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| Dons v York City Knights 28/03/2010 - Co-operative Championship One - Match Preview. |
St John Ellis was the charismatic and flamboyant coach of Doncaster from 1999 until his untimely death on New Years Eve 2005, having been initially recruited as a player.
Whilst he had a number of Clubs during his playing career, including a spell in Australia with South Queensland Crushers, the three Clubs to which Singe (as he was fondly known) will forever be linked are of course Castleford, where he spent six seasons winning two Yorkshire Cups and a Regal Trophy, Doncaster and of course his hometown club York where his career started.
This weekend the current Doncaster and York players will do battle for Championship One league points and if it turns out to be an intense, full-blooded affair with no quarter given and none asked, then Singe for one would have enjoyed it and it will be a fitting memorial.
York City Knights were, along with Hunslet Hawks (ironically the Dons next opponents), the bookies pre-season favourites for Championship One silverware and currently sit top of the table following victories over London Skolars and South Wales Scorpions plus a bonus point collected at Workington. Qualification for the quarter-final stages of the Northern Rail Cup was also secured with three wins including a 13-12 home defeat of Championship high-fliers Leigh Centurions (one of only three unbeaten teams in that division).
James Ratcliffe is now back in charge of the Knights having just returned from a two month suspension imposed in January 2010 following an alleged racial abuse incident in October 2009 and he will no doubt want to make the news for more positive reasons going forward. In his absence, assistant coach Mick Ramsden and player-coach Chris Thorman have suffered just two defeats from eight competative fixtures and one of those was against opposition from a higher division (away at Sheffield Eagles in the Northern Rail Cup).
Four ex-Doncaster players are on the books currently at the Huntington Stadium, winger Wayne Reittie, hooker or loose forward Joe McLocklan (who arrived via Featherstone Rovers) and forwards Alex Benson and Nathan Freer.
Aaron Henry, Jarryn Osbourne and Danny Stanley all returned in Wednesdays reverse against Blackpool Panthers although Stanley and Liam Brown both picked up knocks and will need to be assessed prior to kick off, as will Scott Johnson, injured against South Wales Scorpions.
Coach Tony Miller and CEO Carl Hall have been making positive noises this week about this fixture and a win would be a very welcome tonic for the players and the Clubs long-suffering supporters.
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| The Co-operative Championship One 2010 |
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Team |
Pts |
+/- |
| 1 |
Hunslet |
55 |
505 |
| 2 |
Oldham |
52 |
256 |
| 3 |
York |
39 |
83 |
| 4 |
Blackpool |
38 |
430 |
| 5 |
Rochdale |
37 |
132 |
| 6 |
South Wales |
34 |
108 |
| 7 |
Workington |
33 |
-4 |
| 8 |
Swinton |
33 |
-11 |
| 9 |
Doncaster |
28 |
-70 |
| 10 |
London |
10 |
-456 |
| 11 |
Gateshead |
-2 |
-973 |
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