GasMacc1
Les Bradd
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Post by GasMacc1 on Mar 20, 2016 19:29:02 GMT
To those above a certain age: Remember the five-all game against Charlton at Eastville in 1978? Here's a link to a video with all ten goals. Rovers 5 Charlton 5 (November 1978 at Eastville)(You have to fast forward to the 42 second mark, unless you want to see West Ham against Palace first). |
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Post by ipswichrover on Mar 20, 2016 19:46:14 GMT
Thanks for some great memories. I seem to remember that is was all the more incredible because it was 5 all by mid way through the second half.
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LPGas
Stuart Taylor
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Post by LPGas on Mar 20, 2016 20:11:16 GMT
H'mm remember missing a few goals going to the bog!
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Rex
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Post by Rex on Mar 20, 2016 20:13:28 GMT
I missed one home game in something like 5 or 6 seasons- thanks for reminding me which one!
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Post by clockendgas on Mar 20, 2016 20:34:47 GMT
Ha ha, i joined the raf on october 30th 78, so missed it, basic training that day, no internet or green un, didnt find out the score till sunday afternoon.
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JeffNZ
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Jimmy Morgan
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Post by JeffNZ on Mar 20, 2016 20:57:52 GMT
Remember it well. Bizzare game.
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Post by lostinspace on Mar 20, 2016 21:06:56 GMT
younger brother broke his ankle celebrating the 5th Rovers goal
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Post by didlesknowmydad on Mar 21, 2016 0:49:35 GMT
H'mm remember missing a few goals going to the bog! You can get something from the chemist for that!  |
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Teigngas
Steve White
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Post by Teigngas on Mar 21, 2016 7:41:43 GMT
I remember feeling a bit ill before the game and thinking I might give it a miss, but changing my mind at the last minute because I hadn`t missed a home game. Great decision as it turned out.
As an aside I think it was this game in which one of our mates thought it would be a good idea to set fire to my brothers bell bottom jeans at half time. Not sure you`d get away with that sort of behaviour nowadays....
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Post by Wembley_Gas on Mar 21, 2016 9:32:17 GMT
I remember feeling a bit ill before the game and thinking I might give it a miss, but changing my mind at the last minute because I hadn`t missed a home game. Great decision as it turned out. As an aside I think it was this game in which one of our mates thought it would be a good idea to set fire to my brothers bell bottom jeans at half time. Not sure you`d get away with that sort of behaviour nowadays.... Wearing bell bottoms is behaviour you should not get away with! I was listening to "afternoon delight" (capital radio) as the goals rained in - I remember the DJ making some comment about both teams taking to the field without goalkeepers! |
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Post by Henbury Gas on Mar 21, 2016 9:37:48 GMT
i was there with Dad & Bro what a game that was !
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Post by buktaboy on Mar 21, 2016 11:58:36 GMT
12 year old me was there too, never seen anything like it. Think there was still something like 25 minutes left too. Best bit was a schoolmate had given me his season ticket for North stand as he couldn't go, what a game to miss lol.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2016 12:19:13 GMT
We watched most of the second half in the bar in the South Stand with Frankie Prince who was injured.
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Post by pirate49 on Mar 21, 2016 12:32:19 GMT
18th November 1978
Attendance: 8,107
Thomas, Bater, Taylor, Prince Dennehy, Williams,Randall, Barry, Aitken, Staniforth,Day,(Hendrie).
End of season: 16th in Division Two
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2016 12:35:13 GMT
18th November 1978 Attendance: 8,107 Thomas, Bater, Taylor, Prince Dennehy, Williams,Randall, Barry, Aitken, Staniforth,Day,(Hendrie). End of season: 16th in Division Two I'm guessing that Frankie was substituted before the second half. edit: Prince (Hendrie 46) |
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Post by clockendgas on Mar 21, 2016 12:42:58 GMT
We watched most of the second half in the bar in the South Stand with Frankie Prince who was injured. When i look at those old wooden stands now apart from the teenage memories i think about the bradford fire and how that probably could have happened at eastville,always seem to remember old newspapers etc about. I went to the bradford game early 84, got called off about 2pm, so spent a couple of hours drinking with some bradford lad in a near by pub with topless barmaids, happy days!! |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2016 12:48:06 GMT
We watched most of the second half in the bar in the South Stand with Frankie Prince who was injured. When i look at those old wooden stands now apart from the teenage memories i think about the bradford fire and how that probably could have happened at eastville,always seem to remember old newspapers etc about. I went to the bradford game early 84, got called off about 2pm, so spent a couple of hours drinking with some bradford lad in a near by pub with topless barmaids, happy days!! Eastville or many others. It's incredible that there are still wooden stands in use today. |
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dido
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Peter Aitken
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Post by dido on Mar 21, 2016 15:00:08 GMT
David Williams' first goal very similar to Monty's at Newport.
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Post by holmesgas1 on Mar 21, 2016 17:29:04 GMT
Now that brings back some memories. That was my 3rd year of watching the gas. 41 years of up and downs.
This is the most hopeful I ever been other than Francis years, but that was more youthful exuberance.
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vaughan
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Post by vaughan on Mar 21, 2016 17:43:27 GMT
The reality was that Day versus Flanagan (Hales did not play) was a no-contest, but less so than Day versus Steve Kindon (who ran him ragged every time he appeared).
I blame Radio Bristol for the dropped point! I had had a 100% home record from the North Enclosure in 77-78 season but had been sucked into winning the Radio Bristol "Mystery voice" the week before and I was given a stand ticket as a prize. At 5-5, I jumped out of the Stand and back into the North Enclosure. However, only 65 minutes had been played when we equalised to make it 5-5. Not the greatest of Paul Randall hat-tricks, but they all count.
The week after we beat Sheff United 2-1 (who had Alex Sabella of Argentina playing) and it was only Millwall who ruined our home record with a "sinister Eastville atmosphere: 0-3 loss" in Dec (9th), the year after the infamous Panorama (Nov 5 1977).
Please note that we made it onto December 1st remembered in the same series. Another 10-goal thriller, but then we had Mike Green, not Graham Day.
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