How did Washbrook do at 9, given that had been most people's concern when the 17 was announced?

Very solid, team were in total control until the sending off.

Think he played the 80.

Washy was tireless today.may not be a hooker but he did hell of a job there today

I doubt you made 1/2 as many mistakes as we did. Still far too many unforced errors and soft penalties

Had a fair few plays where Sneyd or Shaul stepped in at DH later on. Washy put a right shift in and tackled a lot. Was absolutely bricking it with how much they threw the ball around but our defence was absolutely brilliant.

Need Houghton back to get us going forward.

That red card decision looks worse when you view it more. Gale is laughable.

Agree, Washy was immense today but Houghton will bring back another dimension and ease the burden on the forwards. Hopefully this will be very soon.

was fearing the worse hearing no houghton but washy stepped up big time today

first 15 minutes cas' didnt know what hit them, (13 v 13 i think we could have put a big score on them , they were shellshocked) we did to them what they do to teams, hit them quick first, game changer was obviously watts sending off, never a red card, if gale was knocked out as bad as some suggest he would have been stretchered off!

Houghton was in the bar pre match and said he SHOULD be OK for next week but who knows. He also said cas are good with the ball but that we'd picked up some things they were lacking in defensively which 3 tries in quick succession pre the ending off shows the coaching staff were spot on with.

Gale's head is not far shy off Watt's waist, Watts arm is barely away from his body, shocking decision.