: Mon Jun 22, 2009 10:02 am  

Right, well thankyou for waiting patiently for our man to be stretchered, neck braced, given oxygen and then carried off. How very sporting of you, duly noted. I really expected the Doncaster supporter to run onto the field and drag him off due to simple impatience.
The guy on his knees, sorry i did not notice him amongst all the other guys on their knees, I sincerely hope he is ok. Did he need oxygen? Hope he's well this morning. As for the supporter shouting get up! He will be duly rounded up and shot at dawn. Hope thats ok.
Not sure how your reply came from my original post. I thought that the Batley supporters were very fair, understanding of your current plight and supportive. All of the comments made to your players behind the posts as they were waiting for conversions were exactly that.
Rather than have a go at those Batley supporters who came and paid money to support your club, how about those Doncaster supporters who could not get off their backsides to support their team at a time when they clearly need it.
And once again, good luck for the future

: Mon Jun 22, 2009 10:12 am  

ernie1 wrote:

Sorry but I cannot be responsible for one supporter making a ridiculous comment. During any period a player is down injured I will patiently wait until he is fit and ready to play again because I have been in that position myself.
Making all Batley supporters out to be bad guys for the sake of a comment from an individual you must agree is going over the top

I'm not tarring you with the same brush......it was one individual.
Let's get it straight shall we Batley are doing well of late and I don't wish to get into an argument about something that is obvious.
You can appreciate the frustration at watching Handforth do for Batley what he should have been doing for us?
And you can appreciate the pain at watching your side in such a sorry state and watching opposition try after try and not being able to see any end to it?
You helped your points difference yesterday and took the three points......based on the Donny side you watched can you see other sides not being able to do the same?
The original point was don't get carried away by what you saw yesterday....that's all.
Your right winger was running against a bloke with second row forward pace.....a total mismatch......and as a Donny fan that's not nice to watch.
I don't want to get into an argument with Batley fans.....it looks like you have turned the corner.
Yes we have had poor management and yes Batley can show us a thing or two about keeping a modestly supported club financially afloat....none of these things are contentious......but just imagine you were a Donny fan....who through no fault of your own is left watching this sort of thing week in week out.
Anyway well done....and cheerio.

: Mon Jun 22, 2009 12:34 pm  

It won t be the first time in our history that we ve been on the end of a tonking and it won t be our last, but each time we have come back stronger and tonked someone ourselves (but we might have to wait a while this time).

The aim is to stay positive and build for the future sensibly to ensure this will be the last time we end up on our knees halfway through a season.

Despite the poorish turn out (I feared a smaller crowd), those that I were near still wanted a club and on the way home I spoke to a nice chap from Fev who wished us all the best.

COYD

: Mon Jun 22, 2009 1:02 pm  

Stand-Offish wrote:

I'm not tarring you with the same brush......it was one individual.
Let's get it straight shall we Batley are doing well of late and I don't wish to get into an argument about something that is obvious.
You can appreciate the frustration at watching Handforth do for Batley what he should have been doing for us?
And you can appreciate the pain at watching your side in such a sorry state and watching opposition try after try and not being able to see any end to it?
You helped your points difference yesterday and took the three points......based on the Donny side you watched can you see other sides not being able to do the same?
The original point was don't get carried away by what you saw yesterday....that's all.
Your right winger was running against a bloke with second row forward pace.....a total mismatch......and as a Donny fan that's not nice to watch.
I don't want to get into an argument with Batley fans.....it looks like you have turned the corner.
Yes we have had poor management and yes Batley can show us a thing or two about keeping a modestly supported club financially afloat....none of these things are contentious......but just imagine you were a Donny fan....who through no fault of your own is left watching this sort of thing week in week out.
Anyway well done....and cheerio.

What a prat.
For a lot of people, its difficult to sympathise with your club.
Last season I've no doubt you were one of those unrealistic people who were crowing with glee at the appointment of Hanley and the expensive signings of McKenna, Lawrie etc...
You and most of your supporters must have known that it was not the right direction to be heading in following your disastrous over-spending in 2007. Did you question what was going on, when SL and NRL players plus one of potentially most expensive coaches in the game were being signed up by your board?
I bet you were lapping up your success last season, when it was patently obvious to all those outsiders that you were heading towards oblivion (yet again).
Don't say you weren't warned, and if you look back at the various internet forums, I think you'll find that most of you were responding to our doubts by citing 'jealousy' and 'envy'.
Anyway, I've no doubt that as always with your club, some rich (supposedly rich?) benefactor will come and bail you out of the effluent again, so why worry?? You'll be splashing the cash like the Sultan of Brunei within 12 months I reckon.
It actually makes a complete mockery of the smaller clubs who stay afloat year after year through financial prudence and good management.

: Mon Jun 22, 2009 1:06 pm  

distantdog wrote:

Right, well thankyou for waiting patiently for our man to be stretchered, neck braced, given oxygen and then carried off. How very sporting of you, duly noted. I really expected the Doncaster supporter to run onto the field and drag him off due to simple impatience.
The guy on his knees, sorry i did not notice him amongst all the other guys on their knees, I sincerely hope he is ok. Did he need oxygen? Hope he's well this morning. As for the supporter shouting get up! He will be duly rounded up and shot at dawn. Hope thats ok.
Not sure how your reply came from my original post. I thought that the Batley supporters were very fair, understanding of your current plight and supportive. All of the comments made to your players behind the posts as they were waiting for conversions were exactly that.
[b]Rather than have a go at those Batley supporters who came and paid money to support your club, how about those Doncaster supporters who could not get off their backsides to support their team at a time when they clearly need it.[/b]
And once again, good luck for the future

You came and paid money to support your club......to be be fair..... didn't you?
You'd have gone anyway.
Now't to do with supporting Donny.
You're picking the bits you want to pick......the point is don't read to much into this result with regard to your progress....anyone would have put 70 by us.
You're at home to Barrow next......let's see how you get on.....beat them and you're a force to be reckoned with.
Meanwhile Sheffield will be doing pretty much what you did to us yesterday.
Yet we beat them at their place before we imploded.

: Mon Jun 22, 2009 1:16 pm  

Stand-Offish wrote:

You came and paid money to support your club......to be be fair..... didn't you?
You'd have gone anyway.
Now't to do with supporting Donny.
You're picking the bits you want to pick......the point is don't read to much into this result with regard to your progress....anyone would have put 70 by us.
You're at home to Barrow next......let's see how you get on.....beat them and you're a force to be reckoned with.
Meanwhile Sheffield will be doing pretty much what you did to us yesterday.
Yet we beat them at their place before we imploded.

Whats John Wright up to these days? Maybe he could auction off his impressive collection of Coi Carp and donate you the proceeds?

: Mon Jun 22, 2009 1:26 pm  

Bulldogarmy wrote:

Whats John Wright up to these days? Maybe he could auction off his impressive collection of Coi Carp and donate you the proceeds?

And you've got the nerve to call Stand Offish a prat!!

: Mon Jun 22, 2009 1:29 pm  

Karlos wrote:

And you've got the nerve to call Stand Offish a prat!!

It was just a thought

[Jemmo]

: Mon Jun 22, 2009 1:34 pm  

Anyone got the teams from yesterday? With all the old shirts on different players it was hard to tell

: Mon Jun 22, 2009 1:46 pm  

Dons: Leaf, Colton, Coady, Lawton, Opie, Weedon, Speake, Benson, Cook, Carbutt, Hall, Holt, Steen, Subs: McKinley, Bassinder, Craig Jones, Ellery.