final score Dons 20 Hunslet 30.

Good spells in each half gave Dons a bonus point , Rob Lunt had a good game , we clearly lacked not having an extra prop on the bench .

I left after 50 minutes......once again in disgust at the officials.
The pivotal point in the game for me was when after 35 minutes we were on the attack in what was then a tight game......a game to be LEFT ALONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But no!..... the feckin referee penalises US when we are on the attack. One of our forwards is about to play the ball right in front of the posts, he is being shoved, pulled and generally ragged about such that he lurches forward and the numpty of a ref penalises us for moving off the mark.
Then from the penalty Hunslet go down the other end of the field and score.
The seesaw had tipped..... courtesy of the ref......diabolical.
When are they going to penalise the offenders??????????
That was a game we COULD HAVE WON.
They are truly a disgrace, but now't can be done.
It doesn't really matter because the better side won.... the refs get-out.
FFS!
The entire game of rugby is a joke!
You have sides with next to two farthings to rub together fielding players who are are easily a division above this level.
How's that work???

Well done to the Dons for gaining a bonus point out of this shambles of a match.

i enjoyed the match doncaster matched hunslet for long periods but hunslet just had a little luck and a couple of referee decisions go there way at the right time. the 2 trys 5 mins before half time gave them the game but doncaster had a good performance overall and deserved there bonus for sure...

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And the next home game is one month away.
It's a joke.
I'm fast losing interest.

Positives;
Competed for full 80 mins.
Never say die attitude to gain an unexpected bonus point.
Defense much improved.
Was expecting a caning but came away more than happy.
Discipline good again - pity the sin-binnings for Hunslet came so late in the game.

Negatives;
3 clowns for officials. How the hell did Hunslet's try in the corner count when the corner flag was clearly clobbered?
As SO said, penalty against us for being dragged off the mark followed by Hunslet score.
Lack of expansive game & backing up still weak. Never tried to get ball out wide until the death. China must be our best attacking force but he's left isolated on the wing.
Loads of possession & field position but unable to get over the whitewash.
Still too much reliance on one man rugby.

I'd love to have access to stats but we must have had the lion's share of the ball & territory and maybe should have come out on top.

Plenty to take out of this game but it's a nightmare having to wait another month for the next home game.

The fixtures need looking at but our failure in the NRC gives us a chance to get a few players back b4 the Oldham game.

Well I enjoyed the game today despite the ref and the result.

I thought the players gave 100% and if it had not been for a poor ref and a bit of bad luck we could have pushed Hunslet even closer.

THE COMMITMENT WAS THERE.

Those numpties have been the worse officials I ve seen in weeks (Leahy, was reasonable last week).

Showed a big improvement from the debacle at Hunslet. Have to agree with some of the other postings too: overall good defensive display & kept it up when it could have been so easy to let their heads drop;

Slipped back into one man rugby a little too much after a bright start in the first half when we threw it around and troubled them;

I month before another home game is disgusting, how does the RL expect clubs to survive, providing that they care at all;

But never mind the lads showed 100% commitment & we are looking like we may have a season when we don t go bust!

Hope Leafy is nt too badly injured either.

The officials were poor today. The touch judge on our side, in the first half, especially so.

However, I stayed for the full 80. The lads deserve it.

The Dons are improving game on game. We could've won today.

The bonus point was sweet. Almost as good as winning !!

I can understand how you feel about the officials S-O, but
when the lads play well we've got to stick with 'em.

I enjoyed the game today. I feel like we are really competitive. We don't have to fear any team
in our division. Who would've thought that 6 months ago ?

Stick with it S-O, B*****KS to the officials, as long as lads put in 100% what more can we ask for ?

Didn't go today due to being at work [in my proper job...], so I can't really comment on the game, but from what I've read from the Hunslet fans, they reckon we're the most improved team in the division. I'd like to think that all fans would get behind the team, but sometimes that isn't the case.

I have to agree with what has been posted by a number of supporters on this thread. The officials were poor, but credit the lads, they stuck at it and the bonus point in the end was a pleasant surprise after it looking at one point like the floodgates might open. Still lacking a little in creativity and at time the passing is too pedestrian but certainly the overall effort is improving week-on-week.

Looking at the results in previous weeks involving Hunslet and how they have steamrollered York and Oldham away....we have put up the best performance against them in recent weeks.
We can indeed beat anybody given a fair rub of the green and officials who chuck the rule book to one side and use their EYES to see what's going off.
We need some more play-making skills, but these lie with players that are injured and we need to get them back.
Edwards we can't get, but Liam Brown and Henry we can. When are they coming back???????

We need a better scrum-half.....simples. Then we would motor.

Can we keep these players? If we could we would compete big time next year with a bit of tweaking.

We can still look forward to beating Rochdale, Workington and Gateshead at home and possibly Skolars away.

We should give it a right go at Oldham, they won't be expecting it and given the results between us Oldham and Hunslet.....why can't we go there and win????
COYD
We need to start believing we can beat some of these top sides.
Because we can!

Hunslet had no god-given right to come down yesterday and beat us and if we had been a bit more on the ball we could have won.

To be fair to Hunslet they were the better side and they missed tons of conversions.
But looking at some of the tries they scored.....we have got to blame ourselves rather than praise Hunslet.

Their little pocket battleship of a mini Stanley Gene was only ever going to try to dive over for his try at the play the ball on what must have been the last tackle.

The guy who cut through on the arc for a great looking try would not have had the room if we had just moved up and tackled him.

The corner flag try......I was a bit too far away to be fair...but that looked dubious.

The try just before I left when March kicked through more in hope than expectation and our man fumbled it BADLY and they just picked up and waltzed in.

When you factor these in.....you can see how we might well have won......BUT PREDICTABLY DIDN'T. And that's a mental thing.

We need to take a good look at our discipline and our tactics.

Having said that our defence is markedly improved....but individuals are letting us down.
COYD.

Couldn't make it yesterday but the Father in Law did. He was chuffed to bits with the effort and spoke highly of the lads that played and thoroughly enjoyed the match. He just thinks that we need an old head in one or two places and we would be fine.

I was well pleased with the commitment from the boys. Is it too much to ask for a referee once in a while that has a clue what is going on?