I see this U23 game was not reported by DRFC.

[selby]

  Funny that Dickos, as I remember it he was constantly being harangued on this forum to go back to 4 4 2 and when he did so results improved, but too late to save us.
 

[steve@dcfd]

Suppose the fact that we're 7th doesn't show we have a good enough squad to compete then does it?...

Yes we have about 15/16 players who can be judged as good enough for the first team squad. That was my opinion and the manage has reiterated that this morning in a free press interview. So eleven selected on Saturday plus 4/5 others which will include I believe no facts. Marosi, Wright, Coppinger, Crawford, Wilks and maybe Amos. That’s the reason GM is looking to bring in 2/3 players in the transfer window.

https://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/sport/football/doncaster-rovers/doncaster-rovers-two-new-signings-already-lined-up-for-january-1-9478064/amp?__twitter_impression=true

Although just to re-iterate, the current first team squad is good enough to have us 7th in the table, just outside the play-offs, unbeaten in six games and comfortably through to the next round of the cup, irrespective of how the U23s, U18s, U5s or Ticket Office pub quiz team are doing.

Yes just re-iterate according to the manager we have 15/16 players good enough for the first team squad.

I also believed under the remit we were developing young players to come into the first team. As of yet that has not happened apart from Danny Amos if he is classed as one of the 16. I know it takes time to develop players.

[Campsall rover]

  Vaya, I can remember leaving the Southend ground in January just a couple of seasons ago, after a very good display thinking we will get in the playoffs, and if we play like that we could go up automatically, and I think we were that evening in sixth position.
  The manager then switched to a system of play that clearly did not suit the players we had. Players who had scored goals before January stopped scoring at all, other lesser players were picked who had been fringe players before Christmas, the manager showed his obstinacy, and we ended up being relegated.
   If we stand still, and it looks with today's news of new players being brought in, the manager has the same views,we could very easily have our what has become the norm in recent seasons poor end to a season.
  The next six/seven weeks, and the business we do with regard to players both coming to and leaving the club will determine our progress.

The manager didn’t switch the system after that game at all, results went to shit, players performances dropped and after a while we changed things in an attempt to stop the rot

Dickos you have a very short memory. DF was obsessed with the 3 centre back system and playing people out of position. We were a shambles after the Stoke Cup tie. He went to a flat back 4 late in the season on occasions and we got some results but it was too late. The damage had been done in the 16 game winless run.

[Campsall rover]

We were 7th in the table at 4-50pm after the Southend game on 3rd January 2016
22 games on and we were relegated. How many teams have managed that I wonder. Can’t be many.

[Colemans Left Hook]

We were 7th in the table at 4-50pm after the Southend game on 3rd January 2016
22 games on and we were relegated. How many teams have managed that I wonder. Can’t be many.

Millwall did far far better than that as we all know 

https://90sfootballparty.wordpress.com/2017/06/22/from-russia-with-shrugs-the-unholy-union-of-millwall-and-sergei-yuran/

quick summary  here
 but worth a read TOP of what is now the Championship before xmas and relegated after signing a couple of Russians etc

….......and then the plan spectacularly derailed. Millwall would endure a worse Christmas than Hans Gruber. A run of five straight defeats, among them a 6-0 pumping from promotion rivals Sunderland, saw them plunge from top to seventh, out of contention completely, and for all talk of a blip, the bad results continued to stack up like a miserable game of Jenga.


In the midst of this disarray, on 13th January, the Russians made their debuts. Kick off against Port Vale at The New Den had to be delayed as a bumper gate turned up to see the shiny new trinkets.............................

............ Having not been in the bottom three at any prior stage of the season, and seemingly primed for the Premier League at Christmas, Millwall were relegated.