Excellent day out at Doncaster today, drOve straight to a parking spot, 20m from ticket office and just £12 to sit in a superb stadium with a great view.

Doncaster had a real go and scored the best try of the game but inevetably the scoreline blew out a bit near the end and I agree 10-50 flattered Trinity. Little.

Good conversation with a couple of Dony fans who were sat amongst the Wakey fans without a hint any animosity!

Good luck for the rest of your season.

Yes ... a nice day out in the sunshine.
As has been noted the scoreline flattered Wakefield, not that it matters in a cup game, one point ahead secures victory and there was no way we were going to beat Wakefield.

I thought all the Donny lads muscled up and tried to match Wakefield, and for 60 minutes they did great.

I thought Butterfield was great and Spaven had a good game in a team were all the lads played well.

I thought we were a bit lacking at 18-10 when we had them wondering a bit ... could Donny possibly beat us? Probably not, but we let them off the hook and we never got a sniff after that.

A lot of fans are unhappy about Kesik being treated as a rotation player. I agree, it is a big mistake not to play him for the full game. He looks fit enough to me. What is Miller playing at?

I also thought a lot of our restarts in the second half were one-dimensional ... why the fook punt it to the same bloke who never drops it??? And that kick out on the full gave Wakey the chance to post another try. I can understand kicking too long, but putting the ball over the sideline is a sin.

Back to the positives ... we gave Wakey some sort of a game for 60 minutes ... next week we take on a team two divisions below them at home.
If we don't show the same commitment as today and WIN ... we want knobbing.
COYD

PS Overheard remark from a Wakey fan after the game ... 'Why do they allow Donny to play in a stadium like this?'
Duuurrrrrr!!!!

Plenty of Banter today and 99.9% was in good part so added to a great game...

Thought we muscled up well today and scoreline did slightly flatter Wakey.

We had a couple of chances to add a few more points and rotating Kesik whilst in the middle of a set in front of there posts just seemed mental?

Great to see Grant back too.

Overall a good day and certainly did not let ourselves down today....

PS Dobek did make some decent kicks throughout play.

It's a big ask for your lads to play at that level and intensity week in week out, however if they can reach 75-80% of that performance then you should be looking at a place in the grand final at least. Good to hear you lot chanting even when you were well behind an also after the final hooter. Great stadium, great fans (you deserve more) and a great day. The score line did flatter us but that is almost inevitably the case in many of these matches when part time players start to tire on or around the 60 minute mark.

Thought the Dons did really well today , good to see Grant Edwards back . Listened to Radio Leeds on the way home John Kear was interviewed gave the Dons the credit they deserved .

A few thoughts from today ...

Really good effort from the boys ... 18-10 at the 50 minute mark

... to a man they deserve credit for pushing a decent Wakefield outfit.




50-10 at the end ... as has been said, flattered Wakey a touch but that's how it (generally) goes when full timers meet part timers.

Wakefield support ... turned up in numbers ... thanks for that, a decent atmosphere, a good cup tie.




Crowd given at 1800+ ... seemed like a hell of a lot more to me (sorry but it did!)

Grant Edwards ... great to see him back in a Dons shirt after an awful injury.

... and now my big bug-bear from today (and I'll be careful and ask it as a question) ... is Kyle Kesik not up to playing longer than he does? He gave us great go forward and imagination and I for one cannot understand why he was withdrawn at 18-10 when we seemed to be starting to cause them one or two problems?

Well done to the Doncaster Dons, they are a credit to the league. They never gave in against us and they should be very proud of the effort they put into todays game.

And congratulations to you as you scored the best try of the match, it was a joy to watch. Good luck for the rest of the season.

Thank you ... your comments (and those of your fellow supporters) are appreciated.

Enjoyed my 2nd visit to your stadium. Best try scored by the home team

Match photos online - [url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/r82photography/sets/72157626551840953/HERE[/url

Team Sheet (for Jemmo) ...

Butterfield
Sanderson
Spurr
Lawton
Colton
Dobek
Spaven
Scott
Ely
Crawley
Robinson
Carbutt
Emmett

Kesik
Hughes (C)
Edwards
Sampson

Donny's second try was try of the game for me. You should pick up a lot more wins this season playing like that.

nice to pick up all the plaudits from all the wakey fans,that is why this great game of ours is a great game when both sets of fans appreciate the other teams efforts,dons fans enjoyed the skill and class from wakey,and the never say die attitude and non stop effort from the dons it has been said before that is what makes us come back week in week out, did Adam scott get M O M

Really good game and a good run out for our Wakey boys. Donny were very entertaining with some good offloads and undoubtedly the try of the match.

Best of luck for the rest of the season, with the talent you showed this weekend you should be pushing for promotion at the end of the year.

He did indeed.

Great game and proud of all 17 today.Wonder if the match video could be made available? I for one would buy if only to see our second try again and the big hit on Morrison which so nearly led to a try for China.

Well played yesterday, you really made us work hard for the win and it was only our superior fitness which allowed us to pull away at the end meant that the scoreline flattered us a bit.

For anyone wanting to watch the highlights of the game they are available on wildcatstv which can be accessed from our website.

Kind of destroyed your own point there. You can't accuse the Wakey fans of being churlish which they were and then justify yourself by being even more churlish! We the majority of fans are fully aware of our plight as indeed you as Dons fans are of yours. Neither of us need it throwing in our faces do we?

I have had a Wakefield fan contact me to say he will donate the price of one adult and 2 children's admission to the Supporters Trust as he was not able to make the game.

Fantastic gesture

why offer to play at barnsley to try and maintain your super league status,why not play your home games at the keepmoat until you get your stadium plans sorted you would be made wellcome by everyone in doncaster,,,barnsley is hardly a hot bed for R LEAGUE, doncaster is only 20 mins from wakefield,just athought

Nice sentiment but i would need a 100% guarantee that this would not effect any of our home games. If there was no possibility of us getting ousted for our super league friends then maybe this would worth consideration. Oh yeah and if we could blag some of the gate reciepts the even better, just joking, lol.

just to say myself and mate barry sat in the middle of the wakey fans,and they were great.they gave credit to our lads and enjoyed there own teams efforts without being churlish.it was a pleasure to sit with them and have a good natter about rugby league in general,and sadly they seem resigned to leaving super league.i for one i will keep my fingers crossed for you,and thanks for the good company on sunday afternoon.best of luck

Great game against Wakey, more of the same next week please.