DONCASTER ROVERS V COVENTRY CITY
TUESDAY MARCH 8TH AT 7.45PM
AT THE KEEPMOAT STADIUM,STADIUM WAY, LAKESIDE,DONCASTER, DN4 5JW
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MATCH DETAILS
Kick off at 7.45pm
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TRAVEL
Club Coach leaves the Ricoh Arena at 4pm and costs £16.50.
By Car
From the A1(M) join M18 Eastbound at Junction 35 (signposted Hull) or from the M1 and join the M18 Eastbound at Junction 32. Once on the M18, leave at Junction 3 and take the A6182 towards Doncaster (the stadium is well signposted from Junction 3 and is about one and a half miles away). You will pass a retail park on your left and then at the next island (which has the Lakeside Pub visible behind it) turn left onto White Rose Way. The Lakeside Shopping Centre is now on your right (the stadium is located directly behind the shopping centre). At the next island turn right onto the industrial estate and after passing the Tesco distribution centre on your right, turn right at the bottom of the road and the stadium is further down on your left.
There are just 1,000 car parking spaces at the stadium, which will mean that for the bigger games, parking will be at a premium. There are 60 parking spaces reserved for disabled fans, which must be booked prior to matchday.
The stadium management are also giving preference for parking to those cars carrying more than one passenger, but apparently this won't be enforced. The cost of parking at the stadium is £5. A number of firms on the nearby industrial park, offer matchday parking at around £3-£4 per vehicle.
If you happen to arrive a couple of hours before kick off then there is also some free street parking to be had in this area.
There is no coach parking available at the stadium. Visiting supporters' coaches drop fans off at the stadium and park off site.
By Train
Doncaster Station is around two miles away so you are probably best taking a taxi to the ground. If you do have time on your hands and you fancy the long walk (around 25-30 minutes) then the route from the railway station is as follows:
On coming out of the railway station, walk to the dual carriageway across the car parking area and turn to face to your right (i.e. away from the road tunnel under the Frenchgate shopping centre). You are now looking down a more or less straight line to the stadium. Provided you then use the appropriate places to cross roads as necessary you just follow the line of the dual carriageway to the roundabout adjacent to Vardy's Renault dealership. Then turn left into Middle Bank and follow the road round to the stadium.
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ADMISSION
Tickets are priced at £25 for adults, £18 for senior citizens over 60 and under 17-20's, £15 for under 12-16s and £11 for under 12s.
There are a limited number of wheelchair and ambulant disabled tickets available priced at £18 with personal assistant going free of charge. Disabled tickets can only be bought through the Ticket Office at the Ricoh Arena either in person or by calling 0844 873 1883.
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THE LAST TIME
This will be the 16th time that the teams have met in league and cup matches. The Sky Blues have won on six occasions with four draws and have scored seventeen goals compared to Doncaster's eighteen.
City beat Doncaster 2-1 at the Ricoh Arena back in September but have not won in two visits to the Keepmoat Stadium, losing 1-0 and drawing 0-0 last season.
The sides for the 0-0 draw were:
City: Westwood, Wright, van Aanholt, Cranie, Turner, Osbourne, Clingan, Gunnarsson, McIndoe, Morrison, Best SNU Walker, Grandisn, Konstantopolous, Clarke, Jeffers, Cain, Cameron
Doncaster Sullivan, Roberts (Hird 81), Chambers, Lockwood, Shackell, Stock,Woods (Fortune 84), Oster (Heffernan 85), Coppinger, Shiels, Hayter. SNU Fairhurst, Wilson, Guy,Smith
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MATCH OFFICIALS
The currently appointed referee for Coventry City's Championship game at Doncaster Rovers on Tuesday night is David Webb from County Durham.
Mr Webb took a refereeing course after seeing an advertisement in a programme at a match and through talking to referees whilst playing local football. He promoted to the National List of Referees in 2008.
He cites one of his favourite games as the FA Vase 1/4 Quarter-Final game between Kirkham and Wesham v Coventry Sphinx FC, saying 'the match had everything both teams just going for the win it was end to end for 120 minutes played on a mud bath of a pitch and ended 3-3!!!'
Mr Webb has has 22 games this season including City's 1-0 win over Burnley and has shown 67 yellow cards and four red. He has not been in charge of a City game before this season.
The Assistants are Simon Clayton from County Durham & Tony Harrington from Cleveland. The Fourth Official is Stephen Ross from Lincolnshire.
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