Brilliant result for the game!

Nice to see a bit of romance in the CC again. Cas clearly have problems behind the scenes. Great achievemnt for Barrow.

yeah great! small town club with ***te stadium beats another one.

Cas are "concentrating on the league"

Indeed.

Castleford are the most forward thinking club in SL. The first top flight club to recognise the demise of the Challenge Cup and to move it's resources away from the cup to the league. I expect Widnes to overturn Wigan and the eventual winners will be Batley.

Quite poor trolling, or you're just stupid.

That would be the level of a play-off place last season?

The usual type of cup upset , a top tier club struggling coming up against a lower tier club in decent form but with some quality in the team

Well done Barra , with your draw in the next round you are looking at a quarter final spot , hope you make the semi's

The Challenge cup lives on

I think they are hoping for a quarter final slot at home against the WIGOONS, they put on a good show against them last year.........maybe the raiders see it as unfinished business.
The barrow club are playing all the right tunes......rail cup finals, championship winners, giant killers, if they could get a new ground, they would be ticking all the right boxes.

would expansion negate stadium point for point?

they are the best all round contender for SL

Rumours coming from other forum sites Terry Matterson has resigned

get back to the recording studio gahan

barrow should be in SL

and glebe, annandale and university should be in the nrl

Poor, poor effort from Castleford to let a 28-12 lead slip against a side from a lower division. Westerman looked none too happy when he came out of the sheds afterwards. Rumours abound that he wont be there much longer, along with Shenton and the full back whose name escapes me at the moment.

Not sure how Cas expect to sustain SL while letting their promising youngsters go.

good luck to barrow, you can only play what's in front of you.

Nice to see a cup upset!

you mean richard owen. a source at leeds and one at cas told me the same thing

Can I so humbly also mention Blackpool's recovery from 6-18 down at half time to overturn Whitehaven 24-18



Some Championship folk didn't see that as an upset, but as a Panthers fan still living the (probably short term) dream (9 wins in a row and counting

) it was stil a shock to most of us who've been around long enough

HP or Daddies?

Gotta love the rumour mill and the unsurpassed knowledge of these 'sources', so far Shenton has signed for Saints, Wigan and Leeds, Westerman for Saints and Hull, Owen for Hull and now Leeds, all from very reliable 'sources'

apparently its not a happy camp, but i would have thought that was obvious

Yes you can, and its great to see Blackpool doing well



Out of interest how many were there?

Matterson needs to pull his finger out now



anyway I think round 5 will be a tough one for Barrow. They are playing the form team from C1 who have also beaten Fax in the NRC this year. I still think they will win but Hunslet will make a game of it.

I don't remember you spouting that rubbish after uour cup final win at headingly earlier this season. Cock 'o' north you were, gonna win the grand final, not lose another game all season you were. Now look at you. Once again humiliated and season in tatters as usual.

Not enough

- 471 including 100+ from Haven

There were a few more locals in attendance but it's hard going getting people to realise/accept that the Panthers are note a "joke" side anymore.

On the field the team couldn't really do any more - 9 wins out of 9 (after the first two game in the Northern Rail were lost to Keighley (by 2pts) and Barrow away (8-34)). In that 9 game run we've scored 72 tries, and the team plays attractive running RL.

It is clear that things are being attempted off the field, but the public of the Fylde Coast still seem to be more interested in watching Wigan/Saints than the Panthers. You only have to look at our MB as a microcosm of that problem, as the enforced switch to Friday night this week means some of our "regulars" will be at Wigan v Harlequins whereas they would have been at the Woodlands if we'd have been able to play on Sunday.

The big worry is not going up as it's obvious that outgoings greatly exceed incomings. Our Chairman seems to think that we will be competitive and viable in the Championship. The former (with some additions) I have no doubt, but financially viable? Of that I have deep reservations.

Let's just say the "older heads" are just enjoying it whilst we can

Errr
I don't think you will find any post from me after we beat Leeds first game of the season, nice try troll, i wasnt even at the match, so much for it being our cup final