Very good set of back rowers Cas have, but still not in par with Hulls imo

Just watching the game back and Jon Wells pre match analysis on some changes Radford's made in off season, including changing up Minichiello's role to be less battering ram more ball handler - could also increase his longevity.

Early days and the performance was solid enough. Long way to go before we have to hit the straps at the business end.
Build it up steady, picking up regular wins, using the full squad.
We're going fine.

Totally agree....

Not just Shaul's passing & ability to create , but the team needs upskilling in ball skill and attack -IMO..
We should have recruited an attack coach pre-season, but that ship has sailed...
If we had better ball retention, then we would do less defending, therefore we would have more energy..
Our attack heavily relies on a speculative Sneyd kick,or a piece of individual brilliance from Kelly,
we rarely go to our left edge, as we only have 2 pivots(central & right edge)..

Our defence is simply magnificent...

www.rugby-league.com/article/395 ... rs-charged Turgut charged with Grade C, Kelly got a warning. Walmsley grade A, Peyroux nothing (Unbelievably. Well, maybe not).....

www.rugby-league.com/article/395 ... rs-charged Turgut charged with Grade C, Kelly got a warning. Walmsley grade A, Peyroux nothing (Unbelievably. Well, maybe not).....

Are we being coached to think we can get away with this stuff??

Radders didn't look too happy when Turgut elbowed Walmsley in the head, so I'm guessing not.

Even though what Turget did was silly part of me was pleased to see a youngster stick up for himself against someone like Walmsley and he was looking for the ball up to then aswell.

Just don't want to go down the Wigan route

Anyone else quietly disappointed scrapping is such a big no no now? Would have loved to see Taylor and Walmsley slugging it out. Both were up for it after the knee slide on Carlos.

I'm not convinced Walmsley was up to it, big pudding comes to mind.

Kelly strikes with knee? Anyone remember this? Was it in the tackle, as he carried the ball in?

Yes i am, kind of. I have lost count of the number of matches I have watched that have gotten even better and faster following a bit of biff. I don't need to see the biff every week but occasionally it works wonders for a game

Great prop though, would love to have him coming off the bench for us, caused us lots of problems in his 2nd spell after the elbow from Turgut.

Sorry but elbowing a tackled player in the face isn't "silly" it's a dirty sh ithouse move and we'd not be describing it as such if another teams player did that to ours.
I hope the club/Radford hand out internal discipline for things like that. i don't care if he's XX age, he's been playing the game at a serious level for a long while and to react like that over what is pretty standard stuff in rugby at most levels (a hand up to the face from the tackler which had hardly anything in it anyways) is totally unacceptable, it most definitely is not what we expect nor want grubby players at our club.
I was surprised Radford only referred to it as a "brain fart", it wasn't, it was done with malicious intent, as I said i hope he's reprimanded internally for it.
As for the late head high shoulder charge on Sneyd going unpunished, typical RFL BS, if you can't even get a sin-bin for it (proven by the SOL one last season wasn't it?) we might as well pack all the player safety in and state it's a free for all.
The late knees to a defenceless player is yet more grubby sh ite we don't need in the game.