Lucas is still out but he's not that far off a return.

I would kike to wish all at the Dons the very best of luck going into your first game in the championship,Dewsbury have recruited well,however your spirit and team work carried over from last year will see you come out ontop.

COYD

Bookies predicting a tight game. Bet365, Skybet & Hills give the Dons 2 points start on the Handicap. The others who are quoting go 10/11 each of two (no handicap).

Weigman, Cowling would be in as a winger in my eyes, over Stu hence my Partnership with Lee point.....
SO Butts, Cowling, Waterman, Cunningham , Tuffour would be my start. Trust me after 30 years I know we cannot have 3 centres........assume you would drop Butts?

Now then didnt mean to question your RL knowledge .

MY 17

Waterman

Sanderson
Cunningham
Cowling
Tuffor

Goulding
Fawcett

Cas
Kesik
Waller

Butterfield
Robinson if fit/ C Hughes

Cooke

REPS
Carbutt
Emmett
Welsh
Kaye

18th man
Edwards if fit / C Hughes

Bit controversial I know

Dons 16 Rams 22
The better side won.
The Dons were shiite, they couldn't hold on to a thing.
Couldn't complete a set of six.
Took the wrong option almost every time.
They played like strangers and didn't have the desire of the Rams.
Let's hope things get better.
I am loving the bonus point system.
Thank fook for it, we will need it.
PS Tuffour had a great game.
The man is a diamond.

Can't disagree with Stand-Offish. Thought we were defensively poor again this week. The amount of ball we had in first 20 minutes we should have one up with more.

I can disagree with a usual negative post .
I know eveyone is due to their opinion , before you come back at me .

Didn't get going at all in first half, second half a bit better but i would agree better side on the day won. Can play a lot better , need to get used to increased pace of the game at this level. We'll be ok im sure.

Harsh but fair ,I think S-O.

I agree Rams were better than us, but, on the plus side I thought we defended very well for much of the game.
I think experience told today. We still looked Championship 1 thinking in our attacking play, barring Tuffour's tries. Too slow at the play-the-ball, where I thought the ref was lenient on them however. Far too one-dimensional, not enough running onto the ball. Chase down of our clearing kicks left a lot to be desired. Hopefully, we will learn from the experience.

Positives and negatives for me:

Negatives:
Too many key players underperformed.
Too many bad decisions made
Failed to get up to meet them when defending
Should have been a game we were targeting
There are a lot better teams than that in this division (I assume)

Positives:
We got a point from a bad outing
We can play a lot better
Tuffour was excellent
We, in general, contained a physically big side

could,nt understand the team selection.is butterfield injured.seems tony was trying to accommodate players,and if that was the reason,why not goulding from the kick off.we were very niave on the ball when we did,nt drop it.some poor decisions from the ref did,nt help but im not blaming him(totally).i dont think we were as bad as S/O portraded us,but he,s entitled to his opinion like the rest of us.we can only get better.coyds

i could name about 4 players that actually showed passion! the rest just didnt seem interested. we didnt show up today and that wasnt helped by dodgy decisions and shocking team selection!

Too many errors but ref didn't help at times...just seemed to look like not played together.
Don't want to be harsh on Fawcett but Bobby should be starting choice as he killed ball way to often and Spur should have then gone into centre. Kez needs more time on park as makes diff and emmett looks better as a hooker so soon as Edwards fit the better.
Brett looked like had been told not to pass....
Positives tuffour brooke and carbutt showed promise.
A lot should be learned and well done lee for being only one firing guys up.
Need to meet them attackers at pace but overall defence was good.
Still a points a point.

lee firing the guys up? he was a liability and made too many errors. kesik and cooke were the only 2 i saw encouraging the team. emmett deserved man of match and i would love to see him instead of powley as hooker.