He's an important player for us given our lack of size in the forwards.

Player of the year so far for me

He looked like a man with a gunpowder enema last night.

I lost count of the times he got up seeming to be injured in a tackle, but the next minute he was running full pelt at the Castleford line. Well done that man.

Good game from him again but he does need to learn to play the ball quicker - seems to be quite slow putting the ball on the ground and playing it.

The pass for the 1st Burgess try although looking simple was excellent - good centre play.

Runs it back with plenty of interest and aggressive in defence. Improved massively since 18 month ago.

Big blow for all those who have him in the "Scapegoat sweepstake"..

Terrific athlete, rough and rawboned, but he is getting there albeit slowly, mainly due to the chopping and changing he has had to deal with....

New 2 year deal at least please Mr Chairman

Gelling had a great game and so did the Wigan team. Well done.

Gelling was excellent. Again.

My ratings (out of 10) last night:-

Bowen 8
Burgess 7.5
Manfriedi 7.5
Gelling 8
Sarginson 7.5
Powell 7.5
Smith 8 (MOTM)
Taylor 6
Mad Micky 7
Flower 6
Farrell 7
Hughes 6.5
O'Loughlin 7

Replacements: Crosby 6.5, James 6.5, Hampshire inj, Sutton 6

Thought Hughes was by far our worst player last night tbh. Couple of laying on penalties which he seems to do almost every game and ran the wrong lines a couple of times which resulted in crossing penalties.

Wrt Gelling, I think he's really coming to his own now but I wish SW would decide whether he's best playing on the right or the left and let him develop a settled partnership with a winger. It seems atm that if Goulding plays then Gelling plays on the left with Burgess, but if Sarginson is picked then he gets shifted to the right. I guess if Sarg ends up at fb while Bowen and Hampshire are out we'll see

Sarginson
Charnley/Manfredi
Goudling
Gelling
Burgess

for the next few weeks anyway.