Restructure : Mon Aug 09, 2021 6:31 pm  

If the Dons fail to get promotion this season & the new proposals & restructure goes through I seriously think the only way they will survive as a professional club is by merging with Sheffield Eagles & form a South Yorkshire club & hopefully play in the new second division

Restructure : Mon Aug 09, 2021 7:27 pm  

Wash your mouth out Geoff. We have been thro all that before.

Restructure : Mon Aug 09, 2021 7:58 pm  

weighman wrote:

Wash your mouth out Geoff. We have been thro all that before.

Open your eyes Paul tell me how they can survive as a professional club in the third division?

Restructure : Mon Aug 09, 2021 8:33 pm  

When you were involved with the Dons , how would you have responded to the suggestion of a merger,

Anyway this is o/t , may be a seperate thread should be set up.

Restructure : Mon Aug 09, 2021 8:59 pm  

GeoffRoebuck wrote:

Open your eyes Paul tell me how they can survive as a professional club in the third division?

Geoff, it's all specualtion at the moment. We're in the third division now.

Let's wait and see what's really happening and then we can take it from there.

I wouldn't like to see a merger with Sheffield as I think we would get the worst of both worlds. Dons fans wouldn't like, Sheffield fans wouldn't like it and you'd end up with a smaller fan base than we've got between us now.

Restructure : Mon Aug 09, 2021 9:13 pm  

weighman wrote:

When you were involved with the Dons , how would you have responded to the suggestion of a merger,

Anyway this is o/t , may be a seperate thread should be set up.

If it comes to the crunch would you rather watch the Dons play in the third division which maybe as an amatuer club or as a merged South Yorkshire professional team in the second division.

Restructure : Mon Aug 09, 2021 9:18 pm  

We made a similar decision at the Yarborough club back in the day .

Let me ask you Geoff would you go & watched a merged team .

Restructure : Mon Aug 09, 2021 9:29 pm  

weighman wrote:

We made a similar decision at the Yarborough club back in the day .

Let me ask you Geoff would you go & watched a merged team .

I would give it some serious thought if it prevented the Dons from going out of existence as a professional club.

You haven't answered my question to you how do you think the Dons would survive possibly as an amatuer team in the third division.

Restructure : Mon Aug 09, 2021 10:41 pm  

A TV deal , money from Club Doncaster, sponsors & gate money.

Restructure : Tue Aug 10, 2021 7:52 am  

weighman wrote:

A TV deal , money from Club Doncaster, sponsors & gate money.

What if there isn't a TV deal or money for teams in the third division league one teams currently roughly receive £75,000 per year from the present Sky deal which ends this year.