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Post by scdave on Jan 8, 2021 14:30:53 GMT
Next season sees the 25th anniversary of our return to Bristol.
The programme has featured the last games at Eastville including interviewing Boris for scoring the last goal in the reserves v Watford.
However, this is not the last game. Just before it was bulldozed, a group of fans from the Vic climbed over the fences.
Were you there?
I think Jeff Fox or Mel Baber may have scored the last goal at Eastville.
I cleared one off the line and then had to hurdle some greyhound sh*t! I hope the real team never to avoid dogs mess on the pitch!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2021 14:38:19 GMT
Next season sees the 25th anniversary of our return to Bristol. The programme has featured the last games at Eastville including interviewing Boris for scoring the last goal in the reserves v Watford. However, this is not the last game. Just before it was bulldozed, a group of fans from the Vic climbed over the fences. Were you there? I think Jeff Fox or Mel Baber may have scored the last goal at Eastville. I cleared one off the line and then had to hurdle some greyhound sh*t! I hope the real team never to avoid dogs mess on the pitch! It was Melvin Baber who scored the last ever goal at Eastville
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Post by Dirt Dogg on Jan 8, 2021 14:41:23 GMT
As someone too young to have ever watched a game at Eastville, I always wondered which pubs were Gas ones?
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Post by Rod1883 on Jan 8, 2021 14:55:30 GMT
As someone too young to have ever watched a game at Eastville, I always wondered which pubs were Gas ones? ...all of them!
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Post by zulugas on Jan 8, 2021 15:48:53 GMT
On a slight tangent I made a point of keeping the last programme from Eastville, the 1st Programme at Twerton, the last programme at Twerton and the first programme at the Mem. I am not a programme collector generally just seemed the right thing to do at the time. Wonder if that collection would be worth anything as a historical record? just a thought.
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Post by Squiffy on Jan 8, 2021 15:52:32 GMT
Next season sees the 25th anniversary of our return to Bristol. The programme has featured the last games at Eastville including interviewing Boris for scoring the last goal in the reserves v Watford. However, this is not the last game. Just before it was bulldozed, a group of fans from the Vic climbed over the fences. Were you there? I think Jeff Fox or Mel Baber may have scored the last goal at Eastville. I cleared one off the line and then had to hurdle some greyhound sh*t! I hope the real team never to avoid dogs mess on the pitch! It was Melvin Baber who scored the last ever goal at Eastville Is this where the phrase “well done Me Baber” originated from?
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Post by gerryblue1883 on Jan 8, 2021 18:42:48 GMT
It was Melvin Baber who scored the last ever goal at Eastville Is this where the phrase “well done Me Baber” originated from?
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Post by gregsy on Jan 8, 2021 18:55:06 GMT
On a slight tangent I made a point of keeping the last programme from Eastville, the 1st Programme at Twerton, the last programme at Twerton and the first programme at the Mem. I am not a programme collector generally just seemed the right thing to do at the time. Wonder if that collection would be worth anything as a historical record? just a thought. They're really just sought after by rovers fans, they don't have much interest outside of the clubs supporters, that said, they will be collectable and will always be sought after by a few.... I could talk cash value, but i wont as individually they're probably worth less than the price of a fish and chip supper for 2.... However, Sentimental or nostalgic value is priceless....
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Post by yattongas on Jan 8, 2021 18:58:35 GMT
Next season sees the 25th anniversary of our return to Bristol. The programme has featured the last games at Eastville including interviewing Boris for scoring the last goal in the reserves v Watford. However, this is not the last game. Just before it was bulldozed, a group of fans from the Vic climbed over the fences. Were you there? I think Jeff Fox or Mel Baber may have scored the last goal at Eastville. I cleared one off the line and then had to hurdle some greyhound sh*t! I hope the real team never to avoid dogs mess on the pitch! I was there !
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Post by smudge1 on Jan 8, 2021 19:48:41 GMT
I remember I was given some turf from Eastville as momento. It ended up within my garden at the house I owned. I was so chuffed at the time.
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Post by gulfofaden on Jan 8, 2021 21:10:16 GMT
I went to it as a dog track and being honest it seemed like a terrible place to watch football. Massive gap behind the goals
You weren’t behind the goal, you were behind the goal, then a massive “D” with what were flowerbeds I think.
I’m sure it holds many memories but it must have been crap layout wise.
I met a guy who was OLD. Not just old, but old old, and I asked him his favourite player. Jackie Pitt was the answer, without a moments hesitation.
This must have been about 1995
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Post by Gashead73 on Jan 9, 2021 13:34:08 GMT
Eastville was a tidy stadium at one point but after the South Stand Fire it wasn't as well looked after and declined rapidly. The 60's & 70's was it's heyday and was a match for many First Division Stadiums of the day. My first game at Eastville was at a time when the South Stand still stood not long before the fire, but even that stand tbh needed bulldozing and rebuilding. If we were still at/owned Eastville I think we would have, in time totally redeveloped it besides, there was plenty of land to the Muller Road side too
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Post by clockendgas on Jan 9, 2021 13:49:35 GMT
Very difficult looking back to when I first got taken there about 72,I didn't know any different so I thought it was wonderful,only when I got older and stood on the tote and north stand you realised what a dump it was,having gone to Wembley in 74 to watch England vs. Holland I can say that wasn't much better,most stadiums were a disaster waiting to happen sadly.
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Post by Gashead73 on Jan 9, 2021 14:08:35 GMT
Very difficult looking back to when I first got taken there about 72,I didn't know any different so I thought it was wonderful,only when I got older and stood on the tote and north stand you realised what a dump it was,having gone to Wembley in 74 to watch England vs. Holland I can say that wasn't much better,most stadiums were a disaster waiting to happen sadly. The first time I went to Wembley was 1990 where we played Tranmere in the Cup Final, I was totally flabbergasted as to how crap it really was, it deflated me tbh
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Post by kingswoodpirate70 on Jan 9, 2021 16:01:19 GMT
I was there played in the last game at eastville. Not sure melv scored the last goal though. The security guard came onto the pitch after a word he let us carry on.
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Post by Colyton Gas on Jan 10, 2021 12:02:47 GMT
The Reserves played in the Football Combination.Jimmy Robertson made his Spurs debut at Eastville and scored a cracker.When he signed for Stoke in his later years-They also signed Geoff Hurst in the same summer-I bumped into him in an Eccleshall pub and told him I'd witnessed his Spurs debut goal at Eastville.He seemed a little surprised. In those far off days the Northern equivalent was the Central league where I reffed for many years.Used to go to places like Anfield in front of an almost empty stadium when they had players in the Stiffs like Jan Molby and Mark Lawrenson. Back at Eastville our reserves always seemed to have Terry Oldfield in the team.
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Post by Topper Gas on Jan 10, 2021 18:24:43 GMT
Eastville was a tidy stadium at one point but after the South Stand Fire it wasn't as well looked after and declined rapidly. The 60's & 70's was it's heyday and was a match for many First Division Stadiums of the day. My first game at Eastville was at a time when the South Stand still stood not long before the fire, but even that stand tbh needed bulldozing and rebuilding. If we were still at/owned Eastville I think we would have, in time totally redeveloped it besides, there was plenty of land to the Muller Road side too At least the South Stand stretched the whole of the south side of the pitch, the North Stand was, oddly, like the Centenary Stand at the Mem, only covered about a third of the north side of the ground. A bit like the Mem is now, I can't recall there ever being any suggestions of building new stands at Eastville even when we were doing well in the 70's, we seem to have spent 50+ years looking for ground for a new stadium!!
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Post by azulyblanco on Jan 11, 2021 11:25:23 GMT
The North Stand was, I believe, deliberately planned in that lopsided manner with the intention of extending it towards the Muller Road end at some future time.Finance and the ground lease restrictions caused the gradual decay of the facilities thus leading to the sale and subsequent development of the site as we know it. They never got around to putting a lid on the alfresco toilet block behind the Tote End either! Yep, I am an OLD old man.
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Post by makecoalyourgoal on Jan 11, 2021 14:56:07 GMT
I think the North Stand covered at least half the pitch. For the time Eastville prior to the South Stand fire was a perfectly adequate ground not much worse than Ashton Gate and certainly better than say, The Dell, Dean Court, Elm Park, Kennilworth Road and many others. Looking back to what criteria at the time made for a good ground this would include the amount of terracing of which Eastville had plenty. The first time I went to Fratton Park I was really impressed with what felt like a big ground, especially the large side terrace below the stand (now seating). By modern standards, it is now a seriously below-par ground. Eastville after the fire went downhill very quickly not helped by the fact the owners didn't want to spend any money on it. From memory, I would still say the ground as a whole during the final days at Eastville was better than Twerton Park.
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Post by lpgas1 on Jan 11, 2021 17:44:12 GMT
I was there for that game. I stood on the Tote. It was a sad day in a truly dilapidated stadium. Of course it's fate was sealed when they built the M32, and even worse an exit to the ground. Frome that point the ground was doomed as the property price sky rocketed. The owners could not wait to get us out
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