The Panthers head to the Keepmoat minus Andy Hobson who serves the final game of a 5-match ban for incidents in a fixture against York.

That should lower the penalty count.

What a shame i was looking forward to some more confrontations and livening up the croiwd!

Might lower Blackpool's penalty count. But what about ours ?

Dons now without Simon Brown , lets hope we have a few more forwards available Sunday !

We need 2 or 3 points from this one me thinks.

We certainly got caned at York!

Even if we had it would nt mean Miller would pick them!

Looks like the RFL are about to launch an enquiry into a possible Salary Cap breach by Blackpool Panthers. The Club also has much-publicised financial issues but so far the squad remains pretty much intact.

Do you mean he is injured? Or he's left?
Silly question I have just seen the other thread.

Well we are certainly not making it easy for ourselves by letting our number 6 go before an important game..... stupid if you ask me.

The timing is strange unless it's already been accepted that the play-offs are now out of reach.

Early betting ...

Handicap betting ... Dons +14pts 10/11 Bet365.

I am sure you are giving credit were it is not due.
'Clueless' comes to mind.

I hope that the replacement number 6 can prove us wrong and that we can beat Blackpool.....but it doesn't bode well.

We will see.
COYD

Dobek set to start (unsurprisingly) and Bovill available following a holiday.

... Ely and Butterfield need to shake off knocks picked up in the defeat at York.

We need our strongest 17 available players out on pitch this week end !

It seems such a long time ago that we playing them midweek in the NR dead-rubber and in terms of tomorrows match that is a pretty meaningless result.

The league fixture at Fylde towards the end of April is in theory a better yardstick and the Dons competed well in the first half before falling apart in the second. Worryingly, that comment could apply to last weeks effort at York.

Digging a little deeper though reveals some points which suggest a much closer contest ...

1. Blackpool have lost three of four away fixtures since the Clubs financial issues were revealed.
2. The Dons squad has been bolstered significantly from around the time of that away fixture (though losing Simon Brown is a blow). Rob Lunt and Paul Hughes arrived during the week of that fixture and there have been a further half a dozen additions since.
3. 20 of Blackpool's 48 points in the April fixture were scored by Josh Charnley (on loan from Wigan) who made his SL debut for Hull KR last night.

COYD.