What is the most Tinpot

[Sammy Chung was King]

Thing you have seen while following rovers, or at non league games?
Things that have made you laugh that you can’t believe the club has done.

[IDM]

I remember one season, maybe mid-late 80s where the goal nets didn’t have any stanchion.  The top of the net was tied by string to poles but there was no shape like we have now, just a half tent like shape.  Meant a high shot could hit the net before all the ball had crossed the line.

I thought that was poor at the time.

Pissing in a trough in a roofless walled enclosure at BV doesn’t count however, as I expect that would have been common at other grounds at some point too..

Oh and possibly the “lunar surface” that pretended to be the car park at BV in the 80s…

[Sammy Chung was King]

You could drop into one of those moon holes in the car park and not be seen for a fortnight.

[Prez]

When we played Leigh RMI away in the conference days, the catering had sold out before the match started. When we asked them why, I swear they said they had only budgeted 20 burgers and drinks. Also Scarborough away, when the tannoy announcer said they were taking booking for the mini bus for the next away game.

[Danmckay456]

You’re WAP player recommendations

[Goole Rover]

Don't know about laugh the most stupid thing they did that made me cry was sacking SOD.

[Sammy Chung was King]

You’re WAP player recommendations

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[DonnyBazR0ver]

Belle Vue. Might have been half time at a game late conference era.

Announcer who's name escapes me took to the microphone.and said summat like "We're hearing lots of foul and abusive language coming from the popular side. May we remind you we are a family club and it won't be tolerated!"

Silence for 15 secs then mumbling on the tonnoy could be heard then "Is this f*cking microphone still switched on!?"

Cue howls of hysterical laughter...

[DonnyBazR0ver]

Another conference away game. Can't remember where.

Our lads came running out for the prematch warm up. All going through their routines, sprinting, stretching etc. Only after about 5 mins of this, we realised we didn't have any balls!

Home team took pity on us and kicked us a ball from their half and our lads just did the best they could with the one ball.

Don't know if we just didn't have any or the kit man simply forgot the bag of balls!

[turnbull for england]

Belle Vue. Might have been half time at a game late conference era.

Announcer who's name escapes me took to the microphone.and said summat like "We're hearing lots of foul and abusive language coming from the popular side. May we remind you we are a family club and it won't be tolerated!"

Silence for 15 secs then mumbling on the tonnoy could be heard then "Is this f*cking microphone still switched on!?"

Cue howls of hysterical laughter...

Was it still Crystal Ken then ?

[DonnyBazR0ver]

Not sure if it was Ken. Who took over from Ken?

[Bollinger]

I don’t think Ken had words like that in his vocabulary. Too much of an old fashioned gent.

Though in one home game against Watford in the old 4th Division he did his bit announcing the game and said ‘and a warm welcome to the supporters of Watford……both of you’

So he wasn’t above a bit of comedy sarcasm.

[roversdude]

Scarborough away when they announced they were running a minibus to an away game

Sorry Prez just noticed you got there first lol

[Donnywolf]

Rod Stewart impersonator at Belle Vue

[selby]

  Walking into BV for the Brighton game I think. the tightest person in the world now driving trains in Australia was the steward at the time, asked how he was getting on, F*****G awful, have you seen the keeper? was the reply.
   It was the Sunday League next door neighbour we pulled in for the game warming up.
   It is funny all the years later, but it was  so serious at the time.

[Bentley Bullet]

You could drop into one of those moon holes in the car park and not be seen for a fortnight.

One of those moon holes was so deep it had an American flag stuck next to it.

[idler]

You could drop into one of those moon holes in the car park and not be seen for a fortnight.

One of those moon holes was so deep it had an American flag stuck next to it.

Didn't somebody yank it out?

[Bentley Bullet]

I heard the yanks were gonna stick another flag inside the ground but there was no atmosphere.

[goalkick]

Leigh again. The gents toilet was a disgusting.  Was made out of corrugated sheets and was straight into the soil and ran down into a stream.

[Chris Black come back]

Obviously 97/98 is packed full of examples. The hand drawn club badge on the shirt is the most obvious but the folded A4 ‘programme’ was another low point that season.

Some fairly suspect activity by JR as well in the conference. More than one occasion from memory he paraded ‘clients’ of Transform on the pitch. I never went in to them but the Portakabin ‘executive’ suites behind the Town End always looked highly suspect.

[welloffside]

CBCB

The Portacabin 'Executive Boxes'.   I remember clambering up some steps (scaffold pole supports if my memory is right) to have a look.  They were second hand, had had an white emulsion mop over on the inside. A table, half a dozen plastic chairs and a DRFC team picture on the side wall.
I vaguely think there might have been a tannoy speaker to enhance the Belle Vue Experience. The one I saw was musty and had Balfour Beatty or something under the jaunty red paint.

I remember thinking,  " I can imagine some wealthy Saudi businessman coming here to entertain clients"   As I remember no one stopped me. I had a nose and left.

I also remember climbing over the fence at Belle Vue. A police officer stopped me and said
 "Oi you, get back in"

[TommyC]

Dave Parker provided many cringeworthy moments. Was it him that introduced Southport as South Park?

JR coming on as a player.

Also, the slogan "Going4It" was widely piss-taken by my non-Rovers supporing friends at the time and in hindsight that was cringe too. I don't think delivered on it that season either.

Controversial one here.... the antics when we beat Hull to the title. Parading the trophy in front of them and the plane stunt. Funny, but still made us look a little tinpot. They didn't take it well mind which sort of made it better/excusable.

[TommyC]

Just thought of another one. Who can ever forget "the greatest player ever to grace the Belle Vue turf...."

RIP Mirsad Bubalsovic.

[drfchound]

Obviously 97/98 is packed full of examples. The hand drawn club badge on the shirt is the most obvious but the folded A4 ‘programme’ was another low point that season.

Some fairly suspect activity by JR as well in the conference. More than one occasion from memory he paraded ‘clients’ of Transform on the pitch. I never went in to them but the Portakabin ‘executive’ suites behind the Town End always looked highly suspect.

Haha, I had one of those “executive boxes” through my business for a couple of seasons.
You didn’t miss much by not going in them.

[Alan Southstand]

The goal that wasn’t a goal? Anyone remember that? I can’t remember where it was but the ball slipped through the underside of the back of the net and the ref must have thought it’d gone off the side netting!

[Campsall rover]

Don't know about laugh the most stupid thing they did that made me cry was sacking SOD.

At the time it didn’t seem very stupid. The team had 1 point from 7 games and was playing with no plan B
We had been worked out by the other teams and we didn’t have an answer.
Sharp and Hayter getting injured at Brighton in the 1st game was a big factor of course. So in that respect SoD was very unlucky. We just didn’t have the replacements.

Yes maybe SoD may have turned it round and if he had stayed on, who knows. We never will.
We would never have had that farcical “Experiment” which ultimately took us down anyway.

I just think JR panicked as he could not bear the thought of going back to League 1
But we all said on the coach after the defeat at Derby ( 7th game ) that SoD had lost the plot and the writing seemed to be on the wall.

In Hindsight i wish he hadn’t been sacked. But hindsight eh!!!

Although I did enjoy the following season 12/13 under Saunders/Flynn. Yes the football wasn’t for the purist but that was a proper team in the true sense of the word. 
We may never have had that day at Brentford if SoD had never been sacked.   

[MachoMadness]

The goal that wasn’t a goal? Anyone remember that? I can’t remember where it was but the ball slipped through the underside of the back of the net and the ref must have thought it’d gone off the side netting!

Believe this was away at Brentford. Possibly in a cup match? We still won in the end fortunately.

I remember seeing the bit on that documentary about 97/98 where the lock on the changing room door bust and most of the players got stuck inside.

Those f**king bins that were upturned next to Belle Vue forever.

The bootham crescent away end in its entirety.

[Campsall rover]

The goal that wasn’t a goal? Anyone remember that? I can’t remember where it was but the ball slipped through the underside of the back of the net and the ref must have thought it’d gone off the side netting!

That was also Brentford. Mark McCammon scored it. I was there and it definitely went in and through a hole in the net. We won 4-0 anyway. Think it was an FA cup match. Not 100% on that. We beat Brentford 3 times that season. Now look at them!!!

[turnbull for england]

Was it Aldershots ground you walked through a park to get to,  open on one side to the cricket pitch. Harsh to say tinpot  more quaint

[moses]

When we had the three stars put on the shirt when we won League 2 (as it is now).
My dad asked me what the three stars were for and thought I would cringe myself to death when I saw the look in his eyes.