Quote 'The RFL is probably a little fed up with what has happened at the club.'
The simple answer to that is to change the name of the club to Fulham,London Crusaders,London Broncos,Harlequins etc after which we will be automatically promoted into Super League with a guarantee to stay there for ever even though the average attendance is 2500-3000 and contribute nothing to the League except an expensive day out for supporters of other teams.

Spot on.

Are they still exempt from quotas so that they can also provide a useful outlet for non GB and Aussie players to develop and flourish?

What ? The same as Celtic Crusaders, another plastic team at the back of beyond where no-one wants to go... even their own fans!!!

Any news from wednesday 02/09/09.

Not heard anything Paul

would have been nice to hear something b4 Sunday.

I think we have been here before , ie last season !

Exactly...we know the system well by now. And everytime it happens the RFL are going to be understandibly more and more particular with the applicatiopns

You're right and so are the RFL (in this case) as we don't want to be in the same boat again any time soon.

I wonder if we are any closer to knowing if the RFL are going to let us compete next season. Agree totally with what has been said , we have had more lives than a cat.

Just hope the Supporters Trust can grow and one day take over the club or at least have a say !

While ever that joke club Celtic Crusaders resides in Superleague.........................the RFL would look a bit mean turning us down.
In other words we are not the only joke club already in existence, so one more can't hurt..

We may have been perceived as a joke by many inside and outside Rugby- League
for a good deal of our 50 plus years of existence, but when it get’s to a point where
the few dedicated loyal fans start using such phrases then our survival of the next
50 years looks very bleak indeed.

If we manage to survive this time around(and its no done deal yet)
then I’d be very surprised if its not the last chance the Rugby-League ever give us.

If the deal is given the go-ahead then let’s be realistic here,it’s going to take us
the best part of a decade of hard work by everyone connected with the club
just to rid it of the bad image most potential Rugby-League fans in Doncaster associate with the club .

We don’t want to be known as the “Joke” club anymore.
We want the people of Donny and the surrounding area to be proud to watch their hometown team,
we especially want the youth of Doncaster to support the Dons.
Too many people living in Doncaster travel every weekend to Leeds,Castleford,Wakey and the likes—
we have to give them a reason to stay and watch the Dons-even if it takes ten years to achieve that.

Rugby–League has to be run as a business now and we certainly need people with business know-how
playing a big part in the running of the club—let’s hope that’s included in Carl’s plan for the future –
the fans who follow the team week in week out need to be listened to by the club and it wouldn’t hurt
the club to be more open with the fans.The only way the club can/will survive (if its given the chance)
is for the fans and the club to work together.

Well said Bruce !

i tell you what would be good to hear from the new board, if we're lucky enough to be in a position to have one - some realistic ambitions.

all the talk of a super league place was - let's be honest - utter crap - a wholly unattainable pipedream that just left recriminations, accusations and financial devastation when it predictably failed to materialise - what a waste of time, goodwill and so much money that pathetic tilt at a non-existant windmill was - you had to be a moron to think it ever had any chance of working out !

how about a board who stand up at their first press conference and say that in five years they want to be an established second tier club, playing in front of regular gates of a couple of thousand, making the last sixteen or so of the challenge cup every know and then with a team of predominantly local lads who play for the shirt and enjoy their sundays, as does everyone else associated with the club. the pride would come from seeing donny lads step up to the big league, and when they've made it, to hear them on boots'n'all saying that they owe it all to "carl and everyone at the keepmoat who set me on the right road", or whatever

when every one of those entirely deliverable promises has been made good, then reassess things, aim higher, budget accordingly, plan for the future, nurture the local amateur game and maybe dare to dream of another season in the sun that would be the reward for the graft that went before, but in the certain knowledge that it's always going to prove unsustainable in the long term

that's all i ever wish for the club - realistic ambitions, realistic targets, real rugby and real fans - not some over-hyped cock and bull quick fix of tawdry low budget wannabe superleague drivel that's doomed to fail on the unsustainable greed of some clueless marking s

blue and gold, playing the game for the love of it - that'll do me