I was slightly pessimistic in the first leg and said 2-2, but I feel more optimistic about Friday. It will be a "different" Crewe, and if we let in a goal in the first 10 minutes, it is going to be a difficult night. I'm going with 2-1 for the Rovers, and as it is time for Adelakun to show his best again, I say him for the first goal.
Hope Biggins is fit to start with an unchanged team.

Keeping the faith for 2 more games. 2-1 to Rovers. Adelakun with the first.

1-1, Ironside

They had be better In the second half! Best we can hope for is Donaldo's 2-2

I could not watch the beginning of the match live and came home from a meeting about 20 minutes in and used “fast forward” to catch up by half time.

So Crewe did what they did in the 1st leg and this time they got 2 goals and pressured Rovers into having to try to control the ball under pressure. And they couldn’t coordinate with each other, with the passing inaccurate and no real capability to move the ball around at speed.

Crewe went into more defensive mode once they’d levelled and the pressure we applied was unsophisticated and lacked coordination.

We’d lost it morally before the penalties and it was altogether a disappointing end.

It was good to see Miller again.

I am now wondering whether the Adelukan we have seen in these last 3 games is as desirable an asset as we might have imagined 2 or 3 weeks ago.

Disappointed but it's a miracle we got this far as we spent most of the season worrying wether we'd be relegated. Time for GM to cull his squad and build for next season. No 26 didn't have the perfect game every time! It was ironic though that Adelukan missed the vital penalty after his contributions to our making the play offs.

I agree with Nookie, and we must not forget the amazing run to reach the play-offs. I'll like to keep Adelakun and hope his less than stellar performance over the last few games puts off some other clubs.
How about Crawley - and to think we did the double over them!

I won't put up the detailed DPL figures for the last game with none of us adding to the previous total. So PDXMickey is the Champion and Crazy Runner-Up. Nookie was close on Leader Crazy's heels in the early part of the season, but rather like Rovers Mickey seemed to be unassailable as the season drew to a close. Mooli, the one we usually chase and fail to catch, had a quiet season.

We shall no doubt keep an eye on close-season events and hope that we can bounce back into our Spring form come August.

We did not win the ultimate prize, but we had 3 months of great pleasure which largely banished the memories of the post-Moore years.

Thanks Donaldo for all your hard work throughout the season. Your articles are always well thought through and informative - and thank you for doing the sums!
I see that 11 players have been released. The link below details the retained list and those that are leaving.
https://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/sport/football/what-doncaster-rovers-squad-looks-like-now-after-retained-list-is-published-4629185
I see that we have made an offer to Adelakun (no surprise) and also Biggins and Molyneux, who I think we would struggle to replace). It will be interesting to see how the squad shapes up over the summer.

I've only just seen the list. Very sad to see Tommy Rowe depart - great messages and wishes by many in the video. Players like Tommy do so much more for the club and town (should say city now!) than just play football. I had somewhat expected it as his form has fallen off a little as he gets older, and the ambitions for next season are very high.
Also sad about Jon Taylor who has gone through so much with injuries, but it would have been a big risk to think he could stay fully fit for a whole season and be at his best.
Of course, there are some others I'd like to have been put on the transfer list....
We do need a real goalkeeper for next season!

Crawley won it all - who would have guessed that a few weeks ago - a team we did the double over.
Are play-offs the McCann curse - so we must go to win the league!
Why are Molyneux and Biggins not signing? I hope this is not a repeat of when McCann left the last time!
Just a little worried...

The obvious answer is that better deals may be available elsewhere.

The DFP published a list of League One players out of contract that may be of interest to the Rovers. Really?? On the whole, if League One do not re-sign them, why should we rush in?
Surprised to see Herbie Kane on the list, but we are over-filled in midfield, especially if Biggins re-signs.
I think we need the following:
A good goalkeeper;
Cover at right back (I'll ask my cousin about what he thinks about Josh Murphy)
Wide men especially if Molyneux and Adelakun do not sign. Here I think it is the loan market as also for a goalkeeper. We need to let Hurst develop into the potential he showed last season (22-23).
With Miller back fit we have some good central strikers - we just need to feed them!
My biggest worry remains at the goalkeeper level!