Last time Rovers were on TV

[Rovers1]

anyone remember the last time Rovers were live on TV? was it a league match against Derry back near 97-98 or so?

[gustavo]

i have it on video , its us versus harps from the 98-99 season
we won 2 nil on the night that was back in the days of wesley charles ,marcus hallows, ross mc lynn ,damien kennedy, donagh oates ,steve birks
cant remember who scored for us i thnink it may have been birks and hutchy.
half time analyst was none other than don o riordan :eek:

[garykelly]

yeah hutch scored the winner i think. ran down the left and smashed into into the corner. great goal.

[Redie]

I'm depending on memory here. We won 2-0 and I think Hutchy got the first and Hallows the second. Yes the Don was doing half time analysis and I think Pat Dolan was in the commentry box and he signed Hallows at the end of the season. It was a foggy friday night and a small crowd, Nicky Reid was still manager and a few days previous Neil Ogden, Matt Hare and one or two others were 'Sacked' by the club. If one of the above is correct i'm happy.

[gustavo]

oh yeah i remember that!
im pretty sure aled rowlands was another of them.
he was a great left winger.

[skimcgee]

Thats right, Hare and Ogden were given the bullet for "allegedly" betting on Rovers games in which they themselves were playin!!
As far as i can remember Rowlands wasnt sacked.

[Redie]

Whether he was sacked or not he should never have been allowed into the showgrounds. A cert for an all time worst 11 team. :

[gustavo]

in the interests of research i got the video out this afternoon and the team was

gk boswell

rb mcLynn
lb lynch
cb charles
cb sheridan

lm hutchison
rm kennedy
cm birks
cm hoeks

cf hallows
cf flannery


so no ogden then :) and was mentioned in the commentary that he was released

[deecay]

I was shown on TV before the game when it was showing thw crowd :D . I was only a kid at the time and thought it was the best ever.

[showgies]

Thats is absolute S**T talking at the highest ! No way they were trust me on that ! They were not Sacked Neither and i think they played that night ! because i remember watching the game down town and waiting on it to finnish because i was going for a drink with Oggy !


Why were you watching the game in TOWN...........why weren't you in the Showgrounds ?

[Rory H]

i remember shels beating us 3-1 in the most rain filled day ever

[gustavo]

still tho he got the winning goal for us in the league cup final:)

[superfrank]

I remember watching Sligo on the telly when I was up North one time. I think they were playing some
Dublin team. :confused: This would have been bout eight-nine years ago.

[Mayo Red]

I have a video somewhere of Rovers playing Shels at the Showgrounds in 1998. As far as I can remember it was played on a ****y Saturday afternoon in early February, and again from memory I think the result was 1-1, can't remember who scored though. I don't remember the team either but I'm nearly sure our Dutch import, Peter Cubesson was playing. Weststrife provided the half-time entertainment aswell, if you could call it that! :)

[gustavo]

ahh cubesson the memories , he was useless! this would have been in the glorious reign of jimmy mullen!

[Soper]

ahh cubesson the memories , he was useless! this would have been in the glorious reign of jimmy mullen!
He(Cubbeson) used to get so much abuse from opposition fans though, it was shocking.Really harsh stuff!

[gustavo]

i think it was him that went up for a header once and totally missed the ball that was great:)

[gustavo]

actually just thinking about it , it was daniel moreno that totally missed the header! he really took the biscuit totally rubbish but then one game he scored a beauty of a 20 yard curler no one could believe it!

[showgies]

actually just thinking about it , it was daniel moreno that totally missed the header! he really took the biscuit totally rubbish but then one game he scored a beauty of a 20 yard curler no one could believe it!

Yep ! That Moreno goal was class, he came from Arsenal if memory serves me well, as for Cobbersson, I think he plays with a Dutch team now...... Excelsior ....I think