Explain your statement "the sham that is Club Doncaster".

As you appear unable to look up the definition of sham,here it is for you "a thing that is not what it is purported to be" and putting it into context it means Club Doncaster has no real intention of getting the Dons into Super League.Similarly you could apply the same to the Rovers where the intention to get back into the Championship is a pipe dream.Terry Bramhall at the head of Club Doncaster has the money to achieve both and I bet he's never seen a Dons game in his life.Come to think of it Baldwins only seen one as far as I know and that was when Carl Hall dragged him along. So there you are,another definition of sham "falsely presenting something as the truth" meaning really they appear to have no passion for the Dons at all.

They can hardly run the Rovers in a sensible fashion, never mind the Dons.
Yes I know they got promoted last year ... but made a pig's of finishing first when it was there for the taking and have made a below par start this time out.

It fills one with optimism ... it do.

Hope springs eternal and you have to have a dream. You have to strive to be the best.
However a hick place like Donny will only ever be average in the sporting world ... unpalatable as it may seem.
I don't know why we beat ourselves up about it.
The stay aways sussed that years ago.
So about 500 people like rugby and 6 or 7 thousand like football enough to pay to watch ... the rest have given up.

Nowt's gonna change apart from maybe downwards slowly.

Now where did I put those razor blades?

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Talking about the blame culture ... it is all Club Doncaster's fault.

There we were in a backwater of oblivion, relatively happy as pigs in sh/t being fed a diet of mediocrity.
Then up comes Club Doncaster with a plan for Super league, not in the next world but in this. Further to that in a relatively short time scale.

Needless to say our expectations are now raised.
We have a RIGHT to promotion, a RIGHT to Super league.
They have all but promised it after all.

This is why rage has increased ... let's call it Rovers rage.
lol

There appears to be a lack of anger within the Rovers players in the past few games that is for sure. Perhaps it should be Pussy Club Doncaster.

Club Doomcaster.

In what other line of work can you underachieve and fail to hit your targets year after year and still be employed? (apart from the tory government), we simply don't have the right people with the energy, drive and knowledge to make us a successful club.

Doncaster Free press Analysis Of The Seasonhttp://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/analysis-from-steve-hossack-as-doncaster-rlfc-fail-to-reach-league-one-play-offs-1-8762695rl

That is pretty much how I would have written it ... only better of course.
lol

I am glad he didn't pussyfoot around Richard Horne's record,which I see as abysmal and I too feel that the fact we weren't thrashed in those MANY defeats has come to Horne's recue.
It is still an abysmal record though.
Without looking at the stats, I have a feeling that he did worse than the man who got the sack ... yet he survives.

...for the moment....

Did not look into player recruitment over the past few years .

We have to give RH a fair chance , lets see who we recruit for 2018.

I await with interest the replies to my statement , please remember it is my opinion .

Since Richard Horne took over we’ve won 4, drawn 1, and lost 7.

We’ve scored 320 points and conceded 242.

The losing margins have been: 1, 4, 4, 5, 8 ,10 ,and 12 points.

Well credit to you for having responded but I would say you are wrong on almost every count. Club Doncaster has every intention of seeing the Dons in Super League and the Rovers in the Championship and both Gavin Baldwin and Terry Bramall have said as much in the Meet the Owners evenings. The one factor in this that they can't control is performances on the pitch.

Terry Bramall (and the late Dick Watson) have been and are putting considerable sums of money into Club Doncaster though the eventual intention is for it to be able to generate sufficient income to be self-financing. Savings on the administration which I mentioned recently are one source of this but there are many other initiatives happening behind the scenes which are contributing. These include hiring out space (including car park space) to outside bodies; the full take-up of the outside pitches at the Keepmoat. (The demand for these is so great that more are to be provided.)