FT Dons 26 Oldham 22

My aa!
26-22
HOW to make a bag of sh/t look good!

The ref was great.

And every single result went against us in the other games.

Very good for 70 minutes. Dire for 10 minutes.

Why did we play as if we were 20 points behind instead of 20 points in front?

Our game management was absolutely appalling in the last 10 minutes.

Surely it was obvious to have 5 simple plays then a kick to touch or make Oldham play from their own 30 metre area, especially as it turned wet.

Happy with the win but it shouldn’t have been at the expense of my heart rate!

Glad Brad got mom - thoroughly deserved.

Yes Brad England was outstanding .
The score flattered Oldham we should have managed the last 10 mins much better .

That was the best I've ever seen Brad England play. He was outstanding.

Anyone just seeing the final score will have got a completely wrong idea of how the game went. The Dons were the better side across the field until Oldham woke up and we switched off.

As GM said in an earlier post, our game management at the end was awful. Hopefully we can learn a serious lesson from this.

Lessons are never learned if there is no fridge light on.

Agree with what everyone has said, as my post was going to be the same.
WHAT! happened there. in total control of the game and then switched off in last 10 Mins.

Good win (apart from the last ten minutes) Agree about Brad England -immense. Jack Logan is a cut above this League, Hakim was his usual heart stopping self, that intercept was too brilliantly quick for the happy whistle blower. Really like the look of the halves, cut out the penalties and have some control when needed and we have a decent side.

And a big apology to the players and coach from me, I thought we would not win these last two games.

How did Logan show he was a cut above? Really want him to find his mojo again as he is a good player.

Two big wins over the last two weekends.

I agree that the last 10 minutes yesterday were dire and nearly took the edge of an otherwise excellent performance. That said, I'm sure we would all have taken a 4 point win before kick off.

He was much more confident generally and scored a good long range try. The team spirit amongst all the lads seemed excellent. Miloudi was wanting to be involved in everything and was trying to motivate the players whenever possible. Jack Downs had a very good game at 13 too. Defensively, apart from falling asleep in the last 10 minutes, we looked as good as we have been all season. Everyone worked for each other and seemed to know their jobs.

Thought Tali and AJ-B linked up pretty well as well.

Agree with that Rob AJB put a full shift in.
Love Mattys result reaction

AJB showed the merits of chasing lost causes twice yesterday. He chased that tr down when a lot of others would have just jogged up to the defender. And the time when he and Tali tackled the Oldham ball carrier back over the line were both getting something out of nothing.

I'm not overly bothered about the end as long as we take that warning shot and remember that every time we are 20 up with 15 to go, to win and still learn a lesson is OK. (I wouldn't have been saying that if we'd managed to lose)

They did indeed, and with Logan and Sam on the other side both outside look good.

I don't think that hanging on after such a dominant effort for most of the match was very edifying.
For the last three games, since Beryl has got her act performing nicely, we have looked the business and my forecast of a very tidy sausage roll was looking not unreasonable (losing no more than two in the run in ... max).
But in the space of less than 10 minutes we lost all structure, we panicked and we forgot about containment by clever choices/ kicks to keep Oldham firmly in their own twenty.
We got sloppy, unruthless and unprofessional.
And no way could we get by York if we get the chance and with that attitude.
Kill off the opposition!

Oldham?
Away from home?
Ordinary!

It is easy to see how a very depleted Keighley beat them a few weeks back ... quite a surprise it seemed at the time.

They are workmanlike ... that's it ... and they never capitulated, so full marks for that!

But really, we had them by the goolies and were taking turns to smash their fullback for laughs.

I wouldn't know whether to praise them or bollock them ... praise them for all the good work I suppose.

But I left feeling a bit deflated ... we aren't worldbeaters after all.

We have to return to having a firm structure at Coventry and play to our strengths.
Bish was totally underutilised I feel ... for example.

In general I think we have loads of areas for improvement ... a few examples are ... Litten should scoot more from the play the ball.
Martin (and Tali to some degree) should learn how to 'step' because just running straight into defenders is not as productive and is asking to get injured.
Can't fault their bravery.
Bish needs involving a lot more ... he is really good and is wasted.

And so on ...

Yes Jemmo fantastic by AJB really he had no right to reach that try but he did, as you save never give up as a lost cause as it wasn't until the defender had dealt with it which AJ never gave him chance to do although he did think about it a second too long.

That's how he saved a try against us V Bradford he never gave up again and the Bradford player didn't know what had hit him. I will never forget that hit Fantastic.
But well done to all yesterday except the last 10 mins!

And another thing ... Oldham were NOT big and powerful!

Give our players some credit for that.

I don't think their size was anything whatsoever to do with our players .. they weren't the monsters I expected ... not unusually big.
So people who describe them as big and powerful, for example RH, must be midgets.

Here's the Oldham coach's view of the match.

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Chris Hamilton might not be pleased with bits of that following his heart surgery.

I've got a feeling that with the concerns that clubs have with regards to possibly being dumped out of the rugby league to become 'community clubs' as opposed to semi-pro clubs with RFL funding, we're going to see more and more clubs splashing cash in a desperate attempt to get out of this league; those that don't risk being left behind. Those that do increase the risk of going broke. Sadly, I fear there could well be a few casualties that go under before the RFL finally make their minds up on the future structures.

Teams at the bottom of the Championship are also going to feel the heat, just like teams in our division. No one will want to be relegated into Champioship One over the next couple of seasons for fear of what might be round the corner.