We got over their line 4 times without scoring.
We were dominant to get there. We were poor at executing to not get tries.

I believe in the end we massively bottled it, got outmuscled in the middle and Castleford had the better RL IQ on the night. They attacked our weaknesses in our structures better and won very comfortably in the end.

Don’t think they won the middle. In fact I think overall trinity won the forward battle or at the least it was evens.

I said before the game that Ward will have them ship it to the edges. He did exactly the same at London and is a very readable coach. They did exactly that. Shipped the ball to the edges many times during the game early and late in the sets. We failed to prepare for that.

We really struggled to get out of our own half for a long period esp in the 1st half ! We didn’t get over the half way .. kicking out of our own half ..! We didn’t win much at all esp to start with ! I really expected us to take it to them and we didn’t !

and we failed to ship it out to the wings. We had Innes S, probably the fastest on the field, and didn't utilise him, except for doing the forwards work, driving the ball off our own line.

The fact they had Massey and broadbent missing for the entire second half and used up their 8 subs after us tells me their forwards played big minutes and we failed to dominate down the middle given the numerical advantage. Proctor was a no show in the second half for some be-known reason, though his complimentary 15/ 20 minute contribution was hardly noticeable let’s face it.

Just a massive opportunity blown away .. we didn’t lift unti Fifita came on ! Can’t for the life of me understand why / how we didn’t come out and get straight into them ! We stood off them , gave them all the time in the world . We made them look a good team ! Shocking .

Hardly "by some way", it's two points.
Mind you, if we cant beat Cas at home, there is little chance of beating anyone else.

No Dagger still remains a mystery, the guy must be well hacked off.
He has to be in the halves now and Kay too, needs to play more minutes.

And what you don't get is that all of those off pitch changes don't give you a super league team if/when we are relegated at the end of this season, and no matter the investment and changes to meet IMG rules, if we're not super league at the start of next season, the IMG criteria will see us out of the top flight for the foreseeable future as they are going to prioritise those already in the league over those wanting to come up

I think you need to go read the rules again. That is word for word not true.

Top 6 down there are a number of teams who are pretty interchangeable between Championship and Super League. If the worst happens but we get our house in order, with hopefully the new guys in charge then I don't see a reason why we can't get back up if we win the second tier.

Would we even need to win the second tier ??
Without wasting half my day going through all the qualifying criteria, could we achieve a grade 'A' by ticking all of the other boxes ??

Not yet I don't think.
But I think we are in a reasonable decent B compare to others.
JM explained at the SH meeting the test criteria wouldn't consider stand etc until next year's actual assessment.

IMG score should be top twelve, get takeover signed off and we will be right

Up the Trin

Matt Ellis`s Mum and Dad were also watching, they have been to several matches, I know Minards is advising that he needs to speak to them, perhaps he could have introduced himself.