Why is Shorrocks back on? He is abysmal at dummy half.

You know what, despite my earlier comment I’m quite happy with this performance. We’ve just asserted ourselves and took advantage of Cas who have been extremely poor, the bulk of that blame has to lie with Richardson who has been awful.

Singleton has been outstanding IMO. Really led the pack and made hard yards and been strong in D. Zak has been brilliant too.

Still evident Smith is struggling with confidence. That ball for Gildart was indicative of what he can do but we don’t see it often enough.

Lam coach of the year

We’ve gone about our business very quietly, yet very well today. Yes, Cas have been poor, but you can only lick what’s in front of you.

Bullock embarrassing…could’ve & would have given Cas a leg up in this game on another day.

Lam baffling with the O’Neill selection & rotation. Surely the type of game to keep him on on to grow confidence in a dominant performance. The bloke seems clueless.

Fair play there.

Fair play to the boys - that took some guts. Cas were woeful. Singleton, Bibby and Halsall were good.

We simply don't have the attacking structures to give ourselves a chance at the end of the year but its a step forward at least.

Never doubt Tricky Dicky!

Happy to see some smiles on the faces of some of the players. Bullock needs to leave quietly after that shambles though. Very clunky as usual, it’s hard on that pitch to create space at the best of times as it’s tiny but something to build on. Hope the forum goes well tomorrow and we get proper answers to the mess we’ve seen.

Never saw that coming. Credit where it’s due and a great win at a difficult ground for us.

D was excellent

A doff of the owd cap to you Dicky
I’d have never thought that we could win tonight and score some decent points.

I’ve lost on the coupon but I’m a happy chappy to lose.

Phil Clarke seemed disappointed, loved Powell’s classy summation of the game not one bit of credit to
Wigan.

Fair call. Fair play to you!

Big effort, massively relieving win. It doesn't mask our major issues though, we don't have a chance of making the GF. That in itself is a huge question that IL and KR need to have an answer for. I don't expect a public admission of any huge issue, and as such no explanation/answer will be given in public.

I’m pretty happy after that. I thought we were good until the starting props went off. At that point we started dropping the ball and making mistakes and invited them to have a go. Defence was good but their attack was woeful, their execution was very, very poor, as much as I’d like to praise us the reality is they lost that game.

The last 2 tries pleased me, particularly the last as we opened them up by passing the ball. I’m hoping that might give us a bit of confidence and belief.

I think it’ll go better after that, if we’d have been walloped again they’d have needed a ring of steel around them.

Still that performance should not detract from where we are as a club. That’s one of the handful of good performances we’ve had under Lam - and we still had issues in attack. D was magnificent, no criticism there. Nevertheless Lam is our main issue and needs to leave ASAP. I expect tomorrow to begin with announcements such as our coaching staff for 2022, the return of Wane and maybe some player signings then the questions.

We should though enjoy that. It was far from vintage but it was efficient. Keeping Cas scoreless is no mean feat and the players should be praised for that.

Oh yes! that last one, I thought, More Of This Sort Of Thing!

Wigan are back. Still wouldn’t be at all surprised to see you in Grand Final, overall standard is so low!

My missus is gonna kill me

The Wire/Saints match looks like its from a different league.

Doesn't it just! Plenty of errors, but a decent contest.

Watched the game after work without knowing the score, well that was a pleasant surprise

Powell is old school in so many ways ... not least in his habit of following the Peter Fox / Tony Barrow / Dougie Laughton tradition of letting that chip on his shoulder do all the talking whenever he's unexpectedly lost.

Worth the trip. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves, we were ordinary with the ball again but the defensive effort was great. I’ve not seen Cas play that bad against us at their place in all my time but we’ll take it. It can only be a starting point for us if we want to make the play offs and then make some sort of impression but at least a foundation we can try and build from.

I thought Hardaker and Hastings went well. Halsall has to keep that wing spot, to ensure the pack is as strong as it can be, Harry Smith was much improved and the pack was game. We’ll need far far more next week and beyond but we’ll see how we go.

Told ya