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openfc

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What is your favourite moment experienced in our history?
« on September 08, 2024, 02:20:00 pm by openfc »
That hayter goal, the game against Brentford, Carlisle 04?



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mushRTID

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Re: What is your favourite moment experienced in our history?
« Reply #1 on September 08, 2024, 02:26:41 pm by mushRTID »
Brentford, Wembley, Cardiff, Stoke aside.

Loved our equaliser at West Ham.
Felt like a proper big game, great away following and little old Donny pissed them right off.

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Re: What is your favourite moment experienced in our history?
« Reply #2 on September 08, 2024, 02:46:50 pm by normal rules »
Winning at Wembley. Winning in Cardiff. One of the very few teams to do both .

Donnywolf

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« Reply #3 on September 08, 2024, 02:47:47 pm by Donnywolf »
Stoke .... Promotion Goal

At LAST we were BACK

drfchound

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« Reply #4 on September 08, 2024, 02:51:24 pm by drfchound »
Brentford, Wembley, Cardiff, Stoke aside.

Loved our equaliser at West Ham.
Felt like a proper big game, great away following and little old Donny pissed them right off.

Excluding those four then the third goal against Barrow has to be up there.
Then certainly the second and third goals at Charlton in the play off semi final.

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« Reply #5 on September 08, 2024, 02:51:48 pm by roversdude »
All of the above plus taking the lead at Newcastle

glosterred

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Re: What is your favourite moment experienced in our history?
« Reply #6 on September 08, 2024, 02:53:30 pm by glosterred »
Franny Tierney’s goal at Stoke, Hayter goal at Wembley and Copps hat trick versus Southend at the KMS in the 5-1 win


COYR

Pintolager

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« Reply #7 on September 08, 2024, 02:58:00 pm by Pintolager »
Other than those mentioned above which were all magical, I will add away at Derby, our first game in the Championship, bought a tear to my eye when the team walked out at Pride Park and when Lewis Guy scored. Growing up I only dreamed of us playing in the 2nd tier of English football.

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« Reply #8 on September 08, 2024, 03:02:16 pm by DonnyBazR0ver »
Stoke was the end of a living nightmare and Derby was the realisation of a lifelong dream.

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Some great games in the years when we were generally very bad. The 5-1 away at Scunny springs to mind.

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« Reply #10 on September 08, 2024, 03:26:19 pm by philsky »
Brentford, Wembley, Cardiff, Stoke aside.

Loved our equaliser at West Ham.
Felt like a proper big game, great away following and little old Donny pissed them right off.

Excluding those four then the third goal against Barrow has to be up there.
Then certainly the second and third goals at Charlton in the play off semi final.


I agree with all of these and can I add Blundell’s second away at Mansfield a few years ago and also, Chester away play off semi

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« Reply #11 on September 08, 2024, 03:36:50 pm by Butchers Red »
There's so many...................... but in terms of making me totally lose it 2 from being stood on the pop side,

No 1 Tris Whitman's late,late equalizer v Chester in play off semi - only around 4000 in the ground and the old pop side was shaking when it went in.

No 2 - Sean Thorntons screamer for our 3rd against Villa in that amazing cup run lead to absolute bedlam

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« Reply #12 on September 08, 2024, 03:44:03 pm by Dutch Uncle »
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
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Re: What is your favourite moment experienced in our history?
« Reply #13 on September 08, 2024, 03:59:14 pm by Fal »
Some fond memories that stick in the head for me.

Stoke - Couldn’t go but was on my driving test at the same time as the match, got home for extra time to see Tierney score. Passed my driving test and promotion on the same day so it’s a date I always remember.


JPT Final - The whole experience, the 2-0 lead really early on, the despair when they brought it back to 2-2 and then delight when Graeme Lee headed it in.


The Villa/Arsenal cup games in general were great experiences, if only Heffs kept it in the corner!!!


Derby away first game back in Championship, was expecting a drubbing but totally played them off the back and grabbing that goal.


Hereford away in LDV, corner floated in and Rigoglioso hits it sweet on the volley for one the best goals I have seen live. 137 of us there.


Leeds - Beating them at elland road 1-0 and then seeing them crying at Wembley was just cinema.

Barrow - The limbs after that 3rd goal will living long in the memory, regularly watch the alternative view on YouTube that Barrow posted to relive it.


The Brentford last day I didn’t go but the euphoria of watching it unfold on soccer Saturday.


Although it’s a game we lost, the 4-3 defeat to Portsmouth when we got relegated from the Championship, it still is the angriest I have ever been at a football stadium due to the blatant cheating. I got thrown out twice at Mansfield and Bournemouth and I was nowhere near as angry at those games!

Branton Rover

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« Reply #14 on September 08, 2024, 04:20:54 pm by Branton Rover »
Decade by decade;

80’s Dave Harle goal v QPR
90’s Norbury hat trick
00’s joint Tierney & Hayter
10’s Brentford 18 seconds of madness
20’s still waiting

IDM

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« Reply #15 on September 08, 2024, 04:23:28 pm by IDM »
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, 4-6, 4-4
Winning at Hillsboro with Elliot Ward overhead kick

It was 3-6 in the “tennis” sequence.. vs Wigan.

Has to be Wembley for me.  Never expected to see us play in the second division in my lifetime..

IDM

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Re: What is your favourite moment experienced in our history?
« Reply #16 on September 08, 2024, 04:27:21 pm by IDM »
Oddly enough, I would rate the late late Rob Jones winner at Stevenage very highly..

Pintolager

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« Reply #17 on September 08, 2024, 04:31:41 pm by Pintolager »
Oddly enough, I would rate the late late Rob Jones winner at Stevenage very highly..
I was only thinking about that this morning. The 2 late goals by him down there are something I will always remember. The ecstasy after the 2nd goal was something else

ridgewoodrover

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« Reply #18 on September 08, 2024, 04:33:11 pm by ridgewoodrover »
The last 2 minutes at Brentford summed it up what’s to love about following the rovers. :rtid:

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« Reply #19 on September 08, 2024, 04:35:59 pm by drfchound »
Good thread this.

adamtherover

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« Reply #20 on September 08, 2024, 04:47:10 pm by adamtherover »
The 3rd goal  v barrow will take some beating for best moment of the 20s

RoverinLincs

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« Reply #21 on September 08, 2024, 04:57:48 pm by RoverinLincs »
The Carling Cup run, unbelievable scenes at Belle Vue

LincsRover

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« Reply #22 on September 08, 2024, 05:08:32 pm by LincsRover »
Boring, but my favourite is still, and probably always will be, that goal at Brentford! Unbeatable. A good second though is Billy Sharp’s against middlesborough when he revealed the ‘Thats for you son’ on his shirt after Louis died. I still have tiddy’s print on my wall of that moment and still brings a tear to this cynical old ba*st*rds eye!!  :rtid:

Petche

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Re: What is your favourite moment experienced in our history?
« Reply #23 on September 08, 2024, 05:15:11 pm by Petche »
There's so many...................... but in terms of making me totally lose it 2 from being stood on the pop side,

No 1 Tris Whitman's late,late equalizer v Chester in play off semi - only around 4000 in the ground and the old pop side was shaking when it went in.

No 2 - Sean Thorntons screamer for our 3rd against Villa in that amazing cup run lead to absolute bedlam

Yep, Tris Whitman's goal - that's the one for me!
I've always said that was the moment which kick-started our decade of success!

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« Reply #24 on September 08, 2024, 05:46:24 pm by essexrover »
Sir Francis for me. With beating L**ds in the play-off final a close second.

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« Reply #25 on September 08, 2024, 05:58:52 pm by RoversInSpain »
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!

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« Reply #26 on September 08, 2024, 06:17:53 pm by les@donr »
Stoke….say no more!

Didn’t we beat Man City in the League Cup at OBV before they got Megabucks?

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« Reply #27 on September 08, 2024, 06:21:27 pm by Monkcaster_Rover »
Andy Butler away at Charlton in the playoffs. Counted for nothing in the end but, my god. That away end.

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« Reply #28 on September 08, 2024, 09:40:18 pm by Dagenham 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:

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« Reply #29 on September 08, 2024, 10:17:35 pm by Avsuptem »
Weird though it may seem one of my greatest Rovers memories was not even a goal or a win. In fact we lost the game 7-2. It was v Spurs at White Hart Lane in the League Cup quarter final when Chris Balderstone hit an absolute screamer from 25 yards out that was destined for the top left hand corner and would have put us 3-2 up. Pat Jennings who was probably the only keeper in the land at the time who could have saved it palmed it over the bar.

 

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