Quote ="tb"I see we're to be treated to top class musical entertainment again, as well! www.castigers.com/ "Bruce Game as Freddie Mercury" – I can scarcely contain myself '" Christ above, I could do better design work than that.

Quote ="tb"I see we're to be treated to top class musical entertainment again, as well! www.castigers.com/ "Bruce Game as Freddie Mercury" – I can scarcely contain myself '" Christ above, I could do better design work than that.

we will see

It was. And i am sure he was the ref against Huddersfield in the Friendly. He was hopeless.

Ha! sorry about the "text speak" iam doing this off my nokia n96 so its like texting to me! My laptop is on its way. Ist talking e banned on here too?!

Judging by some of the posts we have seen and you will see in the forthcoming season, I think you're safe

Well when you consider that Brough deserved to be sent off for what he did, you can't exactly say it cost us our SL place. Every referee has to have a first SL game and being a match official is a constant learning curve - but how else are we to move forward if match officials from lower leagues with potential don't get a chance?

I agree with some of what you are saying and all ref's have to learn the trade, my point is that having Leahy take charge of this game, indirectly cost us our place in Superleague.
I'm not saying Brough didn't deserve to get sent off, as what he did was stupid and childish, I'm saying is that the ref had an abysmal game and made a catalogue of basic errors, the frustration was building in many of the Cas players on the day, in particular, Brough, who totally lost it and was sent off.

Whilst Brough has to ultimately take responsibility for this, the referee was so inept that I believe had a different ref controlled the game, this wouldn't have happened.

I believe Brough missing 3 games cost us our place in Superleague, wherever the blame lies.

Who....?"Bruce Game as Freddie Mercury" or "J Leahy "


Sad to say, can't make it up this weekend, but here's hoping for a decent game and the best team getting the points.....
Quins by 15

What affected us that season was our own ineptness and complete inconsistency on too many occasions, irrespective of the standard of refereeing in any game. Combine that with the fact that our paper-thin squad was completely burnt out for the last 8 matches of the season (of which we won only one); and I think you have a far more convincing argument of why we were ultimately relegated.

Hi

Last time at Cas I had to get my concession (Student) ticket from a ticket office style building. Is this still the case?

Thanks.

According to my friend, this is still the case.

Weather update - staying with my parents in Hull and they seem to have had pretty heavy snow in last 24hrs. How is Castkleford? Any threat to the game?

Looking forward to it years since i have been to Cas and son visiting for the 1st time.

Had some snow yesterday but nothing major and it's all pretty much melted away now.

Sunny but chilly at the moment and I'm sure they'll be no problems with the match being on.

The Cas ground staff are always on the ball and will have the pitch in top condition.

Cheers.

Heads up for anyone (like me) who can't make the game... the last two lines of [url=http://www.ayberspace.co.uk/ayberspace/php-files/news.php?readmore=419THIS[/url might be of interest.

Yep pity we're not world beaters

You played bad. We were just worse.

Or your maybe not the world beaters you thought you were going to be

Who said we thought we were going to be world-beaters?

This is Cas we're talking about. I expect the worst every season.

Unlucky!!!!
We snatched the game from you either side of half time, but don't forget, this is the first game of the season & a lot has been learnt by both sides.
Come the end of the season, I think we will be in the mix, & hopefully you will be too.
By the way, thanks for letting us have "Dorny" back!!!!

The try just before half-time was down to Sargent being a lazy b-stard and not wanting to drive the ball in. We should know by now that Dorn pounces on any stray passes you throw after all the games he did it in last year. It was just silly play.

Definitely a forgettable game to say the least. Cas didn't seem to know what to do when they got towards the try line which was worrying. I think when Sherwin is back we'll be a lot more dangerous.

I can't believe some of those shocking passes that were being thrown about near Dorn, we should know better than anyone (except maybe Warrington

) what he can do.

Sargent had a shocker. Hudson was a worthy MOTM, when he came back on in the second we definitely improved IMO.

All that being said, the reaction of a lot of Cas fans today was absolutely pathetic. First game of the season, losing by 4 points and booing the players is ridiculous.

Definitely a game we should have been looking to win, but all is not lost on 1 poor performance. I'm still confident we'll go well. A win or draw and we're guaranteed to finish above Wigan anyway.

As disapointed as i am with the performance of the players today. Cant fault the effort but we did play too much dumb rugby. I am more disapointed with the fact that some fans seem to just want to go to have a go at the players. I know people pay there money and have the right to there opinion but i am ashamed to be associated with some of the fans in attendance today. I am sure most fans like me down hearted because we should have won today but for fans to be booing not just at full time but at half time when we are down 6 4 makes us look nothing short of backwards and simple which im afraid a few of fans are.

Some of our fans are completely clueless, stood with my dad today which i probably wont be doing again after some of the most ridiculous comments i have ever heard from some people.

One guy was complaining how we "got rid" of Dorn and swapped him for Widders



Another comment was that we should sack Matterson because he's had 3 years and done nothing



He also seemed to think we had a divine right to beat Quins today, i tried (and failed) to explain that we have no right to win any game and that wins have to be earnt. He was more interested in the fact that we would "lose a thousand fans" just because we lost one game

I personally cannot remember the last time we won our opening Super League match.

Neither team deserved to win today imo, thought a draw would have been a fair result. We played well in spells and made a few good yards and put in an average attacking display. Defense was quite good but very lazy at times

Imho Quins were average and as has been said, the game was won and lost around half time, i wouldn't say we were worse nor better than them today.....however if we are to be serious contenders for top 8 (something which i think may be a little too much for us this season) then we need to step up, Quins/Salford/Huddersfield etc etc are teams which we should be looking to beat.