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We have thanks, congratulations on your win.
Our pitch is brilliant thanks, yours is shiite.
It must be worth ten points a game to Keighley knowing where the cowpats are.
Tattersfield was some time back, times move on, but perhaps not in Keighley ...lol.
I suggest a heavy roller ... dynamite might be quicker.
Anyway good luck, I hope you beat all of our rivals in the run in.

And Lawkholm Lane looks exactly it did when we were in Tattersfield - That's 20 years ago.

I think the Keighley Groundsman could be done under the Trades Description Act.

Thanks, we'll try our best with Dewsbury (a) & Featherstone (h) but they know where all the cowpats are aswell, so could be tough one.

Still wonder where you would be without the 'Keepmote'

Have a good rest of the season and see you next year. Contact me next year before you return to Cougar Park and I'll send you a detailed map of the pitch.

Where would anyone be without their ground? Very odd thing to say

You need to remember in that our owners, own the Keepmoat lease which is about as secure as it gets

And we was always going to be playing there, from before it was built, that was its original purpose for all the sporting clubs of Doncaster.

Very high scoring game, was it a decent game? Although a loss, how did Crooks go?

I am not having a go at the Cougars team, it's the state of the pitch, it's sloping and very uneven although it's the same for both teams, it must offer some advantage to Keighley.
Whereas, when you come to the Keepmoat, you have a beautiful surface on which to parade your skills with little chance of tripping over a hillock here and there.



As for Tattersfield, I don't know if you went there in the last few years we were there in the early nineties, we had turned it into a fantastic playing surface with new drainage, new grass and a very level surface.

If you want to see a superb pitch in dumpish surroundings, a bit like yours

, you only have to go and have a look at Wakefield's playing surface ... it's like a bowling green.
Yours could be like that ... so why isn't it?



Don't take it personally ... luckily your team is better than the pitch.

I wish this forum had a like button because I would click Stand-Offish's comment.

What benefit is there to owning a ground if it isn't maintained.

I know I have been supportive of a move to Castle Park but that is only for crowd numbers. If we get a good away support (like the Leigh game) that the Keepmoat is great. It's when the away support is small (Keighley for example) that the Keepmoat isn't ideal.

But to counter geoffbaxter comments about the Keepmoat. It is a community stadium, it's shared by Doncaster Rovers, Doncaster Rovers Belles, Doncaster Athletics Club, and it's also used by the Mustangs American Football team. Doncaster Rovers manage it, and there is a very long term lease. The stadium has now been subject to a community asset application, and if successful this will provides a double lock in terms of community use.

The whole idea behind this model is that the entire stadium is sustainable and can be maintained. Cougar Park is in desperate need of work. The pitch looks a priority but then this is perhaps an advantage to the home team. As far back as I can remember the pitch has been poorly maintained. On some times I have been I swear the grass must have been 6 inches long.

It's OK owning your own stadium but also need to maintain it. It's like living in a house that is falling down.
At least when we were at Tattersfield improvements were made.

There is a Like button...bottom left of his post

Cheers Jemmo. I've learnt something today.

The one where the 2 TJ's both stood their ground independently of each other only to be individually overruled was nothing short of staggering ... can't recall too many instances of that



A couple of other tries seemed to really upset the players too. One in the first half which looked a knock on and one in the second which looked a double movement.

That said we certainly contributed to our own downfall, 2 attacking kicks resulting directly in Keighley tries, 1 dropped catch for another and some very poor attempts at tackles where Keighley players simply ran through us.

Need to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves down and tighten up defensively for the visit of the Eagles.

COYD.