The Masoe, Lunt and Tickle tries, absolute basics! Pub teams would be embarrassed to concede those three. I get that Mead is a big name but is he afraid to tackle? Catalans had a dig against Saints but they were appalling here. The game wasn't a good advert for the sport.

They were up at the top in May '16 but finished a a considerable 10 points off of 4th by the end of the year and were 9th in May 2017 when they sacked Frayssinous, that's pretty much a year long slump he had them on beforehand.

Twice, when Leigh were in Sooper Dooper league....

They will need to rely on home form again this year. Clearly there was a huge difference in standard between their two away games and their home game against Saints. They seem incapable of travelling and playing well, which is a pretty damning indictment of their professionalism.

On this form, albeit it's only week 3 of a long season, it's difficult to see anything other than a bottom four finish for a team which on paper should be better than that.

I'd say 9th is a hell of a lot better than finishing 5th in the qualifiers having barely beaten two Championship teams and looking a million miles from winning a game at SL level.

They didn't play well against Saints, they defended ok but didn't threaten a team with 12 men and the two tries they did manage to score were both dummy-half barges.

I don't know what all the fuss is about. If they end up in the MPG, You'll all be shouting on here again that we need them in SL. 2 faced T@@@S the lot of ya.

But considering they went from top to 9th in a year then with that downward slope they were probably heading that way.

I agree. Given teams usually have to hit the 20 points mark to make the Top 8 then they'll need to be pretty much perfect at home (10 games remaining now) and that'll be a tough ask not to lose anymore at home even if they play better there.

Cokey, we do need them in Sooper League, if they weren't...... it would be an absolute disaster ! I don't actually know why, BUT IT WOULD !!!

They'd need to finish 4th or 5th in the middle 8's for the MPG. Are they good enough to even get that high?

That's not really how it works though is it? They were doing poorly, replaced their coach with McNamara and became much, much worse. I don't think there's any way you can defend McNamara here. Didn't he lose 8 matches in a row before getting the sack at Bradford? So that means in his last 16 regular season SL matches he's won 1 and lost 15, and the one win was against Leigh and needed a last minute try to do that. Absolutely dreadful.

The subject name for this thread should be...........This cataclysmic Catalans team.

Wigan last Saturday, Leeds last Friday there's 2, SL has been like this every game this year so far

Might it not be because it’s cold ha ha

I'll stick my head up as a Catalans fan for you all...

I think that we have struggled since Trent Robinson left and remain over reliant on players who aren't up to it.

Bird needs to start showing his worth and stop arguing with everyone.

The form under McNamara is worrying and rather than steady the ship since Laurent left, he has arguably made us even worse.

Three matches this season is too soon to write the whole thing off, but with Bernard's reputation for impatience and no signs of an improvement in form, it could be over quickly.

Probably IMO. And for all they've been dreadful I don't see them being displaced from SL.

Just where is Jean Capdouze???

He is on our board today.

Catalan play Wakefield next week. My team have history of bucking the trend. We'll beat on form teams and confound the odds on a regular basis. We also have a tendency when expected to win to kick start other teams season by losing heavily.

This is a make or break for McNamara if not the club imho.

Who knows, Catalan need to win that game a lot more than Wakefield do, lets be honest there will be a lot of pressure on them to perform. All that said i know that if Wakefield play to there potential it should be a fairly straight forward result, but this game is very rarely straight forward.

Wigans game was in 40 degree heat. I was answering Sir Kev's post about never seeing as much dropped ball when in fact there was more in the only two games I saw last week.

Based on the Dragons performance so far this season i have realised why they should not be exempt from SL.

All the other teams will have at least 2 points in the bag come the end of the season.

I cant wait for Jean's post match analysis, should be a cracker.

Except Leigh. They have no guaranteed 2 points

Regards

King James

Hi Jean