Sheffield have now teamed up with St Helens in a new DR partnership.

Mark Aston is expecting four players to come over to play for them this weekend.

Decent squad with a couple of D/R in there

Richie Barnett, Tom Carr, Kieran Cross, Reece Dean, Jack Downs (D/R), Pete Green, Jordie Hedges, Kyle Kesik, Jack Logan (D/R), Charlie Martin, Jack Miller, Jason Muranka, Feka Paleaaesina, Connor Scott, Louis Sheriff, Russ Spiers, Jason Tali, Jamie Thackray, Ryan Wright.

COYDs Hoping for a win sunday, i can feel it in my water.

Great to see Feka and Cross back.

And Tom Carr



Agreed that that is a good squad. Fingers crossed.

They have the personnel...
If they have the belief and are prepared to graft in the face of a hard task ... then there is no reason why they can't win.

It's all about stepping up when the collisions are hurting and the body is saying 'Jesus!'

COYD

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Injury news from the Whitehaven camp www.whitehavennews.co.uk/Haven-i ... 4439e99-ds

Am hoping that the wind is a factor and that we will have it second half.
Otherwise at 14-0 We are looking poor value.

My timing is impeccable ...
14-6

21-6 at 57 mins .

25-16 or so.
Slowly drifting to defeat .....

Hang on ... could be an upset coming!
25-20.

A converted try would be nice!

Not to be .....lost
No doubt an half-decent performance.
But really?
Trot the excuses out!
lol

Very difficult getting anything in Cumbria , and the scoreline suggests so nearly. Whitehaven are where they are for reason. I await a balanced report on the game.

Facebook reports suggests that the penalty count was not helpful.

Another 5 minutes you would have won. We where in control until last 15 minutes stupid penalty on the last tackle then bang donny ran in 3 tries before we touched the ball again. We where knackered then only had 16 players today and a couple of them carrying injuries thats twice in 2 weeks we've hung on for the win. Good luck for rest of season.

It doesn't really matter ... we lost.

But we can now start to say how should we meet again the Dons can be very confident of victory.

All that matters is who wins, the rest is bullshoite.

Looks like Whitehaven had us beat easy, bar the late spurt.

Still not good enough ... move on and work on what is holding us back.
Cos something sure is!

It may matter to the Coach, something to take into the play offs. OK we lost and no argument with that fact but given the post from the Whitehaven fan, why is that BS. Two teams going at it hammer and tong can hardly be described as BS.

I await a decent report on the game.

It's a pretty clear post Alan.
I am not commenting on the game, merely the result.
I am saying that much as people might like to say we could have won ... We lost.
And much as people might want to wring every last solace out of it and find the 'positives' out of it.
None of that matters since we lost and Whitehaven can have a beer or two knowing that apart from a brief period too late in the day ... they sorted us and there is no reason to believe they won't repeat it when push comes to shove.

That was pretty much near to our strongest squad and we lost and there are no points for getting close like there used to be.

Still, that's the hard bit out of the way now.

Still only the 4/5th best side in the division and little cause for promotion talk.

Saying that if we had had another 5 mins etc etc and we would have won is futile (bullshoite if you like) since we hadn't and we didn't.

Please do not think that my post was a go. I do not understand the BS aspect thats all, you are not the only one thinking what may have been. That's the Dons season in a nutshell, the what if's.

There has to be hope that we can finish this Season on a high.

We had a Whitehaven fan saying we COULD have won .. I know we COULD have won, in fact I expected us to win. Given that Whitehaven had injuries, we had a strong squad AND a new coach.
Players always try for a new coach, and this a coach who had identified some of our failings and had a plan to speed up our play around the ruck. Had a plan to slow down their play.
And we still chuffing lost.
I would say that is a crushing let down and disappointment, since the game was there to be won.
We lost, the coach can think what he likes but his side weren't good enough, so please no bullshoite talk.
ITD anyone?

As a very keen horse racing fanatic I will say that sometimes you do not always get what you expect. I expected nothing at Whitehaven (even given their injury problems). The penalty count was poor and I expect the Coach to act on that.

What I do expect is for us to have a say in the play offs.

I expect us to go far in the playoffs ....
Cumbria in fact.

The report in the RL Express was not very complimentary.
Whitehaven owned us and when we did fight back we spent the last 10 mins giving pens away and dropping the ball.

How's that better than Greene's reign?

Having said that the final games should be easy ... anď so I would want to see the Dons thrashing sides from now on.

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