentality wrote: ‘When was the Rovers engaged capable to person truthful galore bare glasses similar this?

‘I’ve seen nary much than 10 punters successful determination astatine immoderate 1 clip for the past 2 years astatine least.’

And it’s just to accidental they person a point, arsenic implicit the past fewer months, galore different Corrie fans person remarked connected however bare the pub present is connected screen. 

‘If the Rovers Return from #Corrie had been a existent pub it would person gone to the partition years ago. You wouldn’t get capable punters to support it commercially viable,’ 1 wrote connected X. 

A 2nd posted: ‘The Rovers doesn’t look to person got immoderate busier since it was sold for not being busy…..No existent pub would past with truthful fewer punters. There doesn’t adjacent look to beryllium immoderate staff.’  

‘It’s truthful bare everyone would beryllium successful determination successful aged Corrie,’ different observed. 

‘This soap getting ridiculous 3 radical down the barroom successful an bare Rovers?’ 1 instrumentality questioned.   

Another wrote: ‘Rovers inactive virtually bare still. @itvcorrie needs to find immoderate wealth for much supporting actors / extras.’ 

‘Great ratio of bar-staff to punters successful the Rovers. #PersonalService,’ different joked. 

As viewers mightiness remember, the Rovers was antecedently astatine the centre of a storyline that saw it affected by the real-life outgo of surviving crisis. 

Last year, Jenny Connor (Sally Ann Matthews) sought to merchantability the boozer erstwhile it was weeks distant from going bankrupt, with brewery Newton & Ridley initially turning down the accidental to bargain it believing it was not profitable. 

After a botched merchantability to pub concatenation LS Waterford near the pub closed for 2 months, Jenny and Daisy aboriginal repurchased it with wealth Jenny’s dormant murderous ex Stephen Reid (Todd Boyce) had stolen from Underworld. 

After discovering it was her wealth utilized to bargain the Rovers, Carla Connor (Alison King) present owns it, keeping Jenny and Daisy connected down the barroom to assistance repay their debts. 

But with footfall inactive low, who knows however agelong it volition beryllium earlier it changes hands erstwhile again. 

Coronation Street airs Monday, Wednesday and Friday astatine 8pm connected ITV1 and ITVX.

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