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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Mar 30, 2016 19:29:47 GMT
Just wondering (in advance) if all being well, we will see Jamie Cureton's last ever league match, when we play Daggers at end of season?
Or even, maybe he would announce his retirement and bow out of playing, at the Mem, much like Marcus Stewart?
Any thoughts on his remarkable career and durability that sees him one of our cult hero's ?!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2016 19:34:45 GMT
An all-time great lower league player, and if you'd told me when he joined us 20 years ago he'd still be playing I'd have laughed at you.
Just imagine if he'd never left us, he'd be rivalling Geoff Bradford's record by now and we'd probably have never played away at Braintree either.
If this is his last season, I hope he gets the send off he deserves on the final day.
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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Mar 30, 2016 19:37:42 GMT
It has to be his last season, surely?
He's in his 40s and has a stuuuuupid hairstyle!(?)
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Post by brizzle on Mar 30, 2016 19:53:03 GMT
It has to be his last season, surely? He's in his 40s and has a stuuuuupid hairstyle!(?) Is it still the bright green Mohican?
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Post by richmace on Mar 30, 2016 20:15:02 GMT
An all-time great lower league player, and if you'd told me when he joined us 20 years ago he'd still be playing I'd have laughed at you. Just imagine if he'd never left us, he'd be rivalling Geoff Bradford's record by now and we'd probably have never played away at Braintree either. If this is his last season, I hope he gets the send off he deserves on the final day. He will from me. Still a legend in my eyes! His time with The Gas was far too short in my opinion...
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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Mar 30, 2016 21:09:10 GMT
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Post by DudeLebowski on Mar 30, 2016 23:25:13 GMT
Up there with Stewie as one of my Rovers hero's!
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Post by gashead1979 on Mar 31, 2016 11:12:13 GMT
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Post by kwoodgas on Mar 31, 2016 11:13:06 GMT
I can't say I know much about it as the first game I went to was that season, but I've always struggled with the high regard Gasheads hold both Roberts and Cureton in given how they treated the club in the 'nearly' season.
The abuse Cureton suffered in his first few seasons playing against us was disgusting and completely OTT and thankfully that seems to have gone away in recent seasons, but I hope we'll be too busy celebrating promotion/cementing a playoff place to be bothered about Jamie Cureton.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2016 11:41:49 GMT
How was it they treated the Club then?
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Post by kwoodgas on Mar 31, 2016 12:07:42 GMT
How was it they treated the Club then? I'm pretty sure their performance levels fell off a cliff towards the end of the season. Wasn't it pretty much confirmed as fact that a well respected senior player had to be restrained from punching Cuerton?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2016 12:12:35 GMT
How was it they treated the Club then? I'm pretty sure their performance levels fell off a cliff towards the end of the season. Wasn't it pretty much confirmed as fact that a well respected senior player had to be restrained from punching Cuerton? Could have been 1001 reasons why he wanted to punch him. The pair wanted to leave to further their careers and bank balances, the traditional way to do that is to play well and score goals. The goals dried up because the midfield was decimated by injury, and the team's form collectively deserted them. Roberts and Cureton were scapegoated but it never seemed true to me, and still doesn't.
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Post by kwoodgas on Mar 31, 2016 12:20:52 GMT
I'm pretty sure their performance levels fell off a cliff towards the end of the season. Wasn't it pretty much confirmed as fact that a well respected senior player had to be restrained from punching Cuerton? Could have been 1001 reasons why he wanted to punch him. The pair wanted to leave to further their careers and bank balances, the traditional way to do that is to play well and score goals. The goals dried up because the midfield was decimated by injury, and the team's form collectively deserted them. Roberts and Cureton were scapegoated but it never seemed true to me, and still doesn't. I'll bow to your superior knowledge because in 2000 I could barely see over the advertising boards whereas you probably already had a great understanding of the game, but for me it goes a lot deeper than the midfield injuries that we went from Champions elect to losing to already relegated teams. No problem with players moving on to bigger teams/more money,if Lee Brown had moved on after our relegation season he would've got a decent reception from me the next time he played against us, but for me it seems like both Cuerton and Roberts decided that Rovers not getting promotion was advantageous to their careers and thus their not getting a clap from me.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2016 12:41:38 GMT
Just a different opinion, not superior knowledge.
Jamie Cureton scored more goals for Bristol Rovers than any other player I've seen. He'll get a good send off from me, if its his last game.
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Post by brizzle on Mar 31, 2016 13:51:06 GMT
From Sky Sports at the time . . .
No mention of Uncle Cyrille there then.
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Post by eppinggas on Mar 31, 2016 13:58:15 GMT
I'm pretty sure their performance levels fell off a cliff towards the end of the season. Wasn't it pretty much confirmed as fact that a well respected senior player had to be restrained from punching Cuerton? Could have been 1001 reasons why he wanted to punch him. The pair wanted to leave to further their careers and bank balances, the traditional way to do that is to play well and score goals. The goals dried up because the midfield was decimated by injury, and the team's form collectively deserted them. Roberts and Cureton were scapegoated but it never seemed true to me, and still doesn't. There was only one reason Tilson wanted to punch him. Cureton was laughing in the dressing room after we had just missed out on a play-off place. We only missed out by failing to get a point at already relegated Cardiff on the last day of the season. Tilson was a proud man and devastated. Cureton had his transfer to Reading sorted out and did not care. And I don't care about him. Roberts was not scape-goated (though was not the same player having come back from the 'caribbean cup' or whatever it was). That's how I remember it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2016 14:27:50 GMT
The story going the rounds back then was Regis told both players he could get them big money moves close season so don't do anything stupid and get banned or injured
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Post by kingswood Polak on Mar 31, 2016 14:35:29 GMT
Could have been 1001 reasons why he wanted to punch him. The pair wanted to leave to further their careers and bank balances, the traditional way to do that is to play well and score goals. The goals dried up because the midfield was decimated by injury, and the team's form collectively deserted them. Roberts and Cureton were scapegoated but it never seemed true to me, and still doesn't. I'll bow to your superior knowledge because in 2000 I could barely see over the advertising boards whereas you probably already had a great understanding of the game, but for me it goes a lot deeper than the midfield injuries that we went from Champions elect to losing to already relegated teams. No problem with players moving on to bigger teams/more money,if Lee Brown had moved on after our relegation season he would've got a decent reception from me the next time he played against us, but for me it seems like both Cuerton and Roberts decided that Rovers not getting promotion was advantageous to their careers and thus their not getting a clap from me. I was 35/36 & I would agree with you. There was a section on football focus and both players were on it. It had them interviewed and Cyril Regis ( Roberts Uncle) was on there and both players were talking about furthering their careers. It was after that interview that we started doing very poorly, we also had Mauge badly injured and no one experienced brought into replace him. We won the one game in the last 11 & that, ironically? Was V the 82. It looked very much like a team that had lost desire/fight/will or all 3. It was a capitulation that I certainly have not witnessed before nor since and, let's face it, we have seen some very poor teams that have represented the Rovers, since we dropped into the basement of the football league, for the first time in our history. I actually felt so disgusted by that performance that I stopped going until 2006. I even started to believe the conspiracy theories and that we couldn't afford to go up. There were stories of Ollie falling out with Cureton and I still can't understand how we got over a million for Roberts but only 250K or less for Cureton. It beggars belief what went on in that season and I still have my suspicions on it even now. It was shameful in any case and however I spin it. We couldn't even manage the draw at Cardiff, in the final game, to make the play offs. It will remain one of those things that we can debate over the years as I have spoken to Ollie about it and I feel he does not want to discuss it either. I am laughing as I write this as I realise that it still winds me up. I didn't think that was the case anymore. I do believe there was more to it than we will ever know about it though
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Post by kingswood Polak on Mar 31, 2016 14:38:16 GMT
The story going the rounds back then was Regis told both players he could get them big money moves close season so don't do anything stupid and get banned or injured Also the story of being told what 82 were being paid.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2016 15:02:31 GMT
That was Beadle stirring it,Ollie sent him packing ,but Regis was the problem,dont forget he was Roberts uncle and was involved with WBA at the time
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