RIP Brian Makepeace

[Herbert Anchovy]

One of my old mans favourite Rovers players. 378 appearances for the club over 11 years which is some going.

Amazingly, he also worked down Rossington Pit for a time whilst also playing for the Rovers.

[Lifelong supporter]

It's an overused term these days but he was a proper Rovers legend.

[scawsby steve]

An excellent RB in the most excellent team we've ever had.

[bigal]

R.I.P. Big  man

[Chris Black come back]

Absolute giant of a man. When will we see his like again - born in Rosso, played for Welfare and then to Rovers for 12 seasons including several in the second tier.

[graingrover]

The last of my boyhood Rovers heroes ..Brian ´ Tank ‘ Makepeace in this team .
Gregg , Makepeace , Graham , Teasedale , Patterson ,Herbert , Mooney , McMorrran, Jeffrey , Tindill , R.Walker .

[scawsby steve]

The last of my boyhood Rovers heroes ..Brian ´ Tank ‘ Makepeace in this team .
Gregg , Makepeace , Graham , Teasedale , Patterson ,Herbert , Mooney , McMorrran, Jeffrey , Tindill , R.Walker .

I must have started watching the season after, Graing. Patterson had gone for big money and had been replaced by Charlie Williams. Paddy Gavin was playing at Left half.

[roversdude]

I was brought up listening to tales of this team and Brian Makepeace RIP

[ForsolongaRover]

The last of my boyhood Rovers heroes ..Brian ´ Tank ‘ Makepeace in this team .
Gregg , Makepeace , Graham , Teasedale , Patterson ,Herbert , Mooney , McMorrran, Jeffrey , Tindill , R.Walker .

I go back to Ken Hardwick in goal, Syd Bycroft, Ray Harrison and Alf Calverley and of course Peter Doherty and was there when Brian played his first home game replacing Len Hainsworth. I smiled when I read "He was working alongside supporters who were in the stands at Belle Vue watching him at the weekend” in the DFP article. I knew no one who actually sat in the stands and would have been utterly amazed to have encountered any miners who had the inclination, let alone the money to be there. Football was something you watched standing up!

[graingrover]

The last of my boyhood Rovers heroes ..Brian ´ Tank ‘ Makepeace in this team .
Gregg , Makepeace , Graham , Teasedale , Patterson ,Herbert , Mooney , McMorrran, Jeffrey , Tindill , R.Walker .

I go back to Ken Hardwick in goal, Syd Bycroft, Ray Harrison and Alf Calverley and of course Peter Doherty and was there when Brian played his first home game replacing Len Hainsworth. I smiled when I read "He was working alongside supporters who were in the stands at Belle Vue watching him at the weekend” in the DFP article. I knew no one who actually sat in the stands and would have been utterly amazed to have encountered any miners who had the inclination, let alone the money to be there. Football was something you watched standing up!

Let me add a few more ingredients hopefully to make you smile with  happy memories …Arthur Adey , Ron and Geoff Walker , Ray Harrison ..my youth team coach  Ernie Swallow .My abosolute favourite was Tindill.

[scawsby steve]

The last of my boyhood Rovers heroes ..Brian ´ Tank ‘ Makepeace in this team .
Gregg , Makepeace , Graham , Teasedale , Patterson ,Herbert , Mooney , McMorrran, Jeffrey , Tindill , R.Walker .

I go back to Ken Hardwick in goal, Syd Bycroft, Ray Harrison and Alf Calverley and of course Peter Doherty and was there when Brian played his first home game replacing Len Hainsworth. I smiled when I read "He was working alongside supporters who were in the stands at Belle Vue watching him at the weekend” in the DFP article. I knew no one who actually sat in the stands and would have been utterly amazed to have encountered any miners who had the inclination, let alone the money to be there. Football was something you watched standing up!

Let me add a few more ingredients hopefully to make you smile with  happy memories …Arthur Adey , Ron and Geoff Walker , Ray Harrison ..my youth team coach  Ernie Swallow .My abosolute favourite was Tindill.

What a striker Bert Tindill was; a 1 in 2 scorer throughout his whole Rovers career.

Sadly died at 46.

[Herbert Anchovy]

These players and Rovers sides are way before my time but I do enjoy reading about them. We do have a really rich history as a club.

[scawsby steve]

These players and Rovers sides are way before my time but I do enjoy reading about them. We do have a really rich history as a club.

We certainly do, Herbert. Especially when you consider that players like Gregg and Alick were actually world class.

[Campsall rover]

These players and Rovers sides are way before my time but I do enjoy reading about them. We do have a really rich history as a club.

We certainly do, Herbert. Especially when you consider that players like Gregg and Alick were actually world class.

It should have been much richer though than it has been.
We have been one of the most underachieving clubs in the entire EFL based on population of the town, now City metropolitan area catchment.
Just look at Barnsley’s history to see that. They have spent more years in the 2nd tier of English Football than ANY other club. They are a smaller town than Doncaster and are bang in the middle of Sheffield and Leeds so have the same problem as we do in that respect.

If Rovers had built on the success of the late 1940’s & 1950’s in the 1960’s and 1970’s and maintained it then we would be a club with a much richer history. 2nd tier is where this club should have been in the majority of its history.
A lack of investment is the only reason it hasn’t been.  Think Hubert Bates has a lot to answer for. 

[BobG]

Hubert Bates should be dug up, covered in quck lime and then dumped in a cess pit. He brought immeasurable harm to DRFC. His only competitor, in well over a hundred years, is the now happily dead Firestarter.

BobG

[graingrover]

Bob G hits the nail on the head regarding Bâtes for sure ,,when Doherty gave up on the club because of Bates out went one after the other