Knights fighting hard despite their half rations

AFTER doing a “Leicester City” in 2021/22, Doncaster have found it tough to back up last year’s second-place finish in the current Championship campaign.

- JON NEWCOMBE

Operating within their means on a realistic full-time Championship budget, the Knights’ squad was always going to feel the squeeze if injuries took hold but no one could have foreseen the extent of their problems on that front.

Half of what would be considered the first-team matchday squad have been sidelined for three months or more and director of rugby Steve Boden was frantically trying to bolster his squad for the remainder of the season before Friday’s transfer deadline, but to no avail.

Had they not been able to get free agent, Jake Pope in at prop, the Knights would have been struggling to fulfil their front-row requirements such is the scale of the injury crisis.

“We’ve had a lot of injuries and it tough recruiting people at the minute but it is what it is,” said Boden, the former Doncaster and Jersey hooker, below.