You are doing a pretty good job defending Club Doncaster and I don't t take exception to any of that.
Of course they want their stated targets and are working towards them.
They may be deluded, but that is a separate argument.
But I have to say I don't agree with your excuse that they can't be responsible/have an influence on things that happen on the field.

They would have to be stupid fatalists if they thought that.

More to the point, what steps would you take to improve our side in a quantitative and qualitative manner?

Specifically I mean.

No I did not!! I only discovered the half finished version was there when I tried to submit the full version and was told that another post had been made.

I wouldn't do anything. I would leave it to the coach who knows more about these things than I (or you) do

Danensian
How long have you been supporting the Dons?

Since the very first match in 1951

Are you real?

So you yourself have NOTHING to offer.
Thought so.

Have you ever postulated that a monkey could have, with no knowledge of rugby, done as well as RH?
I admire your faith.
Because that is all it is.

You would have gone down with the Titanic, trusting in Captain Smith over the immediate needs of survival.
Me, I would have got off with Kate Winslett.

I will regard all your future posts with disdain.
You have by your own admission nothing to suggest specifically to improve the team.
Apart from leaving to a coach that knows better than we do about losing.
Fooking risible.

So if I ask you some questions about the old Dons you should have no problem in answering them?

Geoff do not you believe him ? He goes now that is the main thing !

If Danensian said he went to the very first match, why do you feel the need to challenge him about it? I’m puzzled.

Regardless of that, everyone has got an equal right to come on here and state their views whether they’re current fans or not.

I've had problems with this site doing strange things recently. At times, it automatically scrolls down to the bottom of the page and I can't get back to the box where we type. It then freezes up and I have to start again.

I've not had this specific problem yet. I've had the opposite problem where I thought a message had been posted but found when I came back the next time that it wasn't there.

That is because you hadn't actually posted it and checked it was there.
I have never had a post disappear unless a mod deleted I.
I always check the post is posted since 'submit' doesn't always work.

I will do better and make sure I always check that a post is showing after I've clicked submit.

I think Danensian's problem was the opposite, it seems to have been posted before he clicked Submit.

Richard Horne is a young coach with limited experience. He’s going to make mistakes. He’s going to get things wrong. He deserves to be given time.

We’ve clearly improved defensively since he’s been in charge. Only conceding 26 points in Toronto is testament to that. We’ve not lost a game by more than 12 points since he’s been here, many by fewer points than that. Had we cut out some of the mistakes, not given away the silly penalties, we could have won most of them.

Whilst accepting that we’ve not been good enough, comparing Richard Horne to a monkey is extremely unfair.

Then he must have inadvertently pressed 'submit' half way through.
Unless we have a poltergeist.

I am not comparing him to a monkey ... it is poetic licence ... = anybody could have had a similar record to RH's ... even you ... or me.

Where is the expertise he should have brought from his big-time club Hull.
There is little evidence of that.
John Kear would have done miles better.

Please don't talk about money.

Besides we really don't have the time to be nurturing a coach as well as nurturing players.

If he'd inadvertently pressed Submit halfway through, would the first part of his message not have disappeared of his screen?

Something has obviously gone wrong, the guy apologised to readers in his next message. Whoever or what is to blame is irrelevant.

I wouldn't know where to start in taking a rugby training session. I'd have taken them backwards, I'm sure!



I'm not going to talk about money but would John Kear really be interested in leaving a Super League club to take the job? John Kear is an unrealistic target for that reason alone.

I was at the second match but I don't think I would rank highly in a Geoff Roebuck quiz.

You're an impossible apologist ...
Hardly worth the effort.

No, I am not an apologist... I try to understand things from other people's point of view as well as my own. And I'm not going to apologise for that!

So do I, but I don't buy into
tales like 'it was the computer's error not mine.'

Very, very rarely maybe.
Errors usually are down to the operator.

Perhaps there is a need to coach technique in the submitting of posts, its obviously quite important to get it right, we don't need anyone knocking on or failing to tackle the keyboard in a way that brings about several comments on this extremely important matter. Failing to submit correctly could stop us getting into the Championship.



yours

Cynic Al

Nice one Cynical Al....

He didn't say he went to the Dons very first game