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Post by brizzle on Oct 12, 2014 22:19:31 GMT
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. I suppose that the answer to the question is that to some people the song means a great deal, and to others not very much at all. I suppose that a lot depends on your sense of history, and your taste in music. I'm just pleased that we at least agree on the Quarters. By the way, how do you feel about ''The Red, Red Robin?''Always look for the positives, eh?  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2014 22:25:32 GMT
Shoot the b'stard!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2014 22:34:27 GMT
You're right the quarters are great, but the song means nothing and as TQ says it is a bit of a dirge. I suppose that the answer to the question is that to some people the song means a great deal, and to others not very much at all. I suppose that a lot depends on your sense of history, and your taste in music. I'm just pleased that we at least agree on the Quarters. By the way, how do you feel about ''The Red, Red Robin?''Always look for the positives, eh? Same view as Gandy |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2014 22:50:16 GMT
i think irene goodnight is about identity,only we sing and have sung it for a very long time its unique to our club. like the pompey chimes or blowing bubbles at west ham it dosnt have to be a great song as its our song surely?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2014 10:07:29 GMT
i think irene goodnight is about identity,only we sing and have sung it for a very long time its unique to our club. like the pompey chimes or blowing bubbles at west ham it dosnt have to be a great song as its our song surely? I think that's right,but I also think it was better when it was only sung every now and again ( once a game maximum) they sing it all the time now and it gets boring,apart from which they don't sing it very well these days. I preferred the blue shirts to the quarters myself. Eastville could have been great if redeveloped,near motorway and train station,on the bus routes,massive car parks. |
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Post by clockendgas on Oct 14, 2014 11:16:17 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 surely the other buzzcocks track, somethings gone wrong again, is more typical of us |
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Post by kingswood Polak on Oct 15, 2014 18:14:33 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. It's the pledge that matters in Irene. It's not sung now and so it has lost its power fir me because of that. It bugs me that it gets sung too much but I'd still rTher have our club anthem than what you suggest. |
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Post by ThisCharmingMan on Oct 15, 2014 19:47:37 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. It's the pledge that matters in Irene. It's not sung now and so it has lost its power fir me because of that. It bugs me that it gets sung too much but I'd still rTher have our club anthem than what you suggest. Even coming from a 'youngster' I prefer songs sung slowly, including Irene. Like you say KP, it sounds a lot better sung as a song rather than chanted. It also seems as we don't go through the verses as much as we used to do.  |
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Post by TaiwanGas on Oct 16, 2014 5:34:00 GMT
Lots of those Blue & White Bar scarves being waved on the front photo, they have been in discussion a fair bit recently!, I did prefer the plain blue white blue horizontal 3 stripe version myself!, bout the same time, in fact, on that photo, I think I am the chump stood on the railing at the front with my Navy Whites, DM'S and the sad looking waistcoat on, unless anybody knows for sure who this is?, I have often wondered?. And I still do miss the Tote, I bought a house that was alongside where the West stand used to be, Napier road, back in 81' and from my garden used to peer into the Tote re-living many great and terrifying moments spent on the terraces, I have absolutely no bad memories of the ground at all, I think fondly of the rusted, twisted faded Blue corrugated fencing, the heavy and large clanking turnstiles that were on the tote, with a hundred years of paint chips, the fact as a young lad needed all my strength just to get past them, the 'walk' up the steps to the back of the Tote to the entrance at the top, the ''spotters'' perched at the top of the Tote approach, the early warning device, the Brown wooden pie sheds and the open air urinal, wish I could do it all again....
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Post by clockendgas on Oct 16, 2014 8:36:38 GMT
I think the first time i ever went onto the tote was that cup tie with saints and the pitch invasion. Id always been taken to rovers by a mates dad who i guess knew about the trouble on it and always took us into the stands. As a 15/16 year old my heart was going with a mixture of excitement and fear, as mentioned pushing hard to get thru those turnstiles, then faces staring at you as i knew no one, climbing those steps,looking around to see the crowds coming in. At the top the rush of air thru the rusty metal ans barbed wire, then the massive crowd, my heart was racing as we pushed into the middle, i could hardly see the game thru heads and arms but remember it giong mental when paulr chipped the keeper for number two. Then the pitch invasion by saints, all the blokes around me shouting ans rushing past me to chase the saints back down the pitch we me laughing and cheering, and the tote in full voice upon there return, my arms in the air with scarve tied around my wrist. Yes it did end up a dump but to me it was full of mostly happy memories as a kid, even if i was scared at times waiting for it to kick off, what a stadium that could have been, very sad how it all ended by thats life, UTG
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2014 12:30:17 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! Looks desolate place when you compare to nowadays. I remember being taken here with the school when I was at Dr Bells in Fishponds as a kid. Shameful indoctrination by the teachers. |
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Post by rennesgas on Oct 16, 2014 12:43:53 GMT
Great memories, started watching Rovers from Tote End around 1964, started work and moved to North Enclosure. 30, 000 plus crowds for a couple of evening cup games, happy days and a million miles from where we are now.
Main thing is after watching Rovers at Eastville it is in your blood and you somehow continue to follow them in the hope that some good times return.
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Post by pressuredrop on Oct 16, 2014 21:01:52 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 You forgot the bonfires and the metal ladder that Wiltshire chucked one game - whacking Priddy's missus on the head - he wasn't amused. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2014 21:36:55 GMT
Or the beer barrels from the bar at the back hurtling down at the old bill at the front You forgot the bonfires and the metal ladder that Wiltshire chucked one game - whacking Priddy's missus on the head - he wasn't amused. And we wonder why and squeal with outrage when we're identified as the biggest menaces in football, this and the silly thread on the now defunct forum lauding one of our greatest hooligans, sadly now deceased, and suggesting a stand be named after him. Sad sad sad. |
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Post by Curly Wurly on Oct 16, 2014 22:27:40 GMT
You forgot the bonfires and the metal ladder that Wiltshire chucked one game - whacking Priddy's missus on the head - he wasn't amused. And we wonder why and squeal with outrage when we're identified as the biggest menaces in football, this and the silly thread on the now defunct forum lauding one of our greatest hooligans, sadly now deceased, and suggesting a stand be named after him. Sad sad sad. Stop the pretence, or are you seriously scizophrenic? I'm starting to get worried about you. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2014 16:50:43 GMT
And we wonder why and squeal with outrage when we're identified as the biggest menaces in football, this and the silly thread on the now defunct forum lauding one of our greatest hooligans, sadly now deceased, and suggesting a stand be named after him. Sad sad sad. Stop the pretence, or are you seriously scizophrenic? I'm s tarting to get worried about you. Look I can also do it! Play the ball not the man Curly Wurly, what's your response to the idiotic posts to which I have reacted? Or would you rather avoid the issue and concentrate on my mental health? |
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Post by DudeLebowski on Oct 17, 2014 17:05:38 GMT
You forgot the bonfires and the metal ladder that Wiltshire chucked one game - whacking Priddy's missus on the head - he wasn't amused. And we wonder why and squeal with outrage when we're identified as the biggest menaces in football, this and the silly thread on the now defunct forum lauding one of our greatest hooligans, sadly now deceased, and suggesting a stand be named after him. Sad sad sad. What part of the original post made you think it was anything to do with hoolies?! Purely meant for the football & better times from the boys in blue & white quarters. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2014 17:14:49 GMT
Well the dirge is called Tote end boys ?,and a large percentage of the Tote end boys were hooligans.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2014 17:27:39 GMT
And we wonder why and squeal with outrage when we're identified as the biggest menaces in football, this and the silly thread on the now defunct forum lauding one of our greatest hooligans, sadly now deceased, and suggesting a stand be named after him. Sad sad sad. What part of the original post made you think it was anything to do with hoolies?! Purely meant for the football & better times from the boys in blue & white quarters. I wasn't responding to the original post. |
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Post by Curly Wurly on Oct 17, 2014 23:02:30 GMT
Stop the pretence, or are you seriously scizophrenic? I'm s tarting to get worried about you. Look I can also do it! Play the ball not the man Curly Wurly, what's your response to the idiotic posts to which I have reacted? Or would you rather avoid the issue and concentrate on my mental health? No, I won't avoid the issue. I don't find the posts idiotic at all, but I do get the irony in the romanticisation of the hooligan activities of previous generations, when placed against the recent furore regarding the events at the Mansfield game, etc.. Pressure Drop's accounts are part of the football folklore at this club and similar experiences are recorded for most of the serious clubs in the country. Having grown up watching football in the late 60s, 70s and 80s, everyone was aware of the violence, even if (like me) you didn't partake. With it there are plenty of anecdotes that have become popular in literary form, including the same Chris Brown's "Bovver" and hundreds of others in the genre. Another (poignant) example of this romanticism appears in the Post today www.bristolpost.co.uk/Hundreds-say-good-bye-loved-Bristol-City-fan-Mark/story-23237371-detail/story.html"After leaving the family home in Bedminster Down, Mark’s coffin was driven past the Miners Arms pub, where his friends applauded and proudly held up a flag of the City Service Firm, of which he had been a proud member." I think the fact that Dave Jeal, ex-Rovers hooligan now club chaplain officiated puts this whole subject in it's proper context. But do you find that idiotic too? |
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