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Quote from: RedJ on February 18, 2018, 03:14:12 pmQuote from: glosterred on February 18, 2018, 01:43:35 pmOur biggest rival has got to be the team we play next, so Rotherscum next Saturday and then Bury the week after.COYR What a load of shite this is. We don't have a rivalry with every team we play. By that logic, Arsenal were at one point our biggest rivals.[/quote#You can only play one team at a time, therefore the game you are playing next has to be the biggest rivalry, next week its Rotherscum followed by Bury. What the other local team are doing or who the other local teams are playing doesn't matter one jot if the Rovers are not playing them, therefore my logic is that the team you play next is your biggest rivalry because there is nothing the Rovers can do to influence those gameQuote from: RedJ on February 18, 2018, 03:14:12 pmQuote from: glosterred on February 18, 2018, 01:43:35 pmOur biggest rival has got to be the team we play next, so Rotherscum next Saturday and then Bury the week after.COYR What a load of shite this is. We don't have a rivalry with every team we play. By that logic, Arsenal were at one point our biggest rivals.Not shite at all, if the thread title was who was our biggest local rival then it would be the likes of Rotherham or Barnsley but its not so our biggest rivals has to be the next team we play.COYRSo for the record were Arsenal our biggest rivals back in September?
Quote from: glosterred on February 18, 2018, 01:43:35 pmOur biggest rival has got to be the team we play next, so Rotherscum next Saturday and then Bury the week after.COYR What a load of shite this is. We don't have a rivalry with every team we play. By that logic, Arsenal were at one point our biggest rivals.[/quote#You can only play one team at a time, therefore the game you are playing next has to be the biggest rivalry, next week its Rotherscum followed by Bury. What the other local team are doing or who the other local teams are playing doesn't matter one jot if the Rovers are not playing them, therefore my logic is that the team you play next is your biggest rivalry because there is nothing the Rovers can do to influence those gameQuote from: RedJ on February 18, 2018, 03:14:12 pmQuote from: glosterred on February 18, 2018, 01:43:35 pmOur biggest rival has got to be the team we play next, so Rotherscum next Saturday and then Bury the week after.COYR What a load of shite this is. We don't have a rivalry with every team we play. By that logic, Arsenal were at one point our biggest rivals.Not shite at all, if the thread title was who was our biggest local rival then it would be the likes of Rotherham or Barnsley but its not so our biggest rivals has to be the next team we play.COYR
Our biggest rival has got to be the team we play next, so Rotherscum next Saturday and then Bury the week after.COYR
Quote from: glosterred on February 18, 2018, 01:43:35 pmOur biggest rival has got to be the team we play next, so Rotherscum next Saturday and then Bury the week after.COYR What a load of shite this is. We don't have a rivalry with every team we play. By that logic, Arsenal were at one point our biggest rivals.
Generational thing. Rovers gained a new generation of supporters after 2002. Rotherham gained a new generation of supporters after 2011. In the broad period from 1998 til today we have only played Rotherham 5 times competitively. You have to go back to the 80s to find when we last played them regularly. If we set an arbitrary cut-off point of being 7 years old to really comprehend what a 'rivalry' is then you need to be at least 27 (probably 4/5 years older in reality) to appreciate any of it. Because there's not been enough competitive games between the two.Whereas since 1998, we've played Barnsley 19 times and Scunthorpe 22 times. For me these two are our rivals. Barnsley more so because I've personally had a few bad experiences with their fans and generally they are thick as shite, and miserable.
Well said Campsall! I can't understand the hatred between two sets of fans when all we're really doing is supporting our local clubs. I just hope, well obviously that we win and that it goe off without any violence.