Sidlow was playing wasn't he?

But there was a bit of this going on I am sure. That was not the strongest team today by any means.

But we going into crucial opening games against relegation rivals with some players one playing one pre-season game

I'll be more bothered if we play like this in a few weeks so I'm not too concerned. Just hope those left out were precautionary. ]

I think Cas will go better under Powell than they did under Millward even without Chase.

Sidlow was playing in 16 shirt.

As others have said not a full strength team and suspect in 2nd Half we took our foot off gas to avoid injuries rather than chase the game. Certainly not preferable but maybe understandable given small squad.

I mentioned elsewhere but we do tend to take a bit of a dicking after a take-over announcement!

He did a cracking chase back and tackle on the Cas winger. He is quick for a prop.

am sure they will play alot better once the season starts. its been seen a few times teams have bad friendlies but then do really well in season

That was Oliver Roberts.

Are you sure? It was number 16.
Mind you my eyesight is not what it was...

We weren't at full strength but we only had Carvell, Kearney and Sammut out who in my mind are guaranteed starters. I wouldn't count such as Blyth, George and Gaskell as guaranteed. Put Kearney and Sammut in and that could be our first choice backs. Add Carvell and we would have had our 4 props and back rowers out there today.

Thought it was Sidlow too.

Pretty sure it was Sidlow, he's grown his hair.

Not the best performance as the scoreline suggests! A few players had complete nightmares and gifted Cas some possession on our line. The young guy Saltonstall was targeted and our left side looked very dodgy with Addy, Purts and the rookie winger.

Once they got a few scores ahead our effort levels nose dived and the tackling got increasingly sloppy. Nothing like the scrambling defence we saw versus Hull a couple of weeks ago. Only a friendly though, I expect we'll look different again in a couple of weeks and hopefully fired up to make amends.

Correct; Sidlow on Clare.

Ok, I will try that delusion.

I did not go to the Hull match, so in comparison to today, what was the difference? I would have put Hull a better team than Cas.