Gale not a bad game for someone one poster thought shouldn't have played

A place in the world club series for the winners of tomorrow’s game. Added incentive.

Actually I think this result means we are definitely in it right? Cos cas and Hull already have trophies?

Aren't Hull already in it?

Is it a 2 or 3 WCS next year? It was reduced down to 2 this year.

No, the League Leaders and Grand Final winners. By virtue now, the two Grand Finalists.

It’s only two team WCS again so it’s the two grand finalists.

Worked a treat.

Thanks for answering that. I asked the question on my team's (FC) board and got a couple of answers that were from the resident 5 year olds.

Felt sorry for Saints. Any team that scores more tries, deserves, and should be winning the game. But they haven't learnt all season on how cr@p a kicker a Percival is, and shouldn't have the job.

But finally despite that, we actually get a quality game in Super League. Took all year, but great all the same.

Quality ? Really ? Lots of effort and of course the required intensity , not sure where the quality was though

Tbf it didn't even though you won, you're very fortunate that Percival flopped with his kicking.

Did Powell leave an unused sub on the bench and play with only 16 men?

Yep. Springer didn't get on the field.

Hard to argue it didn't work for Castleford when this time they won. The game was similar to when St Helens last visited Wheldon Road - heroic defensively (and had to be) taking their chances when they came along.

Any Leeds fans there in 2004 will remember Bradford stepping it up in the Play-Offs and forcing Leeds in to needing the then available second chance. No such luxury for Castleford tonight. Not easy getting somewhere you haven't been in a while or in Cas' case have never been. Congratulations to them - well deserved.

Hope tomorrow's game will be as exciting a game to watch - could go either way. I've tipped Hull but hope I'm proved wrong.

It's not that hard when they were outscored 5 tries to 3. A kicking performance of only 1 from 5 from the opposition is not a gift you'll get many times in rugby.

Interesting then how a coach who has been heavily praised on here all year did something that McDermott gets slaughtered and called an idiot for.

Powell was an idiot for not using his sub. Its idiotic whoever does it.

I think he's hugely overrated personally. I've never got the hype.

Had Leeds walked out at Wembley having rested several players before the semi-final the tactic would have appeared to have worked. It worked in 1978, the result in 2017 suggests it didn't this time.

Castleford will be at Old Trafford in their first Grand Final having just beaten a team they lost to in their previous meeting. What part resting several key players the week before played in the victory is open to debate, the result suggests the tactic worked. In a semi-final all that matters is the result.

I think there's a difference between resting a few and picking a virtual reserve side. Cas were already missing Gale last time out - given the possibility of him not recovering in time I can see some sense in protecting other key players. I can't and don't see sense in the whole team effectively taking a week off at a time when they need to be building confidence and fluency.

If you are so in tuned to the rubbish Leeds have churned out for the last two years, then you probably won't know what quality is. That was a quality game last night, a lot of intensity, and excitement. I hope we get to see more tonight.

I'm nervous.

Well I suppose we'll never know how they'd have played if the didn't rest so many the week before. Even if they didn't I don't think that would've helped with the nerves and it was a nervy showing by them. Yes Gale held his at the end but on the whole you could see a very nervous team out there at times and it does raise a question for the GF that they were 10 up with 10 to go and proceeded to conceded 3 tries in 7 mins and lose the lead and let off by Percival having even more nerves.....that's not good whatever you think of them and their rightful worth of being champions.

We know what people think of Leeds' slim chances of beating Cas, but if it's Hull in the final then I might have to tip them because Sneyd isn't missing numerous goalkicks.

I think you raise some good points my take is that the game last night will work to Cas' favour. They have faced and avoided the abyss and like the great Leeds sides of the past gained fortitude from their ability to handle adversity. The Cas player that worry me the most would be Roberts he seemed ill equipped to deal with the pressure he single-handedly gave the momentum to Saints in the second half