I would take that!

I think the name of the new coach will certainly give us clues with regard to the club's ambition.

If it is a recognised big name, they almost certainly wouldn't come unless a serious playing budget had been agreed.

The Dons are proud to announce that they have appointed the first female coach in RL ......
Her name is Wifreda Beehive, and she is fresh from coaching RU side Wasps B(ee) team.

A spokesman for the Dons said .... 'As soon as we found out the new coach could increase our seating by 50 and give us an extra toilet as well, we were sold!'

Lol

'All based in this country and not tied to other Clubs' would also seem to rule out currently employed assistant coaches - unless of course they are working without contracts.

Gary Thornton been mentioned on FB

Gary Thornton been mentioned on FB

Garry Schofield...


*runs away*

Yup he has and by me.....Its an out of work UK based coach we are looking at it would seem.

Steve with respect I hope you are not correct.

I would be generous and say to the new coach .... 'Look,if you get us a win at Bradford ... we will double the guaranteed period of your contract.
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...to two weeks!'

Press conference called for tomorrow at 5pm

Be interesting to see who our next coach is as will show the ambition the club have.
From all the names mentioned so far Brian Noble or Justin Morgan would be amazing appointments , however a more realistic choice would be Graham Steadman or Karl Harrison, as Karl is in a job the former would be a more logical choice.

I've heard on the grapevine that its the old fans favourite


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Steadman is working for Newcastle Falcons IIRC.

Think its already been said but this appointment will determine how serious club doncaster wants a successful rugby league side, its a shame tony miller has ruled himself out cos ive got plenty of time for him.

and so have the players

www.doncasterrugbyleague.co.uk/a ... -appointed

www.doncasterrugbyleague.co.uk/a ... -appointed

Thoughts now? I ask specifically as these posts reference 'ambition'.

Welcome Gary and Pete #COYD

Steadying coach at this time who is pretty young as well, has won stuff with limited budgets at Batley and York, with our supposed "big budget" could do very well.

I would suggest solid choices rather than spectacular.

I'm certainly not displeased and very much welcome Peter Green back to the Dons. I never liked the idea of him and his dad being on separate sides of the South Yorkshire divide.

My original thoughts were that if we'd brought in a coach with Super League experience, they would have insisted on having a playing budget that reflected their ambition to get the club into Super League. Such a budget would have had to have been promised to them, and we could have read something into that.

Gary Thornton may have made similar demands and the club may be prepared to give him a suitable budget to do the job. We don't know.

Basically, appointing a big name would have definitely told us something, whereas appointing someone who falls out of that category probably tells us nothing. I certainly don't mean to be disrespectful to Gary with that comment. My definition of big name was a high profile coach with Super League experience.

Good luck to Gary and Peter. They've got my full support and I wish them every success. I hope all fans get behind them and those we have recently lost will come back to lend their support as we try to dig ourselves out of this hole.

We can still stay up. It's not a completely lost cause yet but we really must win at home to Whitehaven.

Gary said in his announcement conference (which I hope the club put online in its entirety) that its a 15 game season for us, and theres still a hell of a lot to play for.

Don't forget Ray also worked for several years on the wrong side of South Yorkshire to

A reasonable assessment (except perhaps the last sentence

, but I hope you are right).

They have managed to avoid my default position ... as I said to a fellow supporter today, I hadn't got to the point where I had a preferred choice (in fairness I didn't know who the last 3 were anyway), I just knew who I didn't want.