GAME ON : Castleford Tigers v Leeds Rhinos - 15:30:00 GENERAL CHAT ABOUT THE GAME, BUILD UP, THE ACTION AS IT HAPPENS AND AFTERMATH BELOW.

Pretty much as expected. 38-10 kick to come.

Close to being back to our best.

Leeds still look really poor. Devoid of ideas close to the Cas line today.
Cas were good.

How many times have we heard that this season?

Leeds look really shambolic now, there are enough players of reasonable quality to make games win or lose with closer score lines.

There pivotal players have very little creativity in the side, difficult to win games on effort alone.

To be fair they have lost by one point to Saints, Cas, Hull and Wigan so the quality is there, hoping a proper week with Sinfield will have them fired up

^^ The quality is there, yesterday Leeds’ 17 looked pretty much OK on paper with only Garbutt and Watkins that would have strengthened to a significant degree in my opinion (Leeds fans may correct me on this, but only saying how I saw it). We made them look very poor in the second half and basically did what we wanted. I’m actually glad we played them yesterday as I think at home on Friday they could be a different proposition after a full week with Sinfield. The thing that stood out most for me as a negative in the Leeds side yesterday was their fitness levels - they just don’t look fit.

Sinfield mentioned things ned to change off the field, I wonder if the conditioning side of things is part of what he means?

Cas did look good in that second half, but and I don't mean to take away from their performance, Leeds just let them do what they wanted, Trueman in particular.

^^ Not disagreeing, I have said we did what we wanted. Trueman could go wherever he wanted with no pressure on him at all. Down to fitness levels of the Leeds players in my opinion.

The fitness thing is something I commented on both yesterday and at Wigan last week. The players were absolutely shot after 20 minutes, and never came close to getting back into it.

Its plain to see. At half time yesterday I said to my Dad and mates - thats this game won easy enough, Leeds are shot. It wouldn't have surprised me if Powell had given the instruction to just make sure we were there abouts come half time as the Leeds team are unfit and can't do 80 mins so just run them ragged in the second half.

Not many from me, some of our play as been ordinary.
Scrapped through a few games with a one point win.
Been to all home games and some away games.
That’s the best I’ve seen us play, especially the forwards.
Getting players back now so hopefully we can go on a run.