Christopher Smith

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Doncaster Rovers U18
9 Jan 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Christopher Smith

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The Doncaster Rovers Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Doncaster Rovers win it in stoppage time

The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 92th minute. Stevenage will replay every second of the added time for a week.

Player ratings

Both of them Glenn Middleton's — 8.34

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.34, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Transfer targets

Preston tell Doncaster Rovers: Daniel Iversen is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Transfer targets

Doncaster Rovers bid $200.0K for Jake Garrett

The offer went to Blackburn Rovers 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.

Boardroom

4 academy players handed senior numbers at Doncaster Rovers

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Match

Doncaster Rovers find a way past Stevenage

Stevenage made Doncaster Rovers work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑2 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Tempers go at Doncaster Rovers

Alam Garcete 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 terraces

One of their own: Zack Nelson

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.

Market

One of our own: Christopher Smith joins the Doncaster Rovers first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Christopher Smith is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief