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One game sticks out in my mind still toady and it was the fayouth cup
final 1st leg vs arsenal at BV.
Rovers youth had allready knocked out both man city and Spurs youth in previous rounds at BV which I went to.
Sure we was back in div3 back then but this was 3 1st divisions rovers
were up against.
The crowd for the arsenal fayouth cup final at BV was the biggest crowd at BV that season which says a lot.
But the memory I still have is the arsenal forward Kevin Cambell who
destroyed us that day on his own with power pace strength and 4 goals or was it all 5 in that drubbing .
It was basically a MONSTER as in cambell vs little boys .
Was talking to a lass out here in a pub a good 15 years back ,and all was looking good as I was doing my upmost to right up the garden path .
That all fell through when she told me that she had had Kevin Campbell up her garden path years before when arsenal were on a pre
season out here after she pulled him in a night club.
That put me right off as I was getting flash backs off Cambell hitting back of rovers net during that fayouth cup final .
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Bolton at the keepmoat think it was 4-0 in the end but we didn't get a sniff, they were so quick and strong it was men against boys.
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Good call Mush, there's been a few games against MK Dons over recent times where they've annihilated us. Copps sometimes refers to it in interviews. Also seem to recall the same thing happening against Reading.
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Swansea at the KM, gave us a masterclass that night
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When Yeovil battered us and Kevin Gall scored a hat full. Unbelievable performance by them.
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I remember that game NOF. Kevin Campbell absolutely tore the Rovers team apart that night. I seem to recall that the 2nd leg at Highbury was a much closer affair but the damage had been done by then.
Another game I recall where Rovers were outclassed was in a Littlewoods Cup tie in the 1990's against Rotherham at Belle Vue. It was a balmy late summers night so must have been a first round match. Anyway, I think they won 2-6 or something like that and it could easily have been much more. Rovers just weren't at the races that night. Losing like that was bad enough, but to Rotherham made it much, much worse.
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Bolton at the keepmoat think it was 4-0 in the end but we didn't get a sniff, they were so quick and strong it was men against boys.
Off the subject but could not resist .... funniest thing I have ever heard at a Footy Match
Carling Cup Arsenal v Wolves. Arsenal were playing their Youth Team lads who went on to become household names + Patrick Viera and Kanu (the only 2 I had really heard of) Wolves had a full side and were losing 5-0
Up jumps a Wolves fan and bellows ffs sort it out Wolves .... Its men against boys ....(pause for a few seconds) .... and WE'RE the Men !
Brilliant
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Bolton at the keepmoat think it was 4-0 in the end but we didn't get a sniff, they were so quick and strong it was men against boys.
Good call - were were second best from minute one
Was there a Spurs 1-5 game as well not long after which was "a bit one sided"
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Aye, but in the game against Spurs we started the brighter and could've been 1-0 or 2-0 ahead but for two brilliant saves by Carlo Cudiccini. Once we gifted them a goal it was all Spurs mind, but we were certainly in it.
Bolton is a great example as it was all over by half-time.
Similarly the FA Cup replay away at Wolves the other year that we lost 5-0 and never had a sniff of goal.
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Bolton at the keepmoat think it was 4-0 in the end but we didn't get a sniff, they were so quick and strong it was men against boys.
Good call - were were second best from minute one
Was there a Spurs 1-5 game as well not long after which was "a bit one sided"
I wouldn't say that was comparable to the Bolton game, I remember we started that game brightly and could have had a couple of goals before they scored their first. They were pretty comfortable winners after that, as the scoreline suggests, but we gave a decent account of ourselves.
2 recent results that spring to mind when thinking about drubbings are the 0-6 at home to Ipswich and 5-0 at Wolves in a cup replay. Didn't see either though so not sure how fair a reflection of the games they were.
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When Swansea did us over at the KM in league one (4-0 from memory), they looked class.
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The Wolves replay really was a hammering. We were truly awful that night. What made it worse was that my boss at the time was a Wolves fan.
The first game, 2-2, had been a decent contest.
The Ipswich game was soon after that, although we were heavily depleted by injuries after Steve Cotterill's thugs had kicked us off the park. When I heard the line up I nearly got in the car and drove home.
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When Swansea did us over at the KM in league one (4-0 from memory), they looked class.
The most one-sided match I ever saw Rovers lose was on a wet April Fools' Day 1967 - we lost 6-0 at Swansea. I'd be surprised if anyone else on here saw it
Exactly 40 years later to the day in much sunnier weather, we did rather better on another trip to South Wales. I think 22000 more of us saw it.
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That Ipswich 6-0 debacle at home under SOD where Mustapha played in goal and ROK was left back or something due to injuries.
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Every game in the 1997/98 season.
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That Ipswich 6-0 debacle at home under SOD where Mustapha played in goal and ROK was left back or something due to injuries.
We still had the bookies in the South Stand concourse at the time. I'd never seen such a queue as the one pre-match for that game with pretty much everyone lumping on Ipswich. They were priced about 6/4 IIRC and I had £20 on them for the win and another bit on them to be winning at half time (which I collected during the break).
The bookies must've lost a packet that day.
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Not sure if i am missing a joke with the Mustapha reference Chris, probably a slight on Gary Woods who was in goal that night, it may have even been his debut.
However, no way was ROK playing left back.
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Get out of my head NickDRFC
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Every game in the 1997/98 season.
There seems to be a bit of an unwritten rule that that season doesn't count in any of these discussions. Plenty to choose from but the most "outclassed" had to be Forest's 8-0(?) demolition spearheaded by Pierre Van Hooijdonk.
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One game sticks out in my mind still toady and it was the fayouth cup
final 1st leg vs arsenal at BV.
Rovers youth had allready knocked out both man city and Spurs youth in previous rounds at BV which I went to.
Sure we was back in div3 back then but this was 3 1st divisions rovers
were up against.
The crowd for the arsenal fayouth cup final at BV was the biggest crowd at BV that season which says a lot.
But the memory I still have is the arsenal forward Kevin Cambell who
destroyed us that day on his own with power pace strength and 4 goals or was it all 5 in that drubbing .
It was basically a MONSTER as in cambell vs little boys .
Was talking to a lass out here in a pub a good 15 years back ,and all was looking good as I was doing my upmost to right up the garden path .
That all fell through when she told me that she had had Kevin Campbell up her garden path years before when arsenal were on a pre
season out here after she pulled him in a night club.
That put me right off as I was getting flash backs off Cambell hitting back of rovers net during that fayouth cup final .
I was at the first leg game too.
In all honesty our boys were not totally outclassed at all but the difference between the two sides was, as you noted, Campbell who was street ahead of anyone else on the pitch.
He missed the second leg which i believe was a 1-1 draw, again our lads were equal to the Arsenal lads without the problem of having to deal with Campbell.
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Every game in the 1997/98 season.
There seems to be a bit of an unwritten rule that that season doesn't count in any of these discussions. Plenty to choose from but the most "outclassed" had to be Forest's 8-0(?) demolition spearheaded by Pierre Van Hooijdonk.
Agreed. The best thing about that night was dear old Ken Avis trying to pronounce "Van Hooijdonk" on numerous occasions.
Him against Darren Brookes really was the biggest mis-match in the history of football.
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When Swansea did us over at the KM in league one (4-0 from memory), they looked class.
The most one-sided match I ever saw Rovers lose was on a wet April Fools' Day 1967 - we lost 6-0 at Swansea. I'd be surprised if anyone else on here saw it
Exactly 40 years later to the day in much sunnier weather, we did rather better on another trip to South Wales. I think 22000 more of us saw it.
I was there Dutch. I won the lucky programme number in the half-time draw.
2 stand tickets for the next Swansea game. I sold the programme to a local for half a crown.
That night before the bus left at midnight we were in a pub in the city centre and when we got talking to some lads they got the lasses to come round and give us a kiss as we came from Donny.
Then went to the chippy and they gave us double fish and chips each as we came from a mining area.
The game was awful and if I remember right we played in red shirts with white pinstripes. The only time that I saw that kit and I did see a few hammerings away that season. Something like 115 goals conceded I think.
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You have mail Idler
Hats off if you watched many away matches that season - we lost the last 18 away matches in a row, many times conceding 5 or 6.
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Arsenal away in the league cup Sep '87, was pretty one sided, we lost 1-0 having been 0-3 down from the first leg.
Too many 4th division games to remember!
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First half against Ull at their place we were destroyed by a certain Mr Price
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Grimsby, Boxing Day 1966. 4-0 defeat and freezing.
Big head Matt Tees played in gloves the first time I'd seen any player apart from a goalie wear them. I think that he scored two as well.
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I remember that game NOF. Kevin Campbell absolutely tore the Rovers team apart that night. I seem to recall that the 2nd leg at Highbury was a much closer affair but the damage had been done by then.
Another game I recall where Rovers were outclassed was in a Littlewoods Cup tie in the 1990's against Rotherham at Belle Vue. It was a balmy late summers night so must have been a first round match. Anyway, I think they won 2-6 or something like that and it could easily have been much more. Rovers just weren't at the races that night. Losing like that was bad enough, but to Rotherham made it much, much worse.
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It was Rumbelows cup then, both sides won a tele each for highest score. when I saw this thread Bolton came straight to mind, an Iranian kid ran the show
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Bournemouth 5 - rovers 0
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Same as the comment above, Bournemouth other season was f**king dreadful.
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I remember that game NOF. Kevin Campbell absolutely tore the Rovers team apart that night. I seem to recall that the 2nd leg at Highbury was a much closer affair but the damage had been done by then.
Another game I recall where Rovers were outclassed was in a Littlewoods Cup tie in the 1990's against Rotherham at Belle Vue. It was a balmy late summers night so must have been a first round match. Anyway, I think they won 2-6 or something like that and it could easily have been much more. Rovers just weren't at the races that night. Losing like that was bad enough, but to Rotherham made it much, much worse.
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It was Rumbelows cup then, both sides won a tele each for highest score. when I saw this thread Bolton came straight to mind, an Iranian kid ran the show
That Iranian kid is probably still running now.
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Same as the comment above, Bournemouth other season was f**king dreadful.
Couple of horror shows at Bournemouth. The one in 2004-5 where SO'D's boys tore us a new one. And the 5-0 when Dickov was in charge.
I missed those but saw us lose 7-1 at Bournemouth in 1978-79. Funnily enough I wouldn't say we were outclassed. Every shot they had seemed to go in.
On the other hand a 6-0 defeat to Graham Taylor's Watford in 1977-78 was very one sided. We did have a couple of goals disallowed but it could have been 12-2.
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The 4-0 Swansea Friday night at the Keepmoat sticks in my mind. Totally outclassed by them.
The 6-0 Ipswich game was a different kettle of fish. From my recollection of the game I didn't think we were that bad it was just that every shot they had went in.
Was that also Connor Wickhams last game for them before he got transferred to Sunderland?
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Rovers 4 Mansfield 6 Sticks in my mind, a miserable Friday night at BV in 1967 ? The poor lad in goal had a nightmare.
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The 4-0 Swansea Friday night at the Keepmoat sticks in my mind. Totally outclassed by them.
The 6-0 Ipswich game was a different kettle of fish. From my recollection of the game I didn't think we were that bad it was just that every shot they had went in.
Was that also Connor Wickhams last game for them before he got transferred to Sunderland?
I think he stayed til the summer but it drove his value up for sure.
Ipswich weren't even that good in that game, we were just utterly woeful especially in defence. I spent the whole game sat next to a mate who's an Ipswich fan as well. Not fun.
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We actually had the ball over the line at 0-5 but it was cleared, not given and they broke to get number 6.
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Bournemouth 5 - rovers 0
I think that was the game that got John Ryan interested in SOD. They battered us in the opening 25 minutes, by which time it was all over.
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Rovers 4 Mansfield 6 Sticks in my mind, a miserable Friday night at BV in 1967 ? The poor lad in goal had a nightmare.
Dave Cromack making his league debut.
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The debacle at Peterborough in the FA Cup when the players had been seen in a nightclub until the early hours when we were in Div 3 and they were Div 4. Substitute lacklustre for hungover. Only highlight of that day, as we were searched and made to go into the ground by mounted police with dogs 2 hours before kick off, was seeing my mate who had come on the train get in the ground with a Watneys party 7!. When we scored he ran on the pitch and was nearly rugby tackled by a copper who ended up face down in the mud due to a mean body swerve. Upon arrest he told me was, shall we say, politely, roughly handled!
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The debacle at Peterborough in the FA Cup when the players had been seen in a nightclub until the early hours when we were in Div 3 and they were Div 4. Substitute lacklustre for hungover. Only highlight of that day, as we were searched and made to go into the ground by mounted police with dogs 2 hours before kick off, was seeing my mate who had come on the train get in the ground with a Watneys party 7!. When we scored he ran on the pitch and was nearly rugby tackled by a copper who ended up face down in the mud due to a mean body swerve. Upon arrest he told me was, shall we say, politely, roughly handled!
I think I was at that game. About 1982 IIRC. We were absolutely gash.
Watney's Party 7? You poor things!
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Every game in the 1997/98 season.
Spot on Tommy. I do count that godawful season. It was still Donny Rovers playing. Even if they were bad. For me though the match away at Ninian Park was the absolute bottom. Cardiff City won, I think, 7-1. We were bloody dreadful. I went with a Cardiff supporting mate. He suggested that several of our players looked like they were playing for Cardiff rather than the Rovers. No prizes for working out which of our lot he was referring to either - that South Manchester mafia. I've seen us thumped at Shrewsbury, thumped at Spurs, thumped at Newcastle, thumped at Bournemouth, but that day at Cardiff was the worst by a very, very long way indeed.
Cheers
BobG
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The enemy within Bob.
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Same as the comment above, Bournemouth other season was f**king dreadful.
Couple of horror shows at Bournemouth. The one in 2004-5 where SO'D's boys tore us a new one. And the 5-0 when Dickov was in charge.
I missed those but saw us lose 7-1 at Bournemouth in 1978-79. Funnily enough I wouldn't say we were outclassed. Every shot they had seemed to go in.
On the other hand a 6-0 defeat to Graham Taylor's Watford in 1977-78 was very one sided. We did have a couple of goals disallowed but it could have been 12-2.
Oh mg ... I had forgotten (erased from my memory) that 6-0 at Watford. It was very one sided but they seemed to score with a couple of cross come shots I seem to recall
I was stood right in front of where Elton John was sitting and noticed he was regularly leaping up and down as they got goal after goal
There were 5 of us in the Car going home and after about 20 minutes they noticed I had been seemingly struck dumb. So one asked hey JT what do you think and I just said "Horror of Horrors" and one of the quintet immediately changed my name to " Big 'orrah" combining my height and my saying and he call me it to this day !
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The 4-0 Swansea Friday night at the Keepmoat sticks in my mind. Totally outclassed by them.
The 6-0 Ipswich game was a different kettle of fish. From my recollection of the game I didn't think we were that bad it was just that every shot they had went in.
Was that also Connor Wickhams last game for them before he got transferred to Sunderland?
I think he stayed til the summer but it drove his value up for sure.
Ipswich weren't even that good in that game, we were just utterly woeful especially in defence. I spent the whole game sat next to a mate who's an Ipswich fan as well. Not fun.
Just looked at our team for that day and my memory must be playing tricks on me - I was sure we had a dreadful back line but apparently it was Chambers, O'Connor, Friend and Joe Mills. Not the best we've ever put out but should have been solid enough. Must have just had a shocker.
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It was the Middlesborough game that we won and where Mark Wilson scored late on.
That game shouldn't really have been played on a frozen pitch
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The 4-0 Swansea Friday night at the Keepmoat sticks in my mind. Totally outclassed by them.
The 6-0 Ipswich game was a different kettle of fish. From my recollection of the game I didn't think we were that bad it was just that every shot they had went in.
Was that also Connor Wickhams last game for them before he got transferred to Sunderland?
I think he stayed til the summer but it drove his value up for sure.
Ipswich weren't even that good in that game, we were just utterly woeful especially in defence. I spent the whole game sat next to a mate who's an Ipswich fan as well. Not fun.
Just looked at our team for that day and my memory must be playing tricks on me - I was sure we had a dreadful back line but apparently it was Chambers, O'Connor, Friend and Joe Mills. Not the best we've ever put out but should have been solid enough. Must have just had a shocker.
To be fair Swansea were awesome
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The 4-0 Swansea Friday night at the Keepmoat sticks in my mind. Totally outclassed by them.
The 6-0 Ipswich game was a different kettle of fish. From my recollection of the game I didn't think we were that bad it was just that every shot they had went in.
Was that also Connor Wickhams last game for them before he got transferred to Sunderland?
I think he stayed til the summer but it drove his value up for sure.
Ipswich weren't even that good in that game, we were just utterly woeful especially in defence. I spent the whole game sat next to a mate who's an Ipswich fan as well. Not fun.
Just looked at our team for that day and my memory must be playing tricks on me - I was sure we had a dreadful back line but apparently it was Chambers, O'Connor, Friend and Joe Mills. Not the best we've ever put out but should have been solid enough. Must have just had a shocker.
Hird was also in defence because he scored the opener, a bit of a daft own goal. We were just all over the shop from start to finish unfortunately. Was a strange game.
EDIT: Looking at it Wayne Thomas also came on at half time, now he wasn't exactly a talented centre half when playing for us!
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I remember playing reading in championship at the keepmoat and was totally impressed at how they played. Always sticks in my mind.
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I don't count the 0-6 vs Ipswich, for the simple reason that it was a joy to watch following the horror show of Cotterill's Portsmouth a few days before...
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It was the Middlesborough game that we won and where Mark Wilson scored late on.
That game shouldn't really have been played on a frozen pitch
if it was the 2010 game idler, it was Stocky who got the last minute winner, it JUST crossed the line.
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You are right hound. It went over in slow motion.
I think the Wilson one that I was thinking about was against Derby.
It was Middlesborough though where we had a very patched up defence though I think.
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Spurs away in the league cup 7-2? Although Kitch put us 2-1 up until Les Chappell backpass if my memory serves me. How many were near that gate when the steward opened it and let the Spurs hooligans in?
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Sorry, I am going to disagree there Sheffield.
I went with a lifelong Spurs supporter, and he spent most of the match cringing. We were the better side for 60 minutes before a bizarre own goal turned the match on its head. The final score was immensely flattering for Spurs.
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I have to agree DU.
I have posted a scan of the local Paper London Standard ? on here before - which had the headline Lucky Lucky Spurs (or that may paraphrase it)
We had them for sure until LC's inexplicable own Goal and they then scored with some freaky crosses and no way was that a 7-2 game ! Totally unjust scoreline - maybe the right winners ultimately
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Martin Chivers and John Duncan went mad after Les Chappell's back pass flat footed Dennis. They were shooting from all over the place. Guided misssiles the lot of them. In later years they would have been called Exocets. It wasn't a poor show by us. We played very well indeed. And I too have a copy of the Evening Standard with that headline on the back page.
That 0-6 at Watford was a horror show though. Even worse, we'd lost 5-1 there the season before and both matches I went with a Watford mate. Jesus.....
BobG
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I have to agree DU.
I have posted a scan of the local Paper London Standard ? on here before - which had the headline Lucky Lucky Spurs (or that may paraphrase it)
We had them for sure until LC's inexplicable own Goal and they then scored with some freaky crosses and no way was that a 7-2 game ! Totally unjust scoreline - maybe the right winners ultimately
That Spurs game was my first ever Rovers away match. A game which is imprinted in my memory for ever.
Yes we were very unlucky to lose 7-2 every shot in the second half went in. I think it was a 20 min hatrick for John Duncan.