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A rare Rovers meeting!!

Its been 55 years since Donny rovers have played Blackburn rovers in a competative match, when they oddly played them twice in 3 days with us doncaster losing both games (home on the friday 1-5 and away on the monday 3-2, both in the old 2nd division!)

In the 1950s donny v blackburn was a regular fixture (the only decade we ever really played you in) with donny only winning 1 from 18 matches!

There are a couple of parallels to this weeks game with the last time we played you in donny back in 1958, its on a friday, its in the 2nd tier I just hope we dont add the scoreline aswell to complete the hat-trick!

Will many of you rovers be making the trip to the keepmoat for this rare rovers meeting?

posted on 13/8/13

I'll be incredibly disappointed if we don't take three points. No disrespect to Doncaster at all - I just don't think we are fit for promotion if we can't take all three points here.

Anything less than a win would be a p|ss-poo start to the season.

posted on 13/8/13

Yeah we used to have that knack too, until Venkys took over. Hmm, depressingly I'm not sure we are that much better than Blackpool these days. We don't have a player as good as Tom Ince anyway.

DD, do you think promotion is realistic anyway? I think we've dropped too far now and signing League 1/Championship players over the summer hardly smacks of ambition.

Unfortunately I think we're heading for mid-table this season, however I do think we should be looking to win on Friday. No offence northborder but Dickov had a shakey record at Oldham and I think you'll do well to avoid the drop this season.

posted on 13/8/13

Dont be suprised to see donny above the drop zone come may!

What we lack in this division has played in our favour 3 of the 4 seasons we were here last time round, and thats the luxery of money!
Because we cant keep buying players like other clubs in this division we are forced to build our team on honest hard working players who know each others game, theres no superstars in our team just 20 players pulling in the same direction!

Last season was the same, we were not the most talented squad in div1 individually, but we were the best team!

Im not saying that romantic viewpoint will win us owt in this division but I suspect there will be 3 clubs in the division who are worse than us simply cause they wont have players as committed as us or have experienced winning a division together!

Spurr is our only big loss id say from that team last season, good luck to him though, top bloke!

posted on 14/8/13

Was supposed to be going to this game but apparently Donny police insisted on the game being moved to Friday night due to some speedboat championships taking place in Donnie on Sat so can’t go now.

Police

posted on 14/8/13

Would anyone like to answer a few questions about your team before our derby match with you? It is for the website Burndenaces.

posted on 15/8/13

Yeah sure I will if ya want.

posted on 15/8/13

Actually no thanks, just had a look on the site. Typical Bolton arseholes.

posted on 15/8/13



I'll do it.

posted on 15/8/13

posted on 16/8/13

I did warn you! Like I said 'where a team' that was a hard fought win! If more talented teams come to us and are slightly off there game this will happen!

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