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Title: Take a bow Viva Rovers
Post by: NickDRFC on February 27, 2018, 11:03:48 am
This will easily be the best thing you will read all day/week/month/year...

https://twitter.com/iainmacintosh/status/968409481343315968?s=12

So many wonderful memories...
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Post by: GazLaz on February 27, 2018, 11:15:22 am
Excellent.
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Post by: eastender on February 27, 2018, 11:23:24 am
Great Read. :clapping: :scarf:
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Post by: Filo on February 27, 2018, 12:11:15 pm
Brilliant!

That could be aimed at the top 6 clubs in the PL
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Post by: graingrover on February 27, 2018, 12:17:39 pm
Recognition from Donny of the South . Well done Glen, a brilliant piece !
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Post by: redwine on February 27, 2018, 12:40:22 pm
Great read. Memories aplenty and hats off to the Quentin Tarantino crimestoppers lookalike comment. Absolute quality.
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Post by: Donnywolf on February 27, 2018, 12:40:46 pm
Brilliant article ... is there somewhere to Archive it on here so it can be accessed for posterity - or can I find it already somewhere else ?
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Post by: drfchound on February 27, 2018, 12:43:02 pm
Can anyone show it on here for non tweeters.
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Post by: idler on February 27, 2018, 12:58:27 pm
It must be an age thing hound. I don't do Twitter either.
It's bad enough doing the occasional foray onto Facebook.
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Post by: GazLaz on February 27, 2018, 01:15:09 pm
It must be an age thing hound. I don't do Twitter either.
It's bad enough doing the occasional foray onto Facebook.

Facebook and Twitter are incomparable.
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Post by: idler on February 27, 2018, 01:24:13 pm
Well I can't compare them cos I only do one and that's a pain at times.😉
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Post by: NickDRFC on February 27, 2018, 01:26:30 pm
If you've managed to set up a profile on here it won't be too tricky to do one on twitter. It's worth it for this series of tweet alone.
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Post by: DearneValleyRover on February 27, 2018, 01:40:07 pm
Excellent as always
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Post by: Donnywolf on February 27, 2018, 02:04:28 pm
Can anyone show it on here for non tweeters.

Should just work if you click the Link ?

Its here again - just try it. I am not sure if it works for me because I am on Twitter but I suspect it will just work for you

https://twitter.com/vivarovers/status/968267589611851776 (https://twitter.com/vivarovers/status/968267589611851776)
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Post by: DonnyOsmond on February 27, 2018, 02:21:54 pm
Someone commented that it should be a Netflix series. I'd actually watch that and not just because its my club.
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Post by: DearneValleyRover on February 27, 2018, 03:05:03 pm
Someone commented that it should be a Netflix series. I'd actually watch that and not just because its my club.

I bet Netflix would say it was too far fetched to be believed.
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Post by: drfchound on February 27, 2018, 04:02:21 pm
Can anyone show it on here for non tweeters.

Should just work if you click the Link ?

Its here again - just try it. I am not sure if it works for me because I am on Twitter but I suspect it will just work for you

https://twitter.com/vivarovers/status/968267589611851776 (https://twitter.com/vivarovers/status/968267589611851776)






Well wolfie, you certainly have the magic touch mate.
On the OP when I clicked on the link it only showed the picture of the red gates and the words that are with it.
I couldn’t see anything else after that, but......clicking on your link opens the lot up.
Thanks a bunch........I will go and read through it now.......



By the way idler, I don’t do Facebook either.
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Post by: BillyStubbsTears on February 27, 2018, 05:46:57 pm
Glen, if you’re reading, that is genius.

I’ve just one anecdote to add.

You know how they say the darkest hour is just before dawn? July 1998. Friendly at Worksop. The night Ryan and Snod were in the crowd and the takeover was rumoured to be imminent.

I’m having a pre-match pint in the clubhouse when the Rovers players turn up in the car park. In their own cars. Lee Warren gets out of his car with a junior player with him. Goes to the back to open the boot. Looks inside then turns to the kid and says: “Where’s the f**king kit bag? I told you to put the f**king kit bag in the f**king boot!”

That to me was the absolute nadir. That was where the club of Doherty and Jeffrey and Kitchen and Bremner and Snodin has ended up.
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Post by: roversdude on February 27, 2018, 06:30:25 pm
What a fantastic piece so many memories
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Post by: Crowle Rover on February 27, 2018, 08:18:55 pm

Excellent piece Sir!
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Post by: drfchound on February 27, 2018, 08:25:27 pm
Brilliant piece of work.
Would be good if we got some gooners responding.
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Post by: RoversAlias on February 27, 2018, 09:07:54 pm
Glen, if you’re reading, that is genius.

I’ve just one anecdote to add.

You know how they say the darkest hour is just before dawn? July 1998. Friendly at Worksop. The night Ryan and Snod were in the crowd and the takeover was rumoured to be imminent.

I’m having a pre-match pint in the clubhouse when the Rovers players turn up in the car park. In their own cars. Lee Warren gets out of his car with a junior player with him. Goes to the back to open the boot. Looks inside then turns to the kid and says: “Where’s the f**king kit bag? I told you to put the f**king kit bag in the f**king boot!”

That to me was the absolute nadir. That was where the club of Doherty and Jeffrey and Kitchen and Bremner and Snodin has ended up.

That'd be a great scene for the Netflix series!

But yes, I'll echo that it was a great posting by VivaRovers and that Twitter is lightyears ahead of Facebook in terms of user accessibility, quality and layout.
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Post by: drfchound on February 27, 2018, 09:46:48 pm
Barnstoneworth United on Ripping Yarns on the yesterday channel.
A bit like that a Rovers season.
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Post by: Canadian Rover on February 27, 2018, 10:08:38 pm
Brilliant.
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Post by: Chris Black come back on February 27, 2018, 10:18:58 pm
Esdaille brothers.
Darren Brookes.
Jim Dobbin.
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Post by: VivaRovers on February 27, 2018, 10:28:50 pm
Cheers all.

It's gone a bit nuts this, Twitter is telling me the fanzine's tweets have had 6,838,865 impressions in the last 24 hours. Just hoping one of the 600 odd new followers we've gained is partial to a pin badge.
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Post by: idler on February 27, 2018, 10:40:32 pm
Fantastic Glen. Some of those memories almost brought a tear to my eye.
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Post by: richtherover on February 28, 2018, 04:15:35 am
Take a bow Glen, proves that there is life after death. I wrote to the aptly named F. A. at the time, begging for some intervention and received a patronising reply along the lines of "We are looking into any possible ways in which we could offer assistance, as are the Football League" They did FA of course.
The letter was signed by one David Davies.

We're still alive and kicking but no thanks to those who should be looking after our interests.

RTID. Rich the Rover
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Post by: Colin C No.3 on March 01, 2018, 11:24:46 am
A piece put together with, humour, pathos, fact, sadness but ultimately love for the club you support.

If only some TV documentary crew had followed Rovers fortunes in that period, it would have made 'Another Bloody Sunday' look like a 'B side'.

Hat's off to you Glen & if you're reading this, please put 4 Bernard Glover pin badges to one side for the next time I pass you stood beneath the statue.
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Post by: Filo on March 01, 2018, 08:13:54 pm
I think given the current scoreline, there might be demand for a sequel to that tweet 😀😀😀