Jim’s Jottings

Jim’s Jottings

Will the real Bristol Rovers please step forward today and deliver three home points please? Last Saturday saw Rovers concede our ninth home defeat of the season which must be getting close to a record for the club. It was of course at the hands of probably the...
Jim’s Jottings

Jim’s Jottings

Today’s column again had to be written before Rovers’ last match, the important visit to Fratton Park last Tuesday, where a very much out-of-form Portsmouth were the hosts. In bad form they may have been, previous time out dropping a three-goal lead at...
Jim’s Jottings

Jim’s Jottings

Welcome all to a truly vital match in Rovers’ season here at the Memorial Stadium where, it is fair to say, we have had to date one of the worst campaigns ever in terms of results at home, certainly in my long years of supporting the club. Thankfully the...
Jim’s Jottings

Jim’s Jottings

Welcome all to another vital match here at the Memoral Stadium where Rovers will be desperate to return to winning ways in the Football League against the ‘Posh’ from Peterborough exactly a week on from the Checkatrade Trophy quarter-final victory over...
Jim’s Jottings

Jim’s Jottings

So much has happened since we last penned a Supporters Club column for The Pirate, in what turned out to be an exciting last-gasp victory over Fleetwood Town, and most of it has been good! Christmas and the new year have come and gone, Graham Coughlan has been...
Jim’s Jottings

Jim’s Jottings

So, what would have been unthinkable a year ago has really happened and we gather here at the Mem this afternoon for the first time since 2014 without Darrell Clarke in charge of the team. I will let everyone else have their say on what they think has occurred over...