Yes, I agree that these are a good crop of youngsters (I know, I know, Sally) and our coaching set up has the confidence to play them. I'm still happy to let them fill more and more of the 17 over the next few years and would be delighted if the following was the core of our team in two or three years...

1. CTW
2. Thewlis
3. Lindop
4. Wrench
5. Ashton
6. Leyland
7. Hayes
8. Thomas
9. Walker
10. Harrison
11. Holroyd
12. Whitehead
13. Nicholson (after 3 years in the NRL).

We are giving 6 now.

We are now only getting 4 for this.

So before last night’s result we were out at 13/2 for Grand Final behind Wigan, HKR and Saints. Now we back at 9/2 joint second favourites with HKR and Saints out to 11/2. This will change a lot over next couple of months.

+8 Castleford v Hull -8
-10 Leigh v Wakefield +10
-10 Wire v Leeds +10
Scr Catalan v Saints Scr
+14 Giants v HKR -14

Won last night but went from 9/2 to 11/2 for Grand Final.