Batley 0 Dons 6 (17 mins played)

6-6 (20 mins}

Batley 12 Dons 6 (30mins)

Batley18 Dons 6 (50mins) Chris Buttery two tries for Batley

Batley 18 Dons 12 (58mins)

Batley 18 Dons 18 (74mins)

Batley 18 Dons 22 (78mins)

batley 18 dons 22 {78mins}

Final Score
Batley 18 Dons 22

Dons scorers

Trys
Divorty.Colton.Cook.Steen

Goals
Briggs 2 & Speak

a tremendous comeback from 18-6 down to win 22-18. WELL DONE the lads

I couldn't go......I wasn't very well.
Drat!!
Well done the Dons.......looks like we are back in business.
COYD
Look forward to some match reports.

Just on way back now. . . Great result for the boys and a lot of character showed by the lads. . However we won't play like that and win many this season i'd suggest. BovIll looked very handy for his first outing, and cooky showed every trick in the book.

on the downside, we need to start looking for off loads more often as I can't remember a single one. We also need to relax as we seem scared of linking a number of passes together.

Well how good were Batley if that was the case?

Not very. . . We made more mistakes and conceded more penalties I reckon

Thought Mark Cas had a good game, He looked loads of times for the off load but there was no support IMO. Ive got no nails left im down to the knuckles lol.

Yeah...there were a few occiasions where there was no support...and I agree...CAs looked good (in fact I think we have a solid starting pack)

Not worrying about my nails...I tore the muscles off my ribs this week and I was reminded when I jumped on the guy in front for the winner..OW!

Thats what you get for jumping round like a loon

Both sides made a lot of errors , we stuck to thetask & turned it round at the end. Castle & Cook had decent games , Briggs apart from 1 crossfield kick didnt do much . Expecting more from Briggs when Handforth returns.

Yeah think my mate will go good at the side of a decent 7.

In the first half what game was that touch judge watching? Like our Jo said "they had 1 eye between the three of em"

Hey Jemmo 200 posts now! Not bad to say i can't read and write and spell and put them comma things in the right place lol.

you lot turned it around well.
Crack on!!

Well done donny!

Lets be honest here, we are entitled to be a couple of weeks behind the majority of Championship and Championship One teams with all that has happened ... and we possibly are.

However, the performance tonight bodes very well.

We were slightly unfortunate not to go in level at half-time (lucky bounce for Buttery who in all honesty was probably Batleys best player on the night - how often does that sort of thing happen?).

When the Dogs scored first in the second half, it would have been easy for the lads to let the game slip away from them. That wasn't the case here - having held onto a now rampant Bulldogs attack for the next 10 minutes without conceding, they gradually established another foothold in the game and little by little began turning the screw against a tiring Batley rearguard.

Tries from China, Cooky and finally Ryan Steen to add to a first half try credited to Ross Divorty (could well have been Pete Green) ensured that despite struggling with injuries to Divorty, Cook and Kyle Briggs late on, the Dons emerged victorious.

Don't get me wrong, there are things to work on, things to be improved but considering the bigger picture, loss of financial backer, loss of coach, loss of half of last seasons promotion winning team (half a dozen now elsewhere and three still out injured) I believe that all connected with the Club, management, coaching staff, players etc can be proud of where we have got to so far!

I for one can't wait for the next fixture (London away on Sunday).

Also a mention for the those who made it to Batley to support the team. Well done - I'm sure that the support was noticed and well received by the players. Who knows, it might just have made a difference to the result!

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