Top of the league...I'm getting a nose bleed up here

Typical early season fayre, but unlike other years, we were patchy but got a result.

I have said loads of times on here, if we could convert those hard done by losses, thats the difference between 8th to 12th or 6th to 8th. One swallow and all that, but we did enough. Decent in patches, poor in patches.....

Early season fayre! Happy though, I'd rather win ugly than be galant in defeat.

Most of all I am just glad to have rugby league to watch again!

Joe Arundel £10 at 18/1 first try get in

Thought it was a pretty poor Cas team against a dreadful Wakefield one. The ref was poor for both sides, but i do think if he'd let the game flow you would have run in more. Rangi Chase is top drawer but I don't get how Huby gets a game for you. He looks like a really unfit pub player.

Well he was pretty close to man of the match and ripped you lot to bits up the middle so that doesn't say much about the Wakey team does it.

Like I said, it was a dreaful Wakefield side. It's going to be a long season for us. I can see you finishing above us, Quins and Catalans, but no higher.

so you are judging our season by 1 game which happens to be the first game of the season and not a full team at that as some of our players didn't play, i could do with buying a crystal ball from the same place you did.

It's only my opinion, and I'm only making it based on todays games.

So a pretty poor side that would have scored more had the ref not blown his whistle. So what would an extremely good side done to you? 150-6, like a cricket score?

I thought we looked quite good attacking wise, to be honest. Very dangerous and showed our strength in depth.

I did actually state at one point that Wigan could put 100 past us!

Maybe so but all teams are finding their feet. That was just Round One of a very long, tiring season. Look how many players suffered injuries today? To make a bold statement like 'Cas won't finish any higher than XYZ' is quite laughable given we don't know what may happen in the future.

This was the first game where our first team squad had played an entire 80 mins together without the chopping and changing and altering of tactics like during friendlies. In addition to this, we STILL didn't have our entire first team squad out. And furthermore, we also the likes of Walker, Arundel, Holmes and Milner, young kids that are not seasoned SL players, playing 40/50 minutes and in the case of Arundel and Milner 70 minutes. Not bad, eh?

It's going to be a difficult season - do I believe we can make the eight? Yes. Do I think we will? Who knows. We're going to face some competition and I think some Cas fans are getting overly excited and ambitious tipping us to finish 5th and 6th. I think the scoreline today was a fair reflection on the game. Cas dominant in attack and some issues in defence, perhaps borne out of indiscretions and ill-discipline but certainly deserving of that margin, which should have been bigger had Dixon brought his kicking boots. You also have to factor in the general positivity that has lifted your side in the last 24 hours. Kear will have told them to go out there and not just make up the numbers and to embrace the occasion instead and they look like they did that for you.

In contrast for Wakefield, I thought they put up a resilient performance for the part and showed some class in patches and I think you may surprise a few people, especially if you can get a couple of extra bodies in like stated.

I get what you're saying, but it's every sides first game. I agree that you weren't at full strength and had youngsters in there, but so did every club. I've only based my opinion on what I've seen today, after tomorrows games it may be different again. It wasn't an attempt at trolling, purely my opinion. And based on today, I reckon we'll finish bottom with or without a points deduction.

I know mate - I'm not lambasting you for that. I just feel you're jumping the gun by writing any side off and judging by your post quoted, that's including your own team!

So if it's not trolling, is it an attempt to make yourself look silly and the side you support look like they don't deserve a super league franchise?