Here are the details of the Dons and York’s last six matches:

Dons:

Work L 21-22
White W30-22
Barr L10-14
Keigh L24-32
Gloucester W42-4

York:

Barr L19-26
Work W28-18
Keigh L20-22
Tor W26-16
Work W34-0

Using Workington as the yardstick, it looks as though York are better. Taking Barrow as the measure, there’s not much between us. Both sides lost to Keighley but we lost by slightly more. The stand-out result is York turning over Toronto.

The bookmakers think York are the better side because they’re offering 10/11 for a Dons win with a 12 point start. Are York 12 points better than the Dons?

Given what was at stake this must represent a good result. Of course it would have been even better had that last penalty gone over the bar rather than hitting the woodwork but it is now all to play for against Newcastle next weekend. Newcastle seem to have been a bit of a bogy team for us in the last couple of seasons but, Keighley apart, their recent results have not been great and we are probably playing with more cohesion than when we lost to them a few weeks ago. Let's hope a few of our stayaway fans make the effort to turn up and support the team.

Some good points by the Cas fan about the penalties & the ref .
More I think about it we should have won & deserved to , when we were leaving the ground a York fan said we should have won by 20 points .

Going back to penalty the Dons got when one of our players pushed a York player back into the ruck, the guy should not have been there but a lot of refs would not have us a penalty . The ref levelled matters up when he gave a penalty against Hedges which appeared to be wrong .

Crowd given as 1107 , not a bad turn out by Dons fans , but where has the choir gone ?

Not been a lot to sing about lately.

Maybe they went to see the vicars surplice