I agree, I've bagged him, not seen anything in him in previous seasons but he's been great tonight so far, fingers crossed its how powell has asked him to play and that's the 2022 Clarke on show tonight.

That try from Cas is what we had about 6 attempts at doing in the first half, with no success. We need more moves in us to get some points in this game

I can't understand why we don't favour Charnley's wing, more.

Well done lad

Far from the finished product but our attack in the last 20 metres already looks head and shoulders above prices reign.

Barnstoneworth United had more attacking ideas than the Price reign

Excellent line from mulhern.

We are definitely showing more attacking intent. Reason to be optimistic for this season, loads more to come from us. Cas are killing themselves with poor discipline tonight.

Mata'utia has deserved that try, carried well all night, tackled well and copped some rough treatment from his former teammates but kept his discipline.

I’ll take back my thoughts on Charnley. He’s going to thrive under Powell.

As I was saying

Well despite not being great, it’s a comprehensive victory. Can’t argue with that, and exciting to think we’ve got a lot more improvement in us.

74.50 ish on the clock.

Jack Hughes almost, nearly, came agonisingly close to passing the ball.

He's been steady tonight in all fairness.

Called it in the off season.

He will score a lot this season if he can stay injury free.

That's a great win, cas discipline gave us a massive helping hand but we played well, threatened in attack, defended stubbornly and didn't make many errors.

We are building.

Walker or Mata'utia MOM for me, Jason Clark looks rejuvenated. Credit to the pack missing Cooper they did well I felt.

Thought the half back partnership looked very promising tonight. Looked a bit lightweight at the start but the pack definitely grew into the game. Interesting season ahead.

And we are top of the league well for time being

2 wins from 2 who is going to catch the wire?

Just sat in the traffic on Scotland rd/Winwick St.

We were ropey up front both in defence and going forward, first 20 minutes or so.

Hughes and bullock appeared to be better for the most part, to philbin and mulhern (Robbie improved 2nd half)

Widdop and Williams probing were Miles better than last year. Williams especially.

I'd be interested to know why currie got subbed, thats probably the first time I can recall since his knee injuries in 2018.

Not a bad performance overall, following on from being dog rough on Saturday.

I'll take that.

I know it’s early days, but I can’t help but think Alex Walmsley in that pack puts us in contention. I still think a full strength Saints and Cats beat us up too much, but I think we will build as the season progresses and score some points - the wire way!

Bullock was great tonight I think he will prove to be a good signing, I do think we are short a unit but the pack did pretty well in both games so far. They weren't busting holes in either game really but they aren't being broken either. Matt Davis and Jason Clark so far look quite exciting compared to what we have been used to from them. Hughes played well as a prop tonight.

I agree, saints will probably be too strong for us in a few weeks but if we keep building I think we can close the gap. Probably not enough this season.

A quiet match from Ben.
Think he took a knock earlier on.

A big improvement on last week.
Several very good performances - Clark, Walker, Ashton, Charnley, Widdop, Williams and - as usual - Ratch (not to mention Ma'tautia).

But lets not forget we struggled with go forward until the intercept try.

We'll find out how good we really are after the Cats and Saints matches.

It looked as though Currie was badly winded after a tackle. Maybe his substitution was precautionary.

Going back to what I said earlier was worried in early phase when Cas were running over us and stopping us going forward. But when Bullock came on it for me turned us he had some strong carries and Mulhern aka Ron Burgandy got stronger when he came back

yes we still light but starting to think we can deal with this.

Thought he adddd quite a lot, but needs to remain in control. Made 2 big erros and was lucky not to be sin bined after 35mins.

But its a step up from what we saw from him last week.
I think he'll do well under DP - confidence thing that he didnt get under Lam I think.

I did fear the worst when Cooper wasn't named. I do think we lack a lot of 'punch' up front and that will be a problem against the likes of Saints and Cats. BUT, can't fault them tonight. Mulhern and Bullock looked fine. Our discipline was excellent...Castlefords was terrible... which is no surprise given who their coach is now. Charnley was excellent took his tries very well...now joint 3rd top try scorer in the super league era...nuff said. Some very good signs out there tonight...but there is still a question mark for me on the front row.

Another one for the radford thoughts,

I'm sure him signing 3 players that got him sacked at hull, 2 years ago is a great idea.