: Tue Apr 14, 2009 8:39 am  

Attendance 831 according to Sky

[Wanderer]

: Tue Apr 14, 2009 8:44 am  

Great effort by the boys last night.

We lost what in theory should be one of our more difficult home fixtures but we gave it a real go and achieved an excellent bonus point and that with a weakened team.

After the Gateshead debacle the response in the Easter fixtures has been fantastic and that's all we can ask for.

: Tue Apr 14, 2009 8:58 am  

Stand-Offish wrote: I thoroughly enjoyed tonight's game....even though we lost. Brilliant effort by the the team in defence and in forward attack. Great to get a bonus point against a faster, slicker Widnes team. I thought that we were hard done by by the officials in the first half.Three examples were a Widnes player lashing out with his foot at the play the ball, a blatant forward pass on the half way line resulting in Widnes' third (?) try and Webster conning the ref with his chip and dive. Anyway second half we were the biz.....superb effort....and the Donny supporters got behind the lads with singing and chanting and clapping.....like days of old...MAGIC! 4 points over Easter when we could have got none = RESULT! COYD The table. Where was Kyle Briggs? The Webster incident was the second half. Works for both teams re: the officials. Sam Thompson had a try disallowed in the first half for offside when he wasn't. Scott Yates put the ball on the try line in the first couple of minutes to be told he was short, and the player who took the high bomb for your 3rd try was a yard offside, I was sat exactly level. All in all the officials made mistakes for both sides.

Stand-Offish wrote: I thoroughly enjoyed tonight's game....even though we lost. Brilliant effort by the the team in defence and in forward attack. Great to get a bonus point against a faster, slicker Widnes team. I thought that we were hard done by by the officials in the first half.Three examples were a Widnes player lashing out with his foot at the play the ball, a blatant forward pass on the half way line resulting in Widnes' third (?) try and Webster conning the ref with his chip and dive. Anyway second half we were the biz.....superb effort....and the Donny supporters got behind the lads with singing and chanting and clapping.....like days of old...MAGIC! 4 points over Easter when we could have got none = RESULT! COYD The table. Where was Kyle Briggs? The Webster incident was the second half. Works for both teams re: the officials. Sam Thompson had a try disallowed in the first half for offside when he wasn't. Scott Yates put the ball on the try line in the first couple of minutes to be told he was short, and the player who took the high bomb for your 3rd try was a yard offside, I was sat exactly level. All in all the officials made mistakes for both sides.

: Tue Apr 14, 2009 9:00 am  

Maximum effort put in by all the lads last night,and to be honest Widnes
were on the ropes for last twenty minutes and we looked the fitter side even though they are full-time.

[Wanderer]

: Tue Apr 14, 2009 9:06 am  

Missing from the seventeen last night;

Alex Benson
Kyle Briggs
Mike Coady
Dean Colton
Michael Haley
Craig Lawton
Shaun Leaf
Al Rounding
(who would all surely be in consideration to start if fit)

also

Kevin Eadie
Gary Ellery
Craig Holt
Scott Jones
Lee Parnell
(who have all figured at some point this season).

: Tue Apr 14, 2009 9:46 am  

WANDERER wrote:

Missing from the seventeen last night;

Alex Benson
Kyle Briggs
Mike Coady
Dean Colton
Michael Haley
Craig Lawton
Shaun Leaf
Al Rounding
(who would all surely be in consideration to start if fit)

also

Kevin Eadie
Gary Ellery
Craig Holt
Scott Jones
Lee Parnell
(who have all figured at some point this season).

Even more commendable, in that case. Long may it continue!

: Tue Apr 14, 2009 10:20 am  

WANDERER wrote:

Missing from the seventeen last night;

Alex Benson
Kyle Briggs
Mike Coady
Dean Colton
Michael Haley
Craig Lawton
Shaun Leaf
Al Rounding
(who would all surely be in consideration to start if fit)

So, first choice props, wingers, full back and stand off....
Makes the past couple of games for us all the more impressive.

: Tue Apr 14, 2009 12:43 pm  

AJ Viking wrote:

The Webster incident was the second half.

Works for both teams re: the officials. Sam Thompson had a try disallowed in the first half for offside when he wasn't. Scott Yates put the ball on the try line in the first couple of minutes to be told he was short, and the player who took the high bomb for your 3rd try was a yard offside, I was sat exactly level. All in all the officials made mistakes for both sides.

Yep it evened out...the Webster 'chip and cheat' was defo first half.
He was attacking the end you were sitting......he chipped over near the half way line and went down like a sack of spuds.
I thought we could have shipped another three or four tries......but Widnes bombed them for a variety of reasons.
Widnes were the better side.
That's why we are ecstatic with a bonus point.

: Tue Apr 14, 2009 9:16 pm  

Apologies we forgot to announce the attendance last night, we kinda got a bit carried away with the exciting finish. the ground was about empty when we looked at each oher and said, did we announce the attendance.

oops. sos everyone. what a match, i really thought we was gonna get a draw.

[Wanderer]

: Tue Apr 14, 2009 9:41 pm  

Easter weekend and all that but 831 still has to be disappointing for the visit of a club like Widnes.