The squad for Sunday's game:

Zac Braham, Mark Castle, Kieran Cross, Sam Doherty, Pete Green, Jordie Hedges, Ryan Jones, Kyle Kesik, Charlie Martin, Jack Miller, Hakim Miloudi, Jason Muranka, Feka Paleaaesina, Nick Rawsthorne, Louis Sheriff, Russ Spiers, Jason Tali, Jamie Thackray, Ryan Wright.

Good to see some players back in the squad that's been dropped the last few games! I think they have been missed and have worked hard for Donny throughout the season when we had a winning streak and work well together! Hopefully we will see it again this weekend

Doncaster Free Press match preview:

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HT Dons 14 Whitehaven 10

FT Dons 30 Whitehaven 22

Close game which could have gone either way IMO,mistakes on both sides led to trys.

However a much improved display with all of the 17 putting a good shift in , and it was good to hear "COME ON YOU DONS'' from the Dons choir.

Yes , a much better performance . Enjoyable afternoon ,better rugby & better atmosphere ! Think we deserved to win but only criticism was the marking at the play the ball was poor.

Need to back up now with 3 wins before we go to Canada .

Good effort from the lads today, played for the 80 mins and got there rewards.Thought Jordie had a good defensive game today.

He did indeed , hard to pick a mom today .

How are the two Hull lads going?

Also has the French lad signed for you permanently or on loan?

A cracking game between two closely matched sides. Really enjoy it. The atmosphere was good too, probably helped by the chanting of the Whitehaven fans, as that spurred the Dons fans on.

Jessie Joe Parker went from hero to villain very quickly!

We nearly succumbed to the same dummy half running late on in the second half, like we did against Keighley.

I really think we need to be playing competitive games like this on a regular basis, not playing teams at the bottom who are out of their depth. Matches like this might start to get the fans to think about coming back.

Rawsthorne played well at centre , the French lad had a couple of good runs did nothing wrong .

Westerman not in squad .

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A very entertaining game today, the type of of game to get fans back, only if they could see what goes off.

Good to see a more expansive game being played. I reckon a few more squad players must be feeling a bit nervous about getting a place in the 17 squad.

Another reason why we need to get out of this crappy division to get meaningful matches on regular basis.

Still believe RH is a good choice of coach and irrispective of where we end end up this year, I reckon we could be on for more promising times.

Could we be hitting form at the right time?

Well done today to the players and to the fans, good vocal support from the stands (both sets of fans) I would love it if we could cut our error count, play a set of six without doing something daft. We do look the business when we get on a roll but we just seem to lack that consistent set of six plays and the ability to complete them time after time. One other thing, is there any chance at all of making some better yardage when we kick to touch from penalties, territory builds pressure and all that. Apologies for being picky after a really decent game but we can do so much better IMO, the talent is there to be seen.

Hard to pick a MOM but Charlie Martin for me, there was no way they were stopping him for the try near to the end.

I think Charlie has been the most consistent of our players this season . A good tackler, runs well with the ball & scores a few tries also.
Thought Muranka , Hodges & Thackray had their best games today !

Muranka, Hedges & Thackray have needed to up their games after recent displays, good to see their responses.

Tali was my MOM - plenty of agression & desire shown today, first half especially, but Charlie deserved his try for his efforts and for not rising to the bait from Haven's number 3.

Sam Doherty deserves a mention he was good under the high ball , all in all a good team display.

With England , Dean & Spiers to come back in also can we qualify for the play offs ?

Richard Hornes view of the game www.sunderlandecho.com/sport/mor ... -1-8701153 Why it says Sunderland Echo is beyond me

Richard Hornes view of the game www.sunderlandecho.com/sport/mor ... -1-8701153 Why it says Sunderland Echo is beyond me

I agree we dealt with the high ball very well. Sam Doherty looked very assured catching them.

Isn't it so much better when there are some away fans there to help create an atmosphere? It got the Dons fans going too.

Richard Horne ....www.doncasterrugbyleague.co.uk

Match Highlights:

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Charlie M has his say www.doncasterrugbyleague.co.uk

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We went to this game mainly because it was a nice day and the Dons had to win.
Lose and it was goodnight Vienna.

As I said to Jemmo, I went to remind myself why I stopped coming.

And I was very pleasantly surprised with the start ... and over all it was an exciting game which we won at the death despite looking like we had lost it.

I couldn't help thinking that it must be hard for a coach to coach out stupidity.
Both sides exhibited it, but I was mainly concerned with the Dons stupidity.

Dropped balls will happen particularly with the opposition looking to strip the ball at every tackle ... ok!

Although biased, I thought Donny gifted Whitehaven most of what they got and that we should have been three scores clear and coasting.

Basic stuff ... don't let the ball bounce if you can catch it and stay away from the side line.

But we didn't did we?

Thank goodness we have enough flair to win to make up for the brainfarts.

Doing it the Donny way Carl calls it.

I thought Whitehaven were a more organised outfit who played the odds apart from JJP who let us back in, the numpty.

So I think we need to cut out the brainfarts or else we have to defend most of the game and that is shattering.

Our territorial kicking was also shocking!

Apart from that we are well set.
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