GAME ON : Castleford Tigers v St. Helens - 20:00:00

GENERAL CHAT ABOUT THE GAME, BUILD UP, THE ACTION AS IT HAPPENS AND AFTERMATH BELOW.

Why the hell is that pitch side reporter, Bill, shouting about the Tony Gigot story?

We can hear you, you've got a microphone, you daft apeth!

Also, why do they Sky team insist on called Saints "The Saints"?

2 poor VR decisions for me. I think both were tries.

Are Saints trying to throw this away?

agreed, and Saints got screwed on the breakaway which was pulled back. Should be 6-20 here.

Saints look the better side but are still making a fair few mistakes. They might regret not putting Cas away.

Seems like it. If they could hold onto the ball and stop throwing forward passes they'd be much further infront.

How good is Roby though, still? Wow.

Brilliant defence by Saints. They'd be another 2 or 3 scores up if they could hold the ball I reckon.

Given our capitulation earlier in the year I was happy with 0-0 after ten minutes.

Richardson should have played past the whistle and appealed for a video ref.

Not sure having smith on the pitch with 2 other half backs is going to help

Amor never grounded the ball anyway..... But Richardson should have been play on for a try as well as ours so they cancel each other out.

Saints good for the 8 lead at half time. We haven't been able to break them down. Seems boring but would of liked us to take the 2 late on just to be back within 1 score.

How did the 3 officials miss that high tackle? Disgusting

Obvious who Hicks wants to win.

Putting huge pressure on ourselves from the terrible kick off.

Nice try that.

Saints deserve this. Totally dominated in defence.

Saints have shut down Cas's left hand side quickly all night and they've just looked like they have no idea what to do if that shift play doesn't come off.

great peformance by saints

For me it looks like the week off has benefited the one team and not the other.

Great performance by Saints. Goes to show they are a team to watch for rest of season.

Doesn't matter too much for Cas as it just delays the inevitable. However it is a little worrying our attack struggled on our home turf where we average over 30 points a game. Just hoping once we get Webster, Eden and Moors back, we get back to playing how we did at start of season. If not we will be settling for LLS and getting beat on home soil in play offs.

Tonight just confirmed what I have thought for a few months now, about both teams.

The cas crumble has started. Wouldn't be surprised at all to see saints in the GF. They're not great in attack but their defence is very strong

Should be a good game against Hull next week

2 Games in a row Saints have been white hot.

They are a decent bet for the Grand Final.

Did Hull crumble after getting beat 45-0 @ Magic?
Did Hull crumble after losing 3 games in a row?
Did Cas crumble after losing to Salford?
Did Cas crumble after losing twice to Hull?

It was a loss, Saints were fantastic last night i thought, I also thought we (Cas) were poor and looked a yard off the pace, maybe that was because of the little break (Saints look to have handled that better).

What it doesnt mean is Cas are crumbling, teams lose. And in the long run, this might actually benefit us, as much as winning every game is nice, losing some tight games gives as much experience as winning tight games.

They've still got Barba to come into the side as well.

For me Cas looked to have no energy. Maybe the week off had the reverse effect. Saints were fantastic and predicted everything from the Powell's attacking tactics but the attack was in slow motion at times.