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Post by pirate on Apr 25, 2019 14:48:27 GMT
It's all relative as you say. I wasn't there the day when we played Leeds away and they got promoted by beating us 2-1, but I can only imagine what the scenes must have been like Absolutely. That Conference season was unreal in hindsight. I was at uni in Southampton at the time so went to the Eastleigh game - amazing to think we were playing a team like that in a ground like that when I only four years prior we were at St. Mary's itself. We helped Eastleigh break their league attendance record at the time too. www.eastleighfc.com/message-from-the-chairman-a-message-to-bristol-rovers/
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Post by Gas_Quarters on Apr 25, 2019 16:42:25 GMT
Cracking post. I'm not ashamed to admit I still miss DC. I appreciate the job GC has done as I fully expected us to go down, but DC was in charge of some of the happiest years I've ever known as a Gashead. What great memories we'll keep though. I wonder if Tranmere beat the attendance record when they were down there but I have no idea on that. EDIT: didn't see pirate's post! I know the feeling. I don't know how to explain it, it feels like it isn't the same club in a way. It's very rare (despite being so sh**e at the end) that you just completely trust/support a manager no matter what. I've never understood the love affair of bringing back previous managers such as Holloway& Francis - but that's because I wasn't old enough to really remember the style of football (apart from the 2nd Francis season). Now we've had DC though, for the first time I completely understand why people would want them back. I have to admit that anytime we are without a manager, DC would be right at the top of my list to bring back (to all the haters - yes I know it wouldn't work out, but it's just my opinion) I have wondered in recent weeks how he’d get on if he were to take the helm again this summer. Obviously we were poor under him this season. You could tell he was very stressed, wasn’t thinking straight and wasn’t himself. Anyone who’s seen/spoken to him since he left says how much better he looks now and like he’s back to being the old DC again. Just makes me wonder if a good break from it all, especially with everything going on behind the scenes, was all he needed to get his mojo back. And having time to think and maybe learning from a few errors he may have made, he could come back an even better manager than before.
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Post by aghast on Apr 25, 2019 18:10:41 GMT
Absolutely. That Conference season was unreal in hindsight. I was at uni in Southampton at the time so went to the Eastleigh game - amazing to think we were playing a team like that in a ground like that when I only four years prior we were at St. Mary's itself. We helped Eastleigh break their league attendance record at the time too. www.eastleighfc.com/message-from-the-chairman-a-message-to-bristol-rovers/Makes you shudder to think what would have happened to small stadiums across England if the Teds had been thrown out of the FL in 82. On OTIB they often pick us up on our likeability, and dispute that it's true, but it really is. Big clubs like Sunderland and small minnows like Eastleigh say the same. To the best of my knowledge, no football club has ever praised Bristol City for anything, ever. I haven't researched this, but I'm sure it's true.
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Post by Hudson1883 on Apr 25, 2019 18:47:28 GMT
& proceeded to let them win. No one associated with Rovers would’ve got out of Elland Road alive, had we taken at least a point. I was there and that's exactly how I viewed the game. Me and Scrappydoo would have come in for special beatings cos the silly sod wore his Man Utd puffer jacket over the top of his Rovers shirt. It may have been a black puffer jacket but you couldn't mistake the badge on it. Let's just say the Leeds fans that spotted it let us know that they weren't best pleased. And I had parked in the home car park!! I was glad we lost so their attention was diverted elsewhere after the game. Indeed. I’m fairly certain the middle aged gentleman on the opposite side of the segregation, wasn’t inviting me outside to gently whisper sweet nothings in my ear.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2019 22:36:29 GMT
If only we got relegated into the conference south,just imagine how many more records we could have broken then? Good job were not in the championship because we would be battling it out with rotherham for the lowest average gate.
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Post by nothingbutthegas on Apr 25, 2019 23:44:02 GMT
The overlapping run and perfect cross from Mark McChrystal is one of the most criminally underrated moments in our history. Agreed, although Jake Gosling’s pinpoint strike to open the scoring eclipses it for me
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Post by Icegas on Apr 26, 2019 7:56:47 GMT
No.idea if it is still a record, although would think there's every chance that it is. What it is though is a timely reminder of just how far we have come in the last four years and, despite recent attempts by some to try to re-write our recent history, what a bloody good manager Darrell Clarke was for our club. Yes, this has been a poor season and perhaps it was the right time to change, but at least we're stressing about Barnsley rather than Alfreton now! Cracking post. I'm not ashamed to admit I still miss DC. I appreciate the job GC has done as I fully expected us to go down, but DC was in charge of some of the happiest years I've ever known as a Gashead. What great memories we'll keep though. I wonder if Tranmere beat the attendance record when they were down there but I have no idea on that. EDIT: didn't see pirate's post! Haha....They didnt even get close. The total attendance at the Tranmere vs Boreham wood final was 16K. And there semi final home leg the gate was 8800.
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