I'd like to state that despite my previous posts on the matter, I was never worried.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to feed my flying pig.

I like sutcliffe but he should have been dragged off after 50mins.

Phew, always hard over there but we were very hit n miss.

Burrow again proving the difference from the bench.I hope he continues to play that role all year, a lethal option to have up your sleeve when things get tough.

Cringeworthy when after Henderson's steal on hardaker and Henderson shelf acknowlgement, he still dug his heals in that he lost it. What a prick.

Much better in the final quarter, Burrow got the plaudits but I thought Peacock and Singleton were immense in the second half.
I hope Aiton isn't badly injured, we missed his defense in the middle when he went off I thought we looked a little soft.
Delaney looked a lot better and it's clear he's a prop to me.

once we went back to basics we got on top. cut out the stupid ball steals(every game for years ffs!) and blind offloads and we were fine

Well we've seen earlier in the year that we are trying to play a more attacking and attractive brand of rugby. But as we saw at Hull in the 1st half there, you can't always do it for the full 80 mins, especially the first half when defenders aren't as tired. Need to imo play the basics right first, wear down the opposition and then come up with the keep the ball alive rugby that they want to play.

Burrow was key in us winning tonight (although TBF I thought Aiton was good too before he went off).....yes some of his efforts were 'blind alley' at times but also a lot of effective efforts too. Singleton and Peacock I thought were good also. Hardaker didn't quite do as well on those goaliline defensive efforts as we've seen in the past but thought he did well and moving him upfield when we received kick offs later on in the second half was smart. Moon also I thought played a good part in our fightback.

Achurch didn't impress me, he did have to play in the middle more though due to JJB not lasting long and Sutcliffe whilst ok, isn't doing enough for me to suggest we should go without Sinfield's leadership and organising when he's avaliable.

If Aiton is Injured and Sinfield is back shortly i would be tempted to play him at 9 and leave Burrow on the bench which allows us to stick with the same halves.

He was desperate to make out that Cuthbertson had made some big deliberate push on Whitehead when it was clearly just a collision of two guys going for the ball.

Another example of this stupid rule that the ref gives a decision first. Did seem like the VR wanted to give it but had one arm tied behind his back and had to go no-try because that's what Silverwood sent it up as.

I thought he was looking desperately for a way not to allow it myself

not for me. sinfield is so slow nowadays he slows the PTB to a standstill

Must be just me then, as apart from the run FORWARD to set up Watkins for his try I thought Burrow was poor. Just shows how vital to this team Aiton is as with him on the field our pack goes forward. Apart from the run to set Watkins up I just don't think burrow engages the markers often enough for me.

Ablett is the one who should be most at risk of been dropped. It can't keep on been ignored. Such a wonderful player for last three years, but this year other than 30 minutes against Huddersfield he has been poor, tonight he was embarrassing at times to watch. But then again he wasn't alone I suppose, plenty of weak performances.

Singleton and Ward are very quickly becoming very important to this side, both putting in consistently good performances.

Not enough ball went to Moon, and Watkins made too many incorrect decisions for me.

Think Sutcliffe, and earlier McGuire getting too much critisism for me. Much worse performers out there.

He needs to demand the ball more IMO, I know he's young but he's playing in one of the 3 most important positions in the game and he's drifting in and out of games. He also seems to be happy to just pass the ball on, when he's far more dangerous when he plays at the line.

He's a rangy half, he should go watch some footage of Leon Pryce in his Saints days because to me, that's whom he should be modelling his style on.

he needs to stop drifting in and out of games, and start modelling himself on a player who made a career out of drifting in and out of games?

5 wins out of 6 and i don't think we have hit our full potential at all so far so have to be happy.We certainly haven't put a full 80 minute performance in yet but when we do, the evidence so far suggests somebody is gonna get a hiding.Most impressive thing for me is that the guys seem to have started the year at a real high fitness level, that making a huge difference in the game today and in the 2 games over in Hull.

I know that was coming

I should have been more specific and said Leon Pryce of 2006/07

I know it's easy to say after the event, but even at 22-10 down, with 25 mins left I still thought we could pull it back because of the strong finishes and fitness we've shown.

Also fitness isn't one of Catalans stronger areas compared to most and they aren't exactly suited to playing protecting leads rugby, they constantly seem to never be too far away from throwing away a lead or momentum by doing something daft or poor. I think that's 161 points they've conceded in they last 4 games, people had them down as a threat to our top 4 chances but it's going to take a massive turnaround from them defensively to put themselves in contention as you won't the top 4 shipping the amount of points that they're doing currently.

People had Catalans down for one reason, and one reason only, Carney. Surely the right time to judge Catalans is when he plays, not to mention the other injuries they have. Had Carney played tonight we would have comfortably got beat on that display.

Carney wasn't signed for his defensive capabilities though, so unless they're planning on winning 42-40 every week then they need to quickly address their defence before it's too late.

I'm not so sure. Catalans' were abysmal for 65 minutes of that game, they could barely complete a set.

Yes but our defence was embarrassing for the most part. Duruea tore us apart, so imagine a player like Carney at the side.

We just like others before us should just be grateful he wasn't playing against us. Like I said when he plays is the time to judge Catalans, as without him they are missing true quality.

Didn't he play against Hull last week? That didn't go too well for them.

We also missed Briscoe, Sinfield, Kylie and had no hooker for 42 minutes.

Only on Southstander can you be top of the league after winning away in France without 3-4 key players and still see fans moaning.

Fantastic win tonight by the Rhinos in what is always a tricky away day fixture, and one that not many sides come away with a victory, Although i never thought that we would lose the game tonight and even when we were behind in the 2nd half by a couple of scores

Our youngsters are really starting to look like they are capable of taking our club forward during our so called transition period and both
Ward and Singleton look like absolute monsters and will be the mainstays of our pack for years to come, as was predicted by a few on here



Catalans have a cracking squad of players that should be performing much better and should be much higher up in the top 4/5 of the SL table, but things sadly are not working out for them thus far this season

IMO pressure will be placed firmly on the coaches shoulders in the coming weeks should results not improve