What is the most Tinpot

[Campsall rover]

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

Feethams at Darlington had cricket pitch to one side of the Football ground didn’t it? Sure it did.

Turf Moor Burnley has cricket pitch next to the football ground. That’s certainly not tin pot although it has improved considerably since our games against them in the 1980’s.

Never been to The Recreation ground at Aldershot so don’t know about cricket pitch at that one.

[MachoMadness]

Speaking of Darlo, I'll always remember going to watch us play in this shiny new 30,000 all seater up there, with about 3000 home fans in it. We got beat an all.

[IDM]

Getting into the away end at Luton through the backyards of houses, and then the non existent legroom..

I was also surprised at the very small concourse area at Bramhall Lane, compared to the size of the stand..

[Campsall rover]

Speaking of Darlo, I'll always remember going to watch us play in this shiny new 30,000 all seater up there, with about 3000 home fans in it. We got beat an all.

Mistake by Morley playing at right back. He was useless in that position. Lost 1-0
Yes remember it well. 1st season after promotion from the Conference. 1.400 from Donny and gate 4.400 so your bang on with that 3.000 home fans.

[Prez]

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

Feethams at Darlington had cricket pitch to one side of the Football ground didn’t it? Sure it did.

Turf Moor Burnley has cricket pitch next to the football ground. That’s certainly not tin pot although it has improved considerably since our games against them in the 1980’s.

Never been to The Recreation ground at Aldershot so don’t know about cricket pitch at that one.

Northanpton"s old ground was a cricket pitch,

[Campsall rover]

Getting into the away end at Luton through the backyards of houses, and then the non existent legroom..

I was also surprised at the very small concourse area at Bramhall Lane, compared to the size of the stand..

And no leg room in that Bramhall Lane end stand. It’s awful.

[RoversAlias]

This one might not be popular but...

The "Rovers Till I Die" printing on the shirts when John Ryan was in charge. It looked naff and was rather redundant.

[Campsall rover]

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

Feethams at Darlington had cricket pitch to one side of the Football ground didn’t it? Sure it did.

Turf Moor Burnley has cricket pitch next to the football ground. That’s certainly not tin pot although it has improved considerably since our games against them in the 1980’s.

Never been to The Recreation ground at Aldershot so don’t know about cricket pitch at that one.

Northanpton"s old ground was a cricket pitch,

Crikey almost forgot that one and my Brother lives in Northampton.
Bramhall Lane of course also.

[Donnywolf]

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!!!

The late and very great Harry Gration did a piece on Look North about it.

I didn't know what he was on about at first and thought he was saying watch this for a glaring miss. I then got confused when Marky McCammon netted it but then I saw it want allowed by Ref

Turned out he meant the Ref had had the glaring miss

[Donnywolf]

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

Feethams at Darlington had cricket pitch to one side of the Football ground didn’t it? Sure it did.

Turf Moor Burnley has cricket pitch next to the football ground. That’s certainly not tin pot although it has improved considerably since our games against them in the 1980’s.

Never been to The Recreation ground at Aldershot so don’t know about cricket pitch at that one.

Northanpton"s old ground was a cricket pitch,

Search best Stadium visited ... I posted photo of it with the peculiar Kop ending half way behind goal

Good write up on Donbass region as well by someone .. sorry can't remember who and z
I only just read it !

[idler]

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!!!

I was there Campsall and I'm sure that we only won 1-0, a Lewis Guy goal.

[Beerseller]

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

Feethams at Darlington had cricket pitch to one side of the Football ground didn’t it? Sure it did.

Turf Moor Burnley has cricket pitch next to the football ground. That’s certainly not tin pot although it has improved considerably since our games against them in the 1980’s.

Never been to The Recreation ground at Aldershot so don’t know about cricket pitch at that one.

I don’t remember Aldershot having a cricket pitch. The park area was by the main road past the ground and as I remember, the other end (the away end when I went) exited onto what was effectively heathland - or so it appeared.
The tinpot thing I remember about Aldershot was their ballboys refusing to fetch the ball from a huge puddle so one of our players had to use a long wooden bench to walk across the puddle to fetch the ball.

[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!!!

I was there Campsall and I'm sure that we only won 1-0, a Lewis Guy goal.

You know Idler I think you are right. It was the FA Cup wasn’t it. 

The 4-0 was the League game that season on a Tues night. Could have been 8
Brentford were very poor that season and we’re relegated to League 2.  Were in financial difficulties also.
Season 2005/06 I am sure it was. Will Google head to head with Brentford. 

[Campsall rover]

Your correct Idler.

It was in fact 2006/07 season. SoD’s first as manager.

Cup game Nov 06, 1-0 and league game following month Dec 06, 4-0 both at Griffin Park.

[idler]

To be honest I had forgotten the 4-0 win but well remembered driving over to Donny and then the bus down for the  cup game.
A poor game but the hand pulled London Pride in the Griffin Hotel was very nice.

[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

Feethams at Darlington had cricket pitch to one side of the Football ground didn’t it? Sure it did.

Turf Moor Burnley has cricket pitch next to the football ground. That’s certainly not tin pot although it has improved considerably since our games against them in the 1980’s.

Never been to The Recreation ground at Aldershot so don’t know about cricket pitch at that one.

I don’t remember Aldershot having a cricket pitch. The park area was by the main road past the ground and as I remember, the other end (the away end when I went) exited onto what was effectively heathland - or so it appeared.
The tinpot thing I remember about Aldershot was their ballboys refusing to fetch the ball from a huge puddle so one of our players had to use a long wooden bench to walk across the puddle to fetch the ball.

I was confusing Northamptons ground with Aldershot , Prez mentioned it above and that's my memory refreshed cheers

[Fur Calf]

A snowy owl flying over the pitch from the Pop Stand which happened quite a few times, it also urinated as it left the stand.

[Upton Rover]

The board had a funny period in the 2020s where they thought that employing inexperienced manager’s ( 3 in a row) and it never worked for us, look at us now in 2027 in the championship play offs all because of a decent we’ll proven manager.
We can dream

[Silkscarf]

The ‘Media Manager’ posted “wtach this sapce” on the DROS website when he first started. It summed everything up rather beautifully.

[Wiltshire Exile]

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.

Well, that’s not to be sniffed at!   

[Bentley Bullet]

Bradford City. I queued up for 20 minutes for a burger and when I finally got it it was just a breadbun with no bloody burger in it.

Dead livid I was.

[TommyC]

I once was given a cup of milk and warm water with no tea bag at Belle Vue. When he heard what was happening one of the old regulars on the Main Stand Terrace (short little red faced round bloke, glasses, ginger hair, always very shouty) who always stood in front of us turns around and says "You need to tek the c**t back young un". Wise words at the time I thought.

[Lincoln Rover]

Welling away. Tannoy was broke so they wrote the team changes on a blackboard

[Draytonian III]

I once was given a cup of milk and warm water with no tea bag at Belle Vue. When he heard what was happening one of the old regulars on the Main Stand Terrace (short little red faced round bloke, glasses, ginger hair, always very shouty) who always stood in front of us turns around and says "You need to tek the c**t back young un". Wise words at the time I thought.

That sounds very much like the late Bryan Vaughan, he was never one to hold back was Bryan, I remember him pulling the head of the mascot at Chester thus making the 16/17 year old lad in the costume cry

[Goldthorperover]

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.

I had the piss mercilessly ripped out of me while I was in the army over them 3 chuffin stars.

[sedwardsdrfc]

The three stars was bad don't think any other club has done that. If they have it's probably for champions leagues!

[tyke1962]

This is incredibly embarrassing but unfortunately true and it was only this April just gone .

Taking just over 500 fans to Huddersfield when we needed to win and survive another week , it's a distance of 16 miles .

Utterly embarrassing and tin pot .

[Goldthorperover]

This one might not be popular but...

The "Rovers Till I Die" printing on the shirts when John Ryan was in charge. It looked naff and was rather redundant.

And for that as well....in fact ive just checked in my wardrobe and its on the shirt with the 3 stars, its also got belle vue 1922 - 2006 stitched on the back.

[Sammy Chung was King]

I remember under Richardson him reducing the price to get in the ground, but when we got there the car park price had gone up.
Read one somewhere, Halifax players went to put their Vandenel shirts on and the club badge pulled off and there was a Torquay one underneath 

[VivaRovers]

One of my favourite letters into the fanzine fits this theme.

[EDIT: I initially wrote this post from memory, but have just dug out the letter in question – to issue 20 – so I can now flesh out the detail]

The letter came in from someone who worked in a shop in Crowle. Pre-season in summer 2002 one of his regulars, knowing he was a big Rovers fan, had asked him if he'd like a Rovers shirt. She worked at the golf club that had hosted a Rovers golf day earlier in the week, and at the end of the day, one of the Rovers staff had thought it a nice gesture to gift a couple of shirts to the golf Club. Naturally he says yes. Customer duly drops off his shirt Friday, and he's surprised to find it's the brand new one, only just launched for that season, with the number two on the back. He didn't even realise they were out yet. So proud as punch he decides to wear it to work in the shop the next day.

Saturday morning, there he is in the shop, wearing his new Rovers shirt when the phone rings. It's the golf club and they've got Rovers kit man with them. Has he been given a Rovers shirt? Why yes, in fact he's wearing it. Ah, well we need it back for this afternoon's friendly against Sunderland, can we have it back? First off they asked if he could bring it with him to the match; as he's working he isn't. OK, says the kitman, I'll come and get it.

Which he duly does. Literally taking the shirt off the back of our correspondent. "I had to work the rest of the day with no shirt on. Try explaining that to every customer who comes in!"