Not a mention of the Dons in the Free Press.
I was convinced Steve Hossack would do a number on us...he doesn't buy the bull crap...
Perhaps we avoided giving him details....or he has given up watching.

Sticking my head back in to say Prozac has been at the matches recently, although, given his advancing age, its fair to say that he may have fallen asleep.

If my memory is correct, the current Head of Media at Club Doncaster is a former Free Press Sports Editor, so you'd think they'd try to at least get something in every week.

As for the stats stuff, yeah, I agree with everything I've read on here. It's easy to get carried away with stuff from time to time, however, the next load of updates I'm doing should include as many coaches as I can get information on. Please bare in mind, that I'm only a fat bloke with serious mental health issues, so I'm trying to do stuff at a pace that doesn't burn me out.

Seems like a good call. Look after yourself mate.

Take care, Donny, mate.

We'll look forward to seeing the stats when you've had time to put them together. Thanks for taking the time to do it.

Interesting Stats from the Dons first two seasons.
1951-52 Coach Gareth Price
Played 40 League & Cup Games Won 21.Lost18 Draw1.
Season 1952-53 Coach Jack Kitching
Played 42 League & Cup Games Won 12.Lost 29 Draw 1. (Includes friendly match against Australia)
Jack Kitching was coach at the Dons from Sept 1952 to September 1957

Thanks, Geoff.

It's amazing to think they played so many games back then. It makes you wonder how teams survive on gate receipts from 9 home league games these days.

Yes it was a lot of games in a season the players were all part time only13 players no subs the scrum half had to feed the ball in to the middle of the scrum & the front row had to work hard to win the ball from the scrum.
At Christmas they played three game in 7 days Xmas Day, Boxing Day & New Years day & Easter they played Good Friday & Easter Monday & again the following Saturday.

How do Donny...long time no see.
Take care buddy....we like stats on here so keep up the good work.

Featherstone sack Sean long who are 8pts clear with just 6 games remaining because they want to ensure promotion, admittedly that seems extreme but they are ambitious and tunnel visioned for going up now compare that with us and horne it's absolutely crazy!

Featherstone recognise it's this year or never as far as Super League is concerned with IMG rules coming in next year.

Sean Long's sacking does seem rather extreme. James Ford is a good man to have as 'interim coach' but Fev seem to have pressed the panic button. If all clubs had a similar sacking process, no coach would last five minutes.

With regards to Richard Horne, I've never been his greatest fan but I thought we played some very smart rugby in the early part of this season. We completed our sets well, didn't try to score everytime we had the ball and built up pressure on the opposition which eventually ground them down. Connor Robinson's kicking was intrumental in this as we were often turning the ball over very near the opposition's line.

In hindsight, when we were playing a 'near perfect' game, we were only winning by small margins. Once we dropped off from this high performance level, we've become very vulnerable.

In his interview, after North Wales, you could see how disappointed Richard Horne was as they had a game plan to beat them down the middle but we failed. In my view, we have never had a pack that has been good enough to win this league but I thought we were a step closer to it this season. Unfortunately, we're probably not as good as I hoped we were.

There also appeared to be a hint of, 'What else can we do?' in the interview. It must be exasperating for any coach to see a plan ripped up on the field with Plan X, Y or no plan at all taking over.

I do feel for the players as they're proud people and won't want this to be happening. They'll be hurting more than us. The only way out of this downturn is to build up confidence and confidence is only built up by winning. At least we've got a couple of opportunities to do that against London and Cornwall.

If we don't go up, there needs to be a frank and open discussion as to why we've failed to get out of this league again. In the unlikely event that we go up, Club Doncaster will have to make some serious financial investments or else we'll be odds on to come straight back down again.

Featherstone lose and Long is sacked just hours after stories surface linking him with an Assistant Coach role at Warrington ... it will be interesting to see if he does end up at the Halliwell Jones Stadium.