Here's the league table positions with points differences and details of everyone's three remaining gameshttps://yorkcityknights.com/match-day/#gettinghererl

Thanks Double Movement for that analysis.
The key to our future progress is, I think, discipline. We have the players to win the next two games provided we don't give away silly penalties. When Newcastle came here a few weeks ago they took the game away from us. I can't believe that our players won't be aware of that when we play them in a couple of weeks time and be prepared for it. Of course a win at York would remove much of the pressure.

The sooner this game is played the better ...

I hope we win of course, but just in case we don't, I would love to be spared the crap articles by players and coach pre game about what is needed/ what is expected etc.
Save that guff for when we win.

And if we lose... please no "it all could have been so different" if this that and the other had occurred or not occurred.

I hate that crap.

There is only one imperative and that is win and only one response if we lose.
We were not good enough.

Now go out and win you bunch of woossers!

I for one have been critical of the club about lack of communication with the fans . The club are dammed if they do & dammed if they do not !

S-O what would you put out next week before the York game , do not want to have issues with you , but everything seems very black & white .

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I always look forward to getting the squad news on a Friday afternoon. I'm not overly bothered about match reports as I've probably either seen the game or watched the Twitter feeds. I quite like reading the coach's comments afterwards.

Thanks Danensian. I love rugby and the Dons. I hope by doing some pre-game analysis that it adds to people's interest and hopefully encourages more people to come on here and share their views with us.

It must be a nightmare being a coach - seeing your team give away penalties. I listened to the Keighley game on the radio last weekend and they were giving penalties away all the time. Mike Emmett spent more time talking to the referee in the 80 minutes of the match than most of us spend talking to our wives in a week!

Let's hope we can sort our discipline for the York game.

Yes they have to put something out ... but what they are putting out is dross.
e.g. Player X says "We have to step up to the plate, cut out the silly mistakes and complete our sets.
We know it will be tough because York are a good side and they are hard to beat on their home patch.
They have struck a bit of form and even though they lost they put in a good effort at Barrow.
They will be looking to hold onto 4th place and it won't be easy for us."

"But if we complete our sets kick well and stick to our game plan then we have a good chance."

Sound familiar?

How about ...

"We are going there to win and fully expect to!"
"So get ready York!"

Oh no, that might rev York up and a few of us might go there and cheer the Dons on.

No far better to prevaracate.

Stand-Offish there is an easy solution to your problem. Don't read it.

But how would I know whether it's dross or not ... unless I read it?

Louis Sheriff available , no further action to his sin binning v Workington .

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That's good news. Can we knock off the three tries that Workington scored whilst he was in the bin too?

Well perhaps if RH had intervened and addressed the problem at the time by reshuffling his cards better those tries may have not all have been scored and the game won by the Dons.

Perhaps he did and it failed.
I wasn't there.

But It's a fairly weak argument for a coach to claim that one man down for ten minutes should have made all that difference.
Except that it did happen during that ten minutes.
So the link can be made for a coach looking for excuses.

Harsh?
I care not.

I am not a fan of a fatalistic view of things as though there is little that could have been done.

You can change outcomes by intervention.

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One of the criticisms I had of Gary Thornton was that he didn't seem to be able to make in game decisions that could make a difference to the outcome of a match. In my opinion, the difference between an "okay coach" and a "good coach" can often be this.

I wasn't at the Workington game either but listened to the radio commentary. The commentator said the players heads seemed to go down after the first try. Whether that was the cause of the second and third tries, I don't know.