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Post by DudeLebowski on Oct 12, 2014 12:45:13 GMT
This probably belongs in another section, but I figure the majority of people dive straight in here! So enjoy a bit of Mr Gunstone & (for those of you who are old enough) a few Eastville memories!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2014 13:01:08 GMT
Now the egg chasers have left they should bring back the flower beds.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2014 14:07:19 GMT
Of course the flowerbeds. ... and the ceremonial throwing of the oranges to our keeper (before the game started of course)
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Post by badbloodash on Oct 12, 2014 14:48:59 GMT
This probably belongs in another section, but I figure the majority of people dive straight in here! So enjoy a bit of Mr Gunstone & (for those of you who are old enough) a few Eastville memories! I don't miss eastville it was a right s**t hole filthy toilets what I do remember is the people I met there mates who I still have today and many who are no longer with us . at the time I grew up on those terraces and in the dodgy pubs white swan black swan sugar loaves fox three blackbeards and of coarse the queens head we all thought it fantastic great memories of distant times now football just seems devoid of atmosphere and characters I don't miss eastville or twerton and wouldn't miss the mem but I do miss the people I met in those grounds
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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Oct 12, 2014 15:12:47 GMT
One thing I DON'T remember....
Not much Irene Goodnight sung?
I'm from an era 1978 onwards..
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Post by brizzle on Oct 12, 2014 15:27:19 GMT
Many thanks for that DudeLebowski, I enjoyed the video immensely. I always find it incredibly poignant when videos or stills are shown of days long gone, particularly involving BRFC. Best steady on, or else I'll be accused of being a ''rosetinter'' again.
But didn't they all look so young? To me at the time, Alfie Biggs looked to be the model of suave and sophistication. Perhaps that's why he is known as The Baron of Eastville, eh?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2014 15:55:54 GMT
This probably belongs in another section, but I figure the majority of people dive straight in here! So enjoy a bit of Mr Gunstone & (for those of you who are old enough) a few Eastville memories! I don't miss eastville it was a right s*** hole filthy toilets what I do remember is the people I met there mates who I still have today and many who are no longer with us . at the time I grew up on those terraces and in the dodgy pubs white swan black swan sugar loaves fox three blackbeards and of coarse the queens head we all thought it fantastic great memories of distant times now football just seems devoid of atmosphere and characters I don't miss eastville or twerton and wouldn't miss the mem but I do miss the people I met in those grounds I agree with that,apart from I do miss the atmosphere,big games ( especially at night ) City 68 cup game..Stoke...Saints and Ipswich,Sheff Utd Argyle,Chelsea,Spurs,etc etc...but those days are gone forever and so is the atmosphere wherever we play in future. BTW,you missed a few pubs White Lion,South Wales railway,Merchants,Greenbank,the Railway. As for the people,well people these days are quite characterless,I didn't like everyone I met there but they were characters and when you went away and bumped into the same old faces it was good. Oh yes I think that song / video is absolute maudlin crap made for people who never even went there,total bollocks.
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Post by a more piratey game on Oct 12, 2014 16:13:14 GMT
I don't like to see pictures of the cages, nor of the Hofmeister ad above the Tote - both echoes of an era when it was past its best
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Post by a more piratey game on Oct 12, 2014 16:14:30 GMT
anyone got any pictures of the loo rolls going down over the crowd?
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Post by badbloodash on Oct 12, 2014 16:53:35 GMT
anyone got any pictures of the loo rolls going down over the crowd? Or the beer barrels from the bar at the back hurtling down at the old bill at the front
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Post by blueginger on Oct 12, 2014 19:10:26 GMT
anyone got any pictures of the loo rolls going down over the crowd? Or the beer barrels from the bar at the back hurtling down at the old bill at the front If they think the Mem is a hostile place to visit I dread to think what they would have made of Eastville (or any ground in the 70's).
I had been standing on the Tote for every home game for several years, seen all the big boys come in and play, West Ham, Chelsea etc, thought I was a regular, but it didn't stop a few Rovers boys having a go at me and some friends at a game, "because they didn't recognise us" - very friendly place - and as Ash says absolute Sh*t hole. If we had health inspectors then, they didn't visit the Porto Cabin burger bar or the loo's behind the Tote End that's for sure. Must admit though I loved every minute I spent down there and the text from Browners book at the end of the video is very true.
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Post by timothyq on Oct 12, 2014 20:04:49 GMT
One thing I DON'T remember.... Not much Irene Goodnight sung? I'm from an era 1978 onwards.. I never really got us singing Irene, I know the origins have something to do with an Argyle game but I've never understood how it stuck as our song. That's be honest, it's hardly inspiring is it? In fact, it's just a depressing dirge GOOOOODDDDDNIGHT IRENE GOOOODNIGHT IRENE I'LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS, to say nothing else it's just so low key and sad! I'd much prefer something more upbeat and cheerful like come on Eileen, I'd love to blast that out in the Blackthorn stand and it's actually more relevant towards striving for success and inspiring a football team than that weird ballad like song we've been singing for the past 4 decades.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2014 20:12:33 GMT
Many thanks for that DudeLebowski, I enjoyed the video immensely. I always find it incredibly poignant when videos or stills are shown of days long gone, particularly involving BRFC. Best steady on, or else I'll be accused of being a ''rosetinter'' again. But didn't they all look so young? To me at the time, Alfie Biggs looked to be the model of suave and sophistication. Perhaps that's why he is known as The Baron of Eastville, eh? This is a good one brizzle if you like the more sentimental stuff,it's one of jts' efforts which I dont know if it's been posted on here before or not.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2014 20:20:55 GMT
One thing I DON'T remember.... Not much Irene Goodnight sung? I'm from an era 1978 onwards.. I never really got us singing Irene, I know the origins have something to do with an Argyle game but I've never understood how it stuck as our song. That's be honest, it's hardly inspiring is it? In fact, it's just a depressing dirge GOOOOODDDDDNIGHT IRENE GOOOODNIGHT IRENE I'LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS, to say nothing else it's just so low key and sad! I'd much prefer something more upbeat and cheerful like come on Eileen, I'd love to blast that out in the Blackthorn stand and it's actually more relevant towards striving for success and inspiring a football team than that weird ballad like song we've been singing for the past 4 decades. You really do march to the beat of your own drum don't you!! not a fan of Irene myself either but...come on you're taking the Mick
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2014 20:49:21 GMT
One thing I DON'T remember.... Not much Irene Goodnight sung? I'm from an era 1978 onwards.. I never really got us singing Irene, I know the origins have something to do with an Argyle game but I've never understood how it stuck as our song. That's be honest, it's hardly inspiring is it? In fact, it's just a depressing dirge GOOOOODDDDDNIGHT IRENE GOOOODNIGHT IRENE I'LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS, to say nothing else it's just so low key and sad! I'd much prefer something more upbeat and cheerful like come on Eileen, I'd love to blast that out in the Blackthorn stand and it's actually more relevant towards striving for success and inspiring a football team than that weird ballad like song we've been singing for the past 4 decades. And Stoke sing a song about murdering your girlfriend, while West Ham sing about their dreams fading and dying. It doesn't have to have meaning. You know, why not sing Irene? It's better than that 'Bravo, win or die' s**t at Norwich, or the sodding Eton Boat Song at Cov. It's also been done by just about every credible singer of the last half century at least. Everyone who knows their music knows Irene
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2014 20:55:44 GMT
I sometimes think this is more appropriate to my experience of Rovers:
You disturb my natural emotions You make me feel I'm dirt And I'm hurt And if I start a commotion I'll only end up losing you And that's worse
Ever fallen in love with someone? Ever fallen in love? In love with someone Ever fallen in love? (Love…) In love with someone You shouldn't've fallen in love with
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Post by aghast on Oct 12, 2014 21:06:38 GMT
I don't miss eastville it was a right s*** hole filthy toilets what I do remember is the people I met there mates who I still have today and many who are no longer with us . at the time I grew up on those terraces and in the dodgy pubs white swan black swan sugar loaves fox three blackbeards and of coarse the queens head we all thought it fantastic great memories of distant times now football just seems devoid of atmosphere and characters I don't miss eastville or twerton and wouldn't miss the mem but I do miss the people I met in those grounds I don't agree at all. By the standards of the 60s and 70s, Eastville was a pretty good stadium. I went to some terrible grounds in those days and felt quite proud of our home patch. In today's world it wouldn't be acceptable, but it would have been ideal to redevelop, with loads of space for bigger stands, hospitality etc. Not the best part of Bristol, maybe, but Man City's ground is is a sh*thole part of Manchester, and they don't seem too bothered.
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Post by brizzle on Oct 12, 2014 22:00:46 GMT
One thing I DON'T remember.... Not much Irene Goodnight sung? I'm from an era 1978 onwards.. I never really got us singing Irene, I know the origins have something to do with an Argyle game but I've never understood how it stuck as our song. That's be honest, it's hardly inspiring is it? In fact, it's just a depressing dirge GOOOOODDDDDNIGHT IRENE GOOOODNIGHT IRENE I'LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS, to say nothing else it's just so low key and sad! I'd much prefer something more upbeat and cheerful like come on Eileen, I'd love to blast that out in the Blackthorn stand and it's actually more relevant towards striving for success and inspiring a football team than that weird ballad like song we've been singing for the past 4 decades. My father always told me the story about Rovers fans ''lifting'' the song from the Plymuff fans, and this is confirmed by a letter that was printed in the Bristol Post earlier this year . . . www.bristolpost.co.uk/Reader-s-letter-Bristol-Rovers-fans-adopted-song/story-21210181-detail/story.htmlAnd as for the rest of the points in your post tim, the song is the very essence and part of the fabric of BRFC, rather like the Quarters are. You probably remember when they were ''rested,'' and the ensuing hoo-haa. But they're only shirts with colours and patterns on . . . right? No, wrong! Some things are priceless, despite having no intrinsic value.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2014 22:05:09 GMT
I never really got us singing Irene, I know the origins have something to do with an Argyle game but I've never understood how it stuck as our song. That's be honest, it's hardly inspiring is it? In fact, it's just a depressing dirge GOOOOODDDDDNIGHT IRENE GOOOODNIGHT IRENE I'LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS, to say nothing else it's just so low key and sad! I'd much prefer something more upbeat and cheerful like come on Eileen, I'd love to blast that out in the Blackthorn stand and it's actually more relevant towards striving for success and inspiring a football team than that weird ballad like song we've been singing for the past 4 decades. My father always told me the story about Rovers fans ''lifting'' the song from the Plymuff fans, and this is confirmed by a letter that was printed in the Bristol Post earlier this year . . . www.bristolpost.co.uk/Reader-s-letter-Bristol-Rovers-fans-adopted-song/story-21210181-detail/story.htmlAnd as for the rest of the points in your post tim, the song is the very essence and part of the fabric of BRFC, rather like the Quarters are. You probably remember when they were ''rested,'' and the ensuing hoo-haa. But they're only shirts with colours and patterns on . . . right? No, wrong! Some things are priceless, despite having no intrinsic value. You're right the quarters are great, but the song means nothing and as TQ says it is a bit of a dirge.
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Post by brizzle on Oct 12, 2014 22:10:18 GMT
Many thanks for that DudeLebowski, I enjoyed the video immensely. I always find it incredibly poignant when videos or stills are shown of days long gone, particularly involving BRFC. Best steady on, or else I'll be accused of being a ''rosetinter'' again. But didn't they all look so young? To me at the time, Alfie Biggs looked to be the model of suave and sophistication. Perhaps that's why he is known as The Baron of Eastville, eh? This is a good one brizzle if you like the more sentimental stuff,it's one of jts' efforts which I dont know if it's been posted on here before or not. Many thanks for that delehadebola, nothing like a walk down Memory Lane (particularly on a wet Sunday evening) is there? I can't recall seeing the video before, so I'll have a good old-fashioned pore over it tomorrow. Kind regards,
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