Unfortunately he was playing behind a beaten pack who were out-muscled and bullied unfortunately. ATEOTD it is a team sport and the team needs to work to win, and on Sunday we fell short of that - not by a country mile, but definitely short. Broughy's effort on Saturday to get the team down the other end of the pitch was spot on for me, some brilliant kicking and he made some good tackles in defence (an area I always considered his weak point, however he has done enough this year to prove me wrong).

He played in a pretty big game for us against Wire last year in the play off's and got MotM. Nuff said.

his fitness is, its just the ankle is still not 100%

I know where your coming from to be honest, I think he has worked very hard in pre-season to get some consistency. That is what I feel NB has added to his game, as such I don't think he has had a bad performance this year. I'm sure someone will correct me though

There are games when you can level the same accusation against Brett Hodgson too.

Also there are key games when Brough has been simply brilliant

But never at cas...

Million Pound Game?

Hold my hand up and say I wasn't overchuffed when Broughy signed but he certainly did enough to win me over last year and prior to his ankle injury would have walked into any SL team this year. I believe even the Examiner claimed the loss was partially his fault. Did they not see him play? He tackles way above his weight. How many other teams have a kicker who kicks two x 40/20s in a game? Not his fault the clown in the middle didn't give them. Yes, Cas deserved the win but the best side doesn't always win, and we weren't far off in the end. A few calls our way and anything could have happened.
I though the omens were not good when Chase was banned for our game, then allowed to play. It all went downhill from there. Too many big names missing for us for a game as important, in terms of silverware. Cas probably won't play as well again but I was impressed with the way they bossed the first 30 mins. The other 50 were anybodies. Ours if we could have kept hold of the ball.

Same as the last 6 games.

Bossed off the park for 25 mins, then games anyones, but we cant hold the ball

Well if you think you had 4 decisions go against you then what about, the supposed 'forward' pass that would of made it 18-0 and youd of been in for an uncomfortable day, McGillvrays try from Chase' kick which he was subsequently took out off the ball chasing it which led to the gap for the try.

You also say goal kicking cost you, as i understand Dixon also missed a kick, had all kicks been converted it would of been 24-24, you seem to be forgetting this.

Fairplay to some of your fans for saying you werent good enough, which on the day you werent, but to them saying decisions went against you and kicks cost you it, ridicolous.

They can say what they want mate but at the end of the day it's Cas not us that will deservedly be pitting their wits against Leeds to see who is off to Wembly

Good Luck in the Semi's

Wonder if Cas can back up from last week,do us a favour today and stop the Saints.

I hope so, they owe us a favour.

Cas go 18 nowt down early,then put on 3 tries in 8 minutes

On the plus side Cru are beating Trin