What the f has happened to Austin's game?!

What does it take for this referee to award a penalty? Cas were blatantly lying on too long there and he refused 4-5 times in a few sets to award an obvious penalty! Ridiculous. Even if we win this its not been anywhere near good enough.

these attempts at drop goals are hilarious haha

no one wants to win it.

I’m still in the price out camp. We’re awful.

Tom lineham too

Well our marquee player won us the game in the end there. As a team attacking wise still not at all good enough though. Effort there but no flair. Still, we didn't panic, that was a big plus despite the ref utterly refusing to give blatant penalties during the last 10.

That's the spirit.

The ref had a shocker tonight

there were some big performances out there defensively tonight... some of those players really stood up to be counted... you have to applaud that.

its just a shame that we have absolutely no attacking prowess whatsoever.... absolutely nothing.

I won't come on here and be a happy clapper, but the team were giving it everything there and Hicks was giving Castleford every single decision. I don't know why folk watch rugby hoping to hate it. It was a decent game and well matched.

Thought Jason Clark worked incredibly hard tonight. My MOM.
King, Philbin, Hill and Cooper all put in really hard shifts.
Currie was decent - great off load for the try.
Ratch was his usual self. No complaints.

Widdop was..... on the field?

Thought Danny Walker benefited from having more game time.

Charnley hacks me off still with his milking of the penalties.

The result means the jury is still out.
Another big one next Thursday.

I live in hope Widdop gets better as if not he’s stealing a living.

I saw 2 teams giving everything and both of them will take heart from it. It wasn’t an ugly game.
It looked like a stripped back game from Wire. There were some errors but by and large roughed it out, we got the win.
I have to give Cas credit as we couldn’t grind them down. They are a fitter team than I have them credit for.

Very fair assessment. Felt you had more territory and deserved the win but we were durable and stuck in the fight. Don't think any of the half backs covered themselves in glory today but it was a tough dogged game that neither side wanted to lose. Could tell the game play was to murder millington what with watts missing and it was executed well. Your pack who was so bad last week fronted up tonight.

Even if we had lost tonight i still would've applauded the effort by the players. Taking away the coach, relative spending, marquees etc they gave it a dig. Our attacking play in the last 10 needs work that clearly our three current coaches between them can't provide. It is appalling.

Tonight was the first time i have really thought this squad can be saved by a decent coach.

those players played with pride tonight.... Someone can bring the confidence out and make us a really good side again..... it might not even take that long.

There is no way on this earth that its the current coach though.... its just not... look at us with the ball....we are probably the worst team in the league attacking wise..... We are deffo in the bottom 3.....and have been for half of last season as well.

its just a flat line of people looking confused.

I saw a team that wanted to win tonight, they defended well even though the attack was lacklustre. It’s progress.

If Price can turn things around, I’m willing to change my opinion. But one scrappy win isn’t enough for that. Turning things around for me means competing for the big prize he was hired to win.

We were in a similar position results wise in 2018 and ended up going to the CC and GF. We now have a supposedly much more capable team than we had then but the point stands. It isn't too much of a stretch to turn this good.

It’s not too much of a stretch. But it’s a high bar Price has to reach. Let’s say he makes it through the season and makes the final, but we lose again. He still goes for me -an appearance isn’t enough.

Showed some pride in the shirt tonight to overcome a good Cas side.


Two points separating 6 teams tonight.
Two points off top slot.
I’m looking for two wins from the next three, take it from there.

Attendance 9,228 get Cas didn’t bring that many but I think it reflects our recent performances

Top game tonight. Enjoyed every minute. A great game for the neutral! Wire deserved the win but could quite easily have lost. 3 SL games tonight with the biggest winning margin 2 points! There’s nothing between the teams in the SL currently and Widdop and Austin will shine I assure you! Wind yer necks in guys! Warrington will be there or there abouts in the mix up

I think there are two ways of looking at that game. On the one hand, you could view it in isolation and say that it was a compelling contest between two evenly-matched sides with a good attitude, high quality in terms of completion rate, and it came down to a nail-biting last five minutes, with Wire snatching the win in thrilling fashion. If it had been a game at Wilderspool in the Boyd-Tamati-Jackson era, we would probably look back on it fondly as a blood-and-thunder classic. However, the problem comes when you view the game in context rather than in isolation. Six games into the season and that's the fourth time we have failed to score more than 10 points. Our attack has been so bad, we have seemingly decided to just abandon it, or "strip things right back" as Steve Price and Blake Austin put it. We won the game by winning what has come to be known as 'the arm wrestle'. Unfortunately, people pay to watch rugby league, not arm wrestling, and an attendance of just over 9,000 is a concern. Austin says that our attack will come naturally if we are patient, but in the stands, patience is wearing pretty thin.

Fair points, reasonably made. But if we had lost 36-42 with both sides trading 80m screamers, Wires71 et al would be on saying 'I'd rather be a champion than an entertainer'. So not for the first time I ask: which is it to be?

I see you’re point here for me I’d like to see ya throw the ball from
Side to side with dummy runners and actually look like we’re putting on a set play, we’ve got two second rowers that can take defenders attention with the right lines (as BMM proved against saints) this 5 drives and a kick is awful to watch and a champion team wouldn’t only score 1 try in 160 minutes of rugby league.