Despite the rustiness in attack thought it was a decent game especially with the efforts in defence from both teams. Pleased for KC in sticking with his young guns in Fages and Richardson as they didn't do much wrong so that's the first experienced game under there belt.
Also thought Lee did OK in the first half did a solid stint allowing Roby to run at a tired defence in the second half. Makinson,s tackle one of the highlights of the game. First match of the season and the 2 points we will take very despite not being a high quality game.

I,m assuming this is your first season watching rugby league, we need to tell you that trying to be mystic meg is not a good idea based on the first game of the season. Widnes and Salford fans will tell you that from 2016.

He's a Cas supporter. Likes to wind up other supporters on thier forums.

Chuffed with that performance. The defensive attitude was outstanding from 1-17 and in attack we always looked for a potential offload.
Lee and Roby worked together brilliantly and as such, Roby looked more of a running threat as a result.
Richardson & Fages showed a lot of intelligent game management for their age.

I'm really excited for this season.

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Amazed at some opinions on here and would be suprised if they were the same if you had lost by 2 points . A really poor game between 2 average sides with very little skill on show . The best i reckon the two sides will do is to finish 5th and 6th in either order .

Average is now the norm for Superleague.

I don't agree. I've had the problem over previous seasons where I've just our squad against what we used to have in previous years. I've compared our squad to Cas in the past and found us wanting, but we don't end up finishing outside the top 4 do we. We're stronger than last year, even with Richardson at 7 and we finished in the top 4. We're stronger than last year and were only 3 points behind the leaders Warrington, 2 behind Wigan and level with Hull. I know Cas have also improved, but improved enough to make up the 9 points on Saints? Possible I suppose but far from the guarantee you make it out to be.

It wasn't a really poor game either, I'd contest that. Bar the opening 20 where there was a lot of dropped ball, it was a very, very similar game to a Grand Final, tight with defenses on top. A lot of people are making a direct link between the low score and low amount of breaks and low skill and a lack of creativity. That wasn't the case. The move Saints put on with the pass to Richardson and the reverse inside ball to a flying Makinson was superb, the move Leeds put on down the right for both the Makinson wonder tackle and the forward pass disallowed try were both great moves, as were some of the moves where Leeds were bring it out from their own line. Leeds put a lot into the off the cuff attempts at our line late on as well, it's just that no one clocked off in defense at all.

Thought your defence was excellent and for a first game v Leeds, plus lots of pressure, I'd be happy with that.

Thought you moved the ball better in the 2nd half with a few good moves which I didn't see last season. Also
Thought Richardson did well at sc and obviously Fages was excellent.

Thought your new additions were very encouraging as well.

I backed Leeds to win last night, in part due to the general comments on Redvee, but I think
there's a lot to take out that game for you guys. I think you'll be there and there abouts.

Regarding the new boys. I thought Douglas was pretty poor tbh. He looked pretty shot to me and I wonder if all those consecutive games he has done in the NRL have caught up with him. He looked very unfit and slow. KC was spot on taking him off nesr the end as he was the weak link. I'm not writing him off as he looked good when seen him for titans and Scotland.

Ryan Morgan looks to have some real class about him. Looked a threat with the limited ball he had.i think he's going to be very good providing we get him the ball.

Tommy Lee was the pick of the new boys for me. He looked up for it and gave us some real aggression. He's also a unit.

Couldn't make my mind up about Douglas, he was going to ground too easily, don't know if it was intentional to get a quick PTB or simply he was ineffective and being dominated in the tackle. Morgan reads the game well and balances the back line, thought he was a bit unlucky with the Moon try he got a face off with little time to rebalance.
Lee was a suprise looked very composed and assertive with a bit of leadership quality, early days yet but KC could prove us wrong on this signing.

For the next game, I would go around again with the same selection, hopefully Fages/Richardson can run a few combinations and gain confidence with each other.

Returning to Douglas, I think he could run at second row when the injury list starts, Walker could be the better option of 4th prop just to introduce an offloading game which was a bit lacking last night.

Not a chance you can put Douglas second row, he could never defend on the edge, he's just to slow and also very slow in attack. He's a out and out down the middle prop.

Saw him walking down City road near Victoria Park last week thought he would have been a bigger unit just looks tall and lanky.

6ft 3in and over 17 and half stone.

I just don't think he's mobile enough to play second row.