Pitfalls of dual reg, made my feelings known many times, don't like it, but the club have entered into it so we make of it what we can, unfortunately, we are at the mercy of the parent club, they are after all their players. Tough game today against decent opposition, should give us an indication of where we are at. Hoping for a good game, Dons for a narrow win, and hopefully a bigger crowd. Could do without it being a cup final day.

I have it as DONS 24 Dewsbury 20.

But we will have to be at our very best, if we're not 110% we could be well
beaten.

if we win we will be 2nd if we lose with a bonus point we will be no less than 5th.

at the start of season we would have jumped at the chance to be 5th from first 3 games IMO.

My predictions for other results

Sheff 58 Barrow 10
NWC 16 Fev 28
Halifax 28 Batley 20
Leigh 60 Whitehaven 6 [ could be nilled!]
Rochdale 18 Keighley 26
Workington 18 Swinton 16 [ could go either way i think]

Lets get behind the lads today.
We seemed abit quiet in the stands last week.

LETS GET READY TO RUMBLE COYDs

Dons generally getting a 6-point start on the Handicap Betting.

How ironic is it that the Same ref who blatantly robbed us in the play offs last season was in charge again today! Some of his decisions today baffled me. All game Dewsbury were offside and holding down and he didnt give us a thing but in the second half when we were starting to get on top he awarded Dewsbury penalty after penalty. A few new people were there today and they said not coming again to watch a game of rugby ruined by inconsistent officiating and THAT is the reason why crowds are down. Can anyone explain how a Dewsbury knock on led to a penalty for Dewsbury baffling decision.

What hull lads played and how did they get on? Didn't manage to get to the game today.

Hadley started, played half an hour or so, before leaving the pitch with what looked like a head injury.

Dewsbury better side for me. Too many silly penalties & dropped ball by the Dons .

We will be better when we get some players back from injury & suspension !

COYD

In sport, you have to control the controllable. We have to look at what we did wrong as a team, not what the ref did wrong as a referee. If we'd got our bit right, we would have won today.

Too many handling errors and an inability to deal with kick-offs were two of the reasons for our downfall. We went 10-4 up, dropped the ball from the kick off, then conceded a try in the next set of six. That was the significant turning point in the game, and that was nothing to do with the referee.

I would also question why all our kick-offs went in the same place every time, to a guy who looked very good at collecting them?

I felt we missed the up-front go forward from Russ Spiers and Brett Waller, and no Kyle Kesik didn't help either.

Credit to Dewsbury because they kept going and came back when many others teams wouldn't have done.

I agree, Dewsbury deservedly shaded it.

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.