I left at half time and I wasnt alone but glad they kept plugging away second half

I left after 34 minutes.
I couldn't even be bothered to see if my half time draw ticket had come up.
UTTER, UTTER, UTTER, UTTER, UTTER, BOLLOX!

Don't even make excuses about the ref, who was shoite as usual, because we must be an undisciplined rabble.
Penalty ...try.
Penalty ...try.
Penalty ...try.
Penalty ...try.

Need I continue?

And as for Hodson's restarts ... Jesus!
And letting the ball bounce from a kick and gifting them a try ... Jesus!
He's no fullback!

We were humiliated today!
There are no excuses.

We are going backwards.

Lets not forget sheffield are a good side also! I was fuming when I left but still want to be positive we are a better side than todays showing

agree that he looked out of his depth, as for the ref,he was as bad for both sides. cunningham was well in touch before the Dons scored their second try. Never really thought of leaving before the end,i wouldn't. do it. must be a glutton for punishment

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We played below our potential today--lets hope it doesn't happen too often this season.

My appreciation of rugby is that a really good lower division side at home will at least compete with a club from the division above.
That didn't happen which is a concern.

Mind you if you look at some of today's scores .. Jesus!
If we can't sort out Whitehaven in our opening game of the season then god help us!

The Hunslet game might as well be cancelled!

For me we should if possible play the 17 who we intend to play against Whitehaven .

know what your saying, not sure i agree
in an ideal world, yes, but the club is really banking on promotion, so putting your best team in the firing line, in a game that is virtually meaningless to the Dons, i think may be a mistake,as regard to possible injuries. what i will say is if fit paul cooke should play some part to increase match fitness.

No he wasn't...



Touchjudge was in a fantastic position for it.

not on that shot , but i was level with it and he clearly looked in touch before he passed inside.But i'm happy to be proven wrong

Prematch Entertainment - Dons Past Players vs Sheffield Past Players - www.flickr.com/photos/r82photogr ... 095638146/

Prematch Entertainment - Dons Past Players vs Sheffield Past Players - www.flickr.com/photos/r82photogr ... 095638146/

Quote ="Donny"Prematch Entertainment - Dons Past Players vs Sheffield Past Players - www.flickr.com/photos/r82photogr ... 095638146/'" Good photos Donny, shame there wasn't more there to witness it.

Quote ="Donny"Prematch Entertainment - Dons Past Players vs Sheffield Past Players - www.flickr.com/photos/r82photogr ... 095638146/'" Good photos Donny, shame there wasn't more there to witness it.

Spot on post



Everthing should be geared up for March 11th.

Really cant see the point in going if your going to leave early.our performance leaves a lot to be desired.but we are not get going to win the nrc. So lets get the problems sorted before the league starts.May I suggest tackling practice on Monday. Coyd

We were in need of an on-field organiser. Last week, Cookey was talking to them all game. We were all over the place in the first half and no-one took the bull by the horns.

Was very disappointed but also impressed with some seriously good play from the Eagles. No blaming the ref from me.

Our bread and butter starts in two weeks, that's when I will be casting a critical eye.

No, that is a fair assessment. I said exactly the same to Willow tree mid way through that sequence ....

I quite admire people who vote with their feet rather than masochists who sit there and grin and bear pain.
Nobody goes to a game intending to walk out or even contemplating it, it just happens.
I know we will play a lot better and we will be a force in this division and should get promotion.
Plus these NRC games don't really matter, we can try to console ourselves with that crumb. Except Sheffield don't seem to think that way.
That was a dire performance whatever the rationale behind the game plan, and we shouldn't try to pretend otherwise.
We are getting blown away in the first half on the back of ill-discipline. And then competing in the second half as if to somehow show how it should have been.

Roll on the league games and the Whitehaven game. This NRC is just inflicting the damage on us that I thought it would.

PS Can I suggest that Crowther comes back in and gives Waterman a rest for the Hunslet game?
Waterman hurt his ankle against the Select side and also today and bravely hobbled on.

Like I said in my earlier post I left because I wasnt happy to sit there for another 40 mins and be embarrassed I wasnt happy however I still am positive I know we are better than todays game and I will be at the next game!COYD

everyone has their own thoughts on it and is entitled to do what they like, you pays your money you takes your choice.personally. i wont walk out, you could see at the end the players were embarrased and upset at their perfomance. They were well beaten by a better side, i think at times like that they need support. But as i say each to their own

We were well beaten by last seasons CC runners up and we didn't help ourselves by the horrendous amount of penalties we gave away (not all of them justifiable in my opinion). I stayed until the death and i have to say despite all of the bad things we did, was that at least we never threw the towel in and chased every lost cause. Maybe it's better to get a perfomance like this out of the way now before the real stuff starts. Lets not go overboard with the doom and gloom, we had a bad day and Sheffield are a good side.

Photos of the game - www.flickr.com/photos/r82photogr ... 100376558/

Photos of the game - www.flickr.com/photos/r82photogr ... 100376558/

Only positive for me was the work rate of Nathan Powley when he came on, for me he was our only stand out player and gave us the spark in the last 15-20 min.

Sheffield are a far better side in terms of size and speed, their play of the ball was much faster and they gave their play makers options.
That said our tackling was shocking, too many players just shirt grabbing and falling off the tackle. Also we needed to wrap the ball up in the tackle to stop offloads.

Massive dissappointment to have our asres handed to us by the seagulls in our own backyard is not good.

Saying that we had a lot of players out, so hopefully they are back for sunday.

I am the same as most on here and think the nrc game should just be taken as friendlies but even for a friendly yesterday was well below par, hope we can just put a line through that now and more on.

COYD

Yesterday was the first real look I've had at Powley, and despite his size, he gave a cracking performance. He was more than willing to run from dummy half, and his reading of the game from there was pretty good.

If we had been on the top of our game, we would have still lost. Grudging praise where it is due, some of their tries were quality; one, however, was an outrageously fortunate bounce ( however, we have shown a reluctance to take the high ball on the full under pressure in all the three games I have seen at the Keepmoat to date ) and several we handed them on a plate letting them offload at will. Their distribution and support play was first-class however. Doubt any of our rivals in C1 will come close to emulating the Eagles. Chins up and onwards to March 11th.

On the plus side, we scored a contender for the top 20 tries DVD