Can't complain really. Some big wins recently. 3 big mistakes cost us the game. Defence was epic for both teams at times. Not too long ago if we had gone down to 20-4, we'd have given up and Cas would have got 40. The team spirit is excellent again this year.

A really disappointing defeat for me. To score 4 tries to 3 when we gifted them 2 of those and the other came from a really poor last tackle play and to come away with nothing is pretty galling. I thought the defence was excellent. We dealt with their fancy shift plays with ease and I don't remember them creating one real try scoring opportunity all night.

Overall I thought the weather probably did for us more than cas or the ref (who I thought made some poor decisions on both sides). The wet conditions led to us being too conservative with the ball early on which made it easy for cas to defend, plus it made it really hard for the back 3 to really get us on the front foot. Add in the dropped ball for talanoa and I reckon we'd win comfotably in the dry.

Plenty made beforehand about cas needing to beat us to give them belief but I'm not sure that being outscored 4 tries to 3 on their own patch, where 2 of those tries were from basic errors by us, really does that for them. i think we showed yet again we have the beating of them and a bit of composure and ball control in that first half would have seen a comfortable win for us.

Disappointing but encouraging for us.

I'm more worried about leeds than cas TBH

Penalty count was 7 - 6 in your favour.

I agree, a game of 2 halfs. One where we gifted you 20 points and were too conservative with teh ball, and one where the ref gifted you the 2 to win it and we opened your defence 3 times

ditto my friend on balance i think the result was right but the ref was poor

I can't see Ellis back in, and I think the club know it. He's a great asset off the pitch, but another injury could have long term implications, we missed Tuimavave and Michaels more than Ellis last night, defence wasnt a huge problem.

Could it not be argued we were pretty conservative in the second half? A mentality of, game is just about won we don't need to do anything stupid so shut up shop?

You're deluded, you didn't make a try of your own all night.

At 20-4 up we didn't really need to try and risk over playing it. Weather wasn't great so it became a bit of play the conditions.

you didn't try anything other than laying on, offside and head high shots all night. The points (other than Hardaker) all came from FC errors. Watch the game back, two poor sides and the best team lost. It happens.

Best team didn't lose. We controlled the game for 65 minutes. I appreciate you didn't play well last night. We probably contained you better then what we did in our previous encounters.

Head high shots all night

Poor support from FC last night. Only 1100. Can't wait for HKR to get back into SL.

I think radders will be more pleased then Powell after that . I think cas know we have there number and won't want to face us in the play offs . We played really poor but in my eyes should have won the game , we gifted them 12 points . I can't remember them looking dangerous at all during the game or ripping us to bits like they do most teams . Sky was going on constantly about there defence all night , but apart from hardakers try which was fortune from shauls kick we defended really well ourselves . I wouldn't want to avoid cas later on in the year and I don't think there as good as some make out .

Maybe Radders should have attributed the loss to us turning in our worst performance of the season.
Worked for Powell the last two times we've played them....

Good post, my thoughts to. And pretty much exactly what I said before the game regarding the weather . A few posters thought the wet weather would help in our favour, clueless. Like you say really stopped fonua , tala getting on the front foot