i read on dons website that james clare is available and will play
for us as is paul cooke

That is correct , looking forward to the game. Can Goulding do 40 mins for them & 40 mins for the Dons, sounds like Dual Reg to me .

Todays line ups.

Doncaster
1. Mick Butterfield
2. Lee Waterman
3. Liam Cunningham
4. Shaun Leaf
5. Stu Sanderson
6. Kyle Kesik
7. Craig Fawcett
8. Mark Castle
9. Mike Emmett
10. Brett Waller
BLANK. Mike Kelly
12. Craig Robinson
13. Grant Edwards
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6. Paul Cooke
11. Fran Welsh
14. Nathan Powley
15. Chris Spurr
16. Carl Hughes
17. Matt Carbutt
BLANK. Brooke Broughton

Wakefield Trinity Wildcats

1. Richard Mathers
2. Peter Fox
22. Danny Cowling
20. Reece Lyne
5. Ben Cockayne
6. Paul Sykes
21. Matt Wildie
8. Justin Poore
9. Paul Aitor
15. Kyle Amor
12. Danny Kirmond
17. Frankie Mariano
13. Danny Washbrook
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10. Tom Rodgers
11. Brad Day
14. Matt Cook
16. Oliver Wilkes
18. Kyle Trout
23. Brad Singleton
25. Isaac John
26. Bobbie Goulding Jr
27. Chris Annakin
28. Liam Kay

so much for Clare being available

Dons 4 Wakey 44
Crowd 810
Pointless.
James Clare?
Pointless.
Does he actually exist?

They were too fast too strong and had the benefit of one or two questionable decisions . on the positive side we never gave up and won't come up against a super league side every week. Im sure we'll learn from it. Bring on the real stuff.

James Clare ?
Cannot see too many positives to come out of today . Paul Cooke got some game time but we lost Leaf & Edwards with injuries, we never gave up .

Wakefield got more out of todays game for sure !

We're the flood lights broken today or have Rovers not paid the electric bil?!

Thought we were pretty poor today. I expected that we'd at least be competitive.

The main one that annoyed me was the disallowed try...

Yea saw your picture on twitter rob, wasn't sure at the time but i am now

The officials today were [size=200SHOITE[/size,
I think this sport is dying thanks to such as them.

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I thought you were hard done by with the disallowed try and also one of ours I thought Fox dropped. That said, the difference in fitness and class told, but to your teams credit they bust a gut for the full 80.

Good luck for this season.

Can't argue with the above ... I'd add that I'm convinced that we are better than we showed today.

Thanks for the good wishes which are reciprocated.

Same thoughts here, i agree with everything above and we are better but it don't help when the players are going on and off like they are in a revolving door! at pitchside.

That's the nature of friendlies im afraid, just give everyone some game time

i think a fair few of the subs were forced through injury too. looks like quite a few knocks were taken. not convinced it was the best fixture a week before our first league game..

Apart from getting a bit of revenue, you are darned tootin' right!
I wish we hadn't have played the game at all.
We should be playing championship sides in friendlies.

I was ready to walk out at half-time.
I went instead in search of the elusive Rovers Bitter* and got talking to wanderer and decided to stop.
Glad I did really, we were better in the second stanza (Stevo

).

*Rovers Bitter........
They have a pump in the restaurant/bar dispensing some sickly brew at 3.2% abv.
I inquired ''what about the real ale Rovers beer?''
''Oooh (said she) I think it's about 4.5% abv and they sell it at Lakeside.''
Enough said.
I walked away.
The mind boggles!

If we had played a Championship Club we wouldnt have got 810 attending , unless may be it was against Fax or Fev.

Well obviously ....durrr!
But as a Dons supporter, I hated the game.
I don't like to see the lads getting blasted just for a shiny dollar.

I don't think it was a bad fixture, a team higher in skill level(they say) and superior fitness, as a full time outfit should be, it was above what we can expect even from the top championship sides, and im sure the players will learn from it. The fact the Dons were so keen to get the fixture on shows the importance they felt the fixture held.I was slightly disappointed with the crowd , thought there would have been a few more, hopefully all waiting for season to start

I agree, I thought the crowd would have been at least a thousand.
Obviously the lower the crowd goes the less it's worth it to get blasted.
And I question just what do you learn from getting turned over so easily?
The players are at their optimum, trying their hardest and apart from a few tactical things how can they get better?
Silk purse and all that........

I can only disagree , i think you can learn quite a bit from playing teams who play the game full time. How much quicker they took up positions that created options for playmakers , how quickly the defensive line(too quick on occasions ) came up strangling the Dons attacking options. It also gave Paul Cooke much needed game time, im sure he needed it, understandably looked a bit tentative .But nowt wrong with having differing opinions, makes the world go round.

Noting that teams are quicker than you is merely an observation when there is nothing you can do about it.
They are just a better class of athletes.

Just how can a team at our level emulate a team at Superleague level? ....they can't.
They already know all about line speed and all that and marking from a good coach in Miller.
But they are Championship level players not Superleague players.

as i say...differing opinions