Isn't that when we do best, when people think we're an easy beat?

Neither hated or adored, but very often ignored.

Great season by the coach! and you can see he loves it when wakey win not just when the team he coaches win!

Very good that Willzay. I Like it !!!!!

Another year, and if Cas hadn't walked it to leaders shield, he could well have won it.

7 -5 in the votes suggests there wasnt much in it.

We were also nominees for a couple other awards, qhite q good night really

I'm far from pro Cas and totally refuse to join the love in.

That said it would have been a travesty if Powell hadn't won it.

He's pretty much done a Chester but better and further down the road.

When Cas run out at OT I'll still be amazed as to how they have done it. Decent squad no doubt but not exceptional even as fans admit that. As a team head and shoulders above the rest.

Powell has demonstrated what should be obvious - no one is born a Coach or even a player you become one.

Took him the best part of twenty tough years to get where he is now. You'd think that would be a lesson learned but probably not.

Bang on - and that's what gives me optimism; Cas are clearly a very tight knit group who enjoy playing for their club, their coach and each other - and that looks very similar to what Chester is creating at WT - they're just further down the line than us.

If we can keep recruiting the right players and build on the culture and team spirit that's been created, there's no reason we can't keep progressing on the same trajectory; I feel optimistic.

I agree Bren. The reason I'm supportive of Cas (as opposed to being an actual supporter) is that i see us in them. They are clearing the way for teams like us.

MC said on yorkshire radio that they did their home work as to what type of person potential signings are, not just the playing side, and whether they will fit into Trinity's culture.
Tyler Randell being a example.
He also said that most of the squad were roughly on the same money.

Not doing down their achievements, but if Percival was a decent kicker they'd have gone down as the league's ultimate bottlers, never winning the crucial ones.

Players on the same sort of money seems a best fix for a club like Wakey. You could see v Wigan just how much the players have bonded and that must be great for the players and club.
Squad players have the advantage of knowing that the pay structure s been introduced that based on equality without one or 2 players milking the system.
Its been pointed out on the Wigan site that 2/3 players receive the bulk of the wages and that's caused friction.

That's true but applies to a lot of previous winners I suspect, luck, their drop goal win v us for starters.. It's more the style played than the results that have impressed most people RE Cas.

Had Percy converted at 20-18, would Cas have done something different at the restart? Would Saints have scored a winner had he made it 20-20? Saints were chasing the game with 5 to go, had it been 20-20 would they have pushed it? All ifs and maybes.

Cas got out of jail is a given, they were also winning the match for the vast majority of it.

Absolutely, and it works both ways. If Saints hadn't got that bit of luck in the last minute against Wakey, Cas would have probably been playing some one else.

I've just had a look at that site. Some very strange voting going on.