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Plymouth History 11:08 - Sep 3 with 1788 viewsNorthernr

Look back to the old Rivals days with Plymouth...

https://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/queensparkrangers/news/52815
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Plymouth History on 12:27 - Sep 3 with 1684 viewsBrianMcCarthy

Cracking write-up.
I enjoyed re-living the Rivals days.

"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
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Plymouth History on 13:41 - Sep 3 with 1585 viewsE17hoop

Oh the joy of the Bristol City Rivals Board.

https://web.archive.org/web/20040323204226/ http://www.bristolcitynet.co.uk/

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It's always noisiest at the shallow end
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Plymouth History on 13:48 - Sep 3 with 1576 viewswestberksr

Another fantastic wander down memory lane Clive

I remember the City fans putting banners on the M5 as we drove back after the Plymouth defeat; the end of that season was comedy genius and they were the main act!

That was a fantastic season and following the financial troubles possibly better than the Warnock season for what Holloway achieved with his happy bunch of Rangers fans/players.

but, as always with us it ended up in tears; we're not meant to have nice things....
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Plymouth History on 13:56 - Sep 3 with 1555 viewsThe_Beast1976

The good old days back in the early to mid 00s. Great times. What memories. After Hillsborough, flying up to Hartlepool and the 4-1 win there has to be the highlight for me. What a game Lee camp had that day, having been picked up on the motorway on the way up
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Plymouth History on 14:47 - Sep 3 with 1484 viewsHayesender

Remember having to sell my ticket for Plymouth away as I couldn't make it, and watched it at the stoop instead. Great days

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Plymouth History on 22:22 - Sep 3 with 1138 viewsGroveR

Dusting off my favourite joke from those days...

What's big, red and goes "beep beep beep?"
Bristol City's promotion bus reversing back into the garage
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Plymouth History on 00:01 - Sep 4 with 1094 views2Thomas2Bowles

Loved the Bushranger back than Green Gob and was it Ivy? and Ingham use to go in there

Their fans were pretty good, good banter, remember reading the *pop* posts, just about the best times on football MB's lots more banter. not like the bitchiness now with Brentford

Was there a squat on the Leeds Board as well?
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When willl this CV nightmare end
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Plymouth History on 00:30 - Sep 4 with 1078 viewsSydneyRs

Plymouth History on 13:41 - Sep 3 by E17hoop

Oh the joy of the Bristol City Rivals Board.

https://web.archive.org/web/20040323204226/ http://www.bristolcitynet.co.uk/

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Wonderful stuff, great times.

The promotion calculator was hilarious, basically stating they would turn the 11 game winning run they had into about a 25 game winning run, despite nobody ever doing that sort of thing.

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IRJD was one of their most amusing posters to mock.
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Plymouth History on 09:58 - Sep 4 with 921 views2Thomas2Bowles

Plymouth History on 13:41 - Sep 3 by E17hoop

Oh the joy of the Bristol City Rivals Board.

https://web.archive.org/web/20040323204226/ http://www.bristolcitynet.co.uk/

The **POP** thread with 600 replies...
[Post edited 3 Sep 2020 13:43]


how does that work to get to the thread
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When willl this CV nightmare end
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Plymouth History on 10:10 - Sep 4 with 902 viewsClive_Anderson

I remember we all went on the Darlington messageboard to tell them how massive we were, much to their bemusement.
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Plymouth History on 10:24 - Sep 4 with 889 viewsqueensparker

The Rivals setup was such a good idea and wish it was still around, seems almost innocent now in these days of Twitter and Facebook aresholes.

Didn't Sky buy Rivals and proceed to totally cock it up?
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Plymouth History on 10:30 - Sep 4 with 886 viewsThe_Beast1976

Plymouth History on 00:30 - Sep 4 by SydneyRs

Wonderful stuff, great times.

The promotion calculator was hilarious, basically stating they would turn the 11 game winning run they had into about a 25 game winning run, despite nobody ever doing that sort of thing.

**POP**

IRJD was one of their most amusing posters to mock.


Throughout the run of games following their statement that they would win the league I kept getting emails from a Bristol City fan banging on about Ian Hollowhead and how we'd bottle promotion etc. Never heard from him again after Hillsborough funnily enough
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Plymouth History on 10:41 - Sep 4 with 872 viewsNorthernr

Plymouth History on 10:24 - Sep 4 by queensparker

The Rivals setup was such a good idea and wish it was still around, seems almost innocent now in these days of Twitter and Facebook aresholes.

Didn't Sky buy Rivals and proceed to totally cock it up?


Sky did that deliberately in my opinion to kill a competitor to their own website.

They were told repeatedly throughout the design process that the idea they had for a "footballing MySpace" was disastrous, that the designs were dreadful, and then in the final weeks before the pressed go that it was nowhere near ready and was so buggy it barely worked. They ignored and pressed on regardless.

The next shame after that was the publishers couldn't all get together and agree to go in a single direction. So you ended up with little groups of six or seven here and there - which is where Fans Network came from.
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Plymouth History on 11:09 - Sep 4 with 845 viewsClive_Anderson

Wasn't there another site in between? Club fanzine or something.

I thought the site was just going to move around all the time so picked a stupid username for this one
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Plymouth History on 11:20 - Sep 4 with 836 viewsNorthernr

Plymouth History on 11:09 - Sep 4 by Clive_Anderson

Wasn't there another site in between? Club fanzine or something.

I thought the site was just going to move around all the time so picked a stupid username for this one


Club Fanzine was set up, ironically, by the bloke who ran the Bristol City Rivals site. Quite a few went with him, including us, and Ipswich, but it got very, very messy and ugly, ended up with a lot of money disappearing, court cases and stuff. Ipswich subsequently set up Fans Network out of the ashes of that to keep TWTD, us and a couple of others going.
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Plymouth History on 11:39 - Sep 4 with 809 viewsE17hoop

Plymouth History on 09:58 - Sep 4 by 2Thomas2Bowles

how does that work to get to the thread
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You can't if the page isn't archived.

It's always noisiest at the shallow end
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Plymouth History on 13:21 - Sep 4 with 757 viewsGroveR

Plymouth History on 10:41 - Sep 4 by Northernr

Sky did that deliberately in my opinion to kill a competitor to their own website.

They were told repeatedly throughout the design process that the idea they had for a "footballing MySpace" was disastrous, that the designs were dreadful, and then in the final weeks before the pressed go that it was nowhere near ready and was so buggy it barely worked. They ignored and pressed on regardless.

The next shame after that was the publishers couldn't all get together and agree to go in a single direction. So you ended up with little groups of six or seven here and there - which is where Fans Network came from.


How did they fail to notice the "MySpacing MySpace" was also shìt?

"Right then lads, we're all in on Betamax..."

Rivals.net and twoview in particular were some of the few consolations for travelling to Chesterfield for the annual gob-bumming.
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Plymouth History on 13:22 - Sep 4 with 756 viewsNorthernr

Plymouth History on 13:21 - Sep 4 by GroveR

How did they fail to notice the "MySpacing MySpace" was also shìt?

"Right then lads, we're all in on Betamax..."

Rivals.net and twoview in particular were some of the few consolations for travelling to Chesterfield for the annual gob-bumming.


Like I say, I think they did it deliberately.
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