I'm tempted to say we'll manage a draw but the evidence from the past few games would suggest otherwise. I might wait to see the line up but it hardly makes a difference.

2-0 to Charlton. Unfortunately, I can't see us getting anything from the game.

I'll stick with the draw 1-1,Dodoo,

Rovers 0 - Charlton 3

Just seen the team 😳

0-4 to Charlton.

Although I cannot see where goals will come from, I'll stay crazily optimistic and say we will win 2-1, Barlow and Hiwula for the goals. We let in only one goal over the last two games, we just have to keep that up!

Rovers 0-2 Charlton

My faith in GM is waning. Doesn't he scout the opposition? It was obvious Barlow would be turned over by their star winger. Why put him in that position? Not sure his other selections or set up were wise either given the way Charlton play. But then again there's not much to choose from.
League 2 here we come. Perhaps we need a complete change including GMc and the MD

I did say I did not see where the goals would come from! I finally think that was our last marginal chance to stay up, and I'm really worried about performance in League Two unless something magical happens in the summe
I had hoped GMcS would play Barlow up front as he was a bit of a goal poacher in pre-season. Nookie is right it was a poor decision to play him where he did.
I know in the January window it is difficult to get a good striker unless big money is paid as clubs do not want to let such players go. However, those GMcS brought in certainly do not seem to be able to perform at League One level. Griffiths showed some potential - then what happened?
Next week it is back to 07:00 kick-off so I may not bother - I quit at half-time this week. However I will renew ny iFollow subscription and hope for some enjoyable games next season.

Can one add a jpeg to this site? I wanted to let you see a birthday card my brother sear me?

You could try it. Failing that perhaps Admin could help.

No comment on match - spechless

No luck so far in attaching a jpeg, so I’ll quote what it said on the front of the card:
“On his birthday, he reflected on the years of desperation, the almost unimaginable loneliness and the heart-felt yearning for something better…
…Still, maybe that was the price you paid for supporting a s**** football club…”
(Admin would not allow the actual word on the card)

Change of subject – I know most on our ja606 do not care much about women’s football, but it was great today on our NBC channel to hear Doncaster Belles mentioned. With no Premier League matches, the channel that usually carries the late Saturday game, today showed the Women’s Super League game between Man U and Everton. Two substitutes who came on had played for the Belles, and a commentator said words close to this “She played for the Doncaster Belles, a name probably not familiar to most watching, but it is just about the most famous old name in women’s football. While the team is now playing at a lower level, several of today’s top players developed their game at the Doncaster Belles.” It was great to hear this once, but twice in one game was great.
After the game I looked at other games and saw Chelsea Women won 9-0 at Leicester. Two goals came from Aussie Sam Kerr who used to play for the Portland Thorns, and two from ex-Doncaster Belles Beth England.
The Man U lasses played at Old Trafford for the first time this season, rather than their normal ground. The crowd of 20,241 was a record for the WSL this season. Last season the Thorns averaged about 18,000/game and topped 20,000 on occasions. Portland lives up to its nickname of “Soccer City USA”.

The opening passage of play illustrates why I have dislike this awful lazy incompetent team. A Charlton attacker takes the ball down their left wing and 3 Rovers players shadow him, none of them tackling him until he is actually in the penalty area when one clumsily brings him down, but he stays in his feet and we escape without incurring a penalty. When it happens again in the next clip the defender could stop their winger outside the box, but delays and it’s a penalty.

The next move is where Mitchell throws the ball to one of our players. Mitchell should have seen the Charlton player who was poised to intercept the ball, but the intended recipient was not paying attention and was unaware of the Charlton player until it was too late, so just watched admonishing Mitchell for his mistake.

The next segment is another example of naivety with the ball struck by one Rovers player too heavily on to another who had insufficient skill to control it or perhaps it was not intended to go where it did by the first player. The Charlton player does control it and there is another attack into the penalty box where we regain control and the “clearance” goes to a Rovers player whose close control is inferior to his Charlton counterpart and they nearly score.

Their goal illustrated Rovers inability to defend the box with their scorer provided with complete freedom from either marker or challenge to use as much space in the box as he chooses.

I am ashamed of them. The only player who did his job was Mitchell. I almost feel that I should write to him and apologise for the rest of them. Goodness knows what our Goal Difference would be if we still relied on Jones.

I couldn’t watch any more of the “highlights”. I am ashamed of this team; they are unprofessional. I did not see the 1997/98 team, but this lot not only look like a Sunday League team, but like a Sunday League team that doesn’t even try.

How did we gather up such a useless collection of duds?

On re-reading my latest post I realise that I failed to mention that I was basing it on watching the Extended Highlights. You watch football because of the pleasure gained from seeing skilful play and the excitement that is derived from you own team's play, in particular in them scoring goals and winning.

I listen completely impassively now; I an beyond despair and I do not expect them to score goals.

All there is ahead is routine defeats and then a new season to look forward to and perhaps a little hope that they may be able to remain in League 2.

In a sense it is bewildering because it is not as though the club is on the brink of financial ruin, which often accompanies this kind of disastrous decline on the pitch; it is the failure of management at CEO level in my view. Baldwin has to go.

The Board and their managing executive, the professional, the CEO, made a serious error in effectively allowing last season to wither. You do not hand over day to day management of a business to the foreman which is what DRFC effectively did when Moore left in putting management into the hands of a man with zero experience in leading at this level. Doing that gave the impression that the club was not particularly interested in maintaining a promotion challenge. When they came to advertise the permanent job with that embarrassing decline very visible to all potential applicants, it would colour their perception of the ambitions of DRFC. Wellens, with his memories of good times here might well have been one of the best qualified applicants, but how many managers, particularly those already successful and employed would be drawn to apply?

What should have happened was that Baldwin should have looked around and targeted individuals, managers who were actually employed by clubs and doing well and made his pitch to them and asked them what it would take to get them to come here.

The incentive to do this following Wellens sacking was even stronger. Given where we were and again relying on people to apply, it is perhaps not surprising that McSheffery was the best of of them. Formal recruitment processes only work if you run an obviously sound enterprise. Rovers needed to be “sold” and a suitable candidate wooed who would name his price.

Some very good points Don. Im in complete agreement. The whole manager appointment system has been a shambles. It will be a big risk sticking with GM to keep us in league 2. The board should be thinking of alternatives already and weighing up the pros and cons of potentially available managers with experience. Starting afresh next year in league 2 may well not be a disincentive for most potential new managers as it was when GM was appointed. But unless Baldwin goes we can expect more of the same I fear next year.

If it happens, it happens.

Sorry to say, but this team, manager, board are sleepwalking back into none league.
Baldwin has his got his love children on the VSC still believing every word that comes out his mouth. Its embarrassing to think they still believe wie will stop up, we've just gone a whole month without scoring, (can anyone remember that ever happening before? )

We could actually go down scoring less goals than we did in the disaster season of 97/98, but all hail the GM, because he's won a couple of games. Yet when you ask them about him having the worst ever points per game ever, they say, 6 games left. Like they used to say, 8 games left, 10 games left. Just like when they say, we've got all the teams around us to play yet, how's that working out.

There's know doubt I will be renewing mine and the grandsons season tickets, purely because of the away games having small away sections. As for the home gamed, it's quite possible we shall be voting with our feet, just like a few thousand other will be doing.

It's a sad, sad, day, when the club I've followed since the early 70s, have turn me against the team I love.

We're R.T.I.D. not club Doncaster till we get sick of all the crap.

Gillingham seem to be getting it together.
Could that be down to appointing a proper manger?😏

Manager😊

We didnt score a goal in the month of March so here are our bestshots! https://twitter.com/jimmydrfc/status/1508763547827949573?s=21&t=3sGOVSzBdlOZCYgg4lk0CQ

There was only one that needed a good save!

Williams’s dolly header over the bar did not look like a real try for a goal - more like a defensive header at a corner.

Seeing what amounts to the entirety of a month’s attempts to score make you realise how far we have been from actually competing to win matches.

It is remarkable that we don’t lose by more every time, but I suppose that is because Mitchell is one of the few players who is of League 1 standard.

How long does it take to appoint a new manager? 2 days in Wimbledon's case. I'd actually be happy to have Robinson whom they've just sacked!