Gonna be interesting,can our mini revival continue.
Recalling the game at ours,when we shifted the ball we seemed to be able to get around the side of the Cats quite easy,but then undid all the hard work with stupid errors including handing them soft tries.
How much store we can put on those Leeds wins.The Rhinos are dreadful just now as witnessed last Friday.You can only beat what's in front of you - as they say.
Sky sports takes a lot of hammer quite rightly in many ways,I don't like the thought of my costly subs,which have just increased,going towards paying the huge wages of prem footballers,but now at least we get to watch the RL games live out in Perpignan,which can't be bad.COYG.

wardle getting sent off by thaler didnt help last time we played them



how many high shots have we seem since and no red card???

The Wardle red was a valid call

Catalans not getting one for a dozen others wasn't - including the spear tackle that lost us Eorl for the game

Red button SS4 and know you can't record red button.

I'm watching and recording it right now (Sky HD box)

Great first 40,watched every Catalans home game and that is the least threatening they have looked in a first half.
Best defensive effort of the season by us.
They have messed up a few times when it looked like certain try time,but maybe that's down to the pressure they were feeling.

Hope we can keep up that level of d intensity in second 40.COYG.

Paul Anderson said before the game that Broughton was the Catalan danger man.

Why did we let him go

Agree about Broughton,where did that all go wrong.

Brave effort though,one thing I don't get though is why Anderson swapped Smurph & Jake,pretty sure Smurph would have stopped that Gigot try,but good work by Jake for his own 4 pointer.

My MOTM - Josh Johnson,outstanding.With that sort of effort from a young prop the future is bright.

I say again -we didn't "let him go" he was not a prisoner.

Murphy could do no wrong as far as some were concerned last season Durham....

Please enlighten us.

Did we offer him a new contract ?
did we tell him he was surplus to requirements?
did we try to keep him ?

If none of the above are the case then we let him go.

In 5 months under Frasinyous he looks a better player than he did at the Giants.

valiant from the giants running catalans close

ill discipline cost us in a vital period in the second half

connor scored a great try!

few dodgy decisions from the ref in the second half , taai didnt look like he knocked on, he was offloading and it went backwards, cats scored from this.
also the last kick of the game was a knock on surely?!

shame we couldnt convert a close game into a win again, onto newcastle and another tough task.

Good effort from the players but we got beaten in the pack and it just seemed to drain us.

Getting some backs and halves back but we are missing some big players in the pack. Eorl, Huby and Smith are so needed.

this broughton topic has been done to the death now surely!

It has

Broughton wanted guaranteed first team rugby and we couldn't do that. Think it may have been Anderson that said it in an interview a while ago.

What about Murphy to centre and Broughton on the wing.Why couldn't that have worked ?

No point mulling over what might have been.Move on

we looked abit rusty in attack, expected though with ellis making his comeback, will get better as the weeks pass

hinchcliffe looked dangerous in the second half, hes improved alot

I agree, particularly when it makes for unpleasant reading in certain quarters...!

Agree we seemed to lose some shape on attack with Ellis in there.

Hinch was outstanding,really put a great shift in.In fact I was waiting for PA to reintroduce him just as they scored the 3rd try.If we could have held on then, and got Hinch back on the field I think there was a good chance of a win.

Also outstanding,Lawrence,Roberts,Rapira & Johnson. Shame no Eorl,might have been the difference between the close loss or a close win.

steady Paul -you REALLY ARE being too simplistic!!!

Easier to go into a new season without a recognised winger cos if youre saying we couldnt guarantee him some regular game time thats what we did

but hey if it suits to sweep a topic / cockup under the carpet in case it upsets some poor sensitive souls - I suggest that some aint too bothered about committing hari-kari

So I`ll continue to support a not bothered setup -great

It wouldnt have been so bad if hed been given fair game and failed with us-would have been some compensation to others who care! Little bit similar to a Mr Fagborun scenario....

He had some really good performances before being allowed out to graze!!

and as for shutting up and moving on ........its gone Thats been the story so many times -it hurts (well it does SOME)! but I`m expecting a new supply of soft pink specs by the end of the month so if anyones interested ??

www.examiner.co.uk/sport/rugby-l ... on-9880523 5th paragraph, this is why he signed for the Dragons.

www.examiner.co.uk/sport/rugby-l ... on-9880523 5th paragraph, this is why he signed for the Dragons.

Mr Anderson could have played Murphy at Fullback, But fair enough we don't play the style of Football to make the best of a flier on the wing. All too late now anyway as some have said.

.....and why weve been forced to then get an ex R U winger and a loan / cuptied winger from one of our rivals

But thats ok ? whatever ! We can leave it at that cos we have so many gifted multi position players as backup we dont need a recognised winger

but we CAN move the "winger" to centre to accommodate the full back / centre /half back to winger

lets make up the plot to fit the novel !

It obviously sits well with some so why should I be the party pooper

on the other hand whilst some aren`t --bet Jodie`s happy !

Sunshine / regular rugby / etc etc :

Though we were as good as Catalan myself, a bit under pressure in the pack but far from outclassed, Spurned 2 points again and conceded 6 , very poor decision, cost us the game I thought. Still onward and upward, Saints aren't special.