Re: RD 19 | Leeds Rhinos v Castleford Tigers : Fri Jun 23, 2017 12:49 pm  

Cas winning the league for the first time in there history means everything,One way to shut Fev fans up about a small village winning the league and a small town not.

Re: RD 19 | Leeds Rhinos v Castleford Tigers : Fri Jun 23, 2017 12:51 pm  

bonnie wrote:

Cas winning the league for the first time in there history means everything,One way to shut Fev fans up about a small village winning the league and a small town not.

But won't have won the league. Will have won pole position on the ladder and a home tie in the play offs. You win the league at OT.

Re: RD 19 | Leeds Rhinos v Castleford Tigers : Fri Jun 23, 2017 1:04 pm  

wish I was there tonight it looks like close to capacity and fine weather too? so all the hordes from Cas wont moan about getting wet . A lot to play for for both teams a win for cas will be a big stride to the LLS .

Re: RD 19 | Leeds Rhinos v Castleford Tigers : Fri Jun 23, 2017 1:45 pm  

Gotcha wrote:

Hull are a poor side, they are where they are because of the oppossition out there, rather than been a good side. We are exactly the same. That dosn't make either team a comparison to those other years you mention.

You've spent all this time telling us what a great achievement it would be for Cas to win the LLS but then made a mess of it by saying how poor their nearest challengers including a team who just dumped them out of the cup. You might think Hull are poor but no other team has picked up more league wins and points in the last 18 months. If the team who can do that is so poor then why should we be crowning Cas' potential LLS as something good?

You've shat all over your own argument.

Re: RD 19 | Leeds Rhinos v Castleford Tigers : Fri Jun 23, 2017 1:53 pm  

bonnie wrote:

Cas winning the league for the first time in there history means everything,One way to shut Fev fans up about a small village winning the league and a small town not.

Its not winning the league though, the SL winners and champions are recognised by all clubs to be the GF winners.

Cas have never been champions under any system iirc, so surely winning the GF and the title is the main aim

The only reason finishing top is significant for Fev is that they did so between 1974 and 1997, when the league leaders were declared champions, if Cas won the LLS the Fev fans would still point out they had never won the title and they had.

Re: RD 19 | Leeds Rhinos v Castleford Tigers : Fri Jun 23, 2017 2:19 pm  

PrinterThe wrote:

You've spent all this time telling us what a great achievement it would be for Cas to win the LLS but then made a mess of it by saying how poor their nearest challengers including a team who just dumped them out of the cup. You might think Hull are poor but no other team has picked up more league wins and points in the last 18 months. If the team who can do that is so poor then why should we be crowning Cas' potential LLS as something good?

You've shat all over your own argument.

That would be good, if i had actually said what you said, but I didn't, not one iota. I said them winning the LLS as a smaller club is better achivement than a big club playing only five games, three against lower league, to win a CC. That is fundamentally different to what you have just made up.

For the benefit of doubt, I don't for one minute think this Cas team would be top six prior to 2014, and I have voiced this previously, as well you actually do know.

Re: RD 19 | Leeds Rhinos v Castleford Tigers : Fri Jun 23, 2017 2:22 pm  

Biff Tannen wrote:

But you don't always get as kind a draw as we did this time

Exactly. Which is why I am talking about this year only, and what is been played out now in comparison.

Re: RD 19 | Leeds Rhinos v Castleford Tigers : Fri Jun 23, 2017 2:34 pm  

Gotcha wrote:

That would be good, if i had actually said what you said, but I didn't, not one iota. I said them winning the LLS as a smaller club is better achivement than a big club playing only five games, three against lower league, to win a CC. That is fundamentally different to what you have just made up.

For the benefit of doubt, I don't for one minute think this Cas team would be top six prior to 2014, and I have voiced this previously, as well you actually do know.

No one has been saying winning the CC is the better achievement, just the one they'd rather win. Has stopped your whole argument being based around something people haven't said.

Re: RD 19 | Leeds Rhinos v Castleford Tigers : Fri Jun 23, 2017 2:43 pm  

PrinterThe wrote:

No one has been saying winning the CC is the better achievement, just the one they'd rather win. Has stopped your whole argument being based around something people haven't said.

Let's not go down making things up. My point, which people keep reffering to was purely them as a smaller club winning the LLS over 29 rounds is a better achievement than a bigger club winning the CC having played three lower league teams, and that was it. Others are the ones picking up the die old argument of which is better and preffered, not me. Not dragging me into that one.

Re: RD 19 | Leeds Rhinos v Castleford Tigers : Fri Jun 23, 2017 2:57 pm  

Stop this squabbling and talk about the game now. Leeds by 8-12 after a slow start from Cas.