nit3owl64
Respect The Beard!!!
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Post by nit3owl64 on Sept 16, 2014 8:14:10 GMT
Pitch invasion by parachute impressive mind! I have this on dvd i was only 10 at the time memories of sitting out side the black swan with a real glass bottle of coke and ready salted crisps,those were the days
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rennesgas
Alfie Biggs
First Rovers match 1964
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Post by rennesgas on Sept 16, 2014 8:18:57 GMT
I was in north enclosure, was this not Phil Bater's home debut and Ray Graydon's first match back at Eastville?
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irishrover
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Post by irishrover on Sept 16, 2014 10:23:19 GMT
Ah yes but if memory serves the two of us have a mutual appreciation for Lee Archer, which will seem almost as distant to the youngsters on here today as this seems to be to us.....To support Vaughan's point - when I used to talk about 'Tilly's heros' and wax lyrical about the likes of Billy Clarke, Worrell Stirling and Andy Gurney the older generation used to shake their heads and say it was said that we didn't have 'real' memories (it could be quite patronising) but what will be the equivalent for this generation (say you'd been a Rovers fan for 5 years....)? Nostalgia is what fandom's built on, it's why you go through the bad times, - I think we're just jealous that these guys nostalgia is better than ours. But I'm worried that the recent generation won't have any nostalgia and the ties will not be as strong; it'll be more like 'remember when we spent 5 years of our youth following that crap football team around the country - bit of a laugh but what we were we thinking......'. Knowing your a cricket fan i was having similar thoughts on the way home but this related to Ashes tickets going on general sale (as the demand was great enough in the ballot) at Cardiff which I concluded was due to the fact that at present there aren't any test 'superstars' ie the likes of Warne, Gilchrist, McGrath, Flintoff, Peterson etc playing at the moment. Yes, I think that's right -it's also true that neither England or Australia have a particularly good team right now; South Africa are the standout side but in reality there's no great side in World cricket right now exemplified by the failure of nearly everybody to win away from home. I think it's also to do with Ashes fatigue - the back to back series mean that we've had 2 home Ashes series in 3 years. I think the novelty wears off a bit and people don't have the enthusiasm to pay the inflated prices; not sure I can be bothered really, might wait for an exciting 4th/5th day instead next year. Nobby's probably right but how it links back to the main topic is that bonds to a side/sport don't just drop out of the sky - they need to be formed through attachment to exciting moments and players. That's a bit of a worry at Rovers right now. It's not just that we've been poor for a while it's that we haven't had any memories to speak of for such a long time - I quite enjoyed the away games at Fleetwood and Rotherham last season but that's a bit niche and not that many went. The last 'big' memory I can think of was Andy Williams v Southampton. So if you've been a gashead for just 5 years (a decent chunk and the key period I think for people making a lifelong assocation from childhood to adult) what is it that you cling on to?
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