Couldn't agree more, easthull4.

People on here are having a go at our average players, they don't look at Wigan, Leeds, Saints, Wolves and Cas and see a whole load of average players who are well trained and drilled to do the right things. When any of SL's top teams play they have at least 10 average players with maybe 7 top quality players in the 17.

It's why Powell has done so well at Cas.

Too many on here think Rovers can afford a full team of quality stars, it's NEVER going to happen.

I've said before that Powell has got Castleford doing the basics very well. He has done this by constant drills so that they all know their jobs and what is required of them. I'm not convinced that our coaches have approached training in the same way. In respect of recruitment we have in the past recruited from overseas quite well; Vella, Newton, Galea to name a few. Campese was a revelation before injury. Kelly when on song is awesome. However; our recruitment last season was abysmal. The world and his friend could see that we needed forwards. So who made the decision to recruit backs?Whoever it was should be brought to account if they haven't already been.

The worst thing about this season is the quality of posts.

Is that why we've been missing a lot of goal kicks

Yes. I agree. Your posts are way down on quality and frequency Goose and appear to mirror the slump in our team's performances.

Sort yourself out. Beak up, feathers out. You're letting the side down, you Avian gormclops.

Aside from against Saints and Wigan at home last year, I cannot remember any of our current team putting in a stint of unremitting controlled and disciplined defensive and offensive intensity, effort and skill that every Widnes player put in tonight against Wigan.

Judging by that Widnes performance, it shows what can be done, but we have a long way to go to match it. A graphic example of how our fortunes have gone in opposite directions since the end of last season.

At the end I had to turn it off. Just angers me how one team can do so well and us...err..well just the opposite!
I really am chuffed for Widnes, and long may their results continue, they seem to be another Castleford this year, well coached, have a game plan, energy and good defending/attack. And all on a budget just like ours.
Just sickens me.

The thing is you say well coached but for the last 3 or 4 years Betts has been pretty much walking the sacking tight rope. Is it good coaching that just took time or has he just got lucky.