Doncaster Rugby League Club will face Co-operative Championship league winners Featherstone Rovers on Friday 11th January in a pre-season friendly at the Bigfellas Stadium (7.45pm kick-off).

The Dons will travel to Post Office Road knowing that they'll be in for a very tough test as last season's Grand Finalists have been arguably the most consistent side in the Championship in recent times.

This will be the club's first run out of the New Year ahead of home friendly games against Keighley (20th January) and Wakefield (27th January). The Dons play Dewsbury Rams in their first league game of the season at the Keepmoat Stadium the following week (3rd February).

For ticketing details please visit Featherstone's website [url=http://www.featherstonerovers.net/here[/url.

Should be a good test for us and an opportunity for the new lads to get a run out. Do we have any news on the progress of Cookie?

Unaware of this

As we are playing wakefield on the sunday i would expect majority to be fringe and U23's/reserve grade for this game

He has said on twitter how much he is enjoying pre season training so i assume he's coming along ok. Whether he'll be fit for fev game, your guess is as good as mine

Wouldnt rush Cookie back and personally as the ground isn't always the most welcoming I will likely not attend on a Friday night. That by the way is aimed at the few Fev fans not the majority...

Thanks for update if back in training that will do. Be nice to have him back for the Dewsbury game but no rush before that IMO.

According to TotalRL site v Fev U20 team Admission £3 / £1.

Should be a good warm up for the Dons . Fev will be strong at this level. Hope we can run an U20 team in 2014 unless the RL change the rules again

A bit gutted were not playin the proper team but just excited to see the Dons play agen : )

Whos goin on friday then?

According to RLExpress Tony playing 22 players. James Clare on loan from Cas is unavailable.

Cowling playing for Wakey on Sunday , Walshaw injured !

then unless my maths is out that means two more players we haven't heard of (presumably Wakey dual reg?) assuming Cookie isn't included in the 22 due to injury as well as those already mentioned.

Cannot understand why ? when we have a player on loan from Cas for the season & a player from Wakey for the season on Dual Reg they are not available for us.

I am assuming the report in RLExpress re Clare is correct & that by picking Cowling for Wakefield on Sunday he willnot be available for us on Friday !

That's the unfortunate thing with the dual reg system , players are available to us if not required by the parent club. Can't blame them really if they want to assess them in their own games.

will anyone be keeping us up to date on here or will it be available to track via sky sports as during regular season?

can't make it due to work

I'll try to keep up to date on Twitter, and should be able to post updates on here if I can get my internet connection working on the laptop.

Thanks

Just a bit of team news for tonight. All players will be given a run out apart from Paul Cooke, Shaun Leaf and dual reg James Clare.

Clare is unavailable as he's playing for Castleford on Sunday v Hull FC. The kick-off is at 7.45pm.

COYD

Is this game on?
It's getting awfully foggy.
I was going to go, but might not now.
Too dangerous and what will there be to see?

Edit:
It's just OK I think.

The Dons started the New Year off in winning fashion thanks to a convincing 44-16 victory over a Featherstone Rovers U20's side at a foggy Post Office Road.

Stewart Sanderson got the Dons off to a good start scoring in the fourth minute and further tries from new signing Dennis Tuffour, Mike Emmett and Mike Kelly gave the blue and gold's a 22-6 half-time lead. Sanderson kicked the extras with three out of four successes.

The Dons went on to score another 22 points in the second forty with further tries from Sanderson and Tuffour. Chris Spurr and Craig Fawcett also crossed the whitewash and Sanderson landed another three conversions to make it six out of eight successes to bag a personal 20 points haul.

The club will face stiffer competition for their next friendly, which takes place on Sunday 20th January against fellow Championship club Keighley (3pm kick-off). Tickets are on sale now and are priced £10 for adults, £5 for concessions and just £2 for children (5-16).

The Dons will then entertain Super League club Wakefield Trinity Wildcats the week after at the Keepmoat Stadium (27th, 3pm kick-off). Tickets are also on sale and are £12 for adults, £6 for concessions and £2 for children (5-16).

Please contact the club on 01302 765888 if you require any further information.

Apart from a few blunders the Dons played well.
The handling was really good in poor conditions and so was most of our tackling.
It was bloody cold.

Would someone post a team please.

Good run out for the lads missing a few players .

butterfield
tuffour
leaf
waterman
sanderson
kesik
fawcett
waller
emmett
castle
brooke
kelly
hughes
edwards
powley
robinson
welsh
carbutt

sorry if i forgot anybody. couldnt see much last night!

Chris Spurr ?

Thanks

and chris spurr!

Not trying to wind you up donny11 what about Liam Cunningham .