Firstly, credit to Cas for a deserved win. From what I've seen of them in 2025 that looked like one of their best performances of the year so far, so well done to them.


As for us! We didn't look right straight from the kick-off. As someone else said earlier you can usually tell with us what kind of a night it's going to be in the first ten minutes and so it proved tonight. We looked disjointed in attack and vulnerable in defence wide out. We never really got going and the little flurry at the end was simply too little too late stuff.


Think tonight showed how crucial Asiata is to this side. We got away with his absence in France but not tonight. We created little and at times played panic football as the game slowly slipped away from us. I personally don't have too much of a problem with their work rate but too many players had bad nights for the result to end any differently. We don't have the individual quality to dig ourselves out of a hole when it's not going well, we literally either win as a team or we lose as one as tonight.


If we're looking for some positives out of games like this, then it's that this is part of the learning curve and rebuilding process we are currently going through. Unfortunately nights like tonight will come up on the route, think the key is not to get too despondent when we lose and try not to get too over excited when we win, not easy with us lot!!!!


I wonder if this side struggles with going into games as favourites? The two dispiriting performances this year have come in games when we've been expected to win. Maybe being the underdog suits them, they don't feel the pressure so much and subsequently don't clam up like tonight.


A disappointing night unquestionably, but there's thirteen rounds still to play, suspect there will be a few ups and downs over the next three months, it is the Fc rollercoaster after all. I see the usual suspects have already pronounced us dead and buried. Maybe they'll be right, but I wouldn't start dancing on our grave just yet. Hang on in there everyone!! 

If anyone from the forward pack is to be dropped it's Ashworth imo. Thought he was atrocious against Cas, almost walking the ball in a lot and quite often just passing the ball on instead of taking it in. 

Don't think Ashworth will be here next season

Looked like he's been told he won't be getting a new contract to me.

A positive move from the club if true and evidence we're moving in the right direction.  Ashworth has shown glimpses of what he can do but isn't consistent enough for me.  We need players in the forwards who are 7 or 8 out of 10 week in, week out, not 9 one week and 5 the next.


For me every player we sign now needs to be either better than the player they replace in the squad or someone good enough for a team challenging for trophies - preferably both

Agree totally. I've slowly changed by tune on Ashworth. I was in favour of renewing awhile back but I've gradually gone off him. Maybe it's that he's got better quality around him now that his flaws have begun to stand out more. 

Got told we've not even offered Jack a new deal, agree with a lot of what's been said he's too inconsistent for me with Knight, Hill, Ese'ese, Fash, Aydin potentially Sao and Laidlaw we've got more than enough at prop.