Well every club that comes down here will have carte blanche to cherry pick anyone on the Dons side that plays any good against them....if they want.
That's a rubbish position to be in.
I remember when our side folded two years ago and went into a CVA and all the players of any worth, apart from some really faithful ones, left.
The side we fielded against Rochdale away and got hammered is a memory I don't want to return to....but fear will repeat itself.


I couldn't watch a ritual slaughtering of brave Donny lads for the remainder (still the bulk) of the league season.
It would be like watching somebody getting kicked when they were down......not nice to watch.

Cannot blame Pete for going he's been through the mill with us and he does have a family to look after these days.

Good Luck to him and thanks for all the years good service.

Picking up on what others have said, how come Sheffield with similar attendances and no major financial backer can manage to attract world cup players and build a winning side on a what one would imagine to be a similar sized playing budget.

I think something has gone terribley wrong with the club yet again.

I support what has been said about Pete. He owes the Club and the fans nothing and has to look after his family now.

Thanks and Good Luck I say.

I agree, but when a player who's Donny to the bone leaves we are in big trouble.

Good luck Pete, although you won't need it as much as The Dons!

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100% agree. It says much about the current situation that Pete has finally ended his association with the Club.

And perhaps they are good at maths

It's not the maths, It's getting out of the amateur zone and going out and selling your product to any sporting body that is willing to listen and give it a go (Lots of littles are better than now't)

They got there sums wrong at the start of the season we were told they had done a budget for home crowds of 800 which with the money from the RFL they would be alright we were never in a strong enough financial position to play & compete in Nat League 1 as I said last September they should have refused the offer of promotion until the club was on a more sound financial footing

Some 1 said last night that there isn't a massive difference between the 2 divisions apart from more away support this season, so were better off in this division imo.

Nat 1 players expect to be paid more money than Nat 2 players

True.

They might expect it Geoff but i very much doubt that they were getting more money collectively than last year's players.

Infact i'd not be suprised if our wages were below many of the teams in the division below ours.

Neither would I.

Its probably fair to assume that something like half of the squad were on terms carried over from a two-year deal and that the squad was bolstered (particularly when it became obvious we'd got a few injuries) by players on match terms.

That might equate to a smaller wage bill than last season, but even if it's much the same, in theory the gate receipts for this season should have worked out to be greater so it does support the fact that we ought to have been better off in NL1.

Pete Green is going to be playing a Sheffield shirt! That is disgusting, truly disgusting.

And I'm surprised more people haven't mentioned the frankly unbelievable work Pete Green has put into this club over the last however many years. Thanks Pete for every time you put on the shirt and the work you did off the field. Sorely missed and a modern legend of this club. (we might not get another player like Pete because Marshland is sending all his down the M18, or whichever road goes away from Donny)

So where as the money been spent? remember we didn't get £100k from the RL last season I would say the club are very close to trading insolvent

Also DF it looks like the wage bill is getting smaller on a daily basis !

Former Doncaster forward Peter Green is set to make his debut for Sheffield Eagles this evening.

[url=http://www.thestar.co.uk/rugbyleague/Green-light-for-new-boy.5297027.jpFull report[/url from the Doncaster Star.

Doing a good job so far I'm guessing.

According to a comment on the Eagles site on the Total Forum, Pete was booed by some Eagles fans. That has been disputed but what the Hell

Ungrateful chuffs if true. He went very well last night by all accounts and good luck to him.

And do they boo Johnny Woodcock, Danny Mills, Tom Buckenham etc

Scored probably the best try of the match. The booing was two people at most and only when his name was read out before the game. I even sang his name when he scored!

... and didn't I say on another thread that you were about to start winning games.

Only a few days before you beat Fax in fact.

He scored a great try with an outrageous dummy.