Carney is still banned sadly for us. We can score plenty as you say but the defence is what we have to work on first and after that we'll be fine.....hopefully.

we are conceding 40 most weeks and not giving ourselves a chance

for example, losing 38-30 at Catalans, 42/26 at Leeds, 30-30 at London

we are scoring enough points to win 75% of our games, alas we are only conceding less than 30 every fifth game.

If we defend well we give ourselves a chance against any SL team. It just doesn't happen often enough.

Hull 44 Cas 26 my prediction

also, it'll be a great week for Carney - as he is banned, he cannot get banned

Just my opinion bud.. After a weeks rest i think the boys will come out like a train. Morale will have lifted with Miller arriving and there seems to be a buzz going through the camp. I'll stick to a 20 point margin.

After the shambles in France we need to win by 30+

I think it will be a contest up until the hour mark where you will then take it by more than it should be.

Cas 24-38 Hull

I don't think you'll score 24 past us. Defence has been key for us barring the French farce. I think it'll be tight for the most part Hull by 10.

Chase isn't good enough, on his own, to do any real damage to our defence. I'd be surprised if Cas score more than two tries.
Hopefully our attack can click and I'll back us for a comfortable win by 2+ scores.

in out last five games we have scored 30, 49, 30, 30, and 24

I think we will score more than twelve points based on this, but you are right, you've been defending well.

I'm sure Hull won't be preparing in the train of though that Chase is our only dangerous player - we have two very good hookers who really capitalise on QPTB's which has been our main threat this season.

Again this has gone largely unnoticed because of our inability to defend - as it probably will on Friday

Will be a tough game. Key for me is that in the first five minutes we don't look like we've been on holiday for a fortnight. We played with holiday intensity in France and then have had a few days off since. The break for the players was a good move however it's over now and they have to rediscover the Wire/Leeds intensity ready for kick off time on Friday.

Never easy at Cas due to short pitch and closeness of crowd.
For reason we rarely do as well there as we think we should.

I imagine Cas will get stuck in to us and try to stop us playing expansive rugby.

The key will be sticking to the game plan; their defence isn't the strongest and they lack pace. If our forwards can dominate theirs then we will win.

I think we've only lost once and drawn once at Castleford in the last 10/11 years.

We do have pace actually. Just a defence that is lacking at times !!!