Re: Dons to Play Featherstone in Pre-Season Friendly : Tue Jan 08, 2013 9:31 pm  

then unless my maths is out that means two more players we haven't heard of (presumably Wakey dual reg?) assuming Cookie isn't included in the 22 due to injury as well as those already mentioned.

Re: Dons to Play Featherstone in Pre-Season Friendly : Wed Jan 09, 2013 4:57 pm  

Cannot understand why ? when we have a player on loan from Cas for the season & a player from Wakey for the season on Dual Reg they are not available for us.

I am assuming the report in RLExpress re Clare is correct & that by picking Cowling for Wakefield on Sunday he willnot be available for us on Friday !

Re: Dons to Play Featherstone in Pre-Season Friendly : Wed Jan 09, 2013 5:24 pm  

That's the unfortunate thing with the dual reg system , players are available to us if not required by the parent club. Can't blame them really if they want to assess them in their own games.

Re: Dons to Play Featherstone in Pre-Season Friendly : Thu Jan 10, 2013 6:54 pm  

will anyone be keeping us up to date on here or will it be available to track via sky sports as during regular season?

can't make it due to work

Re: Dons to Play Featherstone in Pre-Season Friendly : Thu Jan 10, 2013 7:59 pm  

I'll try to keep up to date on Twitter, and should be able to post updates on here if I can get my internet connection working on the laptop.

Re: Dons to Play Featherstone in Pre-Season Friendly : Thu Jan 10, 2013 9:08 pm  

Donny wrote:

I'll try to keep up to date on Twitter, and should be able to post updates on here if I can get my internet connection working on the laptop.

Thanks

Re: Dons to Play Featherstone in Pre-Season Friendly : Fri Jan 11, 2013 3:53 pm  

Just a bit of team news for tonight. All players will be given a run out apart from Paul Cooke, Shaun Leaf and dual reg James Clare.

Clare is unavailable as he's playing for Castleford on Sunday v Hull FC. The kick-off is at 7.45pm.

COYD

Re: Dons to Play Featherstone in Pre-Season Friendly : Fri Jan 11, 2013 6:18 pm  

Is this game on?
It's getting awfully foggy.
I was going to go, but might not now.
Too dangerous and what will there be to see?

Edit:
It's just OK I think.

Re: Dons to Play Featherstone in Pre-Season Friendly : Fri Jan 11, 2013 10:23 pm  

The Dons started the New Year off in winning fashion thanks to a convincing 44-16 victory over a Featherstone Rovers U20's side at a foggy Post Office Road.

Stewart Sanderson got the Dons off to a good start scoring in the fourth minute and further tries from new signing Dennis Tuffour, Mike Emmett and Mike Kelly gave the blue and gold's a 22-6 half-time lead. Sanderson kicked the extras with three out of four successes.

The Dons went on to score another 22 points in the second forty with further tries from Sanderson and Tuffour. Chris Spurr and Craig Fawcett also crossed the whitewash and Sanderson landed another three conversions to make it six out of eight successes to bag a personal 20 points haul.

The club will face stiffer competition for their next friendly, which takes place on Sunday 20th January against fellow Championship club Keighley (3pm kick-off). Tickets are on sale now and are priced £10 for adults, £5 for concessions and just £2 for children (5-16).

The Dons will then entertain Super League club Wakefield Trinity Wildcats the week after at the Keepmoat Stadium (27th, 3pm kick-off). Tickets are also on sale and are £12 for adults, £6 for concessions and £2 for children (5-16).

Please contact the club on 01302 765888 if you require any further information.

Re: Dons to Play Featherstone in Pre-Season Friendly : Fri Jan 11, 2013 10:51 pm  

Apart from a few blunders the Dons played well.
The handling was really good in poor conditions and so was most of our tackling.
It was bloody cold.