by David Thomas | Aug 13, 2018 | Jim's Jottings, News
The new season got underway last week with our now customary opening-day and equally London Road defeat so I will not dwell on that in the hope of much better things this afternoon. Instead I would just like to make public mention of several good friends who we have...
by David Thomas | Apr 29, 2018 | Jim's Jottings, News
Well here we are at the final home game of another reasonably successful season with Rovers hopefully finishing in the top half of League 1 – a vast improvement on just four years ago! I suppose most of us were hoping that the team would have finished at least a...
by David Thomas | Apr 15, 2018 | Jim's Jottings, News
Rovers struggle to keep up with the main play-off challengers but that is thanks mainly to a very long injury list that Darrell Clarke refuses to blame for some recent results. Last Saturday not only brought very tough opposition in the shape of in-form Charlton...
by David Thomas | Mar 11, 2018 | Jim's Jottings, News
So, the ‘beast from the east’ has come and gone and by now has left little trace, if any, of the chaos and disruption that led up to last weekend. For us at Rovers it meant that our planned trip to Buckinghamshire was put in serious doubt right up to the...
by David Thomas | Feb 27, 2018 | Jim's Jottings, News
Last week provided Ken and I with the chance of a short trip up the M5 to Cheltenham Town’s Training Centre for our Development Squad’s latest Central League fixture against the League leaders. Back at the start of the campaign Chris Hargreave’s...
by David Thomas | Feb 25, 2018 | Jim's Jottings, News
This afternoon brings one of the division’s ‘high-flyers’ back to the Memorial Stadium with both teams surely looking to improve on last Saturday’s results. For Rovers our last-gasp defeat at the Kingsmeadow was a big disappointment coming on...
