Definitely and by the looks of it Hull are there for the taking. I'm not bitter about the loss, just the fact that we didn't ever really get going and make a serious game of it. We were bossed by Cas and with the pack and back line talent we have I expect more. Oh well.

As I posted on another forum, I do think you had a plan B - it just backfired miserably.



It seemed to me that plan A was to bulldoze us up the middle with the pack and boss us that way. For the first forty minutes our pack fronted up and you struggled to get any ground off the back of it.



After half-time it seemed you came out with an element of risk decided to try and throw the ball around in a bid to go around us with the pace of Cudjoe and McGillvary. This resulted in you making more handling errors and giving us the ball more often than not just inside our own half or in yours.

Just out of interest, what was Cudjoes problem after Youngquest scored his 2nd try? He was squaring up to him like he had just run over his dog or something. All he did was fall on the ball and score.

Question.



Which of our two games would you rather have won?

Both

TBH I'd say the wire one

Exactly. Come the end of the season we should be clear of Cas in points. Wire will be close to us, so we won the more important game.



And consider this, Cas played as well as they could (according to their coach and fans) and we were rubbish. But they only just beat us and with the help of an utterly terrible VR call.

winning against wire was wasted now we went on to lose at cas





but i agree cas had a completion rate of 94% , hardly missed a tackle, ganson gave us two pens to there 9.



they had a 'try' that shouldnt of been given and other tries were from kicks!



yet we were poor and only lost by 6 points

Exactly my point.

As I've stated elsewhere, to win against Wire shows we can beat a top side. To lose to Cas ought to give us a kick up the backside.

all good points fellas !!

agreed

I wouldn't want to disrespect Cas and the squad they haved assembled. In my opinion they do it the right way, bringing through talented local lads who usually end up fleshing out many other clubs from Yorkshire and beyond. Wire have shown that success can be bought, but I'd rather be a Cas fan than follow Wire...just because I like what the Castleford club stands for.



I don't think Cas will do all that badly this year and I'm sure they'll shock one or two sides, who like us will probably go into the games underestimating them. Arundel, Youngquest and Walker all look top prospects and I wish the club well. As for the Giants, we'll be back and it should be a cracker against Hull because they will be desperate for a point nevermind the win.