At last someone else has cottoned on to the Club Doncaster intentions. In the days of Sunday Bloody Sunday we were awful and could do nothing about it because of a lack of funds. This season we have also been awful and Club Doncaster could have stopped the rot back in March if the commitment had been there. The supporters have been conned all season by the management.Even the appointment of Thornton with Green as a sweetener was a charade to cut down on any money the other so called quality candidates would have wanted to spend.Totally disgraceful treatment of loyal supporters and sadly I can see the days of another supporters consortium to keep the club going not too far around the corner.

I'm afraid that giving Thornton your coaching job was a huge mistake. The guy is a charlatan. The most league matches he's ever won in one season at this level is 7. We wasted over six years of the club's history with him in charge - thanks to a chairman who refused to sack him out of blind loyalty.

I'm a big fan of giving people a chance, the predicament we are in is not the fault of GT, he inherited a team so low on confidence it was always going to be a tough job. This seasons gone, build for next season IF club Doncaster back him, then half way through next season , I'll judge him.

I thought the score at half time was 0-36 when it was 0-38.
Mind you I had been sitting in the concourse for 15 minutes having a pint before the first half ended and for 15 minutes after the second half
started and missed a fair amount of the embarrassment.

Oddly enough, I didn't walk out as intended but went back in and watched the Dons have a mini-fight back.
Then I had something to eat and watched the first half of the Eagles game as well as a bit of the Saints game on the TV.
It was just nice to watch some proper rugby for a change on what turned out to be a lovely afternoon.

A root and branch clear-out is required and we need a fresh line of approach with another coach.

Had to smile to myself when I read about Tom Carr being not far away from playing after two operations.
No disrespect to Tom, I am sure he is a decent player and it will be good for him to play again, but he will be nowhere near his best after such a lengthy lay-off.

His situation is a metaphor for our entire season.

I am not going to attend the remaining games in my season ticket. I have had enough of the Rover's Dons.
The Dons don't exist anymore in my eyes.

Happy hunting for those less fickle than myself and goodbye to rugby and this forum.

I will also cancel my DD, which was for Paul Cooke, not the Rover's.

I'm sorry that you all feel sorry for yourselves yes we didn't play as well as we should but the turning factor in my eye was the bad decisions from the ref haven should have been down to 12 permanently after that spear tackle from palmer and the 2 knock on that gave 2 trys would have had a knock on effect on the team when your against it from all corners I think we all have the same mind set as the team

I appreciate that none of this is aimed at me Moonlight. Thanks for mentioning it though.

Everyone at the club is collectively responsible for the mess we're in, including Carl. But we need to remember that Carl was the man who probably saved the club from going out of existence. That doesn't mean we should turn a blind eye to all that has gone wrong recently but I think it is unfair to question Carl's integrity in all this, as seems to be the case with the accusations being made against Club Doncaster. That primarily was the point I was aiming to make.

If Carl is caught up in the perverse battle to drive the Dons down, as suggested elsewhere, then I feel even more for the guy.

As for people (elsewhere) claiming that Gary Thornton should be sacked ... well, please send for the men in white coats to deal with them. None of this has got anything at all to do with Gary Thornton.

I'm really sorry to see S/O calling it a day. I fully understand everyone's frustrations and annoyance at what we're having to endure this season. I hope you'll be back soon, mate.

PS. The best part about Sunday was actually the joke you posted about Donny! Will miss your humour and posts.

Not sure what games you've been at but the featherstone game most of the tries went through mistakes by Hodson or fox. Same applies to last week. Winger being dropped rightly so I would have played Dave at fullback and brought sam onto the wing toms been on imo.

I don't know this to be fact but the RL-press seem to think that Graham Steadman was 'in for the job'.

I heard that as well but apparently the Club would only give him a contract till the end of the season I believe that Derryck Fox also applied who is coaching in Australia

It's not Paul who should be answering that Question--It's the people who run the club.

I so wish I hadn't read that ...

as per usual, not picking the best man for the job but the one who wants less money,
Club doncaster stinks, we were doing all right until Carl sold to them.
Its all about NOT spending money, no players bonuses for winning, that tells its own story.
No MOTM prize money, so no ones going to bust a gut, everyone would be if bonuses and a MOTM prize was on offer.
They have ruined the club in less than a season.

Those are some interesting statements Onedon, are they from a reliable source? if they are true then then its pretty damming for the side.

Maybe something our SLO could clear up with the owners at the meeting they are having next week.

Disagree slightly there OD that players won't bust a gut without prize money being available tho I agree a decent club will add those little sweeteners. Sad fact is some of the squad just aren't good enough at this level and it goes right back to recruitment. Some will improve and some are at their limit. What's sad is our better players will probably leave at the end of the season......then what???

Not probably they will, why stay?