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Quote from: drfchound on March 20, 2017, 09:19:56 pmQuote from: Herman Hessian on March 20, 2017, 04:46:31 pmQuote from: drfchound on March 20, 2017, 04:09:12 pmThe thread title is most disliked derby neighbour.good luck on unambiguously defining what constitutes a derby then, fella....Well Herman, despite the put down, what I wrote is fact.Seemingly, Leeds are the second choice on here of most disliked derby neighbour.......fella.oooh - someone's touchy !my post wasn't meant to be in any way derogatory (and if i want to couch something as a put down, it's not likely to be open to misinterpretation to be fair) - all i meant was that if you were nit-picking over what constitutes a derby, you'll have a hard time as it seem to always provoke disagreement on any number of levels - I actually thought you were taking issue with the mention of Lincoln in that capacity...FWIW i think for a derby to be remotely meaningful it has to have some real siginificance for the supporters of both sides involved every time the two teams meet (ie not just crying when getting embarassed at wembley), the white shite and either set of pigs simply don't give a flying one about us in the great scheme of things, and probably get no more vexed or gleeful at getting their arses handed to them or winning against us as they do any other game. obviously the yorkshire post tend to get terribly excited any time that two teams from the county meet, and said matches tend to involve a good turn out and decent atmosphere simply because of the reduced travelling for away fans, but i doubt whether there are fewer than twenty or so other teams that leeds fans would name as being more significant rivals that rovers (bearing in mind that they still have delusions of grandeur and still rank united, chelsea and the like as still bearing some sort of relevance to their existence for some bizarre reason)the OP probably hit the nail on the head saying that a respondants age has a lot to do with his answer to the question of who's considered to be our real derby day opposition; when i was a nipper it was barnsley that seemed to draw the biggest crowds to BV - Rotherham always seemed to be a division or two higher than us; with the demographic of the forum posters now consisting of more folk whose memories consist more of championship games against leeds over the last decade, it's only natural that they perceive them as "proper" rivals, hence their "popularity" (sic) in the votingbut then i just write shite most of the time, so i wdnt get too vexed about itsport...
Quote from: Herman Hessian on March 20, 2017, 04:46:31 pmQuote from: drfchound on March 20, 2017, 04:09:12 pmThe thread title is most disliked derby neighbour.good luck on unambiguously defining what constitutes a derby then, fella....Well Herman, despite the put down, what I wrote is fact.Seemingly, Leeds are the second choice on here of most disliked derby neighbour.......fella.
Quote from: drfchound on March 20, 2017, 04:09:12 pmThe thread title is most disliked derby neighbour.good luck on unambiguously defining what constitutes a derby then, fella....
The thread title is most disliked derby neighbour.
i am 64 years old
The thread title is different to the question. I picked Leeds as I hate them the most because of all the cretins from Doncaster. Then again based on that it's a local derby half of donny supports them
You not seen Donny platform when they're at home? Pubs when in Donny when they're on sky?
There was no donnywhites to be seen on donny train station in the 1980s when all the Chelsea lot filled up all leeds bound trains from London kings X via donny.Unless they was on pre 09:30 trains from donny which is possible.Saying that recall sitting on one packed Leeds bound train from kings X.it was that packed Chelsea fans were up in the luggage racks and the window and carriage that I was sat against got petrol bombed 3times as our train pulled into Wakefield west gate .That was serious shit ,but we all had a good laugh about it.
Just a carriage full of chelsea mates .When the window was on fire some Chelsea face shouted out "facking typical Leeds can only fight with petrol bombs and not their fists" which type of broke the tension and all and sundry burst out laughing .The look on the poor normall British rail passengers was stressing and the Chelsea lot saw this and got busy moving them into a different carriage.
Quote from: not on facebook on March 21, 2017, 09:54:17 pmJust a carriage full of chelsea mates .When the window was on fire some Chelsea face shouted out "facking typical Leeds can only fight with petrol bombs and not their fists" which type of broke the tension and all and sundry burst out laughing .The look on the poor normall British rail passengers was stressing and the Chelsea lot saw this and got busy moving them into a different carriage.Oh I see, cheers mate!
As a Conisbrough lad who started watching Rovers in 1981 it's a no-brainer for me: Rotherham every time. I've no doubt that many whose first games were in the 1970s will feel similar about Barnsley.York was a strong local rivalry in the Division 4 promotion season, but I always felt there was mutual respect between the clubs. Rotherham on the other hand has always been a needle match.