Winning trophies means money that can be added to each players salary without it being part of the cap. When you add up the costs of full support for a degree and other educational options open to players plus benefits that can be excluded out of the SC it can add up to a lot. I'm also sure that the Hetherington's are astute in their ability to make any given player's salary stretch just that little bit further with some cunning juggling of the accounts and advice on how to pay as little tax as is possible.

Thought watts was a bit better tonight.

Fancy talking about Watts on a Rhinos wages thread

He certainly seemed to play with more confidence and not glaring at the ref. Wasn't Feka down to play instead?

Still gave away a stupid penalty lifting the tackled players leg and Wakey scored straight after

Thought Watts was very good last night,ran hard,made very good metres and tackled well.

Not sure how it came across on the radio but their try was a failure in basic defence by one of our youngsters. We gave away loads of penalties particularly in the second half. I suppose one positive was at least that we defended the rest of them.

He cert looked like his old self. But we still look laboured IMO. Got to lift it for next week and I think.we will

Radford has an OK record in getting teams up for the derby. I think Rovers will win, mind.

God forbid!!!

I think we'll lose the next 3

Hull will win the derby well, but then lose the next few after that.
Pressure will increase on Radford again, just in time to pagger the Dobbins again and get a new deal

win 2 out of 3

OK at best.

In league games, Radford's record is Played 6, Won 3, Lost 3.

We won the last two Derbies last season at Magic and NCP, however I'd say our Good Friday performance at home to Rovers last April was as bad as any game under Radford's tenure and made the last weeks Widnes match look like a good effort.

No coach has ever dominated the Derby in their career, not Bunting, not Millward etc. I always felt Justin Morgan got closest to getting his team up for the Derby, but don't know his actual record against us?

I think we'll win on Friday, but this is likely to be due to Rovers current injuries and smaller squad than Radford's motivational team talk.

Want to reconsider?

Big ask for them to repeat this display against us. Still think we will beat them JUST

They've tried their hardest to lose it.

Well at least we don't have to concern ourselves that their first win would be against us. Just their second one...

Not sure that was fully down to Watts. I thought Danny Houghton wrestled the player down as Watts brought the legs up, appeared a lot worse than it was, also Childs signalled that Watts lowered the player when he realised, if that makes sense?

not even close to batemans challenge the other week, seemed a soft penalty to give by childs, seen worse let go

To be fair it probably sounded bad on the radio.

On the radio it came across as Watts had just come on & the first thing he did was lift the players legs in the tackle & gave away the penalty.

It did, but players should know how pedantic referees can be, Child particularly. It's all well and good when some fans say we didn't play the ref but we invariably get pinged when pushing tk the edges as do those outside the 'top four'.
Logan getting it wrong in defence (again) is a tad worrying and of course those inside have responsibility but his defensive decision making needs to improve (as do others frankly).

Wonder why Liam Watts house is for sale in Castleford

He wants to move? Doubt there's anything rugby-related to it as he's advertising it on Twitter.

"Up The Cream" are busy preparing another rumour article as we speak.