Of the 500/600 Cas fans who made the trip down to london, maybe half of those watched the Curtain raiser.

Thanks for those that did come to support the game.

IMO a better game than the Main feature :/

To attach a tag of 'Northern Bias' to complaining about traffic and beer prices in London is to completely ignore the views of every work colleague I've ever spoken to. Yes, I'm from Castleford, but I live in High Wycombe and work in Croydon alongside an office full of southerners who, like me, would be only too happy to moan about a) traffic and b) the price of beer.

On Friday I came off the M40, down to Brentford and across Kew Bridge. I can assure you, the North and South Circulars were utter sh*te. Hardly surprising though, when the local Super League team decided to put on a fixture at such a time as to leave fans wading through the Friday evening rush to try and get there.

Please, reel your neck in and don't be so quick to jump on the 'all you northern mungos hate us' bandwagon. The OP wasn't having a pop at Quins for the hell of it. Rather, he seemed to me to be pointing out some pretty relevant facts about what might be adversely affecting attendances at (location and kick off times aside) what is a very welcoming Twickenham Stoop.

May I suggest that you read the latest issue of RLW in the ever excellent "Mythbusters" Column, a rather fine article by Michael O'Hare entitled "LONDON: The Impossible Dream?" seeking to explode the flat earth society's much popular myth that RL has failed in London.

It will explain why RL needs a London presence and how the RFL in particular and the game in general should approach the expansion of the game in the CAPITAL CITY. and the overall benefit's the game could gain.

But like News International why should you let the truth get in the way of a good tale?



It was an okay game of grassroots RL nothing more, nothing less with the best team winning. And notwithstanding that the Cas full back who IMHO was your best player seemed intent on provoking a fight with anyone in a black shirt at every opportunity and your no 16 appeared to want to forearm smash the opposition in every tackle he made.

The problem is the people accusing us of "Northern Bias" just can't see their own prejudice due to the big chip on their shoulders.

I wouldn't mind, but you can even get decent chips down south

Yeah i would agree with that mate when you take in to account 3 of the teams you have played have suffered multiple sending offs in all 3 games cas in the early parts have had the penalty count heavily in there favour the were really lucky against London and now the hard part of castelfords season is about to begin mattison had the easy rides now lets see how he goes in the hard part of the season.

Sending offs? Do you mean sin-bins? The only person sent off against us was Sean Long.

When you take into account we lost to Hull KR at home, Harlequins Away, Hull away, we've improved on three of our results from last season.

Nice to see a reasoned debate with someone who clearly knows the difference between red and yellow cards.

Poor quality trolling.

Or Yorkshire puddings! Not that we found anyway.

No chips pudding and gravy