Match thread: Championship Round 4. Doncaster v Featherstone Rovers. Sunday 14th April 2024.

[RobLambert]

1 hour ago, J Phil Loxton said:

I am tipping 22-22 after being 16-0 down. With Reynolds booting over the touchline conversion.

I can't argue against that.  All Donny's 4 tries out wide by any chance ??

[Rene_Artois]

7 hours ago, RobLambert said:

I can't argue against that.  All Donny's 4 tries out wide by any chance ??

Not if Pauli Pauli's current form continues 

[Fevrover]

3 hours ago, Rene_Artois said:

Not if Pauli Pauli's current form continues 

He had to come good sometime.

[POR]

here we go

[The Phantom Horseman]

Doncaster have I believe 10 ex-Fev players on the books...5 are starting, 3 on the bench, one is 18th man and the other is injured.

[Fevrover]

6 minutes ago, The Phantom Horseman said:

Doncaster have I believe 10 ex-Fev players on the books...5 are starting, 3 on the bench, one is 18th man and the other is injured.

Doncaster Rovers Rlfc.

[Cas rover]

Reynolds sin binned, stupid ! Should know the Liam Rush reffing is a penalty fest !

[Fevrover]

1 hour ago, Cas rover said:

Reynolds sin binned, stupid ! Should know the Liam Rush reffing is a penalty fest !

He certainly made up for it lol.

[Monkeymagic22]

That’s more like it.

[Fevrover]

2 minutes ago, Monkeymagic22 said:

That’s more like it.

Expected a lot closer game with so many ex Fev players in Donnys side.

[The Phantom Horseman]

Trylights already up on YouTube

 

[Rovers fev]

2 actual half backs and we play like that 

bowes looked good at 9

[haskey]

 Yes FAN Bowes looks like a good un at hooker

 

[Phil Briscoe]

Really enjoyed today. Wasn’t going to go after last week but glad I did! Shame they can’t fill the ground a bit more although the supporters were very welcoming. Having been a critic of Brad Day last season I’m happy to take it all back he’s become a really important player. 

[Maureen T-k]

On Doncaster facebook page some of  their fans have a couple of threads going stating that Donny  were ###### today and made Fev look good when they really weren’t. All I can say look at the score!!

[Gooleboy]

A good win today. Next week against Widnes looks like being a good one. Keep Reynolds for it and I think we will win.

[POR]

 

[Wolfey Rovers]

6 minutes ago, POR said:

 

Makes you think take Fev and Wakefields away support out of the league and numbers could be a depressing read. 

[POR]

10 hours ago, Maureen T-k said:

On Doncaster facebook page some of  their fans have a couple of threads going stating that Donny  were ###### today and made Fev look good when they really weren’t. All I can say look at the score!!

Here you go M

 

 

[jamescolin]

How did Reynolds play? Turner, Jones and Day getting most votes.

[Cas rover]

1 hour ago, Wolfey Rovers said:

Makes you think take Fev and Wakefields away support out of the league and numbers could be a depressing read. 

Why have we stopped announcing our home attendances, another management ploy! Ridiculous in this day and age.

[Fevrover]

Just now, Cas rover said:

Why have we stopped announcing our home attendances, another management ploy! Ridiculous in this day and age.

But we aren't the only club not announcing them.

[The Phantom Horseman]

14 hours ago, Maureen T-k said:

On Doncaster facebook page some of  their fans have a couple of threads going stating that Donny  were ###### today and made Fev look good when they really weren’t. All I can say look at the score!!

To be fair plenty of our fans were saying the same about Bradford last week! I do think when we're assessing our performance we have to take into account how the opponents played, and Doncaster were pretty dreadful yesterday in my opinion, their coach said their completion rate was 50% and if that's correct it's no wonder we were so dominant.

I think sometimes there's a "good" time to play certain opponents, I think Bradford got that last week when we had had 3 brutal games against Wakefield (twice) and Leigh, as well as the players missing through injury (which they had too).  Doncaster for me played much worse than they did against Wakefield last week, and presumably against Sheffield the week before when they would have beaten the Eagles barring a couple of shocking mistakes from kicks.

Still, it was terrific to get such a convincing victory after a pretty shakey start (I thought we were moderate for much of the first half if I'm honest but much better in the 2nd half) and interesting to heard Fordy say there might be more players returning next week - Massey and Tanner perhaps?

Ford's interviews are really worth listening to closely as you can tell quite a lot from what he says and the way he says it. For instance the comments on Wynne are quite revealing about why he might not have played much lately but also why he might have earned his place back.

[Tubby]

20 hours ago, Fevrover said:

He certainly made up for it lol.

Not half, he made some superb try-saving tackles.  Personally, I thought he played his heart out.  No lack of effort, that's for sure. £80k (if rumours are to be believed) and we get him back?  Good business if you can do it!

[Rovers fev]

1 hour ago, The Phantom Horseman said:

  For instance the comments on Wynne are quite revealing about why he might not have played much lately but also why he might have earned his place back.

What were the comments about wynne ?