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Viking Chat => Viking Chat => Topic started by: Drover on May 09, 2017, 11:25:22 am
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...following Rovers?
Reading the Weeds thread,about their worse moment,got me thinking,what is my lowest point following Rovers,For me,it's the 2-0 defeat in FA Trophy at home to Frickey Athletic.I was pleased for Frickley,but boy,I was mega embarrassed about it.Whats everyone else's worse Rovers moment?
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the back to back christmas/new year defeats by scarborough (2000/01 I think) - ruined a perfectly good holiday, and I pretty much ran out of obscenities for use in the DFR match reports, which takes some doing....
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That Scunny away game last season on the Tuesday night felt pretty grim.
I think for anyone who has followed the Rovers longer than 18 years will probably point to the Richardson debacle, but I started going just after that so it's a tough call, we've had a lot of good days. The worst I've ever felt at a game was either another trip to Scunny - the 2-2 draw where Keith Stroud conspired against us, on the same weekend my Nan passed away - and the infamous Portsmouth defeat that sealed our fate in 2012.
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Rotherham United away the towards the end of the season rovers went into the conference.
That rovers team that day was half full of kids and they played their hearts out but it was men vs kids and by time Rotherham got their 2nd goal you could see the hurt pain and tears in the kids that er playing for rovers that day.
Could not name any one of the kids today as I guess they are no longer in football ,but seeing some of them in a right mess state of mind while playing that game has never left me.
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That rovers team that day was half full of kids and they played their hearts out but it was men vs kids and by time Rotherham got their 2nd goal you could see the hurt pain and tears in the kids that er playing for rovers that day.
Could not name any one of the kids today as I guess they are no longer in football ,but seeing some of them in a right mess state of mind while playing that game has never left me.
C Davis,
P Moncrieffe (yellow card)
P Edwards (M Hilton, 84),
L Warren,
M Hawthorne,
D George,
H Cunningham,
M Donnelly (R Betts, 80),
P Wilson,
A Mike,
M Russell
heh - what a f**king great line up that was !
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Gilberto Silva. That's all I need to say.
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Cheltenham Town v Doncaster Rovers, 03 May 2008
Only needed a draw, lost 2:1 in the 85 minute after missing an absolute hat full of chances, felt like the end of the world at the time. Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
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There have been many in almost 60 years of following Rovers.
Going onto the pitch after the Colchester game not knowing if we would have a club the next season. That has to be the worst feeling ever.
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I'm with you on this one Idler. I went on the pitch ( after the whistle) and genuinely thought that was " it". Sobbed, sobbed a bit more then roared like a kid who'd been told his dad was a Dingle fan.
The police politely trying to usher us away after the players had waved from the stand.Then leaving us as they knew we just wanted to be together, as we thought for one last time.
Me, my Rovers travelling companion Steve and my son arms round each other... like a funeral.
We all know the story from there on, but that still ranks as the worst moment.Im sure this resonates with other older Donny fans. RTID.
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There have been many in almost 60 years of following Rovers.
Going onto the pitch after the Colchester game not knowing if we would have a club the next season. That has to be the worst feeling ever.
I too was on the pitch, i remember clearly trying to console one of my mates who was in floods, he set me off blubbing, what a horrible, heartbreaking day.
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I only experienced the Richardson years remotely, due to working away.
Lowest point? Too many! emotions would have been different when I was a kid to now, in recent times I would probably say hearing about Birmingham's last gasp equaliser at Bolton to relegate us from the Championship..
Not getting a ticket for Brentford...
Although as a kid it would have been in the season (1982 ish) when I first had a season ticket, and one saturday we had family visit so missed a game, only for them to say (at about 4 o'clock) "hope we're not keeping you from going to football"..!! I think the missed game was a 2-2 draw vs Swindon, the only home game I missed that year..
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The day i heard John Nicholson had died absolutly devastated.
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Cheltenham away for me when I thought we'd blown promotion. Just didn't perform. I was devastated on the coach home and didn't expect us to regroup so well after disappointment and created probably the best memories I have of Southend and Leeds.
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Chester away. It was the match where we were actually relegated from the FL, even though it was inevitable, still hurt like mad when I left the ground.
In terms of mixed emotions Spurs away in the league cup. Ecstatic when we pulled it back to 2-2, totally dejected when they went on to get 7, and to top it all off the stewards opened a gate at the back and all their hoolies descended upon us fists flailing...what a night!
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On the pitch vs Colchester, I remember going o the pitch that day and thinking that it was the end of my team , just about held the tears off
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The whole of the 1997-98 season and the feeling the club was being destroyed. Nothing else comes close.
Other low moments not mentioned above:
The day Laurie Sheffield was sold in 1966
Hearing about Birmingham's 93rd minute equaliser in 2014
Losing 0-8 at home to Nottm Forest (part of 1997-98 above)
The end of the SOD era in 2011, although it had to happen
Watching Rovers lose totally hopelessly 6-0 at Swansea on April Fools' day 1967 in front of my Welsh cousins - redeemed 40 years later to the day on Welsh soil at the Millennium Stadium
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The whole of the 1997-98 season and the feeling the club was being destroyed. Nothing else comes close.
The day Laurie Sheffield was sold in 1966
Hearing about Birmingham's 93rd minute equaliser in 2014
Those 3 for sure and John Nicholsons death
Was outside Gym waiting for PE at Danum when Eddie B I think it was broke the news. I was devastated !
Birmingham (Leicester) game I decided to get away for 3 or so hours as we would either go down or stay up and I did not want to "agonise" and so went to The Old Horns Inn at High Bradfield and walked 3 or 4 miles. Then I had food and a great Pint. I timed it so I got another Beer at Half time as they had SSN on inside. I almost got away with it but I heard 0-0 and was "elated" - then cleared off
I told my Mate to text me the words Wolves or Scunny at the end and I would then "know" and not far from Hillsborough came the Text. Wife looked and I said well ? Scunny says she - damn.
2 Minutes later came a second Text - giving me hope he had conned me and was now going to say lol Its Wolves really ! I would have done that t him for sure ! Wife gets phone and I was genuinely elated - and I said well ? well ?. Birmingham scored with the last kick off the Match. Double damn
John Nicholson was also a leg pull or so I thought. The bloke opposite me was a Fireman and he was always pulling my leg. Rovers related usually. Stand at Town End has burnt down he says - ha ha pull the other one says I - of course it had
So early one morning he came off nights and was trying to convince me that JN and AJ had been in a terrible Car crash and one was dead the other critical. I just would not believe him no matter what he tried but once again unfortunately true - still a very sad time
Missing (as I have posted endlessly) the 10-0 Darlo game though that is a personal misfortune unlike JN's early death
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I'll agree with all of the above.
The most recent for me was Rochdale away last season when they equalised in the 98th minute when the game should have been over.
I was raving mad. Knew we were relegated then.
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posting on here !
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Selfishly it was the Leicester away game. Got drunk on thinking we were going to be safe after all. Fool.
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It was YOUR fault.
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Hearing of the John Nicholson and Alick Jeffrey car accident.
Close of 1997-98 Season.
Missing the 1966 World Cup Final. I was off the Norwegian Coast listening to a very bad radio transmission, felt very homesick.
The departure of Laurie Sheffield was a low point but we got him back and he's still with us at The Keepmoat.
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I remember being devastated when Penny was sacked. First manager I can recall getting the boot. Very mixed feelings after Billy scored 'that' goal v Boro.
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Mid nineties Shrewsbury away in the league cup first round? Drew first leg 1-1 and they had a man sent off early on. Drew second leg 0-0 and again they had a man sent off early on . Rovers dominated but kept trying to walk the ball over the line instead of shooting. Went to extra time but we lost on away goals
Only major time I have heard racist comments from rovers fans to their own players
Long trip home on a Tuesday night. Also on the pitch against Colchester but the damage had already been done at that point
Other low point was Leicester away - relegation was put into perspective by the collapse and death of Ray Dunning RIP. I travelled to the game alone and was invited to a colleagues leaving do all day bender the next day. I just shut myself away and didn't want to mix with anyone
Bound to be low points in the future but doubt anything will match that for me
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A few, that's for sure.
1-2 v Notts County in the relegation from league season, 2nd to last home game..I couldn't bring myself to go to the last one.
More recently the 1-4 at Barnsley against their 10 men.
Still not over the Hartlepool one yet...it may rate up there for financial reasons
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Gilberto Silva. That's all I need to say.
Where did Dowd get that extra time and why didn't Heffernan hold the ball in the corner. I was watching Wenger and he had given up i suppose in Mourinho's eyes i would be 'a voyeur watching a specialist in failure'! :laugh:
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Gilberto Silva. That's all I need to say.
A game turned in the dying seconds by a World Cup winner??
Each to their own, but surely the low point to that adventure was the following fixture on Boxing Day at Forest being thumped 4-0 and their fans singing "you're not famous anymore"..??
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Losing 2-1 at Drill Field to Northwich Victoria. Ian Snodin picked the smallest front line probably in Rovers history with Watson, Goodwin and Caudwell. Mark Hume came off the bench to add some height and muscle but it was too late.
Sat dejected on the terrace with my mate, looking at Northwich's Kop which was about 30 fans huddled under a bus shelter, Rovers sat just above the Conference relegation zone I said "Surely we cant get any lower than this can we!?"
Thankfully, we didn't. Literally the lowest moment!
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Having to endure Stan Boardman as half-time entertainment at Tranmere.
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Rotherham United away the towards the end of the season rovers went into the conference.
That rovers team that day was half full of kids and they played their hearts out but it was men vs kids and by time Rotherham got their 2nd goal you could see the hurt pain and tears in the kids that er playing for rovers that day.
Could not name any one of the kids today as I guess they are no longer in football ,but seeing some of them in a right mess state of mind while playing that game has never left me.
Remember it well, played really well. Was gutted for them.
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Losing 2-1 at Drill Field to Northwich Victoria. Ian Snodin picked the smallest front line probably in Rovers history with Watson, Goodwin and Caudwell. Mark Hume came off the bench to add some height and muscle but it was too late.
Sat dejected on the terrace with my mate, looking at Northwich's Kop which was about 30 fans huddled under a bus shelter, Rovers sat just above the Conference relegation zone I said "Surely we cant get any lower than this can we!?"
Thankfully, we didn't. Literally the lowest moment!
Remember that game well, think it was our second season though so not sure we would have been just above the relegation zone, and if we were I'm pretty sure the game was only in August anyway!
Dire performance and I remember, even though we were used to Belle Vue, that we were practically standing on the pitch. Watson missed a tackle right in front of us and my dad shouted something along the lines of "You're not fit to wear the shirt Watson!" Of course he heard it all perfectly, and I'll never forget the look in his welling up eyes - it was like Old Yeller had just been shot in front of him.
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Lowest point.
Sat in the stands in front of Glyn Snodin at Welling in our first season in the conference and noticed a guy in the ground with his dog !
It just hit me about the awful reality of the situation.
1-1 draw I think.
San Siro stadium ?
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The car crash which killed Nicholson, I was a child at the time and all around were so sad. Cliched I know but that was more than about football.
Then so many humiliations, losing heavily at Bury around 1973(?), Before that losing at home to Halifax in the cup 1-3.
But the real low was the Colchester game, and I was on that pitch and devastated.
And the only time I was in tears was the last game at Belle Vue, when the crowd sang 'we are leaving' to the tune of 'we are sailing'.
Then more embarrassed and irritated by the 'experiment' which turned us into a joke.
I realise now that there are many different types of sadness and watch the Rovers for long enough you will experience most if them.
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Lowest moment?
Remember getting tickets for an away game on the front row.. That was pretty low
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The car crash which killed Nicholson, I was a child at the time and all around were so sad. Cliched I know but that was more than about football.
Then so many humiliations, losing heavily at Bury around 1973(?), Before that losing at home to Halifax in the cup 1-3.
But the real low was the Colchester game, and I was on that pitch and devastated.
And the only time I was in tears was the last game at Belle Vue, when the crowd sang 'we are leaving' to the tune of 'we are sailing'.
Then more embarrassed and irritated by the 'experiment' which turned us into a joke.
I realise now that there are many different types of sadness and watch the Rovers for long enough you will experience most if them.
I think that it was more despair than sadness Longbridge. We really were looking down the barrel at that point. Unlike some of the other clubs that have come out of situations better off.
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Sitting in Main Stand at BV with a fellow 1000 fans watching us play FGR, reality hits we are no longer a FL team, and maybe never will be again.
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Sitting in Main Stand at BV with a fellow 1000 fans watching us play FGR, reality hits we are no longer a FL team, and maybe never will be again.
Went to watch us get beat a FG away and Stayleybrige away. Sad times.
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Lowest point.
Sat in the stands in front of Glyn Snodin at Welling in our first season in the conference and noticed a guy in the ground with his dog !
welling fans' finest moment:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CBna7QuWgAA8_YB.jpg)
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after 65 + years there as probably more lowest moments than high,but for me was waiting to watch england under 23 game on tv then told big alick had broke his leg,follow that the passing of the great man and his funeral.
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Getting smashed 8-0 at Christmas time during the 97/98 season at Leyton Orient and the coach breaking down on the way home. Went to every game home and away that season and that was the one when I almost packed it in altogether.
The Free Press threatening to sue me wasn't overly pleasant for a nieve youngster either!
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Getting smashed 8-0 at Christmas time during the 97/98 season at Leyton Orient and the coach breaking down on the way home. Went to every game home and away that season and that was the one when I almost packed it in altogether.
The Free Press threatening to sue me wasn't overly pleasant for a nieve youngster either!
Why was that Rios?
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Has to be walking behind the mock coffin...Genuinely felt like that was it for the club..Most infuriating was the home game against Halifax in the 90 season...I didn't go as I needed to buy a new car and we were on a big losing streak...I listened to it on the radio while trawling round the dealerships..At h/t we were 3-0 up and I thought balls to this I'm going...So arrived at h/t paid full price to get in....And watched Halifax rattle in a hatfull to win 4-3...
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Strangely I found end of '98 season and relegation a relief as I knew the only way was up, whether we ceased to exist in current form or were rejuvenated in some other form. Loved those first few games under the new regime, that Southport first home game was surreal.
Dark days under The Experiment, remember the Birmingham away game and Sharp looking around thinking wtf are these lot smoking...
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Shit myself away at Notts county a few years ago. That was a definite low point.
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Sitting in Main Stand at BV with a fellow 1000 fans watching us play FGR, reality hits we are no longer a FL team, and maybe never will be again.
What about the Chester match (1997-1998) although we won I was so down hearted to be part of only 749 or so. Can't remember precise figure, no doubt someone will put me right. I wonder how many of that crowd are still with us.
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What about the Chester match (1997-1998) although we won I was so down hearted to be part of only 749 or so. Can't remember precise figure, no doubt someone will put me right. I wonder how many of that crowd are still with us.
losing at home to Barnet on a Tuesday night in front of another sub-1000 crowd was fairly grim too, but - on the up side in that same season - that win at Peterborough was f**king ace :-)
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Sitting in Main Stand at BV with a fellow 1000 fans watching us play FGR, reality hits we are no longer a FL team, and maybe never will be again.
What about the Chester match (1997-1998) although we won I was so down hearted to be part of only 749 or so. Can't remember precise figure, no doubt someone will put me right. I wonder how many of that crowd are still with us.
me. Me , ME
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There have been many in almost 60 years of following Rovers.
Going onto the pitch after the Colchester game not knowing if we would have a club the next season. That has to be the worst feeling ever.
I too was on the pitch, i remember clearly trying to console one of my mates who was in floods, he set me off blubbing, what a horrible, heartbreaking day.
I was on there too. My mate Daz and I decided to clamber over the fences to the condemned Town End terracing to stand in the very spots one last time where our dads had brought us to our first ever games. We roared like babies. I was convinced I'd just watched my last ever rovers game.
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Has to be walking behind the mock coffin...Genuinely felt like that was it for the club..Most infuriating was the home game against Halifax in the 90 season...I didn't go as I needed to buy a new car and we were on a big losing streak...I listened to it on the radio while trawling round the dealerships..At h/t we were 3-0 up and I thought balls to this I'm going...So arrived at h/t paid full price to get in....And watched Halifax rattle in a hatfull to win 4-3...
Was at that game, if ever there was a game of two halves. Absolutely soul destroying & as weird as it was as soon as they pulled one back you just knew what was going to happen.
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I started watching us regularly our first season in the conference so just missed the Richardson era. My 3 worst/most gutting feelings after a game were
1. Getting relegated at Leicester
2. The 2-1 defeat away at Brighton first game of the season a few years ago.
3. The game where 10 man Barnsley beat us 4-1 at oakwell
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That Oakwell defeat where Jamal Cambell-Ryce tore us to sheds?
Didn't that young lad score for them also? His name escapes me
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Ruben Nobel-lazaras
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I was at the Chester match ,might have been the match we won with a goalkeepers clearance hitting Mike Smith and going in
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2. The 2-1 defeat away at Brighton first game of the season a few years ago.
ahhh - lewis dunk - take a bow, you twȧt !
not sure who's the biggest ȧrsehole - him or ashley vickers....
i see dunk managed twenty odd games for brighton this season, let's hope that costa or benteke dance round him and make him look a cretin on live tv next year, and then smash his jaw or eye socket with an elbow for good measure...
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That Oakwell defeat where Jamal Cambell-Ryce tore us to sheds?
Didn't that young lad score for them also? His name escapes me
Yeah we were one nil up and then Lewis guy went through on goal and I think it was Darren Moore brought him down and got sent off. From then on they destroyed us with Campbell Ryce the main culprit.
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2. The 2-1 defeat away at Brighton first game of the season a few years ago.
ahhh - lewis dunk - take a bow, you twȧt !
not sure who's the biggest ȧrsehole - him or ashley vickers....
i see dunk managed twenty odd games for brighton this season, let's hope that costa or benteke dance round him and make him look a cretin on live tv next year, and then smash his jaw or eye socket with an elbow for good measure...
Yep Lewis dunk the d*ck. The events of that game pretty much destroyed our start to the season resulting in SOD losing his job, and the whole willie mckay experiment taking place.
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Getting smashed 8-0 at Christmas time during the 97/98 season at Leyton Orient and the coach breaking down on the way home. Went to every game home and away that season and that was the one when I almost packed it in altogether.
The Free Press threatening to sue me wasn't overly pleasant for a nieve youngster either!
Why was that Rios?
They weren't overly enamoured with me slagging them off in the fanzine. If I'd been older and wiser I'd have told them to f*** off but when you're 19 you don't really know any better! Their coverage of the whole Richardson thing was appalling and still rankles to this day.
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That Oakwell defeat where Jamal Cambell-Ryce tore us to sheds?
Didn't that young lad score for them also? His name escapes me
Yeah we were one nil up and then Lewis guy went through on goal and I think it was Darren Moore brought him down and got sent off. From then on they destroyed us with Campbell Ryce the main culprit.
I have said to this day that LG actually slowed down so DM could bring him down rather that him having to go one on oe with the Keeper
And by god you are right Campbell - Rice sorted us out after that
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Getting smashed 8-0 at Christmas time during the 97/98 season at Leyton Orient and the coach breaking down on the way home. Went to every game home and away that season and that was the one when I almost packed it in altogether.
The Free Press threatening to sue me wasn't overly pleasant for a nieve youngster either!
Why was that Rios?
They weren't overly enamoured with me slagging them off in the fanzine. If I'd been older and wiser I'd have told them to f*** off but when you're 19 you don't really know any better! Their coverage of the whole Richardson thing was appalling and still rankles to this day.
Yes it still annoys me too.
No contact from the DFP apart from a threat then?
I remember John Helm having a pee against the side of the main stand at one home game. Those toilets were crowded and awful,
I said to him "Can't you do anything John"? and he just shrugged his shoulders. Nobody anywhere cared but the fans.
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DFP Today is still shite and I will say it in capital letters DFP TODAY IS STILL SHITE
If they want to sue me they can take it out of my nose
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Lowest point.
Sat in the stands in front of Glyn Snodin at Welling in our first season in the conference and noticed a guy in the ground with his dog !
welling fans' finest moment:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CBna7QuWgAA8_YB.jpg)
Have you got all of DFR archived, Herman? Jeez, that took me back.
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Have you got all of DFR archived, Herman? Jeez, that took me back.
heh - probably half of it, though that pic wasn't a DFR effort - supposedly Welling fans taking the piss out of a Maidstone United keeper after letting in a soft goal - picture's definitely at Welling - that's the very thin terrace at the Danson Park end of the ground....
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2. The 2-1 defeat away at Brighton first game of the season a few years ago.
ahhh - lewis dunk - take a bow, you twȧt !
not sure who's the biggest ȧrsehole - him or ashley vickers....
i see dunk managed twenty odd games for brighton this season, let's hope that costa or benteke dance round him and make him look a cretin on live tv next year, and then smash his jaw or eye socket with an elbow for good measure...
I didn't think a whole season could be ruined by one game until that Brighton game. Heartbreaking defeat and lost our two best players through injury. I really think that if we won that game and Sharp and Mason stayed fit that season would have been a whole lot different. We were about to build the team around Mason, who ended the previous season looking a class act.
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Did you see our back four that day?
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Why do so many people misremember that Brighton game as Sharp and Mason getting injured? It was Sharp and James Hayter, Mason was crocked in our first round League Cup tie at the Keepmoat a few days later.
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Richardson and Weaver make the lowest point :
When they made the main stand their own by banning all fans from being in there so they could feel safe.
Weaver bringing in his next door neighbour as goalkeeper and surrounding himself with local heavies to protect himself.
Will always remember his arrogance to the fans.
Never thought we would ever get rid of them.
Sitting on the pitch at the Colchester game hoping we could somehow stop the inevitable :rtid:
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Why do so many people misremember that Brighton game as Sharp and Mason getting injured? It was Sharp and James Hayter, Mason was crocked in our first round League Cup tie at the Keepmoat a few days later.
The architect of that thuggery was Gus Poyet, cost us the season a horrible man to use such tactics, wonder where they came from. I've normally felt sorry when someone gets the sack but on his occasion it was time to celebrate.
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are you telling me DFP has ACTUALLY discovered DRFC I used to wonder why there was never a football match report in DFP
:headbang:
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The Cheltenham result was a very low ebb, also obviously the debacle of a season that sent us out of the league! I know they're obvious choices but they were real downers especially the Cheltenham one - thank God the 3 games after that were so amazing!
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Did you see our back four that day?
Naylor was no good but Friend & Spurr were good and Dumbuya was showing excellent promise.
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Dumbuya turned out to be cack.
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Dumbuya turned out to be cack.
He did yes.
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There have been many in almost 60 years of following Rovers.
Going onto the pitch after the Colchester game not knowing if we would have a club the next season. That has to be the worst feeling ever.
Totally this. I walked off the pitch thinking that was it all over. Over 100 years of history going down the pan. I remember turning around as I walked off on the pop side thinking, 'thanks for the memories.'
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2. The 2-1 defeat away at Brighton first game of the season a few years ago.
ahhh - lewis dunk - take a bow, you twȧt !
not sure who's the biggest ȧrsehole - him or ashley vickers....
i see dunk managed twenty odd games for brighton this season, let's hope that costa or benteke dance round him and make him look a cretin on live tv next year, and then smash his jaw or eye socket with an elbow for good measure...
I didn't think a whole season could be ruined by one game until that Brighton game. Heartbreaking defeat and lost our two best players through injury. I really think that if we won that game and Sharp and Mason stayed fit that season would have been a whole lot different. We were about to build the team around Mason, who ended the previous season looking a class act.
I do remember the Brighton fans chortling on the bus that takes you to the car park after the match until a Rovers fan was candid about Dunk
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Dumbuya turned out to be cack.
He did yes.
But ended up in the Scottish Premier League !?!? 'Nuff said !
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Bearing in mind I've lived away from Donny for 32 years I have less " I was there " moments to choose from.
The '98/99 defeat away to Hayes specifically ( in fact they did the double over us if memory serves), & that season in general sticks in my mind as very grim indeed. Relegation & then just about keeping our heads above water in the Conference was very very worrying.
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Not my lowest moment,but one thats has always stuck in my mind as depressing was,Bristol Rovers at home,in the Cusack days,late-eighties,an October midweek night game,at bottom of league one,think we only had about 1300 turn up,Torrential downpouring virtually all match,strong cold gusts of wind,standing downwind at side of mainstand to try and stay dry,think they had Gary Penrice playing for them then,with is moustache and after a comparatively good game from us,we just lost 1-0 and think Penrice scored.Nigel Martyn might have been their goalie too.Thoroughly depressive :suicide: :lol:
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I was at that first match at the San Siro too Philsky. A nasty, damp day. But that wasn't my worst experience tbh. I was a bit tempted to say away at Macclesfield Town as that was the first match of that awful relegation season. My Dad and I went together. It was obvious to the pair of us that that side was going to have a hard, hard season. Poor old Darren Brookes at centre half. He tried and tried and tried - but he was never going to be a league footballer. I've never forgiven Firestarter and that Gob on a Stick sidekick of his for persuading that poor lad to give up his job to play for the Rovers. But the worst has to be away at Cardiff that very same season. I went with a Cardiff mate. Sometime in the second half he turned to me and said words to the effect of 'If I didn't know better I'd say half your team are trying to score at the wrong end'. He was hardly wrong. We lost 7-1: the gifts and misplaced passes from some of the Rovers that day warranted an investigation by the FL as far as I was concerned. I am still convinced, to this day, that there was soemthing very, very odd indeed about that coterie of players from south Manchester that ended up at BV. Which one was it turned up driving a Porsche? Lots of stories about drugs and money laundering floating about back then...
BobG
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Sitting in Main Stand at BV with a fellow 1000 fans watching us play FGR, reality hits we are no longer a FL team, and maybe never will be again.
Went to watch us get beat a FG away and Stayleybrige away. Sad times.
if you jumped up at welling you hit your head on the roof which was made up of scaffolding poles and metal sheeting about 6ft high and bogs with salon doors for some strange reason
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I was at that first match at the San Siro too Philsky. A nasty, damp day. But that wasn't my worst experience tbh. I was a bit tempted to say away at Macclesfield Town as that was the first match of that awful relegation season. My Dad and I went together. It was obvious to the pair of us that that side was going to have a hard, hard season. Poor old Darren Brookes at centre half. He tried and tried and tried - but he was never going to be a league footballer. I've never forgiven Firestarter and that Gob on a Stick sidekick of his for persuading that poor lad to give up his job to play for the Rovers. But the worst has to be away at Cardiff that very same season. I went with a Cardiff mate. Sometime in the second half he turned to me and said words to the effect of 'If I didn't know better I'd say half your team are trying to score at the wrong end'. He was hardly wrong. We lost 7-1: the gifts and misplaced passes from some of the Rovers that day warranted an investigation by the FL as far as I was concerned. I am still convinced, to this day, that there was soemthing very, very odd indeed about that coterie of players from south Manchester that ended up at BV. Which one was it turned up driving a Porsche? Lots of stories about drugs and money laundering floating about back then...
BobG
It was the second away match Bob.
We lost at Shrewsbury the first match of the season.
By the time we played Macclesfield we had also conceded 8 to Forest and 5 to Peterborough, both at home.
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Sorry. I meant the first time we played at the San Siro. Not that it was the first away match of the season. Not very well expressed. :(
Cheers
Bob
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All the ups and downs of games good and bad were not important as I left Belle Vue after the last game, we hung around for a bit and then left and as I pass the old ground area most days, I saw them tear apart my life's memories of DRFC and build boxes. If I had won the Big Lottery I would have personally paid for the improvements that were needed to make it a very good ground which would be Belle Vue for ever.
It may have been cold and wet but it was home, IMO the KM is colder sitting on concrete, yes a modern ground but not the same.
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I don't normally travel past BelleVue but it was my Mums funeral last week and we had to drive past to the crem, pointed it out to my missus and it reminded us of when we met behind the donny end goals all those years back, brought a tear to her eye. Not as many as it brings to my eye after all these years!
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Apart from the obvious, I've had loads of low points.
The first that I can recall was a game at home against Brentford in 1982/3. We were 4-0 up at half time and ended up drawing 4-4. I was absolutely gutted.
Billy Bremmner going to Leeds in '85 was another low point. He was in the process of building a really, really good side that I was convinced were strong contenders for promotion into Division 2. Unfortunately, BB left and quite a few players went at the same time thus the team was pretty much dismantled.
The youth cup final in '88. We had possibly the greatest set of young players in our history and faced Arsenal in the 2 legged final. We were a match for Arsenal in every department except in attack where Kevin Campbell completely tore the Rovers apart. We then proceeded to sell the youth players one by one to anyone who wanted them and the potential legacy disappeared.
Missing THAT goal by Kieron Brady at Scunny cos I was having a piss
Losing to Tranmere in the Leyland Daf semi final
The experiment. I was one of the few who thought it was a good idea. I thought that it was an exciting and innovative way of potentially pushing through the Championship. I guess that's why I'm a welder and not a football chairman/manager.
There's plenty more but I'm coming over all depressed thinking about them.