What a load of unenjoyable scallops in the last twenty.
Some bad decisions by Cooke.

As poor today as last week was great.Always was going to be difficult after last week.thats the end of the excuses!
Some poor performances from normally good players.lost the intensity at key times.

Think we need to return to last weeks team.

Even so once again a win but close.
COYD

We were absolutely terrible the 2nd half.

At 36-6 my 30pt win forecast should have gone been blown away.

thats what you get with messing with the team and resting players.

Alex Ferguson was good at that as well.

Definately not a top 4 performance today but if we can finish in top 4 at end of season i will be pretty happy.

Not sure where to start having witnessed that. First off massive praise for Swinton given that they were down to 11 and 12 in that second half and we did the square root against that depletion and lacked any professional cohesion at all given their on field numbers. We talk all the time about attracting better crowds down to the Keepmoat and that second half performance sums up why folk don't come down. Bleedin awful. Too easy for some of the players so they thought and I hope the Coach (who was as guilty as most) really sets the stall out for a no repeat showing. The dream is second place and the lucrative financial reward that goes with that spot but mirror the second half today and Fax and the Eagles will do us at The Keepmoat, not to mention Keighley next week who are on home soil. That was a vey luck win today against a side who could have thrown in the towel at one stage but deserved something out of the game more that a bonus point.



Good to see WHAS today who like me must pick his games

No doubt a very poor performance. Good job Sando had his kicking boots on.

Good call.100 % was it not?

Yep.

I'll leave this here though...

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On the upside the new lad looked decent.
Looks like he knows how to tackle and also run the ball out.

He could do well.

looks like some posted a clip as i put this up.
great minds think alike

Yes 100% , Mick Nanyn missed 1.

Interesting to see the sending off incident . The Swinton no 17 claiming he was bitten by the Dons player (allegedly).

I've got that saved, I'll get it uploaded in a bit. I don't care what he says happened beforehand, punching a player who is prone on the floor is a major no no.

A long time since I have been and after today it will be a long time again. Playing like that will not attract old supporters back and not any new ones. Dons thought they had it won easy messed about with replacements and nearly paid the price.Will keep following their fortune on the net but not wasting my money coming to watch displays like that.

Wahs you should have gone last week !

Certainly should have not gone today. Would have been better watching golf

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Looking at this, Mike Emmett could be in the brown stuff too..

And biting a player in the tackle is all ok then? What would you do if you had been bitten?

I'm not disputing whether what is alleged to have happened prior to the punches being thrown is right or wrong. I've been bitten in the tackle before (dirty bit my upper leg), and despite wanting to rip the lads head off who did it, he got knocked out, the next time I ran the ball in. Serves him right for dipping his head too low in the tackle attempt and headbutting my knee.

There are ways of getting even, but hitting a prone player in the head is a big no no for me.

Its not the teams fault supporters don't come.
It's having supporters like you who come to one match and make rash comments when you haven,t seen the other displays.

all i can say is what would you do if we had lost, we've only lost 1 at home all season,
and still took you along time to come and find out.

What do you expect when he was ramming his fingers down the players throat,
Got everything he deserved, that is if he did get bitten.

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Good grief

First time in a long time Wahs,it's a shame its people like you who the dons really need..This is a good Doncaster side just had off day,it Happens.

The dummy from Craig Robinson. Leafy reckoned he'd not seen a better one since Paul Manssons days..

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Well I've waited until morning and I'm still angry at that performance. Cooke was poor we would have been better without him today imo. In the second half we had our defence camped over on the far side taking up about half the width of the pitch. Did they take advantage of this and spread the ball wide? No. They barged through: with 12 men.

Also on at least 3 separate occasions we went low on someone near the line and failed to wrap up the ball allowing them to to just plant it over the line despite us having the numbers.

Sando definitely wants keeping as goal kicker, Wilko should be a scrumhalf and Tom should not be fullback our attack broke down when it got to him as he seemed unsure of himself there.

On the plus side Pas looked good though he clearly has a lot to learn and I thought Welham was outstanding, and Snitch finally got a deserved MOTM.

Also as an aside does anyone else find it weird that when we played Barrow at home Bloem was also the ref (the last time we've had him at home I think?) it was another game we played terrible and won by 2 points courtesy of Sando's 100% record with the boot.

EDIT: Forgot to mention I don't blame WAHS or any other stayaways tbh we bleat on about how good the team is and how we deserve better support, then go and turn in a performance like that just when we are starting to generate interest. A little while ago a work colleague of my fathers had been convinced to give it a go and unfortunately went to the Crusaders home game. It was so bad we were embarrassed as we tried to convince him it wasn't normally this bad. For some strange reason he hasn't been since. If anyone is curious why we have such low crowds this is why, because whenever we get new people through the gate we play like that. The first game for a new fan is so important and if we don't put on a good display quite simply they will decide its not for them and not come back. Yes at times it is borderline criminal that so few people watch the brand of rugby we are playing but others we have no one to blame but ourselves.