I thought you'd said previously you weren't watching us next year anyway?

I won't be. But I at least expected the team to be competetive this year.

The club obviously thought that their long-term plan was the best way to go. Recruiting youngsters now with a view to them developing into good players later.



From what we've been told, the club [uchose[/u to go down this route. It was announced that we had the biggest playing budget in the history of the club. We can only assume they [uchose[/u not to spend it, perhaps with Donny's thoughts in mind to invest at a later time.



Implicating the Rovers in all of this seems pure speculation. Would John Scarrow, Carl Hall, and Paul Cooke be happy to have their hands tied behind their back? I think not!



The club will never be able to reveal the total extent of their budget spend to us, and consequently will never be able to totally dispel the rumour mill with regards to any potential Rovers' interference. We have to believe that the people who are running the Dons are happy with the club's finances or else we would have heard rumblings at the fans' forum to the contrary.



The Dons (as a club) either believed the current squad was good enough to stay up and didn't need strengthening, or they were prepared to rely on DR players from Hull to plug our gaps.



It is critical that we stay up this season in order for any future plans (as mentioned by Donny) to come to fruition. We do have a good team in charge at the Dons. It doesn't mean they always get it right. None of us do, but we need to support them and do our very best to turn the bad start around.

Sadly as it stands at the moment we are going to have a young team who are likely to be relegated and could spell some very tough times for the club.



Its not about spending massive on a full squad of "stars" its about signing quality in the right positions S-O gave good examples in Snitch and Scott and I'd add Waterman to that bracket to (just doesn't seem to get enough game time).



I keep mentioning the Rovers as we were promised that the "merge" into Club Doncaster would only benefit the club and thus far I as a supporter am yet to see anything that has improved in fact that and the sharing with the Eagles seem to have lead to a reduction in quality for the long suffering Dons fan as evidenced on here by other users comments.



You have to speculate to accumulate, at the moment our survival in this division is dependent on a random assortment of players in positions we don't need from Hull, I don't see how these enhance our team they just rock and corrode the team spirit of those who put in the hard work in training and just get swapped out for a random from Hull.



I also have to question the judgement of signing two players with long term injuries, I think in the case of one we were sold a pup.



The quote of a larger budget than ever before is just management speak it could just be 1p more than previous, and in what iteration of the Dons are we talking the current setup or before, as I think the Singe's all stars cost more than the current team we are putting out. So in that statement while accurate needs to be taken within the context of "which Dons" they are referring to.



I would even say the Hanley's Dons had a higher playing budget than the current seem.

Some good & justified points.



COYD

We won't go down, I'm confident in that, won't be the season we were hoping for, some big scores coming probably, but we'll be ok.

I think that could be termed the "Aston Villa" mindset or sticking to RL the Bronco's/Bulls mindset.

[iThe owners are very clear that I have to present them with a strategic plan every three years. The main basis of it is Club Doncaster.



Club Doncaster can mean many things, but ultimately it means my job is to drive more revenue into the Keepmoat Stadium and into this club to improve the playing budget, which gives Paul Dickov the best possible chance of obtaining the highest possible position in the league. The business plan is not about the owners taking money out of the club. It’s about getting more money in. The first step was taking over the Dons.[/i



I haven't previously seen that. However, there is no doubt that it can be interpreted as 'We took over the Dons to give Paul Dickov more money to spend'.



Worrying!

It is worrying Wanderer its very clear from that its all about the Rovers and their success we are just there to generate income for them to spend.



The Eagles moving in was just another way to earn them money.

Well I don't buy into this conspiracy stuff.

The Rovers can't be hobbling the Dons.

The only way they will make some money from the Dons is if we are successful.

Or we are just a trinket, and that is DOOMED to failure.

It doesn't make sense.

How can it be conspiracy stuff when it has been stated publicly.

It is just my opinion Steve, we won't go down. I think the club realise that super league in the next couple of years is probably unrealistic, with other clubs far better prepared, they've made no secret that the youngsters are for the future, don't really believe all this " everything done for rovers benefit". But I guess we'll see

The revenue generated by a semi pro RL team is miniscule compared to that of a full time Soccer club even in Championship 1,

With an average gate of 600 the gate receipts would be around £6k per home game taking into account season tickets ,concessions

and walk ups. Take away staff wages , players bonuses ,medical supplies, facility running costs and away travel costs and you would be very lucky to see any return on your investment at all without the Rugby League disbursement cash.

The two main owners of the club are people who made their multi millions in Doncaster and want to give something back ,for which they should be highly commended , not derided as profiteers .

When the said gentleman have a net worth in excess of £500 million and it is well documented in The Yorkshire Post that Terry Bramall himself has given over £100 million to charity in the last 7 years it makes some of the quotes on here laughable . If you are a true fan, then get behind what the club are trying to achieve instead of snide comments about season tickets sold under false pretences and the like. COYD

Well now I know who Chewspaker is.