How do you know ? You never went! You first post somes you up! It sounds like why dont you try and get to the odd game now and again instead of spreading your vile comments.

Thats what these games are about though Willzay, finding things out in a game situation before the season starts. I've never really been able to judge any preseason games as we don't know what the coaches brief has been to the players, or what he is looking for. Hopefully, both coaching teams will have got what they needed from the run out.

Wasting yer time mate! He's still playing with his new action man he got for christmas.

From a Trinity perspective I think the stand out moment was when Kyle Wood came on he made a huge difference and looked very involved in all our best stuff.

On the downside our right edge defence of Williams, Lynee and MCB looked 'confused' when tested.

I also thought the main difference in first 20 minutes was the kicking games, ours was clueless where as Cas put some really telling kicks in

Yeah, we have a few like him over on Casforum to be honest. Seem to be happier and take more pleasure when things are bad than when they are good as they can practice their favourite pastime of moaning about everything! For what it's worth I think today will have been beneficial to both parties, so job done really. But, I'm not a Trinity hater, I would much rather see us battling with you guys at the top end of the table than sat watching the 'big boys' fight it out.

It was only a warm up game and you cant read much into the result.
However, Finn coming on and Gale going off completely changed the game.
He looked sharp around the ruck area and was bringing runners on to the ball, way, way better than Muller or Williams,
who, apart from his try, looked a bit lost for much of the game.
I cant believe the time and space we gave Gale in the first half.

I hope we learnt a lot from the first half to prevent it happening when it really matters!!

Gale was the difference in that 1st half. His kicking game had MCB and Grix laying eggs all across the 10 metre line. That break from BJB set the ball rolling for a very one sided last 30 minutes though. Watching Batchelor run tries in from 40 metres out is really enjoyable. 7 tries to 5 but poor kicking kept it close.

Cas shouldn't worry about losing Solomona with Eden stepping in just nicely. Who was their thug 27? Springer?

Like in the 1st minute of the 2nd half?

Both coaches learned a lot today.
Our right side defence looked weak, and Cas left edge looked sharp. They moved the ball exceptionally well.
Roberts looks back on it, Chase doesn't.

We found it tough in the forwards early on but I wonder if that would be better with Fifita and England.
I liked Allgood on defense. Really hit hard. Made it hard when he went off. We played a long period with no interchange for the props so Walker and Huby stood up well as Hirst went off too.

I was amazed at Bachelor footwork and speed. He will be a star.

Powell learned that some of his kids are pretty good but they aren't perfect yet. Quite liked Mayer I think at 22.

Chester has to decide about half back. We looked much better with Finn on but it's difficult to say as he had a weaker defense to face with no rush blitz. I thought Miller was quiet but not sure if I just wasn't watching him.
Biggest plus point was Wood. He was very good. He needs to be on as long as possible.

Negatives and positives to take from that game....

Negatives :-

Almost our full first team (minus one or two notable exceptions) were woeful in that first half against the majority of Cas' first 13 (again minus one or two notable exceptions).
We didn't break a tackle or make a clean break in the first 40 minutes
Our defence was poor
We didn't look like scoring in that first 40 minutes until we got the penalty 5 metres out from their line in the 39th minute.
Allgood and Hirst both went off injured (Crowther got a knock too ??)
Our goal kicking was poor


Positives :-

Once Cas had taken all their best players off, we actually started to play some quality rugby - you can only play what is in front of you - (reminded me of the 62-0 thrashing of Wigan last year)
We threw the ball around well and scored some quality tries in the second half
Batchelor scored with his first touch of the ball
Arundel scored with his first touch of the ball
We looked a lot more organised when Finn came on and Miller then started to look threatening
We scored 28 unanswered points without our 4 first choice props on the pitch
It's a good job there was no video ref as there was nothing wrong with Cas' disallowed try in the second half
Rangi was crap.


So, for me....1/10 for the first half performance and 9/10 for the second half performance.

Castleford first half kicking game was much superior to Trinitys, it meant we had no field position and Cas were always in an attacking area of the field. They executed their plays very well and everything stuck, summed up by Edens superb one handed pick up.

At 4 - 30 I didn't think the score line was a fair reflection of the match.

Cas threw some fringe players on and Wakefield got their act together which combined to make the second half as one sided as the first but in favour of Trinity.

At the end it was 7 try's to 5 in an entertaining match.
Honours even

Wakefield still have some fixing up to do on edge defence while Castleford need to worry about squad depth and avoiding too many injuries.

Nice to be back watching Rugby League

Positives:

Huby
Ant Walker - again
Kyle Wood
Batch
Finn
The second half spirit
Doing that without our big men - Fifita / England / Hirst / Allgood, of all but...

I appreciate that Cas were under strength, but that's our first win for 2 years against them.

First half we were still missing a good 4/5 first team players.
Zak Hardaker
Michael Shenton
Grant Millington
Oliver Holmes
Adam Milner

Great signs how we went in first half. Only a friendly though so not gunna read too much into it
Im sure come Feb you will be much better and challenge for top 8.