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Title: Happy
Post by: glosterred on May 10, 2025, 08:11:13 am
Sir Francis Tierney Day all

COYR

Title: Re: Happy
Post by: glosterred on May 10, 2025, 08:25:46 am
And this is how it was done

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R5zk8dCN9A


COYR
Title: Re: Happy
Post by: IDM on May 10, 2025, 08:36:23 am
Next goal wins - true playground stuff.!
Title: Re: Happy
Post by: Nudga on May 10, 2025, 08:47:31 am
Did I hear the commentator refer to Tim Ryan as Cross?
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Post by: tommy toes on May 10, 2025, 08:55:55 am
Very clever handball from Stein for their first.
The cheating get.
Mind you without it there would be no Sir Francis day.
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Post by: LincsRover on May 10, 2025, 09:04:58 am
Happy memories!!!  :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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Post by: Barmby Rover on May 10, 2025, 09:18:49 am
I was sat about 10 yards to the left of that goal where Greeny scored, that was a cracking day.
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Post by: NickDRFC on May 10, 2025, 09:31:53 am
Did I hear the commentator refer to Tim Ryan as Cross?

Yeah, twice!

Great memories, great day.
Title: Re: Happy
Post by: BobG on May 10, 2025, 09:45:07 am
Good video - ruined only by sighting that terrible  Mickey Walker.....

BobG
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Post by: TonySoprano on May 10, 2025, 09:53:26 am
What happy memories, I spent with loved ones no longer around.  :rtid:
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Post by: Peebles Rover on May 10, 2025, 09:58:12 am
I remember it taking a couple of seconds to register that the match was over with that goal and we were up!
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Post by: DonnyBazR0ver on May 10, 2025, 10:14:03 am
Yes, I remember that too. The euphoria of actually winning the game, but then the dawning of what it actually meant.  Quite a few with hands on heads. OMG, we're back in the Football League!!!
Title: Re: Happy
Post by: Nudga on May 10, 2025, 10:22:09 am
First time I cried over a football match.
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Post by: nightporter on May 10, 2025, 10:24:03 am
For May, it was bloody cold.
Title: Re: Happy
Post by: Nudga on May 10, 2025, 10:29:57 am
Just remembered John Terry throwing sandwiches at our car on the approach to the stadium.
We were giving him plenty of stick like.
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Post by: karldew on May 10, 2025, 10:46:56 am
Got some grass from the pitch taped to a piece of paper somewhere in the attic haha. Makes me feel old seeing it was 22 years ago and I’m only 35!
Title: Re: Happy
Post by: turnbull for england on May 10, 2025, 11:17:07 am
For May, it was bloody cold.


 It was indeed, I went in short sleeves, and was freezing second half
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Post by: Draytonian III on May 10, 2025, 11:56:11 am
The reality of what happened didn’t sink for a few seconds, then like others I had tears.
I had spent the Friday night watching dvds, videos of Rovers matches and “ that documentary “ must have had 10 cans of lager and a dozen cigarettes as well to get me even more focused
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Post by: streathamdave on May 10, 2025, 12:43:17 pm
Good video - ruined only by sighting that terrible  Mickey Walker.....

BobG
I get that some people don't like Walker doing commentary or talking about Rovers, but if the dislike is more than that I don't get it. His exhaustive football knowledge largely put that side together. He is a legendary figure at Rovers in my eyes.
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Post by: richtherover on May 10, 2025, 12:58:11 pm
Being so far away the only way I could follow the game was by live text. I can still remember the torture as the word GOAL flashed up, followed 30 agonising seconds later by DONCASTER. The world stopped and I'm sure my heart did at that moment.  :rtid:
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Post by: Chris Black come back on May 10, 2025, 01:25:14 pm
Pitch invasions, streaker, pies being thrown at Dagenham keeper, riot at full time. Had it all.
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Post by: Nudga on May 10, 2025, 01:44:59 pm
Not sure about a riot??
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Post by: pib on May 10, 2025, 01:48:28 pm
Good video - ruined only by sighting that terrible  Mickey Walker.....

BobG
I get that some people don't like Walker doing commentary or talking about Rovers, but if the dislike is more than that I don't get it. His exhaustive football knowledge largely put that side together. He is a legendary figure at Rovers in my eyes.

Yeah, seems very harsh doesn’t it, unless he’s done something bad that few of us are aware of. Yes he’s a bit of a gobshite on the radio but he was heavily involved in one of the most successful spells of our history. He obviously offered something!
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Post by: jmt23 on May 10, 2025, 01:53:13 pm
He’s a bit of a throw back in football terms a real Barry Fry type.
I actually don’t mind him and don’t know why people have this hate for him, I think there was a fall out when he didnt get the managers job.
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Post by: Monolith No. 9 on May 10, 2025, 03:59:18 pm
All these years later I still wonder what Paul Barnes was saying to Sir Francis when he put his hands on either side of his head to get him to look at him and listen. I assume a great Churchillian one liner about the significance of what he’d just done.
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Post by: drfchound on May 10, 2025, 07:05:22 pm
Some people have the weirdest of reasons why they don’t like MW.
He isn’t the best football pundit is he but he does still love the Rovers and did contribute quite a lot to getting us back into the leagues.
Title: Re: Happy
Post by: PDX_Rover on May 10, 2025, 07:20:17 pm
For May, it was bloody cold.

It was wasn’t it?

Remember JR selling shirts in the bar before the game. The game was great. As usual, we made it stressful but then SFT with THAT goal.

Next up… opening day at Leyton Orient in blistering heat and LFW
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Post by: Petche on May 10, 2025, 07:28:36 pm
For May, it was bloody cold.

It was wasn’t it?

Remember JR selling shirts in the bar before the game. The game was great. As usual, we made it stressful but then SFT with THAT goal.

Next up… opening day at Leyton Orient in blistering heat and LFW

Ah 1st game back at Leyton Orient, one of my favourite ever away days!
Title: Re: Happy
Post by: Donnywolf on May 10, 2025, 08:13:06 pm
Well done to everyone above for NOT using the incorrect G*****n Goal to describe our winner

My work here is done  :thumbsup: :scarf:
Title: Re: Happy
Post by: RobTheRover on May 11, 2025, 08:08:41 am
I remember we had been sat in the stands drinking Calsberg from plastic bottles all second half because apparently the Stoke concourse bar staff just kept on serving and the Stewards were letting people take them back to their seats. When SFT scored I went down about 5 rows of seats on my back.
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Post by: roversdude on May 11, 2025, 10:08:05 am
The cheap pub we were ushered into quite early and then herded onto a bus back to the stadium what an atmosphere and as previously mentioned bleeding cold