Club History
In addition to the background offered on the homepage, to give you a flavour of how the R'sonists came to be here is a brief club history as penned by Alan Brown for the Land 'u't Gods tournament programme at which the R'sonists featured in 2002...
Donny R'sonists were formed in the summer of 1998 and we played our first game at that year's WorldNET in Reading, where we won the Fair Play Award and Quiz Cup, if bugger all else. The team name is a 'lest we forget' reminder of the dark days which Rovers fans suffered at the hands of our former "benefactor" chairman/owner Ken Richardson and sidekick Mark Weaver, who will always be hated as the men who took Rovers out of the Football League. Mr Richardson so loved the club that he hired ex-SAS men to burn down the Main Stand at Belle Vue. Unfortunately for him, the SAS bungled the job and Richardson went down for four years for conspiracy to commit arson, hence the R'sonists - a wonderfully clever wordplay on arson and R(ichard)son, don't you think.
Donny R'sonists have played in every World Net since 1998 - our greatest achievement being qualification from the group stage last year at Leeds, despite being the shit of South Yorkshire. We travelled to Ayr two seasons ago to get stuffed in the IFA Cup, and entertained Hearts in Donny this year, where we duly maintained our 100% no-win ratio against sides from north of the border. However, as some of you may know, we can be slightly handy on our day, especially against teams from around our way - then again, we can get spectacularly stuffed, we like to keep things in balance for entertainment's sake.
Apparently we're the only IFA team from a, er, 'Conference Club' - yeah right - as everyone knows the mighty Rovers are only temporarily out of it thanks to the original R'sonist. The Donny R'sonists greatest ambition is to be playing against your internet team on the morning that your team plays Doncaster Rovers in a Football League fixture - Donny Rovers back where they rightfully belong - in the Football League - "are you watching Richardson?" Fair Play to Fair Players.
Donny R'sonists were formed in the summer of 1998 and we played our first game at that year's WorldNET in Reading, where we won the Fair Play Award and Quiz Cup, if bugger all else. The team name is a 'lest we forget' reminder of the dark days which Rovers fans suffered at the hands of our former "benefactor" chairman/owner Ken Richardson and sidekick Mark Weaver, who will always be hated as the men who took Rovers out of the Football League. Mr Richardson so loved the club that he hired ex-SAS men to burn down the Main Stand at Belle Vue. Unfortunately for him, the SAS bungled the job and Richardson went down for four years for conspiracy to commit arson, hence the R'sonists - a wonderfully clever wordplay on arson and R(ichard)son, don't you think.
Donny R'sonists have played in every World Net since 1998 - our greatest achievement being qualification from the group stage last year at Leeds, despite being the shit of South Yorkshire. We travelled to Ayr two seasons ago to get stuffed in the IFA Cup, and entertained Hearts in Donny this year, where we duly maintained our 100% no-win ratio against sides from north of the border. However, as some of you may know, we can be slightly handy on our day, especially against teams from around our way - then again, we can get spectacularly stuffed, we like to keep things in balance for entertainment's sake.
Apparently we're the only IFA team from a, er, 'Conference Club' - yeah right - as everyone knows the mighty Rovers are only temporarily out of it thanks to the original R'sonist. The Donny R'sonists greatest ambition is to be playing against your internet team on the morning that your team plays Doncaster Rovers in a Football League fixture - Donny Rovers back where they rightfully belong - in the Football League - "are you watching Richardson?" Fair Play to Fair Players.
Fancy Joining the R'sonists?
The R'sonists ask only two things of new members;
*this is the abridged version of abiding by our code of conduct, which you should read in full here. Contacting the R'sonists
We are available for birthdays, after-dinner speaking and ad-hoc football matches, but mainly ad-hoc football matches.
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The R'sonists' Theme Song
The R'sonists are possibly the only IFA side to have their own theme song. Adopted after repeated radio-play on a long bus journey north for an IFA Cup match with Kilmarnock, and retained due to its appropriate 'R'sonist' lyrics. Hit it!
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