Was awful, total lack of composure, too many players wrong positions wrong options

they panicked! as soon as horney got the ball and break from the re-start the ball should have been played out wide to briscoes wing imo

Asked no questions chance to win the game and 1 man rugby on there line

Could not agree more.

When that ball went into a Hull hand from the kick off i though we had thrown away the win. I think most cas fans thought **** not again

I thought the logical thing to do would have been to either send it out wide while our defence was still re alligning. Our charge to the posts and a high ball into the corner.

There was a collective sigh from about 1500 cas fans when ,for only your players know why, you ran it in on the last tackle.

Any how releaved you did. See you in Edinburgh for round two.

Must admit I was expecting a drop goal to salvage a point,instead we got nowt.

Lesson learned i think don,t do it in the grand final

They panicked big style . Last night was frustrating for a number of reasons.
We showed some of our 2008 style . One man Rugby down the middle. Cas were given too much room . Hailbert was giving a generous 10metres and we still stood off Cas and gave them room to throw the ball around.
Have we been found it ? Next week will tell us .
The frustrating thing last night was we beat ourselves . 2 tries conceded from soft mistakes . Usually dependable Mr Tickle missing kicks. Berro showing he is human on the last play of the game!

Last night i thought our kicking game full stop was non existant and when we did manage to get boot to ball the chase was not there to apply any pressure.

Cas are the first team this season to frustrate us and out muscle us and we panicked.Lets just hope its a minor blip as i am sure it is and now we can on another run of back to back wins.

I don't just think it was the last set, it was the last 10 minutes of the game.


Cas moved up a gear - we dropped down one.

They hardly put a foot wrong, great territorial play, fantastic passing sets, most importantly - no handling mistakes.

When we did get the ball, we were still in our half, and coughing up possession too easily.

As for the last set, in my opinion, no one in the Hull side was marshalling the troops. We simply played one-out panic rugby.

It was a pretty even game up to the 70minute mark but Cas deserved the win for that last 10 minutes.

Minor blip ... you are a good side ...... last night it could of gone either way (which is the most pleasing for us Cas fans as we are usually your whipping boys

).... and if not for the poor conversion s from the normally excellent Tickle you would of won......

onwards and upwards ..... and we will see you in Scotland for round two.....

A dissapointing result last night, but I have got dissagree with your point in bold. We scored two tries from kicks, and even though it was not a brilliant kicking performance, it was still far better than what we have been used to for the past 5-6 years.

In reply to the OP I thought Horne Thorman and Berrigan were poor in the last set. It was their collective responsibility to ensure we did the right things and none of them did.

One of these been from an absolute howler in the Cas defence which 9/10 times would not happen.so we wil have to agree to disagree.

If Tommy Lee was still on we'd have gone to our right and exploited the 5 on 2 overlap we had!!

tbh I think Thorman was screaming for the ball for a D/G right before berrigan kicked/threw it about 30 foot up in the air.

Yeah, wtf was that about????

Was all he could do when his nose was buried into the ground!

One it got to play 3 we should have been thinking DG, our dumbness returned it would seem.

For me its all about attitude, I mentioned it during the week. The moment we went into a game had stopped doing the things we had been doing well then we would get beat. Arrogance, complacency, call it what you like but the attitude was not the same as in recent weeks and maybe 5 in a row wnet to the players heads.

We should have been looking right and seen the 5 on 2 we had. Agree about our dumbness though, first time this season, hope its the last. Didnt help that Berrigan and Thorman were shattered and Horne had just taken 2 smashes on his nose!

It seems the trait hith Hull, I dont know why they have that mentality that 5 wins on the trot is good enough. Obviosuly its a really good start, but the Saints and Leeds teams recently dont let it go to their heads, the job isnt done until they win a trophy and its sometimes a mentality I feel we lack, at the moment