Re: More of a test on friday : Mon Feb 17, 2020 7:33 pm  

Willzay wrote:

It most certainly is a mental thing against Cas. Wasn’t there recently a home game where we were 12 or 16-0 up at half time and they scored something like 28 unanswered points.

Yes, sort of. In 2017, we were 16-0 up at half time, only to throw it away. We did get back in the lead, but they came back again. This was the game when Fififa, went celebrating in front of Cas lot, when he thought he'd won the game, only for it to bite us on the backside

Not a good birthday celebration for me that night

Re: More of a test on friday : Mon Feb 17, 2020 7:49 pm  

Eastern Wildcat wrote:

Yes, sort of. In 2017, we were 16-0 up at half time, only to throw it away. We did get back in the lead, but they came back again. This was the game when Fififa, went celebrating in front of Cas lot, when he thought he'd won the game, only for it to bite us on the backside

Not a good birthday celebration for me that night

Hopefully he puts things right on Friday.

Was filming with RugbyAM tonight I think.

Re: More of a test on friday : Mon Feb 17, 2020 8:04 pm  

The Cas bubble against us has got to burst sometime, the law of averages and all that. We've got to look at yesterday's game as a datum point and adopt the same effort and ethos to get that Castleford monkey off our backs. Was the last tome we won there when the floodlight blew up??

Re: More of a test on friday : Mon Feb 17, 2020 8:29 pm  

No Agar was in charge that night I think.

Re: More of a test on friday : Mon Feb 17, 2020 8:38 pm  

Think the game against Cas we lost at home when we were 16 points up at half time was lost through a drop goal in the last second ..Can not believe we have not bet Cas since 2015 was that when the lights were on Fire . Know over the last 5 year we have come close but can not get over the line. No pun intended

Re: More of a test on friday : Mon Feb 17, 2020 9:24 pm  

bellycouldtackle wrote:

McShane is the man that makes them tic, his decision making and game management are first class, he is tough in defense, gets his forwards on the front foot. His kicking is excellent especially attacking kicks near the line.

Yes your right mc Shane is the glue that holds the side together get in his face and disrupt his influence on the game. Obviously they aren't a one trick pony but if we can play with that intensity on fri and maybe up our anti in the kicking game we will put our selfs in a good position to come away with a win .

Re: More of a test on friday : Mon Feb 17, 2020 10:34 pm  

PopTart wrote:

We were far from error free against Warrington.
What we did do though was cover each other.
There were a lot of missed tackles on the stats but I don't recall them breaking through because there was always someone else to get stuck in.
Both half backs defended well.

Unfortunately the Cas half backs are capable of making us look silly. We need to be on them. We have the speed to do that.
I do really want Westerman playing but only if he is fit.

Can I also request some new hair styles.
I can't tell Kopi from Westerman or Tanginoa and Tangata when they play is down the other end.
Hampshire and Wood too in poor light.

Wood and Wood are easy to tell apart. A few more gingers please.

Welcome to my world. I was saying this on commentary. From the side view of the pitch the numbers aren't visible if the players a re side on and I kept getting Kopi and Westerman mixed up as well as Tangata and Navarette. Tanginoa has a distinct running style so is a little easier.

Re: More of a test on friday : Tue Feb 18, 2020 7:33 am  

Upanunder wrote:

I'm not buying the mental thing, maybe our fans have that affliction but I highly doubt the players have.
Cas is a big game, bigger than Wigan ?, bigger than St's ?, I don't think so, they're all big games one way or another and the players will be approaching each game accordingly.
You could argue the team has a mental hoodoo for big games generally and rationalize that, but a particularly heavy hoodoo for Cas....Nah, they've just been better and luckier when it counts.

Don’t agree, your argument makes no sense to me. I accept it’s probably not collective in that I doubt it means anything to say Josh Wood at the moment. However had he been with us for a few years now it certainly would.

Ditto Cas, you can see how much it means to certain of their players. Basically not all the players are caught up in the emotion of it but there are far more than normal who feel it. That’s what makes derbies, if it wasn’t the case then they wouldn’t be special would they!

Derbies are very much a mental thing and hoodoos most certainly do exist imo and long may it continue. I just want it to reverse.

Re: More of a test on friday : Tue Feb 18, 2020 8:32 am  

I'm going to back us for the win, just on the law of averages Cas have been our bogey team this past few years

Re: More of a test on friday : Tue Feb 18, 2020 8:41 am  

alegend wrote:

Think the game against Cas we lost at home when we were 16 points up at half time was lost through a drop goal in the last second ..Can not believe we have not bet Cas since 2015 was that when the lights were on Fire . Know over the last 5 year we have come close but can not get over the line. No pun intended

The lights were on fire during the easter thursday game of 2013, ian millward was in charge. You were winning easily enough when the game was halted with 7 minutes to go.

2015 was the last time you beat us, first game of the season I think we were 26 10 in front with 13 minutes to go and you scored 3 unanswered tries to win the game after we declined to take the 2 when we were 16 in front as it did appear that comfortable.

I generally do expect a bit of a reaction from us after a poor defeat like saturday.