Castleford Game

Quote: Bigpev "We try and buy a team, how many of Cas have come through the cas system, they are one year in front of us with regards super league but their set up is lights ahead. We are a very poor example of year on year improvement, we just amble at the same level, who ever comes here accepts that and so the decline continues. We sign cast offs from wigan, at least one has had the guts to stop taking the money, the other should be given the mascots outfit but then again we wouldn't get 30 mins out of them. The coaching set up under McRae has been a joke, i did say that appointing him was a backward step, after saints he had nothing left to give unless he had a full team of australians. We have the wrong captain who now appears to be half the player that had a one year contract and trying to earn a living and get a long term one. Too many players are in the comfort zone and the pay cheque comes in every week regardless. Simms said on the radio the usual stuff about studying cas and putting a plan in to stop them playing, then we stick a massive opening in the middle of the park for them to exploit with a man with 9 vowels in his name. Their half backs after 35 mins got the run of the park. John Wilkinson is suffering with poor advisors around him, he has to be tough and now for the good of Salford get rid of the waste and get someone in who can sort the mess out not feed the mess with out of date methods. We had two good weeks which looking at results since could suggest we actually got two teams having an off day in that period, because since then we could not beat the worst team in SuperLeague and then today we have just been slaughtered by a team a year older than us, who exploited the conditions bright sunshine whilst we kicked off 10 times to the same spot not once in the second half did we put a kick off in that went high and to the right meaning that the player would have to take it out of the sun. Considering we are supposed to be building we have the wrong construction crew in place from the project manager down, if I was awarding licenses this year I would not be looking at giving one to Salford, we are in exactly the same place as we were when we came in, and there is no evidence that this will improve, we are a good championship side, never Super league and I canm not see us ever changing this, Salford is not a rugby area when you look at the other teams in super league and the number of amatuer clubs within their boundaries and the number of people playing rugby.'"

arundel,holmes,huby,clarke,orr,owen on the field today came through the cas system while ferres was a product of the local juniors.

i dont know enough of the salford area to say that theirs no talent coming through, their may well be some very good junior clubs about in the salfoed area and this is where cas have benefited in the last couple of seasons,we have invested heavily in making sure the very best juniors have come to cas and they are then given the best possible coaching and education to take it to the next level,this is an area we can be better than the rest and its bearing fruit we will never be able to match the likes of leeds in terms of money so this is the best way of competing for small clubs like ourselves.this weekend alon our u18 scored 56 points the u20s 72 and the first team 52 which shows the strength in depth we have coming through the system.