That was the worst game of RL I've ever seen.

We're capable of playing some classy stuff and have had an expansive game plan in each of our friendlies. Today we allowed ourselves to get dragged into a wrestling match and as a result, struggled to take control of the game. Harlequins play a crap brand of RL, but I guess if it works for them occasionally, why change it?

I have to mention Stuart Jones though - his work rate is unbelievable, he was my man of the match today.

If we play a crap brand of RL that only works occasionally, what were you playing last season (and today)?

Enjoyed my trip to Castleford as usual and didn't have any trouble at all apart from the junior massive on the terrace giving it the big one

Tough game for both sides, I think we shaded it though, looking forward to the return.

WTF? Harlequins played to the conditions yesterday and IF Castleford had taken the chances that were on offer, you would have won. But Cas didn't take their chances, so Harlequins won, simple as that.
As for us playing a crap brand of RL...I would take the 2 points over style any day

I think the conditions dictated the way the game was played, it was extremely boggy and no-one could really get any momentum. thought both defences were excellent and in those conditions thats what you need.

Truth - we had dorn and you didnt, we had a kicker who kicked one from the touchlie, you had one who missed two - simple.

Referee was a total disgrace and was the onmly person who deserved to be boo'd by all the fans!

Afternoon pyeman looks like my tenner's safe

Totally agree. I believe Harlequins, or rather London Broncos as they were then used to make wholesale changes to their team every season and invariably started slowly as a result.

Anyone looking at statistics over the last 10 games of last season will see we were starting to look a reasonable side. Had we retained Dorn & Catic and only added around 5 or 6 new signings we could have integrated them reasonably quickly started a lot quicker. As it is, it may be 10 games in before the side comes together.

You have to bear in mind that our recruitment ahead of this season has been done with a three-year spell in Super League in mind, where as last year we could only really recruit for that season. We've still retained the nucleus of last season's squad, which is extremely important in terms of continuity. The position that we're in now however should provide us with stronger continuity going into 2010 and 2011 and reduced need to make wholesale changes to the squad between seasons. I still get the feeling that many Cas fans are thinking very short-term, when what we need to be doing is thinking about the next three seasons as a long term commitment.

Getting engaged...sorry