How can you be sure that he didn't do this? Not that the message needed to be sent, it's obvious to the dimmest of players.

Well TBH I didn't expect us to get the result today. It's disappointing we blew a winning position but I'm not suprised. Cas are more than a match for us in the backs and have been playing well. Our defence hasn't been very convincing at all yet so it would have been an upset if we'd won. I guess that makes it more disappointing in some ways that we came so close.

I guess I've just psyched myself up for it being a very long hard season.

Well if he did then it's clear the players refuse to listen to him. That's a BAD thing.

If the players can't see that sometimes they need to stick the ball up the jumper and play more conservatively then they're the ones who need criticising. A coach can't control [ieverything[/i on the pitch, some of our players are experienced enough to know what to do and shouldn't instructions from the sidelines.

Well clearly the players don't know what they're doing. But tbh that's something that's clear to a blind man.

Just back from the match. See we have some of the usual suspects.

Bulls were in control with about 15 mins to go and there was some really good stuff played. Trouble is, so there also was by Cas, who are a much better team than many are making out. But we were still well in control.

And blew it.

Simple as that. Tried to be bit too clever when should have stuffed it up the jumper. Even then, we came really close twice near the end. But didn't.

Oh well. What should have been a good win wasn't...credit to Cas for the fightback. Think I'll go away and be a bit gutted in peace and quiet for a bit.

ps. Pretty damn good Bulls fans turnout today.

The Bulls were the better side today but unfortunately being the better side for most of the game doesn't always win you the points. I think Matterson summed it up best by saying 'we suddenly stopped playing after 65 mins'. We stopped doing everything we had done so well all match. Up until the last quarter our defence was superb, Platt and Semi made some excellent catches for bombs. We looked the far more likely to break from our own half and Nero and Platt caused Cas no end of problems all match. I was stood thinking what a great effort we had put in and how great it was to see such committed and well organised defence.

And then... we just capitulated. We looked panic stricken despite having a 10 point lead after the first of 3 Cas tries. Perhaps we still lack a bit of self belief but we shouldn't and can't afford to throw away 16 point leads.

I am not totally disheartened because a lot of our play was very good today and we looked a lot more dangerous with the ball. But we still have some big issue to address in defence to concede so many after being so dominant. Great to see Platt have a good game, he was everywhere and didn't put a foot wrong all match. I thought Nero once again looked dangerous and continually asked questions of the Cas defence.

So now to the CC, we seriously need another victory in France otherwise our season will look very bleak come Sat.

Just back from the match

Still can't believe how we ended up losing - the only time we were ever behind on the scoreboard was the last three minutes. Unfortunately, they are the minutes that matter most



For most of the game, I thought we had it well in hand and we're dominating a very good Castleford team. Some bloke behind me was telling his missus that there was still time for Cas to come back - I didn't say anything but I inwardly thought 'no we've got this in the bag for sure'. Hmmm. How wrong I was

And I hope people will lay off Platt for once - I thought he had a great game, always willing to take the ball up and some excellent runs out of defence.

But where do we go from here. We played our numbers 1-13 today - which suggests that was pretty close to what the coaching team feel is our best starting line up. Solomona is a possibly an exception - but is he going to make the difference?

Ok then...

Summary of last 10 mins

1st try . We swung it out wide, Dixon went in at the corner not a easy try to stop although you could obviously see so far away.

2nd Try : Defending well then Sherwin grubbered it and it was picked up by McGoldrick that then swung it out wide to Shenny to go in at the corner, yes really bad defense there OR maybe it was quality from Sherwin




3rd and final try : Widders took it up...offloaded and then gave it to Chase who, in my opinion, scored one of the best try's this season. WORLD CLASS.

So maybe you did throw it away ? or maybe we were just world class in that last ten minutes, watch the highlights I'm sure you'll know.

Thanks for the 2 points, don't worry you won't be the first or last club we take 2 off.

By the way well done on the Support.

I agree I thought Platt was excellent today.

TBH i thought it was close all game playing wise, they targeted our left side at the end and didn't it work a treat for them. I was level with the line as the bulls attacked our end in the 2nd half and Halley was never put a foot on or outside the line when the linesman flagged...however

I think Cas played faster ball then we did and wanted to keep the pace up going, I felt we were rightly penalised on a couple of occasions for holding down trying to slow it down. I was surprised Deac's came back on and i guess the 2 point conversion misses cost us, I thought the last one was an easy one by his normal high standards.

If we'd have won that I'd have gone away happy as i thought Cas really did have a good game but losing from that position...to see it all fall apart in front of your eyes is horrendous.

Hard to understand how a team can disintegrate like that with the greatest organiser of all time on the pitch.

Out of interest, what games do you think we might win going forward ?

Cas were excellent in those last mins. Fully agree. But we blew it too with some panic plays. Needed both to bring about that result!

What a waste, still can't believe we just lost that game.

We played well for 65 - 70 mins and then all the good work was undone.

The referee was a disgrace and a couple of stupid decisions including him not seeing Morrison being tackled without the ball completely handed castleford the momentum. They took their tries well but we looked the better side on the day and it should have been two points.

Dissappointed, hard not to be. We outplayed Cas for about 60-70 minutes of the game, then we totally blew it and Cas put in 10 minutes of world class performance. Platt had a really good game, looked solid in defence and under the high ball, good in attack aswell. Deacon was bad again, he shouldn't be starting next week. Jeffries looked ok again, but made quite a few errors. TBH I thought our centres looked quite good for a change, I think Sykes plays better when he is given the kicking responsibility. Think Halley should start instead of Sheriffe next week. Thought Langers was pretty poor aswell, but good from most of the pack especially Lynch, Burgess, Scruton and Morro. Newton looked good aswell.

Pretty well, yes.

Did you see him thumping the ground in disgust for one of his few defensive lapses? He was livid with himself!

As one guy stood near me started singing..."you'll have to find someone else to blame..."

Have to agree with you there, but if he didn't see it it wasn't a stupid decision, just bad referee positioning. But tbh I don't think we can blame this one on the referee, our lacklustre defence in the final quarter was the reason we lost.

Yeah was pretty obvious as was an obstruction, but with that he had his back to the tackle for some bizarre reason, but as people have said i wouldn't look at the ref for the loss.

Talking of dubious tries how about when Morrison scored that try under the sticks was that not obstruction ?. Worst we have played all year and beat you so I'm happy with that...Roll on Wakefield.

I'm not blaming the loss on the referee, I'm certainly not the sort of person who moans week in week out about referees for no reason. That decision however was a factor in the loss and they scored from it, I saw it, all the other fans saw it including Cas fans near me, I just can't see how he didn't.

There were a number of other poor decisions, some against cas but mainly he was inconsistent towards us. On another day it might not of mattered but on a day like today a few of the decisions were a factor.

Moaning and whinging brigade - especially those who did not get the opportunity to see the game - take note.

We played pretty damn well - for most of the match. Cas's coach recognised it needed their best performance of the year (and that from a team near top of table on back of some excellent away results) to beat us.

Yes I agree with video cameras not sure that would have been given - interesting to watch reply on sky! But it is not a disgrace to lose to Cas we are playing exceptional rugby this season. Will have to watch some of these so called better teams Wigan Bradford etc that they don't try to steal some of our stars!!!!

Feather was good today, never was as good as that at Bradford.

Your coach utterly and completely disagrees with you. So does the PA reporter who starts his report:

Yes that's all well and good but a game isn't 70 minutes long. Once again the main area of weaknes in our team namely the defence was exposed again. To conceed three tries in a ten minute spell against a team we had under control is shocking and their isn't no other way of looking at it.