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Title: John Ryan
Post by: nightporter on April 29, 2019, 01:25:57 pm
John Ryan's new book, a more relaxing hobby.  Good title too.

https://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/news/people/former-doncaster-rovers-chairman-john-ryan-releases-book-about-his-huge-model-railway-1-9734405
Title: Re: John Ryan
Post by: Bentley Bullet on April 29, 2019, 02:51:13 pm
I still believe he'd have got us into the Premiership if he could have afforded to finance it. Just a pity he had ideas above his station.
Title: Re: John Ryan
Post by: RedJ on April 29, 2019, 03:15:11 pm
Just a shame we got derailed by injuries in 2010/11.
Title: Re: John Ryan
Post by: Bentley Bullet on April 29, 2019, 03:47:49 pm
He certainly raised the platform during his tenure.
Title: Re: John Ryan
Post by: RedJ on April 29, 2019, 03:55:40 pm
I'm just glad he was around to get the club back on track.
Title: Re: John Ryan
Post by: Bentley Bullet on April 29, 2019, 04:24:13 pm
Some fans are so ungrateful now, though. They have tunnel vision.
Title: Re: John Ryan
Post by: jonnydog on April 29, 2019, 04:29:14 pm
Good read?! Is it chuff!!
Title: Re: John Ryan
Post by: roversdude on April 29, 2019, 05:18:46 pm
Not sure what you gauge success as
Title: Re: John Ryan
Post by: drfchound on April 29, 2019, 05:45:24 pm
Some fans thought he had got above his station.
Reading between the lines though, could he have got enough points to get us promoted or would we have met our Waterloo.
Title: Re: John Ryan
Post by: Bentley Bullet on April 29, 2019, 05:56:40 pm
His treatment by some fans is a complete miscarriage of justice.
Title: Re: John Ryan
Post by: RobTheRover on April 29, 2019, 06:30:00 pm
He's a right chuffer.
Title: Re: John Ryan
Post by: Bentley Bullet on April 29, 2019, 06:35:03 pm
He shunter left.
Title: Re: John Ryan
Post by: tommy toes on April 29, 2019, 06:55:51 pm
I have tender feelings for him. He's not the bogie man.
Title: Re: John Ryan
Post by: turnbull for england on April 29, 2019, 07:17:06 pm
I can't express my thoughts
Title: Re: John Ryan
Post by: drfchound on April 29, 2019, 07:19:28 pm
JR always funnelled his energy into getting the best for the club.
He sometimes let off steam at the wrong times.
Title: Re: John Ryan
Post by: big fat yorkshire pudding on April 29, 2019, 09:05:07 pm
Of course he was responsible for signing that good winger, the flying scotsman.
Title: Re: John Ryan
Post by: Donnywolf on April 29, 2019, 09:16:08 pm
What Watt kind of signal does this send to newcomers Newcomens ? A thread derailed again from its serious opening point.


 
Title: Re: John Ryan
Post by: idler on April 29, 2019, 09:54:37 pm
Maybe he was giving out the wrong signals.
Title: Re: John Ryan
Post by: Bentley Bullet on April 29, 2019, 10:10:57 pm
He went off the rails a bit after he gave Melinda Messenger a new pair of Deltic Buffers.
Title: Re: John Ryan
Post by: idler on April 29, 2019, 10:17:25 pm
He think that he showed in his cameo appearance for us that he had a good engine with a tender behind.
Title: Re: John Ryan
Post by: 5minstogo on April 30, 2019, 07:43:45 am
I heard behind the scenes he was a bit of a Fat Controller.
Title: Re: John Ryan
Post by: Donnywolf on April 30, 2019, 08:34:41 am
If he gets shortlisted for Booker Prize I will be siding with him
Title: Re: John Ryan
Post by: andy didcott on April 30, 2019, 08:43:03 am
Remember him running around on the pitch at belle Vue, think if he'd trained a bit harder could have made the first team.
Title: Re: John Ryan
Post by: SydneyRover on April 30, 2019, 11:13:17 am
Now you've all made your points it turns out he wasn't such an old buffer after all where his ideas got a lot of traction and he worked well under pressure, especially in his time away from football where on the face of it he gave a lot of people a lift.
Title: Re: John Ryan
Post by: idler on April 30, 2019, 11:31:39 am
He might have made a good coach.
Title: Re: John Ryan
Post by: SydneyRover on April 30, 2019, 12:05:08 pm
He might have made a good coach.
Yes Idler he was a good trainer after all.
Title: Re: John Ryan
Post by: tommy toes on April 30, 2019, 06:43:48 pm
For those that rail against him, glad to see he's not got a one track mind and has chosen to funnel his energies onto another platform.
Title: Re: John Ryan
Post by: SydneyRover on April 30, 2019, 11:23:56 pm
That's just the ticket Tommy.
Title: Re: John Ryan
Post by: Michael Shaw on May 09, 2019, 09:37:09 pm
Ryan dragged the club back from obscurity and up the leagues. He was a true Rovers fan, but even his millions weren't enough to get us into the top flight. His intentions were good and it was a sad day when he left the club. He was a larger-than-life supporter of the club and brought passion to the board rather than just a sound business model.
That's my opinion anyway.