Brentford

[Campsall rover]

Just a change of topic.

Brentford have just spent 17 million on a Scottish full back who was at Bologna in Italy.

If in 2013 after we beat them in that dramatic game at Griffin Park you had been told 9 years later Brentford would be in the Premier league in 2021 in a spanking new stadium and a year later would spend 17 million on a Scottish full back you would have had that person sectioned for being stark raving mad.
Quite unbelievable really. 

Yes we would need TB to suddenly decide he has around 100 million spare and invest it into our playing squad, but if he did we could be that club Brentford are today.

No I know TB isn’t going to that unfortunately.

Please don’t any one tell me that in 2013 Brentford was a bigger Club than us.
They were a smaller one in fact. Or Bournemouth of course.
In fact imo they are still both Smaller ones than us.
If all 3 clubs were in the Premier League & had a 20.000 + seat stadium i think we would get the highest ave attendances.

So the dream is there for any club of a similar size to ours. It can and does happen.
I suppose I will have to dream for a little longer. 

[danumdon]

Our trouble is we are 156 miles too far north.

Any club in London and i mean any, even Orient will always have the possibility of becoming a Brentford Mk2 just because of their location and attractiveness to overseas money men.

A bottom tier club in Yorkshire just does not have the same allure to these types.

Would we even want to go down that road, look at the problems Barnsley now have after having some exposure to this type of takeover.

[Chris Black come back]

This is true, although we sit in the middle of a footballing hotbed of Yorkshire and Lancashire so can attract players based in the wider region. God knows how hard the sell has to be at Carlisle, Plymouth or even Norwich.

[Draytonian III]

Very well said DanumDon, totally agree with you

[RoversAlias]

We would need the finance of a Demin or Benham owning us before we ever did what Bournemouth and Brentford have. Brentford have also adapted a model of operating which has worked brilliantly.

[Campsall rover]

Our trouble is we are 156 miles too far north.

Any club in London and i mean any, even Orient will always have the possibility of becoming a Brentford Mk2 just because of their location and attractiveness to overseas money men.

A bottom tier club in Yorkshire just does not have the same allure to these types.

Would we even want to go down that road, look at the problems Barnsley now have after having some exposure to this type of takeover.

Don’t wish to be pedantic but it’s 168 miles 

It will probably never happen so will not have to worry about the consequences.

The point is if TB who is a local man who cares passionately about the City of Doncaster ( oh doesn’t that sound good saying City ) the community and the Football Club was prepared to invest vast sums then who knows what tis club could achieve.

Yes your right, would we want some foreign business man taking over? Depends who he or they were and what their genuine motives were.

Right person or persons then YES but wrong ones who create boom and bust then it’s an emphatic NO.

[Branton Rover]

What grinds on my nerves is not comparing / competing with Brentford a West London club, it’s our inability to compete with Rotherham that hurts me. We are the second city in South Yorkshire yet Rotherham are a small town on the edge of Sheffield with zero going for it.

[DonnyBazR0ver]

What grinds on my nerves is not comparing / competing with Brentford a West London club, it’s our inability to compete with Rotherham that hurts me. We are the second city in South Yorkshire yet Rotherham are a small town on the edge of Sheffield with zero going for it.

Comparisons between us and Rotherham are reasonable.

Comparison to Brentford or Bournemouth aren't.

Brentford and Bournemouth are who they are in name only and are not representative of the fans that support  them. It's a million miles away to the Brentford and Bournemouth we knew and competed with.

[Campsall rover]

Have you forgotten the days not long ago when DRFC were in the Championship playing in a spanking new 15.000 seater stadium and Rotherham were a 4th tier club who were homeless & having to play in the middle of an athletics track out of the Rotherham boundary in Sheffield.

It’s cyclical isn’t it? We will have our day in the sun again and Rotherham will go through a period when they are struggling to match our achievements.

That could be sooner than you think Branton Rover.

[roversdude]

Have you forgotten the days not long ago when DRFC were in the Championship playing in a spanking new 15.000 seater stadium and Rotherham were a 4th tier club who were homeless & having to play in the middle of an athletics track out of the Rotherham boundary in Sheffield.

It’s cyclical isn’t it? We will have our day in the sun again and Rotherham will go through a period when they are struggling to match our achievements.

That could be sooner than you think Branton Rover.

Quite right CR, they’ve lost their big players for nothing, they are still heavily dependent on the owner, quite possible we will meet again next season with a big shift in momentum

[Branton Rover]

Of course you’re right Campsall it is a cyclical thing and we just have to hang in there and be patient - historically though we’ve always been the poor relations in this particular area of Yorkshire - hopefully we can redress the imbalance now that our status has been raised to that of a city. It might actually help in player recruitment, didn’t George Miller say something along the lines of Doncaster can’t be as bad as Barnsley (I’m paraphrasing of course).

[danumdon]

 

Our trouble is we are 156 miles too far north.

Any club in London and i mean any, even Orient will always have the possibility of becoming a Brentford Mk2 just because of their location and attractiveness to overseas money men.

A bottom tier club in Yorkshire just does not have the same allure to these types.

Would we even want to go down that road, look at the problems Barnsley now have after having some exposure to this type of takeover.

Don’t wish to be pedantic but it’s 168 miles 

It will probably never happen so will not have to worry about the consequences.

The point is if TB who is a local man who cares passionately about the City of Doncaster ( oh doesn’t that sound good saying City ) the community and the Football Club was prepared to invest vast sums then who knows what tis club could achieve.

Yes your right, would we want some foreign business man taking over? Depends who he or they were and what their genuine motives were.

Right person or persons then YES but wrong ones who create boom and bust then it’s an emphatic NO.

I'm going to be super pedantic now and tell you the 156 mile post is in the middle of platform 4 at Doncaster Train station. Railway mileage

 

[Campsall rover]

Our trouble is we are 156 miles too far north.

Any club in London and i mean any, even Orient will always have the possibility of becoming a Brentford Mk2 just because of their location and attractiveness to overseas money men.

A bottom tier club in Yorkshire just does not have the same allure to these types.

Would we even want to go down that road, look at the problems Barnsley now have after having some exposure to this type of takeover.

Don’t wish to be pedantic but it’s 168 miles 

It will probably never happen so will not have to worry about the consequences.

The point is if TB who is a local man who cares passionately about the City of Doncaster ( oh doesn’t that sound good saying City ) the community and the Football Club was prepared to invest vast sums then who knows what tis club could achieve.

Yes your right, would we want some foreign business man taking over? Depends who he or they were and what their genuine motives were.

Right person or persons then YES but wrong ones who create boom and bust then it’s an emphatic NO.

I'm going to be super pedantic now and tell you the 156 mile post is in the middle of platform 4 at Doncaster Train station. Railway mileage

 

Fair enough.
I was going by road mileage centre of Doncaster to centre of London.

[Bentley Bullet]

Our trouble is we are 156 miles too far north.

Any club in London and i mean any, even Orient will always have the possibility of becoming a Brentford Mk2 just because of their location and attractiveness to overseas money men.

A bottom tier club in Yorkshire just does not have the same allure to these types.

Would we even want to go down that road, look at the problems Barnsley now have after having some exposure to this type of takeover.

Yep, they're only one league above Donny Rovers now!