Old picture

[sticks 1969]

Found on a 80,s Facebook page 

[Sleepy1968]

Steve Neville no 11? To the left of him, er, Alan Walsh (although I'm not sure you'd ever see him there, so maybe not ...)

[Lanterne Rouge]

2 minutes ago, Sleepy1968 said:

Steve Neville no 11? To the left of him, er, Alan Walsh (although I'm not sure you'd ever see him there, so maybe not ...)

Could it be Rob Newman?

[Sleepy1968]

1 minute ago, Lanterne Rouge said:

Could it be Rob Newman?

Yep, I think you could be right. He'd more likely be there and had a somewhat gangly profile.

[Rudolf Hucker]

I’m in the 15th row of the Dolman, centre block if that helps?

[Reddrive]

39 minutes ago, Rudolf Hucker said:

I’m in the 15th row of the Dolman, centre block if that helps?

Yep, though it was you.

[MJP3]

With the title of "Old Picture," I was surprised to find it was only the 80's which was surely only about 5 years ago. (Just before our current bad spell) God I'm old!

Alan Walsh was my first thought, (He holds himself like Walshy as well) with a possible Gary Marshall on the right.

[Kingswood Robin]

I was sat in the back row of D Block, right in the middle. Is number 11 Jordan?

Who was it against? It seemed like everybody play in yellow against us back then! Mansfield?

[Elruliri]

I seen it earlier and it said it was taken in 1980, my instant thought was 1987.

[Kingswood Robin]

5 minutes ago, Elruliri said:

I seen it earlier and it said it was taken in 1980, my instant thought was 1987.

1987 is about right. We played in the "Today League" as you can just make out on the boards by the touchline.

[Red Army 75]

Gary Marshall maybe on wing

[Elruliri]

1 minute ago, Kingswood Robin said:

1987 is about right. We played in the "Today League" as you can just make out on the boards by the touchline.

I noticed Hirerite on the boards aswell. I can't quite make the shirts out but looks like the bukta kit with the Hirerite white band.

[Norn Iron]

Not that they ever had a photo for the final question on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, but if they did and this was it and I was on the show.... I would gamble and go for the £1m saying that the player looking over his left shoulder is Alan Walsh.

PS I'd also say it was John Bailey nearest the ref.

[Red Army 75]

1 minute ago, Norn Iron said:

Not that they ever had a photo for the final question on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, but if they did and this was it and I was on the show.... I would gamble and go for the £1m saying that the player looking over his left shoulder is Alan Walsh.

PS I'd also say it was John Bailey nearest the ref.

Can’t see John Bailey playing right wing. Reckon it’s Gary Marshall 

[Norn Iron]

What happened was John had tried to attack on the wing but was knackered. He had just about recovered and was about to run back when this photo was taken.

I thought he was great for us btw

[Red Army 75]

1 minute ago, Norn Iron said:

What happened was John had tried to attack on the wing but was knackered. He had just about recovered and was about to run back when this photo was taken.

I thought he was great for us btw

Remember him scoring a screamer . Think it was Crewe away 

[sticks 1969]

6 minutes ago, Red Army 75 said:

Remember him scoring a screamer . Think it was Crewe away 

Midweek 89/90 season we one 1 nil 

[richwwtk]

Bobby Hutchinson going for the ball maybe? Steve Neville the 11 and agree with Gary Marshall

[Ronnie Sinclair]

I think this might be from an FA Cup match v Bath City in December 1986, possibly one of the first matches where that shirt with the hoop was worn

[Davefevs]

17 minutes ago, richwwtk said:

Bobby Hutchinson going for the ball maybe? Steve Neville the 11 and agree with Gary Marshall

Yeah, I reckon that Bobby Hutch with the header, Walshy striding on.

[Norn Iron]

I've zoomed in. Definitely John Bailey!

 

[1960maaan]

16 minutes ago, Ronnie Sinclair said:

I think this might be from an FA Cup match v Bath City in December 1986, possibly one of the first matches where that shirt with the hoop was worn

Just had a look at my videos, I think you're right.

 

[Davefevs]

4 minutes ago, 1960maaan said:

Just had a look at my videos, I think you're right.

 

Do you have any footage of the Brentford 2-3 (1.1.88)?  I found your YouTube video of 87/88 season but I don’t think it was on there?

[archie andrews]

48 minutes ago, Norn Iron said:

Not that they ever had a photo for the final question on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, but if they did and this was it and I was on the show.... I would gamble and go for the £1m saying that the player looking over his left shoulder is Alan Walsh.

PS I'd also say it was John Bailey nearest the ref.

JB signed a few seasons later....think paul fitzpatrick on the photo possibly mark hughes or keith curle too

[Red Army 75]

23 minutes ago, Ronnie Sinclair said:

I think this might be from an FA Cup match v Bath City in December 1986, possibly one of the first matches where that shirt with the hoop was worn

 

5 minutes ago, 1960maaan said:

Just had a look at my videos, I think you're right.

 

1-1. 

[Davefevs]

Dec 86, yes, Bailey not til 88, if it was indeed Bath City

Edited December 27, 2021 by Davefevs

[1960maaan]

8 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

Do you have any footage of the Brentford 2-3 (1.1.88)?  I found your YouTube video of 87/88 season but I don’t think it was on there?

I don't think so, I tended just to keep wins & draws.

I'm having second thoughts about the Bath game, the keepers kit makes me think it's not.

This is Bath

  

and the photo.

[Davefevs]

8 minutes ago, 1960maaan said:

I don't think so, I tended just to keep wins & draws.

I'm having second thoughts about the Bath game, the keepers kit makes me think it's not.

This is Bath

  

and the photo.

Why wouldn’t Bath have worn their home kit?

[1960maaan]

4 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

Why wouldn’t Bath have worn their home kit?

The first game was our home game, the 2nd was change of venue. Not sure why it didn't change for the replay though.

[Offside]

55 minutes ago, archie andrews said:

JB signed a few seasons later....think paul fitzpatrick on the photo possibly mark hughes or keith curle too

I think it’s Paul Fitzpatrick too (our player on the right closest to the camera). 

[Offside]

When I saw the pic in this thread  there was something familiar about it - now I remember seeing it on the front of this book (picture quality not very good). I don’t have the book, but I remember looking at it in a book shop after I saw AG on the cover. 

[Porto Red]

Nice to see the Dolman Salute being impeccably observed there

[Sleepy1968]

1 hour ago, 1960maaan said:

The first game was our home game, the 2nd was change of venue. Not sure why it didn't change for the replay though.

Bath gave home advantage up to make mo money.

[slartibartfast]

2 hours ago, Red Army 75 said:

Remember him scoring a screamer . Think it was Crewe away 

1-0  (late on, possibly)

[slartibartfast]

3 hours ago, Kingswood Robin said:

 

Who was it against? It seemed like everybody play in yellow against us back then! Mansfield?

Nah, they play in sags away strip !

[REDOXO]

6 hours ago, Rudolf Hucker said:

I’m in the 15th row of the Dolman, centre block if that helps?

And getting some apparently!?

[Kingswood Robin]

1 hour ago, slartibartfast said:

Nah, they play in sags away strip !

Sorry, my mistake.

[Oh Louie louie]

Bath didnt want us there my guess.

Or bigger gate fees why the reply at ashton gate my guess.

Paul stevens was playing?

Cant make him out in the back line.

Mansfields shirt was very much like that in the 80s.

[Oh Louie louie]

My grandad was friendly with david mogg.

Him, biff, and andy ly used to visit people in hospital.

He was at bath around then.

Is that him?

[Oh Louie louie]

Paul used to live over ashton vale well he played.

He even had a support bristol city now or never sticker in his car.

Best sticker ever that was.

Alan roberts had it in his shop, till the day he went.

[ashton_fan]

The 2 games against Bath included here:

 

[Kingswood Robin]

Always remember that Bath game. My dad won £1000 on the City Society draw at halftime. Everyone had a four digit number and it was limited to 2000 members I think.  Each week they'd call out the numbers one at a time. You were lucky to be still in the draw after one number and usually knocked out by the second.  It got pretty interesting after getting three matching numbers. I'll never forget my dads face when they called out the fourth number and he'd won. He'd just been made redundant too. We picked up the big cheque on the pitch at halftime in the replay.

He's passed on now, but football can create these sorts of memories that stay with you forever.   

[ashton_fan]

1 hour ago, Kingswood Robin said:

Always remember that Bath game. My dad won £1000 on the City Society draw at halftime. Everyone had a four digit number and it was limited to 2000 members I think.  Each week they'd call out the numbers one at a time. You were lucky to be still in the draw after one number and usually knocked out by the second.  It got pretty interesting after getting three matching numbers. I'll never forget my dads face when they called out the fourth number and he'd won. He'd just been made redundant too. We picked up the big cheque on the pitch at halftime in the replay.

He's passed on now, but football can create these sorts of memories that stay with you forever.   

Me and a couple of mates won a car in that draw, it was announced at a boxing day game and with all the noise we weren't 100 per cent sure it was our number until we got it confirmed after the game. At the next home game we were driven around the edge of the pitch in the car, then it left the stadium and we had to pay to get back in! In the original version of that draw the first prize was a house, can't see that happening again now.

[Bazooka Joe]

20 hours ago, Sleepy1968 said:

Steve Neville no 11? To the left of him, er, Alan Walsh (although I'm not sure you'd ever see him there, so maybe not ...)

 

Who we playing?

 

Edited December 28, 2021 by Bazooka Joe
Ask no question, and I'll tell you no lie.

[Bazooka Joe]

20 hours ago, sticks 1969 said:

Found on a 80,s Facebook page 

This reminds me of those old Spot the Ball photos.

What a con they were.

Hundreds of crosses entered every time and never won a penny.

I reckon they just pulled winners out of a hat.

[eardun]

20 hours ago, Sleepy1968 said:

Steve Neville no 11? To the left of him, er, Alan Walsh (although I'm not sure you'd ever see him there, so maybe not ...)

I think it is Walsh. I also have a vague recollection that he played centrally occasionally for us. 

[Red Army 75]

3 hours ago, ashton_fan said:

The 2 games against Bath included here:

 

Thanks for posting. Watching that made me realise how much I miss those days. Oh Alan Walsh what a player 

[Oh Louie louie]

Waughy loved that blue top.

Whats the diffrence between a tyre and 365 used condoms?

Ones a goodyear, ones a great year!

[Sleepy1968]

16 minutes ago, Bazooka Joe said:

This reminds me of those old Spot the Ball photos.

What a con they were.

Hundreds of crosses entered every time and never won a penny.

I reckon they just pulled winners out of a hat.

They were 'in the judges opinion' weren't they, so it probably didn't really matter where the ball was, especially if the judge was boss-eyed.

[Oh Louie louie]

Now you mention it, all the older generation of my family played stb every week.

Never won anything.

Im sure i read a article, a few years ago,nobody had won it for years?

Anybody here ever won it or know anybody?

[Bazooka Joe]

10 minutes ago, Sleepy1968 said:

They were 'in the judges opinion' weren't they, so it probably didn't really matter where the ball was, especially if the judge was boss-eyed.

You're right, which is why I reckon it was just pulled out of a hat.

On the evidence of their decisions the judges certainly didn't seem to spend much time critically analysing where the ball might really be.

The ball was usually adjudged to be in the most unlikely place considering where the players were looking, shooting or running.

Though to be fair, in the case of Bas Savage, the ball could be absolutely anywhere (even lodged between his bum-cheeks).

 

[Davefevs]

14 minutes ago, Oh Louie louie said:

Now you mention it, all the older generation of my family played stb every week.

Never won anything.

Im sure i read a article, a few years ago,nobody had won it for years?

Anybody here ever won it or know anybody?

Remember Esther Rantzen’s That’s Life doing an investigation on STB.  They made up a set of “stamps” with crosses on them so they could cover every bit of the STB photo and never won a thing either.

[Oh Louie louie]

I can recall when esther, and the thats life team, came to the bowls alley under the dolman.

A kid from luckwell school was on there, and he was very very good at it.

 

 

[Davefevs]

4 hours ago, Oh Louie louie said:

I can recall when esther, and the thats life team, came to the bowls alley under the dolman.

A kid from luckwell school was on there, and he was very very good at it.

 

 

All cock?

[1960maaan]

4 hours ago, Davefevs said:

Remember Esther Rantzen’s That’s Life doing an investigation on STB.  They made up a set of “stamps” with crosses on them so they could cover every bit of the STB photo and never won a thing either.

I  gave up doing to when I found out they blanked out the ball, then placed it where they thought it would be. As bad as relying on the Pools panel to pick the same draws as you. 

That said I did have one small win once.

[Oh Louie louie]

We drew plymouth, after bath.

Took a good following, to the reply.

They drew the gooners after.

[handsofclay]

On 28/12/2021 at 11:19, ashton_fan said:

Me and a couple of mates won a car in that draw, it was announced at a boxing day game and with all the noise we weren't 100 per cent sure it was our number until we got it confirmed after the game. At the next home game we were driven around the edge of the pitch in the car, then it left the stadium and we had to pay to get back in! In the original version of that draw the first prize was a house, can't see that happening again now.

You should thank your lucky stars it wasn't Tammy Abraham driving it (although he would've been about minus fifteen at the time, and I'm referring to his age not rating his dexterity behind the wheel).

[handsofclay]

Whatever match and year it was, and Bath City 1986 seems a bloody good guess, the picture was taken in the 70th minute as the first person leaving the Dolman can be spotted descending the nearest stairway.