28-8 any one know the team numbers for today

Finished 28-14.

I'm a Cas fan and from what I understand we had no: Ferres, Chase, Orr, Huby, Millington, Emmitt, Dixon, Walker, Youngquest, Jackson or Owen.

Don't know about your side but imagine it was much of the same.

Sykes, Ainscough, Platt, Walker, Crookes, Briggs, Jeffries, Hargreaves, O'Brien, Joseph, Sibbit, Olbison, Langley.

Bateman, McAvoy, Murphy, Donaldson and some other guy.

Manuokafoa injured in warm up.

Pretty low quality game but it was some RL!!

Still early days so the game was always likely to be scrappy, not helped by a lot of whistle from the referee. Joseph looked ok with ball in hand but was exposed in defence a few times, improvement in his fitness might be all that is needed to be a decent squad player for us though.

We were missing Kearney, Purtell, Lulia, Kear, Gale, Scruton, L'Estrange, Kopczak, Elima, Whitehead, Diskin, Manuokafoa, Burgess, Sammut

Or to put it another way, we played without any of our new signings or either of our recognised first choice hookers.

Still, not a bad result for a B team.

Merry Christmas everyone!

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Castleford Tigers Clare, Holmes, Thompson, Griffin, Atkinson, McGoldrick, Johnston, Nash, Milner, Massey, Mitchell, Snitch, Jones.
Subs Snelgrove, Davies, Siddons, Clark, Smith, Holmes, Brierley.

Bradford Bulls Sykes, Ainscough, Platt, Walker, Crookes, Briggs, Jeffries, Hargreaves, O'Brien, Joseph, Sibbit, Olbison, Langley.
Subs Donaldson, Addy, Bateman, Murphy, Hawthorne, McAvoy, Payne.

Castleford Tigers Tries Griffin 2 (17,70), Atkinson 2 (34,5icon_cool.gif, Johnston (46), Nash (55)
Castleford Tigers Goals Griffin 1/5 & Thompson 1/1

Bradford Bulls Tries Crookes (1), Walker (42), Hargreaves (75), Ainscough (7icon_cool.gif
Bradford Bulls Goals Briggs 1/4

Sin Bin Sykes (20) Holding Down In The Tackle

Half Time Castleford 10-4 Bradford
Penalty Count Castleford 14-7 Bradford
Goal Line Drop Outs Forced Castleford 0-1 Bradford
Attendance 3,296 (Away 382)
Referee Jamie Leahy (Leeds)

The Josh and Josh partnership for Castleford today looked extremely dangerous at times, causing the us no end of trouble out on the right hand fringes.

Josh Griffin's first try for Castleford was a real humdinger as he sold Ben Jeffries the biggest Boxing Day gift and went through the gap he created from 25m out.

But it wasn't all doom and gloom (not that we should read anything from the these pre-season games) as Castleford didn't touch the ball in the opening five minutes and once again our apparent lack of focus was to be our undoing after a solid opening start, forcing the knock-on from the kick off and then via some good executed play - moving the ball from right to left to put Crookes over unopposed for the first try after just forty seconds on the clock.

Despite the positive start the young Castleford side (average age 23) easily controlled us in all aspects of the game for a good sixty minute spell.

The main worry that from what I can see this early on ahead of Super League 17 is that we put ourselves under so much unnecessary pressure through stupid penalties and unenforced handling/passing errors.

Also the news that Manase Manuokafoa is looking at a spell of between six and eight weeks out on the sidelines through an ankle injury (the season hasn't even started yet) doesn't make our situation any better.

Oh you legend Mick. Would it be possible if you could do this for all the pre-season games? Massive help mate and thanks for your effort

What were Hargreaves and Ainscough's tries like??

Hargreaves try was better than the "wide to west" effort IMO as it was sheer unscripted support play with six players touching the ball from O'Brien picking up the ball at Dummy half on our own 40m line, before the outside pass to send Hargreaves crashing over on the diagonal from 20m out.

It really was off the cuff Rugby League at it's best and a superb score and as I said in the commentary - "That's worth the £13 entry fee alone".

Ainscough's try was a simple but effective move with quick ball along the attacking line involving O'Brien, Langley, Jeffries before the pass to Platt who then drew the two Castleford sliding defenders towards him before the executed pass to send Shaun away from 45m out down the main stand touchline for out fourth and final score.

Phil Joseph gave a good account of himself today with three solid stints in the front row.

I'd have to put him ahead of Sibbit after today's performance, never gave anything less than 110%.

The referee Mr Leahy was very pedantic and I mean pedantic.

Out of the 21 penalties - 7 we're given against us for crossing/shepherding (looks like this is the new rule that they've been asked to look out for in 2012).