thats what i meant! castleford are nowhere near the form of the bigger sides like warrington, leeds, wigan, etc! i was just sick of hearing all the way home of how impressive they were & then we got the shortest mention ever! and we were just as good even if we did let it slide in the second half and got lazy!

We weren't as good though quite obviously. They play at full throttle for the 80 mins and have a desire to destroy teams whereas we don't but as I say that will make little difference when the big games come round.

If we win our game in hand we go outright top and that added to the big shiny thing with the ribbons on sat in our trophy cabinet suggests to me we're still the team to beat.

But surely thats not right if we do beat every club 100 nil and are clearly the best team over the season doesnt that make us the best team in the league....?

surely the league championship cant be decided by a handful of knockout games that anyone can win on their day..............???

well thats how you tell it when you rubbish the Challenge cup anyway....





oh yes and 13 months since Cas were last nilled......like the OP says.. easy...

tbf if we do win our game in hand then yes we will go top but this year could come down to goal difference for top spot this season its that tight.

Maybe the players/ coaches were thinking about not risking injuries when they switched off after about 27 minutes at 42-0 up, or maybe they were thinking about the good of the game and the damage an absolute tonking would have done to quins (and yes maybe this would have been damaging), but we really should have been seing this as an opportunity to reign in wires GD and it is an opportunity missed.

At 42-0 up, had we kept that intensity we could have been looking at a super league record 100+ score tonight, which would not only have put us in the record books, but clawed 50pts back on wire. Instead, cue goes on the rack, yet at the same time wire dont stop even though they were only 16/22 up at the same time- What happens? Wire end up extending their goal difference over us by another 14 points, when, even with wire putting 60 on cas, we could have still peged their GD back by 40 or 50 points- Plus the fact, what a message we could have sent out to SL tonight, rather than just settling for a score that was expected!

to be fair half of the league would have nilled cas tonight - They were woefull - Worst Cas performance since they were re-promoted IMO- they couldnt even complete a set of 6. Cant believe how inconsistant they have been this season!

Well you'd finish top but then history shows that it pretty much a 50/50 call if the top side goes on to win at Old Trafford so like I say it won't lose too much sleep over it.

a lot harder than it is to nil Quins.

Warrington have put 50+ on 6 teams this year, there's very little chance of us reigning in that GD.

We did the right thing tonight - once the result was beyond doubt we throttled back and avoided injury/burnout by rotating a lot of players in and out.

Carmont went off for example - I don't think he was injured, but the coaching staff were merely protecting him.

Yes I heard fans having a moan on the way out tonight "we've only scored 1 try in the second half, I'm leaving....", but c'mon we were streets ahead of Quins!

As for anyone questioning our 'killer instinct', please remind me again who the current champions are?

Wire aren't as great as some make out.

Good- Yes

BUT they still have major playoff issues to overcome.

How many times have they been champs?

FAIL

It'll go down in the record books as the biggest ever Challenge Cup final winning margin - that must count for something.