by helen wigmore | Sep 6, 2024 | News
Saturday sees Rovers travel to Oakwell, home of Barnsley, where they have not won a league match since 9th November 1991, so a win is long overdue! Mind you, that’s quite a deceiving statistic as we have only played four league games at that venue since! Saturday will...
by helen wigmore | Aug 31, 2024 | News
Football, of course, is a team game but it’s hard not to glamourise the role played by strikers, both now and in times gone by. The Bristol Rovers team of today could certainly do with one or more of the strikers I’m about to mention; they scored goals for fun,...
by helen wigmore | Aug 28, 2024 | News
Everyone connected with Bristol Rovers Supporters Club was saddened to hear that one of the club’s former players, Granville Smith, passed away on 22nd August at the age of 87. Having signed for Rovers in 1952, Granville turned professional in May 1957 and made his...
by helen wigmore | Aug 12, 2024 | News
On Tuesday Bristol Rovers play their 154th match in the competition that began life as the Football League Cup and is still often referred to as that in spite of the many sponsors who have added their name to the competition down the years. The side we have played...
by helen wigmore | Aug 10, 2024 | News
I find it hard to comprehend that the last Bristol Rovers manager to win a league game on the opening day of a new season is probably one of the least popular to have been in charge of the club this century. Step forward Paul Buckle, who arrived in BS7 on the back of...
