Good first 30 minutes , then the errors and indiscipline kicked in .
I can’t knock the effort, but what really worries me is attack . Look how other teams move the ball compared to us . We are slow and ponderous.
Also we seem to have no threat with the ball in hand .
Cas were slicker, quicker and bigger than us . The score line flattered us. Cas bombed a few chances they should have taken.
It needs to improve, and quickly.

At last my fingers have thawed out.

Thought the first 25/30 mins we looked pretty good and in control then we just imploded. Shaul had an absolute mare of a game while Paea was immense & Snead looked a danger taking the line. Apart from that not a lot else to say as we just made it far too easy for Cas.

Bad day at the office, on to next week we know we are better than that let's get over it.

Cas fan here Hasbag, great posts and thanks for being honest. You are spot on about the penalties and without them I don't think we would have got over the line. FWIW the aussie trip must have taken a lot out of you and its surprising but honest of Radders refusing to use it as an excuse.

Well clearly you do. But let's say you're a billionaire. Your username could well be a play on that, would make sense. You still have a limited time on earth as do we all. Spending what's left of it following a team you barely tolerate traipsing to Australia seems crazy. The world is full of beautiful places, untapped experiences, cultures we're not familiar with. Yet you choose to invest your most valuable commodity, time, in following Lee Radford literally to the ends of the earth. What a beautiful tacit expression of devotion; more powerful than the litany of criticism of his regime that characterises your contributions on here.

There was a good performance in there waiting to get out.
Errors and discipline cost us any momentum we might have had.
I'd be more worried if it was a good performance from a full strength side and we still got well beaten.
Still plenty to come , with players to return. Early days yet. I did think the trip to Australia could prove a distraction (even though I understand the merits of it). Bad day at the office for a large number of players!

Onwards and upwards.

To be fair, if I had thousands of pounds to spend, I'd also be on an internet message board on a Saturday night........

Defence and errors ....you can win a 4 round knockout trophy that way
A GF ??? 35 years and waiting still
Lee hopefully has all his efforts on defence

Like Wane we are not going to use the Aussie trip as an excuse as it was our choice to go and we knew what we was getting in to.

Unlike Wigan I actually thought we started quite well and seemed physically strong and up for the battle.

It was mentally where we struggled and switched off.

Allowing Webster to score without a finger being laid on him right on half time was a prime example.

We are the 4th worst team for errors (and 1 game less) - last year we were 2nd I think

How many minutes did Abdul play, hardly seemed to be on?

Need to try and sort out what to do about our centres, I don't like carrying one on the bench. The fact we had to take one of our most dangerous players off in Connor, just to give Carlos some game time.

I though the game changed when they brought their bench on and we stuggked to dominate from that period.