Another very good post DM

Just been down York road and seen a Fev shirt a rhinos shirt 2 rhinos car stickers but nowt from the dons but I'm not surprised
And no I wasn't wearing any of mine either

Feel for the Dons Faithful. Things looked pretty positive at the end of last season. Such a shame to see you guys hit the skids so spectacularly this season. Hope you come good for next year.

Thanks Tom.

We're used to adversity around here and we've not had any for a few seasons. It's like the bad old days all over again. When these things have happened in the past, the future of the club always became doubtful. Hopefully, with the backing of Club Doncaster our future should be safe.

How things go from here probably depends mainly on how much Club Doncaster are prepared to invest.

Brief notes from a meeting tonight that the fans committee attended.
GT stated that the players are low on confidence and low on fitness and it is something the coaching team are working hard on.
Gavin Baldwin has stated that there are 2 plans that have been discussed. one If we stay up and one if we go down. Money has been available to the club and still is, When it is mathematically impossible to stay up then they know which plan to use.
GT has had quite a few players talking to him already and hopes to have his signings sorted as early as possible. He has stated that we have some decent players at the club and would like some to stay, and some would be going but would not name names apart from a positive comment about Kes.
There is hopefully 2 players coming(hopefully on Tues 7.7.15) but again will not mention names until he has got the signature.
Carl has stated that mistakes have been made this season but it a learning curve and hopefully one to put right in future.
We relied too much on the dual reg earlier in this season which didnt give our players time to gain experience, and the calibre of DR that has come this year was nowhere near the skill levels of the DR that we had last year.
The club want to right the wrongs in the future. I will put the full meeting minutes on when Jackie has typed them up and emailed me them.

Hiya peeps, I think that the above statement from the meeting sums up what we the fans have been saying for months, especially the DR issues. I also think that champ, 1. rugby is where we will be next season and have thought that for a long time. This season must go down as the Strangest in my 30 plus years following this club I still cant understand how the majority of players we have now took us to fourth in the league last season but now we cant, win, score trys or even compete with other teams (the writing was clearly on the wall with the defeat at NWC in the cup.)And then the departure of PC (which was nailed on) who suddenly re,found himself and signs for Fev, who then a few weeks later sack their coach ?. Strange goings on all around .I for one will keep supporting the players the club and the management and try to keep a positive outlook, the clubs around us will be watching very carefully and trying to take some of our best players (Clarke , Goat, and one or two more are to good for champ.1.. lastly I would like to bid a fond farewell to MR Dons himself non other than the magnificent Shaun Leaf he has stuck by this club through thick and thin and has always given 100% when he plays, for which I thank him. I will be there Sunday , don't expect anything at all but a decent performance/effort from the players would be nice to see. COYDs.

A statement from the clubhttp://www.doncasterrugbyleague.co.uk/article/44062/club-statementrl

At least a win against Hunslet has given us something to cheer.

Titanic Don has reported on the Hunslet thread that Mitch Clark and Matt Groat have already signed for other clubs for next season.

Who else do we reckon will be offered deals at other clubs?

Which players that we presently have should we be aiming to build a team around?

IMO one player we have missed this season has been Robbo. Need to get him signed up - Mr Dependable. I hope that he does not get forgotten about and talking of dependable that's what's been so galling about Shaun Leafs situation, he would have done us a cracking job next year.

Think I'll just wait and see who is retained, there are obviously some I would prefer were here next year, unfortunately that appears to be 2 down already.

They're the players we need to keep otherwise we will struggle to come back up, unless they're signing
Better players! Which I doubt very much.
What has happened to the statement we won't make the same mistakes again and get too far behind.
I'm afraid it looks like the mistakes are happening already!

The likes of Paz, Clarke and Groat were signed pretty much with an understanding that they wouldn't be here next year, as were coming to be in shop window.

Clarke training and playing FT could go on to be a real stand out player IMO.
Groat is probably at a level of a steady SL team player.
Paz if under different circumstances would surely have ended up elsewhere.

I think keeping Carr would be a result.

As for rest of squad all would do a decent job back in CL1 most with added recruitment and new set up could still feature in CH

A bit of good news is that Tuffour is on his way back soon!

Danny Nicklas has left the club. Wish him all the best. www.totalrl.com/forums/index.php ... doncaster/

Danny Nicklas has left the club. Wish him all the best. www.totalrl.com/forums/index.php ... doncaster/