But you wouldnt think so listening to that pair of Blithering Idiots on Sky.

lets be fair, it was a vastly under strength castleford team with all their best players missing.... it was a straight forward walk in the park.



we did play well though.

Scratchy

Wewere Shit in parts, switched off.

Very average performance.

I thought we responded well from last week, 48-10 is a very good result.

I thought we were alright, very good defensively just made a few too many errors. Playing against the Cas B team I expected a win but our performance was better than I expected. MMonas had a good game, made some outrageous dummies.

We were nowhere near excellent and it's a good job Cas didn't have any of their big guns playing. Couldn't believe it when we were 18-0 up, they'd been battering us. Some good tries though, including a bit of wizardry from Monas (before he started throwing a few shockers). Trent and Woody need to buck their ideas up. I thought Atkins played well.



Plus Roy had his best game for us yet.

That performance made me realise just how far we have fallen from a couple of years ago. Despite missing half their team Cas played with energy and enthusiasm and were exciting to watch. Lots of darting runs, always a player backing up and they ran hard onto the ball.



We could do with a bit of that.

Defended well; played okay.



Westwood and Waterhouse look massively out of shape!

After last week I really wanted to see us start well and we didn't in fact we started poorly again. I want to see our early completion rates high and us defending the opposition in their own half. We were good in the second half and had a good spell in the first half.



I thought Atkins was very good again, he is looking much more like his former self these days. Grix looked sharper, we have really missed this guy, him playing also allowed Harrison to play prop and I think it suits him there. With hill it's got to the point that we don't even need to review his performance. We were pretty good all over the park Russell solid in defence and got a nice try assist for ratchford which was good to see, more of that in attack please matty. Rhys Evans came up with 2 try saving tackles and 2 tries so a good return from him. Those 4 props for the rest of the season would be nice.

We really shouldn't be conceding so many goal line drop outs against an excellent reserve set up or defending so many sets early in the game. Poor handling & a resulting massive defensive effort were our undoing last week.

I thought our attack was poor again and we lack direction, we desperately need a proper halfback.

I don't think we played particularity well, but did TS know that we would win this game so reigned the Lads in a bit.



Only to let them loose from here on in against the Giants, Saints & Wigan and then on in to the Play offs.