harrybuckle
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Post by harrybuckle on Jan 28, 2019 19:05:15 GMT
Competition Time. So you think you know a lot about Rovers and their players ? Get them all correct to receive a signed Bristol Rovers Who's Who book. Good Luck. 1. Which Rovers player is the uncle of actress Emilia Clarke (Daenerys Targaryen in "Game of Thrones")? 2. Whose picture hangs in London's National Portrait Gallery? 3. Who was father-in-law to England manager Don Revie? 4. Whose first two League games in 2004-05 were both away to Orient? 5. Who was the first Rovers player to score a first-half goal after coming on as sub? 6. Who was investigated by police for allegedly urinating at the side of the pitch before coming on as sub? 7. Who had a "goal" in the FA Cup disallowed as some sheep had strayed on to the pitch? 8. Who retired from football to run an ice-cream company? 9. Who was sent off against Turkmenistan? 10. Who appeared on TV on "Countdown"?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2019 19:49:20 GMT
1. Which Rovers player is the uncle of actress Emilia Clarke (Daenerys Targaryen in "Game of Thrones")? Ollie Clarke 2. Whose picture hangs in London's National Portrait Gallery? Queen Elizabeth I 3. Who was father-in-law to England manager Don Revie? His daughters husband 4. Whose first two League games in 2004-05 were both away to Orient? Lee from Horfield 5. Who was the first Rovers player to score a first-half goal after coming on as sub? U571 6. Who was investigated by police for allegedly urinating at the side of the pitch before coming on as sub? Red October 7. Who had a "goal" in the FA Cup disallowed as some sheep had strayed on to the pitch? Reggie Lambe 8. Who retired from football to run an ice-cream company? Ben Swallow and Gerry Francis 9. Who was sent off against Turkmenistan? Dave Pritchard, Jason Perry, Andy Tillson and Josh Low 10. Who appeared on TV on "Countdown"? Rachel Gavin Reilly
Edit: Think I may have got Turkmenistan and Wigan muddled up.
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harrybuckle
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Post by harrybuckle on Jan 28, 2019 20:30:32 GMT
1. Which Rovers player is the uncle of actress Emilia Clarke (Daenerys Targaryen in "Game of Thrones")? Ollie Clarke2. Whose picture hangs in London's National Portrait Gallery? Queen Elizabeth I3. Who was father-in-law to England manager Don Revie? His daughters husband4. Whose first two League games in 2004-05 were both away to Orient? Lee from Horfield5. Who was the first Rovers player to score a first-half goal after coming on as sub? U5716. Who was investigated by police for allegedly urinating at the side of the pitch before coming on as sub? Red October7. Who had a "goal" in the FA Cup disallowed as some sheep had strayed on to the pitch? Reggie Lambe8. Who retired from football to run an ice-cream company? Ben Swallow and Gerry Francis9. Who was sent off against Turkmenistan? Dave Pritchard, Jason Perry, Andy Tillson and Josh Low10. Who appeared on TV on "Countdown"? Rachel Gavin ReillyEdit: Think I may have got Turkmenistan and Wigan muddled up. Great effort but sadly none correct but one was almost right. I thought and now know you have little in that bald head of yours. Wrap it up well tomorrow evening otherwise you will be bed ridden by Sat.
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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Jan 28, 2019 20:41:06 GMT
Reggie Lambert was my favourite answer from the Wookie!
Haha!
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Post by One F in Dunford on Jan 28, 2019 20:55:54 GMT
Did I see you at Bristol Airport today Harry?
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Post by The Concept on Jan 28, 2019 21:33:48 GMT
6. Who was investigated by police for allegedly urinating at the side of the pitch before coming on as sub? Wee Georgie Petherbridge.
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Post by The Concept on Jan 28, 2019 21:35:55 GMT
7. Who had a "goal" in the FA Cup disallowed as some sheep had strayed on to the pitch? Dick Sheppard (up for a pen).
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Post by The Concept on Jan 28, 2019 21:37:23 GMT
8. Who retired from football to run an ice-cream company? Errington Edison Kelly - (had a light-bulb moment, and moved to Cornwall).
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Post by dido on Jan 28, 2019 21:56:37 GMT
7. Who had a "goal" in the FA Cup disallowed as some sheep had strayed on to the pitch? Dick Sheppard (up for a pen). I thought it was Andy RAMmel.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2019 22:01:31 GMT
6. Who was investigated by police for allegedly urinating at the side of the pitch before coming on as sub? Wee Georgie Petherbridge.Wasn’t Marcus Browning investigated for something similar?
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Post by TaiwanGas on Jan 29, 2019 4:28:52 GMT
Question 6 : Lewis Haldane?
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harrybuckle
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Post by harrybuckle on Jan 29, 2019 8:38:47 GMT
Did I see you at Bristol Airport today Harry? Yes finished my pilot training will soon be flying high !
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2019 10:44:50 GMT
Question 6 : Lewis Haldane? Shaquille coultirst?
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Post by The Concept on Jan 29, 2019 12:51:32 GMT
6. Who was investigated by police for allegedly urinating at the side of the pitch before coming on as sub?
Jordan Goddard. - His only appearance in a Rovers shirt, I believe. - Versus Corby Town in the FA Cup ...they should have stuck it in a trouser press.
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Post by One F in Dunford on Jan 29, 2019 19:49:47 GMT
Did I see you at Bristol Airport today Harry? Yes finished my pilot training will soon be flying high ! Glad to hear it, the uniform suited you.
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harrybuckle
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Post by harrybuckle on Jan 29, 2019 22:25:58 GMT
The questions were compiled by Stephen Byrne
Here are the answers: 1 Kenny Hibbitt
2 Hubert Ashton
3 Tom Duncan
4 Michael Leary
5 Ryan Williams
6 Jordan Goddard
7 Joe Walter
8 Rory Fallon
9 Neil Etheridge
10 Adrian Coote
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Post by Igitur on Jan 30, 2019 10:37:38 GMT
Sir Hubert Ashton KBE MC, please. OK, only had the MC (only!) when he played the one game for us.
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Post by harrybuckle on Jan 30, 2019 13:45:33 GMT
Sir Hubert Ashton KBE MC, please. OK, only had the MC (only!) when he played the one game for us. From the superb Bristol Rovers Pirates in Profile Players Who's Who book 1920-1993.Ashton sounds a remarkable man. MC or not !
Sir HUBERT ASHTON KBE MC b 13.2.1898 Calcutta d 17.6.1979 South Weald 5’ 9½”; 11 st 4 lbs FB Début: 2.5.25 v Reading Career: Winchester College; Trinity College, Cambridge; West Bromwich Albion (amateur); February 1920 Corinthians; 23.8.24 Bristol Rovers [1,0]; 21.8.26 Orient [5,0] (to May 1927).
Astonishing though it may sound, a Conservative MP whose portrait hangs in the National Portrait Gallery played League football for Bristol Rovers. Appearing in trial games, he was considered “a second Banfield of Bristol City”, but his solitary game for Rovers did not live up to expectations. Reports indicate that Hubert Ashton played too far forward, allowing Reading’s Hugh Davey to score a hat-trick in a 4-1 win; his Orient début came in a 6-0 defeat at Blackpool in December 1926 and he played alongside Jimmy Gardner and Jack Townrow, two players also on Rovers’ books during their careers. Greater success came his way on the cricket field, where he scored 236 not out for Cambridge University against Free Foresters at Fenners in 1920 (one of eight first-class centuries), 75 in seventy-two minutes for an England amateur side against Australia at Eastbourne in 1921 and was a triple cricket blue at Cambridge, scoring 118 in the 1921 Varsity match and being captain in 1922, the year he was named Wisden Cricketer of the Year. He “must have taken a high place had he been able to continue in first-class cricket” (Wisden). He played in 21 matches for Essex sporadically between 1921 and 1939, and for both Europeans and Burma during 1926-27, twice registering 1,000 runs in a first-class season. Greater yet was Hubert Ashton’s political career. Having won a Military Cross on the Western Front with the Royal Field Artillery, where he served from April 1917 to August 1919, he worked for the Burmah Oil Company and was a Conservative Member of Parliament for Chelmsford from 1950 to 1964, serving as Personal Private Secretary to the Exchequer, Lord Privy Seal and, briefly, Home Secretary in 1957. President of the MCC in 1960-61, he was also President of Essex CCC between 1948 and 1970 as well as their Chairman from 1946 to 1951, High Sheriff of Essex and a Church Commissioner. He was knighted in 1959. Hubert Ashton’s family background is extraordinary in that, at every turn, lie famous names from the world of politics, sport and the Church. A nephew of two Kent cricketers, Alfred Inglis (1856-1919, whose great-grandson is the famous conductor Anthony Inglis) and John Inglis (1853-1923, who also played in one unofficial football international for Scotland in 1871), and a nephew of the England rugby international Rupert Inglis (1863-1916, an Army chaplain who was killed at the Battle of the Somme), he was the fourth of five sons to Hubert Shorrock Ashton (1862-1943) and Victoria Alexandrina Inglis (1858-1929), whose father John Eardley Wilmot Inglis (1814-62), the son and grandson of bishops of Nova Scotia, had led the British forces at the Siege of Lucknow; one brother, Gilbert, played cricket for Worcestershire, whilst two more, Claude and Percy, played for Essex – Hubert, Gilbert and Claude all captained Cambridge. Their father had acquired a fifty-acre field in Essex in 1912 to turn it into a sports field for his sone, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, Winston Churchill and Ramsay McDonald all attending the official opening. Indeed, Claude also won an England cap at football, captaining his country in the goalless draw with Northern Ireland in October 1925 when “the big disappointment of the match was CT Ashton, who wasted many good passes by wild shooting and rarely led the England forwards with any marked ability”; sadly, Claude was killed on active service in October 1942, the Cambridge football and cricket blue Roger Winlaw dying in the same plane. With Hubert Ashton, though, escaping a feeling of privilege is difficult. Hubert Ashton married on 2nd June 1927 Dorothy Margaret Gaitskell (1899-1983), the daughter of Arthur Gaitskell (1869-1915) and Adelaide Mary Jamieson (1870-1956) and sister of his one-time political rival Hugh Gaitskell (1906-63), and they had two sons and two daughters.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2019 14:11:45 GMT
Competition Time. So you think you know a lot about Rovers and their players ? Get them all correct to receive a signed Bristol Rovers What's That book. Good Luck.
1. Which former Rovers player sounds like a Geordie telling you to get well soon?
2. What was Boris's real name?
3. Which member of the 1989/90 Championship winning squad went on to do a job that involves his name?
4. Archie Stephens lived in my street when I was growing up, which animal did my Dad say he kept away?
5. Finish the sentence "The Presidents Club Man of the Match sponsored by Touchdown Travel is..."
6. Which former Rovers defender has a Rabbit Sunbed Company named after him?
7. Name the Rovers striker who was investigated by the UN when it was pointed his name could be seen as an advert for child soldiers.
8. Which Rovers former Rovers strikers name is the place you'd least like to be sent in a hospital?
9. Who has the most pornstar name, Tony Pounder or Dick Sheppard?
10. Name the last father/son combination to score for Bristol Rovers.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2019 15:13:58 GMT
1. Err 2. Over Privileged Tory Buffoon. The other was David Mehew. 3. Bob Bloomer and Brian Parkin, who were secret bakers. 4. Dogs. 5. Andy Tilson. 6. See 1. 7. See 1 and 6. 8. Dai Ward or Frank Morgue. 9. See 1, 6 and 7. 10. Ray & Gary Mabbutt?
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