That says it all..

I thoroughly enjoyed tonight's game....even though we lost.
Brilliant effort by the the team in defence and in forward attack.
Great to get a bonus point against a faster, slicker Widnes team.
I thought that we were hard done by by the officials in the first half.
Three examples were a Widnes player lashing out with his foot at the play the ball, a blatant forward pass on the half way line resulting in Widnes' third (?) try and Webster conning the ref with his chip and dive.

Anyway second half we were the biz.....superb effort....and the Donny supporters got behind the lads with singing and chanting and clapping.....like days of old...MAGIC!

4 points over Easter when we could have got none = RESULT!
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Where was Kyle Briggs?

Anybody know the attendance?

I admit when I'm wrong and I'm so happy to be able to say it.

I said to my lad yesterday afternoon that it would be a good result to keep them down to less than 50. At 20-0 at half-time, I wasn't looking forward to seeing it this morning. To get a bonus point off them is beyond my wildest dreams.

I'm even considering making the trip to Halifax on Sunday now!!

Restored my faith and made me proud to be a Don again.

Glad to hear that Paul Handforth is becoming the scrum half we need.

Were there some injury returnees yesterday?

Don't think there were any returnees, plus Briggs was also missing.

Attendance 831 according to Sky

Great effort by the boys last night.

We lost what in theory should be one of our more difficult home fixtures but we gave it a real go and achieved an excellent bonus point and that with a weakened team.

After the Gateshead debacle the response in the Easter fixtures has been fantastic and that's all we can ask for.

The Webster incident was the second half.

Works for both teams re: the officials. Sam Thompson had a try disallowed in the first half for offside when he wasn't. Scott Yates put the ball on the try line in the first couple of minutes to be told he was short, and the player who took the high bomb for your 3rd try was a yard offside, I was sat exactly level. All in all the officials made mistakes for both sides.

Maximum effort put in by all the lads last night,and to be honest Widnes
were on the ropes for last twenty minutes and we looked the fitter side even though they are full-time.

Missing from the seventeen last night;

Alex Benson
Kyle Briggs
Mike Coady
Dean Colton
Michael Haley
Craig Lawton
Shaun Leaf
Al Rounding
(who would all surely be in consideration to start if fit)

also

Kevin Eadie
Gary Ellery
Craig Holt
Scott Jones
Lee Parnell
(who have all figured at some point this season).

Even more commendable, in that case. Long may it continue!

So, first choice props, wingers, full back and stand off....
Makes the past couple of games for us all the more impressive.

Yep it evened out...the Webster 'chip and cheat' was defo first half.
He was attacking the end you were sitting......he chipped over near the half way line and went down like a sack of spuds.
I thought we could have shipped another three or four tries......but Widnes bombed them for a variety of reasons.
Widnes were the better side.
That's why we are ecstatic with a bonus point.

Apologies we forgot to announce the attendance last night, we kinda got a bit carried away with the exciting finish. the ground was about empty when we looked at each oher and said, did we announce the attendance.

oops. sos everyone. what a match, i really thought we was gonna get a draw.

Easter weekend and all that but 831 still has to be disappointing for the visit of a club like Widnes.

Anybody know why the kick-off was at 8pm on the last day of the first bank holiday weekend.

Clashed with a Rovers home game initially (3pm).

Moved first to 7pm and latterly to 8pm to allow for the ground to clear after the football and the pitch to be made ready for a RL fixture (lines re-painted, posts changed etc).

To be honest there looked more than 831 and i would have thought at least 350-400 from Widnes.

so what was donnys line up please

My thoughts as well.

Gaz Carey
Wayne Opie
Andreus Bauer
Luke May
Wayne Reittie
Josh Weedon
Paul Handforth
Mark Castle
Craig Cook
Matt Carbutt
Ross Divorty
Ryan Steen
Pete Green

Andy Speake
Jake Bassinder
Jamie Bovill
Nathan Freer

I would say widnes where poor to be honest.I wont go halifax as think they much better than widnes.They have recruited badly.

What does that mean? Sort your English out.

Where poor?
go Halifax?
think they much better?
They have recruited badly?

Come on help us out

I thought second half our lads did well.We always seem to lately,late in the game.We cant afford to let Fax though build up an early lead like they did at Haven last week though.While im not expecting us to get anything at Fax I would still like us to be in the game somewhat at half time rather than Fax being out of sight.

I know as well there were a few fans encoouraged by our performance on Monday and we might take more to Fax than Sheffield last week.

How long have you needed English qualifications to post on a message board.