From Ashes to Glory

A Bit of Poetry...Who said Ducks weren't creative!

Jefferey, Williams, Doherty, Gregg
Elwiss, O’Callaghan and Kitchen
Peacock, Miller, Snodins Harle
Buckley, Brevett and Rankine
Names echoed around Belle Vue Ground
Doncaster Rovers – Small but proud

Small and proud but wanting to grow

Not so easy without cash flow

So there came a man with moneybags

He’d got it all from fiddling the nags.

Things started smelling not so good

Players sold, brought in dead wood

Main stand burned

Managers sacked

Matches lost

Moneybags packed

Angry fans scream and shout

Bottom of the league Down and Out

Adie Mike, Darren Moore Prince Moncrieffe and Martin Paul

Steven Sanders, Robert Pell Kerry Dixon, manager in hell

Not such happy Donny folk

Doncaster Rovers – Football joke.

A football joke but no one laughs

The club is dying, nothing funny about that

Along came Ryan, a long time fan

To turn things around, he was our man.

Four pledges made, ambitious and bold

He’d bring Donny back from the cold,

Old heroes returned, Ian and Glynn

They started rebuilding some players brought in

Better team

Starts to grow

Slow but sure

Improvements show

Downward slide

Now abated

For a non-league side

Rovers are rated

Ian Duerden, Simon Shaw

Atkins, Walling and Gill

Simon Marples, Barry Miller

Paterson, Warren and Fell

Rovers fans start to sing

Doncaster Rovers – Phoenix rising

A phoenix rising but not yet risen

At least old moneybags is locked in prison

David Penney taken out of the team

To take the reigns driving Ryan’s dream

And so we climbed with football bold

To gain a chance of play-off gold.

Chester, Penalties

What a close call

Britannia Stadium

Great hope for all

Greeny, Morley

Two in the net

But stubborn Daggers make us sweat

Extra time with heart and soul

Franny Tierney – Golden goal

Tristram Whitman, Gregg Blundell

Ravenhill, Ryan and Tierney

The great Paul Barnes, young Paul Green

Allbrighton, Doolan and Morley

The team now has a winning knack

Doncaster Rovers - Good to be back.

Good to be back but what to do now?

The media think we’re sure to go down

But Penney he makes the vital signs

Going back down is not in our minds

Attacking football no lack of skill

From conference darkness comes iron-clad will

So what to do now? We’ll win this thing!

Lets go up again we’re not joking

Play-off champs Soon pace-setters

Climbing the league It just gets better

4 to nil Barnsley get beat

First time back Oh how sweet

Looks good now

Promotion sealed

Win the league Hull City yield

Steven Foster, Fortune-West

McIndoe, Mulligan, Green

Andy Warrington, Gregg Blundell

Whetear, Marples and Brown

Days are back that were long gone.

Doncaster Rovers – Up from Three to One.

Three to one in a mighty stride

A fitting tribute for this great side

A cup run’s next, the mighty fall

Penney goes a shock for all

Sean O’Driscoll, the next in line

Quiet, respected dignified

In the league, not quite there

So sites are set on Silverware

Penalty v Crewe

Heffernan

Destination Millenium

Forte, Heffs In a hurry

But fighting Pirates

Make us worry

Extra time Graham Lee

From Thornton’s corner

Makes it three

Whistle to lips

Time is up

Donny win the paint pot cup.

Sullivan, Forte, Jimmy O’Connor

Thornton Roberts and Lee

Sean McDaid, JJ Price

Sully, Copps and Green

Silverware in a trophy cabinet

Doncaster Rovers – with a winning habit.

A winning habit that’s not yet gone

Is a useful thing in league one

No outside bets

Now real contenders

The championship is where Sean will send us

With sound defence we set a pace

It looks very much like second place

But very last game a relegated team

Survives and shakes the Donny dream

Southend in play-offs

Copps scores three

On our way to Wemberlee

Mighty Leeds stand in our way

It falls for Hayter

To make them pay

So ten years after down and out

Four pledges achieved without a doubt

Best we’ve been four fifty years

Thanks John Ryan, hear our cheers

Sullivan, Hayter, Matt Mills, Green

Wellens, Heffs and Stock

Martin Woods, JJ Price

Locky, McCammon and Guy

Old fans shed joyful tears Doncaster Rovers – Best since 50 years

That was 50 years ago

When Ryan first saw the Rovers show

He fell in love like us all

With that game they call football

So is this where the fable ends?

Is this as high as we go?

Will we remain a championship team?

My friends, nobody knows

What the future brings no one can say

We’ll just love the way they play

Maybe one day in the top class

Or maybe this great success will pass

Only one thing I can with crossed heart say

I think of the Rovers everyday

So I’ll leave you with a glint in my eye

Doncaster Rovers – Til I die.