A huge improvement on recent weeks even if neither side was in great nick. I was impressed with Clubb - NOTE TO ROB POWELL: KEEP HIM AT CENTRE FFS

We still lack that cutting edge a quality scrum-half would give us and as a mate of mine pointed out, in the middle of the pitch we still have that McDermott-esque 'headless chicken' approach sometimes where we panic and lose the ball on the second tackle, sometimes we are just so amateurish when all we need to do is collect five solid drives. Cas didn't do this and that's why they looked much the better team for fair portions of the game. You can tell they haven't played a top side yet though - Huddersfield or Warrington should beat them with ease.

Like PP I'd have taken a point at any juncture in the game, can't dispute the decision to award them the penalty either it seemed pretty obvious. There was some frustratingly slack defending at times but then 'twas ever thus. Its still important to stop the losing rut and we have two games we must win against improving Catalans and Salford, who are pretty mediocre. Hope Purdo's injury is not too serious because we have so little depth in the squad we'd really miss him.

Even though it wasn't a win I think all the neutrals and new fans enjoyed themselves, nothing like a tight contest to get a few people interested even if it wasn't champagne footy. Hopefully some will come back on Good Friday!

Rangi Chase is a great player to watch- Must be a nightmare to defend against.

Thought the forwards went well last night. Dave Williams took the ball in and made some decent metres

O'Callaghan is pants

Gales chalked off try, ref simulated that the ball was ripped out.

How could you tell by watching yesterdays game that we haven't played a top side yet?
Oh, and we have played Huddersfield (a top side), and beat them more comfortably than the scoreline suggested.

Oops, I stand corrected! Still, I think the league position is a tad false. You've made a great start though, can't fault you for that.

A rollercoaster of a match. Although Quins didn't win it was a better performance.

Thought it was a fairly dismal affair between 2 poor sides. Castleford will get battered against the likes of Wigan, Warrington etc. A decent ending and a very pleasing point.

Quirky point

Lamont scored a try for Skolars against leaders Swinton on Saturday
Lamont scored a try for Quins against leaders Castleford on Friday!

The Highlights on Sky Sports News are showing Gales 'Disallowed' try and calling its Clubby's 2nd.
And when showing Ellis's try, they said it was Temata offloading to Dorn to score.
An absolute shambles of a report




On the game, I thought Dave Williams had by far his best game, made some strong metres.
And Clubb again was very good, he gets slaughtered from all quarters on here but is now our joint leading scorer for the season.
Gale was the best player on the pitch

Dunno about Gale being our best player, if he'd brought his kicking boots we'd have won! Still not knocking the spirit shown in the fightback, just gutted we conceded a soft, kickable penalty from Cas' last restart. It would be nice if for one game we could play for more than the first and last 15 minutes of the game! Great fightback but for long spells we were clueless and Cas should have been 20 plus points to the good before we got back into it.

If Cas played as they did yesterday, they will get battered by a 'top' club, Gale was our best player imo, he may of missed 2 kicks, but he controlled the game well for us, and made plenty of breaks with his quick feet.

Probably the 2nd poorest we've played this season and ultimately didn't get the win. Should have done though at 24-10 up with 12 to go. Pleased Dicko slotted the pen over as I didn't think we deserved to lose. You lot got on a roll though and we were out of our feet. Ellis, Dorn, Gale were quality.


3rd time down to the stoop and I really enjoyed it again.

Maybe 3rd in the league is a little flattering, but I also knew you lot would play considerably better then the past few weeks.


Good old D-rave with another enthusiastic post.