in my opinion only carbutt butts and kesik played like they wanted to win. and the passion was written all over kesiks face after the match. emmet fawcwtt and spaven were shocking. never looked interested. we need to be better at gateshead. come on dons!!

I can only observe that the forum being down has led to a lack of praise for the Dons.
I was called away (a euphemism) at about 63 minutes of this top-of-the-table-clash and I missed all of the Dons points.
Workington were just scoring a try at [sizeNIL[/size-25 as I left the stadium. Imagine my disappointment?
But I whistled away as I skipped up the road into Donny, content that I had purchased my season ticket knowing that the lads are nailed on to get us into the same league as Sheffield.
Well done lads
Can it get any better?
I think not.

Oh dear ... the Dons were Out-muscled, Out-paced, and Out-thought throughout the game.

Full credit to Workington who won with plenty to spare.

In the first game against Workington we matched their pack. Not this time - they got far too many off-loads away and ran us ragged.

It was a similar display to Keighley away for the Dons.

As we don't have a general, we seem to lose our way when we get under pressure. Our other weaknesses are then exposed.

I agree with Donny11 that Mick Butterfield, Kyle Kesick, and Matt Carbutt were our best players. They were the ones who looked capable of breaking the Workington line.

I think the rest of the lads tried. I don't want to be critical of them in that department. The truth was that Workington were a much better side and we couldn't handle them.

Come on lads ... let's get back on the right track with a good win at Gateshead! See you all there!

You're not Ray Green are you?

A brief look at the stats over our last 3 games against good opposition shows the following:-
Points scored 32 (average ... less than 11 per game, and two of these were home games)
Points against 89 (average ... nearly 30 a game)
This shows what I have been saying for a while now, which is:-
We don't have enough forward power (we are on average too small), and we don't have enough creativity OR experience at half back.
And that when we come up against tough defences that expose and highlight those two deficiencies our normally great defence can't cope with being on the back-foot for most of the game.

Those are the areas we must recruit wisely in as we spend next season in this same division.
Unfortunately, and let's not kid ourselves, this side will not get us promotion.

No offence intended to anyone, but i think some people on here need to get real with their expectations of where we are.
Ok, yesterday we were well beaten by a bigger, better side on the day, but the previous three games against the same opposition, we won.
I thought some of the abuse being dished out to the players was well out of order at times.
Everything we tried went wrong, but maybe on another day who knows...
We are still in the play offs, so anything is possible and at the end of the day we are only into our second season as a reformed club. If we don't make it this year it may not be a disaster as i don't think we are strong enough yet to survive in the CC.
Moan over.

Also no offence meant.
Our expectation is, that when we play a side on the same number of points as ourselves at home, and a side as you say we have beaten, is at the very least we COMPETE.
Not get HUMILIATED.

Workington themselves were in a similar position to ourselves last year.
And look where they are.

I was not one of those abusing players, by the way.
I should imagine I was long gone by then.

As for abuse, I don't condone it, but can understand it when fans are treated to that pile of crap just after they have bought their new season tickets..

I agree Rupert - we should be proud of what we've achieved overall.

I hate to see players being abused. That is completely out of order. They put their necks on the line for us week-in, week-out and we need to remember that.

Of course everyone is disappointed when we get beaten but there should be [ino place[/i for abuse.

When things go wrong, like yesterday, it's important that we all stick together and get behind the lads. They'll be just as disappointed as we were, I'm sure.

By the way, S/O, I'm not Ray Green! LOL!

I wasn't suggesting it was you giving the stick S-O, it was just a general comment at others unknown.

No-one was more disappointed than my self yesterday, but this has happened to most teams this year. Look at Keighley losing at London an South Wales, i would rather get beaten by Workington than those two.

As i said if we don't make it this year then it's not the end of the world.

No its not the end of the world , but it was the manner of the defeat. Town as have said prevousely were a good side.

I had a go at one player for which I regret , I was so bloody frustrated .

keep your heads up,its 1 bad result against probably the 2nd best team in the league(if we had hit this form a month earlier we would be champs). us town fans know what its like to be beaten easily at home and it stinks, but yous are still in the play offs and anything can happen, i hope you get haven and knock them out. good luck and you never know we might see you in the final.

Thanks for the encouragement. Personally if we don't make it i wouldn't mind seeing yourselves getting a crack in the CC, even if it's just to knock Keighley off their high horse. They seem to think they have a devine right to go up, after reading some comments on their forum over the past season.

I have now calmed down following yesterday and the only word i want use regarding yesterday was SHOCKING!!!!!! I do however agree with a number of comments already made about the progress we have made this year. Yes we need some bulk up front and some experience to steer us around the pitch but lets remember where we were a couple of years ago. We have made slow but solid progress and at no time has the security of the club been even rumoured. As much as i would like to be playing the likes of Halifax, Batley etc i think at this time we would really struggle in their company. Lets enjoy the ride for as far as we can go this year and if its not to be look forward to more progression next year.

COYD

By Steve Hossack Rugby League
Published on Monday 22 August 2011 09:40


DONCASTER’S hopes of claiming second spot in Championship One were dashed as they lost 37-6 at home to Workington Town in their final home game of the season.


In-form Town, who have beaten newly-crowned champions Swinton, the Dons and Keighley, who both started the day joint-second with them, in the last month avenged two previous defeats by Tony Miller’s side this season in emphatic style.

“I didn’t see that coming,” Miller told The Star. “Credit to them; they beat us in every facet of the game. They had a much better kicking game; we were very poor. Every time we got into good field positions we didn’t ask enough questions. Too often we took the soft option and that made it easy to defend against.

“When we got in good positions we also panicked and turned the ball over too much. That’s been an area of concern all year. We’ve done a lot of work on that aspect of our game in the last two weeks in training but we still had people doing things they shouldn’t be doing.

“The wheels fell off today and I apologize to the fans because they deserve better than that. If I’m honest I’m really disappointed and I’ve told the players that they need to take a long look in the mirror at themselves.

“I thought that they wanted it more and were better than us. I thought that we were poor across the board and I thought they thoroughly deserved their victory.

“I don’t think that they are 31 points better than us but on the day they were; it’s as simple as that.

“I thought that we made it easy for them to get out of their 20-metre zone in the first half. We didn’t make it tough for them. We gave away a lot of dumb penalties to our cost.”

Trailing 18-0 at the break, Miller said the only chance the Dons had of making a game of it was if they scored first after the break.

“What I was hoping for was that if we lost we’d finish near enough (within 12 points) to pick up a losing bonus point,” he said.