It was Tansey wasn't it?

I thought he milked it by deliberately falling over. He took advantage of Brook's inexperience. It was probably a penalty but I thought the sin binning was way OTT unless he'd already warned us and I'm pretty sure he hadn't.

There was a lot of slow play the balls which went unpenalised before after that one.

I thought there was lots to be positive about yesterday. Lots of effort and endeavour, good defence for some lengthy periods against what was a strong Cas side. We just lacked composure in certain areas, typified by the Ulugia effort from which six points were scored. However he wasn't the only one.

Good to have some rugby to watch instead of talking about it and anticipating it for what seems to have been an eternity.

Quite funny reading casforum. Apparently they on top all game and would have blown us away if they hadn't bombed four tries. No mention of tries we bombed or the sin binning or fact we took a few of our better players off in 2nd half and gave 2nd string a run out. Think they were watching a different game. When we had our strongest line up our in first half we were clearly outplaying them.

Ifs buts maybes. Fact is we were more than competitive against a team thatfinished 4th in te league and were runners up in the cup. Bodes well for when we enter the super 8's that we can be more than competitive against the SL teams.

A lot of our players yesterday have only been full time for a matter of months. When they super 8's start, they'll be fitter, stronger and all round better.

We have to finish in the top 4 first, stop setting yourself up for a fall!

It was a good 1st showing and we can build further in the next two games.

The ones that matter begin on 15 February. I'm expecting that to be tougher than any of the friendlies by a mile.

By 'eck, it's good to be back.





From where I was sat he got the sin binning spot on.

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Do you think on the back of that game Skjkjkiejka will be the first choice goal-kicker?

Hard to say. He missed two, not by a long way, from wide out, on a poor day for kickers. I'm not reading too much into it to be fair.

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Ryan Shaw should be kicking goals for you if he's playing, My mate at Barrow said he's the best goal kicker he's ever seen based on his kicking for them last season with
a success rate over 80%........................... Close games will be lost without a top class goalkicker.

We're a bit spoilt for choice for kickers for a change. Mullaney,sjelka and shaw are all decent kickers. Not sure shaw will be an automatic selection whereas sjelka and mullaney will be when fit so expect one of them to be regular kicker. Good to have backup options though.

I think it was Siejka who kicked it, and from my perspective he looked a better bet than one or two Wakey. supporters would have us believe.

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Tansey is a past master of that type of play. If an eleven stone rookie player comes up against an experienced 14 stone centre, who would hold who?
My thoughts are that if this is part of the new rulings, which if we looked at the Widnes v Warrington game in which 3 sin binnings were given by James Childs, would this be a ploy by many players, and if an important game was in the melting pot, would we be happy with a rule that depended on individual referees interpretation? ie how long is holding down, 2 to 4 seconds 6 seconds?
So with all the crowd seeing something different just what makes these sin binnings fair or sensible. I personally wouldn't want to have paid to see my team decimated by 30 minutes of a game with a player or even two in the Bin, so whilst the Bulls game didn't matter in terms of a result, it certainly mattered to young Adam Brook as he knew he wasn't guilty.

To be fair I think Siejka did struggle for them last year. But I think half the reason was he came in when the season had already started, had no pre season with them, couldn't get any consistent combinations going with the team. Not surprising he struggled really.

With us he's had off season surgery, a full preseason to gain fitness and combinations. He will be playing with the same HB partner week in week out. Add some confidence in as well. Makes a huge difference.

I think the fact we had more or less completed our team/recruitment before pre-season began will make a huge difference.

Cannot wait for the start of the season!

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Bloody 'ell, that's a brave prediction..y'know, what with our luck in the injury department - not to mention the way things have gone in recent seasons..

He meant he'll be playing with Danny Addy

Or maybe Lee Gaskell will be playing with Danny...who takes no. 7 duties then..