Am I missing something or is our game the ONLY game on TV on the Sunday?
Just looked at the Sky TV guide and it's the only one listed. They also have 2 premier league matches, Scottish football, tennis, IPL Cricket & RU 7's
WTF

The others are on Sky Sports Mix, which is channel 407.

So they are
For some reason they don't show that channel when you at the online TV guide

Looks like the weather may do us a favour , as I fear on dry sunny track , they would run us ragged with their offloads & quick support play. Their pack is far more mobile than ours , & they have a superb offload game.
However, if it continues to rain & we have a wet, damp day this must affect their game plan far more than ours.
Whatever the conditions, as previously said , if our last tackle options - the main one has to be to put everything in the air to Eden ( he is an accident waiting to happen ) , we will be under too much pressure and our defence will not cope.
We also need to knock the s__t out of Gale - with or without the ball, and for once , our coach needs to use all 17 players, in order to spread the load.
The above is not rocket science, but it will give us a chance.

but we offload more than any other team in the league
and i remember Cas away was on a night with crap weather too

Expecting

Golding
Briscoe Watkins Sutcliffe Hall
McGuire Moon
Galloway Parcell Cuthbertson
Ferres JJB
Ward

Burrow Delaney Singleton Garbutt

Mullally Baldwinson

If Garbutt and Delaney are fit this week I'd expect

Golding
Briscoe - Watkins - Sutcliffe - Hall
McGuire - Moon
Galloway - Parcell - Cuthbertson/Garbutt
Ferres - Ward
JJB

Burrow
Delaney
Singleton
Garbutt/Cuthbertson

Certain JJB will be at loose not Ward who'll be 2nd row. Question will be do you start with Cuthbertson who gives you offloads or Garbutt who gives you the metres (Galloway seems a certain starter when fit). Do you want to fight fire with fire a bit and start with Cuthbertson's offloads from the off or introduce them after 20 mins after Garbutt has hopefully eaten up a lot of metres to get us on the front foot.

You have to go with Cuthbertson who offers both attacking options and high tackle count. Garbutt offers good meters but a lot less in defense so better as impact off the bench. We will need our defenders early as Cas usually start fast and we need the maximum attacking options against their good defense.

On paper that's a 17 as good as any. If Hardaker is fit Cas will have advantage at FB & HB. Leeds have better 3/4s but the inability to set them free. Should be cracking.

Whilst Cuthbertson is the better defender I wouldn't say the gap between them is significant. Cuthbertson is the better option to move the ball around but maybe completing sets and making meters and making sure Cas have to start sets as close to their line as possible is the best way to start the opening quarter instead of throwing it about, offloading and taking risks that see us cough up ball in our own half and gifting them good position.

We won't win the game in the opening 20 mins but we could well lose it if we lose the field position battle and a lot of the opening quarter is played near our end. I also say that Cuthbertson is arguably better at offering impact from the bench than Garbutt as he'll hopefully be able to get more offloads off against tiring defenders.

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My main worry with this fixture is our edge defense - with Sutcliffe probably playing left that means our defense on our left edge is Hall, Burrow, Sutcliffe. Luckily Cas's right edge attack isn't as good as their left edge attack and that's where mainly I think we have the problem in "where to play McGuire"
Their main attack is on their left edge with Shenton and Eden being outside of Gale and Hardaker.
We MUST have a plan to stop Gale, he is their main play-maker, nearly every left edge move starts with him. What about assigning someone permanently on him (Steve Ward maybe).
We have to close him down the second he receives any pass.