It won't be the same without the Hop Pole, but hopefully somebody will buy it. After all the Falcon was empty for years.
There will be sing arounds on site and into the early hours, usually at the football club, but maybe that was not what you had in mind.
If I remember the 2008 sing rightly, it had to be kick started by a couple of brave souls. The same thing could happen in the Falcon, or other pubs, this year.