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.

Hull fans should be really worried if Cas can beast us by 50.

Dewsbury must think they've a good chance of winning the Challenge Cup as well.

Couldn't be ar**d going, they couldn't be ar**d playing,Why anyone gets
bothered about practice matches is beyond me, Lets wait for two weeks
and then see what happens

It was definatley sidlow that chased back. I wassuprised at how fast he was for a prop

the price tag put me off. The crowd was 1900 wasn't it? £15 is a ridiculous price to charge just to watch an opposed training session, which (apparenty) is what it was in the 2nd half when Bradford were just waiting for it to be over.

As a cas fan I can be content that we must've played very well even so, but you can't really base your life story on it.

Thing is, if you guys get 2/3 injuries, which is bound to happen at some point, that could well be your starting line up. And based on the scoreline alone, that might be a bit of a worry.

No doubt if injuries didn't exist you'd finish 7th-10th I reckon, but it's a bit of a lottery there.

It's gonna be a tough season to call!

Thought we were poor to be honest. Not sure what Franny was hoping to learn from the team he put out and maybe there are solid reasons why a stronger side couldn't play.

That said, I had to laugh at a guy sitting behind me. He was clearly totally convinced that winning this game was the whole point of the exercise and after going on about what his mate "ought to be putting on his f***ing twitter" about charging to see this rubbish, he went to to say, "just look at Cas....they're f***ing treating it just like a training match....."

By sounds off it that was pretty much strongest team we could put out. Only one rested and not actually injured or carrying a knock was carvell afaik. Didn't think pack was a major problem yesterday tbh. Biggest issue was defence down addy/purtell/saltonstall side. None of those three would be first choice for positions they were playing yesterday IMO. Hopefully Blythe back before start of season to play . Gaskell to fill in at FB allowing kear to revert to wing and sammut back in halves. Needs a big improvement in two weeks.

Can I make a bland truism please? Clearly a friendly is not a hard and fast indication of the year to come but on the other hand we got a right kicking. In what years have we got a pasting pre-season and gone on to have a good year? There must be some bored stato out there....

Apologies I didn't recognise Sidlow. That was a fabulous chase back then for a prop forward. It was worrying how quickly the heads went down though. Noticed when Foster and Saltenstall?? dropped the bombs that not many other players went up and patted them on the back as is usually the case. Really did not look up for it most of the game. Still, only a friendly so no points lost or gained thank goodness. As bad as that was it was my first friendly so the first live rugby I have seen since the end of last season and it was fabulous just to be there.

Stop being so upbeat. Its creepy.