Tigers squad here for Thursday's top of the table clash with local rivals Leeds Rhinos :-

Dixon
Shenton
Webster
Carney
Dorn
Sneyd
Lynch
Milner
Huby
Millington
Hauraki
Massey
Clark
Holmes
Mariano
Wheeldon
Ellis
Finn
Jewitt

Should be a good game this and Tigers will have to improve defensively than in recent performances to come away with anything from Headingley.

Not easy at all with the backs the Rhinos have.

1 Zak Hardaker
3 Kallum Watkins
4 Joel Moon
5 Ryan Hall
6 Danny McGuire
7 Rob Burrow
8 Kylie Leuluai
9 Paul Aiton
10 Jamie Peacock
11 Jamie Jones-Buchanan
12 Carl Ablett
13 Kevin Sinfield (c)
15 Brett Delaney
16 Ryan Bailey
17 Ian Kirke
19 Mitch Achurch
20 Tom Briscoe
21 Liam Sutcliffe
28 Josh Walters

sods law we get leeds at their strongest for weeks but i'm glad. half the league would probably win at headingley facing the team they fielded at wakey but we're at the stage of the season when we need to get battle hardened and that likely leeds 17 will test us big time.

With a 19 man squad announced that contains players numbered 1-13 for the Whinos and 2-13 for Cas, this game is all set up for an almighty clash.

Considering how well Cas were prepared and then played against the pies in the CC game, and given that was a few weeks ago now and the emotional well will have had a good chance to fill up again (unlike for instance against the Stains) this is Castleford's next "big" game - win this one and you're all set to have a good solid end to the season, lose it and the doubts may start to creep in that they can't yet beat the best sides in the league. Good luck!

I think you'll win this

I was surprised it didn't go to extra time, seeing as this fixture is 'our cup final'...