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| I fear it will be an almightily tough game for us (Cas). The thing is that Wigan have been in this position time after time in the last few years, and for us it is virtually new. I think they may have too much streetwiseness and know how on the day and can see them winning by 8 to 12 points.
As regards Shaun Wane's comments, it smells of mind games aka Alex Ferguson. Everyone at the Cas club, staff and fans alike, have no idea what he is referring to. The only thing that has emanated from us is that it is going to be one hell of a hard game against a top class outfit, and that we will have to be on the very top of our form is we want to progress. There are a good few of our fans that think we can or even will win, if we put our best foot forward, but what else does he expect them to say, that we have absolutely no chance and should not even bother to turn up.
That of course would be even more disrespectful, disrespectful to the competition and the BBC, who are wanting a competitive game. In all reality, it's more probably good coaching and psychology on his part, and he's using non existent and mythological comments to ensure his team are totally fired up, and focussed on the day. If it succeeds then good play on his part. He used a similar ruse against Leeds at the Magic weekend, and it certainly worked there. The only problem was he got them a tad too much worked up, and it spilled over to brawls and lets say 'close to the knuckle' action. That does nothing for the game on national TV and lets hope that it does not manifest itself in anything like that on BBC national TV on Saturday. Tough, uncompromising and competitive, yes.
As I say it is in all likelihood, good psychology and coaching. If it is not and he somehow means what he says, then I am afraid in effect it is actually disrespectful to Castleford, not Wigan. Because what he is then saying is 'That who the hell do you think you, are thinking you can come to Wigan and win'. Your a small town club and should know your station in life. Just settle for a cup run and 7th or 8th place and leave the winning of SL and the Challenge Cup to us and the other big boys such as Leeds, Saints and Wire. We do the winning here.
In effect every club who gets to this stage, should believe they can win, and Leigh and Keighley will also travel, believing they can do it. If he meant it, then Shaun's comments smack of elitism.
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| Quote ="Walter"I am impressed on reading this thread that none of you realise how arrogant the Wigan club seem to the rest of the rl world.'"
i am not impressed that on your 4 post you come on our board and slag our fans off.dont know about any other posts but i have posted not really impressed with mr wanes use of subs, picked too many unfit forwards and cas turned us over and i hope they win it.now this is for grimmy re my post of 23 july 13,i said we would win the double,he said,well he can tell you better than me.ok this year we will win the grand final again,do i have to say it again grimmy,we will win the grand final again,ok been drinking pints of jennings cumberland ale tonight,cheers every one and good night from an exiled wiganer living in keswick.
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| Quote ="zakooo"i am not impressed that on your 4 post you come on our board and slag our fans off.dont know about any other posts but i have posted not really impressed with mr wanes use of subs, picked too many unfit forwards and cas turned us over and i hope they win it.now this is for grimmy re my post of 23 july 13,i said we would win the double,he said,well he can tell you better than me.ok this year we will win the grand final again,do i have to say it again grimmy,we will win the grand final again,ok been drinking pints of jennings cumberland ale tonight,cheers every one and good night from an exiled wiganer living in keswick.'"
Did you type all that without taking a breath. You should stick to Bank's mild like me. Cheers.
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| Quote ="Trouble Darn T Lane"Your arrogance made our victory all the sweater pal
Thanks to all the genuine Wigan fans that were concerned about the tie and to those that have congratulated us after
I still fancy you for the GF'"
Hey Congratulations Cas I thought you played an outstanding game of Rugby league and your defence was top drawer. I will hold my head in shame I definitely did not see this coming and maybe if we give you a good hiding this Friday it might restore some confidence in my own prediction skills which are pretty poor after that display.
It's wasn't arrogance though I genuinely believe that we are a much better side than yourselves at full strength. If we manage to meet again this season with 2 full strength sides out hopefully you will see this unfold.
I think the word your looking for is "SWEETER" not sweater. I know a few were commenting earlier last week on here whether people from Cas went to school.
SWEATER " A knitted garment worn on the upper body, typically with long sleeves, put on over the head"
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| Firstly well done to Cas and more importantly Darly Powell; what an outstanding coach, never thought he deserved to be booted from Leeds and now he's showing his worth with another SL team, Cas fans should be very proud and rightfully so, they're game plan worked a treat... So what was it?
From what I could see not rocket science, but executed very well.
In def they arched the edges allowing their wing, centre SR to move upward when we looked to move the ball out wide, we don't play flat across the line but with dummy runners, with their edges pushing up Wigan were forced to play down the middle with no plan B (this issue has been raised before) when a team pushes up their edge defence the halves become afraid to move the ball out wide incase of an interception or hospital pass. Considering this I'm surprised Rocky wasn't brought on sooner, with his pace in the halves a 'show and go' might have caused their defence to be more hesitant when arching the edges.
This is one of the negatives when running such structured plays, yes we can interchange and slot in different players and they all will become cogs in the machine, but the opposition also know what's coming, Cas had the movement and skill to read and null our attack.
In attack cas moved the ball very well across our middle unit; once you move the ball across the middle unit the def on the edges has the slide, this is when the defence out wide is susceptible to being stretched, overlaps and falling victims of show and goes... Our middle unit at times looked too tight.
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| Quote ="zntyres"
What ab out the BLATANT lying on? Ball strip over the line..PENALTY TRY end of. First time we lie on..Penalty.
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Ball strip over the line hasn't been a penalty try for many years. Consult a rule book if you can read one through those bitter tears.
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