| 2004-2005
- Unpopular new
kit
- Pre-season
friendlies against Spanish La Liga teams
- Scoring
4 goals against Bradford at home and still losing
- Winning
three away games in a row
- Reaching
automatic promotion spot in November and hardly leaving it until...
2003-2004
- A Little
change - Hi-hopes
shaken after David Kelly walks out over summer
- After
1st game of the season, failing to win any of the next 10 league games.
- Mathias
sacked and John McMahon made caretaker ending in three defeats in a row.
- Brian
Little instated and Rovers only lose 2 in the following 24 games.
- Hume's
amazing goals beating Bolton away at the Reebok, and then Swansea to reach the
FA Quarter Finals for the 3rd time in 5 years.
- Drawing
against Millwall at The Den live on BBC 1.
- Two
sublime goals from Dadi and Hume in thrashing Nottingham County 4-0
- Beating
Bournemouth 5-1 in joint best-ever away win.
- Losing
4 in a row, then winning 7 out of the next 9 to finish agonisingly close to the
playoffs... again.
- Relegating
Grimsby in the last match of the season having been a goal down. Hume equalised,
then Sharps was sent off before Dadi scored the winner.
2002-2003
- A remarkable
year - Click to
see season breakdown - New
England-World-Cup-Style Kit.
- Humiliated
in two pre-season friendlies by new Premiership clubs Man City & Birmingham.
- Dave
Watson kicked out before the first game of the season & Ray Mathias instated.
- Jason
Koumas starting the season for Rovers, by mid season had scored for West Brom
against Man United.
- Earnshaw
equalising in the 94th minute to give Cardiff a point and ultimately give them
our playoff spot.
- The
man on the roof.
- 6
goalkeepers used.
- End
of season, letting go of Barlow, Parkinson and Hinds.
- Doing
the double over 8 teams, a new club record.
- 15
game unbeaten league run is best in Rovers' history. Click
to see season breakdown
- 80
points equal to Rovers best ever tally for a season.
2001-2002
- A Year that failed to deliver - First
season in Division 2.
- Dave
Watson.
- The
Yellow Away Kit.
- Free-scoring
games beating Wrexham 5-0, Blackpool 4-0, Cambridge 6-1.
- A
steady climb up the table, to reach the playoffs at new year, then fell away.
- Not
doing the double over a single team.
- At
the end of the season losing Hill, Yates, Challinor, Allison, Flynn, Murphy and
others.
2000-2001
- The end of an era - Beating
Premiership Everton 0-3 at Goodison in the FA Cup.
- Coming
from 0-2 down to beat Leeds 3-2 in the Worthington Cup.
- One
of the greatest FA Cup comebacks ever, coming from 0-3 down to beat Premiership
Southampton 4-3.
- Playing
Liverpool in the FA Cup and feeling hard-done-by at the loss.
- Great
cup form, terrible league form.
- Having
been 2-0 up against Barnsley and losing 2-3, Aldo walks out.
- Religation.
1999-2000
- The Road To Wembley - Beating
Premiership West Ham in the FA Cup
- Beating
Premiership Sunderland in the FA Cup
- Thrashing
Premiership Coventry 5-1 in the Worthington Cup
- Beating
Premiership Middlesborough 2-1 and Andy Parkinson scoring that goal in
the Worthington Cup
- Beating
Bolton in the Worthington Cup Semi Final Second Leg to go to Wembley
- Worthing
Cup Final at Wembley
- Having
been bottom of the division in October, managed to finish mid-table.
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