He did a cracking chase back and tackle on the Cas winger. He is quick for a prop.

am sure they will play alot better once the season starts. its been seen a few times teams have bad friendlies but then do really well in season

That was Oliver Roberts.

Are you sure? It was number 16.

Mind you my eyesight is not what it was...

We weren't at full strength but we only had Carvell, Kearney and Sammut out who in my mind are guaranteed starters. I wouldn't count such as Blyth, George and Gaskell as guaranteed. Put Kearney and Sammut in and that could be our first choice backs. Add Carvell and we would have had our 4 props and back rowers out there today.

Thought it was Sidlow too.

Pretty sure it was Sidlow, he's grown his hair.



Not the best performance as the scoreline suggests! A few players had complete nightmares and gifted Cas some possession on our line. The young guy Saltonstall was targeted and our left side looked very dodgy with Addy, Purts and the rookie winger.



Once they got a few scores ahead our effort levels nose dived and the tackling got increasingly sloppy. Nothing like the scrambling defence we saw versus Hull a couple of weeks ago. Only a friendly though, I expect we'll look different again in a couple of weeks and hopefully fired up to make amends.

Correct; Sidlow on Clare.

Ok, I will try that delusion.





I did not go to the Hull match, so in comparison to today, what was the difference? I would have put Hull a better team than Cas.

The difference is simple. We tackled against Hull while Castleford cheated by running down our left wing and scoring.

Hull fans should be really worried if Cas can beast us by 50.



Dewsbury must think they've a good chance of winning the Challenge Cup as well.

Couldn't be ar**d going, they couldn't be ar**d playing,Why anyone gets

bothered about practice matches is beyond me, Lets wait for two weeks

and then see what happens