Well your glass is most definitely half empty!

What are Cas doing that is so different?

They have only played one game away from hom so far that can be classed as an away game. That one game was a defeat, against a poor side.

At home they have played a top challenging side in Huddersfield, but also played two very poor cellar dwellar sides in Catalans and Crusaders. Then add in playing Wakefield at MM at the best possible time to be playing a poor Wakey side.

I have made no secret in the past that I go to watch a fair few Cas matches per season, and they are playing well. But they have been far from tested in any game as yet.

Interesting because that's how it sounded exactly on Radio Leeds.

Personally I ask if Leeds have the defence to compete. You've been poor in that department this year. 24 points a match being conceded compared to Wigan's 14. If we defend to our usual standard then we will have enough in attack to win. If it ends up an offensive shoot out then this plays into Leeds hand I reckon.

Bad as our result was against Warrington, I don't actually think our defence was too bad and Warrington did put in a top draw performance. Not sure this current Leeds side has that in them at the moment. But we shall see, I mean Wigan consistently went to Leeds and won (in regular season) when it was Leeds being Champions and us chasing the top.....

Hall, who was beaten in the air by Shenton against Saints, was questionable yesterday under the high kick. So could be interesting against Wigan!

In the first half on at least 2 occasions he failed to get off the ground. Wingers generally are confidence players and I'm pleased to report that in the 2nd half, he took 2 belting bombs which should build his confidence in this area.

Good. They clearly employ mentally stable people.




We don't have the defence to compete. That's exactly what I'm saying. Any other team would've hammered us in the first half at the weekend.

Totally agree with what you're saying.

IF is a very big word. IF the ball sticks we'll be trotting out at OT in October, but to be honest I've not seen anything so far that gives me any great confidence that we will improve any time soon. It is early doors in the season admitedly, and there's nowt to be won in March. I'm just not to sure that the coaching staff and all the players are singing off the same song sheet.

Wigan's defence is in a class of its own, and its defence that wins matches. Agreed their attack is on a par with ours, but for the first time ever, I do think we could catch a backlash this Friday. I'll be delighted to be proved wrong though, and I hope to see us competing, no matter what the final score is.

If either of the Tomkins brats gets a slap, I'll have a wee s at that as well!

It's not as clear cut as some of u are making out

you may be defending badly but IMO I don't think our attack has much fluidity about yet this year were defending well as you'd expect but we've nit clicked yet

maybe finch having another full week training with the boys will help

on charnley he's getting alot of stick over nothing he did drop them balls fair enough but carmont was blocking for one and got right in his way the intersept one was just unlucky but the trys down his side was because the second rower and centre got dragged in and left him icsolated twice

BEWARE THE RUGBY GODS, that's all i'm going to say

Bailey to start then.

FFS don't start all that bollox again.

I've heard enough from that hypocritical tosspot Phil Clarke to last me a lifetime without you starting.

Beware of those with multiple agendas to push.

Silverwood is the ref

... Ian Smith is the VR

I thought he looked an exciting British prospect in the outside backs (before either of the last two performances) ...... and I still do.

I defended him after Friday because I thought he still had a reasonable game overall and posters were focusing on a couple of errors without acknowledging Warrington's good play in those situations.

Hardly my fault that Leeds have an indifferent record on young wingers and allow some of better prospects to slip through their fingers.

You been to Doncaster today mate?

Swap the smilies around and I'd agree.

Ian Smith is the best video referee out there.

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Why do you ask.



It's coming home ... it's coming home .... Vulcan's coming home.

Surprised they popped the break-chute on landing (2 mile runway at Finningley, sorry Robin Hood Airport) but I guess it was due a service outing after the winter - despite the £700 repack charge.

theres a shock. big game and we get silverwood again. he has given us nothing he doesn't have to since keith, rightly in my opinion, slaughtered him after his embarressing display in the WCC

Those Olympus engines surely need a brake-chute to negate their power. Not sure about a break-chute though, pedant that I am.

Brett Finch will have a stormer and Wigan will win by 16+...

Must be difficult for players (like Senior) and refs (like Silverwood) to cope with pre-season levels of NRL intensity and technically proficient skills in defence, hence the frustration. They're just not used to it in SL.

Danny McGuire will have a stormer ( helped by another superb reverse pass from his half-back partner, Sinfield ) and Leeds will win by 16+ ..... CC final 2011

Charnley not playing Friday.

agree regarding silverwood, however had he not gone shouting his mouth off then we may not have the situation we do now with silverwood

You cant shove a camera into a players face straight after a defeat like that and not expect controversy. Lumpawood during that game was absolutley taking the mick with his handling of it, constant offsides, high shots, slowing down the PTB to a crawl and lets not even start on the "dodgy dosier" affair. Keef rightly or wrongly was asked a question and spoke honestly in no uncertain terms that in his opinion Lumpawood had an absolute 'mare, which he had.

Agree but i still think he is old enough to have the ability to think before he spoke. I totally agree with what he said but unlike football where ferguson is the master of manipulating the refereeing this outburst backfired.

On the point of Silverwood, I cannot stand him. at millenium weekend last year he was swaggering around town in all his RFL kit and was checking himself out in shop windows. he had the look of "I LOVE ME WHO DO YOU LOVE" cant stand him

Thats Lumpawood all over though isnt it? R.e Keith, im with you, but this was straight after the game and Keith hadnt had time to calm down and regather his thoughts. The camera crew knew that they would get some cracking controversial quotes from this and lo, they did. ATEOTD Lumpawood is by far the most unpredicable ref going. (Terry Halibut is just plain bizarre) if he has umbrage with what Keith said then he should have manned up and gone to see him about it instead of acting like a petulant child everytime we have him as ref.

Mind you who's to say Keef hasnt apologised in private and that Lumpawood is just an arrogant git.