[Amelia Chaffinch]

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It's been a while...
We last met on Saturday 12th March 2011 at the Memorial Stadium. We left as 1-0 victors with a goal from Jordan Rhodes.

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Our team on that day, if you fancy a trip down memory lane...

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At the end of that season, we lost in the play-off final at Old Trafford to a certain team managed by a tatie and owned by an even bigger one. Bristol Rovers' season ended even more disastrously with relegation to League Two.
Their lowest point was yet to come, though, when they were relegated out of the league at the end of 2014. They spent one year in the Conference before promotion back to League Two via the play-offs.

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Our biggest win versus the Pirates must be the play-off final in 1995 when we won promotion with a 2-1 win at Wembley. I didn't go as my dad had died the day before but my mum and I packed Snoots and the nephew off and told them to come back with some good news...

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Fact bomb...

Gareth Taylor who now manages Man City Women played for Bristol Rovers in that final.

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League positions, etc...

I don't think that Shrewsbury v Exeter on Thursday will change this.

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Top scorers...

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Matt Taylor who, having been sacked by Rotherham in November 2023, was appointed manager of Bristol Rovers in December 2023.

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Played for both...

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A nod to the suffragettes of Bristol...

Close to the Memorial Stadium is HMP Bristol in Horfield.

In November 1909 five suffragettes were imprisoned in Horfield Prison as it was known then.

They had been campaigning against Churchill who was visiting Bristol to deliver a speech on why women (and no doubt working class men) should not be allowed to vote. He may have been a hero in WWII but never forget his disdain for us lesser beings.

Their names were Theresa Garnett, Ellen Pitman, Vera Wentworth, Mary Sophia Allen, and Jessie Lawes.

Obviously, this wasn't the only protest but the action against Churchill was what gave them the collective name of  
The Horfield Five.

More details here: https://collections.bristolmuseums.org.u...ield-five/

  

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BEWARE the pirates on the River Colne

[Lord Snooty]

Nice one, Chaffers.

Sadly, after an absolutely brilliant performance as left wing back for Northern Ireland tonight, Brodie Spencer is suspended for this game as he's picked up five yellow cards.

[Lord Snooty]

Healy update. He went off in the B team game because he was ill, not injured. Wardy played 45 minutes and Ladapo 60.

[Amelia Chaffinch]

Press conference:

[Lord Snooty]

Another good Suffragette story, Chaffers.

Such brave women. I doubt somehow though, we'll be doing a mural in a hundred years time for that nasty cow Conservative who got jailed yesterday for inciting people to burn hotels with asylum seekers in.

[Devongone]

I watched Exeter City last night. I could not stop thinking about how chesterfield it was of you to have Millenic Alli playing down the road at Halifax all last season and he ends up as best player on the pitch for Exeter, miraculously above you in the league despite Gary Caldwell (ptaaaah!!). Surely .......? I know, stop calling you Shirley!

[theo_luddite]

Another nicely put together little package that AmChaff and another well put together post Devon.

I've been saying for years that our so called scouts can't see talent that's right under their noses (at any age group) and given that many local newspapers these days don't even report on the local professional sides, let alone publish reports from local Saturday/Sunday league sides, (the reporters apparently don't generate sufficient click-bait to keep them in work, see Mr. Chicken for reference), the chances of them ever wandering out to watch an actual match are even less. It's all done on Football Manager, FIFA 2020 whatever year or OPTA and the stats they provide these days and of course, when would our lot ever look at non-league players?

It's not like we've not unearthed a godd'un now and again ..... from that there Larndan. There was a time when about 1/3rd to half the side was made up of kids from Halifax and Huddersfield. Wonder what happened back then?

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I was looking to see if Pat Jones was in the Exeter squad but apparently he's had a hammy injury almost since he arrived at Sid James Park South. You have to wonder why we ever let him leave. It's not just us then.

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Another good Suffragette story, Chaffers.

Such brave women. I doubt somehow though, we'll be doing a mural in a hundred years time for that nasty cow Conservative who got jailed yesterday for inciting people to burn hotels with asylum seekers in.

We've already got the Margaret Thatcher Memorial Mining Museum just outside Barnsley but I don't see a muriel for her any time soon eiher.

[Amelia Chaffinch]

It's National Album Day.
What's your favourite album?
My first albums were things like TOTP compilations, I think the first I will have asked for would have been Bay City Rollers, I loved Blondie's Parallel Lines. Latterly, probably Paloma Faith's Do you want to know the truth. I think I have extensive likes but not really all time favourite.
Snoots is the music aficionado in this household.

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Bristol Rovers press conference....

[theo_luddite]

Favourite album? You mean the one I'm most likely to crank up to 11 on the amp to annoy the neighbours with?

Faaaaaaar too many to choose from but one of them inspired the design of my favourite t-shirt.

[jjamez]

I'm like you am, I posted mine on the other thread on reply to Theo

If I had to pick one of those, as much as I like them all, absolution, hot fuss and day and age got me through college and uni