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I'd just like to ask, is a 16 point defeat an annahiliation? The guy who wrote the match report on this forum seems to think so.

It wasn't an annihilation by any means. However, as a contest for the two points the game was over well before halftime. Credit to your guys who stuck in and gave a decent account of themselves. I thought the ref spoiled the flow of the game second half and he believed we paid to see him. No wonder he hardly gets a televised game. Good luck for the rest of the season.

Thanks matey. Wasn't able to get over today but from here in Ponte the first 13 minutes were pretty disasterous.

Hope we dont do similar next Sunday.

16 points down in 13 minutes. thats an anihilation. but 67 minutes were contested. I thought we put up a good account for ourselves to say we have come up against the superleague favourites. Only gunna get harder over the next 4 or 5 weeks though as we cant keep that up against arguably all top 8 teams. maybe top 6.

Not as bad as us mate, on our forun they are ready for shooting them selves

last 67 minutes finished 24 all. too right we were no match for them. just a poor start thats all.

Annihilation...? WTF were you watching?

It reads as though whoever wrote that article wasn't at the game. We've all done it, read up other reports and then mixed up a summary with liberal amount of BS. Sure, Cas started cold but at no point were we 'annihilated'. The use of that word suggests no heart, no determination and no resilience.

I guess RLFans' robot reporter is no less susceptible to fawning on the favourites as any of the real world scribes.

2 of their tries in first half should not have been given for starters so the final score should have been 28.24
Obviously the germ i mean reporter who wrote the article is a Warrington fan. The ref was a joke no mention of that though what a biased report shame on u rl forum.

What about the 2 trys we had disallowed for forward passes which were never forward also the ref did everything possible to let cas back in the game in the second half

could it not be that cas played better in the second half than buy a trophy did??

The reality is that the game was won inside 20 minutes and the intensity tailed off.

The game would never have finished 28-24 in a million years.

The try from the Grix break came from a blatant elbow in the run up which made a defender fall off Grix.
The try from the kick into the corner Evans was offside from the fumble.

Then there were these 2:
#15 with one of the worst tackling attempts I've ever seen.
Carney MILES out of position giving the winger a walk in.