Rovers travelled over the Pennines for what, on paper, looked the toughest away day of the season against promotion favourites Blackburn. How Doncaster fared would give a good indication of how the season ahead may pan out. Continue reading “Blackburn Rovers 1-3 Doncaster Rovers: 250 word match report”
Going into Rovers’ first round League Cup tie against Bradford City, I must admit I had low expectations. However, a bright and spritely start quickly quelled my fears. Continue reading “Bradford City 2-3 Doncaster Rovers: 250 word match report”
A new season. Lush green grass, freshly marked lines. Short-sleeved shirts and cold pre-match beers. Optimism and hayfever in the air. Isn’t it? Wasn’t it? Marvelous. And if you weren’t already flush with excitement at the prospect of a new season, we’ve also got a new fanzine out as well. What a time to be alive. Issue 89 of the FSF Award winning fanzine popular STAND is on sale at Doncaster Rovers’ home match with Gillingham on Saturday.
No transfer rumours for us. No detailed analysis of walk-in-the-park pre-season friendlies. Instead we decided to spend the summer getting our teeth into something more meaty. So, in episode nine of the podular STAND podcast we try and pin down The Definitive Doncaster Rovers XI of the 21st Century. Not the Best XI to have represented Rovers since the year 2000, but the players who most encapsulate what Rovers are about, and have been about in those seventeen years. Continue reading “podular STAND podcast: the team of the century episode”
Finally, at long last the disappointment, the frustration and the indifference felt at Doncaster Rovers’ whimpering end to the 2016-17 season has subsided enough, for us to speak of it. And so, round about two weeks later than planned, we finally bring you the much anticipated eighth episode of the fanzine podcast, podular STAND. Continue reading “podular STAND podcast: the 2016-17 season review episode”
Doncaster returned to Colchester for the first time since Good Friday last season when they fell to an emphatic 4-1 defeat. Continue reading “Colchester United 1-1 Doncaster Rovers; 250 word match report”
Promotion. That seems as good a reason as any to record a podcast, that and the fact the fanzine’s three London exiles were all in the same country for once. But let’s focus on the former, and wade between the popped champagne corks and discarded sponsor-backed ‘We are going up’ banners to bring you episode seven of the premier Doncaster Rovers podcast. Continue reading “podular STAND podcast: the promotion episode”
I’m not sure how you’ve done it, but somehow, with an iron will and steely disinterest, you’ve managed to go all of six weeks and more without hearing the thoughts of popular STAND’s London exiles. Well, go without no longer, for the good fanzine doth provide a sixth episode of the Doncaster Rovers podcast, podular STAND, for your enjoyment. Continue reading “podular STAND podcast: the butterscotchmen episode”
Rovers’ march towards League One continued on Tuesday when Notts County arrived at the Keepmoat Stadium. Continue reading “Doncaster Rovers 3-1 Notts County; 250 word match report”
On a blustery afternoon at the Keepmoat, Rovers were made to settle for a point for the third successive home game, against a stubborn, physical Stanley. Continue reading “Doncaster Rovers 2-2 Accrington Stanley; 250 word match report”
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