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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2021 21:13:48 GMT
Just some info for balance about Eastville - We actually only owned Eastville for 19 years - 1921-1940. Played our first game there in 1897 and last game 1986. So a total of 70 years as tenants. We've owned the Memorial for longer. None of this info makes selling Eastville any less of a poor decision, but that's interesting stuff!
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Post by aghast on Sept 16, 2021 21:25:08 GMT
I'd rush back to January 2001 and take the batteries out of Garry Thompson's alarm clock, thus ensuring he missed his interview for manager and we avoided our subsequent fall into L2 for the first time ever.
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Post by wertongas on Sept 16, 2021 21:40:13 GMT
Definitely selling Eastville, if we had owned the stadium during the Thatcher years when the government was giving out millions to football clubs to re-develope grounds they owned, we would probably be playing in an all seater stadium now, Gerry Francis would not have left us when he got us into the second tier and history of the club could have been so different. Selling Eastville was one of the many wrong decision's this club has made.
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Post by gashead1981 on Sept 16, 2021 22:00:59 GMT
And change one thing that happened at Rovers, what would it be? It could be a transfer, result, appointment, release, off the field decision, anything at all to do with the club. Wembley - 28th May 1995. 89th minute. Stewart scores instead of hitting the bar. This for me too. This was the sliding doors moment for the club. Stewart scores and we return to the championship. Stewart stays. We return to Bristol at the Mem. The what ifs there are endless.
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Post by richmace on Sept 16, 2021 22:17:51 GMT
For me personally, I would go back to January 2000 when we were sitting pretty at the top of Division 3 and explain to Ollie and the team how that season would disintegrate and result in a terrible, terrible period in our history.
If we could have held on to automatic promotion that season, I felt there was a real momentum about the club and things could have been a lot different.
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Post by axegas on Sept 16, 2021 22:18:03 GMT
Simple for me. Stuck with DC during his first managerial wobble. It was the wrong decision at the time, we had a decent side at the time which usually got better as the season progressed. I think the only reason why there wasn’t outrage about it among the supporters was that DC looked absolutely drained after ever interview and it was clear there was a developing friction between him and the board. Funnily enough I think it was one of the first major footballing decisions Starnes was involved in, and look at the ones he’s been involved with since.
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Post by stuart1974 on Sept 16, 2021 22:18:22 GMT
Wembley - 28th May 1995. 89th minute. Stewart scores instead of hitting the bar. This for me too. This was the sliding doors moment for the club. Stewart scores and we return to the championship. Stewart stays. We return to Bristol at the Mem. The what ifs there are endless. Presumably John Ward stays as manager,too.
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Post by axegas on Sept 16, 2021 22:21:57 GMT
Wembley - 28th May 1995. 89th minute. Stewart scores instead of hitting the bar. This for me too. This was the sliding doors moment for the club. Stewart scores and we return to the championship. Stewart stays. We return to Bristol at the Mem. The what ifs there are endless. I’d also rank the playoff second leg at Northampton up there too in 98 as a sliding doors moment as I think had we won that and the final, we wouldn’t have dropped into League Two for the first time in the manner we did a few years afterwards. I also think that squad was arguably a bit better suited to the Championship had we made the right couple of additions, although I accept that’s up for debate.
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Post by yetigas on Sept 16, 2021 22:30:11 GMT
The sale of Eastville was by far our biggest mistake. Spiritual home, perfect location, decent sized piece of land to develop into a 60,000 capacity stadium as we moved up the leagues and into Europe. And the new stadium (yes we must believe!!) will be the single most important decision, or non-decision, in the coming years. Having watched the Gas for 60 years since the age of 4 I am still young enough to harbour some hope...but then again I was saying that 30 years ago
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Post by lympstonegas on Sept 16, 2021 22:37:29 GMT
Giving GC whatever he needed - we might have been a championship club right now not trying to stave off consecutive relegations
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Post by seanclevedongas on Sept 16, 2021 22:43:02 GMT
Had to be done
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Post by cj on Sept 16, 2021 23:07:00 GMT
I'm surprised no one has said 'Not refuse Lansdown investment'. Wonder where we would be now if he was our owner!
Or how about that flip of a coin going West Ham's way to play in European football. Could have been us and we could have become an attractive to some investors.
Letting Marcus Stewart leaving following our play off final defeat in 95 is another but then again, if we could change the result in our favour, I doubt he would have left.
Just to be different though, I would change whatever we've been doing differently when we sign strikers. Growing up as a kid supporting Rovers throughout the 90's and into the new century, I've known us to pretty much always have 2 great strikers that always seem to bag 20 goals each. Beadle, Cureton, Hayles and Roberts for example. Now we are lucky to score 20 from the squad combined. We got lucky with JCH as he was a panic signing which turned out to be a stroke of luck. We used to be so good at signing strikers.
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Post by Gasshole on Sept 17, 2021 0:11:25 GMT
Twerton era for me. Only time in my 49 Seasons that we actually finished top of the League. Just the solitary win for our red friends in ten attempts. What a time to be alive.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2021 6:40:48 GMT
Never seen that video. Is she straddling a gun on the USS Missouri there? 😂
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Post by RD on Sept 17, 2021 7:04:53 GMT
Not let go of DC , I still think we’ve gone backwards since he and the double promotion winning squad got dismantled, I’ll always love that guy , my most enjoyable time being a gashead Whilst in principle I agree 1 million percent, I don't think it's as simple as that. Think it was a bit of both - DC had got fed up with the lack of ambition and progress off the field - he looked utterly drained when he left us: he genuinely looked unwell. As such, I think it was a marriage that had broken down beyond repair (at board level). So I think to keep DC, we would have needed a new ground and training facilities all in place before the end of his time with us to have stood any real chance of things continuing. God I miss him though
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Post by gasandelectricity on Sept 17, 2021 7:10:11 GMT
Simple for me. Stuck with DC during his first managerial wobble. It was the wrong decision at the time, we had a decent side at the time which usually got better as the season progressed. I think the only reason why there wasn’t outrage about it among the supporters was that DC looked absolutely drained after ever interview and it was clear there was a developing friction between him and the board. Funnily enough I think it was one of the first major footballing decisions Starnes was involved in, and look at the ones he’s been involved with since. DC needed to go. We’d have gone down if we hadn’t have changed manager then. I’d have much rather have gone down with DC than one of the numpties who got us relegated though. Bringing him back though on the day he went to Port Vale is an obvious one though.
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Post by tinkerbell on Sept 17, 2021 7:20:05 GMT
Not sale Eastville.
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Post by Dirt Dogg on Sept 17, 2021 7:23:38 GMT
Suprised no one has mentioned GC staying with us, there’s a good chance we’d be in the Championship if he’d stayed.
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Post by Colyton Gas on Sept 17, 2021 8:00:09 GMT
Suprised no one has mentioned GC staying with us, there’s a good chance we’d be in the Championship if he’d stayed. See Lympstone post above!!!!
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Post by Gaswood on Sept 17, 2021 8:12:34 GMT
For me personally, I would go back to January 2000 when we were sitting pretty at the top of Division 3 and explain to Ollie and the team how that season would disintegrate and result in a terrible, terrible period in our history. If we could have held on to automatic promotion that season, I felt there was a real momentum about the club and things could have been a lot different. Was just thinking the same. Explain that Nigel Pierre won’t make it and we need to stop bringing him on as sub. My mate’s a Burnley fan - they went up when it should have been us. Imagine if our last 2 decades had been how theirs was instead of what we have had to endure?! Squad would have stayed together and… oh I need to stop now, it’s all too much!!!
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