Crowd was 997. As for Cooke, not heard that one

fantastic game nip and tuck all the way but for our goal attempts and two howlers in defence barrow should not have had a sniff of a bonus point fawcett waterman and castle outstanding for me ,hope my mate,friend,chum,pal, mukka from barrow aint too dissapointed cos barrow are a very good team well done to both teams for a very entertaining game, who starts these silly rumours re paul cooke he has said he dont want super league football and he is content here i hope to see mr cooke at the keepmoat next season, having said that can we have a denial from the club please

Quite a few mistakes today , but a win against the league leaders , so we cannot complain. Thought Fawcett was man of the match today he is the most improved player this season.



Shame about Fran Welsh , we get players back then we pick up another serious looking injury.



Looking forward to the Workington game .



COYD

Thought they were just unfortunate bounces,but that's what can happen with a rugby ball

Great game and well played all in Blue and Gold. we beat a good side in Barrow who showed why they are top. Excellent travelling support and a some good crack with some of their fans. Like DHKR I thought the missed kicks would come back to haunt us. Some top performances on the pitch today from both sides, Barrows number 4 who was class, Dons 7 and 12 and Cookie who was everything you could expect from a class player, but that would be harsh on all the players who contributed to a classic game. What was impressive from our point of view was our line speed and tackling and it needed to be. Massive well done to all, and a big thanks to Tony Miller who was out of the blocks to lead the players applause of the fans at full time

On the Dons facebook page Carl dismisses the Paul Cooke rumour.

I thought emmett, fawcett and sanderson were outstanding. Thought waterman had a shocker, needs to start thinking about his actions at times. Also think castle and kesik played well. But overall a great team effort. Well earned win after a tough battle. Hope fran is ok.

I think the reaction in general to Frans injury has proven how much of an improvement he has made as a player since the start of the season. He's become an integral part of the engine room of the club, and whilst his injury will leave us a prop short for a while, I hope Dean O'Loughlin and Craig Lawton can fill that gap.

Think butts deserves a medal for playing .if he was playing the other game if would have got a mbe.(football that is ).Mike emmett is. class every week. I think we were by far the better footballing side.and wats first half try does not come into the shocker category. Although. His missed tackle May?.all in all a great result a barrow mate said they were well pleased with a bp.

His first half try was excellent, I wasn't sure about the grounding of the second though.

Well!

Let's start with the positives ......

We won.

We tackled superbly when it looked like we would crumble.

There were some stand-out performances from individual players.



And the negatives?

Well!

Can someone on the coaching staff please explain to me why we didn't catch the ball for the first four kick-offs?

This resulted in us being put under extreme and unnecessary pressure.

Secondly why a left-footed kicker was kicking from the left (which is hard) when Cooke could have done a better job with his right boot?



I personally think we let Barrow back into the game, made them look good by dropping the ball and messing up and that Barrow should have been denied a bonus point.



There was no full back in place at times in the first half and Barrow spotted that. That's how the China fumble try came about.



I also think that every poxy bounce of the ball went Barrow's way.



Someone said Fran had broken his leg ... is this correct?



And finally, Fawcett's try. The bloke that went in and out to get Barrow's last try (I think) ... were you watching?

That topped yours!



Barrow 4 Dons 3 at the end of the day,

Tony said in the after match press interviews that he was worried about the kicking and he needs to address the situation in training, said probably give the boots back to paul, but he will address in training