St Helens v Castleford Tigers [S8 Rnd 7]

[Sigon]

Location: Totally Wicked Stadium. St Helens and Cas Tigers Radio
Date: Friday 28th September 2018
Kick Off: 19:45

19 Man Squads
St Helens: Tommy Makinson, Ryan Morgan, Mark Percival, Theo Fages, James Roby, Kyle Amor, Zeb Taia, Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook, Luke Douglas, Morgan Knowles, Dom Peyroux, Danny Richardson, Regan Grace, Matty Lees, Jack Ashworth, Jake Spedding, Ben Barba, James Bentley and Matty Costello.

Castleford: James Clare, Mitch Clark, Jamie Ellis, Luke Gale, Quentin Laulu-Togaga’e, Will Maher, Nathan Massey, Peter Mata’utia, Paul McShane, Grant Millington, Adam Milner, Greg Minikin, Lewis Peachey, Ben Roberts, Jesse Sene-Lefao, Jake Trueman, Joe Wardle, Liam Watts and Jake Webster

Officials
Referee: S. Mikalauskas
Touch Judges: J. Smith and P. Brooke
In Goals: E. Mccarthy and J. Mcmullen
Reserve Referee: S. Houghton
M Com: P. Taberner
Time Keeper: D. Campbell

[yorky]

6-0

[HuddsTigers]

10-0 likely to be 12-0

[Bolton-tiger]

How are we playing?

[HuddsTigers]

Sounds like we are playing ok, but ineffective at most. Not taking chances. Also had Wardle sin binned.

[Bolton-tiger]

Sounds like we are playing ok, but ineffective at most. Not taking chances. Also had Wardle sin binned.

Not good having wardle sin binned making us down to 12.got to make something good come out of this now

[Bolton-tiger]

18 -0 now dosn't look good

[old cas lass]

Going through the motions with a bad attitudes according to Harvey wiles on twitter

[smarty_tiger]

Well this is going to give us confidence next week isn't it. Hopefully they will turn up a bit in the second half, but then you risk injuries.

[old cas lass]

Wigan losing too against a nothing to play for hull F.C.

[old cas lass]

26 0

Shocking.

[Bolton-tiger]

26 0

Shocking.

Hope wire win saints in semis so we dont get them in the final if we make it

[smarty_tiger]

We have a great squad of players, but we are mentally weak.

[HuddsTigers]

Eden
Moors
Foster
McMeeken
Holmes
Cook
Shenton

Just the 7 first teamers missing tonight.

[smarty_tiger]

Eden
Moors
Foster
McMeeken
Holmes
Cook
Shenton

Just the 7 first teamers missing tonight.

Doesn't detract from the performance of the guys on the field.

[HuddsTigers]

It does when you don’t have a first team, you don’t really need to win, and players don’t want to get injured. The only disappointment is that fringe players didn’t sound like they stepped up. Expect a few made DP’s team selection next week a whole lot easier.

[smarty_tiger]

It does when you don’t have a first team, you don’t really need to win, and players don’t want to get injured. The only disappointment is that fringe players didn’t sound like they stepped up. Expect a few made DP’s team selection next week a whole lot easier.

You cannot justify that result, i'm sorry and if the players have the "don't really need to win" mentally and are worried about being injured (understandable) then they should not be risking some of the players in the first place. What has that result done for the team, nothing except lower their confidence.

[HuddsTigers]

Kept them match fit? Allowed structures to learn from each other and play together?

You can’t read anything into the result tonight and I don’t believe in going OTT or what is a meaningless game. Get a win, great. Lose, means nowt. It’s about as useful as a friendly. Players being rotated left right and centre.

Like I said - a few fringe players had a chance to put them in the shop window and didn’t. That’s the only real negative. If we had got nilled in a must win game then fine but the key thing is attitude next week when we hopefully have a pretty much full squad to pick from.

[tigerfeat]

Means nothing at all in terms of whats going to happen next week unless we've picked up some injuries wether we can go to Wigan and win is another kettle of fish

[Tamworth Tiger]

Kept them match fit? Allowed structures to learn from each other and play together?

You can’t read anything into the result tonight and I don’t believe in going OTT or what is a meaningless game. Get a win, great. Lose, means nowt. It’s about as useful as a friendly. Players being rotated left right and centre.

Like I said - a few fringe players had a chance to put them in the shop window and didn’t. That’s the only real negative. If we had got nilled in a must win game then fine but the key thing is attitude next week when we hopefully have a pretty much full squad to pick from.

This. In my view you can only criticise the result after we see what happens last week. Presumably Tomkins will be criticising Wane today for crowing about winning all 7 Super 8s games.
You don’t even get a hub cap for that!