Confident on this one. Back at home and it would be a good chance for us to kick start our season.

They look decent in the three quarters but nothing scary in the pack. If our edge defence is tight and we rattle Jake the snake early doors could be our first win. Still probably a close one but I’m on at Cas +4pts so happy with that.

Tigers v Giants - R4 SL

pirate

Cas by 12 if we can spread the ball

yorky

cas 10 hudds 32

Maturecasfan

yorky

Sadly I think you could be close.
Hudds got a strong team out, ours are still learning to become a gelled team.
Effort alone won’t win games.
I can only see another defeat.

TheFirm

With the props we have available i’m not sure we can compete with the Huddersfield pack. Sadly I think they win it by 16.

yorky

it hurts me to say it but we are an average championship team & im not sure if the club are saving up for a big spend on players for next season (thats if there is no relegation) but if London win a game we are down!

stuey

yorky

I think we will be down anyway at the end of the season, either on performance by finishing bottom or by the IMG proposals.

stuey

I cann not see anything better than a 20 points defeat, but hope I am wrong..

mucky1978

stuey

Agreed
Think we will have 3 years in Championship till ground is sorted.

Matt

First game for me this year so I’m hoping it’s going to be a good one.

Going to go Cas by 6. Close game but we’re always just a little too much for them. That’ll do me. 🤞

stuey

This is looking ominous.

They could get 70.

stuey

Clueless in attack. Useless in defence.
The Sky guys state we have 10 players out - I make it 3 - McShane Richardson & Watts.
Who are the other 7?

TheFirm

stuey El Zakham and a fully fit Hindmarsh walk into that side. JQQ ahead of Simms. I’d to see Hodson in the centres when fit with Broadbent at fullback as well. With the 3 you mentioned I reckon they all improve us a bit.

The others missing like Mustapha etc are squad players.

Hepworth

stuey Qareqare,Hodson, Griffin, Tate, Mustapha are injured, Hindmarsh Takyi not fit enough to play yet. One unnamed player failed a pre match fitness test. Add them to the suspended Watts, Macca and Richardson and there’s your 10. Namo was well short of match fitness and was only able for short minutes,as was Vete and I think we all know if we see Albie on the field we are in deep trouble.

Matt

One of the worst group of players I’ve seen in years. With or without the injuries.

TheFirm

It really was dire last night. Bar a handful none of this squad are getting in any other super league team bar maybe London.

Maturecasfan

Hepworth

El-zakham was the one who failed the fitness test.
Hopefully back for Catalan next week.

Matt

Last night I paid £30 for the ticket - forgot to buy one in advance and ended up paying full price to see that performance.

I pay less than that to have Sky sports and with every fixture now being televised what incentive is there to attend the matches? We massively screwed up in 2018 and failed to kick on from our successful season, if we had continued to invest in talent there’s no reason why we shouldn’t be contesting titles and cups. The club sat and took all the plaudits and then went back to their old ways taking the cheap route.

Over the last few years I’ve been losing interest in the sport. The RFL’s decision to keep messing with the rules and structure isn’t helping and the clubs lack of ambition just makes it difficult to enjoy.

I love Cas - I’ve been a supporter for a long time now and even through all the rough patches I’ve been in the same spot each home game supporting what ever team came out of the tunnel however I’m tired of watching crap week in week out while every other club around us improves.

Maturecasfan

Matt

I could have written that myself, well apart from paying £30, mine was a freebie, thank god.
Stuck by them from being ¾ years old.
Had a season ticket from being 10yrs old, right up to lock down.
I have no incentive to watch that shower.
Might as well go watch lock lane, least it’ll be a competitive game and not one sided.
Until we stop bringing players in on the cheap, this will be the rugby churned out.
Until Gratton and Fulton goes nothing will change.

stuey

Things will get worse as we have Catalans away next week followed by a cup tie (unless its`s a home match against a lowly ranked Championship side), that will be another loss, then Leeds at home. Very likely it will be played 7 lost 7 by the end of March.

mdean

stuey No confidence going to France, in good form it is a tough ask>

I have a lot of nerves about the Challenge Cup - Fev or Wakey away would be about the worst thing. That would really make looking down the barrel of the rest of the season very grim indeed.

Essentially have the end of season awards there and then!

Hepworth

Could be a completely different line up by the time we get to Leeds and Salford at home but it needs to be after last night. Looking at who is due back by then we could be looking at a minimum five changes to the starting 13 plus the likes of Namo and Hindmarsh will have some much needed minutes in their legs. So all not lost yet but if we don’t perform in those two games with our front line troops black it’ll be a very bleak outlook.