BRFC - The Nostalgia Thread

[Elvis Biro]

5 hours ago, Stonesrick said:

Went to this game at Bath City's ground which I'm sure had the dimensions of a Primary School pitch - it was tiny. Horrible journey down and back up the M5. Also went to Port Vale and Barnsley away around that time and lost both those. We were in freefall but Kenny managed to turn things round. Still can't believe we lost these 3 away games with the quality of players we had.

I went to that as well. Horrible dump of a ground and equally horrible cocky Bristolian gits/supporters.

[Elvis Biro]

17 hours ago, Herbie6590 said:

Rovers handed the three points due to Brighton wearing those shorts...

 

That was the classic 'Tesco Bag' kit in all its glory. Sumptuous!

[philipl]

23 hours ago, Herbie6590 said:

Rovers hand Rovers a pasting...

 

I was there at Bath. Horrible performance and I was convinced Sherwood wasn't remotely a professional footballer. First time I have seen video coverage of the match.

That shot which hit the bar at the end bounced down a good yard across the line and spun back out. I was sat in the main stand right in line with the goal line. I was there with my brother and sister-in-law from Australia and blagged the Bristol Rovers ticket office to let me have the three tickets in an otherwise full ground. We sat with the groundsman and his staff!

Danny Baker on 606 really rubbed it in the whole of the journey home back to South Oxfordshire encouraging fans of clubs which had been beaten by Rovers to ring in and gloat- of course they did but even Baker had the good sense not to take any calls from a dingle.

 

[simongarnerisgod]

40 minutes ago, philipl said:

I was there at Bath. Horrible performance and I was convinced Sherwood wasn't remotely a professional footballer. First time I have seen video coverage of the match.

That shot which hit the bar at the end bounced down a good yard across the line and spun back out. I was sat in the main stand right in line with the goal line. I was there with my brother and sister-in-law from Australia and blagged the Bristol Rovers ticket office to let me have the three tickets in an otherwise full ground. We sat with the groundsman and his staff!

Danny Baker on 606 really rubbed it in the whole of the journey home back to South Oxfordshire encouraging fans of clubs which had been beaten by Rovers to ring in and gloat- of course they did but even Baker had the good sense not to take any calls from a dingle.

 

i first saw sherwood at the barnsley match a few weeks later and i  was convinced kenny had signed  someone off the street,he was so bad it was painful to watch,think he was hooked after 50 minutes,thankfully after that he was`nt seen for a few months and when when he did emerge there was a footballer after all🙂

[Herbie6590]

Wegerle interview

 

[47er]

12 hours ago, Stonesrick said:

Went to this game at Bath City's ground which I'm sure had the dimensions of a Primary School pitch - it was tiny. Horrible journey down and back up the M5. Also went to Port Vale and Barnsley away around that time and lost both those. We were in freefall but Kenny managed to turn things round. Still can't believe we lost these 3 away games with the quality of players we had.

Weren't we devoid of strikers? Newall  injured and Speedie suspended? Or have I remembered it wrong (again)?

[Lancs Rover]

Plenty more photos and facts where this came from.

To think what some of these fellas must have witnessed only a few years before. 

Puts our present day problems to shame. 

Brilliant website.

https://www.footballandthefirstworldwar.org/

[A Northern Horde...]

Same team as above v Spurs at White Hart Lane 1920

 

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

1 hour ago, A Northern Horde... said:

Same team as above v Spurs at White Hart Lane 1920

 

You could have walked all the way from the back to the front on those flat caps.

[Gav]

6 hours ago, Tabula Rasa said:

Plenty more photos and facts where this came from.

To think what some of these fellas must have witnessed only a few years before. 

Puts our present day problems to shame. 

Brilliant website.

https://www.footballandthefirstworldwar.org/

Its not often a Rovers photograph comes along these days that I've not seen before, but this is one of them, thanks for sharing.

I want to say its taken at the back of Nuttall Street stand?

Edited December 15, 2020 by Gav

[A Northern Horde...]

Yep....top row,second from left in the team photo.

Pretty sure it's said player in film and look at his shirt compared to the other!

[bazza]

59 minutes ago, renrag said:

The last Rovers player leaving the tunnel had the blue on the opposite side to all the other players

And the Spurs players looked like they had different coloured shorts, or knickers as they were called in those days.

Edited December 15, 2020 by bazza

[Herbie6590]

The rot is setting in...

 

[Ianrally]

3 hours ago, bazza said:

And the Spurs players looked like they had different coloured shorts, or knickers as they were called in those days.

One thing that photo should do is stop all the arguments about which side of the shirt should be blue and which side should be white. 

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

1 hour ago, Herbie6590 said:

The rot is setting in...

 

It's a good job we didn't have the internet then Herbie !

[Lancs Rover]

14 hours ago, Gav said:

Its not often a Rovers photograph comes along these days that I've not seen before, but this is one of them, thanks for sharing.

I want to say its taken at the back of Nuttall Street stand?

Another one, Gav?

Rovers vs Bradford City FA Cup semi-final 1911. 

C/o @FootballWW1

[arbitro]

1 hour ago, Tabula Rasa said:

Another one, Gav?

Rovers vs Bradford City FA Cup semi-final 1911. 

C/o @FootballWW1

Artificially adding colour takes something away from the photo for me.

Do you know which ground it was played at?

[Leonard Venkhater]

On 14/12/2020 at 15:47, Elvis Biro said:

That was the classic 'Tesco Bag' kit in all its glory. Sumptuous!

I was standing next to you. Do you remember how we mimed their keeper clawing at the air, as Hendry's header hit the net?

[rigger]

4 hours ago, Tabula Rasa said:

Another one, Gav?

Rovers vs Bradford City FA Cup semi-final 1911. 

C/o @FootballWW1

Beamo !

[Gav]

7 hours ago, renrag said:

It was at Bramall Lane Tony.

Edit! Strange they held a semi final there as it was only a three sided ground right into the 1960’s

Doubled up as a cricket ground I believe renrag?

Thanks for the photo Rasa 👍

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

1 hour ago, Gav said:

Doubled up as a cricket ground I believe renrag?

Thanks for the photo Rasa 👍

I believe Northampton's ground was the same. At Darlington's old ground you had to pass through the cricket ground to get to the football pitch.

[Herbie6590]

The first time the Rovers fans could be heard shouting “SHEARER...!” but...to no avail...right in the middle of a major crisis...

 

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

5 minutes ago, Herbie6590 said:

The first time the Rovers fans could be heard shouting “SHEARER...!” but...to no avail...right in the middle of a major crisis...

 

When your luck's out it really is out. Having said that we have them pinned in by the corner flag with a throw in and they get out and go the length of the field to score !

[simongarnerisgod]

i was`nt a happy bunny after this,5 of us travelled up to barnsley and the wonderfully decrepit oakwell,our expensive side was simply outplayed,remember seeing the team coach on the way back,kenny must have ripped into them and got them on the bus within half an hour,they all looked miserable and wegerle was sat on his own in the spare drivers seat looking sad,he must have taken most of kenny`s rage!!

[Aqualung]

8 minutes ago, Herbie6590 said:

The first time the Rovers fans could be heard shouting “SHEARER...!” but...to no avail...right in the middle of a major crisis...

 

Big following from Rovers. We filled the terracing behind the goal and we had the paddock in front of the main stand aswell. 

Kicked off in the tunnel at the end of the game iirc. Ray Harford v a Barnsley player. Maybe ex Burnley player but can't recall his namem