BOOM!!!! Big old win for the Rovers Have that Sir Patrick Stewart!!! #DRFC

Yes! In the 88th minute.

Back under way at the WhateverOur-Stadium-Is-Now-Called Stadium. Will either team manage a shot on target that isn’t a penalty? That’s not for us to say #DRFC

Every time I look at the League One table there’s at least one team that prompts me to go ‘Really?! How the f*** did you end up there?’ So congratulations this week to Lincoln City, and Wigan Athletic

Big shame this all counts for nowt as the trophy had been massively devalued by the forced introduction of Premier League youth teams.

David Moss, straight back up as if a man flying full-pelt feet-first into your spleen was an everyday occurrence. Also love how Moss looks first at his calf, then at his thigh for the stud marks. He’d eventually find them just below his arm-pit.

Why does this puffin put us in mind of Neil Warnock?

Sadly not captured in this wonderful picture, the first spectator shout of ‘Ha’way, why’re we not leaving at least one lad up front on set-pieces?’

It’s growing on me. Not sure about the shoulders or the centralised badge but it is growing on me. A lot better than our fever-dream of a 3rd kit, although that’s a low bar.

This 3-0 lead is brought to you by my decision not to find somewhere to watch tonight’s game. You’re welcome. #DRFC

Can we shock you… we like our 3rd kit now #DRFC

What the fuck are we wearing? #DRFC

S4C’s Sgorio coverage of Colwyn Bay vs Flint Town United today coming in early with a contender for ‘best football crowd close up of 2026’

Over a year since leaving Twitter – no regrets, but still don't feel especially settled in here on BlueSky... However, I just found the folder with all the gifs, videos and clips from Rovers' 1997-98 season. Think it could be time to bring THAT thread over onto this platform.

Christmas quiz for the #DRFC fans. 53 players have both played a first team match for Rovers and scored a goal in the Premier League. See how many you can name...

Merry Christmas Masochists!

Wemberleee Wemberleee!!

Concerned we’re using up all our goals against Chesterfield four days too early.

Football at all levels has a dangerously insane relationship with its referees, but in non-league it also comes with a chasm between reality and foaming Twitter activists who've never been to a game. This week's newsletter is on the AFC Rushden & Diamonds v Coventry Sphinx match abandonment.

Chesterfield away then. A tricky draw and, as our recent form against them suggests, very losable. I really hope they’ve chosen to concentrate on the league this year. #FACup

Big fan of Carlisle United managing to score their winning goal before their own equaliser today

Bloody love the #FACup Really hope we still love it at 5pm

Why does Connor O’Riordan look so terrified of a return to Crewe? What horrors has he seen there?

column on robbie keane www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We really ought to have done this in the inside back cover of popular STAND fanzine

“You’re hundreds of miles from home, you’re cold, you’re soaked through, you’ve lost two nil… you wouldn’t swap this for anything” It’s 10 years ago today that Wales qualified for Euro 2016 in a suitably Welsh way. And I wrote this report-come-mini-novella on the experience of it all…

There’s a vacancy for him elsewhere in League One… be interesting to see if Blackpool go down the Bloomfield road

Gutted that the treble is off. Never mind, the FA Cup is the big one anyway

Gifting Spurs a two goal head start is a bold tactic. Cant see it paying off to be honest. #DRFC #THFC

If you’re hankering after some reading from the recent #DRFC past, @stanchionbooks.bsky.social have got a copy of issue 107 of popular STAND going… stanchionbooks.com/collections/...

Probably should’ve known it wasn’t going to be our day today when they ran out of pies before kick-off in the away end. At Wigan. Where the mascot is a 6ft anthropomorphic pie.

There’s a single Sheffield United fan in our mainly Doncaster Rovers supporting group chat. During their 5-0 loss at Ipswich he was picked out by the tv camera, looking very fed up, in a daft hat, in close up. Just as he was thinking his night couldn’t get any worse, a buzzing began in his pocket.

God speed to those trying to get tickets for Tottenham away today. The #DRFC website appears to be holding up about as well as Lewis Guy in an opposition penalty box

That’ll do. End the season now #DRFC

Trust us to draw Tottenham the season they remember how to play football. #EFLCup

Consensus in the Donny R’sonists WhatsApp is that if all eleven players have taken a penalty in a shootout and it’s still not settled, then the managers should take one

#DRFC win at Accrington to progress to round 3 of the League Cup. It’s our year!

Currently watching forty plus Port Vale fans sit about glumly to a soundtrack of ‘Boogie Wonderland’… it’s like a piece of performance art.

In a pub just outside Vale Park for a post-match pint. Other than me and two others it’s all Vale fans. They’ve a DJ on who really hasn’t read the room, banging out disco and old school soul tunes never mind that getting humped 1-0 at home really isn’t a ‘Do You Love Me (Now That I Can Dance)’ vibe.

The clearest sign yet, in a crowded field, that top flight football is no longer for us. It’s just a different world that, frankly, looks really tiring

Thought #DRFC looked really good tonight; controlled most of the match and reduced Huddersfield to counter attacks. But we’re a decent striker (or at least one that fits the system we’re playing) away from being a good side. And until we find one results like tonight will happen in this division.

@danielgraywriter.bsky.social @camsell59.bsky.social Bob Mortimer, the bloke in the facilities team at work whose randomly started wearing a ‘Boro shirt to work… your boys took a hell of a beating!

That’s why he’s paid the big bucks

That’ll do. End the season now.

Da iawn! Big boost this; brings exactly what the squad is otherwise lacking.

Turns out Liz Truss hates Rotherham

Widnes Vikings 16-20 Doncaster The Dons claim only their second ever victory at Widnes despite playing almost an hour with just 11 men. Genuinely one of the most incredible team performances I’ve ever seen, in any sport.

“LOTS OF LOVE AND SEXY KISSES” – players just don’t write columns like this anymore

Imagine saving four of seven penalties in a shoot-out and still being on the losing side.

It’s Saturday afternoon, so if you need us we’ll be on…