I thought you were hard done by with the disallowed try and also one of ours I thought Fox dropped. That said, the difference in fitness and class told, but to your teams credit they bust a gut for the full 80.

Good luck for this season.

Can't argue with the above ... I'd add that I'm convinced that we are better than we showed today.

Thanks for the good wishes which are reciprocated.

Same thoughts here, i agree with everything above and we are better but it don't help when the players are going on and off like they are in a revolving door! at pitchside.

That's the nature of friendlies im afraid, just give everyone some game time

i think a fair few of the subs were forced through injury too. looks like quite a few knocks were taken. not convinced it was the best fixture a week before our first league game..

Apart from getting a bit of revenue, you are darned tootin' right!
I wish we hadn't have played the game at all.
We should be playing championship sides in friendlies.

I was ready to walk out at half-time.
I went instead in search of the elusive Rovers Bitter* and got talking to wanderer and decided to stop.
Glad I did really, we were better in the second stanza (Stevo

).

*Rovers Bitter........
They have a pump in the restaurant/bar dispensing some sickly brew at 3.2% abv.
I inquired ''what about the real ale Rovers beer?''
''Oooh (said she) I think it's about 4.5% abv and they sell it at Lakeside.''
Enough said.
I walked away.
The mind boggles!

If we had played a Championship Club we wouldnt have got 810 attending , unless may be it was against Fax or Fev.

Well obviously ....durrr!
But as a Dons supporter, I hated the game.
I don't like to see the lads getting blasted just for a shiny dollar.

I don't think it was a bad fixture, a team higher in skill level(they say) and superior fitness, as a full time outfit should be, it was above what we can expect even from the top championship sides, and im sure the players will learn from it. The fact the Dons were so keen to get the fixture on shows the importance they felt the fixture held.I was slightly disappointed with the crowd , thought there would have been a few more, hopefully all waiting for season to start

I agree, I thought the crowd would have been at least a thousand.
Obviously the lower the crowd goes the less it's worth it to get blasted.
And I question just what do you learn from getting turned over so easily?
The players are at their optimum, trying their hardest and apart from a few tactical things how can they get better?
Silk purse and all that........

I can only disagree , i think you can learn quite a bit from playing teams who play the game full time. How much quicker they took up positions that created options for playmakers , how quickly the defensive line(too quick on occasions ) came up strangling the Dons attacking options. It also gave Paul Cooke much needed game time, im sure he needed it, understandably looked a bit tentative .But nowt wrong with having differing opinions, makes the world go round.

Noting that teams are quicker than you is merely an observation when there is nothing you can do about it.
They are just a better class of athletes.

Just how can a team at our level emulate a team at Superleague level? ....they can't.
They already know all about line speed and all that and marking from a good coach in Miller.
But they are Championship level players not Superleague players.

as i say...differing opinions

I didn't bother going. To be honest the idea of freezing my backside off to watch a friendly against the rugby giants of Wakefield Trinity didn't really excite me.

What games like this show is that skill on its own is no good without speed (physical and mental) and strength. Paul Cooke is an example, a naturally talented player who just doesn't have the pace to exploit the opportunities he sees, but he is still one of the most skillful players around. His pass to the winger for your try was sublime.

i just find that a week before our first league game risking players just to prove what we already knew that we obviously wouldnt be good enough to beat the likes of wakefield. there were too many injuries on sunday and that concerns me for this sunday. any news on how any of them are?

To ne honest I agree with you - the Dons had little to gain from this match, whereas we seemed to use it as a low risk 'hit out' prior to our match next week, followed ny 'blooding' some youngsters. Maybe part of the partnership agreement?

Oh I'm so sorry we are not good enough for you (or the players we lend you), enjoy playing Swinton won't you.

I'm so sorry that you are upset by me not finding the attraction of watching a meaningless game against a team i am not really bothered about on a cold Sinday afternoon enough of a draw to get down to the Keepmoat. Some of us have other interests in life as well as Rugby League.
Let's be fair ,as with all SL clubs you're only in this for your own benefit. As soon as a player hits good form or you get a few injuries they are recalled. I see Bradford are lending Dewsbury O'Brian, Addy and Donaldson (all have first team experience) at the weekend, no disrespect to the Wakey players on dual contract with the Dons but none of them have much first team experience in SL.
It's not like you are a big team like Leeds or Hull is it, you only got into the play offs by default.

Is the next step of our partnership, trading handbags?

No handbags from me, the blokes a fool - though thankfully not representative.

Considerably bigger than you. Default or not and I assume it's the third default as it's the third time it's an experience you'll never have, not ever in your whole life - that must hurt and I'm sad for most Donny fans........but not you



Happy new year.

The above spat is just one of the reasons why I can't be bothered anymore with postings. You express an opinion or thought and somebody takes umbrage. There a a couple of posting on the Dewsbury site about Sundays game that you can take up, We should be beating the likes of Donny- usual fare for Donny sport I suppose and then Mark Ashton saying the Championship is devalued by the number of new teams promoted. They are entitled to have a say, it's the reaction that gets it going IMO.

Oh and while I'm on, Wakeys turn around in form was the story of last years SL season, bar none IMO, Good luck to em (and Cas)

i shall always be grateful to the wildcats for there help in loaning us dual reg players in my opinoin qualty players for our league , bobby goulding looks a player of great potentialwho will learn a great deal playing alongside paul cooke more than he would playing in wakeys 2nd team so its a win win situation once they get tim smith back playing i think we will have him more often than not , lucas walshaw was one of my men of the match at warrington danny cowlings form over the season speaks for its self. as for playing wakefield it was what the fans were calling for to play a super league team pre seasonit might have been just a blow out for them but we could only learn from the game, so i say well done wakey and thank you, and thanks to your fans for coming the few i spoke to were full of praise of the dons and our magnificent stadium , up the cats

Well said that man. Too many fans get their rocks off by looking down their noses at 'lower' clubs, and I find it hard to believe we have some of those at Wakey. For me, the most outstanding memory of Sunday will be watching part-time professionals putting their bodies on the line against athletes in full-time training. I don't care how naturally big and tough you are, it takes some bottle to front up against the likes of Amor and Poore even if you train full-time, and I thought your number 8 (amongst others) took it right to them despite getting knocked back time after time. I like the dons (I'm from Donny and went to watch them at Tatters Field in the early 70's a few times), I like your fans and I think the Keepmoat is a cracking stadium.