59 mins Dons 18 Rams 24



Dons - Try: Scott. Goal: Spaven.

65 mins Dons 18 Rams 30



Rams - Try: Tonks. Goal: Brambani.

FT Dons 18 Rams 30

O/T



Leigh 68 Sheffield 6





London 16 York 16 ... cracking effort by the Skolars.

I have to say a much improved performance on last week, but ultimately it was our mistakes (and some over zealous penalties for not playing the ball), that cost us in the end.



Interesting too it tool 77 minutes before Jamie Bovill made break.

My first competitive of the season, and I enjoyed it.

I agree we contributed to our downfall with the soft penalties we conceeded, but i think the injuries we suffered before and during the match we a bigger factor in the match. Fawcett, Crawley, Leaf and Butterfield to name four.

This meant Sanderson played the whole game at scrum half,

The biggest distruption for me was the injury to Leaf, which meant Emitt, Carbutt and Ely all had to have a spell at centre, which ulitmately cost us 2 soft tries down our right side



Plenty of decent performances from Dons players - Scott had a good game offloading well, China (apart from those 2 mistakes), the pack worked really hard, And Williams did well when he came on in the main.



Londons result today shows the result last week wasnt that bad.



If the injuries clear up, we look like going it the proper season in decent shape.

The Fawcett injury is the most worrying, speaking to his dad after the game, he didn't really seem to know how long he is likely to be out for.

Think we need to hit the loan market for half back then

Well, either that, or a hooker...





A torn quad is normally pretty nasty.

How did he do that, in the warm up? he was named in the 17 orginally wasnt he?

Regarding the team wilson started on the wing & williams was on the bench.



What about the disllowed try , ref said their player grounded the ball , clearly a knock on & we went on to touch down .Thought we came back into the game well after the disruption of injuries to Leaf & butterfield .

SKY Sports had it the other way round. Couldn't work out from their line-up who was supposed to be playing where either.





Hence my comments earlier in the thread.