by David Thomas | Feb 14, 2018 | Jim's Jottings, News
This evening’s column was prepared before last Saturday’s visit to the Kassam Stadium where let’s hope Rovers returned to winning ways following the previous Saturday’s late defeat at the hands of high-flying Shrewsbury Town. That was a...
by David Thomas | Feb 4, 2018 | Jim's Jottings, News
What is it about the second half of the season as far as Rovers are concerned? Yet again it seems that Darrell and the boys have to get Christmas out of the way before hitting top form, especially away from home. So it was last Saturday at Doncaster when, roared on by...
by David Thomas | Jan 21, 2018 | Jim's Jottings, News
What a brilliant turn-out by the ‘Gas’ at Bloomfield Road last Saturday. Approaching 1,200 fans travelling a 400mile round trip for a mid-table League 1 game was a fantastic effort even bearing in mind the undoubted ‘weekend away’ syndrome. A...
by David Thomas | Dec 27, 2017 | Jim's Jottings, News
In all my near six decades of supporting the Rovers I have to say that this current side is the most inconsistent and frustrating team I have ever seen as they are like a pendulum that swings from brilliant to poor in consecutive games. The last time we gathered here...
by David Thomas | Dec 12, 2017 | Jim's Jottings, News
It was quite a relief to hear the final whistle last Saturday that signaled a much needed and well deserved victory over Rotherham, who turned out to be as difficult and hard to beat as we could have wished for during a very testing period for Rovers. After a...
by David Thomas | Dec 3, 2017 | Jim's Jottings, News
It’s not a good time to be a ‘Gashead’ at the moment with no news to hand on a new stadium or on development of the training ground complex, with our nearest and dearest rivals seemingly able to do no wrong up in the Championship and with Rovers...
