Preserve for Monday? I don't think either side has enough fit players to preserve anyone, unless you start throwing shirts onto the terracing or promoting from the ladies teams....

In a way it's a bit of a shame that we will not see the best cas team against the best Wakefield team, as I think fully fit both could challenge for honours...

That being said, both sides say that they have strength in depth so injuries aren't really an excuse for whoever loses.

In a strange way you'll probably learn a lot more about both sides tonight, with regard to their squad depth, resilience and adaptability in diversity.... All we can hope is that both sides can put some structures together and make a good game of it (obviously with a cas win ) for me personally a win in a disjointed error strewn affair would be a worrying indication of our ACTUAL squad depth... That being said, I'd take any two points really - to hell with diplomacy lol

Bending over again.

We should just save ourselves the trouble (and humiliation) and just forfeit matches against Cas.

Pants well and truly down now.

Getting well and truly spanked. No passion or drive form anyone in the team

I'm not enjoying this.
They look frustrated.

Need a spark from half back and it isn't there.

Not had much of a foot hold in the game. However the first try came from a Cas knock on - Clare tried knocking it back and it went forward, looked liked a MCB knock on but don't think it was looking at replay. Their last try came from a cheeky ball steel against Fifita which got given a knock on, after we got given a pen for a ball steel the play before. Cas playing the ref with McMeeken rightly getting penalised on their own line for trying to milk a pen

To be fair the forwards are not laying the platform. Fifita not having the best game and the others have nothing. Cas quicker, stronger and more enthusiastic. Hope I'm wrong but I can't see much changing in the second half.

Blaming the ref brigade.

I wonder if he's bumped into Gronk?

No ref blaming getting beat on the ref. But that pen against lynne.. Come on ffs

Alright lads. Here's what we're not gonna do, roll over as easily as we did in the first half.

Seriously we've had two penalties for being in the ruck when they are holding us there.
That is a really poor rule.

Cas are better than us. It's not the ref beating us but when you are not playing well those decisions really matter.

It is e, Lyne can't do anything there. How does he clear the ruck when he's pinned down.

Irrelevant in this game as we are clearly second best but as a whole it needs a rethink.

The last 10 min has been much better