Miah Dennehy

I remember it well!

TBF , that might have been me

That is funny as **** mind

Well, we are all entitled to an opinion I suppose. Rovers were poor on Saturday, but Shrewsbury really did all they could to kill the game stone dead. My posts have been saying we have been great to watch since January - and for those who are so fond of quoting stats on here- I believe I am right in saying than we have won more games in2022 than any other league team, that was certainly the case up until a couple of weeks ago. This season- like last- hasn't started so well, I have said elsewhere that maybe the step up and the loss of two star players from last season will prove very telling, because 6 games in and we have only put in 2 good performances and one of those was against what appears to be a very poor team who were down to 10 men for virtually the entire game. My other concern would be that the performance at Barnsley- which I watched on I follow- we were lucky to only lose 3-0 and that against a team who. from memory. were utter shite last year, which could well show that we will be looking towards the bottom half of the table rather than the top. Anyway, long, long way to go and all that and I do have a fair bit of faith in the squad- they earned that last season- and a manager (and I'm talking about him purely in football terms) who knows how to get the best out of his players. I'm hoping my absence this Saturday against Morecambe may inspire them I am off glory hunting at Celtic for the week. annoying I booked flights Friday to Monday for me and my wife, but now we have gone and drawn Real Madrid on the Tuesday I have had to extend my stay , bin the flights and will drive up. So if anyone fancies a weekend for 2 in Glasgow- I have some flights going cheap!

Well they aren't low, nowhere near what you get of course, but okay for us.

Rovers have been great to watch, pretty much since January, I like to think I'm pretty fair minded when describing a game and have been on here more than once over the years to say how shite we have been, but we just have been a very entertaining side of late. Whether that continues with the loss of two stars of the last campaign and the step up to League One, who knows.

Well I was there and I can promise you, whatever the stats say it was a god awful game and that was largely down to Shrewsbury killing the game. I'm not complaining, any team can play anyway they choose, but it was boring as ****.

My thoughts exactly. I said in the bar after the game, the more the Rovers crowd booed the Shrewsbury tactics, the more those players would have been thinking 'yeah, this is working'

I will say Shrewsbury really were god awful to watch, but there is more than one way to play football. To be serious for a moment, it has been great to watch Rovers play this year, it really is entertaining stuff, but I've seen plenty of Rovers sides (and many other teams) try to kill a game and it's just part of football. Shrewsbury really were desperately dull though, I can't imagine he had City playing like that when you won the league.

'Your' not 'You're'. Our maths may be shit, but it beats your English.

Sad to hear that. I always really liked him and thought the racist thing was nonsense. I hate phone in shows, but his was brilliant. I've always had a soft spot for Millwall as well, having a few cousins who support them, I was in the away end at Ashton with one of them when it all went mental (late 80s?) and thought I might possibly die if anyone heard me talk and was at the last game at The Den, which again was a bit hairy. I was also at the Den for a home game against West Ham where I really did think I might die, I was in a pub that was attacked by West Ham fans , windows put through from the outside, while Millwall fans were trying to get outside to fight, it was ******* terrifying! Anyway, after that game I bumped into Danny and told him about how I once led 2000 Tote Enders onto the East End, it would have been 4000, but the rest got locked out. This last sentence may have had some bearing on Danny's opinion of the best fans in the land. It may also possibly not be true.

Well you celebrated 40 years of going bankrupt

Ha ha! I remember the game well, and that the ref was Brian Daniels from Kettering (Another reason to hate Kettering, I was at that game as well) . I would have been 13 or 14 at the time of the Ipswich game and the disappointment of Ipswich equalising increased a thousand fold when Brian Moore on the Big Match showed Gould's goal should have been allowed and their equaliser shouldn't. And then Ipswich went on to win the bloody thing!

You have seen a boat on it yes- if I was internet savvy enough I could post the link!

Bobby Gould had a goal ruled out for offside which would have put us 3-1 up. Replays suggested Gould's goal was onside and the Ipswich was offside. Bastards!

I'm pleased that you would condemn any violence. As for the rest, I think its utter horse shite. I don't particularly take kindly to being called a liar, but if that's what you think I guess I can't do much about it.

How is it 'obviously not the case' that City are just as bad? I think the CSF might be a bit miffed at that remark A lie? What on earth are you talking about? How could anything that I wrote be construed as a lie when I was offering an opinion? I do apologise for misrepresentation though, it wasn't my intention to suggest that you condone any violence City fans have previously been involved in, which I assume you are happy to condemn.

You didn't , others did. I just find it amusing that so many are so quick to condemn fans of other teams for fighting at football, yet are happy to ignore their own fans behaviour, particularly when it was 'back in the day'. Maybe I shouldn't have quoted you, but you were happy to paint a picture of hooliganism being specifically a Rovers problem, when clearly other teams, including City, are just as bad.

Mark was definitely colourful ! I knew him as I worked with several of his siblings . I would never condone some of the things he got up to, but then again, none of us are whiter than white. He was a very warm hearted man and I must admit it was handy knowing him when we had to play at Ashton Gate I had his tickets off him for the final as well, as once England were out, he wasn't interested in going

I was there too, courtesy of a couple of tickets from Divvy (although he will always be Mark to me) . My abiding memory of the game , was just how loud it was at the start of the game. So much so, that when England scored early, it didn't seem to get any louder!

But beating up Peterborough fans in the Watney Cup is fine because it was in the good old days

I'm not sure one player- especially one who went off the boil a bit- leaving, is deserving of that analogy

I was at that one. My first Rovers game was 73/74 season, then I had season or 2 of going to both, firstly with my dad and then his work colleagues. I always supported the away side when I went to Ashton though,. My dad wasn't interested in football, he just took me because he knew I loved it and none of my family are from Bristol, so I have no idea why I always disliked City, the only explanation I can think of is, being brought up in Oldbury Court, pretty much everyone was Rovers and I was going along with the crowd.

I was being nerdy and smug, I have been to all of the grounds and for another 12 of them I have been to their old grounds as well.