Anyone notice that the manner of defeat matched our recent defeat performances?

We cocked up straight from the kick off, we needed an invitation to play until we woke up after ten minutes, gave penalties away as our only contribtion, did a mini fight back and then collapsed.

By the looks of things Jack Miller was a late call up to the squad given the injury to Abdull.

Obviously his preparation cant have been great................, and boy did it show in what must be the worst game of his Dons career.

Harris also had a mare , and after his defensive display i would have been surprise to see him tackle his post match meal as that would have been the only one he made all day.

Bradford played well, however our lack of enthusiasm always had us coming up short.
I feel if we had served up the Featherstone display it would have been a much tighter affair.
London wont be a cake walk and with tough trips to come away from home ,im sure our small squad will come under more stresses and strains before seasons end.

Two big hard running props are a must if we are to see promotion this year.

To be fair, you have actually said much worse in the recent past.

We're all hard to please because we all want to win every game by plenty, beat up every team in the league, never give away silly penalties, be top of the league, and secure promotion by June.

Sport isn't like that, well hardly ever unless you're Toronto.

Of course that doesn't mean you should stop trying to do the things I mentioned, you should. Achieving them is just a damn sight harder than just wanting them.

We're not the best team in the league, Bradford are. From what we saw on Sunday they deserve to go up automatically. Good luck to them. Their fans deserve some success after all the turmoil they've been through over recent times. And well done to the fans for sticking by them in such large numbers.

After dreaming that we might be clear best, we've got to be realistic and say that we're likely to be a top five side. Our focus has got to be to make sure we stay in the top five, learn from the mistakes we've made, and do everything we can to peak for the play-offs.

I appreciate that you can't get any more revved up than you are because of what has happened. That's down to the type of person you are. Please don't treat that as a criticism, it's not; it's an observation. We're all made differently. There's nothing wrong in that.

Personally, I try to keep a more balanced view. There are a lot of other teams' fans in this league that have reasons to be less satisfied than Dons' fans. We're still in there fighting and a lot can happen between now and the end of the season. When you get knocked down, you have to get back up again and try to do better. That's where we're at now.

With a few tweaks and perhaps a couple more props, I don't see any reason why we can't beat York and the rest to the second promotion place.

A common theme developing here, how many of us have pointed out (some of us on more than one occasion) that the squad is two decent props short.

Regrettably, the 'company line' from the RH and CH is that we have a balanced squad with no further signings necessary.

I have no personal axe to grind with either and I can accept us not being top of the league and not beating Bradford, but what I can't accept is that we don't need to recruit a couple of decent prop forwards.

Other than Osbourne it doesn't look like we are going to see any front rowers from Hull.

We are more likely going to use back rowers as additional props.

We have stubborn people at our club who even if they now do realise were short up front won't admit there wrong, It's become a us vs you scenario and while they say they entertain ideas and feedback from the fans every question sent into the itd is treated with arrogance and distain. I'm with you that 2 hard running mobile props will give us a great chance promotion but saying the fans were right is not in carl's vocabulary.

The Dug out is an absolute joke , a grinning goon who must have taken his media training with Diane Abbott.

When asked a tough genuine question ,we are given the stupid faces, the ear twiddling and then avoidance by saying the questioner has no Rugby knowledge.

Please........... if you are not going to answer fans legitimate points and concerns ,then ditch this waste of resources and focus on the job you are paid to do instead of pretending you are a replacement for Nigel Wood.

I can't wait for the Rovers addition , when Gavin Baldwin sits in front of the camera and says how sh#te the Rovers have been all season.

I do have a balanced view thank you!
And my balanced view tells me that my early season enthusiasm was unfounded.
I shall treat each home game as a day out now and see what we get.

It matters not that you are optimistic it only matters that the management do something!

To say that we are two props off beating York is to admit what everyone can see but the management ... the very same management which you have stated that you are happy with!
You can't have it both ways!

They created this situation ... why should we not question that and their competence?

We can always hope for the best ... as if that ever brought home the bacon!

On a separate tack ... when will we see a crowd of 2,780 again?
I will be long gone ...
In itself not a bad thing.
lol

By the reckoning of that attendance that stand could have held nearly twice as many as it was...where?

Things are not always black or white in my world. I support Richard Horne and Carl Hall and I am generally happy with what they're doing but it doesn't mean that I always agree with everything they say and do.

Is that Japanese?

Got to admit carl has done a great job in making us an established championship 1 team!

If you were in Carl halls position Hallys hot air what changes would you make to the team and running the club ?

I would make the team better and run the club better, that was an easy question.