Coppinger bid turned down

Well done Marc point well made.
Moonie, you have made a statement:

jr is nowt but a con man,do you really think sharp will be a rovers player come july? not a cat in hell chance.coppy maybe,just spent 800 quid on our st may as well paid it straight into ryans bank account. Personally I think you are wrong.

No one is perfect and JR is no exception but how you can come to that conclusion I just don't know.

I just love it when someone like you makes a silly satatement like you have.

I hope you are man enough to admit you were wrong if it fails to materialise like you say and like wise I will apologise to you if you are right.

NY here.

I think someone has taken my comments out of context Alex.

JR is a conman, but not in the way meant by mickmoon. He has in the past, and no doubt has this time, sold a few extra season tickets on the back of a story, not always about players. JR is good at manipulating something to his advantage, aided and abetted by you know who.

To call JR a conman in any other way is to be totally stupid, without him there would be no DRFC, without him there would be no Keepmoat, without him there would be no Championship.

However, he still knows how to get the extra few quid out of peoples pockets, and yes, in my previous post I was, as Fuzzy said being a little sceptical.

NY, I know exactly what you meant with your comments. In support of what you said JR is no angel his business is to sell things for a profit and he is very good at it.
As you may recall I have upset JR greatly in the past to the point he wont be sending me a Christmas card but JR is the saviour of Donny and no one can deny that.
But to say that JR is a conman it is just plain silly so lets see if he is man enough to apologise come the start of the season.

We've all as Rovers supporters, got a heck of a lot to thank Mr Ryan for. As mentioned above, without him, where would we be now? Would we even be? Yes there's a slight chance that someone else may have stepped in and got us to the Championship, but the simple fact is, John Ryan HAS.

Just look at listen at the welcome and appreciation he gets whenever he walks round the ground on matchday. He's done a cracking job of conning an awful lot of people if what Mick says is right.

JR, I salute and thankyou, again.

I think many of us have criticized JR on certain points, (his PR at times, his apparent inability to sort out his commercial team) but a conman?

Mick, if you didn't know what happened under his predecessor, or have forgotten, try to find out and remember. It helps Rovers fans to smile at what we have today, and smiling helps you live longer.

Eventually, our major shareholders will give up and sell their stakes in the club. No profit will be made when they do this. Let's just hope there is another gem like John Ryan out there, though I doubt it!

NY, On the viking site they have a good article running on the "Rovers loyalty card system" what do you think of it?
By the sound of it not enough information out on it yet but it is a move in the right direction.

hi guys lets get one thing straight, jr is like myself, and im sure the rest of you has rovers running through his blood.what i meant by conman is that jr is firsy and foremost a businessman,as a businessman he uses and manipulates the media.im not saying this is a bad thing,but lets get real by spouting no radio sheff that sharp is going knowhere after turnig down 2.2m then surprise surprise the bidding war starts,so nw do you really believe billy will be still here come august.i fear not

Mick, I can see where you are coming from but I still think you are wrong. Yes he is a super sales man and manipulating the press but I think he is using the Sharp thing to boost ST sales and not to line his back pocket in the strict sense which you suggest. If Billy is still here at the start of the season I still think you should apologise for misjudging him.

alex,if im wrong ill gladly apoligise,but i have a gut feeling this wont be the case.lets hope he gives sod the backing he deserves,and i hope he gets the players he wants and not the left overs

I think he will get the players he wants on a full time basis mickmoon, where I think he may fall down is by going for Academy/Second team Premiership youngsters on loan. He should be looking to proven , experienced Premiership players who cannot get into the first team. Players who have been there, done that and got the Tee shirt.
You cannot get out of the Championship by playing a team of youngsters. The young ones need proper leadership from players they respect.

I don't think we will have the money to pay the wages of these said players, which I think may lead to another scrap at the end of the season, I hope I am wrong, but!!!!