: Wed Mar 11, 2009 7:24 pm  

[quote="Willow tree"]Geoff makes a good point, perhaps its a good job we were in front at the time. I have an horrible feeling that we will still get some blame for Saturday even though anyone who actually attended are acutely aware of the culprits.

I think the Dons may receive a fine with either all or part of the fine suspended for 1 or 2 years but if there are anymore incidents during that period they will have to pay the fine in full

: Wed Mar 11, 2009 7:27 pm  

It's obvious to anyone who attended that the Dons fans kicked this off as soon as 60 minutes had been reached and we were in the lead.
It was the only way we were going to win.....ask any Queens fan.

: Wed Mar 11, 2009 7:46 pm  

I pretty sure if we had a case to answer both Dons and Queens would
have been thrown out of the competition and Gateshead would have a bye.

The fact that we have been allowed to play on should give us hope.

Imagine the controvosy if we win the CC.

: Wed Mar 11, 2009 7:48 pm  

Stand-Offish wrote:

It's obvious to anyone who attended that the Dons fans kicked this off as soon as 60 minutes had been reached and we were in the lead.
It was the only way we were going to win.....ask any Queens fan.

The Dons were very fortunate to be in an undeserved lead at 60mins

: Wed Mar 11, 2009 7:52 pm  

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: Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:19 pm  

GeoffRoebuck wrote:

The Dons were very fortunate to be in an undeserved lead at 60mins

You are right but they were begining to tire and I think with another
19 mins to play we would have scored another 2 or 3 tries, maybe
more, and would have won comfortably.

: Wed Mar 11, 2009 9:01 pm  

Hence the, "it would seem" , in my statement but it looks better than it did 24 hours ago nevertheless.

: Wed Mar 11, 2009 9:22 pm  

Who was playing the better is totally immaterial to who goes through.

: Wed Mar 11, 2009 9:32 pm  

Stand-Offish wrote:

Who was playing the better is totally immaterial to who goes through.

Well said SO and I know you would have said exactly the same thing had you been a point behind with 20 minutes to go

: Wed Mar 11, 2009 9:40 pm  

St. George wrote:

Well said SO and I know you would have said exactly the same thing had you been a point behind with 20 minutes to go

I think that should be the case.....however if it can be shown that a set of fans stopped a game when they were leading then that would be a dangerous precedent.
So in this case I think that Queens would still not have gone through despite leading....if they had been.
And the fact that they have allowed Doncaster to progress so early in the enquiry process would seem to suggest that the RFL don't think it to be the Dons fans fault.
I may be wrong.