Quote Fantastic Mr Cat="Fantastic Mr Cat"the excuses thing was one of the reasons i didn't want him in the first place, very similar to you, it was a case of slightly over achieving and making runs when the rest of the league was shaky, 2017, us having a wobble left a gap in the top of the table, saints struggling as well.'"
Fair points but lets not get too revisionist. Powell took over from Millward in 2013 with Cas bottom of the table. He didn't have resources to buy his way to success and Cas were more of a selling club - three times he had to rebuild after losing his best player (Rangi Chase, Daryl Clark, Denny Solomona) and he took Cas to the top of the table. And whilst like you say there was a bit of a vacuum at the top in 2017, that Cas side played fantastic rugby. Powell did a very good job there, which is why he was my top choice to replace TS and then later was my top choice to replace Price. Things aren't going well now but there was a reason Powell made sense as an appointment.
