York winning 108-0 against West Wales Raiders

Don't we play them next week? I hope those scoreboard lads can keep up.....

Didn't we put nearly 80 passed them in the cup?

But before we start looking at next week, there's a lot that needs to be looked at on the back of today's performance.

4 tries bombed this afternoon - had this been a closer game any one of those might have made a difference. And in fact, with the cricket score that York are still posting against WWC means that we need every point we can get with respect to the league table.

We beat the Raiders 82-6 back in February. They've lost 144-0 today setting a new winning margin record for a League game.

We were very off the boil today but still won the game. I thought this could be one of the games that we slipped up on. Glad to see we've come away with the points. JK will not be happy with the 4 tries we've bombed.

Important result to get. Sure kear will have plenty to say in training this week over certain aspects of the performance

I thought the final result flattered Doncaster. We could have easily put over 50 points on them if we'd been more clinical in our play. We made Doncaster look second rate today, with some great plays, but we bombed numerous chances and turned the ball over cheaply on too many attacks. Also, at 6 - nil up after 15 minutes, and winning a penalty at arms length from the Donny uprights, we decided to go for 2 points instead of turning the screw for 6. I know JK is a fan of gaining every point on offer, but we should be showing teams a more ruthless side to our play.
Other than these few moans ( plus Garside !!! ), thought Minchella, Laithwaite, Wood and numerous others had a decent game. Can't wait for the pitches to harden more, as we saw today just how our style of play will overpower lesser teams.
Pity we're not top of the league though ! Well done York...

Thought we started off with real intent. Doncaster couldn't live with us early on. Would have to see Ethan's effort again but my first thought was try. Thought Ethan was MOM. No idea why Smith's was disallowed and then ball given to Doncaster. Anyone? That was really poor from the officials.

Pickersgill should have finished his and Flanagans... Well i doubt he'll do any showboating again. Should be fined. We switched off last 20 mins and just went through the motions and trying to take shortcuts like kicking on the first.

But i'll take a comfortable 32-6 win away from home againt joint top. Hopefully we aren't too far from finding that killer instinct and keeping the foot on the throat like York do.

We made some good runs and then bombed it. We should be called the 633 squad with squad-ren leader Flanagan leading the way.

Anyone think that Keyes is consistently outshining Chisholm? If Chissy's lost his running game he's nowhere near as potent.

Always looks as though he's trying TOO hard still. Today, he was forcing passes from the floor when he should have been keeping the ball. He also sometimes doesn't appear to know himself which way he's meant to be running. Once he sorts these problems out, he should be back to his best. Agree about Keyes though, he's becoming a very steady hand and his game has deffo improved this year - for whatever reason.

I think joe is running the show and doing a fantastic job too. I also think his father wouldn't go a miss in the dressing room. He is a very down to earth chap who knows what he is talking about. Love hearing his input on Facebook

I thought it was our best performance since keighley away in my opinion. We started very well and put Doncaster under a lot of pressure and they never really recovered enough to worry us. I thought it was going to be a much tighter game so very pleasing.

The score line could have been greater had we not bombed a few but that is overlooked when you win, although George Flanagan won’t be living that down for a long long time...

In all a good solid performance and 2 points against a strong rival. I reckon we might rest a few against the raiders with another potentially tricky game against Newcastle on the Friday after so technically a short turnaround.

I thought it was a good performance today. We frightened them to death in the fowards. A few mistakes trying to push it, not to to mention the brain farts. Pickersgill was great under the high ball. Roll on next week.

I'd agree with that, thought donny would get closer. A few mistakes but overall I thought we were very good today. Ethans try was correctly called off I'd say for a doublemovement, I've not seen it back, but I was in that end block and I reckon the ball and the ball carrying arm hit the deck before the line and then lifted up and over. Replay might prove me wrong but I'd have made the same call as the ref seeing it once. But no idea what was wrong with smith's.

From what I've seen on the video (I was at the end Donny were attacking), Crossley knocks it to the floor out of the Donny hand, and therefore, the touch calls it as a knock on. A bit of a strange one for me.

I thought it was a mixed bag of a performance. We had an embarrassment of riches in terms of possession in the Doncaster half yet didn't quite click. Some of that was down to their scrambling defence but often it was down to poor options from us. On the plus side I thought Ryan, Crossley, Laithwaite, Minchella, Peltier, Wood and Kirk were all good. I thought Kirk had his best game for us yet.

I thought Smith, Keyes, Garside and Bustin were ok. Pickersgill too but for all his clean breaks his one on one tackling was poor and his dropped ball for what should have been a fairly simple try was a bit poor. As someone pointed out to me his way of carrying the ball isn’t the most secure.

The rest I thought were quite poor. Chisholm still doesn’t look fit. He tries to play to his instinct but the speed isn’t there to enable him to do that. He disrupted play a few times by running down blind alleys and this led to some wasted possession. Without wanting to single him out I thought Hallas was way off today too. Slow service from dummy half and the needless swinging arm that got penalised leading up to the Doncaster try was poor. Flanagan’s complete brain fart aside he was better than Hallas but I thought we too often took the wrong option. You could see Keyes wanting the ball yet not getting it.

Kicking game was another mixed bag. We kicked dead too often and gave them 7 tackle sets on at least 3 occasions. Not good enough.

Despite all that I thought we looked very good up front where we utterly dominated. Given that we dropped the ball over the line twice and wasted numerous possessions of the ball in the Doncaster 20m area we could and should have scored 50. Points difference could be the difference between 1st and 2nd in this division so we need to be a lot more switched on. I left feeling a bit disappointed.

Doncaster were missing a few of their dual reg lads and it showed. Their centres looked decent but apart from that they were second best. They had a spell on our line for about 4 sets and were held up a few times but we never really looked like we were struggling.

I thought that was probably the best performance this season. Was expecting a lot closer game and I think we could of easily had another 20 points on the board. Defence was very good

Don't think your dates are quite right - I've got the re-arranged home game against the Skolars a week after the West Wales match on Saturday 12th, then Newcastle the following Friday the 18th, unless I've got it wrong again...

Thought we played strongly to be fair and dominated most of the game. For sure there were some big misses, inluding Mr Flanagan's, but I'm sure he doesn't need me to tell him what wally he was. I disagree with the view that we shouldn't have taken the two early on though. Donny were top of the league before the weekend so we expected it to be maybe a bit tighter than it turned out. That said, it was only the goal which kept us in front after Doncaster scored, so a bit of a psychological boost at that point, imo.

Why didn't we press home the advantage though? We seemed to put the cue on the rack at threequarter time.

Think a few players got a bit selfish in the last 30mins. Too many poor options taken. We had a lot of sets in the Doncaster 20 but ruined the chances by going in the wrong direction or running into touch or taking the wrong option. You could see Keyes getting annoyed with the lack of service he was getting at times. Not the greatest game again from Chisholm.

We do play Newcastle on the 18th Bulliac.

I thought Chisholm started off great, breaking the line, decent passing, just started to get sloppy in the second half (as did many) Got to persevere with him. It was an horrendous injury he had and once he gets his confidence up, he'll be ok.

Basically, I agree with that. The only real caveat I have is that, in Chissie's enforced absence, Joe Keyes has developed into our best half and I'd hate to see his development put back. They are both superb halves, with their own strengths and weaknesses and I'd like to see their partnership develop and hope that they find their own distinct roles in the side. I feel sure it will, but of course, Joe has been 'running' the team in Chissie's absence and since his return it just seems they haven't quite sorted out who is doing what and when. It's definitely still work in progress but, if handled properly, it could turn out to be a golden partnership.

I've been away for the weekend with the family so am only just catching up on the game. I assume Mr. Flanagan had a certain try and did something stupid to bomb it. Anyone explain what actually happened with that?

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Pickersgill made a clean break and Flanagan was on his inside in support. He takes the pass and has a stroll in under the sticks. Only the muppet starts to celebrate on his way to the line and takes an age to get the ball grounded. So much so that the Dons winger had time to sneak up behind him and push him over the dead ball line before he got the ball down.
It was a shocker, and the score was only 8-6 at the time.

Hopefully Kear went ballistic with him in the sheds.

Kear said he "addressed that issue".