I thought you didn't let us play in the first half. Tight finish but you played the conditions better. No ref complaints from me, Radford saying it was fair enough. Till we meet again

Here here. Don't tell Wigan that though. Another excuse for them to say how poor this year's competition is.

We get it, you went to the game

Cas were the better team for 60 minutes but that was more down to what we did wrong tham what they did right. They defended really well at times and played with good intensity, but they offered very little attacking threat. We didnt necessarily deserve to win, but there are a few moral victories to take from that.

You miss the first 10-15 mins

I don't agree, thought it was well matched for 60 mins, both teams defending strongly but not clicking in attack, the only difference was the 2/3 mistakes by us that led to their try's.

Fairly even. We maybe edged it, but Cas were getting stuck in too early on.

The teams were very well matched I agree, in fact we probably created a little bit more than they did, but we made those errors and Cas didnt, so almost by definition they were the better team. But as I said earlier on, theres nothing to be concerned about if we play them again in the semis. We've got their number imo.

Thought we was battering them to be honest , that snyed pass that gave them a try really gave them a lift and some momentum , think we'd of scored next if that didnt happen and cas would of been struggling, but I guess thats just the way it goes , fairplay to cas , punished our mistakes impressively

I am not worried about meeting Cas again. Good side for sure but we know we can beat them. Great effort tonight and we gifted it them really and had a couple of dodgy ones from the officials (Swings and roundabouts this so no complaints here)

3rd time he'd done it and only got warned AFTER the try was awarded. The ref killed you tonight.

Cas fan in peace .
Tonights game showed the best two teams in the league .
Thought the ref had an indifferent game for both teams , and a draw was probably a fair result. You lot are a credit to your team , ive never talked to a bad fan in 26 years , knowledgable , genuine people who love rugby league and travel in numbers. I hope you win the CC and hopefully see you in October .

Bless....too many lagers !

Feel disappointed but not too down hearted.

3 errors cost us tonight. Cas barely threatened our line. Bring in ellis, green n Carlos going forward, no fears playing them.in the play offs if both teams meet up even with their injured players coming back

I agree, we were out on our feet with 10/15 mins to go.
Had a lot of defending to do 2nd half due to us making sloppy mistakes and Kendal constantly penalising us.
Game of two halfs.
Hopefully next time we meet, we'll have cook and moors back, also minikin.
All in all a fair result......until next time.

Like I said on another post, we also have moors and cook in the forwards to come back. Also minikin as well.

Still not worried

At the moment, us two look like the grand finalists (I don't think too many would disagree with that) Wigan would be the only other team who I think could compete, but they have a mountain to climb.

We put two of their tries on plate for them, and one moment from Hardaker in broken field, but besides that, defensively, we looked comfortable against the best attacking side in the competition.

I got no problem with our disallowed try, it went upstairs as no try, and the vid ref was never gonna over-rule, because it was a tight call.

I've enjoyed all three battles we've had with them so far, two well matched teams.

Hopefully next time we have Gareth Ellis, Carlos Tuimavave, Steve Michaels and Chris Green back also. Personally I think you'll win the GF as the distraction of the cup will be huge again for us but would love it if we both made Old Trafford. Would be refreshing for the game IMO.

The annoying thing was that Sneyd got penalised for it later in the game. I believe that was the penalty that Gale kicked the 2.

Can't complain really. Some big wins recently. 3 big mistakes cost us the game. Defence was epic for both teams at times. Not too long ago if we had gone down to 20-4, we'd have given up and Cas would have got 40. The team spirit is excellent again this year.

A really disappointing defeat for me. To score 4 tries to 3 when we gifted them 2 of those and the other came from a really poor last tackle play and to come away with nothing is pretty galling. I thought the defence was excellent. We dealt with their fancy shift plays with ease and I don't remember them creating one real try scoring opportunity all night.

Overall I thought the weather probably did for us more than cas or the ref (who I thought made some poor decisions on both sides). The wet conditions led to us being too conservative with the ball early on which made it easy for cas to defend, plus it made it really hard for the back 3 to really get us on the front foot. Add in the dropped ball for talanoa and I reckon we'd win comfotably in the dry.

Plenty made beforehand about cas needing to beat us to give them belief but I'm not sure that being outscored 4 tries to 3 on their own patch, where 2 of those tries were from basic errors by us, really does that for them. i think we showed yet again we have the beating of them and a bit of composure and ball control in that first half would have seen a comfortable win for us.

Disappointing but encouraging for us.

I'm more worried about leeds than cas TBH

Penalty count was 7 - 6 in your favour.

I agree, a game of 2 halfs. One where we gifted you 20 points and were too conservative with teh ball, and one where the ref gifted you the 2 to win it and we opened your defence 3 times

ditto my friend on balance i think the result was right but the ref was poor

I can't see Ellis back in, and I think the club know it. He's a great asset off the pitch, but another injury could have long term implications, we missed Tuimavave and Michaels more than Ellis last night, defence wasnt a huge problem.