Tonight I fear that the record book of biggest ever defeat by Cas could get smashed out of the water !
I hope I'm massively wrong, but 70+ is a real possibility.

Ryan McGoldrick
Greg Eden
Joe Arundel
Brett Ferres
Richard Owen
Dean Widders
Rangi Chase
Nick Fozzard
Adam Milner
Jacob Emmitt
Stuart Jones
Oliver Holmes
Steve Snitch

Nathan Massey
John Davies
Daryl Clark
Rob Parker

Was there any point turning up putting a side like that out?

Make no mistake we are against it like never before tonight but can you imagine if we get a result? it would surely go down as our greatest win in the regular season in the super league era with all the factors against us.
Cas have however given no indication of any great performance comming into this game so lets hope Wigan take us lightley and we can make inroads early doors.
Salford are breathing down our necks and at the very least we need a performance against the champs to take us forward into the next round so COME ON CAS GET INTO EM!!
Heres hoping!!

Yup. Will be a pounding. I see O'Loughlin still sees the need to cheat though. His moving off the mark is shocking.

What's with the booing of Ratboy?
Leave it to Leeds fans please

Brilliant 1st half. UP THE FORDS

That's the Wigan fans.

Pure guts on display tonight with everything we could have hoped for performance wise and if a few of those video decisions had gone our way then who knows? Felt sorry for Greg Eden tonight as he was really left exposed to the high kicks out wide but ran the ball in well.
Ryan Mcgoldrick was superb as was Emmet and the two young props Massey and Davies playing against grand final winners and not taking a backward step. IMO we deserved a draw but "deserve"dosent get the result does it.
Very proud.

IMO Eden was exposed because Rangi constantly came out of the line of defence, which left Eden all on his own with at least 2 Wigan players in front of him

Correct. In addition, if you have your 2 smallest players on one side of the defence, of course they are going to get bombed. Especially when one is a young un.

Agreed, it was a shame for the lad as he was left exposed but I am sure we will be seeing more of him this season.
Fozzard and Emmet both injured tonight to take the gloss of the performance and our lack of numbers up front is a worry but Massey and Davies are both playing some good stuff so its not all bad.
Lets just hope we can carry this performance onto the next match.

Tbh I've never rated Massey at all but he has done well over the past few games

We really need some props, we have Bradford next and they're a big unit

Well done Cas you put up a good fight



Only wish our lot would do the same

They did at the start of the season. All sides go through a bad patch, players will learn and come back stronger.

Great game by the castleford boys.....I thought Mcgoldrick was your man of the match tonight, and chase was a pain in the all night! You gave us a proper fright tonight, and if you continue to play with the enthusiasm you did tonight you've got no worries about staying in the eight!!!! Well played and good luck with the rest of the season!

Matt

You were MASSIVELY WRONG. Time to acknowledge that fact...

Yes. Yes there was.

Yep



Fantastic effort

Eden is older than Josh Charnley.

I'm quite surprised at that actually. That said, Eden has been waiting in the wings for some time - he's a really talented young player who simply lacks first team experience. Josh Charnley is an outstanding talent and one who's been given that opportunity and stood up well to the task - that's no doubt helped him to develop as a player. Hopefully it'll be the same for Eden.

I was surprised myself as I thought Eden was a bit younger than he actually is. Last nights experience will do him no harm if he uses it positively.

You only need to look back at Wigans game v Wire at Wigan earlier in the season when Charnley gifted Wire two tries. It happens to many young players.

That's precisely my point and as you say, hopefully he'll use the experience positively.