GAME ON : Castleford Tigers v Leeds Rhinos - 19:45:00

GENERAL CHAT ABOUT THE GAME, BUILD UP, THE ACTION AS IT HAPPENS AND AFTERMATH BELOW.

Cas win by 10+

Leeds by 12

Cas 32 Leeds 18
Att 9,329

I'll wait until the VT's prediction specialist ruuBron108 has had his two penneth, he'll probably split it so that at least one of them will get it right,

Hoping for an encouraging performance to take into the remaining games, a win would be a bonus. Whilst some will say it’s must win I don’t agree

We’ve got - HKR, Salford. Catalans, Hudds and London to play (the latter 2 away) those are our must win games

We’ve also got Hull and Warrington at home which I think are possibles because of when they’re played. Hull the week before the CC SF, when they coasted past Catalans in the QF they were hammered the week before by Hudds at Magic weekend so could see the bad version of Hull. Warrington is the final game if we need to win, Wire will more than likely be unable to move from 2nd and rest players/have one eye of the playoffs.

Tonight vs Cas away and Saints at home would be bonuses.

Looking forward to this game . Be hard to call . Always a decent atmosphere at The Jungle .

Phil Clarke has tipped Leeds to win so we are screwed. Whilst performances have improved I just don’t think we have enough yet to win this one....our starting 2nd row pairing of Ferres and Sutcliffe makes me want to cry.

Can somebody clear up the free play rule for me there please? I thought it had been abolished? Once the leeds player passed it should have been play on as advantage over? 

We started the game with three 2nd rowers on the bench, for the love of god sub Ferres off ASAP.

Leeds defence has improved or we are missing Trueman. Not sure which.

Jesus Christ give Watts an Oscar for that performance

What on Earth are Cas playing at?!

You’re missing him but think mostly the effort of Leeds’ defence. Even with that exact same performance Cas would’ve scored at least 4 tries past us 7/8 weeks ago.

Our passing is killing us though. Even if you ignore the interceptions, the completed passes still are far from crisp. Hopefully we bring on this Martin guy for Ferres and see what he’s got.

If the game follows the current pattern and leeds win, I'll mostly be looking forward to Powell's bitter saltiness.