Thurs 16th March : SL : Castleford Tigers v Leeds Rhinos 20:00 Sky

[Chrispmartha]

3 minutes ago, Harry Stottle said:

We see enough games involving Leeds to expect this as the norm, last week at Saints was an exception, that was exciting.

It was two weeks ago

[The Magic Rat]

When Smith took over last season he transformed the attack in a short period of time.  We looked a threat from anywhere on the field, which has made the start of this season all the more disappointing. 

[Harry Stottle]

52 minutes ago, Gerrumonside ref said:

I wasn’t wowed by the skill factor most of the night, but it was close and tense enough to keep me happily typing away on here.

 

An obvious clue that the game doesn't grab your attention, personally I usually wait till both half time and full time before commenting.

[Harry Stottle]

12 minutes ago, Chrispmartha said:

It was two weeks ago

OK that proves my point, apparently last week was also lackluster according to reports.

[GUBRATS]

It was pretty boring , 2 poor teams , too many mistakes 

[Harry Stottle]

14 minutes ago, The Magic Rat said:

When Smith took over last season he transformed the attack in a short period of time.  We looked a threat from anywhere on the field, which has made the start of this season all the more disappointing. 

Same player's before Smith took over, New Coach syndrome improved them end of last season, now back to normality.

[Chrispmartha]

5 minutes ago, Harry Stottle said:

OK that proves my point, apparently last week was also lackluster according to reports.

First half was, second half Rhinos looked a lot better than tonight!

[Chrispmartha]

4 minutes ago, Harry Stottle said:

Same player's before Smith took over, New Coach syndrome improved them end of last season, now back to normality.

Smith took is from 11th to a GF thats more than new coach syndrome, lets see where we are at further down the track.

[The Magic Rat]

5 minutes ago, Harry Stottle said:

Same player's before Smith took over, New Coach syndrome improved them end of last season, now back to normality.

I'm not sure it was just down to new coach syndrome last season. We looked like a team that had been working together on the training field. Plenty of pre planned moves and off loads.  This season in the main they look like strangers.

[M j M]

I didn't watch the game so no idea how it went. I'm just here to check in on the Huddersfield fans, I understand this is the best chance of finding them all in one place.

[graveyard johnny]

7 hours ago, GUBRATS said:

It was pretty boring , 2 poor teams , too many mistakes 

yep - poor quality- if that Olpherts lad is the best a team like Leeds can find then it must be slim pickings out there

[JohnM]

57 minutes ago, graveyard johnny said:

yep - poor quality- if that Olpherts lad is the best a team like Leeds can find then it must be slim pickings out there

Here's Slim!

https://youtu.be/M9JDF8n-Jyc

[The storm]

Ive got severe doubts about Smith

A reall oddball type coach

[Harry Stottle]

11 hours ago, Padge said:

True, until the 50s/60s Leigh were Wigan's big rugby rivals and in the 60s it really did become Saints. When I worked in Leigh, in the late 70s and 80s, Leigh supporters still considered Wigan as their biggest rivals.

Still do Padge, 

[Chrispmartha]

22 minutes ago, The storm said:

Ive got severe doubts about Smith

A reall oddball type coach

Really, first time I’ve heard you say this.

[Kenilworth Tiger]

Surprised at how poor Leeds were today but I, along with most other Cas fans, just wanted to see some pride and passion again after last weeks debacle.

We got that and the win was a bonus - biggest plus for me was how together they seemed as a team compared to last week when they looked like they'd never met before.

Leeds season won't be defined on last night - they're far better than that.

I thought Watts and Westerman were terrific

 

[Kenilworth Tiger]

One other thing to note regarding the mistakes form both sides - it was much much wetter and slippy than really came across on TV

[Padge]

23 minutes ago, Harry Stottle said:

Still do Padge, 

No doubt

[Chrispmartha]

3 minutes ago, Kenilworth Tiger said:

Surprised at how poor Leeds were today but I, along with most other Cas fans, just wanted to see some pride and passion again after last weeks debacle.

We got that and the win was a bonus - biggest plus for me was how together they seemed as a team compared to last week when they looked like they'd never met before.

Leeds season won't be defined on last night - they're far better than that.

I thought Watts and Westerman were terrific

 

Congrats on the Win, your guys clearly wanted it more and looked more cohesive.

I thought Miller was great for you, however I thought Widdop was very poor TBH.

Mind you he played better than our halfbacks.

[daz39]

10 hours ago, Hate the rec said:

What does Sezer bring to the table ??

Nothing, he's still waiting to join a big club.

 

What an awful game but intiguing at the same time, Leeds lost so had it's positives.

[Gerrumonside ref]

10 hours ago, Harry Stottle said:

An obvious clue that the game doesn't grab your attention, personally I usually wait till both half time and full time before commenting.

Good for you Harry

[Bedfordshire Bronco]

11 hours ago, Padge said:

Every game cannot be a classic fast running, free flowing and defence master piece of tactical prowess with a scorline close to the fiinal seconds.

At least it was a close fought game which kept you watching and didn't have extreme lengths of dullness that other rugby type ganes can offer.

Can't say I enjoyed it much. Looked particulalry slow for some reason ....crowd sounded quite than usual for the Jungle too

[Gates1]

Important won for Cas.  Born mainly out of enthusiasm and will to win.  Was good to see and I think the extra efforts stood out (driving players about in gang tackles and forcing errors).  No doubt a bit of a seige mentality kicked in.

As some of said, in the main the game lacked quality. One of the exceptions to that was the planned play from the scrum for Cas's second try, quality play perfectly executed.  Quite fitting it ultimately won the game.

 

[Tommygilf]

12 hours ago, Harry Stottle said:

How does an academic like you Thomas work late shifts? Just wondering.

That's a discussion to have over a pint mate!

[John Rhino]

16 hours ago, The storm said:

Rohan smith is a bit of an obscure oddball making some very strange decisions namely Levi Edwards, jack broadbent and kruise leeming

I honestly can't see what Smith is trying to achieve. Any player with a  bit of flair gone, to be replaced with dullards. 
And Olpherts should be  nowhere near an SL team.
We used to be renowned for half back brilliance ever since I started watching Lewis Jones. That and the short kicking game was very poor.

Where has that flair gone?