They could always boo Paul Cooke if they get too bored and there's nowt to sing about ...

Not only is the dream over, but we found ourselves in a nightmare. We woke up to find ourselves relegated to League 1. What happened?

Doncaster must have one of the best stadiums in the Championship and the players now use the superb Rovers training facilities. Our ground and facilities rival that of some of the top superleague clubs.

We were fourth in the league last year and sixth the year before. Only Doncaster beat Leigh in 2014. We had a good squad and many of these players were retained in 2015. So we had a good solid core of top Championship players, but when we started the season it turned out that we had a bad team. We stumbled on this truth in January after the Hunslet Hawks friendly, but we chose ignorance and denial and continued on regardless.

In ex-superleague player Paul Cooke, we believed we had a coach who gave club Doncaster those important ingredients – credibility and self belief. What happened?

With the beginning of the 2015 season, the fans and players had great expectations.

We had the dream, the stadium, the players and the coach. Our dream stop should have been ‘[iDestination Superleague[/i’.

I sincerely hope that in 2016, Doncaster is wiser from the harshness of its 2015 lessons. The fans need a new dream. COYD.

There's more chance of gary glitter becoming a nursery school teacher than us becoming a super league side!

Last year we finished fourth – Leigh 76, Featherstone 61 Halifax 58 and Doncaster 57.

Some of the refereeing decisions were poor – Featherstone's try when the ball was dropped over the line, Dewsbury illegal shoulder charge on Doncaster player without the ball, Whitehaven try when player ran on touch line – to point out a few. Here, the point being that with correct refereeing decisions on important issues, a few more points to us and a few less to the opposition, would have seen us higher than fourth.

Had our performance this year mirrored last year, Doncaster would be playing against the four bottom superleague clubs now. Like Bradford and Leigh this year, our chances of winning any of these games would be slim.

However, by grasping and holding a bold vision of the future, Doncaster could have moved forward. Our players would become fitter, additional experienced coaching staff would spend time to sharpen up the players, attacking structures and defensive structures improved.

Existing commercial activities could be enhanced and new commercial activities developed to complement the vision.

In short, we would be more competitive and more victorious in the Championship. In turn, year by year, Doncaster would increase its threat to the bottom superleague clubs. Eventually, one of these clubs would succumb.

Given the reality of last year, was this such an impossible dream?

The problem, which the club haven't completely admitted to, is that they under-estimated the improvements the other clubs in the league would make. This meant that all other things being equal, finishing 4th this season was going to be a much harder challenge this time around than last. Most fans seemed to be aware of this but the club obviously didn't see it.

Because of our lack of ambition on the winter signings front, we dropped further down the pecking by a considerable margin. Help from Hull has been in shorter supply this season. Team spirit hasn't been the same as last year with something seemingly going wrong behind the scenes that didn't allow Paul Cooke to get the best out of the players this year. We haven't had a settled half-back pairing due to PC retiring and Richard Wilkinson being injured.

Put all these things (mistakes if you like) together and we've become the team we are now.

The reality was that we punched above our weight last season and we've got nowhere near those dizzy heights this season.

[iTo answer Tee Man's question

I think we were a very long way off challenging any Super League teams last season. Look at how the Championship sides are struggling against the Super League teams this season. There was a glimmer of hope that we could possibly kick on from last season and takes some more steps in the right direction but we didn't.

[iTo have any hope of getting into Super League, teams in the Championship must be

1) Full-time
2) Have an academy and second team
3) Have a supporter base that will fund a side able to compete with the lesser Super League teams
4) Have sufficient financial backing from the owners.

At the moment, we don't tick any of those boxes (although I'd like to be proven wrong on the last point), and didn't tick any of them last season.

The challenge now isn't just to build a side that can win Championship 1, it's to build a side capable of staying up once promoted. Finances almost certainly mean that we can't look any further forward than that. Any thoughts of Super League are an impossible dream at the moment and will remain so until the above four points are met ... and we're in the Championship, not Championship 1!

Our demise has been sad to see. Many people connected with the club worked hard to move us forward in recent times. All that hard work has been undone due to the mistakes made, and it's back to the drawing board again.