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BobG

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Re: What is your favourite moment experienced in our history?
« Reply #60 on September 11, 2024, 03:07:46 am by BobG »
Spot on Champagne. Just totally, perfectly, spot on.

The culmination of a years' worth of struggle, grief, fear and pain. I went to Dover for the very first match and that was good, but the first match at BV was catharsis writ large.

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Donnywolf

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« Reply #61 on September 11, 2024, 07:01:43 am by Donnywolf »
... and the eventual Dover 5-4 game was a great moments or moments for me

The 34 pass move v QPR was memorable too especially remembering the QPR players towards the end of it desperately trying to stop the move in any way they could

They finally managed it right on the edge of the box at South Stand end

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Re: What is your favourite moment experienced in our history?
« Reply #62 on September 11, 2024, 08:17:46 am by Silkscarf »
Out of the big ones everyone mentions it has to be Stoke for me. The magnitude of losing our league status and very nearly losing our club can’t be overstated. Here we are, one match in a big unfamiliar neutral ground to win that back and begin again.

It was such a close same too. Fear of losing it was there the whole game. I was expecting Tarkan Mustafa to cross one for their winner every time he got the ball. Then that one instant when everything changed. We all knew about the golden goal rule, but for a microsecond my brain didn’t register that it was more than just taking the lead, it was so unusual. One strike from Sir Francis and it’s game over. Richardson/Weaver is properly over and we’re back in the league. We’re back on the map with all the other towns that are on the BBC football results every week for 10 months of the year. We’re here, we exist. Non-league meant we didn’t exist in the same way. We were invisible. Teetering on the brink of that again last season reminded me of that.


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Re: What is your favourite moment experienced in our history?
« Reply #63 on September 11, 2024, 09:21:47 am by Stocksbridge Owl »
Wednesday fan here in peace.

This is a fabulous thread sharing some great memories.

My old Grandad was from Donny and a lifelong Rovers fan. One game that he often spoke about goes way back to the mid 1960’s when Rovers drew 3-3 at Peterborough. He used to say that day had everything; thousands of Rovers fans travelled down, pitch invasions, loads of goals, exciting football, an eventful walk back to the station after the game, a Rovers player playing mind games with a Peterborough penalty taker causing him to miss and loads of write ups in the Sunday papers which he cut out and kept for years.

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Re: What is your favourite moment experienced in our history?
« Reply #64 on September 11, 2024, 05:49:03 pm by Donnywolf »
Hi Silkscarf

Yes magnificent day and everything on the line for us. We knew what we were missing , and we knew what we had endured , and we just HAD to get back there , getting our Club back

The slight flaw in your piece was the goal scored by SFT was indeed called a Promotion Goal. It was and still is the only Promotion Goal ever to 'do what it says on the the tin" and Promote a Club (us yahoo) and we should claim it.

There will be people reading this saying " oh God he's here again " but it was officially named Promotion Goal in the Rules and I have posted many times Page 3 of the Official Programme of the match

Agree with all the rest of your post though.  :scarf: :scarf: :scarf:

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Re: What is your favourite moment experienced in our history?
« Reply #65 on September 11, 2024, 05:55:40 pm by Donnywolf »
Here it is

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Re: What is your favourite moment experienced in our history?
« Reply #66 on September 11, 2024, 07:45:52 pm by richtherover »
Am probably one of very few on here that remember beating then top of the table Aldershot 7-0 in the late 60's. What a performance that was. Lots of highs (and lows) since then. All part of being a Rovers fan.

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Re: What is your favourite moment experienced in our history?
« Reply #67 on September 11, 2024, 08:07:00 pm by Donnywolf »
Plus 1

Upton Rover

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Re: What is your favourite moment experienced in our history?
« Reply #68 on September 11, 2024, 08:21:13 pm by Upton Rover »
Promotion to the Championship, hope it will be repeated while I’m still here

Chris Black come back

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« Reply #69 on September 11, 2024, 08:42:26 pm by Chris Black come back »
Ball going into Main Stand tea bar.
Shirt badge in 97/98 season.
Donny Dog on moped.
Nic Priet.

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Re: What is your favourite moment experienced in our history?
« Reply #70 on September 11, 2024, 08:45:59 pm by ravenrover »
Am probably one of very few on here that remember beating then top of the table Aldershot 7-0 in the late 60's. What a performance that was. Lots of highs (and lows) since then. All part of being a Rovers fan.
All these years later me and BiL still talk about Alicks strike at the Rosso end the ball just spinning round and round nestled in the back of the net, what a night

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« Reply #71 on September 11, 2024, 08:55:30 pm by Lincoln Rover »
To me THIS is what this forum is perfectly set up for. Like minded people reminiscing. Ten minutes on this subject has put a big smile on an old man’s face. Well done & thank you.RTID

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« Reply #72 on September 11, 2024, 09:02:42 pm by Silkscarf »
Here it is

Well done Wolfie, I vaguely remember it being called that now you’ve reminded me. But the general thing is still called golden goal. Glad they scrapped it. Too cruel for the loser. But so happy it went our way that day.

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« Reply #73 on September 11, 2024, 10:45:13 pm by IDM »
I’d also add the 3-1 win at Rushden and Diamonds in the first conference season.  We were low in the table and could have sank further, but that to me was a huge turning point in the history of the club..

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« Reply #74 on September 11, 2024, 10:54:23 pm by turnbull for england »
I’d also add the 3-1 win at Rushden and Diamonds in the first conference season.  We were low in the table and could have sank further, but that to me was a huge turning point in the history of the club..

That's just reminded me of the cup game there. That was a great atmosphere

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Re: What is your favourite moment experienced in our history?
« Reply #75 on September 11, 2024, 11:36:31 pm by andysly »
Everything mentioned previously dating back to 1976, but my God going back to the Championship and having my Grandson along for the ride would top the lot.

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« Reply #76 on September 12, 2024, 05:14:52 am by les@donr »
The “Mansfield Moment”, when we knew promotion was within reach.

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« Reply #77 on September 12, 2024, 06:56:41 am by PDX_Rover »
Wembley was the favourite of course.
However Sean Thornton’s strike which took a slight deflection into the top corner of Aston Villa’s net was an absolute feeling of euphoria.
We took Aston Villa apart in that match but at 2-0 we could still slip, then came that majestic strike… oh lord we’d just dismantled a top tier side….wow!

And Moyes blamed the pitch saying it was "crusty"   :lol:


David O’Leary so it was…

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Re: What is your favourite moment experienced in our history?
« Reply #78 on September 12, 2024, 07:03:25 am by PDX_Rover »
Wigan away on the sliding mud bank, Leyland Daf cup is without doubt one of my favourite memories.


That was some night. Pissing it down. Bruno with the winner. Everyone caked in mud. Jeans drying out on the coach home. Absolute chaos.

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« Reply #79 on September 12, 2024, 07:06:51 am by Donnywolf »
Here it is

Well done Wolfie, I vaguely remember it being called that now you’ve reminded me. But the general thing is still called golden goal. Glad they scrapped it. Too cruel for the loser. But so happy it went our way that day.

Yes , as they say if it looks like a Golden Goal it should have been a Golden Goal but great to see we have a niche of history that won't be equalled.

I seem to remember a header from Daggers in first half of Promo time that went past the top left corner .... real drama ... but missed by what seemed a whisker

My regret that day ( and people may disagree ) was Daggers didn't get to walk round at the end. I would have applauded for sure , in the magnanimous way we did after we beat Southend in PO Semi.

However the pitch invasion at Stoke did for that. I still remember the PA bloke saying " if you don't get off the Pitch there will be no presentation " . I said to myself "don't effin matter mate we don't need an effin Cup"

( Or something similar )

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Re: What is your favourite moment experienced in our history?
« Reply #80 on September 12, 2024, 09:45:20 am by drfchound »
Am probably one of very few on here that remember beating then top of the table Aldershot 7-0 in the late 60's. What a performance that was. Lots of highs (and lows) since then. All part of being a Rovers fan.

I was at that one too.   

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« Reply #81 on September 12, 2024, 12:34:24 pm by TommyC »
Another vote for Tris Whitman's equaliser against Chester. I dont think i've ever celebrated a goal so vigorously before or since. Everyone knew how important that one was when it hit the back of the net.

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« Reply #82 on September 12, 2024, 12:49:43 pm by BillyStubbsTears »
If SOD had played Heffernan instead of Guy earlier in that season, then things might have been different.

I'd just like to add a few thoughts to this post.



Actually, leave it Billy...

Pancho Regan

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Re: What is your favourite moment experienced in our history?
« Reply #83 on September 12, 2024, 01:17:31 pm by Pancho Regan »
A great thread this!

It's difficult to single out one favourite moment, especially for an old gimmer like me who has seen quite a few, but if pushed I would have to choose THAT goal at Stoke, simply for the enormity of what it meant to us as a club.

This is very closely followed by beating Leeds in the play-off final. I started watching Rovers in 1967 and all my life I only ever wanted to see us play at 'level two' in the league during my lifetime. In the dark days of our relegation out of the football league, this seemed the very epitome of an impossible dream.

So to finally achieve that ambition, in the way we did it, and against that particular opposition, was literally a dream come true for me.

But I want to throw in another special memory - our first game back in the Football League, away at Leyton Orient.
I drove down to the game full of excitement, anticipation, apprehension.

Yes, we were back in the Football League but how would we fare? How good were we, really? How big was the gulf between the Conference and the 4th division? Would we struggle and risk going straight back down?

On that boiling hot, unforgettable day, all my fears were allayed. We blew Orient away, and the rest is history.
 

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« Reply #84 on September 12, 2024, 04:02:06 pm by Lesonthewest »
Am probably one of very few on here that remember beating then top of the table Aldershot 7-0 in the late 60's. What a performance that was. Lots of highs (and lows) since then. All part of being a Rovers fan.

I was there, top v second if memory serves, absolute demolition that night.

Donnywolf

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« Reply #85 on September 12, 2024, 04:34:44 pm by Donnywolf »
One magical moment for me , still a very emotional version emotional memory

Into the Championship and Derby away , with their latest signing , Paul Green

We clubbed together for Balloons and I thank whoever it was who decided Red 45 % White 45 % Green 10 %

What a brilliant idea that was and still gives me goosebumps just thinking about it , and the thunderous applause from Rovers fans as the PA announced welcome Paul Green and the chants that followed. Sure their fans and the PA thought we had gone mad !

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« Reply #86 on September 12, 2024, 05:58:40 pm by duggiesmyhero »
Mush has clearly identified the top four so I will put some not already mentioned and possibly forgotten ones on here:

Winning 5-1 at Oakwell in 1965 when Barnsley were the better team on the day
10-0 Darlington (missed Broadbent's 10th), follwed by two 6-3 wins the two following years
7-2 loss at White Hart Lane (we played brilliantly for more than an hour)
Winning 1-0 at Valley Parade with 9 men (Bradford City were champions that season)
3-0 Aston Villa League Cup
2-2 Arsenal in League Cup

And some when I lived abroad and wasn't there:

Beating Bournemouth at Belle Vue to win promotion in 1981
Beating QPR in FAC at Belle Vue
0-3 to 5-4 win against Dover in Conference
Tennis sequence Home matches 6-1, 7-5, 3-6, 4-4
Winning at Hillsboro with Elliot Ward overhead kick
Think you might find the attendance was 6800 and not 4000

BobG

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« Reply #87 on September 12, 2024, 07:58:01 pm by BobG »
Am probably one of very few on here that remember beating then top of the table Aldershot 7-0 in the late 60's. What a performance that was. Lots of highs (and lows) since then. All part of being a Rovers fan.

I was there, top v second if memory serves, absolute demolition that night.

I'm  sure Dutch will correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure that before that Aldershot match we had to win 6-0 to leapfrog them at the top of the table on goal average.

An unlikely outcome.....

Lol!

BobG

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Re: What is your favourite moment experienced in our history?
« Reply #88 on September 12, 2024, 08:46:55 pm by Bentley Bullet »
I was there. Steven Briggs made his debut if I remember correctly.

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« Reply #89 on September 12, 2024, 08:53:26 pm by Fal »
The incoming comeback against Harrogate 3-2!

 

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