Quote: MashPotatoes "It makes me laugh how a lot of people (not just Cas fans) think they are a shoe in for a top 4 spot again. Why ? The standout players from last season have jumped ship, the rest of the squad over-performed on the back of the likes of Clark and Sneyd; It happens occasionally. My money is on them to be bottom 4 pushing for a top 8 spot, the same as us. The same as every other season therefore this fixture is a flip of the coin, whichever team wants it more will win.'"
As a Cas fan, Mash Poatoes, I would be seriously interested in who these people are outside Cas who think we will finish in the top 4, because I have scoured everything and have not seen one. The very best I have seen are Schoey who has us finishing sixth and the Sporting Life seventh. The bookies obviously think it is going to be very tight for us getting a top
EIGHT finish as they have us at evens to do so. Victor Chandler have marked up an over and evens for the number of games each SL team will win in the initial 23 game season and they have marked us up at 7
.5, over and under both being 5/6. So they have estimated that we will win either 7 or 8 games, which would almost certainly put us in the bottom 4. In the group betting we are in Group C along with yourselves, Widnes and HKR. so they obviously believe we will come in the bottom 4.
I say this because I am one of the few fans that thinks we will do better than commonly thought and I honestly believe we will definitely make the 8, but even I am not so optimistic that I think we'll make the top 4. Looking at all our boards / forums, our own fans opinions is that we'll finish anything between 6th and 10th. Sure there will be some rose tinted, one eyed fans somewhere that think we'll make hay again, but lets be right we all have them. But I reiterate I have not seen even one neutral cum independant cum media pundit, or other teams personnel that has us coming anywhere near the top 4. So you must have access to opinions that I have not yet come across.
