I guess we'll see how our team of no hope's get on then.
Can't wait. Hope Fifita rocks them around a bit would be good if England back and fit to give us real fire power up front.

This Cas love in/appreciation is getting a little bit vomit inducing. You don't see either Hull supporters lick the rival's team behinds as much

Funny how according to you it's "vomit inducing" to give your rivals any kind of praise yet you spend pretty much all your time on here absolutely tearing our players to shreds.

Your going to say that aren't you and being a bit one eyed imo. These who'd get in who's side are always a bit subjective and hard to comapre player X against player Y, just because they're playing in different teams, in different structures etc.

For me though Fifita's our best Prop, almost umpayable at times and just about always takes 3 or 4 to take him down and has a good offload when he wants. Huby's played well and got better as the season's gone on but I'd have Fifita over him.

Although stats aren't the be all and end all but as good as you can get especially for Forwards. Fifita's made most meters for us as a forward at 867, 161 tackles & an average gain of 7.61. Which are better stats than most of ypur Props, Just Moors has more meters & Lynch as a slightly better AG of 7.76. He'd get in your side for Millington, Massey, cook or Springer imo.

Also Ashurts stats stack up very well against your second rowers 247 tackles, 598 meters at AG of 7.38. Compare that against McMeeken who I really rate who's made 201 tackles , 637 meters, at AG of 7.32. Or Jesse Sene-Lafao who's made 152 tackles, 548 meters and a AS of 7.31. Ashurst stackes up very well against any of those. As for Oliver Holmes, give over he's no where near as good. I also think Arona would make your team imo, can play anywhere in the back row, he's the top tackler in our side last year and this year so far and makes good meters, a kind of player every teams, who just generally does all the hard graft, a really under rated player a bit like Ashurst it seems.

It would and hopefully find his form from last year before he got injured.

Grix
Johnstone
Tupou
Arundel
Jones-Bishop
Williams
Finn
Allgood
Wood
England
Ashurst
Kirmond
Arona

Miller
Hadley
Fifita
Huby

That would be my team for Friday! Why rest anyone and look ahead a game when we're full of confidence? Won 5 of our last 6, playing really well...very healthy injury wise...one change for me would be England for Hirst...that's nothing against Hirst as he's done well but England is a better player, simple...that would be a cracking bench too if the starting 13 could hold Cas for as long as possible...

Two in form teams, both with all their big guns playing...should be a cracker! Can't help but think the bookies are being totally disrespectful as to how good a side we are and how well we are playing by giving us a 22 point start...

I can only recall a handful of games where we have played each other when 'supposedly' both at the top of their form... and each time I recall a good thumping win for Cas.

hope we can break that mould on Friday... would love to be there but I shall be glued to my late evening TV screen watching instead.

Agree, should be a great game and hopefully we come out all guns blazing & actually play like we know we can and have done particularly the last couple. Don't do the usual Trinity thing of having a few games that we look good in, then suddenly stink up the place.

The bench does look really strong in your line up. The only real question regarding the staring 17 for me, is how match fit is England gonna be for this game. It's a month since he last played and has only played 3 games this season. So maybe starting Huby or Fifita instead, who are our best Props atm, may be the better option for that reason. Last thing we need is a slow start against Cas, who'll punish us if we don't turn up till the 2nd half.

Keys for us is completing sets, no penalties, keep the errors down, getthe ball out wide to TJ & BJB, once we've done the hard yards down the middle.. Also we've got to start with some real intensity from the whistle and get into their forwards and halves as much as possible. If we let them have chance to play and we don't match them set for set, they'll beat us, simple as that.

We're playing well, they're playing better and I'd have thought a 14 point start considering how well they've gone so far would be fair. Then again, if they play like they have been doing and we start like we have in a few games, they'll be more than a 22 point difference all day long.

In all honesty If I was the coach of either side I would go with the players that have been doing it the last few games as the saying goes ...Why change a winning team

Exactly

Any body got any info regarding the ticket sales. We got ours yesterday but forgot to enquire about general sales.

Interesting point that and one that is probably creeping under the radar a bit....here's a league table of combined errors and penalties conceded...

Castleford - 139
Wakefield - 144
Widnes - 151
Wigan - 154
Catalans - 154
Hull - 159
Salford - 160
Leeds - 161
Saints - 163
Huddersfield - 174
Warrington - 174
Leigh - 201

Maybe Widnes are a bit of a surprise in that but I think it shows, especially for us a huge improvement, as I'm sure in previous seasons we'd always be one of the teams making more errors and conceding more penalties than most teams....we're actually bottom on errors! We're also 3rd best in the league on missed tackles too...another huge improvement... It shows that if you start at the basics and get them right you've half a chance!

Just as an FYI, the match at Cas is probably going to be an all-ticket entry, so i'd buy them in the next few days to avoid missing out.

Really good numbers those. I think the biggest problem we had defensively last year was having the worst discipline in the league. It's a lot easier to defend when you're not giving them set after set on your own line.