Big shout from here back in Cas to your team for doing you proud and giving us a very good contest, especially first half and the fans who I thought were excellent.
Keep it up Cou-gars and you'll do well.

Thankyou that's very kind, just win that cup now please.

Thought you were the better team 1st half and a yard quicker than us.
Who is your 22 thought he had a great game and cant half move.

I think terry matterson gave the team a rocket at half time, we came out with more urgency and played at a faster pace....the sin binning didnt help you guys though, we found bags of space, hence the easy tries.

All in all i thought you gave us a good test and you lot should go well playing like that this season.

Oh by the way...THAT BLOODY DRUM first half, i've still got a headache.

What was the attendance?

3200

From my point of view, the only times Cas dominated were when there was a continuous run of decisions just after half time in their favour, and when we were down to 12 men.
Considering that Cas are a very good Super League side at full strength, and we were missing key forwards, every one of our players can hold their heads high and have demonstrated the spirit of the Cougars ten fold.
I'm proud of their efforts, and proud to be a Cougar supporter.
The future's bright, the future's red, green and white...

And a special thanks to most of the Cas supporters (not those chanting, swearing, and calling our players sh*te) who recognised our contribution to a good game of rugby league. May you go on to win the Cup.

I was stood near those one your talking about and it just seemed to be banter with the set of Keighley fans stood next to them. Most of them, if not all, clapped your players as they came back after scoring. Im all for chanting although i'm not really a fan of the swearing.

Chanting's good.

Calling part time players who are up against full time players sh*te isn't banter, isn't big, isn't clever and isn't funny.

What marks out true winners from the also rans? Being gracious in victory and defeat perhaps?

And yes, it was good to see so many Cas fans applaud our guys at the end of the match.
As I said, good luck, win that cup...

Matches like these are essential for NL2 clubs as the lads (if they did not know already) get to experience the speed of play the set moves, the range of moves the fitness etc etc that full time teams turn out. Only from being part of that type of game do they learn where they are and what they need to do to improve. With the game at 6-16 at half time our lads had already achieved something exceptional and what we learnt about ourselves in that first 40 will stand us in good stead against our colleagues in NL2 for the rest of the year.

I think Cas today were as good today as Bradford a few years back when they put 90 odd past us. So we have made really good progress as a team and each player is more mature and more developed now than 2/3 years ago. Equally Barry seems to be able to get them together and give them the direction they need.

We have a lot to look forward to this year and although after the swinton match I was driving around Bradford looking for a suicide bomber to offer them a lift, I am now well up for York and a trip to Hunslet.

I thought you were fantastic today, your commitment was outstanding and if you can keep that level up throughout the season not many teams will be able to cope with you,

For me I thought your 29 (curly headed guy) was head and shoulders above and worked himself into the ground ... a really good day out and even the KFC after the game was ok....lol.....

All the best for the rest of the season and might even pop over one sunday if we have played on a Friday or Saturday.......

I kept checkingthe score and couldnt believe it at half time. Credit to all concerned for a good game. Was just reading the BBC report and it says the referee is from the RFU. Why????? (Bloody kick and clap brigade!) news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 974593.stm

I kept checkingthe score and couldnt believe it at half time. Credit to all concerned for a good game. Was just reading the BBC report and it says the referee is from the RFU. Why????? (Bloody kick and clap brigade!) news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 974593.stm