A selection of confident comments:

I have a feeling were going to smash them





They remind me of the big Bradford sides of the noughties, great at the crash,bang wallop plan A type rugby but when some sides figure them out they drop to bits.

All I can see is a CAS win,

Think we'll nail them big time on Friday. 42-16

They've got it to have Friday.cant see past us.lads will be pumped.prediction 42-10

This team looks so good with Moors, Cook, Oli Holmes, Larroyer, Hitchcox, Monaghan, Tom Holmes still not in.

All justified given your league position and according to the press have reinvented RL this year.

No excuses, you're very good at home and I expect you to win. Completely shoite at our place of course

It was on the independent Cas forum under the Hull away cup draw thread, I have a screenshot I'll put on here if I can work out how to do it.

They've had their first decent half season in living memory - leave them to it

The best (and, realistically, only) place to do our talking is on the field tomorrow night, like you I can see a Cas win, they need it more than we do, Saints next will be tough as well, Leeds and Huddersfield won't be easy either. We can't afford to go 0 from 4 before the cup game!

I think we'll win 2 of our last 4

Leeds and Hudds?

Ever the optimist, I'll go 3 from 4, Cas, Saints and Hudds. Leeds hoodoo broken in the semi

I think 2 would be a decent return as think we have an eye on the semi and would put is a good position to still finish in the top 4 (possible top 2) at the end of the season.

cas, if we lose not a disaster, i think radford and the team will target saints and leeds as revenge games, similar to salford away after the embarrassing displays at newcastle and good friday

hudds at home can see us resting a few players

But Cas didn't have their best 17 out on the field against us, nor did they perform that well, add in that we snuffed them out and did perform is why the result went our way. When Cas are on it with their best 17 I wouldn't doubt they could compete with Melbourne.

Having confidence in winning is what fans do, especially when you've being red-hot form wise. Deriding opposing fans for being confident in a win is patently just ridiculous, even worse is copying the quotes, how desperately sad!
Being confident/over confident is better than simply writing your team off halfway through the first half though eh Mrs B?

tight game, and I'm going for 28-30 to us, just need to focus on the task and do what we do best.

Come out with the wrong mentality a la Leeds/Salford/St,helens and it could be a different story.
A win keeps the ball rolling nicely, a close loss and simply being beaten by the better team on the night isn't that important in the grand scheme of things at this moment in time.

Where have I derided anything? Dave K I think mentioned the confidence of Cas fans re beating Melbourne on another forum which was queried. Just posting the quote referenced. Calm down love.

Oz teams can defend so can would have no chance

Agreed, the only thing I am hoping is that if we can score first, possibly twice and get a 10-12 point advantage the demons may play in their minds. We are also very good away from home. Thinking a Cas win, but it is not a foregone conclusion (cue another drubbing we are due another!!!!)

Thanks Mrs B, a great post from a Cas fan there.

No worries Dave.



So it looks like we'll be 4th after this weekend, Cas 4/9 with the bookies.

In his defence he did say with their best 17 and they did have one player missing, so...

Oh for god's sake. Not this again.

Sorry, but as it stands:
We are third
Salford are at home to 7th placed Huddersfield
We are away at the team top by 6 with a game in hand who are keen favourites to win.

I'm not sure us finishing the weekend 4th is an entirely outlandish scenario.

I think this thread could be accused of been a little to negative, we are in good form, beaten them twice already, as knocker said, if we turn up with the right attitude, with a real intensity, I don't see why we cant beat them again. 32-16 Hull win

Hi there Cas fan in peace



Just for redress, it is a tiny minority of Cas fans who think this will be anything other than a desperately tough game.
Hull are a top team and will come and give it everything backed up by terrific support.

Hope its a great game and the atmosphere is what it should be.

Too tough to call IMHO.

Mrs B was simply responding to the below statement:



Not sure what she did wrong there tbh.

4th is entirely possible. But every game you play it down as though we don't stand a chance. I just dont get it, is it your way of trying to take pressure off the team or are you just hugely glass half empty?

We're all different I suppose. I rarely make predictions on here, but I'm pretty confident leading up to the vast majority of games, dare I say it I'm pretty confident for tonight, even if it means going against logic. Sometimes that mind set means I come crashing back to Earth with a thud, but that's sport.

Maybe for Mrs B it's a case of mentally preparing for the worst, hope for the best? Or, by playing down our chances and citing the reasons why, if we come out with a win it's unexpected and even sweeter, if we lose then it was expected and so what?