Cas

Yep,reading the Cas forum was great fun. Moaning about Griffin and Olpherts 🤣
Trueman and the coach also copping for it

Excellent result and already looking like a vast improvement on last season.

The brand of rugby played under Rowley is expansive and exciting to watch. We got the ball out wide as much as possible and PTB felt much quicker.

Having a leader on the pitch in Marc Sneyd is worth it's weight in gold. I thought he was MOTM but I was also impressed by Brierley and a special mention to Deon Cross - a player I know hardly anything about but he doesn't look out of place in Superleague.

Our defense put in an excellent shift for the entire 80 minutes.

I know it's only one game, but this team looks very promising.

Very pleasing result and very promising for the season. Well done to all involved.
A happy chappy here in Crete.

We couldn’t go last night, some of the family did, we listened to the game, or tried to on Radio Manchester only to find that we had approximately 70 minutes of the Hull KR /Wigan match and 10 minutes of the Cas/Salford game.
Excellent result for the Red Devil’s but a poor night from the producers from Radio Manchester.

The Cas Forum is delicious reading this morning...

Pre-match it was all about how many points Cas would put past 'second rate' Salford. This morning they are seriously calling for 'Radford Out!'

Second rate Salford not only beat them while rusty, all their tries were provided by Ex-Salford players and their only attacking tactic was to give it to another ex-Salford player in Evalds and hope he could work miracles.

Not bad for a 'second rate' side eh?

Decent performance last night (full disclosure I missed all 3 of our tries due to a 20 minute wait at the appallingly slow service at the bar!!!)

Cas got 2 or 3 early pens in front of posts and ran them all. Good salford defence held them out twice and a bad pass the other. If they’d kicked them or scored a try, it could have been different. But we took our chances better than them and we defended our line pretty well.

We spent too much time defending our kind due to penalties and errors, a better team might have punished us more. I like the idea of us throwing the ball around a bit but I think we have a tendency to go wide before we’ve earned it and that causes errors. But it’s very early days and will get better. Lots of encouraging things in attack and defence last night. Nothing too spectacular in 2nd half but we managed the game really well. A lot of that down to Sneyd I think, not just the goals

The spine looks really good, connections between Sneyd, Croft and Brierly are v good. Ackers had a good game. Taylor, Greenwood abd Wright for forming a good back row. King and Luckley the pick oh the props for me. Burke was solid but never gonna make many metres. Still not convinced by Akuala. All the outside backs played pretty well.

If we can back it up with a win against Toulouse then we can’t have asked for a better start.

Thought Cas were ok but decision making/game management was poor. I’d like to see the foul on Wright again, looked like an elbow straight to the head from where I was stood and a yellow was generous. Thought Westerman was v good for them, prob best forward on the pitch