Saints are too quality a team to let it worry them for too long, they will come strong again when they get their troops back at the back end of the season.

The number of injuries looks worrying though and maybe it is the fitness regime that is at fault. Not that Cas will be bothered one bit about Saints problems !

Anyone know which way Long and Gleeson are betting on this game? I might believe your story if i knew this answer!

Sneak a PM in on the Hull board and you might come up with some inside info!

Our youngsters have more than stood up to the challenges chucked their way since the start of the season. I'm not saying that we will win, but I'm certainly not writing them off and will be there tomorrow singing them on. They will give their utmost and that is good enough. And Cas is my favourite place to go to, love the Jungle (sorry Probiz), and I'll support them wholeheartedly against anyone else! Look forward to seeing as many of you as possible tomorrow!

Hmmm seem to remember a similar situation at leeds a few seasons ago when they (cough, cough) turned out an academy side..................

Now let think what happened........................ then err................................................... 'nuff said.

The thing is, I don't look at Saints youngsters and see a push over. I see some good youg lads and we've got some equally young kids in too. I think we'll be seeing a few points on the board from both sides.

Ditto here.

Saints have got a good production line in flow and nurture them so they come up ready to play first team. Look at the likes of Eastmond, Lomax, Clough, Ashurst, Dixon, Gaskell, Wheeler, Armstrong, Foster, etc.

All have played first team and not looked out of place. Not just that but the starting Saints 13 is strong enough to beat us too.

It sounds like Dixon is moved back out to the wing, with Jordan Thompson at centre.

No Fozzard or Widders in the pack, think its a back 3 of Holmes,Snitch and Aspinwall..with Hudson and Ferres on the bench.

The Saints team have some youngsters in but their pack look strong

Come on CAS

C'mon Cas

Oh no, bad injury to Huby

Carried off on stratcher apparently - hope not too bad his missus gonna need him!!

Bugger...........

I think I would rather have been thrashed than go down to a last second try.
Will we ever beat Saints away?

Thrown it away again. Never a better chance to beat Saints away. Three games on the bounce now we've not played smart rugby right up to the final whistle. That's 5 points we've thrown away when in winnable position. Talking about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

Cant spake


but totally agree

i know how you feel mate (seriously) thats how we felt at wigan good friday.

Fuming that we can't keep a lead. Absolutely gutted. Been told Bentham had. Shocker on a few decisions. P1ssed off that the players let it slip away again.

That's exactly what I said afterwards. Bentham made some poor calls for both sides.

Yep, these ones stand out (just confirmed on the radio)
Saints had 2 sets of 7 and Cas had 2 sets missing a tackle.

The winning try also came on the 7th tackle I think.

If that is true, that's abysmal and Cas should lodge a complaint.

Won't make a difference to the result, though. Still a game we've lost and still this awful feeling.

2 Sets of seven? I dont like to dwell on poor ref decisions but if true that is a tough one to take!
Life is too short anyway and like Matterson said its good that we have a short turn around to get back on the horse on friday.
Ok we are in a bit of a valley right now but even though Leeds have shown that they are no pushovers against Bradford I still feel we have it in us to give them a game.
UP THE TIGERS!!

Wow. Cracking performance from the referee. Lots of crap calls. Don't blame our players as we actually did very well and deserved the win for me. Not much you can do when the ref won't give any call your way. There's no bad feelings towards Saints, they're a good side and you know they can always nick it at the death. Gutted that they did it though.

How many times did Saints drop the ball and he'd give the decision their way? They even scored a try from a blatant knock on in my opinion (and many others). worst bit about this was the linesman actually laughing at the Cas fans for the decision. Did anyone even see the referee signal last tackle when he pulled Cas up for the hand over? Not a single player on the field did because no one played to it, on either side. We could go on I know we could. Saints are a good side but they honestly wouldn't have won without the calls today.

Well done Saints anyway, see you in the grand final for our revenge!

Seems Terry isn't too happy.

I have to applaud TM for showing restraint over the last few weeks. It would have been so easy to let fly.

We've really had the short straw with the refereeing of late and it has been a contributory factor in our recent run of form without a doubt.

The referee's think thay are the stars of the show.
The RFL need to get a grip and sort it out or fans will walk away.
You cant have referee's determine the result of games, unfortunatly this is happening.