Bilko on twitter sums it up well -



“If we do win League Leaders and/or Grand Final you'll look back on tonight, the Warrington match before the cup final, nicking the match at Salford in March. An ugly six points, without we'd be sixth.



London then a week off for all but England calls up could be timely.”





Was all about just getting a win last night.



With only 3 away games left to be joint top with a game in hand and a WCC and Cup in the bag is some effort.

The on field decision re cards is a lottery, like Coopers at Wembley towards the ones tonight are ridiculous in comparison. The thing that compounds that is the disaplnary outcomes are the same just inconsistent. Hiku in the semi, Tai week before Wembley are examples of how mind blowing it all is. When you start bringing mitigation into decision and you have an incident like Coopers, that's carded it's laughable. Especially seeing all three last night was worse than Coops and reviewed, one not even getting a penalty. Obviously I'm looking at Wigan incidents here and this will be the same for all clubs. It's a joke when fans seem to have a more common sense approach as one's employed to make decisions, very confusing to say the least.

Hampshire needs to go at the end of this season. Last season he was was a nice luxury to have, this one he is an obstacle actively blocking a highly rated young player and not even doing a good job in the process.



I don't even think we need to replace him, Eckersley and hopefully a more mature Sumner cover fullback and Farrimond covers halfback.

Just to round it off Walters will probably pick up a ban!

Anyone heard if Eckersley passed his HIA last night ?

Quote sergeant pepper="sergeant pepper"I'm really struggling to see how Byrne gets banned for weeks on end and, in the spirit of impartiality, how Watts got banned after the season opener, but that wasn't even a pen for the swinging arm Vs Leeming. Not even a pen FFS. What did Walters get a pen against him for? Looking aggressive? Marshall gets the ball stripped over the line because the tackler had the ball "wrapped", but Hill gets done for the same. Wigan get done for crossing as Faz touches the defender, but on the Cas try that's fine. The game is never going to be what it should, until fans & sky stop accepting these dire ref performances.'" Castleford viewing it differently. https://www.seriousaboutrl.com/castlefo ... eat-93293/

Quote sergeant pepper="sergeant pepper"I'm really struggling to see how Byrne gets banned for weeks on end and, in the spirit of impartiality, how Watts got banned after the season opener, but that wasn't even a pen for the swinging arm Vs Leeming. Not even a pen FFS. What did Walters get a pen against him for? Looking aggressive? Marshall gets the ball stripped over the line because the tackler had the ball "wrapped", but Hill gets done for the same. Wigan get done for crossing as Faz touches the defender, but on the Cas try that's fine. The game is never going to be what it should, until fans & sky stop accepting these dire ref performances.'" Castleford viewing it differently. https://www.seriousaboutrl.com/castlefo ... eat-93293/

If Byrne had put any of those three hits in it would've been straight red, wouldn't have even checked for "mitigation"

Quote Zig="Zig"Castleford viewing it differently. https://www.seriousaboutrl.com/castlefo ... eat-93293/'" Saw that before and it's a little baffling, but is what it is. What I will say is that - Just because the ref was a coward for both teams, doesn't make it right. His explanation that Leeming's head hits the Cas players arm is laughable. Leeming was facing the other way, being held up by another tackler and the Cas man runs 5 yards and clips the top of Leeming's head. Send the chunk back to McDonald's and the championship. Even better still, send him into retirement or Gaza.

Quote Zig="Zig"Castleford viewing it differently. https://www.seriousaboutrl.com/castlefo ... eat-93293/'" Saw that before and it's a little baffling, but is what it is. What I will say is that - Just because the ref was a coward for both teams, doesn't make it right. His explanation that Leeming's head hits the Cas players arm is laughable. Leeming was facing the other way, being held up by another tackler and the Cas man runs 5 yards and clips the top of Leeming's head. Send the chunk back to McDonald's and the championship. Even better still, send him into retirement or Gaza.

This is Hampshire's view on his performances. Fair comments really:



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Let them have the we almost beat Wigan trophy move on to next week. They have and always will be a moaning set. Always someone else’s fault they loose a game

Following the latest round in the Betfred Super League, the Match Review Panel have issued the following sanctions:



Cain Robb (Castleford Tigers) – Grade B Head Contact - £250 Fine

Jacob Miller (Castleford Tigers) – Grade B Head Contact - £250 Fine

Never let anybody tell us how bias the MRP is towards Wigan again, my god.