Logan really needs to work closely with Yeaman on his defence, and his reading of the game I think. Yeaman's debut saw him turned inside and out by Newlove, but after that his defence was and still is outstanding - I recall an article with Jamie Lyon when he was over here and he stated that Yeaman was the best defending centre he played against over here as he never got a sniff.

That's a good call. Yeaman gets a lot of criticism on here but defensively he is excellent. Logan seems to have bulked up in the close season but Crooks on the other hand looks the same as when he was here.

Just watched the first half of the Cas v wakey game. Was quite surprised that crooks and Monaghan weren't use more in offense. Cas seemed to favour attacking through the left edge with Gale, Webster and Solomona and Dorn filling in too. Whether that was because Wakey had Lyne and Gibson defending on the right, or whether its where Cas will score most of their tries this year, I'm not sure. Will watch the second half later and see if its swaps over.

Should be a good game. Moors looked a handful.

Where did you watch the match? Or are you just talking about highlights?

In a fortunate position to have access to some of the games through a friend of mine. Not sure whether Cas do a similar thing to fc live?

Nah we don't, why I was asking! Would like to see the match again but don't wanna buy a DVD.

Ah I see, didn't realise you were a Cas fan ha.

Second half wasn't much different. Cas's left edge looked pretty good and I can see them targetting Michaels and Logan. Monaghan made one great break with some nice footwork, but even that came off the back of a quick play the ball from Webster. Couple of kicks towards Cas's right side who forced drop outs. Crooks did nowt! Can't even remember him touching the ball in the second half. Will probs score a hattrick next week though now I've said that

Any word on any injuries from the Cats game?

Hopefully with a free weekend, we'll be all fit and ready to go again next Thursday, all guns blazing.

making the trip up and taking mater, i took her to last seasons cup game against them which was very entertaining. Hoping for same result.

Our defence and concentration needs to go up a notch though or Cas could well do a number on us.

though the 'Brasil' soccer philosophy of just outscoring the opposition works in terms of winning it is bloody nerve-wracking

Is she giving you a hand to bring up the printed edition of your petition just in case we lose or will you be able to manage a single sheet of A4 all on your own?

Fonua's out for a bit. Apart from that not aware of any other injuries. In that context if we're serious about progressing Cas are a team we need to be beating at home, especially with Shenton out. On a related point I see on Twitter that the "word on the street" in Cas is that Shenton's not as badly injured as implied, ie not season-ending. Great news if true but would put Powell in the McDermott bracket.

Is it the mcdermott bracket or the sandercock bracket?

Re Shenton: have you seen anything else other than the picture of Powell is the Barclay's ad? Just wondered if there was anything more to it than some Rovers fan sat in his bedroom on MS Paint.

You really can't help yourself can you, grow the f uck up.

Conceding 10 points in France is hardly concerning and didn't we nil them for the last hour so concentration not an issue either although the last 20 against Salford for whatever reason was not great but apart from that more of the same for me.

Surely that's the aim of the game. If they score more than you, then you've lost.

Of course but when you score then opposition score, you score again then they again and so on whilst entertaining it's also nail biting. I can envisage the Cas game going that way with a score or two in it with very high scoring from both sudes as Cas look on the money attack wise hence why I think we need to up our councentration a notch. I never said it was poor but the next step up against better opposition will enable us to maintain the 100% win record plus the momentum and positivity that's being generated right now.

You've been warned several times about the AUP
Please refrain from the foul and abusive language Bumpy.

This. Getting round the swear filter has been noted and used against posters before.

On the game it has the potential to be a belter and the winning team will be sending a definite message out to the rest of SL. Can't wait!

Hate Thurs matches as I can't make them due to work commitments...as for the match,if we play like we have then we should have no worrys,for me cas are a workman like team,play for each other but have no outstanding players.

This is a game we should win, but we will need to treat them with respect. My main concern is that we start believing our hype and let our intensity drop, but I'd like to think we have too much experience in the team to let that happen.

Our defence hasn't been fantastic, but if we include the derby, we are shipping 16ish points per game. You shouldn't lose too often if you concede 16 every game. Its also worth noting half of those points came at the end of games that were already long dead, which points to us switching off a touch rather than proper defensive frailties.

I believe that 6 of the 10 tries we have let in have been scored by the left winger. Its not a terrible stat, in fact you could put a positive spin on it and talk about how strong our middle is. But if there is a weakness its got to be that right edge, and I hope we are working on tightening it up. Solomona won't need a second invitation.

Its the long cut out pass thats doing the damage to our right edge.It also doesnt help with Pryce usually defending next to Logan as they are both guilty of jumping the line

Inflammatory posts are also against the AUP which you utterly ignored. Wizeb making comments deliberately to do exactly that which were also unrelated to the thread are all okay in your eyes though...

He asked you about your petition. How is it coming along?