The point Arv is that everyone is congratulating the side on a fine performance (which is fair enough of course) but we still lost and it shouldn't gloss over the fact that we've had some pretty poor performances against some pretty ordinary opposition. Had we been more professional over the season and consolidated when we had built up decent leads we wouldn't have been faced with having to beat Saints away or relying on someone else's help in beating Crusaders.
You don't achieve a decent league position by pulling off some miracle win away to the grand finalists who average 40+ points against you, you do it by winning the games you should win, like those against Quins and Crusaders.
The statement might be obvious, but it doesn't ever seem to sink in at Cas- In the 30-odd years I've been following them they've always made lives hard for themselves but in the last few years things seem to be worse.