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Post by althepirate on May 28, 2020 10:45:05 GMT
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Post by Jomo on May 28, 2020 10:56:16 GMT
One of the few times I remember crying at football as a child!
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Post by Antonio Fargas on May 28, 2020 10:56:37 GMT
One of the few times I remember crying at football as a child! I cried and I was 28.
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2020 11:19:09 GMT
Before my time but how the hell did we lose that game. Should've scored 5 at least.
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Post by Captain Jayho on May 28, 2020 11:48:43 GMT
I honestly remember that game like it was yesterday. Stewy with the headband, smashing the upright from about 100 yards out. Taylor and Browning ballooning those chances. Great game.
Some amazing hair on that rovers strike duo as well.
That was just a great day out despite the result.
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Post by Topper Gas on May 28, 2020 12:03:22 GMT
So was the semi final victory at Crewe the same year? If so, that was a tough May, the elation of seeing us win in the north west only to then lose at Wembley, the highs and lows of being a Pirate in one month, not sure we were known as Gasheads back then!
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2020 12:16:43 GMT
One of the few times I remember crying at football as a child! I cried and I was 28. I cried with my the 15 year old son. I was 43...ffs
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2020 12:20:47 GMT
I haven’t cried since Daphne died in Neighbours. Came close that day though.
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Post by warehamgas on May 28, 2020 12:58:34 GMT
I haven’t cried since Daphne died in Neighbours. Came close that day though. Good to see you’re back eric. Hope all is as well for you as can be. Went with two sons that day and had a great time. Despite our chances I never felt we were going to get anything. Some things just appeared to be set. After Tranmere, Huddersfield and Doncaster I was worried we’d never win a big final yet against Shrewsbury was always confident we’d win. UTG!
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2020 13:07:38 GMT
My son played in a pre-kick off competition which was organised by Shoot magazine - he's very lucky to have played at the old Wembley.
The rest of the day was a bit of a let down!
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Post by althepirate on May 28, 2020 13:16:21 GMT
I cried with my the 15 year old son. I was 43...ffs I cried in the last home game I saw against Shrewsbury and I'm 72 we were shocking! 😠 The lockdown was necessary medical respite 😊
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2020 13:27:07 GMT
I cried with my the 15 year old son. I was 43...ffs I cried in the last home game I saw against Shrewsbury and I'm 72 we were shocking! 😠 The lockdown was necessary medical respite 😊 😂😂😂💊
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Post by LJG on May 28, 2020 13:45:56 GMT
So was the semi final victory at Crewe the same year? If so, that was a tough May, the elation of seeing us win in the north west only to then lose at Wembley, the highs and lows of being a Pirate in one month, not sure we were known as Gasheads back then! This was 1995, we'd been playing at Twerton for nearly 9 years at this stage. The Gashead nickname predated this by at least a decade. On this very day in fact I remember the two blokes sitting next to us had fashioned themselves paper hats in the shape of blue gas flames with gashead written on them. It's etched in my mind because at one point one of them was making the "w*nker" sign at the ref or someone and it was the first time I'd ever seen it.
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Post by Gas-Ed on May 28, 2020 13:50:17 GMT
I was 6 and remember crying all the way home. Looking back, how did we ever lose that game of football? Marcus Stewart was the best player on the pitch by a mile.
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Post by gasandelectricity on May 28, 2020 13:52:47 GMT
This was my first Rovers match! I was too young really to remember anything about it.
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Post by althepirate on May 28, 2020 14:05:31 GMT
I was 6 and remember crying all the way home. Looking back, how did we ever lose that game of football? Marcus Stewart was the best player on the pitch by a mile. Probably why they signed him the following year
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Post by gashead1981 on May 28, 2020 14:11:22 GMT
This for me was a key game in our history. Im not one to look back at "if only" but I often think, what if Stewart, Taylor or Browning had scored any of those chances, we would have gone up, likely kept hold of Marcus, been back in Bristol within a year in the championship, with a star player in our team. The catalyst then would have been with us.
The closest we ever got since was making the play off semis 3 years later. It always bothers me we hauled 80 points in 99/00 and that wasn't good enough for play offs when most of the time that gets you in by a country mile.
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2020 14:22:56 GMT
This for me was a key game in our history. Im not one to look back at "if only" but I often think, what if Stewart, Taylor or Browning had scored any of those chances, we would have gone up, likely kept hold of Marcus, been back in Bristol within a year in the championship, with a star player in our team. The catalyst then would have been with us. The closest we ever got since was making the play off semis 3 years later. It always bothers me we hauled 80 points in 99/00 and that wasn't good enough for play offs when most of the time that gets you in by a country mile. Hist has since told us that despite all those criteria (ok not championship football) we somehow manage to make a pigs ear of it mate! 😂
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Post by Big Jock on May 28, 2020 14:43:32 GMT
Great day out that turned sad, an lets be honest walking home sad with a green clowns nose on yer face takes some beating!
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Post by Big Jock on May 28, 2020 14:57:14 GMT
Jes got th memory box out . . . .
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