The Official Rotherham United v Bristol City match Day Thread

[BigTone]

9 hours ago, havanatopia said:

I was going toste up anotdoer fat bloke for th is match but  of course he has slithered across from South to West Yorkshire. The current manager who, I believe, is Mr. Neil Redfearn of course came rather recently from the opposite direction. Its a funny old game is football management. He is a local lad having been born in Dewsbury one of the few towns in the Yorkshire Lancashire cloth belt still manufacturing fabrics. Good on em I say. Redfearn played for a plethora of football clubs with his league career coming to an end in the mid naughties. His longest spell was with Barnsley and most of his teams, save for Watford, Palace and Charlton were 'northern' teams. Enough of that nonsense.

Rotherham United, from memory, were elected to the Football league in 1925 when, in fact, two Rotherham teams were joined as one. I will always remember the day we beat them 3-1 to gain promotion to the Championship and they were already going in the opposite direction.. Many hundreds of their fans stayed behind afterwards and roundly applauded our boys. I thought it was a really nice gesture and one that was not lost on thousands of City fans on the day; showing our appreciation to them in turn.

Rotherham, the town, sits on the River Don, as do Sheffield and Doncaster, and is close to the confluence with the river Rother from which the town derives its name. 

The people of Rotherham should be rightfully proud of the achievements of their forefathers:- From the Battle of Trafalgar to the bridges of London, and from St Paul's Cathedral to the Great Eastern steam ship, the influence of Rotherham's great industries has been felt far beyond the boundaries of Yorkshire. The great furnaces and mills made the cannon that armed Nelson's HMS Victory at Trafalgar, the castings that bridged rivers as far apart as London and Jamaica, the steel straps that were installed to stop the dome of St Paul's from falling apart, the valves used in the Mulberry harbours that made D-Day possible and the plates that clad Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Great Eastern. Rotherham-made pipes helped bring fresh water supplies to Hong Kong. The town's factories made everything from brakes for World War II bombers to fireplaces for great houses like Wentworth Woodhouse. Its a bit of a who's who alright.

Rotherham has a population of 117,000 (2001 Census) with the borough as a whole a rather surprising 248,000, in total. Yet it today comes under the Sheffield 'urban contigious area' with the centres of both being a mere 5.6 miles apart. Back in the early days there had been Ironage and Roman settlements but it was not really established until the Middle ages by the Saxons. The name is an easy one to decipher; ham, meaning homestead of course that sits on the Rother.

Here are a few odd, interesting and completely useless factoids about Rotherham:-

1. Joseph Foljambe made the first commercially successful iron plough in the town.

2. Milling grain flour was a traditional industry in Rotherham and was home for a long time to Rank Hovis MacDougal. (where have they gone then?). The Millers became a fairly obvious nickname for the football club possibly chosen ahead of Iron because S****horpe and at least one other club, who's name escapes me, use.

3. Rotherham has for decades been a Labour party stronghold, like much of industrial Yorkshire, but more so here perhaps partly due to the sheer number of jobs that were lost to coal mining a major mineral wealth under the town along, also, with iron. Labour control 74% of the council with 20% by UKIP.. nobody else gets a look in. That despite the fact that ex Rotherham MP Denis mcShane was jailed for expenses abuse.

Lets hope that we get a decent referee of the Howard Webb standard then, he was born in Rotherham so it might be a good omen and we can be laughing like the Chuckle Brothers come 5pm and hopefully they, no doubt Millers fans, won't be.

I went for a bizarre 0-3 .. seems quite a few others are banking on that scoreline also. We might just let rip, lets hope so.

UTC

Well done to all those going.. a fabulous effort... cheer the City on to victory.

Kodjia, Smith, Agard.

Brilliant

Apologies if my condensed versions are predictable but i do spend hours on research.

I shall alter todays to 3-1 City just to be different

[havanatopia]

3 hours ago, BigTone said:

Condensed Version

Rotherham

 A shithole near Sheffield best forgotten for its most recent scandal.

Mr Putin, please take aim with my blessing.

2-0 City

Can we save the tudor style architecture, City Hall and some of the churches please? Cluster bombs perhaps?

3 hours ago, chipdawg said:

Dewsbury 'local' to Rotherham?! Thas dint nah waat thas onabart lad

3-1 City

25 miles down the M1. OK if its your back firing Ford Anglia or Austin A40 you do have a point.

1 hour ago, reddogkev said:

Lovely job Hava, I really need to revise my knowledge of English rivers - I never knew there was a River Don.  The criminal mastermind of all rivers.  For my sins, I've never heard of the Rother either. I feel like this new-found knowledge of English rivers is going to serve me very well indeed.

City to win 2 - 1 today.

Hopefully we can scout for any more strikers that we can nick off of them - just like Shaun Goater and Kieran Agard....

I'll keep the river info flowing if i remember. Is that a cliche for Pongo?

50 minutes ago, pongo88 said:

Football's a funny old game. I think it's going to be a game of two halves. In the first Rotherham will set out their stall and aim to grind out a 1-0 win. Early doors they'll get a goal which will put City on the back foot. City are a better team, but the pitch will be a great leveller, so still 1-0 down at half time, with the City supporters sick as parrots. 

Second half, City will come out fighting, and give 110%. The boy Pack will surprise a few with 2 goals, both from 30 yards. City on top, but as it's a relegation dogfight, the last few minutes will be squeaky bum time. Not an entertaining match, but at the end of the day it's a relegation dog fight and a real six pointer. Final score City win 2-1 and supporters over the moon. 

(Sorry if I've missed any cliches)

 

How about this for a starter for 10:-

[EstoniaTallinnRed]

Just found this link about Bobby, still at the Royals it say's at the age of 62,  but according to Wiki he was born in 1940 which would make him 75 

http://www.exroyals.co.uk/players/22/Bobby_Williams

Edited November 28, 2015 by EstoniaTallinnRed
wrong age

[redfieldred]

2 hours ago, BA14 RED said:

1-1. Couldnt beat Bolton so gives me no confidence for us to convincingly beat these

Not beating Bolton was mostly down to the ref. Although we didn't play as well as against the Welsh, they were abject first half and we should have been 1-0 up for an obvious pen. which against their attack was a 1-0 win. Couldn't even score with the help of the softest penalty I've seen since birmingham. By the way Charlton 1-0 down and playing like sh@@e 

[havanatopia]

8 minutes ago, redfieldred said:

Not beating Bolton was mostly down to the ref. Although we didn't play as well as against the Welsh, they were abject first half and we should have been 1-0 up for an obvious pen. which against their attack was a 1-0 win. Couldn't even score with the help of the softest penalty I've seen since birmingham. By the way Charlton 1-0 down and playing like sh@@e 

And Barnsley at home to the Blades... is Little Lee still in charge? Apart from that one win a couple games ago they have been on a really shocking run. I see Oldham not doing any better.. is their a legacy issue here ? Surely he cannot last much longer.

[cityexile]

Charlton 2-0 down at HT. If that stays the same, barring a complete stuffing, we cannot drop in the bottom three today.

[Septic Peg]

Trying my best not to send wind up tweets to @PaulChuckle2 because it's Paul Chuckle and he is a legend... 

[Aizoon]

1 hour ago, EstoniaTallinnRed said:

Have played football with him in Vicky Park.  Is he still alive?

According to Wikipedia, he is

[EstoniaTallinnRed]

Yes!  Thanks,   See my previous post with a link from Reading ex players.

[Ash the Bash]

[daored]

No changes from Saturday , 3 points today COYR's

[Major Isewater]

1 hour ago, reddogkev said:

We once had a player called Bobby "Shadow" Williams?  Why was he known as the Shadow?

Because all the opposition could get to was his ' shadow ' he was apparently ,very quick.

We eventually sold him to Rotherham but he was a shadow of himself then.

[Northern Red]

Team as expected. 

[Major Isewater]

32 minutes ago, Septic Peg said:

Trying my best not to send wind up tweets to @PaulChuckle2 because it's Paul Chuckle and he is a legend... 

maybe   'to you '

 

It's funny that they're comedians and their surname is Chuckle .

Edited November 28, 2015 by Major Isewater

[Major Isewater]

1 minute ago, Northern Red said:

Team as expected. 

Cotts does love to keep the opposition guessing !

[Port Said Red]

1 hour ago, havanatopia said:

And Barnsley at home to the Blades... is Little Lee still in charge? Apart from that one win a couple games ago they have been on a really shocking run. I see Oldham not doing any better.. is their a legacy issue here ? Surely he cannot last much longer.

Barnsley equalised in the 94th minute, they gave it a real go in the last 20 minutes.

Edited November 28, 2015 by Port Said Red

[Loderingo]

Come on City.  With Charlton getting stuffed it's a great opportunity to put 3-4 points between us and the bottom 3

[cityexile]

Just now, Loderingo said:

Come on City.  With Charlton getting stuffed it's a great opportunity to put 3-4 points between us and the bottom 3

Indeed. Can argue that the only reason is we are not midtable at the moment, is only picking up 3 points against Bolton, MK and Preston. Another draw today whilst in isolation is not awful, 4 points against near rivals from 4 games would be.

[And Its Smith]

Has Pack slowed up a counter attack yet? 

[downendcity]

15 minutes ago, RedDave said:

Has Pack slowed up a counter attack yet? 

Only ours.

[Eddie Hitler]

Typical Rotherham fans waiting for the match:

 

[Garland-sweden]

Come on City, lets take all the Points.

[The dastardly red]

50 minutes ago, Major Isewater said:

maybe   'to you '

 

It's funny that they're comedians and their surname is Chuckle .

good job they didn't become undertakers

[Aizoon]

Have they scored yet?

 

[Nogbad the Bad]

Good run and cross by Williams, Kodjia's effort deflected over the bar.

Bennett shoots wide from the corner.

[downendcity]

1 minute ago, Aizoon said:

Have they scored yet?

 

Yes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Forest Green that is, after 40 seconds!!

[Super]

Hudders losing.

[Lanterne Rouge]

Huddersfield 1 down at home

[Drew Peacock]

Blackburn winning.  New manager syndrome. Bollocks. Not going to be easy next week.

[Aizoon]

BUGGER!! They have now

 

 

Edited November 28, 2015 by Aizoon