Today Sky bet giving Gloucester a 12pt start for Sundays match.

Odds to win league outright are.
as of today Fri 4th March.
Keighley 100/30, Toulouse 7/2, York 9/2, Rochdale 6/1, Dons 8/1, Hunslet 10/1, barrow 14/1, N W Crusaders 16/1,
Newcastle 20/1, Gloucester 25/1, London skolars 50/1, Oxford 66/1, Coventry 100/1, Hemel Stags 125/1,
and last but not least South Wales 150/1.

To me promotion has to be the aim, and games like this we simply should not lose. Big Dons win.

looking forward to the game Sunday, had a look at the team sheet not really very happy with the inclusion of several Hull players, was away for the last home game the reports on here were not very impressive re, the duel reg lads.As I have said many times before I want to see a team of DONNY players who will run their nuts off, not players who dont care if we win or lose. COYDs.

have to agree I wasn't impressed with either Yeaman or Abdul tbh. I was hoping we might see the likes of Castle and Kelly to come back personally.

Neither fit .
Looks a very strong 19 named on the official site , despite several injuries.
I am looking forward to the game as I missed the North Wales game due to a holiday .

COYD

Coaches view on the match to the Free Press and his comments regarding the 3 Hull lads here on DR www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/spo ... -1-7773071 I hope we can go out and get the season off to a flyer, no disrespect at all to the opposition but we really do need the polar opposite of last years campaign. So come on lads get to it and get some smiles on faces.

Coaches view on the match to the Free Press and his comments regarding the 3 Hull lads here on DR www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/spo ... -1-7773071 I hope we can go out and get the season off to a flyer, no disrespect at all to the opposition but we really do need the polar opposite of last years campaign. So come on lads get to it and get some smiles on faces.

Team list. www.doncasterrugbyleague.co.uk/m ... view/12338

Team list. www.doncasterrugbyleague.co.uk/m ... view/12338

Abdull is no longer playing, so that leaves just 2DR for tomorrow, can only presume it's an injury, be disappointed if for other reasons.

Replaced by Kesik , looks like Carr at Stand Off and Sheriff at Full Back .

COYD

I'm not happy with putting DR in we had a team out last week and won well.
we should just use our own players that's what we have a big squad for!
if supporters aren't happy with it I would guess players are even more unhappy.

The positive side to DR is that it allows us to bring in some experienced players who will help to develop some of our youngsters. The coach must be happy that Feka and Kirk Yeaman will be bringing more advantages than disadvantages, although I do feel for the Donny players who will have to drop out to accommodate them.

Bookies now trying to swerve the Dons.

Bet365 asking us to give up 16 points and Skybet 20 points.

I thought -12 was to good to be true to last very long.

Agreed. Bet365 now -18.

bruised foot playing for Hull under 23s against Warrington

Comfortable in the end. Kirk Yeaman much better today, shame he had to go off

Did he go off injured?

Yes, after a high tackle

I thought referee had a reasonable game, he tried to let both teams play and when he put Gloucester on a team warning for persistent penalties he followed through and put a player in the bin.
I thought we were good in the first half and second 20 minutes of the second half. However we can't afford to switch off and give away penalties after penalty, to loose two tries when they were down to twelve men was criminal.
Thought the two DR players were due their spot this week. Still concerned about David F-J defence when one on one, but was impressed with our pack, thought they took the ball forward well.
The result will flatter us when we only played for 75% of the game, that needs addressing. Notwithstanding all the negatives, I am still hopeful for the season.

Thought Yeaman and Feka did well. Also thought Milton had a very good game. Personally I disagree about the referee how someone didn't walk for that tackle on Yeaman is beyond me. There was a lot of other stuff like that, that went unpunished. On a related note I sincerely hope Yeaman is ok.

Tbh so far Makali has been uninspiring, I'm hoping we get more from him in the future.

Feka was brilliant today ran with purpose. Yeaman also was better and agree someone should have gone for that tackle
also agree Milton played well made a couple of tries 1st half.
2nd half we were shocking and Kes had the worst game i've seen with the penalties given away. Cross came back on and completely changed the game
in the last 10 mins back in our favour, his vision and backing up was really good and deserved the MOTM.

Was matty welham injured?
Agree Milton played well! Only saw 1 penalty from Kes when he was being held down. May be wrong though.
Another quiet game Liam welham.

I actually thought Liam did a good shift, particularly tackling

Thought the discipline in the first half was a massive improvement, two penalties conceded before Kes had his rush of blood late in the half.

Agree that he had a poor game and Cross deserves to keep his place - injected pace & enthusiasm when he was on the field and support play was rewarded with his tries.

Yeaman was missed after going off, massive improvement from the Crusaders match.

Milton looked quality and certainly looks an excellent addition to the spine. It's been a good few years since we had a good ball handling loose forward. Must have run Cross close for mom.

Should be a good test at Keighley next week to see how far we've progressed.