: Sat Mar 21, 2009 3:25 pm  

LewisJ23 wrote:

So the question i ask Kear is why change a winning side when Rooney etc do come back ?

Well players such as sculthorpe and henderson have come in is because bibey and stosic have picked up knee medial ligament injury's.

Brough and latu came back last week because obst and drew were injured by a hamstring and shoulder op respectively.

George and Murphy are back because dave halley has gone back to bradford and since martin is playing scrum half, cant revert back to centre to enable gleeson to go on the wing.

When these injured players come back, they will (once match fit by playing in reserve games) come in in-place of our youngsters with not alot of SL expierence to not burn them out. And it will allow us to play different teams depending on the strength and weakness of the opposistion.

: Sat Mar 21, 2009 3:28 pm  

mwildcats wrote:

Well players such as sculthorpe and henderson have come in is because bibey and stosic have picked up knee medial ligament injury's.

Brough and latu came back last week because obst and drew were injured by a hamstring and shoulder op respectively.

George and Murphy are back because dave halley has gone back to bradford and since martin is playing scrum half, cant revert back to centre to enable gleeson to go on the wing.

When these injured players come back, they will (once match fit by playing in reserve games) come in in-place of our youngsters with not alot of SL expierence to not burn them out. And it will allow us to play different teams depending on the strength and weakness of the opposistion.

Wasn't that exactly what happened last year though ? And you went on a terrible run. Anyway i'm not bothered because in two weeks it'l be 1-0 to Cas in games

: Sat Mar 21, 2009 3:34 pm  

On topic apart from the obvious 1st & 2nd places any side could finish from 3rd to 12th, it really is that close. Im just happy once again my team are competing where we should be and with a great crop of youngsters we're going to get better before we get worse

Fancy a CC run though 2002 since we had any sort of run

: Sat Mar 21, 2009 4:01 pm  

LewisJ23 wrote:

Wasn't that exactly what happened last year though ? And you went on a terrible run. Anyway i'm not bothered because in two weeks it'l be 1-0 to Cas in games

Sorry to drift o/t - ish last year kear brought in the injured big name players straight away without any warm-up games, dropping others, however once injured players come back they will have to earn the right in 1st team by playing well in reserves.

Anyway cas wont finish 4th, didnt say they couldnt.

: Sat Mar 21, 2009 4:30 pm  

They look a decent side but we were very poor last night and scored more tries than them. They will make the playoffs but top 4 is a bit much.

Top 4 imo will be (in any order):

Leeds
Saints
Hull
Rovers

: Sat Mar 21, 2009 4:34 pm  

manu knighted wrote:

They look a decent side but we were very poor last night and scored more tries than them. They will make the playoffs but top 4 is a bit much.

Top 4 imo will be (in any order):

Leeds
Saints
Hull
Rovers

You didn't play well because our pack were far superior to yours last night. Your pack had not been dominated so far this year from what other have said. They panicked a bit and ran out of idea's. Teams rarely play badly for no reason.

: Sat Mar 21, 2009 4:50 pm  

Therailwayendisuponus. wrote:

You didn't play well because our pack were far superior to yours last night. Your pack had not been dominated so far this year from what other have said. They panicked a bit and ran out of idea's. Teams rarely play badly for no reason.

Your pack was good but I wouldn't say we were dominated, it was pretty even. We gave ourself every opportunity to win (we outscored you 4 tries to 3) but we made bad decisions time and again. Perfect example was we should have taken the draw when we had it under the posts instead of going for glory.

: Sat Mar 21, 2009 7:13 pm  

mwildcats wrote:

Sorry to drift o/t - ish last year kear brought in the injured big name players straight away without any warm-up games, dropping others, however once injured players come back they will have to earn the right in 1st team by playing well in reserves.

Anyway cas wont finish 4th, didnt say they couldnt.

I think the problem last year you had burnt out players in the team with players coming in who were still rusty or carrying injuries you need to avoid that this year or you will struggle at the end of season.

: Sat Mar 21, 2009 7:15 pm  

No chance.

: Sat Mar 21, 2009 7:20 pm  

pyeman wrote:

I think the problem last year you had burnt out players in the team with players coming in who were still rusty or carrying injuries you need to avoid that this year or you will struggle at the end of season.

Would be no suprise TBH.

Anyway can Cas finish top 4. No i don't think they will but if i was a Cas fan i would be more than happy with the start and the fact that they have re-built a decent team.

Good luck to them.