The 2015-16 season in microcosm: Rovers defended with the resilience of a soufflé, attacked with the cutting edge of a wooden spoon and capped things off with the sort of individual error that’d make a pub footballer blush. Continue reading “Crewe Alexandra 3-1 Doncaster Rovers; 250 word match report”
Mission Impossible? The Great Escape? Rovers never do it easy, and this season appears no different. This was a must win game, anything less would’ve probably signalled the end to Rovers’ League One stay. Continue reading “Doncaster Rovers 2-0 Coventry City: 250 word match report”
My grandmother, a Lancastrian, nursed a lifelong disdain for Wigan and its inhabitants. I can’t say I share this, because Wigan Athletic have been unwontedly generous to Rovers; they haven’t beaten Doncaster for 20 years and haven’t won here for 28. Continue reading “Doncaster Rovers 3-1 Wigan Athletic: 250 word match report”
It’s eighteen long years since popular STAND fanzine first went to print. A lot has happened to our football club since then, and aside from the price – still only £1 – much has changed with the fanzine too. Continue reading “The big popular STAND fanzine survey”
They say there’s only one stat that matters in football. Unfortunately for Rovers, it’s not the number of corners. Continue reading “Bury 1-0 Doncaster Rovers: 250 word match report”
‘You’re having a laugh aren’t you?’ some fella shouted at me as I tried to sell fanzines after the match. ‘No mate,’ I replied, ‘I’m a Rovers fan’. Fifteen games without a win offers little mirth, and after Friday’s capitulation at Colchester hope was on similarly short supply. Continue reading “Doncaster Rovers 0-1 Blackpool: 250 word match report”
‘Like butter through a knife, butter through a knife,’ yelled the fella behind me as Colchester ambled through the Rovers defence to score their fourth goal. Whilst Rovers had not quite been so bad as to reverse the laws of physics, they had plumbed new depths of awfulness in a torrid ninety minutes in which they managed to make the third tier’s worst club look like Barcelona. Continue reading “Colchester United 4-1 Doncaster Rovers: 250 word match report”
‘Fanzines are easier when they’re about shit teams’ tweeted our good friends at the Barnsley fanzine West Stand Bogs a week or so ago. A received wisdom among fanzine folk, and perhaps there is some truth in it, given that the latest issue of popular STAND appears to have come together so easily we’re able to start selling it a game early.
The now customary pre-match gloom was today leavened by the news that James Coppinger had returned to the starting line-up. Could he be the man to turn Rovers’ fortunes and initiate a climb from the wrong end of the table? Continue reading “Doncaster Rovers 1-2 Peterborough United: 250 word match report”
SAME OLD STORY FOR NEW-LOOK ROVERS
Like Doncaster Rovers circa 2016, the England cricket team of the 1990s boasted a Gooch and a Stewart in their ranks. They also often gave the impression that their team had been selected via the expedient of drawing names out of a hat. Rovers’ XI for the ‘must win’ game against Shrewsbury Town suggested some kind of random process at work.
Continue reading “Doncaster Rovers 0-1 Shrewsbury Town; 400 word match report”
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