I thought spear tackles were an automatic red. Even if that isn't the case he should have been sent off for that one, it was done with intent and could have caused serious injury. As for the game it was an excellent display 1st half followed by a poor 2nd half. Time to put some of the reserves in at Rochdale and rest Scott until he gets himself fit. He's been great for us but he could hardly walk after sixty minutes. Still overall a promising display, let's hope we continue to improve. Up The Fax!

Have to agree Muzza looks out of shape but he has a fantastic rugby brain and is a leader. Just think he needs a HB to compliment him which we don't currently have at the moment. We are experimenting with JWH who played Centre for us last season and did well. Put JWH back at Centre and bring Adam Brook in to play scrum half. You take away a extra forward playing Muzza at LF and not sure he would have same influence.

No team is perfect but If we could just stop making the amount of mistakes and actually complete some full attacking sets without just turning the ball over early in the tackle count it would go a long way towards fixing the problem and we would be a pretty good side.

It's more of a team issue rather than any individual issue such as Muzza's waistline.

Top post I agree.

Got to agree with you, watched your game tonight Murrell never runs he gets the ball stationary and just flips it on, he is like a statue he never attacked the line once or drew a man he can not be the best off half at your club he should be playing pub rugby, he has got to be 3 stone over weight and his kicking was dire, a few times players ran round him like he wasn't there one leaving him embarrassingly on the floor if you want to challenge you will have to find a good young stand off who can do a bit of organization and support the man, and is at least a threat going forward and fit sorry but like would love to see you bk in super league but you have got to get rid of deadwood

He as been poor in the last 3 matches is kicking game is also poor but two many are hanging out of is rolls and think he is are saviour

Muzza isn't just the only problem.

We have to have a threat and each team has to work out where they can pose a threat and play to that.

As stated before we're not going to go full length.
We haven't got the X factor player to come up with the X factor play.

That leaves field position and building pressure when on attack as the main option but we are not doing that.

Sunday as a typical example, when we had knocks on's early in the tackle count.
We chose to kick early in the TC.
We had the ball thrown into the crowd early in the TC.
We had passes thrown to an oppostion player with tackles still in the bag.
We had the ball thrown to the ground and a mad scramble to go back and pick it up looking like we had hardly played together etc etc with mulitple different players involved.

All this takes the pressure off the oppostion and puts it back on yourself.

If I were to ask RM, how are you going to fix it and he replied by dropping Muzza and by putting him on a crash diet I would be concerned he wasn't seeing the bigger picture.

Not the only problem true, another one being 2 players on the field who obviously didn't want to be there judging by their performance and body language and that came from a Cas fan who made the trip.

Which 2 players

Sunday is the perfect opportunity to try out something different. Put Muzza on a enforced diet and play 13 as a pivot not a runner. The pack is good enough to cope and see if a younger half back pairing can work. If it's wobbling he is around to help. RM Is a good coach but needs encouragement to change. I would rather push now before we get to June wondering why we can't score against the better teams. If he need stats then look at how-many trys the old guard have scored in the last 6 months worth of games and how many assists .....there is your answer. Solid defence but lost the cutting edge. As I got older my defence technically got better standing slightly wider but my try rate no matter how hard I tried or what position , went down from about 20 a season to about 2 close range ones! I had lost the "cutting edge" ( no pun on the sponsors! )

In the pre game warm up I thought Green looked somewhere between totally unenthusiastic and outright miserable.
Maybe he doesn’t laugh or smile much and appearance is deceptive because during the game apart from the knock on on first carry I thought he put in a good shift, Douglas and Clare the same.
The problem is by just looking at individual players, (which are involved) it clouds the bigger problem which is the team as a whole that needs to find away to cut out the errors.

Back on the positives theme, they played well on Sunday for most of the game.

They just need to get one game under their belts where they click, get some confidence and belief and it could transform the side.

Best place for him. Really struggle to see what he brings to the team. Can't pass, can't kick, and busts the line once a flood.

I agree that Murrell hasn’t been at his best so far this year, but sometimes the halves can be made to look poor, if you get slow delivery from the play the ball and players who don’t run good lines off them. The opposition also target Murrell; they know that most of our attack and kicks (has to) go through him. Despite that, we score the vast majority of our points on our right, the side Murrell operates on, whereas we create very little on the left even though we have had more speed there, and it usually being the side of the pitch most teams attack more due to players generally being better at passing right to left.

If anybody missed the game on Freeview Channel 424 its repeated at 2am Thursday morning

think that's harsh. went off very early in first game and hasn't had much gametime yet this season.