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You could always refer them Spurs v Rovers 1977 for a reality check on that one ???

Classic Rovers on Twitter today, I wonder how the ‘300 more were locked out’ figure was arrived at? Did they do a head count? Did they multiply the actual number by 10, then add 100, then round up to the nearest 100?

If I remember correctly that was after they lost away to Altrincham. Just writing that sentence puts a massive smile on my face. Happy Days.

Ah. The day they shared nine goals with Spurs, albeit slightly unevenly.

Got to love how they regurgitate posts likes this, as some kind of celebration..! Their focus on having some people locked out (because it was a non league ground, rather than any exceptionally spectacular sized following) seems to over shadow that fact that they were A) NON league..! & B) Held to a goalless draw by a NON league side...!

City list 9-0 to Coventry in 1934. I remember it well as we were unlucky and should have won

Funny how they never talk of how many get locked out at home games! I mean even if you took it as fact that they have amazing away support, and take 40k to Wembley etc etc surely that just highlights how incredibly poor the home support is, so why boast about it?

A lot of the Rovers "fans" I know wouldn't recognise their own players, they never watch them ?

I expect they were ‘locked up’ as opposed to locked out. I suspect the Tote Enders who still think it’s the mid-70’s turned up to sleepy Woking reminiscing about Millwall and started intimidating anyone wearing anything red, racially abusing people and punching horses. They were easy to identify and arrest as they were bald with 1 or 2 teeth, wearing a 70’s replica home shirt and carrying motorcycle chains whilst singing the bow legged chicken song.

People slate our Social Media on here but the day they celebrate the anniversary of taking a poxy 1800 a couple of hours up the road is the day I want one of my kids to shoot me in the back of my head to save me from the agony of cringing myself to death.

Yes that's the one..is that true ? I heard he had done that for a court appearance so the judge would have to say "stand up..Neil Down" ?

I expect they’re all like it at the swamp on match days. D1ckheads lumping fellow slags all around the tents, calling each other ‘shitheads’ because one or two of them forget to soil themselves in rage every time an ex City player gets the ball.

Tungsten darts were a nice little earner, made in the toolroom..

Yeah, I had to stand at the front against the railings to be able to see until I was big enough to stand back up the terraces with my Dad. I doubt we could have afforded a stool for me to stand on though ?

Back in those days, you couldn't get season tickets in the ends, so most of us would POTD. If we were expecting a sell out, we would queue up at least an hour before the game, but we always got in, though a few couldn't. Problem was that they used to open the gates at half time and those outside would pour in for free and squashed those of us who had paid. I do remember some games in the early 70s when cash was tight and we had no money to get in, so had to be happy with watching the second half for free. How times have changed ?

I think mental hill climbing was the order of the day today. Thought to myself “Not been to Somerset monument before, might run there”. Vertical. The stupid thing was that it was 10k into a HM so after killing my legs I had another 10 to go. Currently unable to move on the sofa!

Colin Lee got train back to Bristol after game with the match ball and rovers fans didn't recognise him.

Colin Lee scored most of Spurs goals that day, as he was ex City it made it an even better day.

I see Spurs have notched 2 against Sheff Utd, so did Rovers. Gas logic says Rovers as good as Spurs?

The usual methodology when Rovers were NLBRFC was to count how many turned up late and couldn't get in - then add 299. For League and Cup matches the same method applies, but count the latecomers then add 9,999.

Took them a while to feel confident enough to play without stabilisers? This is not a Trike question.

Don’t be blaming him, it’s your fault for starting this thread.

Would that be Neil Winstone, who changed his name by deed poll to Neil Down?

Fair play - I’ve ridden that on my bike, it’s a beast indeed!! Good 10k time with that hill involved ??

No, even BETTER than Spurs and Sheffield United. Spurs took no away fans, the fewers have an away fan, and if you count the number of empty seats at Sheffield, there will be far more that at the Mem when Rovers played them. Conclusive proof the Fewers are bigger than both Sheffield United AND Spurs. #DoubleGasLogic

This new 'top signing' goalie has started well. Threw one in his own net last week, let one in direct from a corner yesterday. What next? Sending off next week?

Well, they did complete the same number of ground improvements as Spurs did, the season before last, if you recall . That at least puts them on a level with Spurs ?

@mozo I mentioned I was keen to run up that brutal hill climb you did on Xmas day. Managed it this morning. Wow!! That was tough. Eased myself into the run to start climbing at 1k and got to the top by the golf club at 5k. That 4k distance was quite literally vertical for about 2.5k and only levelled off temporarily a couple of times. An absolute beast!! Was nice turning at the top and running back down it though ?

Kidderminster or Telford somewhere like that I think

Woking's stadium has a capacity of over 6,000. Weird that they would lock 300 people out (if we were to believe the Rovers fan) with the ground barely more than half full.

Against the top 5 teams in WSL you are on a hiding to nothing setting up to hold on to nil nil from the start and hoping for something on the counter arrack. It really doesn’t seem like the best use of the players they’ve got. I hope Beard’s knowledge of the league will allow him to adjust the game plan depending on opposition weakness as well as giving Salmon a better chance to make the most of her obvious talent. I fear that even if they stay up she will be gone at the end of the season.

If Matt Beard didn't know what he'd taken on he does now. Next weekend could be painful as well. I don't remember them not losing to Chelsea since the formation of the league and in recent seasons it's been a pasting home and away every time.

Well I can count 17 in that picture, so I think it must be multiply by 20 then take off 40 to account for any exaggeration. Of course we will get told there was another gate where the missing 283 are waiting.

Imagine the embarrassment of driving to Woking.....and then being locked out! Comedy gold!!

@Midred I believe that sudden mood swings are not unusual with many people. Sometimes, I feel really up and very gregarious. Like speaking to total strangers on trains or at football matches. Then there is the other side of me when I go right in my shell. A party when I sit and don't say a word to anyone while all others are laughing, joking and drinking. I walk the dog or listen to music. My favourite is Wagner; dark stories but superb music that after taking one down can then lift the spirits back to normal.

Blimey Coombsy, for a minute there I thought that was you going off on one! I was wondering who had upset you so much. ? ?

Hahaha, is that the one who was accused of being a City fan because he voiced concern about getting enough points to avoid relegation? Paranoid ******* pounders! ?

They still rabbiting about hare? ??

All fair points Rich - but even with my giant rose-tinted specs on, I really miss the days of real music and the raw atmosphere that surrounded that era ?

My apologies, for I was probably partly responsible for some of this due to my mentioning the beer in Hofbrauhaus.

Some GAS melt on GT show mentioned Josh Hare (whoever the little **** is, apparently a Gas player) in the same sentence as Roberto Carlos ?

0-1 F.T. Hahahaha !! 2 points above relegation zone ?

Some people on this post need to be diverted to a facebook group called "Bristol pubs and clubs of the 60's 70's and 80's. I can highly recommend it for a nostalgic trip back in time, with lot's of references to music, pubs, clubs, fashions, fights. All the stuff you'd expect from the title. Let's keep this site back to taking the piss please.

You talk about your youth with great passion, and they were indeed great days. I suspect the confused emojis that your original post got was due to the fact that you have fallen into the classic pitfall of "Bloody kids, not like it was back in my day" that seems to happen to a lot of people as they get older. Don't forget that your parents generation thought exactly the same of you. You also seem to have forgotten that there was an awful lof of manufactured pop in the sixties and seventies as well, it's just that you were a little more discerning in your musical tastes. It's exactly the same now, plenty of 'proper' bands out there that have followings, just that the media these days makes it harder for them to get mainstream exposure than it ever was. There is also a wider variety of different styles and genres than there was.

Well, @EmissionImpossibleand @JamesBCFC you reacted to my post above with a ‘confused’ emoji so I thought I’d explore that - you obviously don’t identify with, or understand, my thoughts or musings and that is probably because you belong to the X-Factor, Britains’s Got Talent, Strictly Come Dancing, Reality TV shite generation? I’m sure you will correct me if i’m incorrect ... but my post highlighted a time when kids could seriously identify with the bands who were high profile at the time - and that was because we knew that they were the same age as us and they had grafted so, so hard to get a record deal - they had rehearsed in their Dad’s garage with their mates and then when they were confident enough they took their songs all over the UK, playing five, six, seven nights a week at horrendous venues just hoping to get spotted. They worked harder than any X-Factor winner who wouldn’t know the first thing about honest graft or how to pick up a guitar and learn how to play it from scratch - we loved our heroes because they were just like us - they didn’t get flown out to a Simon Cowell mansion, somewhere exotic to practice an horrendous bubble gum pop song cover version to perform in front of brain dead couch potatoes on a Saturday night ready to vote by pressing the red button .... our heroes were real ... and a great example, like him or love him, is Bryan Adams - his band has been together since they were 14 years old, practising in his Dad’s old barn in the ‘70s and early ‘80s and making it to the top ... proper blokes, proper musicians - and the same goes to legends like The Jam, The Specials, The Clash etc, etc, etc .... I can understand somewhat why you are ‘confused’ but our heroes were real, not manufactured and pampered, and the reality they displayed through their playing and lyrics made us pay homage to them at a time when their outpourings were so refreshing and honest. I get the impression your heroes will be forgotten in a matter of years, whereas ours will live forever ... hectic, heady days ... they were just awesome ...

That's why I've always chosen Lambrettas ?

Amazing reading this thread. Well done to everyone especially @phantom. Why we all love OTIB.