Bet365 offer the Dons +36 points 10/11 currently. The same firm are 20/1 about a Home victory.

Pretty sure we was only -12pts last season against fev so does that make us 3x worse?

Nah, it makes them three times better!

Squads for Sunday:

Tagaloa 1 Ellis
Spiers 2 Snitch
Mennell 3 Cooke
McLocklan 4 Hardman
Hodson 5 Moore
Welham 6 Sykes
Verlinden 7 Baldwinson
Foster 8 Johnson
Doherty 9 Teasdale
Scott 10 Bussey
Kesik 11 Spears
Walton 12 Milner
Musolino 13 Cording
Groat 14 England
Emmett 15 James
Wright 16 Ormondroyd
Cowling 17 Sharp
Kelly 18 Day
Fox 19 Foster

We seem a bit short in the props department. There's no Matt Carbutt. I wonder if he's away on holiday? It'd be nice to be kept informed about these thing. No Carr or Lee Waterman again. Brett Waller still missing too.

Dave Merrick is ref.

I think Carr is injured ,not sure about the other 3.

Sad thing is they are often not far away

Sunday morning and a feeling of inevitability about the outcome of today's game.

I could well see Paul Cooke and Steve Snitch having really good games and laying the platform for a big Fev win.

The only positive from our perspective is that Fev haven't been in the best of form lately ... but that might all change today!

BetVictor, Coral, Hills, Ladbrokes, Paddy Power & Stan James all Dons +38 points 10/11.

Cowling & Walton left out of Dons 19.

Cooke & Snitch starting for Fev.

A few minutes away from another defeat and official relegation.
Not a bad effort scorewise 10-18.
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Seems to be dragging on ... Was there an injury?

16-28 two mins left.
FT

Good effort from the boys today, losing Menell early didn't help things , we've struggled creatively all season so to lose him was a big blow. But we battled manfully against a not too impressive fev outfit, and a diabolical ref. Relegation confirmed, but we knew that anyway.

Agree with HKR - a good effort from the boys. Fev were disappointing.

S/O, the game kicked off a little later and a couple of injuries during the game caused further hold ups. Paul Mennell managed to limp off after first looking like needing the stretcher.

There were some positives to take from the game with Kyle Kesik having his best match for a while. Ryan Verlinden looks like a handful and should be signed up for next season. Ryan Wright looked good too.

Dave Scott gave everything as usual. Matt Groat and Russ Spiers tried hard too.

Attendance of 886 was disappointing. Fev didn't bring as many as they usually do and our turnout was low too. Would we have scraped 400 had there been no Fev fans there?

hiya peeps, quite enjoyed the game today not sure if we went up a notch to fevs level or if they came down a couple to our level, either way we finally got relegated, I think quite a few players stood out well (maybe they were trying to impress for a contract next season).The low point for me today (apart from a couple of strange refs decisions )was how we lost our discipline in the last quarter giving loads of pens away and letting fev in for points the score flattered them . Heard lots of gossip today about who is going, and also there is a lot of players wanting to come and play for the Dons/Gary Thornton, so time will tell which are fact and which are fiction. Anyway only a few more games then we can start for the big "re,birth" in 2016. Whatever happens between now and then I for one will stand by my team and keep on shouting COYDs,
ps had to smile when i saw mitch clark sat behind me in the stands with both arms in pot, could,nt help thinking what does he do when he needs a wazz, suppose thats when you find out who your friends are. lol.

Sounds like disappointing news for Paul Mennell:

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Can anything else go wrong, hope you recover ok Paul.

Yes, doesn't sound too good for Paul Mennell. Lets hope it's not as bad as it sounds.

As I said at the match yesterday, but for bad luck we'd have no luck!

The blokes who play this game are bloody heroes ... I wouldn't play this game for a gold pig ... it's almost as if it's a given to get badly injured at some point.
Hope he fully recovers.

They are Stand-Offish, what they put their bodies through, for little reward really, never ceases to amaze me.

The advertising board near Tattersfield is still showing the next game as Halifax (19 July 2015).

Simple things?

I don't like to be critical of the club because I'm sure they've got lots of things on their minds at the moment but this is a perfect example of not getting simple things right. It is a concern.

I think we've touched on this subject before, in the Intake/town moor area where i live there is nothing to show upcoming Dons games, even at lakeside area, Asda,Dome etc. So easy to do but opportunities missed.

Given the fact that the Super 8s were recently announced fixtures, and not previously listed in a match day programme, there was even greater need to get the message out there as to when the new home games were to be played.

Maybe we should be asking what the Club Doncaster marketing department are actually doing to promote the Dons?

Getting the word out on your own advertising board seems the most obvious of things to do, and as HKR says, nothing ever seems to be done over our side of town around Intake/Town Moor or near Asda, etc.

If the club wants to build confidence back up amongst the fans, then please get the things right that we can see, otherwise many doubters will question whether lessons have been learnt with regards to the things we can't see.

The coverage in the Free Press is better than it used to be IMHO ... so that's a positive.
Ironic really when they are reporting on losses mainly.

The lessons to be learned really are two clichés ...
1 You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear (that's the team).
2 You can't polish a turd (that's the advertising in relation to a crap side).

However there is little other evidence to suggest that the Rovers are pushing the Dons towards Superleague ... where is the glitsy hype?

A few stated aims don't mean Jack S ... talk is cheap ... I should know.
lol

And another thing where is this academy type side we were promised?
Was that more bull crap, or has it been shelved owing to our demise?

It's been updated to advertise the Batley game today