Now Dons - 10 10/11 and 2/9 for a Dons win.

I concur and am a player even conceding 10.

Only seen Wray in per season games, in which he impressed, very good kicking game, issue is experience and size as he is only 18/19, saying that Radford must think he can cope or he wouldn't send him.

With GT's general reluctance to use DR, I'm only guessing that he wants to use Jack Wray from the start otherwise I think he would have made do with the alternatives we've got from within.

With no Louis Sheriff in the squad we also look short on cover at full-back should Tom Carr not see the match through. Would he switch Jack Miller to full-back? I can only assume Louis is either injured or unavailable. What's happened to AJB?

Maybe Jack Wray isn't even an intended starter and he's just here to provide cover in the backs should one of the backs get injured before the start of the game as we haven't got any cover of our own?

Brad England has played at centre.
In the modern game it is unusual to have a back on the bench , unless it is someone like LW who could also play played 2nd row . Last season we picked 2 props ,1 2nd row & a hooker on the bench with Tonks hopefully fully fit Gt will revert to that formula .

Corey Hanson not mentioned recently either , taking a long time getting over his illness .

good to see Tonks name back on sheet, i would play England in centres he's strong with a great workrate, and a hard tackler

Very surprised not to see Sheriff name in there after his last game.

Did Wrays father play for Castleford? Unusual name if not the same family.

LS has been one of our best performers over the last 12months , not the quickest but an effective player and a firm fans favourite .
Hope to see him back in action next week !

Not sure about BE wouldn't split up LW & JT .

Looking forward to tomorrow & Doncaster win .

COYD

Hope mr sheriff hasn't fell into the same bottomless pit as tonks, Hansen and worrincy! we sign up 47 players every season knowing that just 8 will eventually play for us

8 ?
I think Mason Tonks would have started off the season if he had been fit , had a tough time with injuries . He adds a bit of class to the team as does Charlie Martin.

If he had been fit! That quote seems to be used a lot at Donny

Agree we have gone into the last 2 seasons with injured players.

There was a playmaker for Hunslet called Wray, but he was black. A chunky guy who also played for other clubs and was class about 10 years ago.
It might have been Wraye though.
Jermaine Wray/e?
Somebody remind me.

Jermaine Wray, i remember him well. A constant thorn in our side when we played against him.

His last season was with London Skolars in 2013. Before that he'd played from 2009 to 2012 at Keighley. I seem to remember him coming off the bench and playing at hooker... always causing us problems.

Yeah, saw him against us vs Keighley and Hunslet.
He was a hooker who scooted like Danny Houghton does.

The bookies seem to have settled on a 12 point handicap for the Dons today.

I will be disappointed if that isn't covered with us being at home.

Yep, me too. Unless there are adverse circumstances like injuries early on, yellow cards or even red cards, we've got to beat teams like Hunslet at home by at least 20 points if we want to consider ourselves to be up there with Barrow and Toronto.

Zac Braham and Jack Wray miss out.

Mason Tonks makes his return via the bench.

HT Dons 16 Hunslet 6

Dons tries - Martin, Cross & Tonks
Goals - Carr 2

FT Dons 29 Hunslet 24

Tries - Wright & Tali
Goals - Carr 2
D/G - Carr

Get out of jail.
Hunslet absolutely battered us for most of the second half and their fans must have been well peed off that they didn't win.
It was only a great offload by Feka and great play by Wright that saved us.

The game was good to watch and a right contest. Hunslet were well up for that in an overly physical way, I thought.

There was a catalogue of bad things from Donny.
Unfair or not, someone needs to have word with Welham.
He had a great game, but he gets up moaning to the ref at every tackle and eventually gave a penalty away for moaning and handbag pushing which enabled them to equalise.
The very next tackle on him and he was moaning again to the ref.
Jesus!

Barnett had a mare with handling yet Doherty hardly got a sniff .... crackers.

We decided to sit in the middle of the Hunslet fans in the second half.

That was different let me tell you.

They did win the vocal contest though.

We should have pressed on after getting in front but through bad discipline and bad defending we helped them back into it.

Credit to Hunslet, they came and gave it a good go and as S/O said, their fans must have thought the game was there for the taking.

My hopes of a decent win were dashed. That's one step towards making me think we're not as good as I hoped we might be, and getting out of this league with this team is going to be tough.

We have power down the middle but teams are wising up to that now. You've only got to look how far in from the touchline their centre was defending. In fact, the action was so far away from the touch judge on our side of the field that he decided to move in-field by about 10 yards!





We should have been looking to get the ball wider, quicker to expose them but we didn't. Either the coach didn't latch on to it, or the players didn't think of it. Maybe we had a game plan of going down the middle and wanted to stick strictly to it.

I really enjoyed watching the game. It was full of commitment and effort. I could live with watching rugby in this division if every game was like this one - but there are too many games against the lesser sides that spoil this league. We've discussed that before.

On the evidence so far, are we good enough to get promoted? Regrettably, the answer is probably no. We're probably in the pack of four or five teams behind Toronto and Barrow.

Barrow conceded some points this weekend in the L1 cup. They won 28-6.

Too close for comfort. Poor discipline . A game of 4 quarters some good & poor spells from both sides .
Liam was head butted in the 1st half , if the touchie had been any closer he could have shaken the Hunslet players hand .

Do not like to single out players but RB is not good enough to lace LS 's boots, did not get out of 1st gear until the last play.
KK had a poor 1st spell which does not happen very often .

Will have to play much better next week !