http://www.donblog.net/wp An unofficial and alternative Doncaster Rovers blog Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:13:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Part six IS HERE. THE FIRST DAY OF A BRAND NEW YEAR is all about brand new starts. About leaving the mistakes of the past behind, about shedding off the baggage of the previous years, about looking out from the precipice toward the 12 months ahead. For some of us it's ... http://www.donblog.net/wp/?p=34 Part five IS HERE. FOR AS FAR BACK AS I CAN REMEMBER regularly tipping up at the football on a Saturday afternoon, Belle Vue has been a comfortable enclave, as familiar as a well-worn (and well-chewed, slightly smelly) old slipper. A second home where I've seen a free-scoring, free-wheeling and sometimes ... http://www.donblog.net/wp/?p=41 Part four IS HERE. AFTER THE DISASTER THAT WAS SEPTEMBER, October started on another low as a 1-1 draw at home to Oldham dropped Rovers into the relegation zone. Having not really acquired a taste for scuttling around in the basement portion of any given League since John Ryan bought the ... http://www.donblog.net/wp/?p=36 Part three IS HERE. WHEN THE ROVERS SUPPORTERS were drawing up a dream or wish-list of managerial candidates to take the reins of the by now struggling pack mule-esque Doncaster Rovers, it would be hard to believe that Sean O'Driscoll of AFC Bournemouth appeared anywhere within anyone's top one hundred. Ever. However, ... http://www.donblog.net/wp/?p=46 Part two IS HERE. BETWEEN THE WHY'S AND HOW'S of Dave Penney's departure and the who's and when's of his much-speculated replacement, the small matter of Rovers being powdered and preened and cossetted for their appearance under the harsh television lights of Sky Sports, was at hand as we rolled on ... http://www.donblog.net/wp/?p=45 Part one IS HERE. AND SO THOSE EXCITING TIMES would come to pass, but not for the actually-painfully-limited-Italian-striker type reasons that we expected. Because, frankly, di Piedi was as shite as everyone knew full well that he would be. The fans knew it, John Ryan knew it, you suspect Dave Penney ... http://www.donblog.net/wp/?p=44 SO DONBLOG EMBARKS ON THE FIRST in an occassional series of reviews of the 2006/07 season - possibly the most unstable season of recent years. A move from our home of 80 years, the club record transfer fee broken twice, the most successful manager in recent years sacked, our first ... http://www.donblog.net/wp/?p=43 PART ONE OF an intermittent series follows over the next days, which shall chronicle the trials and tribulations of Doncaster Rovers 2006/07 footballing adventure, broken down into easily digestible, monthly chunks. Or, as is more likely the case, vast tracts of bloated tedium from the season will be largely washed ... http://www.donblog.net/wp/?p=42 ALL A BIT QUIET REALLY, INNIT? Donblog continues to doze idly in the relative sunshine of April with occassional streams of conciousness being uploaded. The Rovers forums are showing levels of activity more readily associated with a sack of dead kittens, happened upon along the banks of the River Don ... http://www.donblog.net/wp/?p=40 WITH ALL THE LISTLESS LETHARGY of a SMC website editor, Donblog stirs back into life once more, emerging from an ill-fashioned quilt of printed emails sent with much fury by "Disgusted of Greasebrough", "Dismayed of Dalton", "Repulsive of Rotherham" and their ilk over the course of the last couple of ... http://www.donblog.net/wp/?p=38