Double trouble as Town mauled by Dons
Last updated 10:39, Saturday, 28 June 2008
Workington Town’s hopes of their first double of the season were dashed as they went down 40-2 at Doncaster’s Keepmoat Stadium last night.
Coach Dave Rotherham said: “We have got to start paying more attention to what we practice in training – we are going right away from it at the moment.
“We are doing things that you wouldn’t expect an under-eights team to do and gifting a good team like Doncaster field position. In a way I feel sorry for our boys because the effort they put in to defend our line in the first half was fantastic. But the moment we got the ball down the other end of the field, we’d lose it on the second tackle, or we’d kick it away.
“It was just frustrating because we were surrendering good field position and we didn’t make them work at all in that respect.
“That meant that we had to do a lot of tackling and it takes it out of you – especially when you finish the match with only 13 fit men.
“Although we were well beaten in the end our heads never went down and we competed well for the 80 minutes. I thought Chris Young did well for us and full-back Jay Duffy, who had a lot to do, had a good first half. I was also impressed by Peter Dobson in only his second game for us.”
“I thought that we were a class act and that it was one of the best performances that we have produced this season,” said Dons coach Ellery Hanley. “We learnt from our last performance against them; the defeat was still hurting.
“We won well in the end but you have to give credit to Workington because they defended well for long periods of the first half hour during a time when we had a lot of the ball and controlled it well.”
