Former Leeds Rhinos full back Jordan Tansey who was recently sacked by Hull for a number of breaches of Club discipline has signed for Dewsbury Rams and is included in their squad for Sundays game at the Keepmoat Stadium.

Handicap Betting ... Dons +20 points at 10/11 with Betfred ... Bet365, Skybet & Stan James +18 points at 10/11.

Match Betting ... Dons 8/1 Bet365 ... 7/1 Betfred ... 6/1 Skybet & Stan James.

Doncaster's Ryan Steen (work commitments) is unavailable for Sunday's Northern Rail Cup fixture against Dewsbury Rams, although Carl Hughes could return from an ankle injury.
Doncaster claimed their first win of the season last week, beating London 32-4 in a performance that pleased chief executive Carl Hall.

He said: "What impressed me most was our speed of line on defence. if we can continue to do this when the warmer weather comes, we will give ourselves a big chance."

Dewsbury coach Warren Jowitt is reporting a clean bill of health, with hooker Luke Blake coming through unscathed from last week's 14-0 win over Keighley.

Jowitt said "We knew it was going to be a dogged game last week. The conditions played a massive part and these conditions don't really suit us because we've got a fair bit of pace, but I was really happy with how we responded defensively.

"We knew we'd let ourselves down against Toulouse, but we defended very well against Keighley."

However, Jowitt insists his side still have work to do.

He said: "I wouldn't say we're 100 per cent right. There are still areas we need to work on, because if I'm seeing those areas then other coaches are seeing them too."

Hills ... Dons +18 points 10/11 (Handicap) and 13/2 (Match).

Another lovely day weather-wise ... but better than yesterday.
Roll on Summer.
COYD

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Looks like todays 17 is ...

1. Butterfield
2. Williams
3. Spurr
4. Sanderson
5. Colton
6. Spaven
7. Hughes P
8. Bovill
9. Leaf
10. Scott
11. Robinson
12. Carbutt
13. Emmett

Reps: Kesik, Crawley, Ely, Wilson.

The 17 names are correct but quite a bit of guess-work in the starting line-up?

11 mins Dons 12 Rams 0

Tries: Hughes, Robinson Goals: Spaven 2

22 mins Dons 12 Rams 12

Tries: Hughes, Robinson Goals: Spaven 2

24 mins Dons 12 Rams 18

Dons - Tries: Hughes, Robinson. Goals: Spaven 2.

Rams - Tries: England, Turner, Brambani. Goals: Brambani 3.

HT Dons 12 Rams 18.

43 mins Dons 12 Rams 24

Rams - Try: Blake. Goal: Brambani.

59 mins Dons 18 Rams 24

Dons - Try: Scott. Goal: Spaven.

65 mins Dons 18 Rams 30

Rams - Try: Tonks. Goal: Brambani.

FT Dons 18 Rams 30

O/T

Leigh 68 Sheffield 6



London 16 York 16 ... cracking effort by the Skolars.

I have to say a much improved performance on last week, but ultimately it was our mistakes (and some over zealous penalties for not playing the ball), that cost us in the end.

Interesting too it tool 77 minutes before Jamie Bovill made break.

My first competitive of the season, and I enjoyed it.
I agree we contributed to our downfall with the soft penalties we conceeded, but i think the injuries we suffered before and during the match we a bigger factor in the match. Fawcett, Crawley, Leaf and Butterfield to name four.
This meant Sanderson played the whole game at scrum half,
The biggest distruption for me was the injury to Leaf, which meant Emitt, Carbutt and Ely all had to have a spell at centre, which ulitmately cost us 2 soft tries down our right side

Plenty of decent performances from Dons players - Scott had a good game offloading well, China (apart from those 2 mistakes), the pack worked really hard, And Williams did well when he came on in the main.

Londons result today shows the result last week wasnt that bad.

If the injuries clear up, we look like going it the proper season in decent shape.

The Fawcett injury is the most worrying, speaking to his dad after the game, he didn't really seem to know how long he is likely to be out for.

Think we need to hit the loan market for half back then

Well, either that, or a hooker...



A torn quad is normally pretty nasty.

How did he do that, in the warm up? he was named in the 17 orginally wasnt he?

Regarding the team wilson started on the wing & williams was on the bench.

What about the disllowed try , ref said their player grounded the ball , clearly a knock on & we went on to touch down .Thought we came back into the game well after the disruption of injuries to Leaf & butterfield .

SKY Sports had it the other way round. Couldn't work out from their line-up who was supposed to be playing where either.



Hence my comments earlier in the thread.

Overall an encouraging game. A few mistakes and cheap penalties, 2 of which led to rams tries and 2 when we were in their 20. I didn't realise in the game that we had picked up that many injuries. Hopefully butterfield will be ok as he was having another solid game. I thought the ref was being a bit picky and as for the knock on over the line where Williams touched down that proved to be a game changer. At 24 all we could have gone on and won. Anyway, came away reasonably pleased, well done lads, coyd.