Pre-match there were two topics of conversation on the away terrace. One, the realisation that the twitter hashtag for the match was #hardon, the other a swell of optimism as Danny Schofield appeared to be absent. There was an audible dismay as he walked to the bench just before kick-off.
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After a poor run of form, Rovers needed to win. Hopes weren’t high, but they had the first chance; Kieran Agard controlling and firing, but Max Crocombe saved.
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Since the fixture list was released last June, this was a game I’d been looking forward to.
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April 2023 marks 25 years since popular STAND fanzine was first foisted on unsuspecting Doncastrian punters who were trying to mind their business in The Park Hotel. And though the pub in which this ‘zine first appeared may be no more, there’s mercifully no sign of us being turned into an Italian restaurant… not yet.
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Another day, another defeat as Crewe Alexandra, who hadn’t previously won away this calendar year, strolled off with three easy points. The damage was done in a six-minute spell in a first half controlled by the visitors.
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Rovers and promotion-chasing Town served up a match settled in the visitors’ favour thanks to the sort of individual errors and attacking toothlessness that have blighted Rovers’ season.
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If Kent truly is the garden of England, this particular strip along the estuaries of the Thames and Medway can be considered the bit behind the shed. Think less roses and orchards and more compost heap, rusting barbecues and long-lost frisbees.
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I’ve read Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot’, but never seen it performed. But I don’t have to, I support Doncaster Rovers. Each game I’ve watched, this season and last, an interminable wait for something, anything to happen for this team, and yet it never does.
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Doncaster Rovers visited the Peninsula Stadium for the first time to face Salford City, and the first half began in a frantic fashion with a couple of chances for the home side.
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Playing with a level of urgency akin to a condemned man eating his last meal, Rovers accidentally sent Uncle Bulgaria and chums back to SW19 on the end of a 2-1 defeat.
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