I would rather Tansey play. I'm assuming Dorn will fill in, who's much more of a threat IMO.

As I am supremely confident *cough*,well we have won both games this year with an afternoon kick-off and James Child refereeing,could the Castleford followers enlighten me on this 'stronger second half' displays from Classy Cas I have heard/read about?
(Just to try and lower my spirits and dent my confidence - if you can !)

Oh,and don't try the Catalans side are struggling due to some of their players being involved in the World Cup and the physical and emotional drain will also affect Rangi - I never thought that and my computer was hacked when someone
suggested that he should be rested for the first game etc.

Never been so chilled in the build up to a game

Have we announced our starting 14 for Cas yet? Or indeed our squad of 18?

One thing I do hope is that Theo is rewarded for efforts with a bench spot.

Going into the game without his would be stupid as if Chase has a setset back then we really up against it and lets face it yet again we've seen he has incredible potential.

Thanks for that.( How many points have you scored in the second half of your games?)
I'm a bit worried that Rangi will take the pressure on his shoulders and as at Cas,consider he has to burden it all himself.
I am very worried about his discipline - particularly bearing in mind the incident against a side coached by Daryl Powell in the past.
I just hope he can remain calm and not 'stress out' if things are not going our way.There is a large portion of the campaign still to play.

2nd half results for us this season:

Bradford 6 - 24 Cas
Cas 20 - 0 Catalans
HKR 0 - 12 Cas
Cas 12 - 7 Wigan
Cas 13 - 4 Hull

Had Wigan to nil for 37/40 mins too. Amazing 2nd half stuff.

If Chase doesn't play this weekend - will it be a bonus for Tigers ? I don't think so. I hope he does play - it would be good to get it out of the way for himself and his former club.

In all honesty I think halfback partnership in the long run will be Theo & Rangi. I haven't really seen Rangi play week in week out so can any Cas fans tell me how good his kicking game is? That is the area that we need a MASSIVE improvement on at the moment IMO.

not his strength, his kicking is average at best - as our only attacking player game management was poor really. Not a bad kicker but certanly a weaker aspect in his otherwise top level game

Sneyd and Finn are the better kicking half backs this weekend over 80 minutes (as in, actually, not just with my goggles on)

Long range kicking game poor - probably our worst aspect with him.

Short-kicking game better, particularly with the chip through/over the top for himself.

I look forward to seeing that, I can't remember the last time a Salford player did a little chip over and followed it up! Luke Robinson was great at it

I believe we are winning the second half of our games 81-19 so far so If we are still in it at half time I believe we will have a chance today. I can just see us starting slow though and letting you a 2 or 3 try lead by half time.
We have to lose sometime and if we do lose today then I won't be too disheartened as it's London next week and we will be 6 from 7 which is still a great start to Superleague.

Our second halves have been poor so far, and this is what worries me about today. If Cas stay consistent they will win it. However, if we actually click this week (Something we haven't really done yet) we could be in for a decent win.

The hard part is judging which two sides will turn up today. So the game is winnable by both sides.