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Doncaster 2 Swansea 1
Doncaster 2 Swansea 1
Sunday, 18th Dec 2005 00:00

Doncaster's Double Is First Defeat In Nine

Well before i do this report thing i wish to say three things: It was absolutely freezing Probably the worst refereeing performance I've ever seen. Donny fans are quality. Met a load before and after the game they were great! The match. First of all it was cold, then it got colder. Then we started and we were on top right up until the sending off. To me the sending off looked harsh to say the least: I thought that we had someone covering. Certainly a booking but not really a sending off. And it was a pretty stupid challenge. Then again if he was the last man then it should have been a sending off. After that we were more defensive, understandably and donny started to look a bit better and created some chances eventually leading to the penalty. That was right up the far end from the away end so I can't really comment. The pattern that generally followed for the first half then was that we had a huge amount of possession considering we were down to 10 men, but donny were creating all the chances. We only had three in the first half. First Ricketts skinned their defender then hit in a weak cross to trundle which was intercepted. The goal, either Ricketts tucked the keeper up a treat or scuffed his cross. The result was that the ball ended up in the net. A bit before half time I think Robbo played in Ricketts who crossed a nice ball which connor couldn't get to. A few of the players were a bit upset at this time maybe believing Connor to have been fouled. Not much else happened in the 1st half. Tate got booked which was in my view a dreadful decision. The ball was down about waist high he went and hit it then caught a donny player's head. Second half was much the same but with donny getting more of the possession. Didn't seem to seriously threaten the goal because of some awful finishing and some smart saves from willy. Trundle forced a save from the keeper after a neat bit of skill Tudur Jones had a shot across the goal and Robbo went close for us. Tate went off and Macca came on to go at left back and the goal was his fault. Turned to try and smack the ball out for a throw instead ofa corner and scuffed it. Willy made a save on the initial shot but the rebound ended up at one of their strikers who made no mistake and put the ball into the net. 2-1. Donny started putting more pressure on us then and we never really looked like getting the goal back despite Willy's dash up for a corner. Then their player missing the open goal with a long shot was good fun! Willy got booked for time wasting which was a terrible bit of refereeing. We know Willy pushes his luck and probably overall deserved a booking. He was taking the ball across the 6 yard box to take the goal kick when it turned out that it wasn't a goal kick. The ref pointed this out to him and he went towards the edge of the area, threw the ball down... ref comes over kicks the ball away and books him. Terrible. One of many terrible decisions he made during the match. I understand that he got relegated from the prem. After that refereeing performance I can see why. I don't usually like to criticise refs: without them there wouldn't be a game after all. But he was seriously bad and the tune of 2-1 to the referee was ringing out from the away end after the match. Overall I think we were unlucky. Well worth a point but if finishing had been better then donny could have been several in front. Was impressed with the team as a whole, and especially impressed that we didn't just smash the ball upfield automatically. Trundle was quiet, when he got the ball he looked ok but didn't seem to want to chase it all that much. I can't believe how much Tate has come on, thought he was seriously quality today. Didn't see much of forbsey when he came on but we were not doing all that much as a team by then. I had a good day all in all, met a couple of guys who post on here: evsjack (not sure about the spelling) and steve the jack. Think it was those two anyway. So cheers guys for letting me join you and not be all alone after my mates decided they didn't want to go to donny after all. The Park Hotel is also a great place for a few drinks and some decent banter. Did I mention it was cold?

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