Reason being?

Oh dear dear dear. Do you pop little children's balloons at parties, too? It must be awful being a cheerless curmudgeon.

Totally agree with the Jones comment, i think he has really struggled towards the back end of last season and the start of this one, but yesterday he was immense, especially in defence, and would have been my man of the match.

Happy with the result yesterday. However, by the end of the game I was spitting feathers at the amount of times we dropped the ball whilst trying to get over the line. Not good for the blood pressure!!

The players need to keep building on the wins, gain a little more confidence and be a little more decisive about the plays they do.....and don't make. There were separate occasions where Arundel, Chase and Ferres all could have gone over the line. However, by the time they had actually decided to go for it, the window of opportunity had gone, as had the opportunity to play to a man on the outside who could also have gone over. The confidence will come with game time, and we are off to a great start.

Roll on the Catalan game on Saturday!!

Well done cas much deserved win yesterday great supporters and made us feel welcome good luck for rest of the season .

Doing this in the second half won us the game. That second 40-minutes was a very dominant performance by Cas, against a team who are not easy to dominate; and whilst chances were bombed, how many games like that did we play in last season where we simply couldn't create the chances in the first place?

I thought that the turning point in the game was just before half time when we kept KR out for 4 consecutive sets and broke away for Youngquest to score. Any other season we would have had our goal line defence broken and been at least 14 points behind, this gave us the impetus for the rest of the match. We do however need a centre that is going to get the ball to the winger, surely it's time to give Isa a run and put Ferres back where he belongs, at loose forward. I agree the forwards were immense and special praise should go to Emmet and Jackson for the work they got through.

I would definitely get Ferres back in the forwards. He looked a little lost with ball in hand and knocked on a few times. However his defence is great. I would put Isa at Centre and probably start Ferres off Bench to cover back row and centres. He is great for playing in many positions.

One of my points also is about Hudson. Would anyone drop Clark or Milner to bring him back?

Isa seems to be on form for the U20's (hat trick this weekend www.castigers.com/article.php?id=1323) so I'd get him in the centre in place of Ferres.

Isa seems to be on form for the U20's (hat trick this weekend www.castigers.com/article.php?id=1323) so I'd get him in the centre in place of Ferres.

Whilst that was a turning point, and rather a fortunate one, we couldn't have won the game without completely overhauling our discipline at the break. I'm also not sure how Ferres is supposed to get the ball to his winger, when his winger fails (on several occasions) to come inside for the inside pass.

Exactly as were were discussing last night, he was giving the signals to youngquest, they need to talk to each other more

Not at the moment but Clark is only 17 so unlikely to play every week of a 27 game season so there'll be a return for Ryan somewhere along the line. It may even be back in the back row at first.

IIRC, he was originally signed to replace Vowles at loose forward.

I actually would drop Clark. "Drop" being the wrong choice of words of course. I'd bring back Hudson if he's 100% for the game against Catalan. Hooker is a tough position (you would hardly believe it way Adam and Daryl are playing) and Catalans are a very tough, aggressive side. I'm not saying they are dirty by the way. Hudson will get through lots of work but of course will not offer us that little spark in attack Clark does. But he's experienced and will relish the physical battle of Cat's.

There's no rush with the kids. Not playing Clark now will not hinder his progress one bit but playing him too much could.

If it aint broke, don't fix it

The good thing about using Clark against Catalans is that they have a very big pack. If we can put out a full compliment of forwards and bash them up the middle and tire them out, Clark can come and take advantage of slow defence to get some penalties for us.

That's often a good mindset. But then there's also other ways to look at things. Tomorrow at work we'll be stripping machinary down for preventative maintenance. Nothing is broke, but we like to tinker regularly to stop it breaking down unexpectadly.



The longer he leaves it without tinkering the more open he'll be to critisism in the long run which ever way he goes with his team selections. You know what folk are like. If he changes and we lose you'll be saying he should have stuck with the same team and if he doesn't change and loses i'll be saying he should have! lol It's up to totally up to TM in the end and he'll reap the praise or take the flack for it. We'll just help our week along talking crap on here about it.

Because catalans will beat you next week.

Surely its bed time little one

Only in 15 minutes.

A Wigan fan jealous of our position? Well, I never thought I'd live to see the day!

Genius.

Forgot to come on here and congratulate you on your win at the weekend, always like coming to cas, shame about the result but at the moment we look devoid of ideas and confidence. Cas played very similar to how cats were the week before (although cas seem a lot better). Once your lot realised if they controlled discipline and kept it simple we were shot, we coughed up too much ball and just seemed to feel sorry for ourselves.

Reckon you'll have an easyish win against the French and only a wire distruction of Wakey will stop you being top again this time next week.

You were missing Michael Dobson and he makes a big difference to your team. As for the Wire destruction of Wakefield - I'd not be surprisee to be honest if that happened.

Not so sure – watching the weekend's highlights against Saints, they looked a different team to the one on display at Cardiff.