26-22 win after being 26-00 up....

Worrying??!

Nah, we have a full time squad. Benefits obvious today (even if only following the match on website and twitter).

Still finding our way. I expect a few weeks till we find our feet. Just need to stay in touch till we click. Bradford lost.

Anyone know the attendance today??

Forgot to add -

I still think the squad lacks a little depth

976

The important thing is that we won and the gate was much better than I expected.

Yep a good 300 more than many were predicting and a win under the belt!

Yes a win indeed by the skin of our teeth. The ref though...utterly *****... in the second half and certainly tried his hardest to win it for Doncaster and almost succeeded. Still we have the 2 points no matter how close and a pretty good game of footie too even if slower than SL. I reckon we have a squad that is up to the task this year.

Ref may well have 'assisted' Donnie but if we hadn't made so many errors and failed to complete our sets in the 2nd half....
And let's not forget the ref chalked off a Donnie try ( correctly IMO) for what looked like a double movement.
We were warned that refereeing standards would be poor in this division - it shouldn't have mattered as we were 26 points to the good. Should have been further ahead but more 3? missed kicks. Too many basic errors, must cut them out!

Sublime to ridiculous. First 50 mins we could do no wrong and Donny would never score if they played til Xmas. We put the cue on the rack and then forgot where it was ! That what happens when you play 2 kids at half back.

So can someone explain what they thought the ref did wrong?

We were are own worst enemy, can't blame the ref for that.
Basically we got ourselves in a position 20 points to nil and thought it was all wrapped up and sat back.

Don't think the ref was that bad. He was a bit naïve with some of Doncaster's tactics, particularly in the second half when they got a lot of mileage out of reefing balls in the tackle and winning dubious knock on decisions. Better referees are smart enough to recognise that when a ball shoots out of a stationery ruck at an odd angle it probably wasn't a collision dislodging a loose carry, especially when stripping the ball is clearly a central tactic for the defending side. But it's the sort of thing we're going to have to get used to.

We were by far the better side, but we switched off too easily in the second half. We were also quite naïve ourselves, we got "old manned" by a side that are more used to playing at this level. This isn't SL, what Championship sides lose in technical ability they replace with yard dog nous and that is what we need to be aware of. Too many of our players are not yet used to teams that will grind rather than trying to play. In the first half Doncaster's one out football approach got them nowhere, but in the second half when we switched off it gave them all the space they needed. In the first half Paul Cooke was totally anonymous, in the second half when we stopped the pressure he suddenly had space to put on a few basic but effective plays.

Need to keep our structure and when we do have a tough patch, which will happen in every game, we need to go back to one out football ourselves, until we weather it and then we can start playing again. It's about being a little bit more savvy, don't try to score our way out of trouble when a bit of hard work is needed.

Well said that man. Big gamble having two halves with no experience. But it may pay off in the long run. Foran can't be that bad can he?

Must have been watching a different game to me re the reefing of the ball, in fact I think we got pinged a couple of times for that exact thing so he certainly was not getting conned .
Thing with dubious knock on calls, he is bloke 5mtrs away generally we are at least 50
Think the officials got it pretty right today.
You are right about Paul cook he ran the show in the second half that and the big fella on dual registration!! Seems a bit of an odd rule this dual regards thing, think am only jealous coz we ain't got any.
from our lot, thought ray nasser stood out, some good solid defence in first half Oscar Thomas in particular, wes n looked pretty solid.
let's see how we go as sheffield

How did the redhead Harrison go?