According to the Official Site Sanderson, Cooke & Emmett to return after being rested .

No mention of the injury situation .

Jamie Bloem is the referee .

COYD

Wonder if Cas will be back?

According to the Free Press , Mark Castle may return , Russ Spiers picked up a hand injury v Warrington,
Mike Kelly is back in light training , some good news !

I was wondering when we'd hear about him - he was reported as injured for at least a month, a month ago, figured we'd hear good news soon.

Can't wait for this one, first game of the season for me COYD!!!

A solid win would be nice with no injuries!!!!

Shaun Leaf also picked up an injury v Wire.

Wildie not in Wakefield squad .
Chris Green not in Hull squad .

COYD

possibilities this week on DR are

green
Watts
Colbon
Horne

Although I doubt the last one
will happen.

looking forward to tomorrows match as per usual.

the football fans want to get down and watch a proper team for once.

COYD

Dons asked to give up 20 points by Bet365.

Me broadcasting from radio Urban innit.
The Dons were shiite and Barrow were the better side, but we is the winner innit?
Second after a performance like that is bizarre.
Still who cares.

I thought we were in Rovers relegation mode for a while.
Team Doncaster on the slide.

While we are at it, can someone explain how Whitehaven got beat up at home last week by NWC and then went to Batley and duffed them up.
While NWC got splattered at home to some ehawks, who were beaten previously by us?

Absolute crap, we didn't deserve to win
But we got the 3 pts in the end, thats all you can say.

a big improvement needed for next week i feel. Otherwise we will be getting DUFFED up!.

Yes we were poor but we won . We came back twice from 10 points down . Well done to Waterman & Scott for the tries also Sanderson for his goal kicking !
Robbo & Watts did well in the forwards . Barrow had some useful players Govin had a good 1st half but lost the plot a bit later on.

Yes, didn't play well, yes, Barrow played well and maybe deserved more, but you have to credit the Dons for digging in and coming back, twice, to get the win. Sign of a good side.

Yes we probably wouldn't have won that a couple of years ago.

Liam Harrison had his usual good game, never seen him play badly.
Would make a good signing for us he would.

We seemed to miss Cas big time today
I thought he might have played Wilkinson as well.

Hard work!!!!! Credit to them played a slow game that suited them and fair play to them.

I'll not start about the refs performance but end of the day 3pts but a missed opertunity to increase our points for tally.

Good job waterman played from the start!!

It's a good sign when we can play that badly and win. A bad day at the office with a win bonus; it's like being a banker

I saw 1 Rovers shirt in the crowd. Sorry but Rovers Day was a flop.

Spoke to Carl hall briefly after the game and all he said was " close exciting game like that! What more can I do to generate intrest!". Seemed really despondent and it's a shame because we owe him for being in the position we are now.

it's not Carl Hall, the Dons or the Rovrs - Its the town. Dons, Rovers, the Knights and the Belles for that matter all have their hard core support who will always turn out (the 500 today) However there seem to be very little interest in sport generally in the town and so very few additional floating supporters to attract. Even when we have boxing world champions in the town they cant sell out a local venue.
Doncaster is apathetic to sport and as stated by officials in all codes the town doesnt support its clubs and to some extent doesnt deserve the clubs it has and no one seems to have the solution.
Answers on a postcard please!!!

The problem is that the marketing is being aimed at Rovers supporters, and it's clear Rovers supporters aren't interested.

The focus needs to move towards 2 groups; former supporters (when we played at Tattersfield we were getting 2,000 supporters regularly) and new supporters. In the second group I'd also include Doncaster Knights supporters.

A good start would be a bus from Bentley via town to the stadium. A conversation needs to be had with First too as the service bus leaves too close to the end of the game. If it's delayed by 10 or 15 minutes more supporters will be able to catch it.

I think the area of Doncaster "over the bridge" is where we need to target. I think heavy postering is needed in that area.

I'd also like to see a-frame trailers out there at key roadside sites.

I offered to sit on the supporters feedback group but I heard nothing.

By the way it was a below par performance by us and an unexpected great effort by Barrow today. Made for a frustrating watch but an exhilerating and nail biting end.
Great sport what more can you ask for, its what spectating and supporting is all about.

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Its not just the Dons who are getting low attendances here is a list of attendances at yesterdays Championship games.
Championship
Batley 500
Doncaster 573
Featherstone 3230
Keighley 817
N Wales 785
Rochdale 842
Workington 732

Championship 1
S.Wales 258
Gloucester 126
Oldham 504
York 451

A total of 8818 spectators attended the 11 Championship games played yesterday