Exactly.
Even the current situation with Hull is threatening our very future.

How do you think the Dons would be able to afford & fund having three or four full time players?

Cadge it from Club Doncaster.

Could it be we’re bringing a few overseas players in, maybe a link up with an overseas club ?

I received my reminder to buy a season ticket last week (bought it in November btw) and included was a fixture list telling me what I had to look forward to.

A staggering 10 home matches!! It’s hardly worth bothering to call it a season!

Ok, there’s the Challenge Cup to add plus anything in the play-offs (got to remain optimistic) but realistically, how is the club, supporters & sponsors supposed to thrive & survive on 10 matches?

Answers on a postcard please to Disillusioned of Doncaster.

As in cooking when you see season you know it means just a little.
And so it is in League 1.
lol

Fans Panel Meeting
Thursday 10th January 2019


AttendeesThe critical aspect of the minutes is

As part of the meeting, Carl Hall confirmed that this season, the club had negotiated and paid for an enhanced agreement with Hull for D/R and loan players
The agreement will guarantee that should any players on loan or D/R get injured or be recalled to Hull’s first team, then Hull will ensure the Dons receive a replacement player of similar ability if required by Richard Horne

My view is:

The weaknesses of DR/Loans in the past is that we have not been able to rely on it, and Hull have not provided players when we needed them most. This should not happen in the future with the enhanced agreement; an agreement that comes with a price tag.

No names were mentioned as to which players may be coming on DR/Loan but it's important to note that in order for players to be 'qualified' for the play-offs they need to play at least five league games. My preferred choice would be to have as many Hull players qualified for the play-offs as possible to give us the broadest amount of cover possible when we're likely to need it most.

The club is also looking to add to our own squad of players (as mentioned in the minutes) to boost our numbers further.

The quality of players within the Hull squad was shown by their performance in the game against us. As we can have up to five Hull players in our match day squad, the 'quality' that comes from Hull should greatly enhance our chances this season.

Thanks...can I check...is the bold bit about the arrangements with Hull the announcement we've been waiting for today?

Yes, that's right. I don't know if the club are going issue a separate statement on the website as only forum readers will be aware of it at the moment.

Does this agreement mean we will receive a few of the first team squad player when not selected for Hull or the academy lads?

We weren't given specific details as to who may or may not be coming but as the arrangement seems to have come at a significant price, I would hope the price we've paid will be represented in the quality of players who come.

I would have personally preferred The Dons to have used the "Significant Cost" to sign our own players, rather than paying Hull FC. If they are our players they train with the squad every single week and get used to the players around them and gel as a side.

I do have a sneaky suspicion that some or part of this fee will have been the transfer fee we supposedly received for Liam Harris.

If Hull FC have another injury crisis I cannot see them sending us players at the expense of their own results, the deal will be weighted in our East Yorkshire Taskmasters favour.

Dual Reg will be the end of DRLFC.

I agree that in a perfect world we should be investing in players of our own but it is difficult to get the better quality players (who may be dropping down from Super League) to come to a League One club. They would rather play in the Championship, even if offered the same pay. Hence why we probably lost out to Halifax and Leigh.

Hull had their fingers burnt last season with their 'squad size' and along with the fact they planned on having a reserve team, they're not short on depth this time around. There should be plenty of players available to come to Donny.

We will wait and see DM, other teams in the Championship don't seem to have an issue recruiting, neither did York, Bradford last year or Toronto in the previous year, if we are a "cash rich" club surely the money should have been spent on a sustainable team rather than short team fixes with borrowing players from SL.

So basically we’re paying Hull to ensure we have access to 5 DR players each week and if 1 gets injured they send us another... isn’t that what’s ment to happen anyway ?? wouldn’t it just be better to just sign our own players... as soon as Hull get injuries the better DR players will be recalled for their team and were left with ones that are no better than what we have, the same as last season.... unless we’re going to have for example Maloudi, Litten, Harris and C Scott available every week then it’s a waste of time and money.