Fan-tastic-7

Fan-tastic-7

Fan-tastic-7 By Darren Stobbs Name : Paul Griffiths, Oldland Common. When did you start watching Rovers? I started watching Rovers in the 1973/74 season, which was a good time to start ! Rovers gained promotion that season under manager Don Megson. The team included...
Rovers Greats – Doug Hillard

Rovers Greats – Doug Hillard

ROVERS GREATS – DOUG HILLARD BY GERRY PREWETT Hall, Hillard, Jones (G), Oldfield, Davis. Those were the first five names on the teamsheet of the Rovers’ team that I first started watching back in 1963. They seemed to be ever presents to me. Doug Hillard was...
Messages for Tom

Messages for Tom

Tom Foley Saturday’s match against Notts County will be the 1,000th game for Tom Foley, who has assisted many kit managers over the years and travelled several thousand miles all over the country to carry out his matchday duties, all done on a voluntary basis. It’s a...
Ben Gunstone RIP

Ben Gunstone RIP

BEN GUNSTONE We recently received the sad news that Ben Gunstone had passed away at the age of 53. A lifelong Rovers supporter who saw his first match in 1980, Ben wrote, and recorded, the anthem we all file out of The Mem to on matchdays – Tote End Boys. The flowers...
Away The Gas – Cheltenham Town

Away The Gas – Cheltenham Town

AWAY THE GAS BY DARREN STOBBS We set off for Whaddon Road for the second time this season, after beating Cheltenham in the EFL Trophy back in early October. Leaving The Mem at 11:15am, everyone seemed in good spirits and thinking that the horrendous run of recent...