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Can't get that link to work sadly Albie. Only gets me to some horrible flickr front page.I probably did buy some progs of you then Savvy I think I was fairly regular from about 77 to about 81. Did you ever know Keith Smith? Ketch? But I refuse to accept any Dons team without Dave Varey in it He was my absolute hero. Mind you, I wouldn't have wanted to meet him, or George, on a dark night though.... I hadn't tagged you as a RL player though. You must have been on the wing! Or fullback I suppose. Later on I did like Jamie Bloem. He was a talented lad. Shame he, and others, decided to do the unorthodox body building. When he came back didn't he do quite well for a while?It was John Desmond TRB. Just like it was him that in the end cost the Dons TattersfieldAnd damn me, but I might even have bumped into BST!BobG
That's a cracking story Savvy. Wish it'd been me! To booze with the man who reinvented tackling... What a thrill! Any idea where Dave is now? What he does? SP definitely spent his life flogging cars down Marshgate somewhere I think.Can't see you as a second rower though Savvy! One good blow and you'd have floated away Brilliant thread this. Thanks everybody.BobG
I came home for that Leeds match. Id sent my mam to get a ticket and i believe it was a sellout with 6,000 there. For those who remembered the bleak sundays of the documentary, this felt like the Rovers at Wembley, playing v Leeds Utd compared to Conference days.Sadly this was the high water mark for the Dons and their season disintegrated after this due in part to a less than sporting use of performance enhancing drugs by some of the team. The dream was over.
Quote from: LongbridgeMGRover on January 25, 2015, 10:40:35 pmI came home for that Leeds match. Id sent my mam to get a ticket and i believe it was a sellout with 6,000 there. For those who remembered the bleak sundays of the documentary, this felt like the Rovers at Wembley, playing v Leeds Utd compared to Conference days.Sadly this was the high water mark for the Dons and their season disintegrated after this due in part to a less than sporting use of performance enhancing drugs by some of the team. The dream was over.think it was Widnes game live on sky when dons went top of the legue for a day or so having won opening day of season at St helens
Am pretty sure (tho could be very wrong) that rovers hit top of the bottom tier that same weekend - vaguely recall a 'green un' headline about 'no prizes which town in our region is happiest at the moment!' Or somesuch!
TRBWe did indeed start 94/95 very well.http://www.statto.com/football/teams/doncaster-rovers/1994-1995/resultsNo goals conceded in the first 6 league games. Two defeats in the first 18 league games and we were 3rd at Xmas. Then the wheels came off and we only won 7 of the last 28 league games.Have to say, I don't recall much of that season. Was that the year that O'Neill Donaldson started for us, did nowt, then went to Mansfield on loan and scored a bagful?
I used to go as a young sprog back in the 60's, names I can remember Kevin Doyle, Peter Goodchild, George "Tank" Goodyear, Alan? Hepworth and they pretty awful then. I got to know Alan Rhodes in later life through work.
Quote from: ravenrover on January 26, 2015, 05:53:44 pmI used to go as a young sprog back in the 60's, names I can remember Kevin Doyle, Peter Goodchild, George "Tank" Goodyear, Alan? Hepworth and they pretty awful then. I got to know Alan Rhodes in later life through work.Do you remember Mal Kirk and Ted Heath? along with George Goodyear they were professional wrestlers.
A14475 Alan Lowndes played for Castleford. I'm almost certain he won a RL Cup winners medal with them. He retired, and went into teacing, as a result of injury I think. You're dead right it was my Dad at Intake Middle. The hours I've spent in that place, even when it was still Plover school. Used to have my school dinners there even though I went to Robin as an infant He used to take me to Plover/IM as a youngster while he did mysterious things with bits of paper or the piano or weird bits of equipment. I wonder if he ever mentioned Brian and Alan Lingard in your hearing? They were both downright superb footballers. Even I could see that as a young sprog. Old Dad took an interest in the pair of them right up to his dying day. Brian, sadly, died not long after my Dad did. BobG