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Very interesting. I hadn't realised that your lads had come back from so far behind last week. We will have to be well up for it on Sunday as I remember last season when we got stuffed at your place. The Grove, shudds. Durham Citra Nova 3.9 % Mmm!

Thanks Danny appreciate that

No Waller or Mennell

Squads for Sunday:

Tagaloa 1 Boyer
Wright 2 Bracek
Clark 3 Cahalane
McLocklan 4 Divorty
Groat 5 Eccleston
Welham 6 Johnston
Waterman 7 Kaye
Foster 8 Maneely
Doherty 9 Manning
Scott 10 Moore
Kesik 11 Murrell
Snitch 12 Potts
Musolino 13 C. Robinson
Carr 14 Saltonstall
Emmett 15 Saxton
Carbutt 16 Spencer
Spiers 17 Tangata
Kelly 18 Tyrer
Fox. 19 Wood.

Brett Waller looked in bad way with his leg when he went off last week. I hope he's okay.

Dons +24 points Evens with Bet365, who also go 10/1 a Dons win.

Is the game still on,? . am I the only one going, no interest on here at all. Whats up guys we need to get behind the team , lets have some humour and wit, where is SO when we need him. Im looking forward to todays game, hope we can put on a decent performance and you never know we may even get a result. By the way I watched most of the hull derby Fri, night Hull had about 5 DR players playing who have played for us this season I got a distinct feeling they were trying a lot harder in a black n white shirt than what they did in a blue n gold shirt,, just my humble opinion lol. COYDs

Shocking in defence , clueless in attack. Ref was cr@p, but some of the penalties we gave away were ridiculous, Liam welham tried hard and Mitch Clark's frustration boiled over. Next week's score could be anything . Won't say they didn't try, just not up to it, and Halifax didn't really look anything special.

This was not totaly unexpected as Fax are a decent team,and are vying for the Middle 8s.Dony got the win last week against Hunslet.Good for moral and a bit of confidence going into today's fixture.To be Niled take some explaining.Mistakes kill better teams than Dony.Penalities stop any momentum.You have got try scorers but they don't get the ball or are not playing.lets hope Liegh rest a few.

Back down to earth with a bump today ...

We're simply not good enough. The other teams are bigger, faster, and better than us. Everybody else has improved, we've gone backwards. We already knew that before today but last week just gave us a glimmer of hope that a corner may have been turned. It was false hope, like all the other times this year when we thought we might be improving.

The challenge to get a team together that will be competitive in the lower league is going to be a very serious one.

Guessing the player you mean is Tom? not playing because he's on holiday isn't he? Showing his loyalty to the team.

It is DM, but I like the way Thornton is being honest and setting about the job. I think he'll take us straight back up, of course that's if the club back him like they say they will. Those at the fans committee meeting seem convinced they will, I've no reason to disbelieve it.

Perils of being part time mate, work commitments /holidays, can't blame him if he is.

Surely you go out of season like the rest of the team do? Especially when your own dad then criticises not playing you and makes a coach out to be the bad one?

Don't know anything about that, does he not book a holiday just in case he's picked?, it's the natural time for a summer holiday, the summer, other players have taken them I recall in the past, so do us fans, doesn't mean we are not committed. If he was full time and it was his living, I would agree, but it isn't.

But does a club paying a contract not mean they are paid to train aswell as play? So surely getting paid to be on holiday while everyone else commits their spare time to training is unfair isn't it?

Do they get paid to train or is it just appearances at this level?, not sure.

Both at a guess.

You seem to have some inside info that the rest of us aren't aware of Dons11.

I don't know Tom and can't speak for him, or his dad, but he was playing rugby union throughout the winter and probably didn't expect to have commitments at this time of year, which presumably was when he booked the holiday.

As HKR said, it's one of the work/life balances that occur with part-time players.

Gary Thornton does seem to know what he's talking about. I fully agree that the problems he's identified with regards to the pivots are a critical reason as to why we've done badly this season. Gary Thornton's got experience in Championship 1 so knows what's required to get us out of there.

Probably like everyone else, I feel deflated that all the hard work from recent seasons has been undone this season. With hindsight, we could have recruited some seriously good players on the back of finishing 4th last season to help us progress. Now we're going to be struggling to keep our better players as they'll get offers to stay in the Championship.

Conversely, who will be wanting to come to the Dons for next season? This is my worry. I hope Gary Thornton's contacts and the ex-chairman who is now an agent can pull a few rabbits out of the hat for us.

No inside info it's just his dad is clearly a member on here based on some comments made about wingers being dropped. Including one today just seems silly to comment that when toms on holiday or just recently been.

Clark to London
Groat to Bradford
and Snitch to Dewsbury
allegedly.

Three quality players to lose, particularly Clark, but I think he and Groat would have gone anyway, Snitch I'm more surprised at, but I'm sure he has his reasons. Let's face it, we haven't been world beaters with them so a loss yes, irreplaceable?, everyone is replaceable . Just finding the right one's for the division we are in next season. Going to be a very different side next year, don't envy GT in his task ahead, but looking forward to seeing the outcome.

Two of those would make more sense the other way round, just sayin'

All the successful seasons we have had in recent years ha revolved around us having a quality half back Paul Manson graham holdroyd and Paul cook , it would be my suggestion that we acquire another for next season , if we are to emulate past glories