Mike Kelly replaces Carl Hughes on the bench although no 5 has no name , assuming that China is playing .

Squad has only one change from last week, which is Kelly in for Hughes. China wears 2, Hodson 5..

Currently 6-4 to Barrow. Hodson just scored to open the Dons account.

Barrow 12 Dons 4 at Half time.

I know it is a bit late but final score Barrow 25 Dons 8.

Will leave the comment to those who attended.

Is Mike Burnett injured .

obviously a disappointing result. as i didnt go would be intetested in the opinions of those who did as to how the Dons played

dissapointing that we could of won. cooke and hyde had a bad day at the office and although i think emmett is a good player i think he would be better at loose and bring powley in to share the hooking role with kesik. we can play so much better though!

Agree Donny 11 hope Powley gets a chance against Sharlston .

I did write a detailed report, but hit the wrong button and lost it and can't be @rsed to retype it.
Suffice it to say it was like a relatively strong, but ordinary, C1 side at home to a load of amateurs.
On the plus side we defended well.
Otherwise it could have got embarrassing.

Let's move on.
PS
We still need a number seven.
Flair-less!

we played much better when castle and deano where on the field in my opinion we need two big props as good as those two, i have not been impressed with hyde either prefere fawcett he has alot more pace and reads the game better, yesterday we took the wrong options too many times kicking early in the tackle count hyde guilty on three occaisons and missing our chances of witch we had many, emmit , waterman castle and deano worked their socks off along with kesik,we got carried away with last weeks performance,though i still think we are one of the better teams in this league

Re Hyde / Fawcett , Hyde had a better kicking game v Haven than Fawcett had shown in previous matches.

It was close for the 1st 20 mins or so both defences worked well. Both teams made too many handling errors on a perfect day for RL. Mr Lehey made some very strange decisions for both sides ... Barrow were the better side for most of the game tho hence the score...we snuffed out Paul Cooke and that is the key to beating you. You need a plan B.

I think you will be in the mix come seasons end though.

Lee

I couldn't make it to Barrow but I agree with Olddon that Mark Castle and Dean O'Laughlin are very good. We don't seem to have the same forward push when they're off the field.

From the video highlights of the game we seemed to miss a few tackles and didn't drive up to meet the opposition. We waited for them to come to us.

The lads are still learning so let's hope we can press on from here. Barrow away will probably be the toughest test of the season. We need to make sure we don't slip up against the lesser lights, as well as getting bonus points in the matches we don't win.

Looking forward to the game at the weekend already!

7 hours of travelling for a game that was for a lot of the time dissapointing. We made far too many errors and wrong decisions.
But has stated they are maybe one of the strongest teams in our division, even though they beat us on the day Barrow were beatable apart from the reasons stated above.

We need a Darren Holt.

Had to laugh at a post on Totalrl (barrow) by a Haven fan suggesting Dons wouldnt travel well. Thats from a team who we have stuffed on the last 3 occasions at the Keepmpoat.

Still think we can compete in this league , early days yet.