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Preston beat Bournemouth,

Blunts n Yeovil won

Down to 4th place, but, if we win on Monday night we go top.

Fuzzy, i agree with you.
Far too much negativity on here.
At the start of the season most of us would have settled for mid table and safety.
Suddenly the bar has been raised and because of a couple of bad results the team and the management become rubbish.
Albi - most of us would have snatched off the hand of anyone offering us this position with fifteen games to go, although your suggestion of us winning all of our remaining games is way much more than a tall order my friend - it is impossible.
Bournmouth found out today that they too are not unbeatable and once again the league table at the end of the day leaves us in a healthy position.
ionly - if we were ten points clear you would be slating the board because we were not fifteen points clear.
Get real and look at where we are on a tiny budget and a threadbare squad.
A further positive note is that Hume and Sayers look like being available for Mondays game and a friend at the club is convinced that another striker will be joining us very soon.
We have suprised quite a lot of people with what we have achieved so far this season and it is interesting to me to hear that fans of other clubs still see us as one of the promotion favourites.
The "cup half empty" brigade will always have a moan if we dont win every week but come on lads - it just wont happen - and it wont happen for our rivals either.
RTID.

Hound - Your loyalty is showing through.......... The reason why we are not ten points clear never mind fifteen i9s claerly the fault of the board.. Threadbare yes... Billions in the bank between them and as you say ashoestring budget, so who is to blame.. ME????????.

So lets put it where it is...Comment by JR...."We will see what is needed in January and where we are in the league, if we are in the top six (Never mind equal top) We will sign the players tha are needed to ensure a promotion push"

I go back to "Why did Dean Saunders leave"???? Was it because the comment above was a bit of being economic with the truth.. I would NEVER call them liars because as we know the owners or one of them has solicitors present at public forums and probably checking sites for liable..."

I have a plan..... If I give up wanting Donny to get promotion and accept that they are not going to and that they are a third rate team then I shall NEVER be dissapointed shall I??????

Games in hand as we know this week mean JACK S HIT

Come on mate - there are many reasons why we are not ten points clear at the top.
The main reason is that there are other teams in the league who are also trying to get promotion and are scrapping away the same as we are.
Billions in the bank?
Millions yes, but not billions.
Even then, would you throw money in excess at the club if you had that much money?
No you would not.
Also, there are clubs in and around us who have got into trouble with the league for breaking rules about expenditure to income rules.
On gates of 6500 the club cant just bring in players willy nilly.
To be honest mate, even if we do go up i still think you will find a reason to have a go at JR, it is in your blood.
The club is in good shape right now, surely you can see that?

Yes, it is in my blood and the reasons is his bigger gob and bigger head than mine........The club is doing fine I agree. Now at the beggining of the season I predicted Donny to be mid table at the end, again two months ago the same survey and the same result... Now others have been shouting that we are going up as Champions, possibly second, but now are saying that they will be happy just to be in play offs. I am classed as fickle.. All along I just wanted them to get to that 50 points but got carried away listenning to many others shouting the odds. Now I agree that the club are not in a finacial position to do what others do, and yes my brain moved my fingers I did mean millions, but "What are directors and owners in this business for?"
Why must we week in and week out listen to publicity spouted how good we are, how much Ryan has done for the club and what he is going to do..... I am still happy to see Donny players walking round town shopping etc, but do not get carried away with it..

You know I am Rovers through and through, but why does Ryan have to spout what he has done, why not let the team just get on with it.. WHY ? Not having a go at you, we have been mates too long... But Why can't we. ALL OF US JUST TAKE WHAT WE HAVE.

The other thing is...If Donny do go up, IMO they will come straight back because they camnnot compete financially with the rest and that we all agree on.

Donny are staying up, good enough but we are all counting on getting automatic promotion.. Flynn says we are the best team in the league.. I disagree

John Ryan for me is someone who you love or hate, he is a character for sure, what he has done for this club is nothing short of amazing, the club is stable, not in any trouble. But he does frustrate me with some of the things he says, mainly things he says but never follows through! Why say it in the first place?
My mates from around the UK never let me forget the time when he said 'in five years we will be playing in the champions league' oh dear!!!
But I find him a likeable person, but don't get carried away with what he says on interviews, he sure is a dreamer!!!!
And I'm confident in saying 'in John Ryan we trust'
RTID

Ah.................... It appears it is not just me..

The thing that gives me the biggest smile that I can muster is that Portsmouth are rock bottom...... After every thing possible has been done for them by the FAS. THEY ARE STILL BOTTOM AND IN ADMINISTRATION....As soon as any deal is done they loose another ten points......YEP that's me....For what they have done to Donny over the last few seasons...They should be bankrupt and GONE... perhaps someone should ask why I use ionlywishicould..as a pen name.....Think you may have worked it out..........PAYBACK

SORRY----------"DONE FOR THEM BY THE F.A.".................................