*** Official Rugby League SLXVII Thread ***

1. Your team.

Castleford Tigers RLFC

2. Your expecatations this season.

Depends on which Castleford turn up and how many injuries we get this season, if we can keep to full strengh and the likes of Huby, Chase and Youngquest can get back to the form they had early last season, i'm actually hoping we can snatch 7th, if injuries rack up then we could be looking at 8th/9th again

3. Your most anticipated new signings.

Josh Griffen, slated by a few Wakey fans, but looks quick, strong and seems to have a good eye for the ball

4. Who will win the league leaders shield?

Wigan this year, just too strong, Warrington will push them close though
5. Who will be the dark horses of the competition?

I have eye hopes for Salford this year, but unfortunatly i'm going to give this to our close and stupidly obsessed Rivals Wakefield

6. Any updates from your club, new ground etc?

I don't see us being able to find the funding in time, it's all hanging on getting this Supermarket to be given the go ahead at the Wheldon Road site, which is not going to be quick or easy, i don't think we'll be in SL at the next round and franchises :(


7. Final league position of your club?

8th

On a final note

Cas were rubbish against Bradford on Sunday, i don't actually think you can judge anything from the game because of how heavy it was underfoot, Bradford just managed to take the chances they made and the ones we gave them, bit disappointed with the Bradford fans, wasn't so many years ago they would have brought 3/4k but they can't have been 400 there yesterday, although on the other end of the scale thats the most noise i've ever heard them make at Wheldon Road, so credit for that...
 
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TonyM19 said:
Wigan were transformed from the Huddersfield game. As you said, Leeds weren't on the top of their game, but Wigan looked pretty good. McIlorum took a bit of stick on the Wigan forums following Round 1, but he was bristling with controlled aggression all game this week.

I wonder what Manly will make of the Leeds pitch on Friday? I predict a Manly win by 10+.
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Just seen Boots n All and the pitches at Wakefield and Castleford were absolutely battered! So boggy and muddy. I dread to think what Craven Park will be like! Maybe as some in the media have recently stated, we ought to start the season 3-4 weeks later and finissh later in the year. It would certainly appease the football sharing clubs.
 
physichull said:
Just seen Boots n All and the pitches at Wakefield and Castleford were absolutely battered! So boggy and muddy. I dread to think what Craven Park will be like! Maybe as some in the media have recently stated, we ought to start the season 3-4 weeks later and finissh later in the year. It would certainly appease the football sharing clubs.
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Yup our pitch is the worst i've seen it in 10 years, it wasn't even this bad after last years epic winter, so no idea whats gone wrong.
 
I don't think you'll find anybody who would argue that the season has started too soon. Anybody got any idea why we've started in early February? Is it to tie in with Sky? Availability of OT for the GF? Overseas tour?
 
That was an interesting WCC! Great win by Leeds, certainly deserved their lead in the first half and got completely battered in the second half but still managed to kill Manly off with those last few tries, albeit one from a forward pass to Jones-Bishop.

A good night for Superleague though and a fantastic display from Rob Burrow, and I bet it was ten times more exciting than that championship drivel of a game/sport on HD2. Great to see that Sky's Superleague viewings have gone up this year again and is now the second most popular sport on the sky sports channels, second only behind football.
 
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I actually want to cry. :(

Widnes til I die... which will probably be from stress during next week's Leeds fixture.
 
Kemik said:
I actually want to cry. :(
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That ain't nothing mate!

Rovers drew 36-36 with Saints today, Saints only drew because of a last minute penalty which was kicked by Foster. Fair play you might say? Well, the hooter should have sounded 45 seconds prior to the penalty because the clock stopped working with 1.34 left, Saints played a set, clock still stuck at 1.34, Rovers have a set in which they concede a penalty after the hooter should have gone 45 seconds previously. Hooter goes, Foster kicks, Rovers robbed. The Rovers timekeeper needs taking out the back and shooting.

So angry that we have ONLY come away with a draw, should have won. Angry isn't even the word, fuming is more appropriate.

And on top of all this, we now have an ankle injury to Josh Hodgson, our hooker and a groin injury to Lincoln Withers. The gods just don't want us to have any half backs this season.

Fuming, disappointed, and worried about our mounting injury woes.
 
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There are usually two timekeepers, one from each club, to make sure this doesn't happen. Sounds like a load of bad luck is coming HKR's way in the first few weeks.

Wigan pretty much strolled to a victory at Bradford after a cagey start. They lost Luke Gayle early doors and didn't seem to have any direction after that. Wigan scored 4 tries in quick succession at the start of the second half which pretty much killed it off. Bradford had a big pack and some big blokes on the bench but looked a bit weak on both edges.
 
David Hodgson now rumoured to have torn a bicep so is out for at least a month! God knows how you tear a bicep. This just gets worse. This was supposed to be a really positive season for Rovers, some great new signings and massive improvements from the players we already had but they are all just dropping like flys! So disappointing.
 
Never a sending off tonight in Hull FCs fixture!

Hull FC played well, a bit sloppy in the second half, but we haven't lost yet.
 
If that shot had been on a bigger bloke, he would have got him in the chest and it would have been a beauty. He did get Rinaldi square in the face though so I can sort of see where the ref was coming from. I usually think On Report is a bit of a cop out, but it would have been about right for this one. The high shot on Briers just before half time on Friday night was a straight red for me and I don't think that even went On Report. I think the Huddersfield player is looking at 2/3 games suspension.
 
A player is guilty of misconduct if he: when effecting or attempting to effect a tackle makes contact with the head.

Both the hit on Rinaldi and the hit on Briers should have been red. We have a maximum of about 5 referees why can they not interoperate the rules in the same way? On report is a complete and utter kop out. If Bentham could not see the foul on Briers from 10 meters away right in front of him what is he doing refereeing?

Going on report does nothing other than show that a referee can not make the decision himself. Even if an incident has not been put on report it will still get looked at by the RFL if it is deemed serious enough. 3 games in and we have already been screwed over by Ganson and now Bentham, and tbh Childs was not much kop against Broncos either.

Sack the lot of them and train some new referees at the same time so as they all understand the same set of rules week in week out no matter who they are officiating.
 
Steve Ganson is one of the few refs who can actually infuriate both sets of supporters (seems from Hoppy that he wasn't impressed - Wigan fans though he had a shocker too) BUT Moa and Lee would both have been red carded if he'd had the whistle.

Have you seen the standard of referees below Super league? Maybe not such a good idea to scak the SL refs just yet :)

The RFL are currently offering shortened, free courses to get more ex players to take up refereeing. This is definitely the way to go.
 
decmatt said:
Never a sending off tonight in Hull FCs fixture!

Hull FC played well, a bit sloppy in the second half, but we haven't lost yet.
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Ot oh, finally an FC fan on here?

Welcome to the thread. ;)

Regarding referees, when I am at a game the crowd can often get worked up about certain decisions, and more often than not I get drawn onto the bandwagon, but when I get home and watch the match through again, I realise that acutally, 90% of the time, the refs got their decisions spot on.
 
Considering we now have 8 definate first teamers out injured at the moment, I can't see anything more than a Wire win on the weekend. I'm just hoping the defecit won't be as large as many of the Wire fans on the (terrible) RL Fans forum are predicting.
 
physichull said:
Considering we now have 8 definate first teamers out injured at the moment, I can't see anything more than a Wire win on the weekend. I'm just hoping the defecit won't be as large as many of the Wire fans on the (terrible) RL Fans forum are predicting.
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I am not taking anything for granted this season.

After your game with saints i don't see why you cant take us to the wire!

(selfless promotion: the RL Round Up app i am working on may include a forum for RL fans separate to the app that is)
 
Have to agree that putting players "on report" is a kop put and actually penalises the team that was on the receiving end of the foul. So the high shot on briers where a sending off or sin-binning could have helped the wire is now actually going to benefit the next two opponents of Huddersfield rather than us. They should allow the video ref to review the on-report incidents and hand out a punishment of red/yellow if he see's fit!

Looking forward to a good game against Grimsby KR this weekend, don't think its going to be a cricket score as some people are predicting, but going for a wire win by 10 points.
 
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