New Sound System Installed

[Dagenham Rover]

https://www.doncasterroversfc.co.uk/news/2025/june/23/new-/?fbclid=IwY2xjawLHSfNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETBuMWRFWEJXdE54YlRwa3l6AR75wRnKGfsYlKMEBLRnUfPnuZV0tHiJbRuqoXStQ07ftwCV5Ttr9SuSQrH4iA_aem_tipcNoSIcQJdJjq0fHdAsQ

[big fat yorkshire pudding]

Great news, much needed. Hope it's good.

[Bentley Bullet]

Great news. Perhaps we can return to the Wild Rover entrance music.

[BobG]

Expensive...?

BobG

[Pancho Regan]

Once again, huge thanks are due to Terry for funding this project, and also to the Club for showing again that they listen to the fans and take action accordingly.

[johnny rovers]

Expensive...?

BobG

A six figure investment I'm sure.

[Bentley Bullet]

Has Norman Collier been made redundant then?

[roversontheup]

Once again, huge thanks are due to Terry for funding this project, and also to the Club for showing again that they listen to the fans and take action accordingly.

Terry hasn’t  funded this project. Club Doncaster has paid for it.

[Pancho Regan]

Gavin Baldwin:

“Thanks must go to our chairman Terry Bramall for giving the green light to the project and allowing us to invest Club Doncaster revenues to procure the new system - particularly during a year in which he has funded a seven-figure extension to the training ground and significantly invested in the playing squad.”

Depends which way you interpret that.
I take it to mean that TB personally covered other expenditure which allowed Club Doncaster revenues to be freed up for the sound system renewal.

[roversontheup]

Agreed PR. I guess the point I was making was that funds generated by Club Doncaster had paid for the significant cost of the new sound system. CD gets so much negative press/comments by some of our supporters I wanted to highlight a positive.

[Pancho Regan]

Agreed PR. I guess the point I was making was that funds generated by Club Doncaster had paid for the significant cost of the new sound system. CD gets so much negative press/comments by some of our supporters I wanted to highlight a positive.

Yep, I'm with you there roversontheup.

[nice one rovers]

Not bad, only took 19 years.
We had better tannoys down Hatfield colliery than the previous system.

[Harrogate Rover]

Has Norman Collier been made redundant then?

Be ieve it or not it's tw lv  years since he p ssed away

[rover-n-out]

I'd love to know if this system has any sub bins sited anywhere as well as those flown speakers in the canopy.

[BobG]

That's yet another new language I clearly need to learn. Sometimes, when my son talks to me, I wonder who the f**k taught him to speak?

BobG

[Bentley Bullet]

rover-n-out is a pro musician and an out-and-out perfectionist.

He really does know what he's talking about.

[rover-n-out]

Thank you BB, too many years floggin' pa systems to bands and venues, I just expect people to understand the terminology.
Bob G, apologies for my lack of proper explanation. Flown speakers is the term used when installers have to use things like mechanical cherry pickers to get audio speakers installed high up in venues like football stadia.
Sub bins are those big black speaker units that have either multiple bass speakers or a single bass speaker like an 18" to cope with all the sub frequencies we hear and feel when music is pumping through them. I'd just like to know for my own personal inquisitiveness how many (if any) of these sub bins they are installing and where.
I hope this explanation helps. Cheers.

[Sammy Chung was King]

It needed doing it made us look tin pot. If you are a serious club everything has to be spot on.

[BobG]

Thank you BB. Thank you rover-n-out.

A subject where I've never got beyond the primitive. A couple of big Ruark floor standing speakers in my lounge is as far as I ever got. Well, and standing right in front of the speaker mountains at Sheffield City Hall gigs head banging when I was a teenager.... Probably explains a lot.

Still don't understand what on Earth my son is going on about sometimes either.

BobG

[PDX_Rover]

Get Leftfield in to give it a proper test.

[Usher wide.]

It needed doing it made us look tin pot. If you are a serious club everything has to be spot on.

Can we now get rid of our ‘tin pot’ announcer…..please!

[Sammy Chung was King]

Would be nice, no good having a new sound system with a local working men’s club dj doing the announcements (no idea if he is by the way).

[Smyth]

Who decides whoever is given the job of match day announcer?
Would be good to get feedback from the engagement panel on what they've asked about present and future plans and aims now a far better public address sound is installed.
That bloke who posted on here Al, he was the best in a long while but he said "the club" wanted to go in a different direction,   what was that?

[In the box]

It needed doing it made us look tin pot. If you are a serious club everything has to be spot on.

Can we now get rid of our ‘tin pot’ announcer…..please!

Who have you got in mind .. Chubby Brown 

[RoversInSpain]

Who decides whoever is given the job of match day announcer?
Would be good to get feedback from the engagement panel on what they've asked about present and future plans and aims now a far better public address sound is installed.
That bloke who posted on here Al, he was the best in a long while but he said "the club" wanted to go in a different direction,   what was that?

I would say after the amount they’ve just paid out for the new system, feedback is the last thing they want.

[Barmby Rover]

Good move, it couldn't be worse, any improvement will be very welcome.

[Al4475]

Smyth - thank for those kind words - i loved my season doing that and I would do it again in a heartbeat despite not having been to Rovera in a while.

I got loads of positive feedback from away fans and clubs- primarily because I did my research and checked how to pronounce players names properly and doing my potted history of their club (usually about 2:15 so before many of our fans were in). Watford and Leicester fans and the clubs were particularly positive.

Though Preston (i think it was Preston) weren't as I said, 'Jermaine Beckford- when he came on as a sub like he was the shit off of the bottom of my shoe. Lol.

Tbh I didn't do it on purpose, it just came out like that!

I also had a run in with JR on the pitch at half-time one came as he took offence at something i posted on here about TB and DW only being allowed to put in the same funds as him (a verbal agreement) when people were asking why we weren't spending owt - he wasn't in a position to put owt in and therefore they didn't ergo lack of spending in a season where it was desperately needed.

I also got into trouble a coupla times from sky for ranting and raving straight behind their commentator in colourful language during two games Rovers threw away that season.

I did it as a volunteer, a fan, and a member of the VSC/Supporters Boards, but Jonathon did all the functions and stuff and as an employee they wanted him back on it as he was salaried - he was probably more professional than me as I felt everything in extremes and am sure at times it showed. Lol

It was great fun though and I thought I did alright!

Me and a fellow fan, Pip Emerson, did a lot of work getting the sound system to deliver the best it could that year - we spent a fair few hours pre-game checking balances in all the concourses v pitch side and the overall quality within the 'bowl' too. Shaun Lockwood and Rob from Sine FM alongside the VSC, Zip and Me worked on playlists that fell in within the optimal frequencies for the stadium  as well - a lot of us put a lot of work in to help that relatively poor (even then) system to be as close to Championship quality as we could.

It was a lot of fun and I was really proud to have been given the chance to do it.

As how I got the role, it was discussed one pre-season at a VSC board meeting where Shaun, Gav and Liam S were present and I just said, "i'll do it if you want me to," I had a practise in a Belles/Don's game - tthhye liked it and gave me the chance for the opening preseason game that year (Which i think was Motherwell - but I may be wrong) and we went from there.

[scawsby steve]

Smyth - thank for those kind words - i loved my season doing that and I would do it again in a heartbeat despite not having been to Rovera in a while.

I got loads of positive feedback from away fans and clubs- primarily because I did my research and checked how to pronounce players names properly and doing my potted history of their club (usually about 2:15 so before many of our fans were in). Watford and Leicester fans and the clubs were particularly positive.

Though Preston (i think it was Preston) weren't as I said, 'Jermaine Beckford- when he came on as a sub like he was the shit off of the bottom of my shoe. Lol.

Tbh I didn't do it on purpose, it just came out like that!

I also had a run in with JR on the pitch at half-time one came as he took offence at something i posted on here about TB and DW only being allowed to put in the same funds as him (a verbal agreement) when people were asking why we weren't spending owt - he wasn't in a position to put owt in and therefore they didn't ergo lack of spending in a season where it was desperately needed.

I also got into trouble a coupla times from sky for ranting and raving straight behind their commentator in colourful language during two games Rovers threw away that season.

I did it as a volunteer, a fan, and a member of the VSC/Supporters Boards, but Jonathon did all the functions and stuff and as an employee they wanted him back on it as he was salaried - he was probably more professional than me as I felt everything in extremes and am sure at times it showed. Lol

It was great fun though and I thought I did alright!

Me and a fellow fan, Pip Emerson, did a lot of work getting the sound system to deliver the best it could that year - we spent a fair few hours pre-game checking balances in all the concourses v pitch side and the overall quality within the 'bowl' too. Shaun Lockwood and Rob from Sine FM alongside the VSC, Zip and Me worked on playlists that fell in within the optimal frequencies for the stadium  as well - a lot of us put a lot of work in to help that relatively poor (even then) system to be as close to Championship quality as we could.

It was a lot of fun and I was really proud to have been given the chance to do it.

As how I got the role, it was discussed one pre-season at a VSC board meeting where Shaun, Gav and Liam S were present and I just said, "i'll do it if you want me to," I had a practise in a Belles/Don's game - tthhye liked it and gave me the chance for the opening preseason game that year (Which i think was Motherwell - but I may be wrong) and we went from there.

I think your acting skills will have helped, Al. Dulcet voice tones, correct intonation, and all that.

I think you'd be welcomed back by many of us.

[Al4475]

Thanks SS - the best bit for me was always the last team readout just before KO - I made sure I walked down to the front of the South Stand every game to hear them cheer the players names. The sound they made on Wellens return game was ace!

[rover-n-out]

Hey Al, nice to hear from you again on here it's been a while, I hope you are keeping well.
Thank you for the mention, it was good to work with you at the Keepmoat that time giving Rovers our time to try and make what was a relatively poor PA system sound better than it did. We did have some success, but there was always some "twiddle fingers" messing with the mixing desk afterwards till eventually it sounded as bad as it ever could.
I'm so looking forward to hearing this new professionally installed PA system when we play Blackpool and hear the quality of it and how the sound engineers have set it up both for stadium announcement's/music and in the concourses as well.
Thank you for being there with me when we gave the old PA some of our time, we did make it better for a while, and I hope your golfing exploits are going well.
Take care Al. Pip.