2015-16 Season Preview - Doncaster Rovers

[Agent Lomas]

Doncaster Rovers

Full Name: Doncaster Rovers Football Club
Founded: 1879
Nicknames: The Rovers, The Vikings, Donny
Ground: Keepmoat Stadium - 15,231 Capacity
Manager: Paul Dickov
2014-15 Season: SkyBet League One - 13th


We've Met Before

First Time: 4th October 1958 - Southend 5-0 Doncaster - English Division 3 (Old)

Last Time: 16th May 2008 - Doncaster 5-1 Southend - Coca-Cola League One Play-Offs - Second Leg


Last Time - More Details

Doncaster - Sullivan, O'Connor, Mills, Roberts (Guy 68'), Hird, Green, Coppinger, Stock, Wellens (McCammon 73'), Price (Taylor 76'), Hayter - UNUSED SUBS: B.Smith, G.Lee

Southend - Flahavan, Francis, P.Clarke, Mulgrew, Barrett, Moussa, Bailey, Gower, McCormack, Barnard (MacDonald 62') Walker (Revell 62') - UNUSED SUBS: S.Collis, Z.Liptak, T.Black


Head-to-Head

Doncaster Wins: 13
Draws: 5
Southend Wins: 13


Played For/Been At Both

Theo Robinson, Jonson Clarke-Harris, Dave Cusack, George Friend, Peter Gilbert, Franck Moussa, Billy Paynter, Neville Southall, John Spicer


Current Squad:

GK: Marko Marosi, Thorsten Stuckmann

DEF: Cedric Evina, Rob Jones, Luke McCullough, Liam Wakefield, Andy Butler, Paul McKay, Ben Askins, MItchell Lund, Gary MacKenzie

MID: Harry Forrester, Paul Keegan, Richie Wellens, James Coppinger, Harry Middleton, Billy Whitehouse, Richard Chaplow

FWD: Curtis Main, Nathan Tyson, Jack McKay, Liam Mandeville, Andy Williams


Fact

Doncaster scored 123 goals in Division 3 (North) in the 1946-47 season. They only conceded 40 and were promoted as champions. For the record, that same season, Blues finished 8th in Division 3 (South).


When do we play them?

Home: 2nd January 2016
Away: 18th August 2015



Odds (SkyBet)


Champions: 18/1
Promotion: 11/2
Top Half Finish: 4/7
Bottom Half Finish: 11/8
Relegation: 10/1


2015-16 Kits

Home

Not released yet

Away

Not released yet

 

[Napster]

Also played for both:
Steve Yates, Michael Timlin, Dave Morley, Dave Cusack, Bobby Gilfillan, Neil Campbell, Ray Ternant, David Roche, Peter Johnson, Graeme Jones, Keith Lindsey, Derrick Parker, Waide Fairhurst

Steve Wignall managed both
Dave Penney managed them and was assistant here.

 

[Romford Shrimper]

Napster 1-0 Lomas

 

[Agent Lomas]

Napster 1-0 Lomas

Other players who have played for both are welcome to be added, as always. Its not a competition. I tend to put the more recent players/the ones I can find in the limited time I have before work to write these previews. Napster normally adds the older ones or any I miss out.

 

[RHB]

Other players who have played for both are welcome to be added, as always. Its not a competition. I tend to put the more recent players/the ones I can find in the limited time I have before work to write these previews. Napster normally adds the older ones or any I miss out.

He just trying to wind you up. Ignore him, everyone else does.

 

[JD]

Doesn't look a bad squad on paper, coppinger was there when they done us in the play offs wasn't he?

 

[Napster]

Other players who have played for both are welcome to be added, as always. Its not a competition. I tend to put the more recent players/the ones I can find in the limited time I have before work to write these previews. Napster normally adds the older ones or any I miss out.

Yeah thought you might have got Timlin though. :winking:

 

[Agent Lomas]

Doesn't look a bad squad on paper, coppinger was there when they done us in the play offs wasn't he?

Yeah, he was. He got a hat-trick in that game, I just didn't add the goals to the line-ups. Bailey scored our goal