Re: First friendly announced : Sat Nov 15, 2014 8:52 am  

Confirmed by the T & A that we travel to Cas to play the Tigers on Sunday 11th January for Andy Lynch's testimonial. Kick off is 2:30pm. http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/s ... stimonial/

Confirmed by the T & A that we travel to Cas to play the Tigers on Sunday 11th January for Andy Lynch's testimonial. Kick off is 2:30pm. http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/s ... stimonial/

Re: First friendly announced : Sat Nov 15, 2014 4:59 pm  

would it have been better to play at least one Championship club to gauge the opposition

Re: First friendly announced : Sat Nov 15, 2014 11:07 pm  

zapperbull wrote:

would it have been better to play at least one Championship club to gauge the opposition

Rather play the super league teams as that is where our fate will be decided. We'll finish in the top 4 in the championship.

Great that we're part of Andy's testimonial. Great servant to RL, scandal he's not received more international honours.

[Pumpetypump]

Re: First friendly announced : Sat Nov 15, 2014 11:30 pm  

I have a lot of respect for andy lynch and his work ethic domestically. We always knew that he'd never have left cas unless they'd gone down so I'm glad he's got over the hull blip and gone home. I personally think he's got as many international call ups as warranted which is not to say he isn't a valuable and dependable player at domestic level.

[Bulliac]

Re: First friendly announced : Sun Nov 16, 2014 11:10 am  

zapperbull wrote:

would it have been better to play at least one Championship club to gauge the opposition

That may be so, but I always feel the pre-season games are more about looking at our players rather than the opposition. As I've said before, playing three SL teams first team squad for 20 mins and then the juniors [which is usually how it rolls, IIRC] is no big deal anyway. We have a big squad, with a fair few players the coaching staff will want to evaluate in match conditions, so I guess it won't matter whether we get games against SL squad players and juniors or championship teams.

Re: First friendly announced : Sun Nov 16, 2014 11:34 am  

Im glad we're playing classy Cas as Andy Lynch's testimonial as like alot have said, he's been a very important player and person to rugby league and deserves all he gets.

Just got to remember how he didnt get a place on the bench for 2005 GF when Morley came over early to play for us. He has been unlucky not to play more for GB/Eng but Lynchy has been and is still a prominent player for Castleford and RL

Re: First friendly announced : Wed Nov 19, 2014 7:51 am  

Leeds at Headingley on the 25th confirmed in T and A today for JPs testimonial.

Re: First friendly announced : Tue Nov 25, 2014 1:54 pm  

Linchy has been great for both Cas Tigers and Bradford Bulls. Hope to see a lot of support for this game down at the Jungle.