As Stand-Offish stated the club worked very hard to promote the game against South Wales & this produced a crowd of 895 the Dons won that game & they won there next game away at London Skolars so the question is why was the crowd only 493 at todays game, maybe in the current financial climate people can't afford to attend on a regular basis.Did the Dons give out a lot of free tickets to promote the South Wales game in the hope people would like what they saw and come back to the next home game.

I believe there were a lot more tickets given to school kids for that game. But ten quid for an adult is excellent value geoff, thats a lot cheaper than it once was (£12 on day - £10 if u buy ticket in week). maybe its the prices which need advertising more. maybe a lot of people still think we charge what we charged when we first moved to keepmoat

Top marks to those who stayed ... me included

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This is the best side we have had for the last 5 years.
I have got to congratulate Tony Miller and the Don's management for what they are doing.
We just need an extra 200 people at least.
Which reminds me Geoff and Steve, get yourselves down here...



PS I heard some kids shouting for the Dons today behind me in the first half (left hand side of the East stand) ... warmed the cockles of my heart it did.


It's the way forward.

maybe " more people like you need to make the effort and support your club sir ?"

Maybe I am being harsh, and if so I apoologise. It was just the first things I read were "they're no world beaters", "we didn't do this", "we didn't do that", the implication being not that we won because we may have been better, but that we won because we got lucky Workington had an off day. We get it every week, even when we beat Thatto heath it was because of their off day apparently!

A truely great performance by the boys yesterday, i dont think i have ever seen so many injuries and positional changes in all my years in the game. The performance from every player was magnificent and their drive and commitment to the team unquestionable , we now have a group of players that are prepared to put their bodies on the line and dig deep when it matters. Scott Spavin has not trained all week and was sick in the dressing room before the game and at half time but knew we were down on numbers .Full credit to Craig to come back and put in that performance after a year out . Our defence was first class and considering the size of the Workington pack ,i cant remember any of their forwards making a bust.This win will prove we are going to be a force in the division this year and hopfully convince a few more fans to come back and see some quality rugby league . COYD

Massive display by the boys. Everyone of them should be as proud of themselves as i am of them.
Not many sides will out boss Workington in the forwards as much as we did.
Seventeen M.o.Ms. Credit to the coaching staff.
Thought Fawcett had a big game especially in defence on the right wing.






COYD

I am not quite sure how Workington scored 16 points yesterday.
When they looked most threatening we tackled them to death near our line and when they didn't look too threatening, they scored ... weird?

They got what they did get on the back of penalties and knock-ons though.

It is surprising what a good job of tackling we did what with all the disruption given Workington were a big and fit side, and will beat most sides on their own ground, including us probably (hopefully not).

PS Oh, just a tip tip Stuart Sanderson to improve his game......learn how to do the 'Mansson curve'.
And if you don't know what that is Stuart ... it's when you are being caught by a speedier defender, at the last second change direction and curve across or away from his line and by the time he realises what's happening and changes direction too, you've gained a couple of precious yards on him. It probably wouldn't have helped yesterday, but it could be worth a try in the future (pun intended).



I am a cheeky monkey.

Our line defence this year is probably the best i've ever seen it.

I can only support what others have already said, a fantastic performance in very difficult circumstances (illness, injuries, continual position changes etc).

The effort, enthusiasm and team spirit was outstanding, the first 40 minutes being near-perfect and the second 40 being a true test of character which was passed with flying colours.

Gutted for Aaron Dobek although speaking to Tony Miller yesterday evening he indicated that the injury may not be as bad as initially though (he was still waiting for news on Mick Butterfield at that stage).

The downside for me was an attendance of only 493 ... performances like that deserved to be witnessed by many more of the public of Doncaster.

To the players and coaching staff






(the ale tasted particularly good last night

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i missed last two games as was in the carribean but my mate kept me up to date via txt sounds like it was a great performance by tony's men young kids but play like men cant wait for rochdale to make it 4 from 4.

Stanky reckons he has got the best centre pairing in the league in Damien Reid and Wayne McHugh.
McHugh got a load of tries for Hunslet against us.
Don't let him past because you won't catch him ... he's faaaaaaaast.

Outstanding in every department!
I think a big well done needs to go out to Tony Miller. Last season he took a lot of stick from certain quarters, but i think with a full pre season behind him and a more settled team (assembled on a limited budget) he is showing what he can do.
Well done to everyone at the club!
We just need a few more clicks on the turnstile....

We were superb yesterday. Defence was top drawer and I thought our lads kept their heads well discipline wise as Dirty Worky tried everything to upset them.Also a great try from Kez which no one else has mentioned , it was a great solo effort!!

Well done lads keep it up!
Just hope we get some bodies back for next week.

interview with Nev about yesterdays game on the official site, i'd put a link on but computers hate me.

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Hope he's right about the injuries not being too serious.

www.timesandstar.co.uk/sport/wor ... r-1.823870 very good article. and oops the time keeping gets a mention. but yeh we cocked up mega style sunday. a shout was made that we were 4 out, we thought 4 minutes short so we moved it on 4 minutes, wrong way. comments have been made to have the clock turned off. what do fans feel, do they like the time on or not. i realise we cant repeat the mistake. i think that maybe we should stop rewinding it if were told its wrong, just keep it running, and at 40, just wipe the time all together, with a message, this isnt the official timekeeping clock.

www.timesandstar.co.uk/sport/wor ... r-1.823870 very good article. and oops the time keeping gets a mention. but yeh we cocked up mega style sunday. a shout was made that we were 4 out, we thought 4 minutes short so we moved it on 4 minutes, wrong way. comments have been made to have the clock turned off. what do fans feel, do they like the time on or not. i realise we cant repeat the mistake. i think that maybe we should stop rewinding it if were told its wrong, just keep it running, and at 40, just wipe the time all together, with a message, this isnt the official timekeeping clock.

I wish I'd said that a few seasons ago! Either let the clock run and don't stop it, or turn it off

I'm unsure of what you are you on about.
Are you saying that the total time the game was played was wrong?
Surely not?
I thought that what had happened was that at eighty minutes you turned the clock back the number of minutes of stoppage time, such that when eighty minutes showed again the game was over. That's what happened isn't it?
Perfectly understandable as a solution.

Turning the clock off to me is an absolute no-no.
You should be able to stop that clock and start it at the refs say so and when it says eighty minutes the game is over.
Now if you can't do that, get somebody in to enable you to stop and start that clock.

If not, why can't you announce the stoppage time and restart the clock or let it run, people can add stoppage time to 80 minutes?

Can the clock count backwards?

It would seem not as the suggestion is that a mistake was made.

Exactly, we played four minutes too much, I was trying to be tactful

.. does that mean that Workington shouldn't have got a bonus point?
I can't remember how long from the end they scored.

I don't think that we did play too long ... the official timekeepers dictate the playing time. The way I interpret it, the stadium clock was wrong by four minutes for some part of the second half hence the need to adjust it back when it hit 80 mins ... perhaps Rob can confirm though.

Don't Question The Timekeeper

The right amount of time was played, with full time signalled by the hooter at the correct time. I had it about right with my watch



The clock can be stopped and started and that is what they are trying to do, it is just obviously not being done right or not enough attention is paid to the ref. I manage to get it right most weeks with the stop watch on my wrist, the stadium clock is just a stop watch with bigger buttons, so I don't understand how it is wrong nearly every time. That's why I say turn it off or let it run, this has been a problem for a few years now.



Indeed


It should also be noted that at most other grounds you can't even see a decent scoreboard let alone a clock counting anything like game time