Not at all, he was taken out in the air twice which led to two Cas tries, unfortunately the ref was the only person that didn't spot this.

The linesmen aswell.

Couple of quick notes on the match from my pov.

The first 20 minutes of the second half were absolutely atrocious. The defending was schoolboy crap, especially from a certain centre who I'm sick of talking about with regards to poor defence. He needs dropping.

Deacon was once again rubbish. I really don't know what's happened to him. His defence used to be very good for someone of his size and now he's missing tackles everywhere.

Saying that, it wasn't just those two that were poor in defence, they just stood out a little more.

If it hadn't been for Halley, we'd have let in at least another 2, maybe 3 tries. He also seems to be one of the only players that can play for 80 minutes without blowing out of his a*se.

In attack, we sometimes look ok, but then other times are so predictable it's amazing. That pass to Deacon from dummy half, then to Jeffries, then cut out the dummy runner to give to Halley on the overlap. How many times are we going to try that in one game? Even good moves are easy to defend against if you do them every other bloody set!


As far as tries that shouldn't have been, there was only the one that I couldn't believe wasn't disallowed, when the Cas player just plowed into Semi in the air, with no attempt to get the ball, allowing Shenton to easily catch it and score. (the one in the second half). I thought the others were fine.

There's no sense in blaming officials though, it was our shocking defending that lost us that game.

The really depressing thing is, the last two games we lost, we still looked a decent side. You could come away from the game disappointed we lost, but with some pride that the team had played ok and didn't deserve to lose by as many as they did.

This week, they deserved to lose by a damned site more than 2.

Terry Matterson is not the only person who was rlbemusedrl this afternoon...

You're made of stern stuff, respect

To fair today was down to 2 teams who do not have got a clue how to finish a team off we could have played 40 more minutes and the score would be 80 points to 78 either way just glad we won just about kept of season alive.The person who said Chase is nothing special must be on drugs he is only the same age as Shenton and sam burges and he is already twice as good as them if he was English he would walk young player of the season award but everybody klnows it will be a Wigan lad.

Chase is 23, Burgess is 20.

HTH.



P.S. 23 is too old for Young Player Of The Year

I think you'll find Chase is 3 years older than Burgess and how can you really compare him to a prop/back rower? I agree Chase is looking good, but he has also had some pis$ poor performances for you at the start of the season what a lot of your lot were complaining about. At 23 I doubt he can be called "young player of the year" anyway.

maybe not that young i thought he was a little younger but still good player.

Poor calls by ref cost us two possibly three tries, but in all honesty, any team that defends like we do doesn't deserve to win. Shocking. Sykes is a revolving door, the rest were not far behind.

Score 38 points and lose? Castleford's defence is not far behind ours obviously.