Castleford v Toulouse - R15

Matt

Back at home this week and a match we should be winning and really need to win in order to keep the gap between us and them / the bottom of the table.

Hepworth

One of the better winning opportunities we’ll have,hopefully we’ll have learnt from the away fixture,they play at pace and when they have momentum know how to ride it. Leeds had their game in the bag on Friday,switched off a bit and were punished for it.

RaoulDuke

Hoping for a decent win tonite. Without ashall-bott they are a different side. Cas by 16

Matt

If Bradford lose we’ll jump up to 9th. Need a good performance tonight.

Maturecasfan

Deary me.
Senior and cini our right edge.
Geez.

Hepworth

As said Ashall Bott a big miss for them,O’kane also out whose had some outstanding games in the second row. Both teams left edges are their strengths could come down to how well the respective right edges can defend. If we can start well and handle their big units up front we should have enough. Tolouse are decent once they have a head of steam and tend to score points in bursts,get into them early and put them on the back foot and I’ll go Cas by 10.

Matt

Thought Weaver had his best game for the club and Asi played well too.

Disappointed that we couldn’t play the full 80 and switched off in the last 15 mins, thought they made a few too many breaks too. Overall though a good performance and we did enough to win.

Each week we’re seeing the team improve, hopefully it continues and we put in another solid performance next week.

Maturecasfan

Thought weaver had a cracking game. MOM by far.
Don’t wonna gripe to much but I wish PLT when he gets into space out wide, I wish he would pass, a couple of times he found space but wonted to go himself, we could have 2/3 more tries.
The fluidity of the team seems to be coming together nicely.
Right edge still iffy, but we have semi back next week, he’ll make a difference.
Things are looking up, but I’m not getting carried away, Toulouse is bottom 2/3, we have to put york to the sword next week to keep the monument going for when we play wakey at magic.

Hepworth

Maturecasfan Don’t thing it’s a gripe re PLT,cracking meter maker but does need to be a little more aware of the pass option. A couple of times he ran into the centres lane when the easy ball would have been better.

Hepworth

Pretty solid all round performance until we switched off towards the end,the right edge was better than I thought it would be,didn’t see much of Senior but Cini made some good yards and bar being caught out of position once really put in a shift. Interesting that Mcintosh would have started had he not pulled up in the warm up,so if he’s fit would he be starting on the wing with Valamei at centre. Ravalawa physically is apparently two weeks away but from what I’ve heard he’s struggling in other ways. I’d like to think another performance of this ilk would see of York and as each week passes I’m starting to feel more confident in our ability to compete consistently.

Maturecasfan

Hepworth

I think Toulouse is a better team than york.
York really struggled against Wigan, granted we arnt Wigan, but if we can put in a performance
Like we did last night I can’t see York living with us.
York are now finding it hard, some players can’t keep up to speed with the game.
It’s telling on them, we need to be ruthless.
Get a big score on them, and let’s move up that table.

Matt

PLT reminds me a little of Rangi, he’s clearly very talented and likes try his luck at the expense of passing when sometimes it would have been the better option.

However since joining his attack has improved the team massively and the odd missed pass is worth it.

Maturecasfan

Matt

He certainly gets us on the front foot, especially bring the ball out of our own 20.
I’m sure he’ll learn what the best options are as he progresses.

RaoulDuke

We were great for most of the match last night. They all stood up well in great conditions.