shame the powers that be live in cloud cukkoo land instead of what you have said...do you know i hardly go and watch the Dons these days, and hardly bother watching SL on Sky.....Im only one man who used to love rugby league...but now i almost couldn't care about its path

Another thing...my Dad got me into RL.....if I had kids i wouldn't get them into it under this system...that's just me...but i feel its quite a statement

And did you follow the Dons when they won promotion in 1994 ?

I remember the day they beat Huddersfield at Tattersfield to virtually assure themselves of promotion and it was just magical to see a club that had struggled for so long hit the big time.

Then, they won at Saints and beat Widnes in their opening two Division One games.

Surely, that's what sport is all about. Having the right and chance to earn a crack with the big boys. Even if its only fleeting - as for Blackpool in the Premier League this season - the memories last a lifetime.

Do you enjoy watching: Running, passing tackling? Do you enjoy seeing a flat defensive line sprint up? Do you enjoy seeing a long pass put a fullback in space behind a dummy runner? Do you enjoy a shoulder barge tackle forcing a knock on? Do you enjoy seeing the short pass that puts a player into the gap? Do you enjoy watching a winger fly down the touchline....and a fullback make the tackle in the corner just before the line?

If yes, watch the sport. If not, perhaps RL isn't for you. There's nothing wrong with that. Infinitely more people prefer seeing a round ball bounce around (and don't seem to really care about clear corruption and match fixing in their sport) and many more people than even that don't care about any sport at all.

I did bud, whilst i was only 13 my Dad took me to every home game.....i was there at the Huddersfield game, 3 major memories

a) Hudds fans singing 'the Dons are staying down...staying down...staying down'

b) Vila Matautia scoring a match winning try but before grounding the ball holding it in one hand...something me dad frowned upon

c) a can of coke costing......50p!!!! FIVTY BLOOMIN PENCE!!!!!!!

Great memories tho...and of course i was at Mount Pleasent in the promtion game against Batley....its what promotion is all about

It was an amazing feeling to know that we were going up but if we had lost I shudder to think what could have happened. The temptation to go for broke the following year knowing that the drawbridge was going to go up could have been too much and if we had failed again who knows where we would be now. The licencing system is meant to stop the getting promotion/avoid relegation at any cost approach and the consequences of it failing so I don't see how that side of things can be criticised.

I think your slightly missing the point, of course i love RL....but to be fair to the round ball game, they have the pro/rel that i long for. Also i'm well aware of corruption in that sport, hense why i always checked out AFC Wimbledon's results on a weekly basis.

You kinda went for broke that year anyway...Paul Mansson was on a big contract for example....but hey you went for it and guess what...you got promoted and didn't go bust...wow it can be done

Didn't the Dons get into huge financial strife that season in the top division IIRC?

So if you love the spectacle of the sport, why would you give up on it because of a disagreement on whether P&R should be on just on-field results or should also include off-field criteria too?

And that is what sport is about.

Memories of matches and occasions that last a whole lifetime.

Even for Doncaster fans.