I accept that we might have won without sin-binnings, but in that entire game we lost twenty minutes of one man. That equates to 13 men playing 12 and 3/4 men for the entire game.

Not really much difference is there with a bit of regrouping and reacting to where the threats are.



No, I see it as an easy excuse to explain defeat.



The buck stops with the boss.

In today's Star Thornton says he couldn't blame the Keighley defeat on bad discipline and then a couple of lines later he says Keighley scored three tries when Hedges was off the field. This is the latest in rubbish coming from Thornton following on from not picking the best team,playing players out of position and before we even started, signing players who he rated as good and who have turned out to be dead wood (could name them but not fair to do so).The man is an absolute waste of time but at least in the article in the Star he admits to there being no creativity at half back. Finally,Super League in five years but did the timetable start last season,this season or will it be next season.No it will be never whilst this joker remains at the club. I wonder how long it will be before Club Doncaster realise this is another season to be written off, cause as it is we ain't going up this year unless big changes are made.

I think the signings we have made this season are better than last, its up to the coaching staff to do their jobs & get the best out of them .



The no 7 problem has been on going for too long.



Jordie & Tali must take up a fair slice of our expenditure do not think we have seen the best of either .

The thing is unless things are worse than anyone realises, we are gonna compete in this division and as long as we are in the mix at the end, we could go up. But personally I think you have to be dominant in this division to go up, hoping for a nice little run at the end is really NOT a plan.



Look at last season, there were only three decent sides, dominant sides Toulouse, Rochdale and Barrow and two of them went up and the third was unlucky and will be a big threat again this year.



Whitehaven look shot, but Workington look good. Toronto is a shoe-in.



Then Keighley, Newcastle ... I'm discounting York, Hunslet, London and North Wales, who are all capable of beating the Dons.



So fourth or fifth again.

How can I possibly know this after one competitive game?

Good question ....but we aint dominant ....... have the bookies revised their odds yet?

I'm tipping that they may have revised their wild iPro Cup predictions at the very least.



Over to Gary ....

I think he was implying that he felt the yellow cards were harsh and the players weren't at fault. GT couldn't directly say the ref was at fault or else he be hauled before the RFL but I suspect that's what he's thinking. I didn't see the incidents so I don't know whether they players deserved to get 10 minutes or not.



If GT has accepted there is no creativity at half-back then it's up to him to do something about it sooner rather than later.

I remember a post from another club when GT was announced. He said " The mans a charlatan" he nearly ruined our club". I hoped that he was wrong, this season will enlighten us.

Well if he doesn't deliver this time, the game's up.

I hope he does of course ... but I think he is not very good.

We ballsed up at interview time ... think back.

We needed a man of experience and we hired a sacked coach.



Just like Crystal Palace hired that terrible Allardyce who had just been sacked by England.

And he's done nothing for them.

GT has experience of the lower leagues , at the time thought he was a good appointment to get us out of C1 . Time will tell of course .

Who won toss.John Sheridan said you kicked uphill first half giving you strength coming downhill if you won toss

Lets get behind Gary and the lads on Sunday make some noise. The amateur teams usually rise to the occasion and

very often give us a hard game, remember Queens.

Queens may have beaten us , if the crowd hadn't lost the plot .

A dark day for RL .



I for one will get behind GT & the players , lets hope they can make amends & go on & get promotion .



COYD

Not sure we have to go back very far to when we lost 0-26 in the cup to amateurs.

Now that was a black day.