Knights vs Plymouth

The teams are in for this afternoon's final game of the Championship league season.

Doncaster Knights: S McColl, D Flockhart, H Tong'uiha, B Armitage, M Williams, A Warnock, N Griffiths, T Davies, S Boden, M Cusack, G Kenworthy (C), G  Townson, A Kettle, S Grainger, A Boyde.
Replacements: L Thiede, S Lawrie, S Corsar, B Griffiths, N Cochrane, C Hallam, A Carter.

Plymouth Albion: G Kingdom, B Mercer, K Fisilau, S Tuipulotu, L Gibson, K Hallett, R Cushion, M Rice, J Clark, R Hopkins, T Hotson, T Skelding, S-M Stephen, R Watts-Jones, K Marriot. (C).
Replacements: A Davies, M Hopper, J Owen, G Porter, E Lewsey, D Collier, W Sprangle.

Live Updates to follow.

1 min: Ben Mercer scores for the visitors after touching down a kick through that Andy Boyde didn't deal with. Kieran Hallett misses the conversion. (0-5)

5 mins: Great kick by Ali Warnock pegs Plymouth back inside their 22 with a line out to defend, which they do well and clear downfield to just shy of halfway. (0-5)

11 mins: Kieran Hallett extends the visitors lead to eight points, with a penalty from the Knights 22 line. (0-8)

15 mins: Plymouth penalised at the scrum, Stevie McColl has came forward to take the kick and finds touch deep inside their 22 but the move ends as Steve Bodens through isn't straight. (0-8)

19 mins: Another good looking attack by the Knights is ended as Hudson Tonga'uiha knocks on when taking the ball into contact, leaving Plymouth with a scrum inside their 22. (0-8)

23 mins: Plymouth penalised on a visit into the Knights half, McColl finds touch midway into Plymouth's half. The line out is won but as play moved inside the Knights are penalised and Hallett fails to find touch & Dougie Flockhart runs the ball back. (0-8)

29 mins: Knights have a scrum on their own 22, which they win and retain the ball. Nicky Griffiths box kicks down field, and the ball is returned by the Plymouth full back only for Stevie McColl to outdo his opposite number and find touch past midway back into Plymouths half. (0-8)

36 mins: Knights penalised ten metres back inside their own half & Hallett has again stepped up to take the penalty, although his kick had the distance it was sadly fairly wide of the posts. (0-8)

39 mins: Two errors inside a minute for the knights. Firstly Steve Boden's line out is stolen & then Stevie McColl fails to catch the kick put in by Plymouth's scrum half. The visitors now have a scrum on the Knights 22 in the closing minutes of the first half. The ball is retained and spread outwide, now its came back inside to the forwards the ball is fed back to Hallett who puts in a little grubber kick which is deal with successfully by Nicky Griffiths. (0-8)

HALF TIME @ Castle Park: Doncaster Knights 0 Plymouth Albion 8

Second Half

41 mins: Plymouth penalised for not rolling away inside their own 22, Ali Warnock has stepped up to take the penalty, his kick is good and the Knights get on the scoreboard. (3-8)

46 mins: Knights have a line out ten metres into Plymouth's half, Adam Kettle wins the ball and the Knights are on now on the front foot but possesion is surrendered as a result of a loose Nicky Griffiths pass. (3-8)

49 mins: Plymouth get the ball out wide and use the 3 man overlap well which allows centre Sione Tuipulotu to run in and score under the posts. Hallett adds the conversion. (3-15)

51 mins: Plymouth Albion score their second try in two minutes as Keni Fisilau scores after a sublime kick and chase over the head of full back Antony Carter. Hallett misses the conversion. (3-20)

56-58 mins: Knights have a line out on the Plymouth 22, Steve Boden throws the ball in, Glen Townson takes the ball and now the forwards have it under control & after several forward drives the referee brings play back for a Knights 5 metre scrum. (3-20)

59-65 mins: Nicky Griffiths puts the ball into the scrum for the second time, for the second time now the referee has awarded the Knights a penalty but not given anyone a yellow card. So for the third time Nicky Griffiths will put the ball in, and this time the same things happens and the referee awards the Knights a penalty try which Ali Warnock converts. (10-20)

70 mins: Plymouth penalised for a high tackle on Bevon Armitage, Warnock finds touch deep in their 22, the line out is won and the forwards are driving their way towards the line, but the ball is lost and Hallett can clear. His kick though is touched by a Knights hand giving Plymouth a scrum inside their 22. (10-20)

77 mins: Plymouth have a scrum again midway back inside their own half. The ball goes in and comes out again but Hallett's kick has no distance and the Knights have a line out, which sadly is lost. (10-20)

79 mins: Plymouth Albion are penalised in the dying minutes of the game for a high tackle on Ali Warnock. Warnock gets up and dusts himself down & puts the penalty over  for the Knights, putting them in range of a losing bonus point. (13-20)

84 mins: Kieran Hallett misses a last minute penalty for the visitors which allows the Knights to take a bonus point away from the game which sees them finish in 7th place with a trip to London Welsh next saturday. (13-20)

FULL TIME @ Castle Park:  Doncaster Knights 13 - Plymouth Albion 20