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That hayter goal, the game against Brentford, Carlisle 04?
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Brentford, Wembley, Cardiff, Stoke aside.
Loved our equaliser at West Ham.
Felt like a proper big game, great away following and little old Donny pissed them right off.
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Winning at Wembley. Winning in Cardiff. One of the very few teams to do both .
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Stoke .... Promotion Goal
At LAST we were BACK
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Brentford, Wembley, Cardiff, Stoke aside.
Loved our equaliser at West Ham.
Felt like a proper big game, great away following and little old Donny pissed them right off.
Excluding those four then the third goal against Barrow has to be up there.
Then certainly the second and third goals at Charlton in the play off semi final.
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All of the above plus taking the lead at Newcastle
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Franny Tierney’s goal at Stoke, Hayter goal at Wembley and Copps hat trick versus Southend at the KMS in the 5-1 win
COYR
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Other than those mentioned above which were all magical, I will add away at Derby, our first game in the Championship, bought a tear to my eye when the team walked out at Pride Park and when Lewis Guy scored. Growing up I only dreamed of us playing in the 2nd tier of English football.
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Stoke was the end of a living nightmare and Derby was the realisation of a lifelong dream.
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Some great games in the years when we were generally very bad. The 5-1 away at Scunny springs to mind.
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Brentford, Wembley, Cardiff, Stoke aside.
Loved our equaliser at West Ham.
Felt like a proper big game, great away following and little old Donny pissed them right off.
Excluding those four then the third goal against Barrow has to be up there.
Then certainly the second and third goals at Charlton in the play off semi final.
I agree with all of these and can I add Blundell’s second away at Mansfield a few years ago and also, Chester away play off semi
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There's so many...................... but in terms of making me totally lose it 2 from being stood on the pop side,
No 1 Tris Whitman's late,late equalizer v Chester in play off semi - only around 4000 in the ground and the old pop side was shaking when it went in.
No 2 - Sean Thorntons screamer for our 3rd against Villa in that amazing cup run lead to absolute bedlam
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Mush has clearly identified the top four so I will put some not already mentioned and possibly forgotten ones on here:
Winning 5-1 at Oakwell in 1965 when Barnsley were the better team on the day
10-0 Darlington (missed Broadbent's 10th), follwed by two 6-3 wins the two following years
7-2 loss at White Hart Lane (we played brilliantly for more than an hour)
Winning 1-0 at Valley Parade with 9 men (Bradford City were champions that season)
3-0 Aston Villa League Cup
2-2 Arsenal in League Cup
And some when I lived abroad and wasn't there:
Beating Bournemouth at Belle Vue to win promotion in 1981
Beating QPR in FAC at Belle Vue
0-3 to 5-4 win against Dover in Conference
Tennis sequence Home matches 6-1, 7-5, 3-6, 4-4
Winning at Hillsboro with Elliot Ward overhead kick
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Some fond memories that stick in the head for me.
Stoke - Couldn’t go but was on my driving test at the same time as the match, got home for extra time to see Tierney score. Passed my driving test and promotion on the same day so it’s a date I always remember.
JPT Final - The whole experience, the 2-0 lead really early on, the despair when they brought it back to 2-2 and then delight when Graeme Lee headed it in.
The Villa/Arsenal cup games in general were great experiences, if only Heffs kept it in the corner!!!
Derby away first game back in Championship, was expecting a drubbing but totally played them off the back and grabbing that goal.
Hereford away in LDV, corner floated in and Rigoglioso hits it sweet on the volley for one the best goals I have seen live. 137 of us there.
Leeds - Beating them at elland road 1-0 and then seeing them crying at Wembley was just cinema.
Barrow - The limbs after that 3rd goal will living long in the memory, regularly watch the alternative view on YouTube that Barrow posted to relive it.
The Brentford last day I didn’t go but the euphoria of watching it unfold on soccer Saturday.
Although it’s a game we lost, the 4-3 defeat to Portsmouth when we got relegated from the Championship, it still is the angriest I have ever been at a football stadium due to the blatant cheating. I got thrown out twice at Mansfield and Bournemouth and I was nowhere near as angry at those games!
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Decade by decade;
80’s Dave Harle goal v QPR
90’s Norbury hat trick
00’s joint Tierney & Hayter
10’s Brentford 18 seconds of madness
20’s still waiting
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Mush has clearly identified the top four so I will put some not already mentioned and possibly forgotten ones on here:
Winning 5-1 at Oakwell in 1965 when Barnsley were the better team on the day
10-0 Darlington (missed Broadbent's 10th), follwed by two 6-3 wins the two following years
7-2 loss at White Hart Lane (we played brilliantly for more than an hour)
Winning 1-0 at Valley Parade with 9 men (Bradford City were champions that season)
3-0 Aston Villa League Cup
2-2 Arsenal in League Cup
And some when I lived abroad and wasn't there:
Beating Bournemouth at Belle Vue to win promotion in 1981
Beating QPR in FAC at Belle Vue
0-3 to 5-4 win against Dover in Conference
Tennis sequence Home matches 6-1, 7-5, 4-6, 4-4
Winning at Hillsboro with Elliot Ward overhead kick
It was 3-6 in the “tennis” sequence.. vs Wigan.
Has to be Wembley for me. Never expected to see us play in the second division in my lifetime..
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Oddly enough, I would rate the late late Rob Jones winner at Stevenage very highly..
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Oddly enough, I would rate the late late Rob Jones winner at Stevenage very highly..
I was only thinking about that this morning. The 2 late goals by him down there are something I will always remember. The ecstasy after the 2nd goal was something else
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The last 2 minutes at Brentford summed it up what’s to love about following the rovers. :rtid:
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Good thread this.
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The 3rd goal v barrow will take some beating for best moment of the 20s
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The Carling Cup run, unbelievable scenes at Belle Vue
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Boring, but my favourite is still, and probably always will be, that goal at Brentford! Unbeatable. A good second though is Billy Sharp’s against middlesborough when he revealed the ‘Thats for you son’ on his shirt after Louis died. I still have tiddy’s print on my wall of that moment and still brings a tear to this cynical old ba*st*rds eye!! :rtid:
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There's so many...................... but in terms of making me totally lose it 2 from being stood on the pop side,
No 1 Tris Whitman's late,late equalizer v Chester in play off semi - only around 4000 in the ground and the old pop side was shaking when it went in.
No 2 - Sean Thorntons screamer for our 3rd against Villa in that amazing cup run lead to absolute bedlam
Yep, Tris Whitman's goal - that's the one for me!
I've always said that was the moment which kick-started our decade of success!
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Sir Francis for me. With beating L**ds in the play-off final a close second.
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Wembley was the favourite of course.
However Sean Thornton’s strike which took a slight deflection into the top corner of Aston Villa’s net was an absolute feeling of euphoria.
We took Aston Villa apart in that match but at 2-0 we could still slip, then came that majestic strike… oh lord we’d just dismantled a top tier side….wow!
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Stoke….say no more!
Didn’t we beat Man City in the League Cup at OBV before they got Megabucks?
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Andy Butler away at Charlton in the playoffs. Counted for nothing in the end but, my god. That away end.
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Wembley was the favourite of course.
However Sean Thornton’s strike which took a slight deflection into the top corner of Aston Villa’s net was an absolute feeling of euphoria.
We took Aston Villa apart in that match but at 2-0 we could still slip, then came that majestic strike… oh lord we’d just dismantled a top tier side….wow!
And Moyes blamed the pitch saying it was "crusty" :lol:
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Weird though it may seem one of my greatest Rovers memories was not even a goal or a win. In fact we lost the game 7-2. It was v Spurs at White Hart Lane in the League Cup quarter final when Chris Balderstone hit an absolute screamer from 25 yards out that was destined for the top left hand corner and would have put us 3-2 up. Pat Jennings who was probably the only keeper in the land at the time who could have saved it palmed it over the bar.
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Weird though it may seem one of my greatest Rovers memories was not even a goal or a win. In fact we lost the game 7-2. It was v Spurs at White Hart Lane in the League Cup quarter final when Chris Balderstone hit an absolute screamer from 25 yards out that was destined for the top left hand corner and would have put us 3-2 up. Pat Jennings who was probably the only keeper in the land at the time who could have saved it palmed it over the bar.
I agree with all of that and have said the same about Balderstones shot , except I always think in my memory that Jennings actually caught and held it
Maybe others can help but either way the game and that save were memorable for sure
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Towelgate the other year for me :lol:
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All the moments mentioned have memories and I include watching supporters holding the sit down on the pitch protesting at our lowest ebb wondering if we would have a team to watch in the future.
On the field one I am probably the only one to go with it a late penalty by Albert Broadbent at Notts County I think in a replay in the cup , the county keeper was Smith who always played well against us.
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Always and never to be beaten, that moment in the Conf playoff 2nd leg, with 2-3 minutes to go where Dave Cameron let fly a rocket right into the top corner.
The author Bill Buford coined the term "Dead Time" for that instant between the ball being struck and the ball hitting the back of the net. Is it a goal or not? Are hopes dashed or do they survive?
It's a fraction of a second. Almost to quick to register. But in that game at Chester, my entire life as a Rovers fan flashed before my eyes. Absolute dejection. The ball was unstoppable. Directed right in the top corner. Our promotion dream was crushed. Who could know how long it would be before we got back into the League?
And then a miracle happened. The fingertips of Andy Warrington's right hand extended and just diverted the ball and inch over the bar.
Everything we've done in the last 2 decades stems from that save.
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Stoke, closely followed by Chester. To return to being a league club was massive in my eyes
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Wembley was the favourite of course.
However Sean Thornton’s strike which took a slight deflection into the top corner of Aston Villa’s net was an absolute feeling of euphoria.
We took Aston Villa apart in that match but at 2-0 we could still slip, then came that majestic strike… oh lord we’d just dismantled a top tier side….wow!
And Moyes blamed the pitch saying it was "crusty" :lol:
David O’Leary
COYR
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All the moments mentioned have memories and I include watching supporters holding the sit down on the pitch protesting at our lowest ebb wondering if we would have a team to watch in the future.
On the field one I am probably the only one to go with it a late penalty by Albert Broadbent at Notts County I think in a replay in the cup , the county keeper was Smith who always played well against us.
I was there that night. Tony Hateley and Jeff Astle were in that County side. Justice was done after their last minute equaliser at Belle Vue the previous Saturday.
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Great list, i would add the 4-2 at Forest in the first championship season which gave the team and fans so much belief, and then a more personal one, the 4-3 against table topping Mansfield in 1975, one of my first games.
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Obviously Copps' winner at Brentford, Billy's 'That's For You Son' goal, watching Alick Jeffrey in his pomp, Paul Malcolm's testimonial when Bremner and Gazza played on the same side, winning with nine men against Lincoln and Bradford City.
But favourite would have to be the 3-0 win over Farnborough in the Football Conference Trophy Final in 1999.
Over 7,000 at Belle Vue, fireworks, the joy of the Snodins, brilliant night.
Somebody said it was the night we properly got our club back after the misery of the Richardson years.
Whoever it was, they were right.
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No matter what we achieve in the future Stoke, (with the Chester semi finals a close second) will always be my number one memory. Nothing will ever mean so much to me as that win did. We were back!!
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There plenty to choose from.
How’s about THAT overhead kick goal at Hillsborough.
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I've supported Rovers since the conference days (25+ years) and have seen many ups and downs and perhaps I'm guilty of some recency bias here, but that Biggins goal vs Barrow last season is without a doubt up there. Pure elation and felt like we were really going to achieve something incredible.
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I've supported Rovers since the conference days (25+ years) and have seen many ups and downs and perhaps I'm guilty of some recency bias here, but that Biggins goal vs Barrow last season is without a doubt up there. Pure elation and felt like we were really going to achieve something incredible.
Berlin, agree with both the highlight and recency bias. I was with my teenage lad, we shared a look of such joy and had a hug that I will take to my grave. Football eh!
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Graeme Lee's extra time winner at Cardiff and full bear hug with Andy Liney who was sat next to me and my boys....... in full Donny Dog costume btw.
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Crikey! Some belting memories here. Brilliant. I'll offer 2 more 'normal' ones and two rather different ones.
Boxing Day Bradford 1-0. That was special.
Farnborough Trophy Final 3-0. Almost the apotheosis of DRFC that night.
Tony Coleman belting the appallingly bent Mr Pickles. And finally, no idea what the score was, but an evening match with a very young Ian Snodin being fouled and fouled and fouled by some big, dirty Rochdale thug. Eventually the Rochdale thug went straight through Ian in an absolutely shocking foul. Both fell down. Ian, skinny, 8 stone and 16 or 17 years old, obviously hurt. But Ian climbed to his feet.Took an almighty swipe right across the shins of the thug and promptly fell down again. Both of 'em got sent off. But Ian had become an instant folk legend. What a pair he had... What a player he was.
BobG
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Being a supporter since the mid 80’s, there has been so much rubbish to endure, but as a club we’ve had some absolute gems to enjoy.
The pure emotion of the Barrow game last season will tip it - and it is almost meaningless in what we have achieved. The look on my son’s face, the crowd reaction - the feeling our club is coming back again.
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Not a hugely significant game, but the 0-2 away win at Wednesday when we were at the peak of our powers under SOD will take some beating as the most complete away performance you will ever see. Our center half even scored an overhead volley. Billy scoring the 2nd at Hillsborough after they’d been chasing shadows all game topped it off.
A masterful performance
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Wigan away on the sliding mud bank, Leyland Daf cup is without doubt one of my favourite memories.
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Avoiding the obvious biggies of Stoke, Cardiff and Wembley, my favourite is first league game after promotion back into the football league, Div 3 as it was then.
Boiling hot day away at Leyton Orient, Leo Fortune-West brace, what a start to another promotion season!
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Great thread. As well as many of the normal ones, I have a slightly different one. Southampton away, I think we were bottom but it was a performance that made be proud of the club. I remember Copps being unplayable. We played them off the park, Saints fans coming up to me on the way out asking how the f are we bottom, best club they had played at that point. I dont remember the year, maybe it was not long after the boxing day win at Forest?
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Ahh a last minute goal always sticks in the memory!!
This one wasn't even a winner - Mark Albrighton, Rochdale away in my favourite ever season 03/04. It seemed like we half filled their ground that night.
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Great thread. As well as many of the normal ones, I have a slightly different one. Southampton away, I think we were bottom but it was a performance that made be proud of the club. I remember Copps being unplayable. We played them off the park, Saints fans coming up to me on the way out asking how the f are we bottom, best club they had played at that point. I dont remember the year, maybe it was not long after the boxing day win at Forest?
17 January 2009.
Woods and Copps scored in a 2-1. Saints were really struggling.
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Great thread. As well as many of the normal ones, I have a slightly different one. Southampton away, I think we were bottom but it was a performance that made be proud of the club. I remember Copps being unplayable. We played them off the park, Saints fans coming up to me on the way out asking how the f are we bottom, best club they had played at that point. I dont remember the year, maybe it was not long after the boxing day win at Forest?
17 January 2009.
Woods and Copps scored in a 2-1. Saints were really struggling.
Was there for that one the natives were slightly restless
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Farnborough, Stoke and Tristan's equaliser are the most important, but favourites have to include the praise or grumble fall out after Steve Adams won a penalty at Chesterfield, Scarboroughs mini bus announcement, Scunny 5-1 and of course turnbulls hattrick at Hartlepool
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I am lucky enough to have witnessed most of the above matches, Chester, Brentford, Stoke, Wembley, Dover, the Mansfield 4-3 game and so many more.
Another that sticks in my mind was the 3-0 away win at Millwall under S’OD Probably the most complete Rovers performance I’ve ever seen, we were just brilliant that day.
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I am lucky enough to have witnessed most of the above matches, Chester, Brentford, Stoke, Wembley, Dover, the Mansfield 4-3 game and so many more.
Another that sticks in my mind was the 3-0 away win at Millwall under S’OD Probably the most complete Rovers performance I’ve ever seen, we were just brilliant that day.
Like you I’ve been to most of the matches being mentioned - being 63 helps !
Millwall away - Paul Green was on fire that day. Yes, a total performance that
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I went to that game too. I recall the stats for that game and the one before (Hartlepool at home?) said we had 29 and 30 shots - can’t remember which way round. Only scored 5 across both games but that performance ably Millwall was stunning.
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There was some memories in that first season in the championship. Some of the best football I have ever seen us play even before Forest when we was losing. I remember leaving Hillsborough losing 1.0 and they chased shadows all game but won 1.0. Even when we was bottom before the run started I knew we would start to score. Had we had sharp that first season we would of made play offs I think. Copps hatrick v Norwich was a good night. I remember my brother saying to me after Stoke on the way home. This is about as good as we will have it following rovers and we will be back as a middle table division 4 side. How wrong. The title followed by 3 years of building a very good l1 team that got a cup win and promotion at Wembley v one of the country's biggest clubs Leeds United. The 2000s have been good times for rovers bar a few bad seasons.
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If SOD had played Heffernan instead of Guy earlier in that season, then things might have been different.
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Over almost 60 years there have been quite a few special moments, many of which have been mentioned above.
One of my special moments was on 18th August 1988. Our first home game in the conference. I'd left the Colchester game a few months before thinking that would be the last time I would watch the Rovers play and the club was dead and buried. But now we were back and that was all that mattered.
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Spot on Champagne. Just totally, perfectly, spot on.
The culmination of a years' worth of struggle, grief, fear and pain. I went to Dover for the very first match and that was good, but the first match at BV was catharsis writ large.
BobG
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... and the eventual Dover 5-4 game was a great moments or moments for me
The 34 pass move v QPR was memorable too especially remembering the QPR players towards the end of it desperately trying to stop the move in any way they could
They finally managed it right on the edge of the box at South Stand end
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Out of the big ones everyone mentions it has to be Stoke for me. The magnitude of losing our league status and very nearly losing our club can’t be overstated. Here we are, one match in a big unfamiliar neutral ground to win that back and begin again.
It was such a close same too. Fear of losing it was there the whole game. I was expecting Tarkan Mustafa to cross one for their winner every time he got the ball. Then that one instant when everything changed. We all knew about the golden goal rule, but for a microsecond my brain didn’t register that it was more than just taking the lead, it was so unusual. One strike from Sir Francis and it’s game over. Richardson/Weaver is properly over and we’re back in the league. We’re back on the map with all the other towns that are on the BBC football results every week for 10 months of the year. We’re here, we exist. Non-league meant we didn’t exist in the same way. We were invisible. Teetering on the brink of that again last season reminded me of that.
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Wednesday fan here in peace.
This is a fabulous thread sharing some great memories.
My old Grandad was from Donny and a lifelong Rovers fan. One game that he often spoke about goes way back to the mid 1960’s when Rovers drew 3-3 at Peterborough. He used to say that day had everything; thousands of Rovers fans travelled down, pitch invasions, loads of goals, exciting football, an eventful walk back to the station after the game, a Rovers player playing mind games with a Peterborough penalty taker causing him to miss and loads of write ups in the Sunday papers which he cut out and kept for years.
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Hi Silkscarf
Yes magnificent day and everything on the line for us. We knew what we were missing , and we knew what we had endured , and we just HAD to get back there , getting our Club back
The slight flaw in your piece was the goal scored by SFT was indeed called a Promotion Goal. It was and still is the only Promotion Goal ever to 'do what it says on the the tin" and Promote a Club (us yahoo) and we should claim it.
There will be people reading this saying " oh God he's here again " but it was officially named Promotion Goal in the Rules and I have posted many times Page 3 of the Official Programme of the match
Agree with all the rest of your post though. :scarf: :scarf: :scarf:
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Here it is
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Am probably one of very few on here that remember beating then top of the table Aldershot 7-0 in the late 60's. What a performance that was. Lots of highs (and lows) since then. All part of being a Rovers fan.
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Plus 1
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Promotion to the Championship, hope it will be repeated while I’m still here
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Ball going into Main Stand tea bar.
Shirt badge in 97/98 season.
Donny Dog on moped.
Nic Priet.
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Am probably one of very few on here that remember beating then top of the table Aldershot 7-0 in the late 60's. What a performance that was. Lots of highs (and lows) since then. All part of being a Rovers fan.
All these years later me and BiL still talk about Alicks strike at the Rosso end the ball just spinning round and round nestled in the back of the net, what a night
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To me THIS is what this forum is perfectly set up for. Like minded people reminiscing. Ten minutes on this subject has put a big smile on an old man’s face. Well done & thank you.RTID
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Well done Wolfie, I vaguely remember it being called that now you’ve reminded me. But the general thing is still called golden goal. Glad they scrapped it. Too cruel for the loser. But so happy it went our way that day.
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I’d also add the 3-1 win at Rushden and Diamonds in the first conference season. We were low in the table and could have sank further, but that to me was a huge turning point in the history of the club..
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I’d also add the 3-1 win at Rushden and Diamonds in the first conference season. We were low in the table and could have sank further, but that to me was a huge turning point in the history of the club..
That's just reminded me of the cup game there. That was a great atmosphere
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Everything mentioned previously dating back to 1976, but my God going back to the Championship and having my Grandson along for the ride would top the lot.
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The “Mansfield Moment”, when we knew promotion was within reach.
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Wembley was the favourite of course.
However Sean Thornton’s strike which took a slight deflection into the top corner of Aston Villa’s net was an absolute feeling of euphoria.
We took Aston Villa apart in that match but at 2-0 we could still slip, then came that majestic strike… oh lord we’d just dismantled a top tier side….wow!
And Moyes blamed the pitch saying it was "crusty" :lol:
David O’Leary so it was…
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Wigan away on the sliding mud bank, Leyland Daf cup is without doubt one of my favourite memories.
That was some night. Pissing it down. Bruno with the winner. Everyone caked in mud. Jeans drying out on the coach home. Absolute chaos.
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Well done Wolfie, I vaguely remember it being called that now you’ve reminded me. But the general thing is still called golden goal. Glad they scrapped it. Too cruel for the loser. But so happy it went our way that day.
Yes , as they say if it looks like a Golden Goal it should have been a Golden Goal but great to see we have a niche of history that won't be equalled.
I seem to remember a header from Daggers in first half of Promo time that went past the top left corner .... real drama ... but missed by what seemed a whisker
My regret that day ( and people may disagree ) was Daggers didn't get to walk round at the end. I would have applauded for sure , in the magnanimous way we did after we beat Southend in PO Semi.
However the pitch invasion at Stoke did for that. I still remember the PA bloke saying " if you don't get off the Pitch there will be no presentation " . I said to myself "don't effin matter mate we don't need an effin Cup"
( Or something similar )
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Am probably one of very few on here that remember beating then top of the table Aldershot 7-0 in the late 60's. What a performance that was. Lots of highs (and lows) since then. All part of being a Rovers fan.
I was at that one too.
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Another vote for Tris Whitman's equaliser against Chester. I dont think i've ever celebrated a goal so vigorously before or since. Everyone knew how important that one was when it hit the back of the net.
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If SOD had played Heffernan instead of Guy earlier in that season, then things might have been different.
I'd just like to add a few thoughts to this post.
Actually, leave it Billy...
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A great thread this!
It's difficult to single out one favourite moment, especially for an old gimmer like me who has seen quite a few, but if pushed I would have to choose THAT goal at Stoke, simply for the enormity of what it meant to us as a club.
This is very closely followed by beating Leeds in the play-off final. I started watching Rovers in 1967 and all my life I only ever wanted to see us play at 'level two' in the league during my lifetime. In the dark days of our relegation out of the football league, this seemed the very epitome of an impossible dream.
So to finally achieve that ambition, in the way we did it, and against that particular opposition, was literally a dream come true for me.
But I want to throw in another special memory - our first game back in the Football League, away at Leyton Orient.
I drove down to the game full of excitement, anticipation, apprehension.
Yes, we were back in the Football League but how would we fare? How good were we, really? How big was the gulf between the Conference and the 4th division? Would we struggle and risk going straight back down?
On that boiling hot, unforgettable day, all my fears were allayed. We blew Orient away, and the rest is history.
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Am probably one of very few on here that remember beating then top of the table Aldershot 7-0 in the late 60's. What a performance that was. Lots of highs (and lows) since then. All part of being a Rovers fan.
I was there, top v second if memory serves, absolute demolition that night.
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One magical moment for me , still a very emotional version emotional memory
Into the Championship and Derby away , with their latest signing , Paul Green
We clubbed together for Balloons and I thank whoever it was who decided Red 45 % White 45 % Green 10 %
What a brilliant idea that was and still gives me goosebumps just thinking about it , and the thunderous applause from Rovers fans as the PA announced welcome Paul Green and the chants that followed. Sure their fans and the PA thought we had gone mad !
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Mush has clearly identified the top four so I will put some not already mentioned and possibly forgotten ones on here:
Winning 5-1 at Oakwell in 1965 when Barnsley were the better team on the day
10-0 Darlington (missed Broadbent's 10th), follwed by two 6-3 wins the two following years
7-2 loss at White Hart Lane (we played brilliantly for more than an hour)
Winning 1-0 at Valley Parade with 9 men (Bradford City were champions that season)
3-0 Aston Villa League Cup
2-2 Arsenal in League Cup
And some when I lived abroad and wasn't there:
Beating Bournemouth at Belle Vue to win promotion in 1981
Beating QPR in FAC at Belle Vue
0-3 to 5-4 win against Dover in Conference
Tennis sequence Home matches 6-1, 7-5, 3-6, 4-4
Winning at Hillsboro with Elliot Ward overhead kick
Think you might find the attendance was 6800 and not 4000
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Am probably one of very few on here that remember beating then top of the table Aldershot 7-0 in the late 60's. What a performance that was. Lots of highs (and lows) since then. All part of being a Rovers fan.
I was there, top v second if memory serves, absolute demolition that night.
I'm sure Dutch will correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure that before that Aldershot match we had to win 6-0 to leapfrog them at the top of the table on goal average.
An unlikely outcome.....
Lol!
BobG
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I was there. Steven Briggs made his debut if I remember correctly.
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The incoming comeback against Harrogate 3-2!
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Sorry didn't happen ... One day we will pan them but at 73 will I live long enought to see it?