Belle Vue picture

[ForsolongaRover]

So perhaps the 2 year period I suggested.

[DonnyBazR0ver]

My instict was late 70s poss early 80s, judging by the fashions.

Sometimes the advertising hoardings are a clue. Robin G Motors, Yorkshire Office Supplies?

I tend to think it's pre Bremner before we switched to the white kit. Looks like the remaining crowd is waiting for the final whistle with a few already heading for the exits. Looks like a few hanging by the exits on the Rosso End too.

Edit: or is that a Rovers player in white on the touchline, halfway?

[Chris Black come back]

Went to a fair few reserve games at Belle Vue on quiet afternoons. What was weird were the away fans who used to travel to watch these. This is when we were proper shit as well. Playing real dross. People travelled to watch these games.   

[Bentley Bullet]

Was that when some of the reserve teams Rovers played against had more quality than the Rovers first team?

[drfchound]

In my early teens myself and a pal went to a few reserve team games at BV.

[Usher wide.]

Does anyone recall the game when one of those hoardings blew off & clouted some poor soul on the head & floored him?

Me & my brother were stood on the ‘Popside’ & saw the incident happen as though in ‘slow motion’.

[Dutch Uncle]

Regarding comments doubting if it was a first team game because of sparse crowd  -average crowd and lowest crowd for some early 1980's seasons:

1982-83 Avg 3541  Lowest 1507
1983-84 Avg 3778  Lowest 2189
1984-85 Avg 4103  Lowest 1889
1985-86 Avg 2804  Lowest 1659
1986-87 Avg 2449  Lowest 1206

Small crowd, but could easily be a first team match.

It was a dire watch in the Cusack days 
   

[Draytonian III]

“ Dire watch in the Cusack days “ , correct it was shocking football,

[roversdude]

“ Dire watch in the Cusack days “ , correct it was shocking football,

Agreed

[DonnyBazR0ver]

Regarding comments doubting if it was a first team game because of sparse crowd  -average crowd and lowest crowd for some early 1980's seasons:

1982-83 Avg 3541  Lowest 1507
1983-84 Avg 3778  Lowest 2189
1984-85 Avg 4103  Lowest 1889
1985-86 Avg 2804  Lowest 1659
1986-87 Avg 2449  Lowest 1206

Small crowd, but could easily be a first team match.

It was a dire watch in the Cusack days 
   

Could easily be the tail end of the 82/83 season with a few sub 3000 attendances for a dire home record in that relegation season.

With plenty of pullovers and light jackets being worn in that photo, guessing it must be between April and May.

[philsky]

From the early 70s I was on the kop but moved across to the main stand terrace in the 90s with my dad.

Very early on I sometimes frequented the cow shed, a modest upgrade cost I think. 

[BobG]

50p?

BobG

[drfchound]

50p?

BobG

When I was a young lad we called it the bob stand because it cost a shilling to transfer into there.
Only the older ones amongst us will understand why.

[Bentley Bullet]

50p?

BobG

When I was a young lad we called it the bob stand because it cost a shilling to transfer into there.
Only the older ones amongst us will understand why.

Was it called The Bob Stand because it had obscure views? 

[ctay]

Thats how I remember the early 80' to be be honest. I started on the town end with my dad before moving to the Pop and then to the main stand.

Cusack managed to take us and Rotherham down in one season!