Hi guys, as the title says, i'm a Rovers fan.
Couldn't make the game tonight as i have a mother that had a birthday...the usual.
I attended the game at the Keepmoat which i thought we were unlucky not to win, but then again the run we went on it was easy to say we were unlucky to lose all of them. I read the CharltonLife match report which was posted on our forum by AFKA. It was a frank & honest report, similar to the reports we we quickly became accustomed to seeing during our relegation season a few years back, and it's refreshing to see a set of fans who can seemingly see relegation as a certainty and not feel that you're too big to go down, ala Leeds Utd.
It's nice that our brand of football gets recognition and there are a few comments on your board tonight saying that you wish you could play the same way. To be honest, i love the way we play our football at the minute and i would probably let our manager have sex with me if he wanted to, the thing is it took a bloody eternity for us to start seeing results with it & i think that any manager at championship level would be lucky to get that amount of time and support from their chairman to get his system into place and start to see the results. Hopefully you can start anew next season and implement the changes that are needed to get back to the championship.
The general consensus on our forum is that the league will be worse off for not having Charlton on it but, unfortunately, i guess them's the breaks.
Seriously, good luck with the rest of the season. Personally, id give anything to see forest go down but that doesn't look likely.
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Just shows what can be done on a limited budget
Good luck to them. Nice to see football being played the way it should. Such a good game to watch when it's played right.
We're going down, there's still a chance but there's just too much for us to do now. We struggle to score goals, though we look more like a team now. We don't have enough about us up front in terms of goalscorers.
I know, it's been noted....more than once! The cost of a 'proven' striker in this league however is exorbitant. It's easy to see how teams can gamble on promotion, bring in big names and then miss their chance and end up with a huge wage bill that championship football can't realistically support. Were lucky in the sense that we have a board that are trying to run the club as a successful business & that they aren't willing to throw money at a problem, and with our record signing being Matt Mills for £300k or £350k, its' remarkable that we've been on the run we have.
Heff's return to form has been nothing short of magical & Copps new found ability to find the net on a regular basis has been a godsend. We also still have Steve Brooker & Dean Sheils still to make their mark yet, it should make up for an interesting season next year. Although one or two rovers fans i know are looking up rather than down, i would still consider 21st position to be a fantastic finish.
Did anyone else this and immediately want to make a joke about Weegie and a certain previous manager of ours?...
No, me neither.
Doncaster are certainly one of the best sides we've seen in the champ. Good football, solid defensively (joint best defensive record at home i think i saw?) and now with the addition of goals, certainly a side that could be looking at playoffs next year.
They reminded me a little of Bristol City - well organised, clearly know each others games well, and movement and first touch passing far superior to anything we see from Charlton!
A crap league the championship may be, but there are some good teams in it as well OohAhh
i know where you're coming from, hard to believe 17th spot in the premiership wasn't good enough for some a few years back ....
just hope in a few years time we'll be able to get back into the championship cos once the dross and the decent(ish) players go next season wont be that easy...
time to lower our expectations
and just dream of the days when we used to play man utd , liverpool and co.................
good luck donny
Good footballing side and passed their way around us like we were statues.
Good support as well, more than we have taken anywhere this season other than Palace and Watford :(
At the start of the season I was looking forward to Donny and Swansea as I knew we would see some really good football - I was not wrong.
Simple things like passing in little triangles to get out of trouble as opposed to spanking it as hard and high as you humanly can which we did.
It was good to watch a team of players I have barely heard of (on offence meant there) run rings around our so called good players.
Good luck for the remainder of the season - hope to see you in 2 years when we come back to the Championship
PS - Any chance we can have Matt Mills please - he looks like a really good player to me. Strong, calm and nice distributio
I really like the way your team plays and, I for one have been advocating that we adopt a similar approach and play the ball around like you and Swansea who have also been a revelation this season. It shows how you can succeed with out hoofing the ball forward all the time.
Our project has somehow been to stabilise the club which was in free fall and the manager has gone for "character" and compactness. Sadly that was found wanting last night.
Best of luck to you.
I wouldn't worry about 21st mate, keep playing the way you are, keep winning games and you'll end up sneaking into the play offs.
As a measure of how far Doncaster have come, i'm sure i remember seeing them play at Welling United a few years back in the conference. Although maybe i'm thinking of Darlington.
imo very comparable to bristol city from last season.
Given that quality striker next season Doncaster could make a real push for top flight status. Last night you did play well and with real confidence, the goal was top drawer and I couldn't argue with the penalty either but I feel that if Chris Dickson had made anything of the chances he had and made for himself then we could have at the very least claimed a draw. As has been said on here- our decline has been contrasted by your rise, hopefully we will rise again as you have and I wish Doncaster Rovers all the best for the remainder of this season and here's to a double promotion next season!