71 mins Featherstone 50 Dons 10

Just for a laugh (during our discomfort) ...

HT Swinton 16 Halifax 14

78 mins Featherstone 54 Dons 10

FT ... Featherstone 54 Dons 10

Dons scorers ... Tries Butterfield and Emmett, Goal Spaven.

Oi! Pinching my job!

Sorry mate ... I'll get you beer (or two) to redress the balance.

Beaten by the obvious gulf in speed and class. Considering we played jut over half the game with 12 men we didn't do that badly, defended well in midfield but let in too many soft tries from within our 20. Also bombed a couple of good chances. There's no reason to be too down heartened cause we won't play teams that fast at the PTB too often.


Fans made a good account of themselves amongst a surprisingly poor attendance

Dons team tonight ..

Butterfield
Sanderson
Spurr
Leaf
Colton
Fawcett
Spaven
Bovill
Hughes (P)
Robinson
Sampson
Emmett
Scott

Gomersall
Carbutt
Kesik
Crawley

Seriously? It was a sh/te night weather-wise.
I weighed all the factors up ... and given the weather, the fact that we would get Tonked (see what I did there?) and given that I could watch England beat Wales at RU ... I thought fook it and so did many a poor soul.

But well done Donny, I think two tries away at Fev is ace and conceding 50 is about par given the difference in class.
So I am optimistic.
COYD
And full marks to the folk who went, I was going to go but changed my mind.

Who got sent off?
Or was it a case of sin-binnings mathematics?

Read another thread, looks like It was Kesik.

Kesik was sent off for 'being the 3rd man in' thaler said, haley and bostock were far more guilty from where i was

Thanks I read your other post ... Thaler is a donkey ... nothing much changes, but then I am biased.

problem is so is he

I think you can be proud of your lads last night, they never gave up, and no cries of dirty donny neither, the only thing that spoiled what was a good game of rugby was the ref .... the man is inept

He will be back with Super League from next week hopefully so not our problem

Agreed Fev lad - Donny kept their heads up all the game. Thaler got most of the decisions correct. Whistle happy at times. We got fed up in the 2nd afe when he just kept whistling for a penalty (when penalising Donny) instead of letting the game go!
Bias - no I don't think he is! A horrible little sheeeitehouse?? - yes I'd go wi that! If you ever meet him you'll know what I mean!

I don't think anyone called him biassed.

Refs aren't biassed ... they are just prima donnas who think folk have come to watch them ... oh, and their chief fault is that they guess things, often in defiance of logic and the laws of physics.

But apart from that, where would we be without them?

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But I take your point SO, without the ref, we haven't got a game! He was whistle happy last night, nowt more than that really. He's just not my favourate person - but that's not really a comment on his abilities as a ref!

I was at Fev last night, when is Mr Cummings going to pull up ref's who are not up to standard. They must feel that all the fans are stupid and dont know the rules. Super league ref my rear.

Well done to the fans who attended last night and also well done to the boys for again playing for 80 mins, even with a man down and going up hill in the second half.

So they did ... twas ian1966 ... I know it wasn't me.

As other posters have said we did give a couple of soft uns away but we were tired and stretched in the 2nd half with only having 12 on the paddock. The lads did play for 80mins though and they never gave up and I came away thinking we had played well to be honest. Well done to the lads!

Fevs 9 i thought had a good game.It might have been the last try of the night when he dummied and shot off like lightning to set up a try.We couldnt handle him.

Thaler is Thaler. He'll always be remember by me for dancing around while flashing the red card to PJ Solomon years ago.We should know what we are getting by now when he is in the middle.

If I remember rightly wasnt that PJ incident at Fev also....

Fev gave him loads of stick and he just got changed and came and stood in crowd with a few of us...

The guy was off his head but a great player at times....

Correct and Thaler almost wet himself with excitement prior to the sending off ... as you say PJ came and stood with the away support ...

Had the pleasure of being out drinking with him (PJ) on a few occasions when he lodged with a friend of mine ... great company!

Didn't he form a pop group with Ant and Dec?
PJ and Drinkin'

The Cas Coach Matterson last season said ''Thaler has no feel for the game'' i don't think he would change his mind after fridays game.