But no one expects the Spanish Inquisition! (apologies to younger readers)

I may have missed it, I don’t remember hearing anything from Chester

You havent he not done no press after game

LOL. I got it. Showing my age.

and it all started wi trouble at t'mill

Well i have just watched the game back on Trinity TV having missed the game Live. Really not what i was expecting to see.

Lack of effort ? No. In my opinion we certainly matched Cas there.
possession? No. Again we seemed to have at least 50%
Wingers? No. Both of them were left high and dry all night.

What Castleford had that we did not was 2 set plays that they had practiced and executed well.

1. "The Powell move". Yes, the one that they run EVERY TIME we play them that nets at least three tries a game against us ! (CC clearly has no idea how to defend against it?)
2. A well positioned Kick in the air and then seriously contest the catch.

We have 0 set plays and that is why we rely on individual bits of magic to score points, or rely on capitalising on scraps.

the coach has obviously lost the dressing room- the players are no longer playing for him.

he would be hurting because he is a wake y lad ,but this will be his last season in charge unless something drastically changes if in fact he makes it that far. On thing for sure he cares about the team and town.Its a shame the players don't seem to care anymore


except a announcement sooner rather than later.

Can’t see MC sacking Chester and personally I think he has shown previously that with the right assistance he can create a competitive and entertaining brand of rugby.

It’s the back room staff that needs a shake up in my opinion

I don't think that's obvious at all.

Regarding the two "bombs" that Rankin scored from, having seen them back, our so-called defence just stand there and watch him run through and out-jump Rocky, not one of them runs across to give him any protection whatsoever. I'm fairly sure that this sort of thing will get coached at schoolboy level ??

Mike Carter has committed the cardinal sin of getting too personally close to an employee! If you thought he was over loyal to Agar & Webster then you can expect Chester to stay no matter what!

The only things I can see happening are:
We survive this year and Chester gets another go next year with the caveat that should we hit another bad slump he moves up to Director of Rugby.

We hit another slump and Chester refuses to take a DoR position and leaves the club

We get relegated, Chester leaves the club and Carter goes with him!

I too watched it on trin tv - the one thing I took from it is the total lack of confidence that eac players has in his inside man making a tackle. In some cases justifiably so . The impact of that can be seen repeatedly as the ball cones in both defenders moving towards the man with ball , after 3 passes winger is actually stood in the area where the centre or second row should be stood , similarly on most tries that came with overlap we had a group of 6 sometimes seven players in vicinity of play the ball. Also our sliding defence doesn’t slide for same reason. Quite how you reverse that o don’t know - but Pauli has to make way for someone who will take his man and actually work at sliding defence , it’s easy to blame the winger for coming in but it’s symptom of an underlying problem

Although I did think bjb s was a somewhat pathetic attempt and mcb thinks he’s playing sevens or in centres

At work yesterday the rumour was that Chester had offered his resignation. Nothing on here so obviously nothing in it, but rumours flying round of players drinking before Catalan game etc & not giving interviews following a defeat is never a good sign!