Abdull seriously needs to sort himself out. Only thing he looked capable of tackling in the first half was a kebab.

Dust ourselves down and go again next week.

Carlos was offside at the kick and within 10m of the Cas player who tried to catch it.

Radford needs to decide his 6 and stick with it for the next two games and build up some momentum, for me it has to be Carlos

Why? Because we got beat by the 6th place team, who beat us in feb, and should of beat us at cas to. Every club knows the structure , whats a joke?

From the first break Solomona made after 3 minutes the writing was on the wall. We looked flat and devoid of any ideas. You could see that one team was backing up after a draining semi final and another having two weeks off. Credit to Cas they exploited that and kept the ball alive at will.

No complaints here


Widnes and Catalans are now must wins

Exactly what I said to those sat around me who were screaming at the ref. I was told I was wrong.

Pretty sure it would have been Carlos tonight but for injuries.

In fairness to Radford he's trying to give Abdull a chance to impress rather than use Pryce who doesn't feature in our future plans. Sadly that isn't working out so well.

Poor tonight but entirely predictable. We were always going to suffer a comedown after the emotions of winning the semi final and Cas are exactly the sort of side you didn't want to be playing. They were very good tonight.

Still, we have got a poor performance out of our system and hopefully we will bounce back next week. Still top for another week at least.

Yeh, hes been good everygame hes played this season apart from tonight, hadley aint, hence hadley doesnt get picked in front of him. He might next week after tonight, which is fair enough. Think people forget, thompson is still only 24, playing along side the best 2nd rowers in super league, he can only get better imo

Last season I'd have agreed with you. This season Thompson has been disappointing, especially in the last few weeks.

Ah fair enough. Shame as that was a 12 point turn around. Small margins and all that.
The whole within 10m of the catcher thing annoys me sometimes. Carlos didn't really seem to be interfering with the player catching the ball. I do wonder how you are supposed to score from those occasionally and I understand why usually teams won't contest the ball and just hammer the catching player, there seem to be a thousand things stopping you scoring.

It's a fair point, but no matter what now it has to to Carlos and Sneyd in the halfs.

I thought Abdul showed some good touches on the last 20, but boy does he need to get fit, his effort on Dorn was terrible, although there were plenty of others whose tacking was poor.

Yeah these things can be marginal, although in fairness having Carlos right on top of him could easily have contributed to the Cas player fumbling the catch.

When it's not your night the little things go against you...

Abdull's tackling is actually pretty solid - when he reaches the player. Far too often he just gets run around or straight past as he has the turning circle of an oil tanker and no acceleration.

Don't agree, good first season, OK the last two seasons with the odd performance, quick feet which had worked the odd time near the line, but weak when coming out of own half, missing too many tackles and his handling is poor.