30/06/23 - 8:00pm KO Took a good hammering against Hull last week and they’re stuttering this year. Would love to see us grab the win and it’d certainly help put us in a better position going in to the later part of the season.

Saints v Tigers - Round 17

yorky

i think sts will be all out to make up for that loss at hull fc & i doubt we will get near them, but then again i thought wire would have hammered us???

FlatCapper

Squad’s out https://castlefordtigers.com/article.php?id=8657 (can I do that?)

Anyhow, nowt to write home about but I hope Vete is only in there to make numbers up.

Hepworth

Good to see Dean in the squad which would give Last the opportunity to leave Widdop at full-back and still have two recognised halves.

RaoulDuke

We can’t afford to have fonua and bureta as a centre/wing partnership as it’s to slow for me.

I’d bring in Robb in for massey and Dean on the bench. Injuries permitting, we should keep the same side. They’ve earned the right to and back it up.

orrsome

Now that Macca is injured, Last seems to be willing to forego a specialist hooker in favour of another big forward. Against Wire Massey was named at hooker and Broadbent filled in at acting half and when Massey was injured he was replaced by Hall / Martin, with Robb only coming on later in the second half.
This strategy worked against Wire so will he do something similar on Friday?

Hepworth

I’m hoping he sticks with it,nothing to lose in this game,bring Dean into the halves to partner Miller, Broadbent can then go back into the centres,Widdop stays at full back, Hall and Martin can cover for Massey and Robb can provide fresh legs when needed. Just have an awful feeling that Last likes to match up size wise where he can and Fonua or Faraimo might come in to beef things up defensively against Hurrell,whereas for me I’d be trying to expose his defensive weaknesses rather than just try to defend him.

RaoulDuke

I think as a suprise factor, having no hooker worked last week but it needs a lot of players to be on the ball mentally too. It does give use the chance to play what they see but there’s a lot of moving parts. It might be the way forward, a game changer.

Hepworth

Broadbent at hooker according to Last.

Hepworth

Spread moved to Saints -20pts and Cas can be backed at 10/1….a long time since that happened,though to be fair if we stay within 20 points I’d be relatively happy. Saints are in need of a statement performance,I just hope it’s not tonight.

stuey

Salford with loads of reserves in already 6-0 down to Wakey.

Maturecasfan

stuey

Make that 14 0

stuey

22-0 at half-time.
Gap narrowed to 4 points.

stuey

32-0. They could have a better points difference than us soon, with 2 more wins.

Hepworth

Good night for the away teams so far.

TheFirm

Wakey are hitting some form just at the wrong time for us. We need some fresh faces in PDQ and to get some points on the board sharpish. I’d say we need at least 2 wins from our next 4 games before the trip to Belle Vue.

RaoulDuke

Since when we’re wakey hitting form? One win in a row?

Come on, it’s almost like we are down.

We have won 4 matches. 2 more than wakey and have a better points difference. Yes they won easy for the first time this year but it’s one win.

pirate

RaoulDuke
Historically Wakey always finish strongly, I will not be comfortable until it is mathematically impossible for them to catch us. The dream scenario would be for wakey to win four more games , us to win 3 more and Huddersfield to lose the rest of their games. Then we could sit back and watch Superleague morph into a 14 team competition immediately.

RaoulDuke

pirate

pirate historically they finish well, do they? They’ve won one match and still have 10 to go. Finishing well means they hit the playoffs, do you really think they can do that?

Hepworth

It was a decent performance from Wakey with the caveat that Salford in terms of personnel and performance were unrecognisable from anything weve seen so far this season. I am worried we’re short on numbers and any more injuries wouldn’t help our cause but I’d hold fire on a Wakey resurgence until I’ve seen if they can back it up against Wigan. What seemed clear for me last night was the Broadbent experiment didn’t work,get him back to the centres in place of Turner.

RaoulDuke

Yes, we beat Leigh and people relax again. I’m sorry but we Cas supporters have seen a lot of adversity in the last 20 years to know one win doesn’t make a season!