Yes he must be rubbish. Thanks for helping us see that Leeds cat.

A little bit of a reality check today. Cas were comfortably the better team and it has shown us that we have a good few areas to work on in the next fortnight. No need to panic, friendlies often churn up some strange results but it certainly stops a few that were getting carried away with our chances this season and will remind the players that it will be a battle royal this season.

Don't take long does it . I bet certain people couldn't wait for a loss. Still that's what you expect on the Wake board.

What is clear is that there is some work to be done over the next 2 weeks to try and close the gap with other Super League teams...from today's result we still seem a distance away.

Having not gone today what let us down.

Wakey will be a better team than they were today 4-5 weeks down the line from now, when they get a bit more cohesion. Cas are a settled side and it shows, Wakey have a lot of new faces that still need to "bed in" and that isn't an instant process.

If there's anything you should be "concerned" with it'd be conditioning, Cas looked bigger & fitter for the duration...fitness is going to be a big part of it early on with heavier pitches.

Just remember it was only a friendly though, no points gained or lost from it.

Not managed to get to any of the friendlies due to work commitments (and being a tight git !!), but didn't someone post that we were looking a lot fitter and stronger than last year ???
Clearly not fit and strong enough yet !!

My biggest concern today was that we weren't making inroads in the forwards. We know our back line has some way to go, but we have consoled ourselves that the forwards will carry us through, and today they made hard work of it.

Finn was awful today, just not his day.
Johnson is a great prospect, but his positioning today wasn't good and he wasn't helped enough from inside.
BJB - still waiting for him to show up. Not the best conditions for him, but he needs to learn to follow the big guys to find opportunities.

Positives:
40:20 from Howarth
England's passing
Ashurst looking dangerous at times.

Otherwise, beaten by a side who were sharper, fitter, faster, more skilful and heading towards the top of the table.

A chastening experience today - hopefully we can use it to spur us on in 2 weeks time!

Friendly games are important, as a muscle flexing exercise just to see how you are fairing and shaping up for the new season. I am not in the least concerned with todays result because it means nothing towards our future status. We should sit back, look at the performance and improve. BS would have like a win of course but I am sure he won't be panicking about it.

I'm sure he won't be panicking, but we have to take the lessons we can learn from it, starting with recognising our failings in today's performance. Brian is smart enough to be able to do that and use it to our advantage.

Could not attend today, but my son went, he is a pretty good, level headed judge. His opinion was that firstly Cas are a very good side, we could not handle their speed of play, we obviously lack ability but we stuck at it. One of the purposes of a pre season friendly is to learn things, we should learn that we cannot have Scruton, Howarth and England on the pitch at the same time : as a group they are just to slow, bringing Sio and Arona on gave us some pace to respond. Johnson will have better games, 5 tries down his side mean that he and Gibson need to improve or be changed. We lack creativity, Finn and Miller are not going to create much, somehow we need BJB to be more involved and dare I say it we need to find a place for Hall.

When will the doom and gloom idiot brigade ever learn - friendlies mean nothing.

Cas would want to win today to make a point - doesn't mean a repeat will happen when it's a real game.

I've said it before Idrather lose friendlies because winning them gives a false impreission.

As some of the brighter posters have pointed out, we beat Leeds does that mean we are better than them - give it a rest.

I really hate friendlies they bring the absolute worst out of this forum, Wilzay and co save your moaning I'm sure you'll get your chance when the season starts. And if we win there is always that stone to crawl back under.

THE ONLY WIN AGAINST CAS THAT COUNTS IS WHEN WE PLAY THEM FOR REAL AND THAT'S THE ONLY TIME THEY NEED "FIRE IN THEIR BELLIES" THEY COULD HAVE BEATEN US A HUNDRED NIL TODAY SO FECKING WHAT.

Up the Trin.