Not a personal dig but I cannot understand people who ask why a coach is up there.



You can see nothing from the sidelines, not a thing as far as what a coach needs to be seeing. If it was such a good view down there then why not scrap stands and just have a rope round the pitch so all the fans can watch from there





Someone has to be up there looking for gaps reoccuring in the opposition defence, looking for players out of position in set moves, players out of position in defence so that these things can be addressed at once by getting a message out.



Like I said, not a personal dig, just a general point cos you hear it more and more from fans of clubs who are struggling. A coach on the side lines is not going to frighten the players into playing any better, his message through the head trainer should do it just as well if he has any respect

Bad coaching then if the players were all good enough.

Well I m no coach, but having watched the Dons for 20 years, I feel things are not looking too bright.



Having watched the reserves lately we appear to have 17 captains shouting abuse at each other, the opposition and the referee. I understand its a new team and there is a lot of talent on show that just needs harnessing.



I was no great fan of Hanley on some occasions but he did bring discipline, we can I now see it in the reserves and the first team that this is now lacking.



I can only feel this illustrates the lack of respect the players have for the coach, you only have to watch Handforth's frustration at never finding an attacking line and constantly having to play 5 drive rugby.



Could someone explain why Carey who appeared to have an excellent first game at full back and Luke May scored tries in the centres have changed positions?

He didn't look too impressed when withdrawn midway through the first half at Gateshead when he missed touch with a penalty. Too be fair if we'd have withdrawn everyone who make a mistake in the first half we'd have had barely a player on the pitch by half-time.

Doncaster RFLC are top (equal) of the fair play league......which is a measure of sin-binnings, sendings-off and charges.

TOP.......that's one measure of discipline.

Not the only one admitted......'penalties against' is probably more relevant.

And I don't know the figures on that.

Discontent is harder to measure....and could be related to not winning.

i dont watch many games on tv anymore but when the screen focuses on the coach are they not normally stood in a box watching the game passing messages on i feel its better for the coach to be higher up than the sidelines



although i will agree to the obvious WE NEED A NEW COACH