The players should be ‘attacking the DRE’ (ha) in the 2nd half, so it should be quite noticeable when it happens.
The cameras will definitely be facing the Railway End in that case!
Morning. Doncaster Rovers fan in peace.
I can sympthasise with whats happening at your club. We had this in the 97/98 season,although I’d argue it was even more dire than your current situaton.
Ken Richardson was our chairman.
As was later discovered in court he hired someone to burn the main stand down to claim the insurance. At the begining of the season we had Kerry Dixon as manager who then left as it emerged that Richardson was telling him who to pick in his team selections.
We didn’t win a game in all competitions until the 2nd December when we beat Chester 2-1 on a cold Tuesday night in front of 846 fans. There was actually a pitch invasion to celebrate!!!
At one point Richardson put his right hand man,Mark Weaver,in charge of team selections.
In an early “six pointer” against Brighton he put in goal David Smith,his next door neighbour,who’d only played Sunday league football as far as we were aware. We lost 3-1.
We won only 4 league games all season finishing on 20 points.
We scored 30 goals and conceded 113 still a record I believe.
(As a side note we’ve only scored 28 this season and I can’t see where the next one is coming from)
There were protests against the regime early in the season.
At a home game on the 11th October aginst Hartlepool there was a mass walkout on 80 minutes.
At this stage Rovers were winning 2-0 and ended up drawing 2-2 which of course was balmed on the fans for all leaving the ground.
There were meetings organised and after the majority of home games there was a crowd outside the main stand protesting.
Danny Bergara came in towards the end of the season but even he couldn’t do anything.
There were sit-downs on the pitch during matches and Mark Weaver hired a bodyguard when he came to the games for fear of attack (I’m not advocating violence but this is how bad things had got)
The police even advised him not to attend games as his presence may cause unrest.
At the final game there was a procession through the town,a mock funeral with a coffin mourning the passing of Doncaster Rovers. It really did seem as though we weren’t going to have a club the next sesaon.
As we know John Ryan came onboard,a Rovers fan,and after intially struggling in the conference,we got back into the league and went from strength to strength culminating in the famous day at Wembley when we beat everyones second favourite team to get into the Championship.
Sorry for banging on but I really do hope you have a team next year.
I work in Scunthorpe and know a lot of Iron fans who seem genuinely fearful for next season.
All the best and hopefully we’ll meet again soon.
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