Thanks for your efforts today.

I think Batley should be applauded for their performance today. Best performance by any visiting team at the Keepmoat, and arguably as good as anything we have served up this season.
Batley's back 3 of Greenwood Brown and Rettie, did shed loads of work and got them going forward.

As for the Dons I think its been a superb season, one that we've over achieved significantly. To finish 4th is massive and Cooky and his team need to be applauded, and in my opinion deserved a better reception at the end of the game. (But that's just my opinion)

Are we serious about how good Batley were?
I thought they were about the fourth best side we have played at home.
And our performance was the worst.

Yeah we may well recover, but I doubt it.
We will be playing Leigh away and then probably Sheffield at home ... kiss the season goodbye.
Out in a fizzle ....
Only diehards will stay ... seriously!
I thought we took a big step backwards today, Cookey was almost invisible today apart from an intercept pass with shades of Holroyd.

Still we've had a good season.

Old polished head Kear will be lauded on Sky by Eddie and Stevo as he lays out his masterplan of how he beat Doncaster ... one game away from the SACK!

Perhaps if you'd have been a bit more consistent all season and not reliant on others on the final day (just a thought) ...

Or we could have just played some duel reg players that shouldnt have played and gained extra points that way?

Ah the beauty of the internet

Some, factually incorrect, just the 'alleged' one. Points, factually incorrect too. We lost that game, thought you might have remembered

how do you get extra points for playing Dual reg players or duel reg whichever.

Must be new rules, you still have to win the game.

Didn't look good for Lee Waterman carried off at the end.

Before that he already had a stinger.
That's when a blow to the shoulder/neck buggers up the nerves so the arm is useless.

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Yes it it's our fault, nothing to do with an influential player coach who spends more time in disciplinaries and sitting out bans than on the pitch.

I agree about Batley, definitely the most intense performance from a visiting team this year. When they were going all guns lazing for the first 30 minutes I thought 'this won't last, we'll get them in the second half' but the were unrelentless, and made very few handling (punished) errors.

My two-penneth on yesterday's events;

I understand those who were critical of their fellow supporters who left early as I too agree that the season's efforts should be applauded even if the performance yesterday was awful. However that said, they've paid their money and will feel it's up to them. I can see both sides of the debate.

The performance as I've said was awful and it does seem that if we peak for a particular game (Leigh & Halifax at home as examples) we seem unable to perform the following week.

However, I have to say that my biggest disappointment was that having heard supporters calling for others to stay and applaud the players, a number of those players chose not to recognise that, regrettably including the player coach.

As I said, just my two-penneth.

I thought I did see Paul raise his hands & applaud the fans .

Apologies if I blinked, he was on his way to the tunnel as some of the players arrived in front of the supporters. If he did, then it must have been over in a flash.

I didn't say where he was when he applauded !

That's right you didn't.

He did applaud the fans from where I was, but the entire Batley bench and playing staff were running round like loonies in front of him.
I know some of the players didn't come all the way over to the East Stand, but I don't think that was because they didn't want to or anything as daft as that. There were a lot of upset and angry faces within the Donny squad post match yesterday, and I can understand their reasons for not wanting to come across, no matter how it looked to some.

I may be in the minority but I think they should show their appreciation to the supporters (possibly more so after a performance like yesterdays).

May be on my own on this one but if Cookey showed his annonoyance in the way that Wanderer described I for one love it. It hurts and it stays hurting and you take it to the next game. I love that kind of hurt it makes you want to get it right next time. Just my opinion but all hail fair well and shaking hands crap doesn't always cut it.

In fairness, that's what this forum should be all about ... different opinions ... and debate.

They were annoyed and upset with how they performed , rightly so, but games like that happen, Batley out enthused us, but I thought it strange so many walked out after how the team performed against Halifax, they didn't go out to deliberately lose. Short memories and all that, but each to their own, could have understood if it had happened week in week out.

Personally, I think that the players and supporters need to stand by each other when things go wrong.

We need to let the players know we're still behind them (even if we are hurting because of a defeat) and the players need to come and acknowledge the fans.

I'd even go further and say that an after match interview at pitch-side with Paul Cooke would have helped. We could have seen the emotion from him and we would have realised we, as supporters, weren't the only ones feeling bad.

In fact, I'd like to see a regular pitch-side interview immediately after every game as I feel it would help bring players and fans closer together.

If supporters feel they need to show their disapproval of a performance by leaving early, then that's their right too.

I went for a bus ...... missed a minute.
I did have two others with me that don't attend all games and were excited in anticipation to watch the game after the superb Fax result.

I should imagine that, like me, they expected a cracker of a game, really tight and hard-fought ..... and close.
Batley with everything to play for and Ben Black guiding them to me were slight favourites, but might crumble under the pressure of it all.

But a thrashing .... never, Reittie making our life misery ...never!

Now you can argue any way you like, Batley will argue, quite rightly, that everything they got they worked for and was a result of pressure ... fine!
No doubt they deserved their victory and I am glad they are stopping up.

[size=150But[/size ...when you look at the detail, from a Dons supporter's view, that was an amateurish fist of it that Donny made.
Let's just examine it a bit .... it starts with a lovely kick into the corner for Reittie to leap like a salmon and pluck it out of the air and almost unopposed plonk it down. Now those are hard to defend, a defender against an attacker running in and having the advantage in the jump.
Fine, except that Sando stood there like a cardboard cut-out.
The overall effect of that was a feeling of DURRR!!!!!!

Nevermind, the game is young .... on we go! Forward lads on the attack!

So we have them on their try line trying to come out, it's gonna be hard, we are going to bang them and force the error!
But no, we decide at this point to enact a scene from the bible ... the parting of the Red Sea.
One man takes on about five and not one of them stands in his way, I don't think he hardly had to jink.
Off he trots with good support and his mate saunters in under the posts ....we couldn't catch them.
The overall effect of that was a feeling of DURRR!!!!!!

Nevermind, the game is young ... on we go!
Except of course that Batley are laughing, have relaxed and are fancying that this is their day.


We get back in the game a bit, the overall impression is that they are blowing and we'll have them eventually.
But no, we are looking dangerous but decide to be benevolent instead to our neighbours and throw an intercept.
We catch them this time but quickly they score a try as a result.
The overall effect of that was a feeling of DURRR!!!!!!

And so on into the second half, the chronology of it all doesn't matter, among the tries that Batley scored was one where, and forgive me if I imagined it .... we were coming out of defence under our posts (yeah, we had the ball), I turned to pick up my pint for a sip and in the millisecond it took to do that looked back to see Batley with the ball going in under the post and their team in raptures.
The overall effect of that was a feeling of DURRR!!!!!!

And so after those four incidents all resulting in tries .....for the newcomers eager to see this spectacular Dons outfit that murdered Fax,
yeah you guessed it ......the overall effect of that was a feeling of DURRR!!!!!!
COYD