I've seen worse teams than this FC lot put 50 on you.

I'd love to see that line-up. Not at all confident Gentle will go that far though.

Same here. Think Seymour is finished not helped by the clubs handling of him either to be fair to him, Galea has disappointed me as although I thought it a strange signing I thought he may have been a shrewd signing but in all honestly he just like someone needs to put a fork in him as he is done.

Plus other usual automatics in the 17 need to look at themselves as Saturday was an unacceptable performance altogether, the only positive was Lineham continues to show improvement and desire.

I think one improvement that has got to be made is when the interchanges take place. Many other teams performances seem to improve when they start interchanging players and up the pace; ours seems to drop and the new players take time to settle in.

When Heremaia came on on Saturday it looked like he had been training with a different team; no one was putting themselves in a position to receive a pass. I don't know whether that is down to him, the other players or more probably the coaching.

Similarly I do not know why Lynch is being substituted more regularly. He generally played 70 or 80 minutes each game last season without any drop in performance. It seems a waste of an interchange but then we are not party to the information the coaching staff have about player's fitness etc.

Westerman also needs to up his game. He has scored tries but is just as likely to try a risky and unsuccessful offload or give a penalty away. He is a very talented player but I'm not sure about his work ethic. He should be capable of doing for us what John Wilkin does for Saints and Sinfield for Leeds; a skilful mobile forward who can lead by example and even play in the backs if required.

I think Cas will be a difficult match. They have signed some very experienced players. Their problem will be keeping them fit throughout the year.

As a final comment about Seymour - and I am aware of the news a lttle while ago. I appreciate that his confidence may have taken a knock with all the news about other half backs coming in etc but all he needed to do on Saturday was put in a competent - not brilliant, just competent - performance and he would at least have stayed in the squad or started if Holdsworth is not fit. As a professional we were entitled to at least that.

Having said all that I retain a degree of optimism about the season as a whole!

Top post in all respects. There was one play in the first half where Heremaia got totally flattened while he was waiting for someone (anyone) to give him some running options around him. After he played the ball you could see him playing holy hell with his team mates. If there's criticism of the coaching for me then it would be that regardless of playing personnel that kind of thing should never be happening.

Massive pressure on the players this week and they need to handle it. Everyone is expecting a win and after some players reactions on Saturday, some fans will be baying for blood.

Expecting a win? I demand a win!

You and ten thousand others.

Not sure I drop Houghton, just watched game again and he better than Heremia on Saturday, we looked better with Houghton on.

Also he was excellent against saints, totally outplayed roby, he major problem isn't with our pack it's our backs and halfbacks, at times our forwards laid te platform, only for us to spread it out wide and drop it or produce an appalling kick on the last tackle.

I'd look to drop Yeaman, he is making too many errors always seem to be a crucial times, but who plays centre, whiting maybe.

McDonnell
Lineham
Crooks
Whiting
Briscoe
Horne
Holdsworth
Johnson
Heremia
Lynch
Westerman
Galea
Green

Watts
O meley
Houghton
Pitts

Swap Galea for Tickle and I'd go with that. The more I calm down about Saturday the more I realise how difficult it's going to be for Gentle to follow through his threat.

A classic troll!



However I, along with most other Cas fans, are thinking similar. After some really tough games and some good performances, a game against an out of sorts Hull FC team holds no fears. However most of us, or at least those of us that have had the misfortune of following Cas for a while, know that a good performance one week is no guarantee of one the following week. I'm predicting a pretty close match on Friday.