Beaten by a very good Cas side today. Excellent kicking and good play.

Great from Connor, better from Cudjoe. Don't really think anyone played terribly.

Broughton was our worst player.

A fair result.

Cas where not that great though. Our defence is far too soft. Cudjoe better? Slightly maybe but did you see his attempts to tackle Shenton at the start of the second half.
The try we let Milner score was embarrasing.

Kafuasi and mullally impressed
Wardle consistent
Connor class act futures looking good at fb
Cudjoe hit n miss. His decision making is very poor at times
Looked good when Bailey was on however leeming looks to have potential.
Robbo took to much work load I feeel didn't seem to notice wood.
Broughton apart from.being quick I fail to see what he brings

Overall tonight wasn't as bad as what I thought it could of been. Too many missed tackles and penalties given away. Poor 15 after half time but good too see a response as such

Bailey should have come back sooner at the start of the second half. Thought Taai was our best player tonight.

Connor looks a great prospect but I think with his pace and power that his best position long term is centre.

Officials kept you in this game. Some head scratching calls from the ref and the linesman were nothing less than clueless. Not saying you played bad but had officials done their job you wouldnt have had the ball in good position. That said thought you did well with ball in hand.

The same officials that missed the fact Mcgillivary kept the ball in au from the 40/20 and missesd Carneys head high shot on Connor. I did not bring up the ref because we lost fair and square but we certainly did not benefit from his decisions.

Just ignore the troll, he will go away.
One of our major problems is we have a winger who cannot catch a ball. Broughton has a superb jump and consistently gets up high for the ball but has no idea how to catch it. I don't recall him ever catching a high ball, so anybody calling for him to play FB is asking for trouble.
And Cudjoe and Wardle need to learn when they should stay in the defensive line.

Giants did benefit from Officials errors and cas didnt.

Not a troll either was a neutral watching the game. Just saw some clown decisions that Giants took full advantage of and cant fault them.

Thought tai'i was your best player tonight,carney will get cited for the highshot,thought shenton handled cudjoe rather well,good luck rest of the season

You mean like the 40-20 that Jerry stopped but was given anyway?
I barely noticed the ref for once so I think he had a good game. Cas deserved their win, they were the better side.

Repeating it won't make it true.

Stand by what I said giants should have had a penalty for Carneys head high shot on Connor and and Mcgilivary stopped a 40/20.?what decisions went against Cas?

The linesman made some shocking decisions against both Cas and Hudds. Connor was great but although Bailey scored 2 i thought he slowed the distribution down as he seemed to have a look to see if he could go himself at most PTB's and thus lost half a second. You played your part in making it a great game but i thought Ferres (I rate him very highly) started to lose it a bit late on and was lucky not to have been penalised more than he was. Brough would have made a tremendous difference tonight and if i could have any 2 players from your team it would be him and Wardle. i'm sure when you get the missing players back you'll kick on again. Great to see 2 Cas lads coaching 2 teams who are doing well.

I thought Connor slipped to his knees as Carney came in which made it seem high but Carney went in with arms bent to wrap up Connor rather than swinging a stiff arm.

The rule is very clear. Even if the player falls into the tackle you cannot make contact with the head.

Never expected to win today so reasonably happy - as usual though we are our own worst enemies, too much dropped ball and avoidable penalties conceded.

That said we could have sneaked it and looked good at times - just beaten by the better team on the day.

Connor was terrific, thought Leeming showed some promise and good distribution. We need to get Murph back asap - at least to put some pressure on Cudjoe and Broughton.

Onwards and upwards - will watch the TV coverage tomorrow with gritted teeth!

Are you saying that you cannot make contact with the head then. The courses i have been on would say otherwise.

No you cannot make contact with the head. What course have you been on, a boxing course??

Yer avving a laff

Connor looks like he could be something special to me and it was a shame we didn't get to see more of Kruise in attack because the giants were mainly defending by that stage. I agree that Bailey's distribution was way too slow.

I agree stella,the lad is still growing and I believe he will be a first rate centre but only time will tell.I was also impressed with Leeming.

having been at the game and feeling disappointed with the result and certain aspects of the performance, but equally pleased with the response, and having watched it back on sky here are my thoughts.

we played well in patches,we played poor in other patches, so did cas, what let us down i thought was basic individual errors and bad decision making at crucial times, and of course missed tackles!!
myself and daz both said we were poor defensively and we were at times, but other times we stood up well in defence, it was just we made bad mistakes at crucial times and on our line that enabled them to score those early 2nd half tries. the milner,finn and mariano tries in particular were very poor defensive efforts either bad reads from defenders or in the case of mariano's try, a failure to wrap him up properly, 3 men on him and not one of them wrapped up the ball, 2 round his legs and one up top who got pushed off, for milner's try, the marker got caught out and for finn's try, leroy shooting out created the space for shenton.

we also made a couple of bad decisions in attack, i said at the game we lacked composure at both ends which cost us.
but actually all in all, it wasn't that bad... apart from the first 15 minutes of the 2nd half there wasn't much in it, our sloppy defence in those 15 minutes cost us , don't forget that cas didn't take the lead until right on half time, through and error on our line, they then blew us away in that 15 minute spell, and but for the width of broughton's heel we were right back in it.

effort and the response was a whole lot better than last week, like i said, basic individual errors and lack of composure ultimately cost us.
but cas are a good side and give them space to play like we did and they will punish you, not many teams will go there and put 30 points on them, so it's frustrating that our defence let us down.

also as well, to put it into perspective we were missing grix,brough,murphy,fauimu,chan and lunt, 5 players who are experienced first teamers and 3 of our main pivots.
i thought the guys who came in,connor,leeming,kaufusi and mullally did themselves no harm at all last night.