Yes it was very good.

Incidentally, what was notable to me though was that although Waterman was brilliant at fullback we missed his power at left centre. Robinson and Cooke scored in his normal scoring area and I think he would have had a field day.
Still it was the right choice.

The cutting edge has gone without Hodson and Waterman down the left. We will have to graft out our tries and victories if Waterman stays at fullback.

Maybe TM played Waterman at full back because we were against a strong side, and you would probably expect the same at Whitehaven,after that he may move back to centre against sides that we can maybe expect to score some points against, I don't think he will finish the season as a full back, but then again I didn't think he would be at full back in the first place,and we all know how that went.

I will second that. The pleasure that was taken from that performance will last a long time. Have to say that the decision taken by the Chief Exec and the Coach to get Cooky to the Keepmoat was priceless. The bloke was everywhere and If he missed I tackle I didn't witness it. His leadership is exactly what has been missing in previous seasons and watching him organize out on the park is a joy to watch.

Was talking to a guy in the Australian Media this morning, who watched the game on TV, he said it seemed strange that Cooke and Calderwood were down at this level, but the desire and effort from the Dons was what won through. He also said that Cookes attitude to the game has shone through, and having someone of his experience on the training ground is a great help.

yes it is strange seeing Calderwood down at this level,the way he played should be in down in t Yorkshire league

see where it gets you for not clapping the southstanders when scoring tries

It was a good defensive effort from Doncaster but the reality is that in the end it was only 3 tries to 1. If their winger (Miller) had taken a pass just after Donny had scored and Calderwood had been allowed to play on when the ball was knocked to him by a Donny player that could so easily have been two scores. Then at the end they had an overlap of 4 to 2 and Calderwood dropped the ball. So, yes, enjoy the win but even as poorly as Workington played they could still have pinched something from the game.

If and Had are very big words .Like IF my aunty had a tash she would be my uncle

Workington didn't play poorly, they were outplayed ... there is a difference.

I thought worky were terrible one half back who didn't seem To know wot. To do. Calderwood a pale shadow of. his former self (awinger) .and a score off our defensive lapse.can't fault our boys though we need to be bang on at haven though

if if,s and buts were apples and nuts , there would be a lot of monkeys sh------ and chewing as for calderwood i would not swap him for tom hodson for a gold pig

Two of the stats sheets from Thursday. I've got the up to date stuff to put online later.

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Has anyone seen Stu Sandersons alleged trip on Calderwood . Town fans saying worse than the trip by a Workington player.

They dont like it as Thackray was put on report for his offence.

Have you read some of the other drivel on their forum as well?.

Yes, donot give us much credit .

Yep.

I don't think it was our best performance per se, however it was the best defence I have seen for a long time and a very attacking defence (if that's not too much of an oxymoron) that Workington just couldn't handle and had no plan B. As has been said, we didn't let them play but it was through no lack of their effort.

Also, it's the best memory I have of us ever out "game planning" someone, we didn't play our normal game for me, but we adjusted to another plan that we knew would win us the game.

Excellent stuff

I have to admit, watching it on TV I held my breath waiting for the ref decision on that one

It's amusing isn't it, they used to be a reasonably knowledgeable bunch but now they're just coming across as another graceless bunch of "we lost and it must be someone else's fault"

We were very aggressive in our defence, and I think thats why we dropped off in the last 10 minutes.

Edited for accuracy.

Agree mate. Ive changed my opinion of them after my last 3 visits up there.

I haven't seen any posts on the Town forum that blames anbody but themselves for losing the game. Yes, it has been questioned as to why one trip was put on report and another one wasn't, but both are being viewed by the disciplinary review panel, which answers that point.

Most posters have said that Doncaster were the better team and outplayed us on the night, just as we did at Workington to your team. You are coming across as a "graceless winner"!!!!!!!!!

I'll admit I'm sour GeeKay, but thats nothing to do with the game last Thursday (which we completely dominated).

What I am sour about is how Workington got a Rugby League World Cup game. An appalling ground that requires £500,000 being spent on it, just to get it to a minimum standard. Yet the Keepmoat Stadium, the best stadia outside of Super League (and actually better than many Super League grounds) gets nothing.

Doncaster has fantastic transport infrastructure networks, but we don't get selected as we are in South Yorkshire. Another ridiculous decision by the inept individuals running the rugby league.

Did your local authority apply for a game at the Keepmoat, originaldragon? The Scotland team is going to be based in West Cumbria and at first it was going to be a joint bid between the two local authorities, Allerdale (Workington) & Copeland (Whitehaven) with any games going to be held in the new stadium at Whitehaven and the Scottish team staying in Workington.

For whatever reason Copeland decided to go for it alone but it transpired that they couldn't guarantee that their stadium would be ready (or even built) by October 2013. It was at that point that Allerdale council and Workington Town put in a bid to rescue the World Cup matches that had already been allocated to Whitehaven.

We all wish that we could have a nice stadium such as the Keepmoat (didn't you have a Challenge Cup semi-final there) and maybe one day our area will get something tangible instead of the lips service we are used to on so many other matters. Anyone who has travelled to our part of the country will know it takes 40 minutes to get to a motorway. Our area had quite a lot of sorrowful events in the past 3 years or so, the Whitehaven shootings, the Workington Floods that took away all our bridges (we hope that our new bridge will be open in September from November 2009) and then the school bus crash, so it's nice to get the likes of the World Cup for the area not just for our dilapidated stadium.

Yes they did as part of a partnership bid.