Some good points well made by earlier posts. It's great to see the real season begin.

These are the critical points for me:

1) Keep ball handling errors to a minimum
2) Quick play the balls when we're in possession, and slowing down (legally!) the oppositions play the balls.
3) Discipline - I would guess that a try results around 33% of the time when you give away a penalty. In effect every penalty costs around 2 points.

4) Good tactics - play an expansive game when we're faster in the backs, and play more down the middle when we're bossing this area. I feel Tony Miller is excellent in getting the tactics right.

Hopefully, come Sunday night we'll be reporting back on these things going well, as opposed to badly, and that we've got our first points on the board ... and hope it's not just a bonus point!

I won't mention the impact a ref can have on the game because ultimately a team can only control the controllable, and the ref's performance will never fall into that category!

Good luck to the lads for Sunday!

totally agree , we saw some super league quality try,s on sunday and the promise of more to come ,squadbuilder fund well worth the money why not have a bucket collection on the gate for them that are not in it,my wife who has no interest in rugby pays in to the fund because she knows how much it means to me and my son and the dons supporters.

Dont know if its viable,just a thought, maybe there could be a squadbuilder levy of say 50p on match day tickets that people could opt out of if they wanted to, some would but i would say a lot wouldn,t
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A bucket collector stood by the half time draw girls outside would be the easiest to sort out. I bet most people would chuck in an extra 50p/£1 whilst they have got their hand in their pockets for a draw ticket.

that would definately be the easiest yes

especially if they were topless !

i'd give them one (pound coin ! ) ....