Thought Westerman was head and shoulders above anyone in our side in the first half but as the game progressed he seemed to lose interest, can't blame him.
Battye works best when he has a support player running with him, a bit like what Watts was getting tonight.
Kyle Wood offered nothing that Brad Walker couldn't do.
The ability to follow the player taking up the ball is non existent, summed up when Fifita offloaded in the tackle and no one was ready.
As has been said on another thread, Ashurst getting the ball stripped twice and the only time TJ got the ball was when he was helping out.
Cas were bad, we were worse.

Agreed, I did one too. It's incomprehensible that given our inability to score we make no attempt to repeatedly get our match winning try scorer into the plays. Literally one pass all night to him. What a complete F waste. You can't tell me that the responsibility for that doesn't predominantly lie with the coaching. We look absolutely abysmal with the ball in hand at times. No attacking lines just shoveling it along the line half the time (usually on the 4th tackle after 4 drives). Mind numbing to watch

I don't usually post after we've beaten you as it looks like trolling but I'll make an exception as no one has mentioned hoe slow Wakey's ruck speed was compared with Cas. Watch it back and there are several times when the tackled Trin player could have easily regained his feet and executed a quick play the ball but chose to (unsuccessfully) try to milk a penalty.

Ruck speed was slow on many occasions because of the excessive "holding down" by Cas long after the tackle had been completed.

There were many fans around me confused by the fact that Cas in the second half got six agains a few times in their own half to really relieve the pressure. Yet in the following return sets we had players landing on their front (Wood, TJ) who had players all over them and then trying to wrestle them while they were trying to get up and execute a quick play of the ball. TJ and Wood I think both had a chela at the ref.

You can hardly blame them. It was that slow they could’ve had a 4 course meal and a few beers.

It’s the inconsistency that confuses people. Moore was giving six again for holding on a second too long in Cas favour and then in the next set allowed players to be wrestled whilst landing on their front.

Can’t blame Cas. If your allowed to do it you will continue doing it. It was frustrating the hell out of me and many others how we were restricted in the wrestle from a number of quick plays.

There’s that much naff refereeing decisions and so many inconsistencies that you just come to expect it these days. Nobody really cares. Cas will face a team on another day and try chancing their arm and a different ref would pull them. The referees have different tolerances for six agains etc that really also doesn’t help.

I thought Matautia was the difference on the night but the officials just infuriate me. They aren’t so much bias than they are inconsistent.

Last nights game was low on quality but so was today’s. Neither entertaining.