Don't waste your time drawing up these excuses for losing a meaningless friendly. Players missing etc. Neither side were full strength, who cares. That day you were pants. Last week we were pants. Tomorrow one of us, both of us or neither of us could play pants.

Fair play mate, good luck for tommorow let beat team win (Which will be Cas

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How can the beat team win?

The team that gets beat, by definition, loses!

I'll take being the best team and winning instead, if it's all the same to you...

Don't blow my mind, thats too much for me to take in !

I love your optimism i would settle for a dire 1 Dg to nil if it meant we got two points . Although i would prefer us to win 41 points to 40



You are right about the quiet last week. there were two lads behind me last week singing ' we are supposed to be at home and why arent we singing'.

I felt a bit embarrassed but knew where they were coming from. I reckon that we will be a lot better this week. I actually prefer away games so i am sure we will create an atmosphere.

We were so poor last week that the atmos was never going to go anywhere. Saints I also thought was a bit flat though, we may need to have a good crack at it for 'Quins to try and get everyone going.

B. Hodgson,
D. Hodgson
Whaturia,
Lolesi
Lawrence / cudjoe,
Brown,
Robinson,
Jackson
Moore,
Mason,
Crabtree
walsh
Wild



Faiumu,, D. Griffin, Korkidas, Kirmond, .

if everyone is fit this is how i woould like to see the team line up.

I cannot choose between Cudjoe and Lawrence on the wing it depends Lawrence for defence and strength or cudjoe for attacking.

I would like Eorl to be at second row give us some real strength in attack and then to be interchanged at prop. if we can punch some holes in their forwards hopefully create some gaps for wild, walsh and Kirmond to run through.

I would play Korkidas if nothing else it would get him motivated against his old team and show him the coach has confidence in him.

Good evening! At least we had some RL talk on here - I got calling into a meeting about developing another new application so missed all the banter I set the stall up for.

The comment was tongue in cheek to get some Rubgy discussion going as all everyone seemed to be doing is infighting. I thought it would provoke some chat about who would win by what - not an indepth discussion on who was missing Pre-season.

For the record Hudson played, Chase whatever his name was looked overweight.

We have beaten Catalan in France and Bradford at Bradford so I cannot see a problem with us walking over Castleford in Cas.

It doesn't take much to make some people think they're different class, does it. Imagine what they'd be like if they won 9 on the bounce...

i agree, still after so long without a win at odsal you can understand why they are getting ahead of themselves, even if this is probably the worst bradford side of the sl era.

Nice try, no cigar.

For me I think this is the first real test for Cas this year.

Hudds do look a good side - top six I reckon this year

the wins we have had whilst enjoyble have been against a very poor Salford side, an out of sorts Wigan team, and a Catalans side still not firing on all cylinders....... dont get me wrong the games needed winning and the team have done exactly that....but we have to keep our feet on the ground

Confidence is high .... but our record against Hudds is not a good one and you do appear to be taking over the hoodoo mantle from Wakey.

I am really looking forward to this game just to see exactly where we are ... a close win or loss and I will think we have a real chance of top eight this season .....

With my serious hat on I would have to agree with you. It's going to be close - alot closer than people think. Castleford should have the edge being at home but our boys are smarting from a poor performance and no doubt will have a fly in the ear from Brown.

Will it be the Cas lads wanting to turn around that preseason defeat that will make the difference? I wouldn't say so but I think the first 20 minutes could decide this game - one team getting a a few sets of six over the other and I think it will be game over.

....said terry matterson to nathan brown after beating the giants.

I'm sorry, I don't enter into battles of wit with unarmed men.

Just as well you would still lose.

Next time, if you can, think on.

We had a full pack missing too

Did we.

finnigan. crabtree and raleigh .. three of the pack lol

Well the reserve pack did ok then.

which is not a bad thing in reality, giving the less experienced players a run out/ game time can only make it harder for the first teamers to get back in the team