Well yeah it comes with the territory of being a Dons supporter.

Not really interested in the coach's reaction ... he's half the problem.

A poor start to the season in our first competitive game, we started well and looked well drilled, however we became sloppy and lost discipline. We lacked creativity in attack, I thought keighley wanted the win more than us in the first 25 minutes of the 2nd half, and it only changed when Kyle Keswick came back on and added a bit more steel and belief.

I am concerned that the season ahead will be a repeat of last season, where we will make the play offs and get knocked out without believing we can win.

I want to know what Gary Thornton will do to change it, he's been given a bigger budget, and he stated at the fans meeting he's always been supported by the board, if that's the case then surely the blame lays at his door.

If we are to believe the plans the club have over the next 5 years and our budget is the highest it's been then we should be challenging for the 2nd automatic promotion spot, getting beaten by a very average keighley team isn't going to achieve our goal.

Discipline, discipline, discipline! Two Sin binning plus other silly penalties have we not learnt anything, discipline cost us games last season and we seem to have started this the same. We should concentrate on being smart not trying to prove how hard we are.

Right about the discipline poor. Cannot win a match with 12 players for 20 mins.

Team selection 6 props, Thackray can play at 13 but Zac NO way he is a 13 , just didn't work .

Some big decisions to make re the players & the way we play.

COYD

With Carl Hall's comments regarding the pitch on this weeks ITD can I take that the team selection was made with the pitch in mind or was the playing surface not that heavy?

Did not look too bad .
Keighley had the edge in the backs & the forwards stood up to our forwards .Keighley deserved to win in the end BUT should have been different .

Lets hope we learn from our mistakes & move on .

Thanks for that. Yes we do need to learn but I guess that again comes down to how effective the Coaching staff are.

The report in the RL Express doesn't make good reading.

Looking at the scorers for Keighley, our right defence looks dodgy AGAIN.

Also while Keighley's number seven Matty Beharrell was getting the 'Gamestar' accolade for 'leading the Cougars round the field with real pomp', ours was getting sin-binned for the kind of dangerous tackle that 'landed Cougars centre Josh Casey a four match suspension earlier in the week.'

Hedges got a three match ban last season for something similar I recall.

A chance to try somebody else coming up maybe ....

Failing signing a PROPER scrum half which we are crying out for, I would play Tom Carr there.

The Hedges incident was on the other side of the pitch so did not get a clear view , the incident was dealt with on field & not put on report !

I am not sure it's only down to the ref ...
A panel reviews these incidents.

You may be right .

PS Keighley's 7 got mom .
COYD

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Re Charlie Martin , the ref indicated it was something that happened after the tackle not the tackle itself . Charlie looked confused .
I think we have signed a good player in CM.

We certainly have ... what went wrong?

He did ok .
I will stand by what I said in another thread . I do want it to sorted it out ,we are lacking in key positions.
It was a re run of some games last season .

COYD