Does anyone know if we will be segregated again? That caught me out at the Fev game and they scanned my season ticket and let me through the away end (why on Earth you would do that if you are segregating I'll never know).

Had to negotiate with 2 stewards and show them my pass to rejoin the folks I had come with (I'd nipped ahead to use the facilities while one of our party was buying a ticket).

While the Stewards were nice enough I cannot fathom why if you have an away end you would accept the season ticket on the gate and have the scanning equipment there too let alone not say anything or have any signs up at the turnstyle.

Also since my season ticket was my proof of belonging at the other side what would happen if someone had paid cash for a ticket would they have been stranded?

I'm honestly also not sure why they had barriers on everything to segregate us all imo as I am unaware of any issues in the past between two sets of fans? The only fans I ever remember us having issues with were Hull KR.

HT Dons 16 Dewsbury 6

FT Dons 38 Dewsbury 12

Good win but it sounds like we should have had a few more points. Speedy recovery for Reece Lyne (hamstring)

Our forwards were dominant , Knowles & Burns outstanding.
Hope Lyne is not out for too long .
Craig Hall showed what a versatile player he is , no doubt he could slot in at centre at Widnes.

I agree about our forwards being dominant here thought Burns put in one hell of a stint with some very good tackles. My favourite was when the attacker tried to drag him one way before giving a drop off pass to someone else in order to beat him. Nope Burns just switched targets instantly and the second the Dewsbury man caught the ball he wrapped him up.

Having not seen the Barrow game our defense was a marked improvement on Fev. We had players actually pressuring the kicker and our line speed was much better with us getting up in the attackers faces a lot more and putting in some stinging hits.

As well as Lyne I hope Watson is ok as I was surprised he didn't play I assume maybe he picked up an injury? If not would swap him for Robinson for next week honestly I think his running game would have thrived off of the game today.

Regards Craig I think where we play him depends on injuries. We could put Tali at Centre and leave him at stand off potentially I suppose a lot of it depends on the fitness of Johnston and Boas.

Does anyone know if Foster was injured? Came on had two good runs and went off after about 10 mins it seemed?

On a side not the referees really need to get tougher on these blatant high shots on Briscoe he seems to frustrate the defense with his strong running so they resort to trying to take his head off and whilever the referees simply choose to ignore this like the one late on in the second half teams will keep doing it.

Both highshots on Briscoe in the second half should have been yellows imo.

For an organisation (RFL) that is supposedly all about player welfare these days and trying to protect players from the consequences of concussion this is simply not good enough. While I'm sure the club would never get one I feel they are owed an explanation as to why when that happens right in front of the referee no action is taken.

Foster seemed to holding his hamstring when he went off.

Dominant performance from our forwards. They were all in top form. I hope the injuries aren't too bad.

Burns was outstanding. No one had a bad game. It was hard to pick a man of the match.

Craig Hall is certainly a class act. He has to be one of the first names on the teamsheet... although I don't what position I'd put him in!

The bookies got it wrong today. I got it even more wrong. I think we've shown that last week at Barrow wasn't a fluke.

The Batley game is on the day of the League Two Wembley play-off final.

We cannot move the batley game to Saturday either because it is CC semi final day .

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My view on yesterday. That was the dominating forwards I can remember seeing from a Dons team for an awful long time. Maybe even ever. The game was won, and then some, in the middle of the pitch. Knowles was a cut above and Burns ran the show, particularly in defence. I also really like the dynamic change we get from bringing Hepi on.

Disappointed we bombed so many chances and don't think the score reflected our dominance. In part this was due to a few poor decisions near the line from us, so suppose we got what we deserved in the end in that regard

That's a good summary Jemmo.

I can't ever remember the forwards doing a job on a team like we did yesterday. The only criticism is that we did look clunky in attack at times. We needed a few more dummy runners and didn't always make the most of overlaps when we had them.

I will now enjoy watching the highlights!

Brett Ferrres seemed to get involved more & Mutagi had his best game so far for me.

Soundtrack by Depeche Mode

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Just found these highlights from Dewsbury. Think I have copied the link at the right time if not it is 1:38. Greg is held up in the in goal and one of there's starts having ago around his face and neck. The ref sees this and instead of blowing a penalty tells him and I quote: 'Chill out... Just Chill out mate. Just calm down.' Surely that is not an appropriate response. You have caught him in aggressive illegal behaviour that was so aggressive it warranted three separate instructions to chill out/calm down in 13 seconds and yet no penalty or tackle count wipe?

Can anyone make that make sense at all?

I did say I was going to [uwatch[/u it, Wilf! I had no idea it was a silent movie at that time!



I thought my computer speakers weren't working. Watched one of the player interviews afterwards just to see if the problem was at my end. Thankfully, my speakers were working okay!

Solid without being spectacular i think perfectly sums it up, negatives were as already said very clunky in attack, we left at least 20pts out there, positives we're our completion rate was better, penalty count was in our favour, notable performances in burns, matagi, hall, guzdek although nobody had a bad game, and 2pts in this league is always a good 2pts so all in all more positives than negatives.

Dale Ferguson has quit as Dewsbury coach and said he feels he can contribute more as a player instead of as a coach.

I suppose we will never know how much our game contributed to that decision but interesting none the less

It's not been the ideal first job and I feel for the guy but this is probably for the best

From what I heard, he was given the same budget for this year as the one he had last year. He was onto a hiding to nothing in those circumstances.

After last weekend's Dewsbury performance, I think he's right in that he could do more if he was on the field. I wish him well.

He's ended up as an inexperienced coach with an inexperienced team being lead around by and old man who (if Sunday is anything to go by) doesn't have his heart in it

I'm guessing that would be the guy who may well have felt that he should have been appointed as Head Coach.

I'd always assumed if Sykes had wanted it, he'd have got it

He did a better job at trying to referee the game on Sunday!

Greg Burns facing a tribunal for a head shot (grade E).

So the really bad high shots against Luke Briscoe are getting ignored then and Burns is being charged for what exactly? Honestly does anyone remember this?

I feel like a High shot that bad would have been mentioned on both of the forums before now but neither forum has mentioned it.

The best guess I have is it involves that player of theirs' that went off for a HIA but at the time I thought that had been a good hit and assumed HIA was whiplash related or happened as the players head possibly hit the ground as he was rocked back/put on his backside.

Don't remember it being a penalty nor the Dewsbury players or fans being up in arms like I would expect to see for something like that. Feels like this has come out of nowhere tbh.