There has been some debate recently about why we should join the VSC, the Viking Supporters Cooperative. A lot of supporters who now come to see the mighty Rovers don’t know of its existence, and don’t know why it exists. Maybe we ought to revisit the dark days of Richardson and explain….. At the time a lot of things were going wrong in the boardroom of Doncaster Rovers. We had a chairman who wanted to do nothing but asset strip the club for his own benefit, and that included the money to be gained from an “accidental” fire at the Old Belle Vue ground, which he arranged. He was consequently arrested and convicted for arson and was replaced by the current Chairman John Ryan. JR wanted to ensure that there was never another opportunity for the club’s fans to be so poorly treated again without them knowing what was going on. With Andy Liney, the VSC was formed, it enabled fans to purchase shares in the club and be represented on the board of Doncaster Rovers so they would always have a spokesman to represent their views to the board, and the board would have an outlet for information to the fans.