My appreciation of rugby is that a really good lower division side at home will at least compete with a club from the division above.
That didn't happen which is a concern.

Mind you if you look at some of today's scores .. Jesus!
If we can't sort out Whitehaven in our opening game of the season then god help us!

The Hunslet game might as well be cancelled!

For me we should if possible play the 17 who we intend to play against Whitehaven .

know what your saying, not sure i agree
in an ideal world, yes, but the club is really banking on promotion, so putting your best team in the firing line, in a game that is virtually meaningless to the Dons, i think may be a mistake,as regard to possible injuries. what i will say is if fit paul cooke should play some part to increase match fitness.

No he wasn't...



Touchjudge was in a fantastic position for it.

not on that shot , but i was level with it and he clearly looked in touch before he passed inside.But i'm happy to be proven wrong

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Spot on post

Everthing should be geared up for March 11th.

Really cant see the point in going if your going to leave early.our performance leaves a lot to be desired.but we are not get going to win the nrc. So lets get the problems sorted before the league starts.May I suggest tackling practice on Monday. Coyd

We were in need of an on-field organiser. Last week, Cookey was talking to them all game. We were all over the place in the first half and no-one took the bull by the horns.

Was very disappointed but also impressed with some seriously good play from the Eagles. No blaming the ref from me.

Our bread and butter starts in two weeks, that's when I will be casting a critical eye.

No, that is a fair assessment. I said exactly the same to Willow tree mid way through that sequence ....

I quite admire people who vote with their feet rather than masochists who sit there and grin and bear pain.
Nobody goes to a game intending to walk out or even contemplating it, it just happens.
I know we will play a lot better and we will be a force in this division and should get promotion.
Plus these NRC games don't really matter, we can try to console ourselves with that crumb. Except Sheffield don't seem to think that way.
That was a dire performance whatever the rationale behind the game plan, and we shouldn't try to pretend otherwise.
We are getting blown away in the first half on the back of ill-discipline. And then competing in the second half as if to somehow show how it should have been.

Roll on the league games and the Whitehaven game. This NRC is just inflicting the damage on us that I thought it would.

PS Can I suggest that Crowther comes back in and gives Waterman a rest for the Hunslet game?
Waterman hurt his ankle against the Select side and also today and bravely hobbled on.

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Like I said in my earlier post I left because I wasnt happy to sit there for another 40 mins and be embarrassed I wasnt happy however I still am positive I know we are better than todays game and I will be at the next game!COYD

everyone has their own thoughts on it and is entitled to do what they like, you pays your money you takes your choice.personally. i wont walk out, you could see at the end the players were embarrased and upset at their perfomance. They were well beaten by a better side, i think at times like that they need support. But as i say each to their own

We were well beaten by last seasons CC runners up and we didn't help ourselves by the horrendous amount of penalties we gave away (not all of them justifiable in my opinion). I stayed until the death and i have to say despite all of the bad things we did, was that at least we never threw the towel in and chased every lost cause. Maybe it's better to get a perfomance like this out of the way now before the real stuff starts. Lets not go overboard with the doom and gloom, we had a bad day and Sheffield are a good side.