Our mission is self-sustainabilty...promotion would be a nice bonus.
We have a budget and when you pay peanuts you get monkeys as they say.
All the League 1 clubs are pretty much hand to mouth and none of them is going anywhere including who gets promoted this year.
The Dons are never going anywhere....that boat sailed years ago.
But we get to watch reasonably good rugby without looking over our shoulders.
I really don't know why I bang on about the Dons year after year...Doncaster is a backwater since it lost its industries...it's a place of warehouses....

PS
Self- sustainability means (in my book) making sure the management's salaries are not put in danger...

Still, good news about the new caterers

Wait until next season when it's £5 extra to use this service!

New caterers might bring better service and a better range of products...however they will certainly adopt current silly prices and probably raise them.
Hunslet sold me a good pint of ale for £3.80...
I sup in town at value prices and leave the car at home.
Not gonna waste my money on concourse ale...
But that is just me....thank goodness many think differently.

Maybe we'll get some more points from IMG?



Unless I'm desperately dehydrated (unable to walk up the steps without potentially collapsing) or freezing cold (in danger of frostbite due to leaving seventh layer of clothing at home) I never go near the catering facilities.

I'm a tight old bugger though. There are enough ways to get ripped off in this world without paying silly stadium prices.



It'll be interesting to see if prices do go up... correction, it'll be interesting to see by how much prices go up with the new caterers on the premises.

I'll be honest I wasn't being entirely serious.

And wait til S-O finds out they knocked 50p off the drinks in the top bar the Dons fans were in before the Hunslet game

Oh heck...

Best delete that Jemmo before S/O reads it! LOL!

Nope ...I read it alright.
We supped with the Keighley supporters in the bar near the turnstiles...it was £3:80 in there.
We had one in the viewing bar at half time and I payed by card so never noticed the price there.

If I saved 50p per pint then that is good.
Bumped into Jemmo as we went in.

Molson Coors to be the drinks supplier at the Eco Power https://www.doncasterroversfc.co.uk/new ... wery-deal/ So Carling, Madri and Worthingtons.

Molson Coors to be the drinks supplier at the Eco Power https://www.doncasterroversfc.co.uk/new ... wery-deal/ So Carling, Madri and Worthingtons.

Current Table:
Dews: 14, 27, +376
Huns: 13, 20, +230
Dons: 12, 20, +154
Oldh: 13, 19, +221
Work: 12, 16, +142
N Wal: 13, 10, +59

Big game this Sunday 16th July: Hunslet v Oldham at 3pm.

An Oldham win seems to be the best outcome for the Dons.

Hunslet v Dewsbury is on 30th July.

He was happy then

Every reason to be....until that shambles of a second half...

Hunslet beat Oldham 21-8. Beryl kicked four goals.

Cornwall beat Midlands 28-8.

N Wales 24, Worky 32.

The table is now:

Dews: 14, 27, +376
Huns: 14, 22, +243
Dons: 12, 20, +154
Oldh: 14, 19, +208
Work: 13, 18, +150

Providing we win at least four of our last six games, Oldham can't catch us.

Dons games: Midlands (H), Workington (A), N Wales (A), London (A), Cornwall (H), Dewsbury (H).

Assuming we'll beat Midlands, London and Cornwall, we'll have to beat one of the other three. Surely, we'll do that? We shouldn't finish worse than third.

Dewsbury need to win three out of their last four to be assured of being champions. They've got to play:

N Wales (H), Hunslet (A), Workington (H), Dons (A).

Dewsbury could have the title in their pockets before we play them. We can win the league if we win all our games and Dewsbury lose two of their four remaining games.

Hunslet's games: Dewsbury (H), Rochdale (A), London (H), Workington (A)

The pivotal game is Hunslet v Dewsbury. If Hunslet win all their remaining games, we must win all our games to stay ahead of them - assuming their points difference stays better than ours. - which, of course, means we'd have to beat Dewsbury to finish second.

If Dewsbury beat Hunslet, five wins out of six means we will definitely finish ahead of Hunslet.

What do you reckon is the best outcome for us in the Hunslet v Dewsbury game apart from a mass brawl with 26 players sent off resulting in all red carded players each getting an 8 match ban?

I'm not sure which way I want it to go. I'd like to keep the hope of winning the league alive but I don't like the idea of a Hunslet win as it possibly means having to play Hunslet away in a play-off game if we don't finish second.

Just got to get back to winning ways . Can see some changes in the backs with Hall , Johnstone & Tali returning if fit & Butterworth making his debut. The forwards en bloc had an off day at Hunslet . Smeaton moving back into the forwards will be a plus.

I think in practical terms we want Dewsbury to beat Hunslet.
We want to finish 2nd...
Don't think we will beat Dewsbury so won't finish top....
The cavalier in me wants Hunslet to beat Dewsbury and for us to win our last 6 games.. and WE are champions.
Roy of the Rovers stuff!
Yes I know that was football.

There are no more free weekends now for the Dons and I'm hoping that this mini break has helped the injured to recover and built some fitness into Watson. I know its a cliché but it is in our hands to secure that second place. Hunslet are on a roll and good luck to them for staging that, however I will be surprised if they took the points off of Dewsbury which would mean (rightly IMO) Dewbury would secure promotion before we play them at home.

Hoping for a proper performance this coming Sunday and the players are focused for this vital run in. Workington away is now looking like a belter of a fixture.

The Rams look nailed on to finish top , our priority now is a second place finish to ensure home draws throughout the play offs.

Hunslet are on a roll , however I would be more than confident of a Dons win should we draw them or Oldham at the Eco Power in the play offs.

Our performance again Hunslet was the worst I have witnessed in almost 20 years ,a bad day at the office for virtually the whole team.
This could be the kick up the ar5e the players need to focus on the remainder of the year.

I will not be attending a single game between now and the Dewsbury game.
Just circumstances....
So I look forward to views on the games in between now and then....

Ooh we might have a chance then!

You mean to get a word in?

I've already started believing I am jinx at away games, and I took a friends young lad to a few games a couple of years ago. We lost them all so I never took him again

Squad for Sunday:
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Anything less than 36 on the Handicap and I'll be a player.
(I'm not too hopeful though, I expect Hurricanes to be getting something like 42 or 44).

Wet conditions might perhaps make it lower scoring than normal?

It's an ideal opportunity tfor us to get moving in the right direction.

We could do with N Wales doing us a favour at Dewsbury...

But I can't realistically see that happening.

We'd need to win by 90 to leapfrog Hunslet, although we will still have a game in hand.