Re: Dons vs Barrow 31/7/16 3pm : Sun Jul 31, 2016 3:51 pm  

The club is fooked, finished.
Who the hell apart from season ticket holders are going to buy into that crap.
Hardly a pay at the gate supporter will return.

And all of this was predictable.

I feel sorry for Thornton on two levels .... need I elaborate?

Re: Dons vs Barrow 31/7/16 3pm : Sun Jul 31, 2016 4:07 pm  

Please do

Re: Dons vs Barrow 31/7/16 3pm : Sun Jul 31, 2016 4:15 pm  

tollbarutility wrote:

Please do

Well, he's a crap coach in a crap set up.
He bought into the dream like we all did.

Re: Dons vs Barrow 31/7/16 3pm : Sun Jul 31, 2016 4:20 pm  

Didn't make it today, but watching the Twitter feed, it sounds like a proper drubbing. Discipline has cost us all season, and you are never going to compete with a man down let alone two in the bin. Can't see what positives can be taken from today.
IMO if we don't get up this year can't see it happening without the big money similar to the foreign two have to secure promotion.

Re: Dons vs Barrow 31/7/16 3pm : Sun Jul 31, 2016 4:34 pm  

Hall & Thornton have to take a good look at themselves , couldn't/ wouldn't sign a half back b4 the deadline.
Tom Carr played 6 in attack & on the wing in defence ,couldn't tackle must have been injured . Wright had a stinker & Kes was injured most of the game !

Discipline was shocking AGAIN.

What a disappointment , Barrow showed us to play much quicker .
Only plus was the try at the end. Try of the season.

Re: Dons vs Barrow 31/7/16 3pm : Sun Jul 31, 2016 4:51 pm  

Well, the writing was on the wall as soon as the team sheet was (eventually) revealed.

No recognised half backs pretty much results in the lack of any attacking ability and puts all the pressure on the defensive effort which has been sadly lacking against all but the whipping boys in this division.

Presumably the late announcement of the team was to hide the deficiency from the Barrow coaching staff but as a ploy(?), it was pretty obvious from early on that it was going to be another long afternoon for the Donny faithful.

It's been no secret for a number of weeks that we're lacking in the key positions of 6 & 7 but what have the coaching staff done to shore things up? Much as I don't like dual registration, don't Hull FC have any players kicking their heals on a Sunday afternoon? Aren't there any local amateur lads who play in the halves on a regular basis who could do a job for us for a couple of weeks? Surely it's got to be better than sticking Kes into scrum half, a tactic that has already been a proven failure in the Hunslet match.

I'll see out this season, given that I've been daft enough to buy a season ticket, but while ever we're expected to watch dross and have a crappy league set-up which has minimal meaningful fixtures three or four weeks between each home fixture, I think I'll find better things to do with my Sunday afternoons.

If Donny are serious about having a RL team going forwards, there's got to be some serious changes from the top and the coaching personnel because it's just not working.

Re: Dons vs Barrow 31/7/16 3pm : Sun Jul 31, 2016 4:58 pm  

Sure I saw someone rip up a season ticket up.
Was it one of many who bought the 4 ticket for the price of 3 deal.

Re: Dons vs Barrow 31/7/16 3pm : Sun Jul 31, 2016 5:08 pm  

Ah yes, the discipline - how did I manage to forget it?

It's another facet of the Donny attitude that once we start looking beaten, the cheap shots come in.

Walton's tackle was so late that the ball had been passed a couple of times before he made contact.

I don't expect to see 13 angels on the field but I do expect to see fair challenges, the game's tough enough as it is.

Do we have any stats re completion rates for the match either? From the amount of ball we coughed up, it must be pretty minimal.

Again, any half-decent coach would get these areas sorted.

Re: Dons vs Barrow 31/7/16 3pm : Sun Jul 31, 2016 5:13 pm  

Edited.

Re: Dons vs Barrow 31/7/16 3pm : Sun Jul 31, 2016 5:33 pm  

Yes you did Weighman, it was me but it was a full season ticket. I am sick of the way the club is being run and supporters being conned by management.I doubt Howden has been fit all season and knowing that a problem could arise at any time the club have done nothing to find a replacement. It wouldn't be so bad if Barrow were a good side but they weren't. Our totally inept performance made them look better than they are and to be honest I don't think they put up a performance because they were so bad.I don't know what Thornton does at training but it has become obvious he hasn't got a clue. The club knew some money was coming in from the cup semi but where will that go,probably to some other foundation,scholorship or academy upon which Club Doncaster likes to make it's name.That's the problem,making a name off the pitch is more important than the product on the pitch.Club Doncaster has taken the Rovers and the Dons down and it may not end there.I know someone will come on and say there would be no Dons without Club Doncaster but get real the whole set up stinks from the top down.We are going nowhere if this set up carries on so the only hope is a takeover at some time in the future.Last but not least the man we owe a lot to,Carl Hall.Well I am sorry his passion is taking us nowhere and even he is now sounding like he is pulling the wool over supporters eyes.The interviewer in the latest In the Dugout asked about the half back problem and Carl conveniently didn't answer it,just like he does when any sort of probing question is asked.
This is the end for me because the thrill of watching my beloved team has gone. The same old same old will happen again next season if the club remains as it is so unfortunately there is no way back.
Thank god we do have a team to be proud of in Doncaster Knights whose management and officials really know how to make a club successful and in addition have had the sense to say no thank you to the joke that is Club Doncaster.