Matchday is?

my highlite of the week!!

matchday is? my first post,be gentle with me,I have been reading all your comments for the last couple of years on 606 now ja606 with great interest.My dad first took me a rovers youth game in the fifties, now a fan for life,I do manage to get back to Donny every year to see family I always plan the trip for the start of the football season,Last season (my Aussie wife who thinks am mad) wanted to take a look at Brugge in Belgium,problem,Rovers playing Cardiff away that weekend,so there we are taking in the sites of Brugge (you people that are married will know)she just look at me and said go on then,we jumped into the hire car made the night ferry got to the ground 15 minutes before kick off,first half ok only 1-0 down, 3 more goals to them second half,she just looked at me and said you are mad,long quite drive back to Brugge.When at home in Aus,The game starts about 11pm UK winter time and 10pm in summer time,In summertime I take the boat most weekends to an island off Western Australia (Rottnest)and moor the boat in Thomson Bay,I have Player hook into my sound system from a lap top so it only plays through my rear deck speakers,problem is all the boats around us can hear the commentary as well,and (I dont care), at the end of last season we were playing Leiester at home at the very least needed to get a point to avoid religation,I was ansering a call of nature on the back swim board and Brooker scored a cracker I jumped with joy missed my footing and into the water,my wife spent the next few hours trying to dry out my mobil phone and all my credit cards and every thing else that you keep in your pockets,My good lady just shook her head, you are mad she repeats,I dont care I love my Rovers.Typical match day for me in Aus.

WSelcome aboard remover. At least you opened by making a splash!!!!

remover,
your'e obviously raving mad and welcome aboard the loony section on ja606.

Its in the blood and is terminal please give my condolences to your wife.

Have the whinging Aussies got over the thrashing in the Ashes yet?

Remover - i just read your typical Ausie match day experience to the lads at work and it really hit the spot.
It reminded me of a day a few years ago when i was on a caravan holiday in the Lake District and England were playing Argentina in the World Cup.
My wife and neice were on holiday with me but knowing how wound up i get for Rovers and England games they decided not to watch with me and that they would take the dog for a walk..
I had sited the caravan in an area with four others and one of the other caravaners was a bit boring and not the slightest bit interested in football (how can blokes be like that?) but was aware that i was going to watch the game.
It was a hot day so i had the van windows open and to be honest, i do shout a lot when my team is playing.
Well, you may remember the match in question, England won 1-0 with the Beckham pen.
Afterwards the boring bloke said he was glad that England had won 2-0.
When i told him it was only 1-0 he said he thought it was two because i had really shouted out very loudly on two occasions, but that was of course when we were awrded the pen and again a few minutes later when it went in.
I will think of you next season when we are freezing our gonads off and you are on the boat.
RTID.

Good to have you along for the ride remover. Always good to have views from afar and to think of us Rovers fans across many different seas roaring on the red and white hoops.

Sa w aprogramme on Fox Soccer plus last night, I am sure you must have seen it over therein England, Peter Brackley with Football bloopers. There, straight after each other were TWO absolute howlers by our esteemed no 1 Neil Sullivan. Mind you it also showed Shay Given, Jusi Jaskilinon, Scott Carson, Bruce Grobbelaar, Paul Robinson and several other keepers.

Don't know if it was the same one but I've seen a blooper programme with Sully involved, and another showing the best goals of a certain year, and the top two goals were scored past him too!

Thank you all for the welcom,Bally/Alexmyhero I gave your condolences to my good lady,she said dont you get mixed up with that lot they are all mad,I think there may be some truth in that statement, Not much football to talk about at the moment very quite these off season times I am in withdrawl. Never did get my phone to work again so I upgraded to an apple iphone of course I had to buy two as my good lady would never let me get away without buying herself one.The Ashes,funny that no one wants to talk about the great victory or thrashing that the Aussies got but hay I had to go through years of ridicual for past performances that some of the touring teams put out its a bit like dont mention the Germans in Faulty towers.I will book our tickets for our holiday on saterday,20 hr flight there and back,my good lady said good I am looking forward to seeing Morrocco I said no Brighton for rovers first game of the season,she said you are mad.