How did new signings starling and Wilson do?

Well we lost, but I think that the better side won.
I was happy we got a bonus point, we nearly didn't.

The lime green lunatic? What planet of rule books up the backside did he come from? He was my main grumble.

All three of the Rams tries we had a hand in.
A good break by them followed by a brilliant tackle back then let down by powder puff on the line defence.
Try two a dropped ball from a restart set it up.
Try three a small centre taking the ball in against big defenders and knocking it on.

We looked well short of forward power and hence we hardly got anywhere near their line.
When we did we were very good and scored tries.
It was just we never got there enough.

Fabulous defending throughout, apart from the tries, but that's all it was ...Donny trying to keep Dewsbury out.

Some work to do on attack still.

But we are however fourth ... yippee!

Barrow turning over the Eagles away?
Excuse me!!

According to Cooke's verdict on the website the players were adamant that the 3rd Dewsbury try was a no try as the ball was not grounded. my earlier rant about the officiating aside I was proud of the effort today and the lack of recognised props was a factor altho I thought Robbo had a great game as Prop and Leafy filling in there too (has he now played in every position for the us). We still seem to have a problem fielding re-starts altho the one that Kelly dropped under huge pressure after we had scored held up in the wind. Roll on next Sunday gonna be a tough game at Batley but confident we can come away with something. COYD

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I agree we can't blame the referee, who was a total joke, when we knocked on or failed to defend our line.
Our defensive effort on the left hand side was found lacking, and why did every kick off have to go to the same place, were is the variety to unsettle the opposition.
We lost the game rather than Dewsbury outplaying us to win it. Can well understand why transient attenders don't come back when they see such p*ss poor examples of officiating as was again on display today.

I do think the game would have been different if the injured/banned players would have been there. We lacked options in attack and let ourselves down with too many silly penalties! Hopefully have players back next week and hope Hadley is ok.

Tough game and all square with 8 minutes to go. I dont think the supporters from either side could have faulted their teams efforts today.
The team was short of three of last weeks starters and lost Hadley quite early on. This along with the absence of Keswick reduced the interchange options for keeping people fresh and this had an effect towards the end.
Mr Stokes was pretty lax all day with his offsides but then must have penalised Doncaster more in the last 10 minutes than he did both teams in the previous 70, bizarre. Consequently this gave Dewsbury field position and put Doncaster on the back foot.
Dewsbury finished the stronger and just edged it which was reflected in the final score.
Although we lost and tere is disappointment, I enjoyed the game and the effort and commitment from both sides
I would have been even more disappointed if we had lost the bonus point as the effort all the players put in deserved some reward.
Dewsbury are a big fit side who going to rollover a lot of sides this year and surprise some of the 'top five'.
As for Doncaster we have 7 from 9 points but the next five games include against Batley, Fev, Halifax and Sheffield and we need to stick with the boys through this period.
If we got 5 or 6 points from those games plus 3 points against North wales I would be happy.

Highlights -

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I may put the whole game up later.

Happy with a bonus point yesterday, they were better than us and look a bloody good side across the park. I wouldn't be surprised to see them amongst the usual top 4 this year

Battle of two good defences but we played far too much of the game in our own half to get anything more than a point

Shocking defence from butterfield for the second dewsbury try he should not have allowed him to run over him like that.

Second game of the season for me and I think I am worried what the likes of Leigh, Fev, Sheffield (bizarre result yesterday) and Halifax might do to us.

Yesterdays performance was very good from a defensive point of view the lads tackled and tackled well for the majority of the game and only a few slips or mistakes cost us the result. Robbo and Leafe were outstanding.

Sadly I don't think we offered anything in attack we lack a player who can unlock defenses when the opposition have marked Cooke out of the game which Dewsbury did to great success yesterday. Dews had several players on the pitch who were capable of creating something out of nothing we only seem to have Cooke. I know we have players out injured but we seem to lack punch at the moment.

I am in no way a professional sports coach or profess to be, but I think we really need to have some training on fielding kick offs and one on varied kickoffs....Everytime Sando kicked off it was to the same player stood in the same spot....Dewsbury and the cougars caught us out by varying their kick offs to make best use of the conditions something we dont do.

The ticketing situation was again silly, massive que at the ticket office at 14:50 and many Dews and Dons fans were complaining about it, they reduced the que by selling tickets to the que directly, why not just take money on the turn styles and save all the agro.

I am fairly certain fans of both sides missed the opening 5-10 mins of the game due to this.

Batley next week could be interesting and I am worried about the Fev home game could be a mauling unless we stop the silly penalties, work on ball retention and have Plan B for attack if they mark Cooke out of the game.