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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2014 10:45:51 GMT
to be honest i don't know !
It started when at the tender age of 4 i was taken to my first football game at Eastville in the old muller Rd end by my Brother and his best mate Roger...
Since then i've been brought up in the Bristol Rovers Family until this day
For the last few years we stand with a great bunch of fellow gasheads and i think that's the reason i still go and watch my beloved Rovers
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Post by empirebaypete on Jun 14, 2014 10:48:42 GMT
First taken to see the Rovers in 1969 by my Mum. She was a Gashead, as was her Dad. So I suppose it's because it runs in the family.
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Post by biggsy on Jun 14, 2014 10:55:19 GMT
God knows! I'm just a hopeless addict,
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Post by eastville1966 on Jun 14, 2014 10:56:50 GMT
Taken to Eastville by my grandfather to see Swindon Town in Sept 1966. Totally hooked from that day onwards. My late father took me until I was old enough to go by myself and now I'm taking my youngest lad. Certainly runs in the family - some ancestors of mine played for the Rovers many years ago. It's in the blood. Born and bred around the Fishponds area of Bristol so was my local team.
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Post by Mayhew on Jun 14, 2014 11:04:14 GMT
My dad who is a Spurs fan took me to a game at Eastville against Fulham cos he wanted to see who was playing for Fulham at the time , who had Rodney Marsh , Bobby Moore and George Best in the team , and i was only 7 years old. I was hooked immediately , the atmosphere the blue and white quarters and Paul Randall scoring was a great buzz . I persuaded my dad to take me a few more times from Bradford on Avon over the next few years and then when Rovers moved to Fortress Twerton i was made up cos i was 15 then and could take myself to near enough every home game ! I still go as often as i can from Trowbridge where i live now but a mixture of lack of form and having to tighten the purse strings means i haven't been as often as i like . But i will always be Rovers till i die .
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Post by bs20gas on Jun 14, 2014 11:15:23 GMT
Because im from Kingswood and all my family, parents, grandparents etc supported them from the day B.R.F.C. were formed till the present day and for evermore, weve got blue blood its not optional..BETTER DEAD THAN RED...UP THE GAS !
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Post by keygas on Jun 14, 2014 11:39:57 GMT
Because dis-spite all the woes all us gasheads go through ' theres something special about this club. Even fans of other clubs couldn't understand how a team who has performed so poorly over the last few seasons, muster-up 3500 on a Tuesday night to go to an early round f a cup tie at Birmingham.
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Post by francegas on Jun 14, 2014 12:04:43 GMT
My Dad managed to get some tickets for a home match at Eastville against Southampton (April 1976) aged 10. I'm probably wrong but thought that David Williams and Frankie Prince scored in a 2-0 win. The atmosphere from the Tote was electric and I was immediately hooked. Good job because my next match was a 5-1 home defeat by Wolves. The significance of the Wolves match ....The last time Rovers had a home attendance in excess of 20,000 for a league match
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2014 12:08:05 GMT
mrs haggett took me on a night game 71ish , i was 10 and the lights/crowd i can still remember, crowd was decent as i recall her chap driving overtaking down muller road as we were late harold scored to equalise later years me and my mates would walk down from horfield and often all walk back with the filton boys, thank you mrs haggett x
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Post by gassedup on Jun 14, 2014 12:09:48 GMT
I started watching Rovers at Eastville (circa 1968) because my dad took me (at my request) and there were not too many other things competing.
The question I have is why on earth would anyone, who does not have family to take them, start now?
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Post by aghast on Jun 14, 2014 12:17:48 GMT
The last 13 years have been awful, but it's just not possible to un-support Rovers once you've started. If I had a car that performed as badly as our lot in the past, I'd get a different make and never look at the dodgy old Rover again. But you can't just say: "Rovers are cr*p. I'm going to support Liverpool". Once well-meaning Gashead family members hook you when you're a young helpless fry and reel you in, little do they realise the years of heartache they've committed you to.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2014 12:35:51 GMT
Dad took me to eastville in the early sixties,but to reserve games,he used to get updates on the away game the first team were playing,and he said it got me used to the crowds. Have no idea what my first game was,but i remember my rattle and sitting on the wall at the front of the north enclosure,on a hot day the paint on the lights they used for the greyhounds used to get tacky and i used to pick it off and get green paint on my clothes,but we usually won so the old man was happy, mum wasn't to happy when we got home though. The thing i loved the most then, was the atmosphere, on occasion it made me tingle,then as i grew it was the team and fellow gasheads and before you know it,it's a way of life and still is
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Post by frenchgashead on Jun 14, 2014 13:11:38 GMT
Went to my first game 60 years ago - a dreadful 1-1 draw (it was a warning). So it's since the Bert Tann (no buy, no sell) days. Once bitten you can't walk away. I was in London for twenty years and saw the gas when they were there and then near Swansea so got to matches a bit more often. I've been abroad for the last ten years which is just as well - it's bad enough from here!
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Post by brfc on Jun 14, 2014 13:26:40 GMT
I was brought up in south Bristol,every one seem to be city fans,always went the other way as a kid,so rovers my team,45 years later still a gas head,but god they test your loyalty,,,my up bringing made me staunch rovers,just hope we get back on track.
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Post by swissgas on Jun 14, 2014 13:53:42 GMT
Pearce's used to run a coach to matches from the Claverham & Yatton area and my family were regulars so that's why I supported Rovers. It was tough being an outpost of blue deep in City territory and sometimes there were only a handful of fans on the Rovers coach but we kept our sense of humour and we pulled through. Fifty years later I still recall some great friendships and some of the happiest days of my life spent on that coach.
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Post by basel on Jun 14, 2014 13:58:08 GMT
Pearce's used to run a coach to matches from the Claverham & Yatton area and my family were regulars so that's why I supported Rovers. It was tough being an outpost of blue deep in City territory and sometimes there were only a handful of fans on the Rovers coach but we kept our sense of humour and we pulled through. Fifty years later I still recall some great friendships and some of the happiest days of my life spent on that coach. Love those old bus' Swiss,i'm no mechanic but aesthethetically speaking, they look great. That green & buff (is that it,buff?) is reckoned to be,by some,the colours Rovers had in the very early days.Green & buff hoops.
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Post by gasheadnaboo on Jun 14, 2014 14:00:56 GMT
I blame Marcus Stewart, Barry Hayles and Ian Holloway mainly.
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Post by swissgas on Jun 14, 2014 14:20:48 GMT
Yes it's a creamy buff colour Bas although obviously the coach has been restored and my memory of it in the sixties and seventies was that it had more green than cream but I may be wrong. We took it to a night game at Wolves once where we got a right tanking but no one could remember much about it due to contaminated cider. We'd clubbed together to get a big stock in from Richard's farm at Congresbury but you had to bring your own containers. Some bright spark volunteered and went to collect 5 gallons of their "half n half" the day before. The trouble was there had been petrol in the can and it made for an explosive mix ! Of course after a few pints had been sunk the stuff got spilled and I remember it slopping up and down the aisle as the coach twisted and turned every corner. On the way back we stopped for a drink at a pub on a roundabout just off the A38 somewhere in North Bristol and that's when I learned the truth in the saying "beer before cider makes thee smile go wider but cider before beer makes thee feel queer". I think I got that right, it's still a bit hazy, but I don't think the petrol did me much harm and I'm still here so it must have been unleaded !
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Post by basel on Jun 14, 2014 14:28:54 GMT
Yes it's a creamy buff colour Bas although obviously the coach has been restored and my memory of it in the sixties and seventies was that it had more green than cream but I may be wrong. We took it to a night game at Wolves once where we got a right tanking but no one could remember much about it due to contaminated cider. We'd clubbed together to get a big stock in from Richard's farm at Congresbury but you had to bring your own containers. Some bright spark volunteered and went to collect 5 gallons of their "half n half" the day before. The trouble was there had been petrol in the can and it made for an explosive mix ! Of course after a few pints had been sunk the stuff got spilled and I remember it slopping up and down the aisle as the coach twisted and turned every corner. On the way back we stopped for a drink at a pub on a roundabout just off the A38 somewhere in North Bristol and that's when I learned the truth in the saying "beer before cider makes thee smile go wider but cider before beer makes thee feel queer". I think I got that right, it's still a bit hazy, but I don't think the petrol did me much harm and I'm still here so it must have been unleaded ! Dear oh dear,cider with a touch of petrol!Lucky no-one blew up as I assume 99% of the gang smoked. I suspect people had 'guts of steel' in the 60s!Great days for your generation Swiss! The Primary School I attended had one of these buses and the green was darker and the buff a lighter shade,i think.
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Post by swissgas on Jun 14, 2014 14:34:07 GMT
Yes it's a creamy buff colour Bas although obviously the coach has been restored and my memory of it in the sixties and seventies was that it had more green than cream but I may be wrong. We took it to a night game at Wolves once where we got a right tanking but no one could remember much about it due to contaminated cider. We'd clubbed together to get a big stock in from Richard's farm at Congresbury but you had to bring your own containers. Some bright spark volunteered and went to collect 5 gallons of their "half n half" the day before. The trouble was there had been petrol in the can and it made for an explosive mix ! Of course after a few pints had been sunk the stuff got spilled and I remember it slopping up and down the aisle as the coach twisted and turned every corner. On the way back we stopped for a drink at a pub on a roundabout just off the A38 somewhere in North Bristol and that's when I learned the truth in the saying "beer before cider makes thee smile go wider but cider before beer makes thee feel queer". I think I got that right, it's still a bit hazy, but I don't think the petrol did me much harm and I'm still here so it must have been unleaded ! Dear oh dear,cider with a touch of petrol!Lucky no-one blew up as I assume 99% of the gang smoked. I suspect people had 'guts of steel' in the 60s!Great days for your generation Swiss! The Primary School I attended had one of these buses and the green was darker and the buff a lighter shade,i think. It was an adventure Bas, football should be about adventures.
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