The Doncaster Rovers Post
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
John Kelly, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.06
A mark of 8.06 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Doncaster Rovers baulk at the price for Rhys Chadwick
Leeds United wanted more than $1.3M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Doncaster Rovers bid $790.0K for Dante Cassanova
The offer went to Tottenham this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Doncaster Rovers go back to the board over Rhys Chadwick
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $1.4M — a club that wants Rhys Chadwick enough to be asked twice.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Graduation day at Doncaster Rovers
2 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Doncaster Rovers rebuffed over Dominic Hyam
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Wrexham have kept their man, and Doncaster Rovers go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Doncaster Rovers
Santiago García was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
One of their own: John Kelly
He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Market17 Aug 2026
One of our own: Peter Grant joins the Doncaster Rovers first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Peter Grant is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Robert Marshall steps up from the Doncaster Rovers academy
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Luke Molyneux
- Market Talks stall between Doncaster Rovers and Stuart Moore