I disagree I think Platt realised that we wouldn't be able to keep Catalans out from if we had to drop out.

The drop out was worth a better bet than that stupid attempt at an offload. Basically gave them a try next to the sticks as well.

Platt should be done under the trades description act....no way is he a professional rugby league player!

At Cas Platt was outstanding.

He's clearly made some really bad in-game decisons during his Bulls tenure - however - in my opinion he will turn it back around and when he does, you will have one of the best broken field runners in the league.

I'm just amazed by the people on here who don't see Platt every game and are jumping all over him for 1 mistake. The only thing Platt lacks is composure. He's been improving these last few weeks and I'm hoping that he can continue to improve

I don't need to put any points across - its not me making the assertions about him, so I don't have anything to explain.

And anyway, I'm doing neither of the things you suggest. I just get hacked off when folk come out with glib comments - either way - without backing them up. Platt has been the club fans' scapegoat for some time, and as with any scapegoat its helpful to examine whether or not the vitriol directed against him is actually justified by the facts. This is especially important where people emphasise high-profile mistakes - and surely no-one could deny Platt knows how to make those - but don't necessarily spend as much time emphasising what went right. So, when you get supporters - especially from other clubs - making statements that (e.g.) he is the worst FB in the competition, I'm just curious as to how they have formed that objective and balanced judgment?

Or, curious to see whether some people are picking on, or winding us up over, an easy target without being able to back it up when challenged.

And FWIW I see in Platt the potential to be an excellent FB - as many of us did after his first few games - but he certainly does not help himself sometimes.

And, FWIW, I fail to see how having the fans on your back is any good for a player's confidence, especially when its bloody obvious that confidence is a problem across the whole team right now.

You are doing what we did in 2006, looking good in patches but then blowing good leads, and a lot of it seemed to be down to fitness. We got a new conditioner at the end of the season and it never happened again. A fit side wouldn't have fallen off tackles like you did, and Perpignan is the one place that will expose your lack of fitness due to the speed of the pitch and the weather.

It was your coach's game plan that put you 26-0 up, and kept you looking dangerous down the edges whenever you got the ball. It was your side's failure to stop the Dragons momentum that cost you the game, and that is down to fitness.

Platt can be a very effective full back, but his howlers do tend to be big ones, but I reckon Dragons would have scored from the drop-out even if he had held onto the ball. They had a relentless look about them.

Platt's howler was awful but plenty of other players made missed tackles that led directly to tries. Where is the flak for the likes of Newton, Deacon, Langley and Jeffries who all made glaring errors?

Platt is the fallguy at the moment, he's unlucky that as fullback his errors are always more high profile. But it does show that if anything the fullback needs to make good decisions more often than anyone else and he's not doing that.

How do you work that one out?

True, we can't be relegated, but to say if a coach comes in and doesn't improve results (which was my original counter-point - someone may well come and improve us but it's by no means assured) and instability won't arise from that lack of improvement is just pure fantasy.

I could not have said better myself. If everyone lived up to Nero and Sykes and Burgess early on we would not have lost

McNamara lives in Hull, and Platt in Greater Manchester.

We'd need two taxis otherwise it would get expensive.

Not necessarily.

McNamara's taxi would fall apart in the second half of the journey, and Platt's would go straight past him.

You're kidding, right?

He was never outstanding. He was average and made some ridiculous decisions.

Platts like RL's David James/Titus Bramble; all the technical ability just doesn't have a anything upstairs! no rugby brain what so ever, struggles to concentrate. Its a real shame because he has some real talent but will never reach the the heights befitting.

Leading line breaker in SL in his last year with you

A full back has to be able to defend as well as attack. At Cas he never looked safe under the high ball, and players just ran round him in defence. I was watching your highlights from yesterdays game and his positional defence when people broke through was cringeworthy.

But thats just my opinion.

Maybe we're playing him in the wrong position then. Breaking the line is a great asset but not the most important one for a FB.

You might be right but its still a good stat to have as a player no matter what position you play

As you say fullback might not be for him - I'm sure there are plenty who would agree

It's why Leeds play Webb.

But when Webb breaks the line he will get a bit of support.

Totally different scenario. Brent Webb is a proven World Class Full back. He's safe under the high ball, can read a game, is a solid defender. Add that to his attacking and supporting game and you have a very different player than to Michael Platt. Platt does break the line and when he does, he is good at it. You can't play him at FB on this alone though. The mans your last line of defence and the extra man that slots in when attacking....Or at least he should be.

He is average in defence at best, reasonable under the high ball. 25 missed tackles, 30 errors last season. Webb is definitely not Keith Mumby. Whether defence is the most important asset of a modern FB is open to debate.

I'd say Webb's defence isn't much of an issue because the 12 blokes in front of him can defend pretty well. Put him behind 12 blokes who can't defend and you'd find fans talking about it more often.

As Tigs says he's no Keith Mumby. How we could do with a man of his reliability now!