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Dons v West Wales Sunday 31st July 2022 3pm : Fri Jul 29, 2022 7:34 pm  
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Hunslet lost 24-0 at home to Midlands tonight!

That seems to rule out any slight chance Hunslet had of catching us. Beryl and Peltier both played for Hunslet.
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Surprising ... but, as I said on a recent match thread ...

'There appear to be any number of inconsistent teams, Keighley apart, in League One'.
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Surprising ... but, as I said on a recent match thread ...

'There appear to be any number of inconsistent teams, Keighley apart, in League One'.

To be honest, Hunslet were very poor in the home game against us. They didn't look all that great against Cornwall recently either. I think both Welham's played for Midlands tonight and Keiran Lawton may have been at full-back.
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Dons move up to 4th with a dominant 62-6 win.
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Yes the Dons were dominant....but also far from ruthless or professional at times.
You want your side to do things in a professional way and that means getting the best out of situations by having players do the right things at all times and not repeating mistakes.
Yes this is hypercritical but is in search of perfection. Something not possible in sport admittedly but certainly one of playing the percentages to maximise results.

So what rattled my cage then yesterday?
In no particular order....
A prop attempting to catch a ball from a kick off when that is the job of a back.
I say attempting...I mean floundering, not once but three times on the trot!
The cheer Ben Johnston got on the fourth kick off, when he pouched it said it all.
Don't put a prop there!

The first three conversion attempts...the first hit the upright so no worries there, the next two were as though I was taking them.
Here we were professional, we changed kickers and to someone who should be the kicker anyway.

Lastly...why oh why do we keep it in the forwards when that is not where the points are coming from?
The wingers got 5 tries between them...it should have been double that...but when Johnston went off and his skill went with him we decided that lumbering up the middle to little avail was the way 'forward'...pun intended.
Not professional and not ruthless!

Apart from that the Dons were near perfect...
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Stand-Offish wrote:
Yes the Dons were dominant....but also far from ruthless or professional at times.
You want your side to do things in a professional way and that means getting the best out of situations by having players do the right things at all times and not repeating mistakes.
Yes this is hypercritical but is in search of perfection. Something not possible in sport admittedly but certainly one of playing the percentages to maximise results.

So what rattled my cage then yesterday?
In no particular order....
A prop attempting to catch a ball from a kick off when that is the job of a back.
I say attempting...I mean floundering, not once but three times on the trot!
The cheer Ben Johnston got on the fourth kick off, when he pouched it said it all.
Don't put a prop there!

The first three conversion attempts...the first hit the upright so no worries there, the next two were as though I was taking them.
Here we were professional, we changed kickers and to someone who should be the kicker anyway.

Lastly...why oh why do we keep it in the forwards when that is not where the points are coming from?
The wingers got 5 tries between them...it should have been double that...but when Johnston went off and his skill went with him we decided that lumbering up the middle to little avail was the way 'forward'...pun intended.
Not professional and not ruthless!

Apart from that the Dons were near perfect...

For Gods sake , give the lads a break.

Six wins on the bounce and still the snide comments, yes Watson missed a few kicks, however when it mattered against Swinton he nailed them all.

You can only beat what is in-front of you and I am sure a number of squad players were given game time, as in reality West Wales were never going to cause us any problems.

Yes, at times we tried to over play but that is often the nature of the matches against the lesser sides. Next week will be a tough game, but we are hitting form at the right time now we have players returning from injury.



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Re: Dons v West Wales Sunday 31st July 2022 3pm : Mon Aug 01, 2022 10:26 am  
My comments are not meant to be snide...
And all of them stand...in a battle for points difference, it may well be our downfall.
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Re: Dons v West Wales Sunday 31st July 2022 3pm : Mon Aug 01, 2022 11:47 am  
Stand-Offish wrote:
My comments are not meant to be snide...
And all of them stand...in a battle for points difference, it may well be our downfall.

Swinton and Rochdale both have North Wales and Keighley to play so a win next week will put us in the box seat for forth position.
We have five games left ,all winnable with the right attitude, Keighley are flying and may have the title sown up by the time we play Midlands.

Swinton are the best of the rest in my opinion , I think we will end up in forth place with Keighley, North Wales and Swinton finishing above us.
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Re: Dons v West Wales Sunday 31st July 2022 3pm : Mon Aug 01, 2022 12:11 pm  
Yes I have been looking at the fixtures coming up thanks to Mike's summary table...and it will be tight and we may well finish fourth....on inferior points difference...which was the thrust of my post.
Yes it was nit-picky, but I implied that didn't I?
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