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Back in the day I used to go to virtually all the away games as well (I used to go on the Travel Club Coach from Thorne - Hello to Iggy, Mr Barnes et al from 'Mr Noble' and even got banned for a couple of games once for taking a bottle of Stella on board for a night game at 'Ull - the fact I had probably drunk 15 of them before boarding didn't seem to be an issue). I remeber glorious days out at Exeter (was it four or five up before half time until David Roche got sent off and we had to declare) and rotten days at some godawful place near Manchester in our Conference days where we were 3 down after what seemed like ten minutes.
Or when the going gets hard your not interested!
Quote from: Norfolk N Chance on April 10, 2012, 09:56:23 amOr when the going gets hard your not interested!I'm not sure if that was aimed at me Norfolk, but believe me I've been through the bad times. I've had a season ticket virtually non-stop since the early 80's. It's not the 'going' that's putting me off, but the whole package being served up at present as 'Brand Doncaster Rovers'.
Quote from: Norfolk N Chance on April 10, 2012, 09:56:23 amOr when the going gets hard your not interested!Harsh but possibly true in a lot of cases. It's very easy to follow a football club when things are going well.We'll all be very different people to the last time we tasted relegation. I sat down and thought about it yesterday, and the last time we were relegated I was 21 and just finishing University. I'll be 35 this month, it seems like a lifetime ago, we're certainly due some bad times again. It's been very easy to be a Doncaster Rovers fan over the last 14 years. There are teenagers going to the Keepmoat that were in nappies last time DRFC got relegated!
I have to agree with MutleyRover and German Rover on this. I am disillusioned with football and don't think that it is value for money anymore. A fortune to get in, lack of atmosphere, a sport that is dominated by money/corporate/greed. The last 15 months haven't helped my thinking and DRFC has been through far worse than what we are experiencing now but football as a sport is fastly deteriorating to a point where it could implode on itself and not enough is being done about it from within. I now pick and choose my matches mainly due to cost as I too used to be a ST holder also feeling the need to attend matches out of duty. I now would rather put the money that I would put to a ST towards a holiday as I feel I would get more satisfaction out of it.Football really does need to look itself in the mirror.
In the year we got promoted, we should've been taking teams to the cleaners, but we weren't.
We got promoted inspite of SOD, not because of him.
Quote from: AbsolutDRFC on April 10, 2012, 10:41:10 pmIn the year we got promoted, we should've been taking teams to the cleaners, but we weren't.No we shouldn't. We didn't even win the league below, so how we were supposed to be taking teams in the league above "to the cleaners" i'm not sure. We finished 14th in a league where we were surrounded by teams with budgets 5 or 6 times larger than our own.
Quote from: AbsolutDRFC on April 10, 2012, 10:41:10 pmIn the year we got promoted, we should've been taking teams to the cleaners, but we weren't.No we shouldn't. We didn't even win the league below, so how we were supposed to be taking teams in the league above "to the cleaners" i'm not sure. We finished 14th in a league where we were surrounded by teams with budgets 5 or 6 times larger than our own.Quote from: AbsolutDRFC on April 10, 2012, 10:41:10 pmWe got promoted inspite of SOD, not because of him.If that was the case what stopped DP getting us up?