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Post by Topper Gas on Oct 24, 2016 18:30:15 GMT
I guess getting our Rovers back means for regular supporters means looking forward to the next game rather than just turning up out of habit, for the floating fans it means actually turning up to watch a game!!
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Post by pepsi on Oct 24, 2016 18:51:55 GMT
I guess getting our Rovers back means for regular supporters means looking forward to the next game rather than just turning up out of habit, for the floating fans it means actually turning up to watch a game!! I've always (gone to 5-10 games a season last 5/6 seasons because of circumstances, usually start, then end of the season. I'm going more now because of circumstances again.. Would love to go to more but can't be done.. You understand that right??
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2016 18:56:53 GMT
Am I the only one who never thought I had lost my Rovers ? It's just swings and roundabouts, some periods of time we are sh**e and some we are better, we are great at the moment but even in the bad times it was ok. I just like Rovers, good or bad, who ever owns them, it makes no difference. Don't take this the wrong way but You did realise the absolute sh**e we were in? The above is your everyday football club and its supporters; The Rovers at the time were in real trouble as a football club as a whole. If we didn't go straight back up I dread to think where we would be now. The way things have turned out for the Rovers is what dreams are made of. It could so have easily have been a total nightmare,which it wasn't far from being. Hence not only getting Rovers back but one which no one recognises.
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Post by newmarketgas on Oct 24, 2016 19:18:05 GMT
Am I the only one who never thought I had lost my Rovers ? It's just swings and roundabouts, some periods of time we are sh**e and some we are better, we are great at the moment but even in the bad times it was ok. I just like Rovers, good or bad, who ever owns them, it makes no difference. Don't take this the wrong way but You did realise the absolute sh**e we were in? The above is your everyday football club and its supporters; The Rovers at the time were in real trouble as a football club as a whole. If we didn't go straight back up I dread to think where we would be now. The way things have turned out for the Rovers is what dreams are made of. It could so have easily have been a total nightmare,which it wasn't far from being. Hence not only getting Rovers back but one which no one recognises. No worries, I won't take anything the wrong way. Rovers where in the poop and have been many times and will be many times again i expect. I don't really care who owns the club or who runs the club, it's Bristol Rovers for me and always will be, they never left or came back. That is all I was saying.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2016 19:40:35 GMT
Don't take this the wrong way but You did realise the absolute sh**e we were in? The above is your everyday football club and its supporters; The Rovers at the time were in real trouble as a football club as a whole. If we didn't go straight back up I dread to think where we would be now. The way things have turned out for the Rovers is what dreams are made of. It could so have easily have been a total nightmare,which it wasn't far from being. Hence not only getting Rovers back but one which no one recognises. No worries, I won't take anything the wrong way. Rovers where in the poop and have been many times and will be many times again i expect. I don't really care who owns the club or who runs the club, it's Bristol Rovers for me and always will be, they never left or came back. That is all I was saying. Fair enough mate.
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Post by dinsdale on Oct 24, 2016 19:49:21 GMT
Am I the only one who never thought I had lost my Rovers ? It's just swings and roundabouts, some periods of time we are sh**e and some we are better, we are great at the moment but even in the bad times it was ok. I just like Rovers, good or bad, who ever owns them, it makes no difference. Slowly felt disconnected from the club from the end of Holloways era up to last season really. Just thought the club was being run so so badly it was just embarressing. I had all these hopes about a new stadium, proper training ground and clever people with experience and skills running the club. Have to say the progress we have made on and off the pitch has been amazing. Its so nice to have big crowds and a united fan base. The best thing for me is that when DC leaves either through the front or the back door im confident we are building the structures to cope rather then the luck and chemistry aporoach of the Dunford / Higgs era. Long may this continue and just in time for my little boy to become involved.
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Post by Strange Gas on Oct 24, 2016 20:09:43 GMT
Am I the only one who never thought I had lost my Rovers ? It's just swings and roundabouts, some periods of time we are sh**e and some we are better, we are great at the moment but even in the bad times it was ok. I just like Rovers, good or bad, who ever owns them, it makes no difference. Slowly felt disconnected from the club from the end of Holloways era up to last season really. Just thought the club was being run so so badly it was just embarressing. I had all these hopes about a new stadium, proper training ground and clever people with experience and skills running the club. Have to say the progress we have made on and off the pitch has been amazing. Its so nice to have big crowds and a united fan base. The best thing for me is that when DC leaves either through the front or the back door im confident we are building the structures to cope rather then the luck and chemistry aporoach of the Dunford / Higgs era. Long may this continue and just in time for my little boy to become involved. Agree, the good days of Holloway is how I feel again - excited, optimistic and good to watch. The Lennie / Trolls era obviously had its high point but didn't feel the same. Remember feeling a bit out of place when we went to the JPT and then promotion was a total joy but fizzled out quite quickly. The steady build of the current set up has been brilliant and really feels sustainable. Beating Torquay on Boxing Day felt like a turning point as the conference season didn't start well. I was lucky enough to miss Mansfield, but getting soaked at Barnet was a real low, confronting reality of conference football. Started feeling a real buzz when we beat Grimsby and has just got better since. Onwards!
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Post by dinsdale on Oct 24, 2016 20:36:54 GMT
The promotion to league 1 helped me let go of a lot of anger and anoyance at what had happened to us. Now it just seems like a dream.
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Post by aghast on Oct 24, 2016 20:44:44 GMT
The promotion to league 1 helped me let go of a lot of anger and anoyance at what had happened to us. Now it just seems like a dream. It was a all a dream Dinsdale. Wake up now. We're away at North Ferriby United on Saturday.
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Post by 2nd May 1990 on Oct 24, 2016 21:10:55 GMT
In 1988 we had a squad that boasted 6 future top flight players in Nigel Martyn (Palace, Leeds, Everton, England), Nicky Tanner (Liverpool), Gary Penrice (Villa, QPR); Steve Yates, Ian Holloway and Devon White (all QPR). Still wouldn't have been our strongest squad, but pretty amazing considering we didn't have a pot to water in.
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Post by warehamgas on Oct 25, 2016 8:50:56 GMT
Not sure about the best squad, the nearly seasons squad IMO was better, but this certainly is the most committed squad I've seen. Yes probably but this whole thread about having our Rovers back is weird. Rovers teams since the 60s and earlier have always been committed. The Tann years, Megson years we were never the best but we could always rely upon teams giving 100% it was never in doubt. The Twerton years with Gerry again the same. What our current team have is a similar attitude. For many fans who have known Rovers since late 90s and that awful collapse in 99/00 when the players couldn't give a toss,the noughties continued in the same vein teams that didn't give 100% and were there for whatever reasons, probably money. (PT Team of 06/07 an exception) but nearly every squad from 2000 to 2014 were not interested in Rovers and fans seeing the last two years have had a great time and Ollie was right DC gave us back our Rovers in the season out of the league. Over the history Rovers teams have always been committed and have over achieved against a lack of resources and so on. It's just since 2000 the expectation of us fans has been influenced by uncommitted teams, mercenery players, and some fans won't have seen the spirit as a given. Thank you DC for giving us back what we always used to have and to take for granted. He more than anyone knows the ethos and values of this club. UTG!
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Post by ipswichrover on Oct 25, 2016 10:02:17 GMT
The promotion to league 1 helped me let go of a lot of anger and anoyance at what had happened to us. Now it just seems like a dream. I agree. We are now back to where, historically, we have been on average, in the upper half of the third tier of football. Everything above here is true progress whereas everything below here (including the two recent promotions) weren't really progress, but just getting us back to where we should be. Getting promotion from the Conference and, to a lesser extent from L2, were a huge relief but tinged with 'why were we here in the first place'. Only the the other day I was thinking that any minute I'll wake up to find I've nodded off in the car after the Braintree game, my worst day at a football match, ever, 49 years to the day after I first saw Rovers. If someone had said to me that day, 'in just over two years from now we'll be in the play-off places in L1, with good owners, a very competitive squad and Darrell Clark will turn out to be one of the best mangers in Rovers' history'.... I'd have laughed in disbelief.
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Post by stuart1974 on Oct 25, 2016 10:23:32 GMT
What are people's thoughts on the quality of players now?
I was wondering if, with the influx of overseas players, are English players now playing at a level below what they otherwise would have been 20 years ago and therefore teams are maybe half a division higher than their equivalent a generation or more ago.
Whilst we are top half third tier, is this comparable to those teams I watched in the 80s and 90s?
NB to anyone reading from OTIB this would apply to all teams, no posting out of context please to imply I think we are really a Championship team.
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Post by nailseagas on Oct 25, 2016 11:58:17 GMT
I'm sure many on here would echo that. that, that , that , that, that, that, that
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Post by mariobalotelli on Oct 21, 2017 23:09:02 GMT
Lasted long eh
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Post by socrates on Oct 21, 2017 23:22:11 GMT
It’s still there for me. We’re in league one with a good side of which many of them have taken us on the journey to get here. DC is still here and although some of our performances haven’t been great this season we’ve still picked up enough points to keep us out of trouble. The conference was hard work but great because we won promotion l, league 2 with DC was so much better than all those terrible years languishing around the bottom of it in the early 2000’s and league 1 has been all about mid table so far. I call that having our Rovers back. Winning promotion wouldn’t be typical Rovers let’s face it , it would be above that but unfortunately because we’re not flying high in league 1 a lot of today’s supporters haven’t got the patience and want one of our most success managers gone. Shame.
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Post by gashead1981 on Oct 21, 2017 23:38:49 GMT
It’s still there for me. We’re in league one with a good side of which many of them have taken us on the journey to get here. DC is still here and although some of our performances haven’t been great this season we’ve still picked up enough points to keep us out of trouble. The conference was hard work but great because we won promotion l, league 2 with DC was so much better than all those terrible years languishing around the bottom of it in the early 2000’s and league 1 has been all about mid table so far. I call that having our Rovers back. Winning promotion wouldn’t be typical Rovers let’s face it , it would be above that but unfortunately because we’re not flying high in league 1 a lot of today’s supporters haven’t got the patience and want one of our most success managers gone. Shame. Totally agree. It it appears some prefer the Conference and L2 dogfight promotion years to a steady foundation laid in L1 with its ups and downs. Some are so ungrateful.
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Post by Wimborne Gas on Oct 21, 2017 23:41:30 GMT
Exactly. Can't believe some of the things I'm reading/ hearing. Time to show support more than ever rather than singling players out and calling for heads. We're going through a tough spell. It happens.
Probably the same people who wanted Martin Allen over DC a few years ago. Not a clue.
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Post by mariobalotelli on Oct 22, 2017 0:24:34 GMT
It’s still there for me. We’re in league one with a good side of which many of them have taken us on the journey to get here. DC is still here and although some of our performances haven’t been great this season we’ve still picked up enough points to keep us out of trouble. The conference was hard work but great because we won promotion l, league 2 with DC was so much better than all those terrible years languishing around the bottom of it in the early 2000’s and league 1 has been all about mid table so far. I call that having our Rovers back. Winning promotion wouldn’t be typical Rovers let’s face it , it would be above that but unfortunately because we’re not flying high in league 1 a lot of today’s supporters haven’t got the patience and want one of our most success managers gone. Shame. Feel the same. The bump was just because of who started the thread.
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Post by BrightonGas on Oct 24, 2017 10:52:56 GMT
That was the chant a few seasons ago , now we have our rovers back and going on the performances this season we are here to stay , being in the play offs at this stage about a quarter of the way through the season is nothing to crow about but its better than being in the bottom few. If we can , could we , will we be there at the end of the season who knows but it will not be from lack of trying from the boys.
With the current management and squad and the just don't give up attitude backed by hoards of gas up and down the country I certainly feel we have our rovers back I'm confused...
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