Post by bluestone on Jan 19, 2018 13:22:48 GMT
Worth a read for a little gas history...
www.google.co.uk/amp/www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-5268925/amp/Eastville-special-place-1964-Gas-fans.html
I was born in 1971, I became a gas head as we live near Eastville and when I was a boy my Dad was blue and white and he used to take me to some matches there occasionally.
As I grew up I remained a loyal supporter to the gas but sadly we did never went to watch them play at Twerton Park and I guess life became busy with all sorts of other things.
My passion was rekindled one day when I was invited to watch Rovers play Mansfield at the mem on the final day of the season in 2014.
My eldest daughter played for her primary school football team and one of the teachers there is an avid gashead so the school had arranged for the kids (& their parents) to be invited to attend a day out which involved the kids training with some if the club coaches at Goldenhill training ground, a tour of the mem, meeting the players in the dressing room and watching the game from the south stand. Well we all know what happened next don't we!
It was at that point that my passion was rekindled and I thought my beloved Rovers need me now more than ever. I decided to see if I could make time to see a few games in what was at that stage a very busy family schedule - I have 3 kids lol!
Since that fateful day I have progressively watched more and more games, the highlights obviously being when I took the whole family to Wembley to see us beat Grimsby Town and get promoted back to the football league and then at the end of the 2015/16 season when me and my old man were there on the last day of the season to see us clinch promotion by a whisker thanks to Browner's right foot (and a little help from Accrington Stanley), we even took part in the pitch invasion!
This season I decided to get a ST for both me and my 9 year old boy, and what's more my Dad got one too, so now over 3 decades on from Eastville we have 3 generations of our family regularly supporting the gas!!!
UTG!
www.google.co.uk/amp/www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-5268925/amp/Eastville-special-place-1964-Gas-fans.html
I was born in 1971, I became a gas head as we live near Eastville and when I was a boy my Dad was blue and white and he used to take me to some matches there occasionally.
As I grew up I remained a loyal supporter to the gas but sadly we did never went to watch them play at Twerton Park and I guess life became busy with all sorts of other things.
My passion was rekindled one day when I was invited to watch Rovers play Mansfield at the mem on the final day of the season in 2014.
My eldest daughter played for her primary school football team and one of the teachers there is an avid gashead so the school had arranged for the kids (& their parents) to be invited to attend a day out which involved the kids training with some if the club coaches at Goldenhill training ground, a tour of the mem, meeting the players in the dressing room and watching the game from the south stand. Well we all know what happened next don't we!
It was at that point that my passion was rekindled and I thought my beloved Rovers need me now more than ever. I decided to see if I could make time to see a few games in what was at that stage a very busy family schedule - I have 3 kids lol!
Since that fateful day I have progressively watched more and more games, the highlights obviously being when I took the whole family to Wembley to see us beat Grimsby Town and get promoted back to the football league and then at the end of the 2015/16 season when me and my old man were there on the last day of the season to see us clinch promotion by a whisker thanks to Browner's right foot (and a little help from Accrington Stanley), we even took part in the pitch invasion!
This season I decided to get a ST for both me and my 9 year old boy, and what's more my Dad got one too, so now over 3 decades on from Eastville we have 3 generations of our family regularly supporting the gas!!!
UTG!
