Adam Posted April 24, 2021 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2021 1 minute ago, Cymbols said: There was a really good “banter era” Tweet thread about Doncaster a couple of years ago which worked as an interesting timeline of events. I don’t normally like those threads because they just get hijacked by big team fans crying about 5th place finishes, but that one was pretty good. Written by Glen Wilson, who runs our fanzine. And yes @MadJack, I'm only young so started going to watch Rovers immediately after this, as my dad was one of the many who boycotted attending games whilst Richardson was in charge. I haven't watched the video in your post, but there was a funeral procession for the club by fans through the town, sit-in protests on the pitch during games in that disastrous 97/98 season, and players being picked up on the side of the motorway to meet their new team mates on the way to games when we kicked off in the Conference. The disasters we went through as a club and town back then made the rise back into the league all the more satisfying when it came. I'm very grateful that I got into football at that time and learned from a young age what football was *really* all about. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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britneyspearsisgod Posted April 25, 2021 Report Share Posted April 25, 2021 Bristol Rovers did it in the opposite direction by being relegated to League Two because who enjoys winning or playing football or just anything to do with football? That would be too much for us all to handle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted April 27, 2021 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2021 Has that day come around again already? Still the original. Still more dramatic than Watford v Leicester. Still my favourite day as a football fan. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Lineker Posted April 27, 2021 Admin Report Share Posted April 27, 2021 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA! Posted April 27, 2021 Report Share Posted April 27, 2021 Well, that was fun. bbbyyyyeee 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobfoc Posted April 28, 2021 Report Share Posted April 28, 2021 I'll have some company, at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA! Posted April 29, 2021 Report Share Posted April 29, 2021 Former Grimsby Town loanee Zhang Enhua has sadly died at only age 47. Here is a good article about his time here - never knew his son was born in Grimsby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Lineker Posted May 9, 2021 Admin Report Share Posted May 9, 2021 League season is over. Now onto the playoffs. Which Pompey managed to fall out of and miss - again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunnar hendershow Posted May 9, 2021 Report Share Posted May 9, 2021 This showed up on my TL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted May 9, 2021 Author Report Share Posted May 9, 2021 4 hours ago, Lineker said: League season is over. Now onto the playoffs. Which Pompey managed to fall out of and miss - again. Lots of tears today at Doncaster Rovers. Such a shame we have had a horrendous collapse to end Coppinger's incredible career. But what a man he is, and I'm so pleased the fans got to show him how much he means to us all this weekend. Looking forward to next season, and I am keen to forget this one. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Lineker Posted May 11, 2021 Admin Report Share Posted May 11, 2021 Quote Richard Keogh has secured a payout of about £2.3m from Derby after winning his long-running compensation claim against the club. The 34-year-old defender, who finished the season at Huddersfield, brought an action for breach of contract in the wake of his sacking by Derby in October 2019. Keogh had sustained serious knee ligament injuries when he was in the car that his then teammate Tom Lawrence crashed into a lamppost after a night out in September of that year. He was dismissed by Derby for gross misconduct. His contract with them, worth a basic £24,000 a week plus bonuses, was due to run until June 2021. Keogh went to the EFL’s Player Related Dispute Commission, where he won a full payout only for Derby to contest the decision at the League Appeals’ Committee. The process has been marked by delays, caused in part by the pandemic, but the LAC last week upheld the original verdict. An EFL statement read: “The LAC has heard and dismissed an appeal under the regulations of the EFL by Derby against the decision of the PRDC in the case of Richard Keogh. The PDRC held that Mr Keogh had not committed gross misconduct, that he had not brought the club into serious disrepute and that he had been wrongly dismissed by the club.” The car crash happened after a team-bonding day. Lawrence was over the drink-drive limit and so was Mason Bennett, now of Millwall, who had driven off ahead. When Bennett stopped his car at a give-way line, Lawrence went into the back of him before careering into the lamppost. They fled the scene, leaving Keogh unconscious. Lawrence and Bennett admitted drink-driving and failing to stop at the scene of an accident when they appeared at Derby magistrates court. They avoided jail sentences but each was ordered to carry out 180 hours of unpaid community service and banned from driving for two years. Despite their criminal convictions, Derby chose not to sack them, although they did fine them. Both were unhurt in the incident. Keogh, who would be out of action for 12 months, had been told by Derby that he could stay and see out his contract but they stunned him by saying he had to accept a massive pay cut to do so. When he refused, Derby dismissed him with immediate effect. Keogh had to make an initial appeal against the decision to Derby, which was thrown out, before he entered into the EFL’s legal framework. Keogh played at Derby for seven seasons, starting 316 of 330 Championship matches plus all 10 of the club’s play-off ties. He joined MK Dons in League One last August, making his debut in September, before moving to Huddersfield in January on a deal until the end of the season. The Derby owner, Mel Morris, is trying to sell the club to No Limits Sports, which is fronted by the Spanish businessman Erik Alonso. Under the management of Wayne Rooney the team avoided relegation on the final day of the Championship season on Saturday when they drew 3-3 at home against Sheffield Wednesday and had another result – Rotherham’s 1-1 draw at Cardiff – go in their favour. Derby, meanwhile, are to face sanctions from the EFL after the league won an appeal against a previously dismissed misconduct charge. It is not clear whether any punishment would be applied to this season or next, with the EFL saying there was “no definitive timescale” for proceedings. An independent league arbitration panel concluded a disciplinary commission was wrong to dismiss the EFL’s expert accountancy evidence which stated Derby’s valuation of player registrations was contrary to standard accounting rules. The original disciplinary commission had concluded the club did not adequately disclose in its financial statements the nature and/or effect of its change in accounting policy and there has been no appeal against that decision. Derby and the EFL will have the opportunity to make submissions on the appropriate sanction arising out of those breaches. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colly Posted May 11, 2021 Report Share Posted May 11, 2021 Good. Disgusting behaviour. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lusophone Posted May 11, 2021 Report Share Posted May 11, 2021 Imagine sacking the only one who didn't do anything wrong. Fucking hell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobfoc Posted May 11, 2021 Report Share Posted May 11, 2021 I was disappointed that Derby didn't get relegated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted May 11, 2021 Author Report Share Posted May 11, 2021 I'm really pleased Keogh won that. Utterly disgraceful how Derby treated him and let the other two off because they were younger star players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DFF Posted May 12, 2021 Report Share Posted May 12, 2021 Has anything further come of the EFL's appeal against Derby with regards the financial fair play stuff? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colly Posted May 13, 2021 Report Share Posted May 13, 2021 Last I heard they were still considering a points deduction, but hadn't decided whether that would be this season or next which is utterly stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lusophone Posted May 13, 2021 Report Share Posted May 13, 2021 Safe to say such a points deduction wouldn't get applied for this season just gone - EFL can impose one, but Derby can appeal that, and in such a circumstance, what with it likely to go all the way to CAS, the punishment would likely be delayed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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