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Post by harrybuckle on May 16, 2018 6:09:20 GMT
Closing date for advance subscribers for this limited edition book is approaching. £25 to have your name in the book and receive a signd copy by both authors prior to its general release. Please contact me ASAP on here for order details.
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Post by harrybuckle on May 22, 2018 19:38:20 GMT
Last call for pre orders and advance subscribers for our new Who's Who book. You can have your name printed in the book buthave to Friday 25 May to pay £25. Full details for payments contact me on here or by email Eastvillegas@live.co.uk Final proof reading over next two days and the 336 page A4 size book covering 667 players will be complete and ready for the printers to be published end of June. The end of a massive 3 year project by Stephen Byrne and myself.We are indebted to Gordon Galsworthy who has completed all the pages for us. He has been a tremendous help as we complete our first ever and last self published book. We are only likely to print 500 copies so will be a collectors item.
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Post by Gregory Stevens on May 23, 2018 4:31:25 GMT
My only gripe with tote end boys is it sounds like a club celebrating its long past glory - it could almost be a song about a deceased friend or relative.
It’s not a bad tune, just not my thing but it’s actually well crafted and well written.
I think the arsenal remix of “hot stuff” is amongst the best football songs of all time!
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Post by harrybuckle on Jun 4, 2018 7:45:33 GMT
Delighted to advise that our long awaited Rovers Players Who's Who book is currently at the printers and hopefully will be ready to despatch to the advance subscribers at the end of the month.
Many thanks to all those who have prepaid and supported this project, which has been my first and last self published, self funded venture. This is going to be my last published book.
If any others wish to purchase a copy cost will be £25. For full details about paying please email eastvillegas@live.co.uk I may be able to deliver free of charge.
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Post by harrybuckle on Jun 10, 2018 5:51:19 GMT
Update: The 336 page Bristol Rovers Players Who's Who book will be available from 20 June
If you wish to purchase a copy cost will be £25 postage £2.95. Will be available direct from the authors Mike Jay & Stephen Byrne.
I will be able to deliver free of charge in the Bristol area.
For full details about paying please email eastvillegas@live.co.uk
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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Jun 10, 2018 9:50:33 GMT
Update: The 336 page Bristol Rovers Players Who's Who book will be available from 20 June If you wish to purchase a copy cost will be £25 postage £2.95. Will be available direct from the authors Mike Jay & Stephen Byrne. I will be able to deliver free of charge in the Bristol area. For full details about paying please email eastvillegas@live.co.uk Will this be available in the club's retail outlet?
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Post by harrybuckle on Jun 11, 2018 10:12:53 GMT
Update: The 336 page Bristol Rovers Players Who's Who book will be available from 20 June If you wish to purchase a copy cost will be £25 postage £2.95. Will be available direct from the authors Mike Jay & Stephen Byrne. I will be able to deliver free of charge in the Bristol area. For full details about paying please email eastvillegas@live.co.uk Will this be available in the club's retail outlet? Yes it will but only a limited number printed
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Post by kingswood Polak on Jun 16, 2018 13:40:22 GMT
When were we located “beneath a motorway “? Poetic licence, as in the famous lyric 'Under the shade of the M32' in that classic tune 'Follow The Rovers'. 2 points if you name the band Rid Hull & Emu, silly ! 😂
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Post by kingswood Polak on Jun 16, 2018 13:48:16 GMT
Proper dirge, eh? - unlike Goodnight Irene. They are both quintessentially Rovers. Isn't that the attraction? I guess some would prefer "We're all going on a Gashead holiday" type-thing. Goodnight Irene, I never thought I’d say this, does my head in now. Our fans sing it all the bloody time, unlike Liverpool who sing it at the start. It’s oberdone, too fast and is not what it was, a promise of undying support. They miss that part out now
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2018 18:02:05 GMT
Proper dirge, eh? - unlike Goodnight Irene. They are both quintessentially Rovers. Isn't that the attraction? I guess some would prefer "We're all going on a Gashead holiday" type-thing. Goodnight Irene, I never thought I’d say this, does my head in now. Our fans sing it all the bloody time, unlike Liverpool who sing it at the start. It’s oberdone, too fast and is not what it was, a promise of undying support. They miss that part out now I totally agree,I have hated it for years. Reminds me of a barrel organ,starts off with a drone and then gets faster and faster like the mechanism is f****d up. I quite liked the 70s version when it was sung once a game.
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Post by kingswood Polak on Jun 18, 2018 10:44:55 GMT
Goodnight Irene, I never thought I’d say this, does my head in now. Our fans sing it all the bloody time, unlike Liverpool who sing it at the start. It’s oberdone, too fast and is not what it was, a promise of undying support. They miss that part out now I totally agree,I have hated it for years. Reminds me of a barrel organ,starts off with a drone and then gets faster and faster like the mechanism is f****d up. I quite liked the 70s version when it was sung once a game.
Thank god for that as I was awaiting a barrage of abuse. Seems we don’t have the people as creative nowadays, to start up a chant. I used to sing my head of, even at 14/15 until people joined in. Seems people look at you strangely now if you try that now
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Post by harrybuckle on Jun 20, 2018 6:38:29 GMT
Press release
Blue-and-white quartered shirts can mean only one thing to any football supporter. The iconic Bristol Rovers, once located beneath a motorway, exiled to another city and then back home, has been well served by so many talented players. Everyone who represented the club in the Football League since World War Two is documented in detail in a newly published book Bristol Rovers Players Who’s Who 1946-2018. From the unknown local to the celebrated World Cup winner -Alan Ball, from the halcyon days of the Fifties, through the Smash and Grab era of Alan Warboys and Bruce Bannister to the more recent double-promotion winning sides. Rovers’ historians Stephen Byrne and Mike Jay have compiled eloquent biographies of every one, cataloguing details and anecdotes, photos and memories for every fan of this well-respected oldest professional Bristol football club.
This A4 size, 336 page publication contains detailed biographies of the 667 players to have played for the club from 1946 in the Football League and Conference until the end of the 2017/18 season.
The book’s foreword is written by Rovers legend Harold Jarman who loyally served the Club as a player, youth team coach, Reserve Team manager, Manager and scout for over four decades. The book is endorsed by the Chairman of the Bristol Rovers Formers Players Association. There are also details of Rovers top 25 Football League appearance makers and the youngest and oldest Rovers debutants, goalscorers etc. Plus a full Rovers Football League Players index providing details of all the 910 footballers to have played for the Club from 1920.
This self published book ISBN 9781527223714 by Mike Jay Publications is now available at £25 direct from him. Contact eastvillegas@live.co.uk and from Bristol Rovers Club Shop at the Memorial Stadium.
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Post by harrybuckle on Jun 26, 2018 18:54:28 GMT
Thanks for all the recent orders for our book and the positive feedback received. All orders have either been mailed out or personally delivered in the Bristol Area.
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