Will just be nice to get off to a good start and get some points on the board think the friendlies show our first team out we are ok but any injuries at all in key positions and we will really struggle

Agree time will tell .But you can only coach so much Hope the discipline is a lot better than over the last few years

On the Cas forum there on about Miller as hooker . Very happy with the 6 and 7 .Think there spine looks stronger than ours, time will tell

That would be silly. Especially with McShane and the young kid Robb.

Just saw this morning that Salford say they only have a 21 player squad and 19 fit players

21 players wont be enough.
Do they have an academy ?

Well done some looking , he said they had 19 fit in a 21 player squad but they have 28 players on their website . So not sure it's making excuses

His squad probably has 7 players he doesn't rate as Super League standard.

I think Hull KR will struggle. Their new coach doesn't come with a great coaching CV, with assistant coach jobs at four clubs in four years, with his second stint ending with a fight in a pub with another member of staff.

Good assistants are retained. Three clubs released him after just one year, one after the other, and the fourth club he was at, Newcastle, have been poor since he joined in 2020. That doesn't scream out "well-regarded assistant coach". It screams out "nah, not for us".

Their squad is okay, but not good enough to withstand a poor coach.

I was speaking to a Cas fan that was saying McShane had been playing HB in pre season and was absolutely killing it, he`s also lost a bit of weight. it would though be strange decision IMO with all of the options they`ve got at HB to start shifting players around like that, but Radford has been known to make some strange decisions.

On the Sky app under the title Super League 2023, welcome to the teams part 3. It says we finished 11th last season lazy journalists following the party line surely Warrington are better than us. Just typical.

I think also Leeds will win it. Saints have done the tried and tested thing of promoting the "long-serving loyal servant". That rarely plays out well, so I put them third. Wigan will be there or thereabouts.

With Leeds, the improvement under Rohan Smith was immediate and clear. Now, with a full pre-season, I think they'll be the best team and win it.

Or maybe I'm channelling Phil Clarke, and coming out with a daft prediction, knowing if it comes off, I am regarded as a genius, but forgotten about if it doesn't.

Think we all need to stop getting our pants in a twist over this.these pundits are asked to predict and the fact just about every pundit as picked us to finish bottom says it all we are rightley faves but all faves dont win so its up to us to prove them wrong

Yeah, we really struggled today…

LOL