Roy of the Rovers (comic) Argentine international of the same name. The 1980s saw a slew of popular strips run in the comic, including The Apprentices (1983–84), a short-lived strip detailing the exploits of Melchester's apprentice professionals (effectively acting as the Melchester Rovers story in the comic as Roy was managing Walford for much of its run)—and Harker's War (1985), a strip that took an unconventional angle by showing a former policeman's one-man war on football hooliganism. The mid-1980s also saw reprints of Nipper, a popular strip originally appearing in "Score 'n' Roar" and "Scorcher and Score", that featured Nipper Lawrence, a plucky working class
Rovers Football Club WAFA. After several competitive seasons, Rovers won the premiership in 1891, but the establishment of electorate football was the beginning of the end, as the club finished second last in 1892 and 1898, and won four wooden spoons between 1893 and 1897, including a winless 1893. After losing the first eight games of 1899, Rovers dropped out of the competition and folded, being replaced by First Rate Junior Association side Perth; many players transferred to the new club. Rovers Football Club The Rovers Football Club was an Australian rules football club that competed in the Western Australian Football Association (WAFA)