Re: Stop this self destruction before its too late : Tue Jul 26, 2011 8:59 pm  

Richie wrote:

Do you enjoy watching: Running, passing tackling? Do you enjoy seeing a flat defensive line sprint up? Do you enjoy seeing a long pass put a fullback in space behind a dummy runner? Do you enjoy a shoulder barge tackle forcing a knock on? Do you enjoy seeing the short pass that puts a player into the gap? Do you enjoy watching a winger fly down the touchline....and a fullback make the tackle in the corner just before the line?

If yes, watch the sport. If not, perhaps RL isn't for you. There's nothing wrong with that. Infinitely more people prefer seeing a round ball bounce around (and don't seem to really care about clear corruption and match fixing in their sport) and many more people than even that don't care about any sport at all.

I think your slightly missing the point, of course i love RL....but to be fair to the round ball game, they have the pro/rel that i long for. Also i'm well aware of corruption in that sport, hense why i always checked out AFC Wimbledon's results on a weekly basis.

Re: Stop this self destruction before its too late : Tue Jul 26, 2011 9:01 pm  

Red Red Robin wrote:

It was an amazing feeling to know that we were going up but if we had lost I shudder to think what could have happened. The temptation to go for broke the following year knowing that the drawbridge was going to go up could have been too much and if we had failed again who knows where we would be now. The licencing system is meant to stop the getting promotion/avoid relegation at any cost approach and the consequences of it failing so I don't see how that side of things can be criticised.

You kinda went for broke that year anyway...Paul Mansson was on a big contract for example....but hey you went for it and guess what...you got promoted and didn't go bust...wow it can be done

Re: Stop this self destruction before its too late : Tue Jul 26, 2011 9:01 pm  

Up the Dons wrote:

I did bud, whilst i was only 13 my Dad took me to every home game.....i was there at the Huddersfield game, 3 major memories

a) Hudds fans singing 'the Dons are staying down...staying down...staying down'

b) Vila Matautia scoring a match winning try but before grounding the ball holding it in one hand...something me dad frowned upon

c) a can of coke costing......50p!!!! FIVTY BLOOMIN PENCE!!!!!!!

Great memories tho...and of course i was at Mount Pleasent in the promtion game against Batley....its what promotion is all about

Didn't the Dons get into huge financial strife that season in the top division IIRC?

Re: Stop this self destruction before its too late : Tue Jul 26, 2011 9:03 pm  

Up the Dons wrote:

I think your slightly missing the point, of course i love RL....but to be fair to the round ball game, they have the pro/rel that i long for. Also i'm well aware of corruption in that sport, hense why i always checked out AFC Wimbledon's results on a weekly basis.

So if you love the spectacle of the sport, why would you give up on it because of a disagreement on whether P&R should be on just on-field results or should also include off-field criteria too?

Re: Stop this self destruction before its too late : Tue Jul 26, 2011 9:08 pm  

Up the Dons wrote:

Great memories tho...and of course i was at Mount Pleasent in the promtion game against Batley....its what promotion is all about

And that is what sport is about.

Memories of matches and occasions that last a whole lifetime.

Even for Doncaster fans.

Re: Stop this self destruction before its too late : Tue Jul 26, 2011 9:15 pm  

Shoe Shine Johnny wrote:

Didn't the Dons get into huge financial strife that season in the top division IIRC?

never been flush..it was alwasy going to be tough to compete at that level...and they relegated 6 sides anyway

Re: Stop this self destruction before its too late : Tue Jul 26, 2011 9:16 pm  

Shoe Shine Johnny wrote:

Didn't the Dons get into huge financial strife that season in the top division IIRC?

As did nearly every team that came up and went right back down again.

Re: Stop this self destruction before its too late : Tue Jul 26, 2011 9:19 pm  

Richie wrote:

So if you love the spectacle of the sport, why would you give up on it because of a disagreement on whether P&R should be on just on-field results or should also include off-field criteria too?

I still go from time to time...i'll not give up just yet....i'm just happy im not a Barrow or a fev fan...then i might have something real to moan about........but i know what your saying, i'll be back supprting the Dons....still no debate will ever change my mind, i disagree with the franchise sysytem and always will.

Re: Stop this self destruction before its too late : Tue Jul 26, 2011 9:26 pm  

Big Graeme wrote:

As did nearly every team that came up and went right back down again.

As do clubs in SL , and clubs in the Championship , so your point is ?

And which clubs went up and came down in financial trouble ?

Don't suggest Leigh , that is a myth , we broke even

Re: Stop this self destruction before its too late : Tue Jul 26, 2011 9:27 pm  

Up the Dons wrote:

I think your slightly missing the point, of course i love RL....but to be fair to the round ball game, they have the pro/rel that i long for. Also i'm well aware of corruption in that sport, hense why i always checked out AFC Wimbledon's results on a weekly basis.

Richie missing the point, NEVER