Don't know whether to laugh or cry. A nailbiter at the end to send any newbies home from being on the edge of their seats. Well we didn't lose so its a positive with a bigger crowd than usual. Few of my friends didn't make it as well being Friday evening game.

I would have settled for a point any time, before, after and during the game. They were bigger and their pack was faster. Their half backs bossed the show. However, we showed great spirit and if we can recreate that more often a push for a play-off place may be possible. Lamont had his best game in IMO, though the ref clearly had no idea what a forward pass was, and their lying on technique was nearly as good as Hudds.

Apparently forward passes are in the championship rules





5 seconds on the pitch and Lamont scores with a blistering run ! that was class !!

Why so late in bringing Pryce on? How bad is Purdo's injury? What does Calderwood have to do to displace O'Callaghan from the side?

Purdo looked slightly concussed as he walked away to try and play on and was "ordered" off. From where I was sitting he seemed to be holding his nose as he got up.

Why did Gale's try get chalked off? Was at the other end of the East stand so didn't have a good view of the incident, was too busy celebrating (as the PA was playing 'Eat My Goal'!) before noticing all the Cas fans cheering from behind the sticks when the try was disallowed!

Its a shame that Pryce came on at all with that short kick off which everyone knew was going to happen but he couldn't deal with it. Apparently he refused to come into the bar tonight after the game to meet the fans...which is a bit odd to me.



I was at the under 20's game last week and Calderwood did not perform at all and was not interested in playing, so why should he displace O'Callaghan after O'Callaghan's good performance against Cas.



Also it looked like Purdo was holding his arm/shoulder when taken off.

I'd forgotten about that in all the excitement. I was between the 20/30 lines at that end and couldn't see any obvious infringement. Completely gobsmacked when it was cancelled; normally you know when something might be dubious.

RE: Purdo's injury, it is to his shoulder, the bad shoulder, he couldn't move it after the game, and is going to hospital tomorrow for a scan.

iirc, Gales try was disallowed for ball stealing, the TJ disallowed it.

RE: Pryce Short Kick Off - He knew the ball was going to be coming to him, they had lined him on that side on purpose, we should of had Howell there, he is our best catcher. KP, as a man that is that big, he should be jumping higher, instead of his stupid little jump. He looks useless, he really should of finished the Dorn break, with the space he had, and the 'speed' he has, tripled with his size, he should of powered over the line under the posts.

One of the best games for Gale imo, ran the show for us today, excellent chip over the top and following up aswell for our last try.

Williams had by far his best game for us imo, made strong runs, didn't tackle too well, but was making metres.

Lamont looked enthusiastic, and eager, took his try well.

Clubb, strong again at centre, two tries on his 100th game, credit to the lad. Even after getting kicked in the "B0llox" before his second try.

Dorn, very effective at fullback with his runs, very nice breaks he made, deserved a finish, but very good game.

O'Callaghan, very strong in attack, still not the best in defense, but wasn't bad. Seemed comfortable under the highball, but the lad will not score if he continues to step on the inside each time he gets the ball on the wing. The defense is sliding towards him, and he's side stepping towards them, he will not win this. He needs to try and back his pace maybe, but other than that. Good game, took the ball up well in most sets that we had.

Howell, had a solid game, didn't do any of his stupid antics, but he didn't shine, was happy with that performance.

Randall, still isnt a 7.. but solid.

Ellis, good performance, and good support play for our last try.

The forwards were solid, made metres, and stuck to the game plan set out for them.

I feel that after last week's loss, Powell clearly tightened the defense, and then the Tigers realised this, and started spreading the ball out wide, getting around us instead, but there was still some woeful tackling in the build up to one Cas try, but at least there wasn't much of it in this game when compared to others.

So a huge improvement from last weeks effort.

Excellent post

Good summary Tim-

Not sure about J O'C. Very solid under the high ball, but does anyone expect him to score?