An opportunity to rebuild confidence after the Good Friday slip up against York.

The injury situation could force some changes to the 17.

what are the injuries we have?

Probably could have phrased that slightly differently.

Friday was a physical game with players (Kes for example) being treated during the 80 mins. My thoughts were that perhaps if players are carrying knocks, they may be rested on Sunday as long as replacements are available.

We used to have a halfback called Miller and a forward called Boyle... if my memory serves me.
Whatever happened to them?
Did they join Howden on Fantasy Island?

Did I hear CH right last week on ITD when he said the club was keeping any injury news quiet due to the potential targeting of such injury by the opponents. Hence we may not get an update until they are fit to play.

That was said yes.

Double post

Hakim not included in the Hull 19 for the St Helens game. Litten is again and rightly so, some of the Hull fans were very pleased with his performance against Trinity.

The down side being that we are expected players to turn out and they aren't ... so who are we actually hoodwinking?
The fans I would say.

I dare say that these injuries are grounded ... but really?

I have fallen off my bike and done more damage!
And carried on .... not out for months.

Boyle must have been crocked when we got him ... he's hardly played a game.

never noticed boyle when he was playing so not missed him, miller should be back in a couple of weeks i think.
hope howden is back this week i heard he was back training, but not sure whether that is correct though.

You said on Friday you were not turning out, not liking what you see is hardly an injury. See you Sunday

Thanks onedon .....it's nice to be told something about the injuries.
Cheers.

I was that miffed with how ineffective we looked I nearly binned my season ticket ...
Too much ale ... luckily I slept on it.
No not the ale ... the kneejerkery.

We should see how good York are this week they play Newcastle away.

It will be interesting to see how Bradford get on in Cumbria too.

Carl was asked about injuries, for me he answered a different question to what he was asked. I understand the question was about who are the injured players and how long are they going to be out for. He answered saying he didn't want to go into detail of what players injuries are. I can understand not wanting to tell clubs that Player X has a bad knee or Player Y has a iffy spleen...but i don't think it's giving secrets away to say Player X is expected back in 3 weeks and Player Y has died. I'd have re-iterated the question if I was the presenter guy

Good point and a crucial difference

Is there a case then for the Coach to appear a little more often on ITD and the injury related questions such as you have highlighted (short to medium ) term ones could be addressed that way. Plus the Rovers regular update their Official site when players are back in training, progress etc, perhaps the Dons could do the same.

Thank goodness it's not just me.
I think that they should err on the pessimistic with timescales and then it comes as a nice surprise when players return early.
Because continually saying that a player is a couple of weeks away and then saying it again and again in the case of Miller is infuriating and not fair on people paying at the gate ... when they find on entering the arena that half the basic team is absent.

I don't believe any of them anymore ... too much spin ... the article seldom matches the description of it.

Squad for game against North Wales Connor Bower, Ryan Boyle, Kieran Cross, Sam Doherty, Brad England, Liam Harris, Jordie Hedges, Aaron Jones-Bishop, Kyle Kesik, Jez Litten (D/R), Hakim Miloudi (D/R), Jason Muranka, Ross Osborne (D/R), Richard Owen, Connor Scott, Russ Spiers, Jason Tali, Liam Welham, Brandan Wilkinson. www.doncasterrugbyleague.co.uk/a ... -named-for

Squad for game against North Wales Connor Bower, Ryan Boyle, Kieran Cross, Sam Doherty, Brad England, Liam Harris, Jordie Hedges, Aaron Jones-Bishop, Kyle Kesik, Jez Litten (D/R), Hakim Miloudi (D/R), Jason Muranka, Ross Osborne (D/R), Richard Owen, Connor Scott, Russ Spiers, Jason Tali, Liam Welham, Brandan Wilkinson. www.doncasterrugbyleague.co.uk/a ... -named-for

Quote ="Jemmo"Squad for game against North Wales Connor Bower, Ryan Boyle, Kieran Cross, Sam Doherty, Brad England, Liam Harris, Jordie Hedges, Aaron Jones-Bishop, Kyle Kesik, Jez Litten (D/R), Hakim Miloudi (D/R), Jason Muranka, Ross Osborne (D/R), Richard Owen, Connor Scott, Russ Spiers, Jason Tali, Liam Welham, Brandan Wilkinson. www.doncasterrugbyleague.co.uk/a ... -named-for'" Apart from Charlie Martin who you have to guess is still not 100% and Zak (injured from the York game?) that IMO is a strong squad, no prize for the obvious omission, sends a message (if not injured) of concentrate and don't eff up

Quote ="Jemmo"Squad for game against North Wales Connor Bower, Ryan Boyle, Kieran Cross, Sam Doherty, Brad England, Liam Harris, Jordie Hedges, Aaron Jones-Bishop, Kyle Kesik, Jez Litten (D/R), Hakim Miloudi (D/R), Jason Muranka, Ross Osborne (D/R), Richard Owen, Connor Scott, Russ Spiers, Jason Tali, Liam Welham, Brandan Wilkinson. www.doncasterrugbyleague.co.uk/a ... -named-for'" Apart from Charlie Martin who you have to guess is still not 100% and Zak (injured from the York game?) that IMO is a strong squad, no prize for the obvious omission, sends a message (if not injured) of concentrate and don't eff up

Not injured.

Dons -22 @ 10/11 with Bet365.

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13 mins Dons 6 Crusaders 0

Try Wilkinson
Conversion Miloudi

26 mins Keiran Cross injury