According to the Guardian it said Ben Harrison has a calf injury

We were still in command of that game with the team we had out there we just lacked composure and made basic errors at the wrong time and they came from a variety of individuals. I'm still a bit baffled as to how we lost but we did.

In terms of lessons learnt, I think it was for me more about not getting caught up in the game, I thought when the key moments came we rushed them, Solomona didn't take the extra half a second to regain his feet, Cooper & Paul Wood entered collision wanting to promote the ball on early plays, Carvell tried to put Myler through a hole on play 1, stuff like that. We needed somebody, like Briers or Clarke to just force us down the middle and end sets on their line, we squandered too man sets in the last 10 mins on early plays having created another & another & another opportunity with good field position to win the game.

It wasn't about who played and who didn't, apart from losing Monas maybe which was huge but even without him we should have won.

I think if we'd have scored back to back tries at any point, and made the gap 10-12 pts, we'd have knocked the stuffing out of them, we always left them enough hope.

I will have to pick you up on that one. Catalans came with a simplistic game plan, which didn't show any great tactical nous. If that would have been a TV game, Stevo would have combusted with the manner of the punctuated play and the shear number of penalties.

Agreed.

In Stevo terms, I think we allowed ourselves to be sucked into the arm wrestle. I'm not sure Bentham helped neither, I think he issued a warning with 11 minutes left, it was a good 40 minutes overdue. All that said, we should have overcome this, and only didn't on the back of poor execution and decision making.

our own cullen esque performance aside, how can a ref issue that many penalties and not give a warning.

Also, how can a touchie run on and alert him to a grapple tackle, which as we all know is now a sinbinning automatically, only for bentham to look around very quizically and turn to say, keep em down.

It wasn't a high shot FFS.

That really annoyed me.

I think most of us fans had the we only need to turn up to win mentality, including me.