All posts tagged Doncaster

Eye Witness Assessment: Doncaster Rovers will miss Captain Jones

The reception from fans when Paul Dickov was handed the Doncaster Rovers job in the Summer was cautious and perhaps even a little underwhelmed. Following on from a couple of mediocre years at Oldham, punctuated only by some notable FA Cup exploits, it seemed that the Rovers hierarchy had been swayed by headlines rather than statistics.

Dickov arrived after a momentous few years at the Keepmoat. Sean O’Driscoll’s footballing

Championship Finances: Five Key Takeaways

On August 1, the peerless blog The Swiss Ramble published an invaluable presentation of the profit and loss accounts for Championship clubs in the 2011-12 season.

Of course much has happened since including the arrival in the competition of Queen’s Park Rangers; a club the financial wealth of which will be decidedly byzantine and worthy of a week-long series of articles. Accounts for Wigan Athletic would also make …

TTU Go Predicting: A Club-By-Club Championship Preview

The hubbub engulfing our League 1 and League 2 previews this week has highlighted the sensitivity of the average football fan. Now it’s time for the Championship, a division in which, contrary to appearances, not quite all the teams start with B.

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The high farce of the Tykes’ last minute escape against Huddersfield confirmed David Flitcroft’s emergence as one of the Football League’s most promising managers in April …

TTU Awards 2012-13: Best Kit

Bizarrely, our best and worst kits for 2012-13 bear a superficial similarity to one another but that’s a reminder that a club uniform is never a canvas to be judged on aeshetics alone. Tradition and simplicity are not always virtues but just as we found ourselves nodding with approval at the sight of England’s plain, unadorned red shirts on view at the Maracana on Sunday, Nottingham Forest‘s equally …

Once More Unto the Breach: The Football League Season Draws to a Conclusion

Tonight, Watford travel to Leicester City at the onset of a nail biting weekend of Football League fixtures. With a great many issues still hanging in the balance, our two founding bloggers, Lloyd and Lanterne Rouge convened to discuss the prospects:

Lanterne Rouge: As a Plymouth fan, you’ve mentioned to me that you are still worried about the drop - it’s quite possible mathematically but will take a …