LIVE updates as Doncaster Rovers fans put questions to the club’s owners

A few stories to come on some of the biggest talking points of the night over the next 24 hours.

GB praises the role of the club’s backroom staff and those at the Belles and the Dons in the club’s efforts to be successful.

Some top people behind the scenes at the club in fairness.

Do we have 18/19 players good enough to play for Doncaster?

JC: ‘I one-hundred per cent think we have got 18 or 19.

‘We turned down three or four interested clubs in January for our players.

‘League Two it’s very, very tight on what we can recruit. A lot of the times when we have recruited we haven’t necessarily recruited better players.

‘For me it’s about having a group of players you can keep together for a longer period of time.

‘We have unbelievable players with ubelievable character and that is bigger than any individual.’

TB:

‘I’m not aware of that we have got lots of people knocking on the door to want to buy Club Doncaster. We just strive to make it valuable and make it an attractive club to belong to.

‘We are not going to give the club away.’

Says they want to make sure the next owners are essentially the right ones. More on that later.

Doesn’t want to get abuse and to let others’ opinions influence his.

‘Its as wide and thorough as our resources make it. Linking staff to our identity; disappointment, setbacks. This is a tough industry to be in, it’s ruthless.

‘When we recruit staff the identity slide shows us how we align.

‘We might not be able to handpick the best of the best but we believe we can get people to be a part of the club and fall in love with this club.’

GB says he’s never felt so comfortable with the current footballing staff. JC: ‘I feel like we have got a real strong group. It takes time.

‘You recruit a staff member, you have to look after that staff member, make them feel valued and looked after’.

‘The reality is League One is far easier to be sustainable than League Two.

‘League Two is a challenge. Club Doncaster, whatever people think of it, is probably funding 75 per cent of the playing budget.

‘Doncaster Rovers would lose millions.’

Copps earlier spoke of the importance of supporting your club through the hard times.

‘Moving forward, continuity for me is success for this football club.’

They have a meeting with DB on Wednesday about next season’s budget and getting players tied down permanently. Copps wants a squad of 18/19 going into pre-season.

A timely question from Baldwin with Mr Blunt present.

JC: ‘In terms of Kyle Knoyle and Adam Clayton the two decisions were solely football decisions.

‘Kyle Knoyle made it clear he didn’t want to be at the club. We made him an improved over. We got a sum of money we were assured we could reinvest in the training facility.

‘It isn’t about what we do on the playing budget. We have to support these players.

‘In terms of loan players, sometimes resources dictate what we can and can’t do. We are forming some fantastic relationships with clubs.

‘I understand your concerns - I have the same concerns - but it’s about making do with what we’ve got available.’

‘I can assure you that everybody on this table hears plenty from David and me. We don’t like stepping on toes.

‘I was at Mansfield and the one thing I did bring home was positive was that we were the better team on the pitch.’

That last one gets a few laughs.

DB says they may not appear in the press like other owners our commitment and enthusiasm is no less than anybody else’s

Both him and Bramall are more than welcome to an interview with ourselves.

Why should I renew my season ticket? The man says he earns £1300 a month.

DB: ‘We are just as big of a fan as you. It’s our intention to give the management the resources to deliver within the financial constraints’.

‘Both those are self sufficient in their own right.’

Baldwin says EFL clubs will lose around £350 million this year. Losses around £1.5 to 2 million per club.

Submitted by Netto FC: How much time does JC spend at the club/training ground?

Four days a week or five if there’s a home match. 6am until 6pm.

TB said he has put £12.6 million into the club since joining.

One fan who attends with the person she cares for claims the West Stand toilet hasn’t been cleaned since the start of the season.

COO Shaun Lockwood claims he hasn’t heard anything about the issue. Another fan then pops up and complains about another set of toilets.

GB says they spend £350,000 annually on the stadium, including cleaning and maintainance.

‘The stadium is extremely well used. Within our gift we would want to polish the stadium and clean it but that’s a huge sum of money.

Says increasing budget for stadium maintainence would hit playing budget. Admits place is getting a bit creaky.

‘There’s a lot of unseen works going on that are extremely costly.’

‘At the minute the players we have got four or five have all been out on loan and had fantastic.

‘In the future it would be nice but it comes down to resources.’

Martin O’Hara (not sure on the spelling) from the VSC supporters’ trust says the trust holds a community asset for the stadium and have first refusal if it was to ever be put up for sale.

DB says they have no intention of selling the stadium regardless. ‘You could always sell the club but we would never sell part of it’.