[quote="PopTart":s5ioxte7]Cas team for Friday[/quote:s5ioxte7] Are they at full strength, as I’m not sure what their best 17 is.

[quote="Pat Bateman":2cls8e8r]Are they at full strength, as I’m not sure what their best 17 is.[/quote:2cls8e8r] Pretty much their whole squad with Milnes missing at halfback

Looking forward to Friday, dont normally do friendlies but being a Friday thought why not, especially as booth teams are going full strength. Should be a good hit out

Be interesting to see where we are at, few good jigsaw pieces missing in terms of Johnstone and Atoni etc, but I think this will give us a good idea on where we are at for the first 40 at least. Two things I am most interested to see is definitely the physicality of the forwards and what kind of rugby we play with Russell / Trueman / Lino. I must admit, I haven`t thought much of Cas`s playing squad up to now, but seeing it on paper, they have got some decent players in there, I think a lot hangs on DM and Delaney to get them firing. Weather doesn`t look as bad as initially predicted either, winds seem to die down into the evening.

[quote="Khlav Kalash":2z6tn46o]Just a note, the visual content has really improved. Great stuff so far[/quote:2z6tn46o] It has improved but imo it’s not frequent enough yet. The content is somewhat lacking too.

They are averaging between 4 and 5 posts a day on FB. I'd say that's pretty good. I picked Wigan as an example and they are pretty much the same apart from game day for their friendly.

[quote="PopTart":yq1aqyu0]They are averaging between 4 and 5 posts a day on FB. I'd say that's pretty good. I picked Wigan as an example and they are pretty much the same apart from game day for their friendly.[/quote:yq1aqyu0] Yes but the posts are pretty basic and repetitive imo just posting the ST poster image etc. There should be much more content if interest imho. Pre season is a great opportunity to do a feature on every first team player, basic stats with action photo gallery and a couple of personalised comments. Basic but more interactive and effective. Perhaps a weekly competition to generate responses. Free wall paper photos, screen saver photo roll outs. Feature on the new disciplinary rules that have a summary or run down. There’s a lot that can be achieved. It’s better than years gone but it can be much more.

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It’s going to be a very interesting game tonight with this weather

We have 2-3 very good kickers. We should be kicking ourselves out of trouble and looking at 40-20s when the wind is behind us. I'm sure they will to us.

What better way for Luke GALE to play out his last game

[quote="PopTart":38yunmq4]Pretty much their whole squad with Milnes missing at halfback[/quote:38yunmq4] Sam Hall and Will Tate also missing , apart from that full squad for Cas tonight . Not sure how we'll play it though . I would imagine everyone gets some game time . May be a case of one half full team , the other half with rest of squad .

Pretty strong from trinity too with Johnstone, Hall, Atoni, Doyle, Vagana and Griffin missing who would likely feature in the 17 most games. Should be a good game.

[quote="Trojan Horse":9wcpjj8w]Pretty strong from trinity too with Johnstone, Hall, Atoni, Doyle and Griffin missing who would likely feature in the 17 most games. Should be a good game.[/quote:9wcpjj8w] Gutted for Doyle, he was one of the players I really wanted to hit the ground running this Season and see how he fairs up in SL. Sure he’ll get his chance.

Lino starting with Russell on the bench. Interested to see how that goes

Pratt and Scott at centre too

[quote="PopTart":2utqcf5a]Pratt and Scott at centre too[/quote:2utqcf5a] Hard to argue with that. Thought Pratt was great against Wood. Good on him.

[quote="Pat Bateman":3qrqv8a1]Hard to argue with that. Thought Pratt was great against Wood. Good on him.[/quote:3qrqv8a1] He fluffed his line on the break but everything else I thought was very good from Pratt Scott on the other hand is a star. Everything he did was class. He made Cini look like a complete novice. Thought the forwards played well with Hamlin-Uele especially looking great. In the half Trueman had some nice touches but Lino ran the game Thought Max looked even faster than last season.

Decent performance I thought , 32 points and probably should have had more but that would probably be nit picking at this early stage of the season and so many new players to bed in . Really impressed with the speed we transferred the ball and some of the invention shown , we cut Cas open seemingly at will at times . Rodwell was simply phenomenal , thought he was a little clunky on boxing day at Headingley but tonight he was back to his very best , he must be a nightmare to play against , he just never stops . Obviously it wouldn't pay to get too carried away but I think we'll be more than ok this season .

7/10 performance for me, but even so we bossed Cas for 70 minutes of that game. I think Cas are in for a long season https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/other/w ... r-AA1xOL23

7/10 performance for me, but even so we bossed Cas for 70 minutes of that game. I think Cas are in for a long season https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/other/w ... r-AA1xOL23

[quote="PopTart":1nlbva5q]He fluffed his line on the break but everything else I thought was very good from Pratt Scott on the other hand is a star. Everything he did was class. He made Cini look like a complete novice. Thought the forwards played well with Hamlin-Uele especially looking great. In the half Trueman had some nice touches but Lino ran the game Thought Max looked even faster than last season.[/quote:1nlbva5q] Agree with all that. To think we have Johnstone, Russell, Doyle, Atoni, Vagana and Griffin, we look pretty solid. I feel a lot more satisfied

[quote="PopTart":1pcgoadv]He fluffed his line on the break but everything else I thought was very good from Pratt Scott on the other hand is a star. Everything he did was class. He made Cini look like a complete novice. Thought the forwards played well with Hamlin-Uele especially looking great. In the half Trueman had some nice touches but Lino ran the game Thought Max looked even faster than last season.[/quote:1pcgoadv] Thought Lino looked brilliant to be honest, he definitely seems to have stepped his game up. Thought Trueman was good, particularly his pass selection and saw some glimpses of the long kicking game, just need to see it more! Thought Russell went quite well when he came on as well. Good position to be in!

Top priority… if we haven’t Jowitt yet then Ellis should be camping outside his drive contract in hand and red carpet. Pratt has that number 4 shirt sewn up. Hes everywhere, the yards, strong defence and breaks he made and he has a huge engine. He had Wood in his pocket pretty much all game. Hall will have a tough job keeping him out of the team and will have to fight hard to get that spot. Hard to look past Pratt at the moment. Of the new signings. Mckmeeken strong in the middle. Storton had a good game, looked fit, got through plenty of work and he will be a good signing. Scott and Walmsley look like they will be a very good pairing on the right. Uele was strong, Rodwell was good too. I can’t believe I’m going to say this because I’m one of his biggest critics… but Lino seems to work well with Trueman and they both ran the show emphatically thst first half. Hard to look past them starting round one. Came away feeling for a bit better execution it could have easily been 50. Great to see the defensive resilience and structure from last season was there in abundance too. We will need that. Not get carried away ofcourse but the signs are that our pre season has prepared us very well.

Hard to pick a m.o.m I think our pack is very much SL standard and I was pleased with the halfbacks - yes, Lino was excellent tonight, but so we're so many. Those first half tries were top drawer! Good times ahead I think!