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STAGSNET`S STATISTICAL PREVIEW
13th October 2003 9:46


Our next opponents in the league are Doncaster Rovers, who last season wrote themselves in the history books by becoming the first team being promoted to the league through a playoffs final and did so on golden goal against Dagenham & Redbridge thus ensuring a league return after five Conf seasons after the relegation in 1997-98 – a truly awful season for the Doncaster fans with only four wins and 34 defeats – add to that 113 goals against, a record for the league basement division.
But on their return, Doncaster have so far more than held their own and are along with the Stags among the form teams in division 3 – Doncaster with thirteen points from their last five games – and the Stags fresh from four consecutive league three-pointers. So the game at Belle Vue should be an interesting crowd-puller considering both teams on form and the relatively short distance between the towns.
At Doncaster, the Stags have had a very good away record during the years, in fact winning nearly half of their previous 25 outings – all after World War II – the first being by the only goal of the game on April 15, 1950 – despite that reverse, Doncaster finished as div 3 (N) Champs. That 1-0 was the first of four consecutive Stags wins at Doncaster – and the Stags have in their last SEVEN outings there not even conceded a goal!!!! Is that a Stags league record against any team in league fixtures??? On the other hand, the game on November 11, 1966 provided the most goals on aggregate between the two clubs as the Stags won 6-4 – this being the second game in a run of six consecutive league wins in the 1966-67 season. The teams have also met on opening days – at Doncaster in 1970-71 and in Stagsland in 1986-87. Ties between the teams have also been the final ones. This happened in 1973-74 and 1980-81.
The clubs have also faced each other in the FA Cup on five occasions with the Stags going through on three occasions and Doncaster on two.
Doncaster, who along with Notts County were the first team to go straight from the old second division to the old fourth in 1958-59, have had some famous names in the hot seat.
Among them are George Raynor, who managed the Swedish national team around the time of the World Cup Finals in Sweden way back in 1958. Other well-known names in the Doncaster hot-seat include Billy Bremner – two spells – Lawrie McMenemy and Dave Mackay.
Several players have represented both sides during the years. Among them are the members of the Stags team which disposed of Leeds in the 1994-95 League Cup – John Doolan, Kevin Noteman and the scorer at Leeds, Simon Ireland.
Yet a player who came from Doncaster without making their first team went on to be a key member of the Stags championship sides in the 1970's. And his name is Kevin Bird.

Played for both sides: Andy Beasley, Kim Book, Nicky Clarke, O'Neill Donaldson, John Doolan, Stephen Foster, John Haselden, Stuart Hicks, Simeon Hodson, Simon Ireland, Kevin Noteman, Don O'Riordan, Martin Pemberton, Les Robinson, John Saunders, Steve Uzelac.

Home stats: P 25, W 12, D 8, L 5, GF 46, GA 27
Away stats: P 25, W 12, D 6, L 7, GF 35, GA 26

Season Home Date Away Date

1932-33 2-2 1933-03-11 2-2 1932-10-29 Div 3 (N)
1933-34 1-1 1934-03-17 0-1 1933-04-11 Div 3 (N)
1934-35 2-0 1934-11-03 1-2 1935-03-16 Div 3 (N)
1948-49 2-2 1948-08-21 1-1 1948-12-18 Div 3 (N)
1949-50 1-2 1949-10-15 1-0 1950-04-15 Div 3 (N)
1958-59 3-1 1959-02-28 2-0 1958-10-11 Div 3 (old)
1960-61 1-2 1961-04-17 3-2 1961-04-25 Div 4 (old)
1961-62 4-0 1961-09-02 1-0 1962-01-12 Div 4 (old)
1962-63 4-2 1963-04-16 1-1 1963-04-15 Div 4 (old)
1966-67 3-1 1966-10-17 6-4 1966-11-15 Div 3 (old)
1969-70 1-2 1969-10-06 0-2 1969-08-16 Div 3 (old)
1970-71 2-1 1970-10-17 2-1 1970-08-15 Div 3 (old)
1972-73 0-0 1972-12-30 1-0 1972-08-19 Div 4 (old)
1973-74 2-0 1974-04-29 0-0 1974-03-26 Div 4 (old)
1974-75 5-2 1974-11-16 3-4 1975-02-22 Div 4 (old)
1980-81 1-1 1981-05-06 1-2 1980-12-19 Div 4 (old)
1983-84 1-2 1983-09-03 1-3 1984-01-07 Div 4 (old)
1986-87 2-1 1986-08-23 0-1 1987-02-17 Div 3 (old)
1987-88 2-0 1987-09-29 2-0 1988-03-01 Div 3 (old)
1991-92 2-2 1991-11-02 1-0 1992-03-14 Div 4 (old)
1993-94 2-1 1994-03-12 1-0 1993-09-17 Div 3
1994-95 0-1 1994-10-22 2-0 1995-01-10 Div 3
1995-96 0-0 1995-08-29 0-0 1996-03-25 Div 3
1996-97 2-0 1997-01-21 0-0 1996-09-07 Div 3
1997-98 1-1 1997-09-05 3-0 1998-03-02 Div 3

Svante Bernhard aka Sweden Stag (pictured, above right)

 

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