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Post by yattongas on Apr 27, 2016 8:07:21 GMT
For you personally which 5 games watching the gas have mattered the most to you ( win ,lose or draw)?
1. Rovers v City ...... When we won promotion. I don't think anything will ever surpass that feeling of elation , relief and pure joy.
2. rovers v Huddersfield .... Wembley when we lost 2-1. Never felt more gutted at a football match.
3. Rovers v Grimsby.... Not a great game and was convinced we'd fall at final hurdle but it meant so much.
4.City v Rovers ..... When Beadle scored that last minute equaliser. Shutting those muppets up.
5. Rovers v Tranmere ..... Although just the paint pot trophy it was our first time at Wembley and I really really wanted to win , losing sort of spoiled a great day out.
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Post by spiess1 on Apr 27, 2016 8:19:25 GMT
Not v. Shrewsbury at Wembley?
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Post by Dirt Dogg on Apr 27, 2016 8:32:51 GMT
Hopefully you can add Rovers vs Dagenham onto this list next Saturday!
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Post by bluebeard on Apr 27, 2016 8:33:10 GMT
1. Rovers V Grimsby (we HAD to get out of the Conference at the first attempt)
2. Rovers V Mansfield (to retain our FL status and avoid the unthinkable)
3. Rovers V Shrewsbury (to end the humiliation of being a basement club)
4. Any game against City especially 1990 and 2000 (when it seemed our 2-0 win at the Mem had put us back on track for automatic promotion)
5. FA Cup 5th round against Ipswich at Eastville (when the cup was still magical and a trip to Wembley the stuff of dreams)
The Huddersfield play off final hurt but for some reason the outcome didn't seem so crucial to me at the time. Same with Tranmere in the Freight Rover (or whatever it was called back then), we had already had a great season.
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Post by A Source (aka Angry Badger) on Apr 27, 2016 8:58:10 GMT
I'm going for most memorable for different reasons - just things that stuck in the memory bank
1) Eastville - Millwall 1984 - Mickey Barretts last game. Can still remember the near post header
2) Newport at Somerton park 1987 Perimeter fencing pulled down, 1-0 win ensured old div 3 survival
3) Southampton friendly in centenary year. Autograph hunting on team coach with one of the Wallace brothers flicking peas at Peter Shilton - couldn't catch any
4) Brentford away - Carl Saunders debut. Destroyed them
5) Shrewsbury away on a couple of occasions - one word. WEETABIX
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Post by yattongas on Apr 27, 2016 9:09:53 GMT
Not v. Shrewsbury at Wembley? That was number 6 |
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Post by chewbacca on Apr 27, 2016 9:12:16 GMT
Last Saturday Night has a great article on five important Rovers matches... Available here! |
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Post by francegas on Apr 27, 2016 9:13:25 GMT
Not v. Shrewsbury at Wembley? That was number 6 Number 7 05.05.1990 v Blackpool by any chance ?? |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2016 9:14:44 GMT
City 0 2 Rovers - Beadles lethal
Derby 1 3 Rovers
Reading 0 6 Rovers
Grimsby 3 5 Rovers
Rovers 2 1 Brenford - Penrice sent off after 10 mins, needed the win to make the playoffs
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Post by yattongas on Apr 27, 2016 9:21:05 GMT
Number 7 05.05.1990 v Blackpool by any chance ?? That was just icing on a cake ....... Amazing day out though. |
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Post by therovers on Apr 27, 2016 9:22:50 GMT
I was barely born when it actually happened, but if I could jump in a time machine as me now and go back to experience any Rovers game ever, it would WITHOUT ANY DOUBT, be beating the sh!t at Twerton to get promoted to what is now the championship, in 90.
Something like that seems like such an incredible dream now.
Congrats to you lucky old lot who got to be there!
Perhaps now with the takeover giving us a fairer playing field against them, doing something like that again, will not be out of the realms of possibility!
UTG
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Post by scoobydoogas on Apr 27, 2016 11:27:06 GMT
For you personally which 5 games watching the gas have mattered the most to you ( win ,lose or draw)? 1. Rovers v City ...... When we won promotion. I don't think anything will ever surpass that feeling of elation , relief and pure joy. 2. rovers v Huddersfield .... Wembley when we lost 2-1. Never felt more gutted at a football match. 3. Rovers v Grimsby.... Not a great game and was convinced we'd fall at final hurdle but it meant so much. 4.City v Rovers ..... When Beadle scored that last minute equaliser. Shutting those muppets up. 5. Rovers v Tranmere ..... Although just the paint pot trophy it was our first time at Wembley and I really really wanted to win , losing sort of spoiled a great day out. Remember that game well. Hit the bar twice, missed a couple of easy chances, and my mate went for a water at 0-0 and came back a few minutes later and it was 1-1. |
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Post by scoobydoogas on Apr 27, 2016 11:36:29 GMT
My five, in no particular order. These are more personal than purely Rovers related:-
Rovers vs Aston Villa - FA Cup 1980 - my first game
Rovers vs Doncaster - Johnstone Paint final 2007 - my lad's first game
Rovers vs Blackpool 1990 - Promotion winning game
Rovers vs Brentford 2010 - Awful 0-0 draw but my lad was mascot for his birthday
Rovers vs Shrewsbury - Play off final 2007 - First win at Wembley - Arrived late and missed the Shrewsbury goal!
And one more for luck,
Rovers vs Nuneaton - Jan 2015 - Don't think I've ever been colder at a football match
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Post by bs9trymer on Apr 27, 2016 11:57:41 GMT
City away FA cup 1984,3-1 to Rovers.First time I had seen Rovers beat them in the cup.
Hull away 1978,Paul Randall scores the only goal to keep Rovers in 2nd division (Championship).
Southampton home 1978,2-0 to Rovers,great day.
Stoke home League cup 71 or 72,biggest crowd that I was in at Eastville,33,600.
Millwall away 93,last game at the Den,3-0 to Rover and a great atmosphere...end of an era
I think that Wembley should just be for full England internationals or the cup final so I havent been there with Rovers,would be good to see Rovers in the cup final.
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Post by spiess1 on Apr 27, 2016 12:17:48 GMT
Grimsby 3 5 Rovers.
I don't remember that one GasheadGaz.
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Post by 2nd May 1990 on Apr 27, 2016 14:14:54 GMT
1: 3-0 v City to win promotion and all but seal top spot. I doubt anything will ever beat this! 2: Grimsby last May. 3. Igoooooooeeeeeeeee!!!! 4. Huddersfield '95  Devastated 5. Tranmere '90. I know we lost but it was our first trip to Wembley, we had just won the league and it still felt like a celebration. Twentyman was fouled for the winner, though...... I wasn't there for Mansfield but that would definitely be on the list if I had been. |
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Post by wysemangas on Apr 27, 2016 14:25:04 GMT
The next two, and if they dont go plan and in our favour, then the next three.
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Post by seanclevedongas on Apr 27, 2016 14:25:25 GMT
Grimsby 3 5 Rovers. I don't remember that one GasheadGaz. The only time we have beaten Grimsby 5-3 was at Eastville 1st Sept 1964, are you thinking the 3-5 Win at Lincoln in the playoffs? (17th May 2007) |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2016 14:27:17 GMT
Grimsby 3 5 Rovers. I don't remember that one GasheadGaz. LOL my bad, Lincoln obviously. I was reading the others and Grimsby stuck with me. |
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Post by beaver132 on Apr 27, 2016 14:28:17 GMT
2nd May 1990 v the sh*t (obvious)
Blackpool away 1990 (again obvious)
Grimsby at Wembley 2015 (important then, but with hindsight even more so)
Shrewsbury at Wembley (bought a ticket for my brother for his birthday, he left us a a few years later, so glad I did it)
Mansfield 2014. (Terrible then, but the catalyst for where we are now. )
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