Hopefully show up against cas and set a platform. Need to be strong at home

Yes we do. It seems to be about attitude to me. We have the quality players we know that .
The difference between us and Cas' is that they totally believe in their own ability and I really don't think we do yet.

Exactly

Any injuries or are you looking close to full strength.
Webster and Massey went down on Friday.
Watts still unavailable
Eden won't play
Shenton and Wardle are iffy for Thursday.
McShane on report but should get cleared.

McShane should be cleared though. Clear accident.

It was clearly anything but an accident, if it was an accident why in the right mind would he transfer all of his weight on to his toes which were placed on his leg? Just because he acted all innocent and held his hand up straight away it doesnt mean anything, grub move.

Fifita failed at late fitness test this week, but heard nothing since so should be cleared to play hopefully as looks like we missed him at Warrington.

Looks like we have the underdog tag back this week, which suits us to the ground.

Thought Watts was available this week?

Haha give over. No way in a million years he meant to do it.

I also thought Watts was available this week. He said it himself last Tuesday but in the post match Interview Powell said he will be available Easter Monday.

Looking at the fixtures i see why now actually, banned on 2nd March against Wire for 3 matches - Served one whilst still officially a Hull player, signed for Cas on 14th and has served one match since then so still one game to serve.. I guess thats with the postponed game?

I can't say for sure McShane meant it but he knew what he'd done well before he picked his foot up.
I like him as a player but I don't really like his "afters" style.

As i say, he quite obviously transfers all of his weight onto the front of his foot which he placed on the players leg.

Sadly McShane does have that in him.

It's funny. The only time McShane showed some mongrel here was im the queue for the burger van.

Sky said Watts wouldn't be playing as the paperwork wouldn't be completed.

He wont be playing because he`s only served 2 games of a 3 match ban.

we do not have the quality of players cas do not by a like shot- but a TEAM can beat anyone on the day.

I fear for us if we don't win any games this easter and on performances lately I don't think we are going to

sorry but that's rubbish!
We have as much quality as Cas' all we need is belief. Don't forget we were very unlucky to lose our last home match to them.

The next 4 games are probably gonna define our season as we may well lose them all. The last 2 losses indicate though that we are competitive, but we need to cut out the errors & play for the 80. I've not seen the Cas squad for Thursday yet but a few of their guys look busted the other night & this is an opportunity to put one over them & we have a big enough squad to rotate on Monday.

Dunno about you lot but Cas's belief wavers if things don't go their way. Same as most teams. But stand off them and let them play and they're the most dangerous side in SL. Play it right and they're beatable.

Can't say I'm a big fan of Brett Delaney but his pat on Luke Gale's head and keep your hair on mate was quite funny.

I don`t think it was funny at all, i hate to see gloating the opposition like that, it`s unsportsman like and has only crept into our sport over the last few years along with been able to constantly talk back to the referee.

Getting back on topic, our next few games will indicate whether we are indeed genuine top 4 contenders or, a mid table side, capable of taking the odd "big" scalp.
We certainly haven't clicked yet, offensively and perhaps more worryingly, there was some very tired/lazy defence against an average Warrington side, which both Hull and Cas will take full advantage of.
Big Dave was a huge miss against Wire but we will need a couple of results from our next 4 games if we want to be in the mix at the end of the season.
It doesnt get any more testing than:

Cas (H)
Hull FC (A)
Leeds (H)
Saints (A)

We'll either be buzzing or wanting Chester to have us ready for a cup run.

One at a time, starting with Cas and lets see if we can get back to winning ways .

I couldn't get to the game - but the radio commentary was frustrating to listen to; sounds like we bombed a few, got pinged to death by Mr Child, and were guilty of some pat-a-cake defending at times - which is not how we've started the season.

All that said - still 3rd in the table - albeit with a very tough Easter programme. Things could look very different on the other side - it gets real right about now in terms of how good we actually are.

Does not get much tougher than that does it? We need to bring our A game with us for all of these games to get anything out of them.

Cas are looking good, really hoping we can get the result on Thursday and i think this would really put a marker down for us. We were okay and just did enough in the first 4 games, we were well in it at Wigan and could of gone either way right up until the last 20, sounds like this was the case against wire as well.

We really need to nail a full 80 minute performance this week and cannot be carrying any passengers in the team.

Different scenarios though I too am no fan of either. However, the risk of on-field retribution for the former is now fairly low so this and other unsporting behaviour is becoming more entrenched.
As for back chat, the refs are constantly shouting instructions at the players on how to do their jobs, is it really so surprising that the players should reciprocate?