Rex
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Post by Rex on May 10, 2015 7:55:28 GMT
Let's hope we create some special memories next weekend, no doubt many peoples personal favourite will be Sammy's goal in 2007, however mine was a different one from the same day.
I went to the game with Reg (One F In Dunford) and our sons who would have been about 10 & 12 at the time, we were walking around the Shrewsbury end of the stadium where a few Shrews fans were acting like twats and trying to intimidate us. One of them in started to walk towards us singing 'Shrewsbury till I die'
Reg 'But you've got a Man United tattoo'
Shrews fan 'Yeah, I like Man United as well but I'm a Shrewsbury fan'
Reg 'Well you should have a Shrewsbury tattoo then'
Then we walked off leaving the poor sod a bit confused.
You had to be there really, but it still makes me chuckle 
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Post by pirate49 on May 10, 2015 8:00:49 GMT
Getting on the tube train at Uxbridge going to the play-off/Leyland Daf final
(can't remember which one!) and seeing the carriage full of Rovers fans wearing
Rolf Harris wigs!
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2015 8:12:06 GMT
Getting on the tube train at Uxbridge going to the play-off/Leyland Daf final (can't remember which one!) and seeing the carriage full of Rovers fans wearing Rolf Harris wigs! That was 1990, I've heard the Rolf Harris story before! How little everyone knew... 1995 - getting the SC bus up with my brother and sister. I was 17. It was an old City Line double decker, they really had scrounged every single bus and coach they could get for it. When we were driving up to Wembley we encountered the team coach coming in and everyone roared. Dominated the match, went one down but Stewey equalised before half time. There was no way we weren't going up now. We hit the bar, Gareth Taylor missed that open goal. Chris Billy  Coming away absolutely gutted. Never been that close since, not even in the nearly season of 1999/2000. c*ty and Swindle had both been relegated, we would have been top dogs in the West Country for at least a season. Why did Ward not pick Lee Archer? 2007 - going up on the train with the sister again. In the pub at Baker Street, hordes of Gasheads in there and a handful of Shrews looking a bit overwhelmed. Shiny new stadium, wondering how we got there as, unlike 95, we'd barely been in touch all season until that immense run from March onwards culminating in the crazy games against Swindle, Hartlepool and Lincoln. Going behind early on, just like in the JPT final, but it never ever felt like we were going to lose. Richard Walker scoring two wonderful goals. Sammy Igoe. Bedlam. Going into town for the parade on the Monday, getting on the roof of a bus shelter on College Green and being level with the top of the bus almost within touching distance of Stuart Campbell clutching the trophy. Getting drunk afterwards. Great days |
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Post by Igitur on May 10, 2015 8:16:18 GMT
You know in films how 10 second events are made to last a minute, it was like that in a full, sadly now closed, Greyhound for Igoe's goal with the chants of Rovers getting louder and louder through it?
My proudest moment was when I, as a normally peaceful chap, threatened to turn a drum of a pudding head who turned up in the second half into a necklace. He retreated hastily.
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Post by One F in Dunford on May 10, 2015 8:24:27 GMT
Let's hope we create some special memories next weekend, no doubt many peoples personal favourite will be Sammy's goal in 2007, however mine was a different one from the same day.
I went to the game with Reg (One F In Dunford) and our sons who would have been about 10 & 12 at the time, we were walking around the Shrewsbury end of the stadium where a few Shrews fans were acting like twats and trying to intimidate us. One of them in started to walk towards us singing 'Shrewsbury till I die'
Reg 'But you've got a Man United tattoo'
Shrews fan 'Yeah, I like Man United as well but I'm a Shrewsbury fan'
Reg 'Well you should have a Shrewsbury tattoo then'
Then we walked off leaving the poor sod a bit confused.
You had to be there really, but it still makes me chuckle
Yes, that was funny. It didn't take a lot to confuse the poor chap. |
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Post by dido on May 10, 2015 8:29:22 GMT
The final of the Leyland Daf trophy.
30,000 Gasheads applauding a minibus (!) we had won as it went round the perimeter.
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Post by o2o2bo2ba on May 10, 2015 8:34:53 GMT
Many, many memories.
Igoe moment is hard to beat. Still evokes emotions.....i swear that ball slows down, then speeds up!
Best ending to a football match since Escape To Victory! Haha!
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Post by gasheadpirate on May 10, 2015 8:54:14 GMT
Train on the way back from the Shrewsbury play off. Carriage full of wheatabix! LOL
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Rex
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Post by Rex on May 10, 2015 9:17:40 GMT
The final of the Leyland Daf trophy. 30,000 Gasheads applauding a minibus (!) we had won as it went round the perimeter. It really was a great minibus though. |
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Post by PeterHooper57 on May 10, 2015 9:25:39 GMT
Marcus Stewart playing against Huddersfield wearing a head band, no call for that today. Should have won that match, the gareth taylor miss. The match against Tranmere in the leyland daf final we witnessed in my mind the worst refereeing performance ever, I still cannot get over the Carl Saunders **** up.
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Post by lostinspace on May 10, 2015 9:32:17 GMT
my nephew,who i had started taking to the rovers when he was about 7-8 [now 40+] just as we went 1-0 down to Shrews; turned and said "why is it we aways lose these games" .......the rest is history,, he had the biggest smile ever when Sammy hit that teaser in to seal it ... thats what makes it all worthwhile
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Post by garygas on May 10, 2015 21:37:04 GMT
Getting on the tube train at Uxbridge going to the play-off/Leyland Daf final (can't remember which one!) and seeing the carriage full of Rovers fans wearing Rolf Harris wigs! I was a 17 year old Rolf that day. Apparently a bloke called spider started it earlier in the season by saying if we get to Wembley he would dress up as Rolf Harris ( don't no why Rolf ). All the way to Wembley on the coach we had renditions of Rolf Harris songs. You try drinking a pint through a false beard not easy! |
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2015 22:22:05 GMT
Against Shrewsbury. Went to Roadmans house 8am and drinking stella, then caught the train from Bicester. Oiled with Shrewsbury fans then on the way back, it was fantastic. When I got home think I slept for a day, I was that drunk.
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2015 22:23:36 GMT
For me, sitting or standing back and taking it all in is what I remember the most. I remember that more than the games themselves. I do sing along but sometimes just staying quiet and really taking in the atmosphere is something special. 2007 before the match started, you could just tell by the atmosphere that we were up for it as the 12th man. We were not leaving Welmbley without promotion. Straight after we score a goal, we always seem to sing Irene. In these moments, I never join in. I just let the atmosphere sink in and it does seem 50% louder in these cases. Remembering I got goosebumps when we scored each of the 3 goals listening to everyone sing Irene with so much passion. Fantastic.
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Post by csssmooth on May 15, 2015 16:44:35 GMT
1990 as a happy impressionable 20 year old at the Leyland DAF cup, getting Devon White to wave at me, via the obvious 'Devon Devon gis a wave', I've got a photo of the momentous occasion, still my favourite ever Rovers player 25 years on. Never has a loss mattered less to me great day out. Leaving Wembley after the Huddesfield defeat I properly had a tear in my eye, which I am slightly ashamed of as I have always been scornful of people crying at football and a wise old fella of 70 or so came up put his arm round me and said 'come on lad your gonna see a lot worse days than this' true words of wisdom. Then as everyone else has said the sheer slow motion ecstasy of watching Sammy Igoe's goal make it's way from the half way line is going to be hard to beat, let us just pray that Sunday can have something close to that.
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Post by dagnogo on May 15, 2015 17:28:21 GMT
2007, Igoe's goal taking hours to cross the line. Then, once everyone had stopped jumping around, noticing Steve Phillips was in the dig out having dived onto Paul Trollope.
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Post by mehewmagic on May 15, 2015 22:00:16 GMT
1990 as a happy impressionable 20 year old at the Leyland DAF cup, getting Devon White to wave at me, via the obvious 'Devon Devon gis a wave', I've got a photo of the momentous occasion, still my favourite ever Rovers player 25 years on. Never has a loss mattered less to me great day out. Leaving Wembley after the Huddesfield defeat I properly had a tear in my eye, which I am slightly ashamed of as I have always been scornful of people crying at football and a wise old fella of 70 or so came up put his arm round me and said 'come on lad your gonna see a lot worse days than this' true words of wisdom. Then as everyone else has said the sheer slow motion ecstasy of watching Sammy Igoe's goal make it's way from the half way line is going to be hard to beat, let us just pray that Sunday can have something close to that. very similar to me and i was also 20 in 1990! my first big football game [had been to big rugby games before]. Don't remember a lot about it really, and like you said not very important compared to the promotion chase. Missed 1995, but had good excuse. about 3,600 miles away, in Ethiopia. 2007 was crazy. People often forget that Shrews were pressuring us a lot just before Sammy's goal, so it really was a killer of a goal. Funnily Sunday almost feels more important as we were only 6th in 2007, not really thinking too much about promotion, and if you had told people in Feb/March that we would maybe be going up they would have laughed in your face. |
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Post by bishopstonbrfc on May 15, 2015 22:09:39 GMT
I was on the top tier at the very front and I thought I was going over the front when that Sammy Igoe shot crept it.
I think the 1995 final was my first game (it's between that and West Ham at Twerton)I remember having a load of confetti to let off if we scored again when it was 2-1. Still got a flag somewhere from that game.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2015 22:10:33 GMT
I remember feeling not at all bothered when Shrewsbury scored. A minor inconvenience, was all.
I doubt I'll be as calm if Grimsby go one up.
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Post by PessimistGas on May 15, 2015 22:35:27 GMT
I remember feeling not at all bothered when Shrewsbury scored. A minor inconvenience, was all. I doubt I'll be as calm if Grimsby go one up.
I know, we were on such a roll I knew we were going to win that day.
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