Plenty of feigning head injuries in that last quarter from Saints

Saints dominated the second half, lack of game time in the lead up to the final didn't help Castleford's cause. Overall, best team on the day won.

One win in eight finals for Powell now. Should fit in well at the Wire.

That’s just a joke before anyone gets upset!

Makinsons' was shocking, Shenton hardly touched him

I saw nothing to give me hope for next year, either from the incoming coach or our new signings, bar one kick and one brain fart from Matautia.

We might have a chance if we keep hold of our current conditioning staff. Cas ran out of energy & ideas after the hour mark.

Probably something to do with them not playing for two weeks (or whatever it was) I suppose.

But on paper Saints should have walked it. If Cas hadn’t blown 2 chances before half time I think they would have won. Saints don’t tend to recover from a few scores down. The half time hooter did them a massive favour, as well as the potential knock on decision on Percival when Grace scored early in the second half.

Saints were the best team overall though, but Cas can be proud.

Cas' inability to set up for a dg before half time cost them big.

Yeah, this. We were shouting at the telly each time they got near to the posts in the last ten minutes of the first half, going two scores ahead would've changed the entire psychology of the half time team talks, with Saints likely beginning to consider the day becoming a rerun of their 2019 nightmare.

As it stands we had to endure seeing the walking corpse eamonn mcmANUS creeping around the pitch like an unwanted pervy uncle at a family do, in a plastic hat. No letters to the RFL. this year, I take it?

I was thinking about the kicking game. At the end of nearly every Saints set they forced Cas. to play out from deep in their own half, whilst Cas rarely managed decent last tackle kicks. That all meant Cas. were rarely attacking the Saints line and had to rely on scoring from deep. Added to that all the work their forwards had to get through to move back down field left them pretty ragged by the second half. So I think this was a major factor in the game.

Lol could you be any more bitter.

Utter cringe

Good game. Terrible singer.

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What's bitter about my post? It's a fact that your chairman is a creepy old harbinger of souls! The better team won, but that doesn't change the fact.

Another consideration is that I don't really see any stars in that cas side. Compared to our starting 13 with Ratch, King, Widdop, Clark, Currie, I couldn't identify anyone who was gonna pop up and change that game yesterday. I don't even rate our two new signings. Maybe it's because they're a team, not a collective of individuals, but on the big stage you need someone to stand up and direct the game, and they didn't have anyone of that ilk.

It was as if she'd never heard them before.

He’s actually a collector of grand finals.

How’s that going for your chairman lmao

We don't either...we are barren of leadership. We have Daryl Clark and that's it. Although that's where Cas started off when Powell took charge there.

Saints were nigh on perfect second half. Strangled the life out of Castleford and managed the clock outstandingly. We had two spells of about 12 minutes in the second half where Cas didn't even touch the ball, just didn't give them a chance. 20-0 second half without us ever really clicking or attacking well.

Darryl Powell lost them the final. He panicked after the semi final and seemed obsessed with getting the strongest names onto the teamsheet. He didn't seem to care what state they were in, as long as they were named. They fielded weakened teams and pathetically conceded the game against us and chose not to field the first team players against Salford. So instead of carrying one or two players who haven't had much gametime, he was fielding 13 or 14 players who had barely played in weeks. Given the heat and the occasion it was always going to cost them. Had they played the Saints game, they would have had a week off, then played Salford. Then 6 days off before the final. It would have been much better preparation and worst case maybe would have cost one or two players a spot through injury or suspension. He could have had much more gas in the tank and chose not to.

Without that sneaky Frenchman, and his appalling bad sportsmanship, Saints don’t make the final.

There was another game versus Huddersfield that Cas were scheduled to play between the Saints and Salford games.

Powell selected his strongest 21 squad for the Huddersfield game, but it was called off by the Giants owing to the Co Vid protocol.

Once the Huddersfield game was postponed, then with the 7day rule for HIA he then chose to field a severely weakened team against Salford.

Think yourselves lucky you played an undercooked Cas then as we would've mullered that saints side yesterday.....AGAIN.

Ah but to do that yesterday you have to got there.