All right folks lets get positive!

Cas have a few injuries is this a game we can win!! if we show the same commitment in Defence will it be enough if we cut out silly errors.... Derby should bring more out in us....

this is team I would select- your thoughts? some maybe injured I am not sure ? fire your pot shots away.and no I didn't see the game last week or will any week unless on sky who show it over here but I follow all peoples posts etc and lsitne to every game on the radio pod casts and watch the highlights

TANSEY
BJB
TOPOU
GIBSON
LYNE
MILLER
FINN
SCRUTON
HOWARTH
ENGLAND
ARONA
MOLLOY
TOUPOU

HALL
SIO
ANNAKIN
KIRMOND

Same starting team as Vs Widnes unless simon is fit then swap him for Kirmond .

I agree derbies with Cas should bring out more in us. They never do though.

I would only make two changes in the backs, Tansey and Walton in for Johnstone and Arundel.

Don't have a clue who he'll go with on Sunday, but it would not surprise me if he left Johnstone out and maybe Annakin in for Kirmond

One game in and already talking about chopping and changing.
How you going to get continuity?
Give the same team a chance to redeem themselves on Sunday and if they are still not performing after about 4 games, then make some changes.
We have a squad that should make the starting 17 realise they have to perform, or be ousted.

Tom johnstone needs dropping for his own good.id rather see bishop on wing but that wont happen so id put billy on wing and have walton in centre.would also like yates to play

I would have thought that the main changes to be made are that players don't drop the ball; I couldn't get to the game, but having watched the highlights on the SL show, we seem to have been undone by a couple of errors - without those, it was a close affair.

My reference to Annakin in place of Kirmond was based purely on Danny's injury when he had to come off against Widnes.
My thoughts on Tom Johnstone stemmed from the Cas friendly where Solomona made him look tactically naive in his positioning when defending, as I said it would not surprise me if Smith did not let him sit this particular one out.

I reckon it will be the same team apart from possibly kirmond missing out, BS sounded to me to think he probably should not have played on sunday.

Maybe Simon to replace kirmond if he is fit.

OMG the pure irony

Are you for real!

The amount of games we have won at Cas in recent years is astonishing - you are actually a Trinity fan? You certainly talk some tosh.

For what - one pass that was actually on - unbelievable.

Correct but this board has defended to new levels of idiocy in my humble opinion so good luck with that one.

Don't think we need too many changes to be honest. Maybe drop fetch Walton in who would add a bit of aggression to us.

The talk of dropping Johnstone is pure ridiculous. The pass was on to BJB and if BJB took the ball rather than looking to see who was coming at him, he would've been down the pitch.

No because of his overall peformences in pre season including his oppisate winger scoring 4.hes only a kid and needs to be looked after confidence wise.

You need to get of your high horse and stop thinking only your views matter

You've only got yourself to blame if he calls you a hypocrite

Johnson only a kid ? isn`t he 20 / 21. His defence is dire , he is same age as Manfredi , Burgess. For me we should be looking to loan him out to a lower division side with a coach who can work with him as we cannot afford his mistakes.. The concern is that the obvious flaws in his game were evident when he was in our age group teams, so either the coaches were not good enough to improve him to correct standard or he does not have the ability. The obvious natural speed and ability he has in attack and his work ethic must mean we should work with him. As I say send him out to John Kear or another top coach for the season and see what we get back.

I guess it depends on what you count as "recent". If you look at the last 5 years including league and cup, then I have it 10-6 in our favour. But then I guess if you define that as astonishing then again fair enough. I guess you could go beyond 5 years, however, since Powell took over 6-2 Cas I think.

Didn’t read it properly did you - I said at Cas, which I believe is where we are playing you - I also believe those games are classed as derbies.

If I’d have meant Home, Away and Millennium Tragic I’d have said so.

By my reckoning out of the last 9 at Wheldon Road it's 7-2 to us. It's almost like a home game, with the same probably true for Cas at Belle Vue.

Really hoping that Hampshire does not play against us, bad enough worrying about Gale, Roberts and Dorn creating opportunities for their wingers but adding Hampshire in to mix would give any defence sleepless nights. Think most Cas plays involve Gale, not sure how to go about it but would like to think that we can give him less time than we gave Brown.

Fair enough shag. You ain't wrong about millennium tragic either

It's true but that was you not that long ago

Potentially one of the most ridiculous things I've ever read. Everyone was calling for him to get the #2 shirt and was buzzing with hype when he signed a new deal & now because hes dropped a bit of confidence and made a few errors in pre season (As I'm yet to find one in the Widnes game) you want rid on loan? - To put who on the wing exactly?



Tom Johnstone is 20 who's been in SL since half way through last year.
Joe Burgess is 21, who's been in SL since 2013.
Dom Manfredi is 22 who's been in SL since 2013
And you can't really compare someone who comes through the Wakefield structure to the structure that Wigan have.
TJ will develop as the season goes and and the confidence builds. Like he did last year.

I seem to remember this time last year, at the jungle?? What was the score?