Copps interview

[steve@dcfd]

It appears he’s happy with the situation and can’t see DS going anywhere

https://www.doncasterroversfc.co.uk/news/2023/march/coppinger-reacts-to-rovers-trio-penning-new-deals/

It’s there with interview on you tube

They all appear to be burying their heads

[5minstogo]

It's like a cult. Even Olowu was at it today in press. "Just got to keep believing the process"

[Canadian Rover]

With what we are working with collectively resources as a club it's demanding. 

That says a lot.

Copps spoke very highly of the Crawley performance too!

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“Copps spoke very highly of the Crawley performance too!”
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Then he’s not the right man for the job either im afraid.

[DonnyBazR0ver]

Easy to think "What bloody game was he watching!?"

Once again, I really dislike the leading questioning from Robbie, putting the desired answer in the question!!

It's PR though and I'm all for trying to make something positive out of a poor situation BUT, is that what he really thinks and believes?

No doubt it is very demanding with the resources but it never has been easy with whatever cloth we have had plus other clubs seem to manage better.

This season is a write off unless we take can find some resolve to continue to support the remaining players, particularly the younger ones and hope they can perform well under difficult circumstances.

[Cramby10]

Wow that is something else. Tough listen. Got my piss right boiling. That’s pure propaganda straight out of Putins play book. All questions laid on a plate by the interviewer to answer the valid grumbles of fans. Answered with alarming lack of awareness. Don’t know how he kept a straight face.
Looks like an empty stadium next season then.
Oh and Copps, stick yer GPS data up yer bum.

[Upton Rover]

He or anyone else are not going to say anything other than bull shit, not with the money they are on.
It’s like anyone working, you don’t go against your employer

[Pliskin]

Content that comes from the club's official media is sugarcoated up to the eyeballs.

Easy to consume when the team is half decent. Does your head in when it's shite.

[mpc123]

If that's the thought of a decent performance, then we are in big trouble.

Our club is in big trouble here, we have to do something about it, it is passed a joke now.

Everyone can see it apart from those in charge.

[Sprotyrover]

I have been a bit negative of late, a couple of things spring to mind , Copps saying what he said, the players sticking by Schofield and re signing
Maybe just maybe they have a tranch of decent plates lined up to sign in the summers if that happens we will stick with Shofield until December
And get rid of things don’t improve.

[Silkscarf]

Schofield’s here until Xmas that’s clear. He’s Copps’s pick. It’s a process. Blah blah. The price of that is us looking clueless for a very long time.

OK if it comes off that’ll be great.

At the moment we look as poor as we’ve  looked since before Mr C signed up a generation ago.

[Butchers Red]

Unbelievable.

When I cast my mind back to seeing him make his debut, and all the great games / performances he put in since - to come out with this and endorse the lack of fight / commitment / entertainment is shocking.

To say they got one of the best squads in the league ?? 

There is only one measure - the Table - nothing else matters at this level,

[Campsall rover]

Schofield said we were missing creative players on Tuesday.

Hurst, Molyneux, Close we’re all playing. The wing backs are supposed to be creative aren’t they.
Brown & Seaman never got over the half way line on Tuesday.

So only one missing was Biggins who you would call creative unless you count Lakin.
That’s was his excuse for low attacking stats. 

What’s his excuse for all the other games then when they played.
The man’s a joke.

[Campsall rover]

“Copps spoke very highly of the Crawley performance too!”

Then he’s not the right man for the job either im afraid.
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Give me strength. Copps need to show some balls and say it as it really is.
He can’t seriously be happy with that as a performance.

Do they not realise they are alienating the entire support base with all this dross on the field and drivel being spoken off it.
They will next season when gates will be down to under 4.000

[StocksArmy]

The whole lot of em can kiss each others ar$€$ all they want but, if they played in an empty stadium some action would have to be taken. I would like to see everybody now boycott this garbage because no supporter for any club should be put through this. I for one simply refuse to pay to watch it, I have far better things to do with my time.

[cookie279]

full of s**t good player but thats it full stop

[since-1969]

We are not what we thought we were anymore . The days of looking to building towards a specific aim with the recruitment of quality players and a promotion challenging team are long gone . The supporters who travel still up and down the motorway , in more in hope than belief and in great numbers are being sold a nightmare !!!!!
This board have settled for a mediocre manager who’s signings wouldn’t get in most pub teams and who’s over seeing performances are now seen as drab,dire, pitiful and  boring and leave everyone wondering how we’ve ended up back where we started , before the successful years under John Ryan .
I can’t see how we get out of the slide , without pressing a reset button !! 

[sedwardsdrfc]

Jobs for the boys.

Fair enough be professional don’t dog anyone out in public but don’t lie to our faces. If Copps is talking like DS then he’s not the man for the job. We don’t need a echo chamber where everyone gives each other jobs and talks about how it’ll all be fine if they keep going with the “process”

[Lesonthewest]

Well my heart has just sank further when I hear one of our all time greats speaking bo-- ocks, he's not admitting he was wrong anytime soon. As for offering contracts to 2 or 3 more of this squad, words fail me. Dark days indeed.

[sedwardsdrfc]

Wonder who tells these people how they are doing at their job? You’d think they wouldn’t need it. A quick look at the table or some basic stats would tell them. But it feels like they genuinely think it’s fine.

Recommend they read this forum every now and again to ground themselves in some truth. Yes fans can be OTT but when the vast majority is of a similar opinion it’s because they are right. Fans aren’t stupid and certainly aren’t as daft as DS appears to be.

[TommyC]

When Copps was appointed DOF there were a small handful of us who dared to view it with cynicism. We were shouted down and told it was shameful to even think that a club legend like him would contemplate taking the money and towing the line.

I said it then and I'll repeat it again. He was appointed exactly with this situation in mind. To lend credibility to a board running desperately short of ideas and pursuing the cheap option once more. The hope of course was that when the shit inevitably hits the fan (as it will continue to do whilst these jokers remain owners), the fanbase would be more tolerant to appointments that had the stamp of approval of the club legend that is JC. Useful distance created between Baldwin, Blunt etc and the footballing decisions. It stinks and quite rightly the fans are beginning to see it for the sham it is. If Copps had a shred of self respect or ambition to further his career in management, then he should get as far away from this shower of shit as possible and walk away. The longer he remains as a stooge for this inept board, the more his legacy is being tarnished. I'd hate to see him as the face of our inevitable decline into non-league that is surely coming if we remain on this path.

[mushRTID]

When Copps was appointed DOF there were a small handful of us who dared to view it with cynicism. We were shouted down and told it was shameful to even think that a club legend like him would contemplate taking the money and towing the line.

I said it then and I'll repeat it again. He was appointed exactly with this situation in mind. To lend credibility to a board running desperately short of ideas and pursuing the cheap option once more. The hope of course was that when the shit inevitably hits the fan (as it will continue to do whilst these jokers remain owners), the fanbase would be more tolerant to appointments that had the stamp of approval of the club legend that is JC. Useful distance created between Baldwin, Blunt etc and the footballing decisions. It stinks and quite rightly the fans are beginning to see it for the sham it is. If Copps had a shred of self respect or ambition to further his career in management, then he should get as far away from this shower of shit as possible. The longer he remains as a stooge for this inept board, the more his legacy is being tarnished. I'd hate to see him as the face of our inevitable decline into non-league that is surely coming if we remain on this path.

Copps mentioned it at the meet the owners and he’s mentioned it again about our resources. We all know what he means and he has started going public with it.

I can see him resigning in the summer if/when things don’t change.

[drfchound]

When Copps was appointed DOF there were a small handful of us who dared to view it with cynicism. We were shouted down and told it was shameful to even think that a club legend like him would contemplate taking the money and towing the line.

I said it then and I'll repeat it again. He was appointed exactly with this situation in mind. To lend credibility to a board running desperately short of ideas and pursuing the cheap option once more. The hope of course was that when the shit inevitably hits the fan (as it will continue to do whilst these jokers remain owners), the fanbase would be more tolerant to appointments that had the stamp of approval of the club legend that is JC. Useful distance created between Baldwin, Blunt etc and the footballing decisions. It stinks and quite rightly the fans are beginning to see it for the sham it is. If Copps had a shred of self respect or ambition to further his career in management, then he should get as far away from this shower of shit as possible. The longer he remains as a stooge for this inept board, the more his legacy is being tarnished. I'd hate to see him as the face of our inevitable decline into non-league that is surely coming if we remain on this path.

Copps mentioned it at the meet the owners and he’s mentioned it again about our resources. We all know what he means and he has started going public with it.

I can see him resigning in the summer if/when things don’t change.

I hope he does decide to resign.
He shouldn’t be sticking up for those above him and taking the flack for what is being served up.

[monkeytennis]

Christ it’s emperors new clothes stuff isn’t it. What’s that line from Blackadder? ‘When all else fails, a steadfast refusal to look facts in the face will see us through’ or something.

I feel like I’m being gaslit by DS and Copps.

[normal rules]

I wonder what copps would say if he knew 75% of respondants on here want DS gone. and this forum is used by many of the die hard and moderate, level headed, experienced supporters.
Is he so institutionalised into club doncaster that he cannot see the obvious. Or is it more of a case that he refuses to bite the hand that feeds.? Or perhaps he fails to accept that the appointment of his mate DS was just plain flawed.

[big fat yorkshire pudding]

When Copps was appointed DOF there were a small handful of us who dared to view it with cynicism. We were shouted down and told it was shameful to even think that a club legend like him would contemplate taking the money and towing the line.

I said it then and I'll repeat it again. He was appointed exactly with this situation in mind. To lend credibility to a board running desperately short of ideas and pursuing the cheap option once more. The hope of course was that when the shit inevitably hits the fan (as it will continue to do whilst these jokers remain owners), the fanbase would be more tolerant to appointments that had the stamp of approval of the club legend that is JC. Useful distance created between Baldwin, Blunt etc and the footballing decisions. It stinks and quite rightly the fans are beginning to see it for the sham it is. If Copps had a shred of self respect or ambition to further his career in management, then he should get as far away from this shower of shit as possible. The longer he remains as a stooge for this inept board, the more his legacy is being tarnished. I'd hate to see him as the face of our inevitable decline into non-league that is surely coming if we remain on this path.

Copps mentioned it at the meet the owners and he’s mentioned it again about our resources. We all know what he means and he has started going public with it.

I can see him resigning in the summer if/when things don’t change.

I was wonder if it was just me that heard that.  It seems obvious to me that hes making those comments for a reason.

I think nearly all of what he said was fair. We do have a young team, almost a development team and it isn't ever going to get promotion in the short term.

But the aggregation of the young players, young coach and low resources just does not work.

[normal rules]

When Copps was appointed DOF there were a small handful of us who dared to view it with cynicism. We were shouted down and told it was shameful to even think that a club legend like him would contemplate taking the money and towing the line.

I said it then and I'll repeat it again. He was appointed exactly with this situation in mind. To lend credibility to a board running desperately short of ideas and pursuing the cheap option once more. The hope of course was that when the shit inevitably hits the fan (as it will continue to do whilst these jokers remain owners), the fanbase would be more tolerant to appointments that had the stamp of approval of the club legend that is JC. Useful distance created between Baldwin, Blunt etc and the footballing decisions. It stinks and quite rightly the fans are beginning to see it for the sham it is. If Copps had a shred of self respect or ambition to further his career in management, then he should get as far away from this shower of shit as possible and walk away. The longer he remains as a stooge for this inept board, the more his legacy is being tarnished. I'd hate to see him as the face of our inevitable decline into non-league that is surely coming if we remain on this path.

i was one of the few. how dare i question the appointment of the legend. it was a risk for him. one i wondered long and hard about. i felt then, and i still feel now that it was jobs for the boys. And a cameo appointment to make fans think the club was going the right way. SM has assured me that it was he brainchild of GB. I cant help but think that Copps himself was a very definite activist in drfc having a HOF. Why wouldnt he? dream post player job.
Everything about it stunk then, and it stinks even more now.
The combined wages of HOF and manager would get us a decent experienced manager. Instead, the board have created a monster. There is no way copps will oversee the departure of DS anytime soon. And likewise, there is no way the board will oversee the departure of copps anytime soon.
The only hope this team have is an incredible summer window, an incredible uplift in team cohesion during close season, an incredible turnaround in fortunes and performances next season and a manager that develops a backbone and style of play that suits the players he has at his disposal.
im not optimistic.

[WantleyDragon]

Jesus christ, talk about gaslighting the fans.

Are they that stupid that they believe what they are saying, or are they fully aware and know they are treating fans with contempt ?

It's just a complete sham from top to bottom, completely rotten to the core.

[Sammy Chung was King]

You can fool part of the people some of the time, you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time,”Abraham Lincoln.

[Cramby10]

I wonder how many more fans this interview will knock off the attendance? The only glimmer of hope was that DS would be getting the boot very soon. Now thats effectively been snatched away with this interview will many more, like me, give up on it altogether?