Ref let Catalan lay on in tackle something shocking, making a quick play the ball impossible. Also Brough not protected after a kick leading to his yellow card.
Extremely humid conditions led to a knock-on-athon by both teams, playing in such conditions will be stamina draining.

Any win in France is a big win, not many go there and win, only the 2nd time we have won there too.

not a great game, awful infact but the 2 points is what was needed here.

ferres injured again? arm this time, he was awful though before he went off must have lost the ball 3/4 times.

wood injured too.

if we keep 4th does this mean we have to return to catalans in the super 8's

Awful game to watch but a win over there doesn't happen to anybody very often so very happy.
We also never let Catalan, get a quick play of the ball. The game was in slow motion, very got going and was hard to watch.

Will brough get a ban regarding next weeks team selection?

its not like catalans ever get any decisions over there is it

wood got injured.

yes leeming and simpson in for me too.

Awful game in what must have been very difficult conditions. Very pleasing two points in view of the fact Catalan set their stall out to wind the Giants ( particularly Brough ) up from the start. Even better we got a try from a pass a mile forward.

Not the best game from Wardle by his standards, instrumental in both their try's, and well done to Hughes for a great chase on Escare. Only Leeds and us had the spoils there this season, so well done. Come on Wakey.

We didn't score off a forward pass.

People need to either 1) have their eyes tested.

or 2) Learn the laws of physics because I'd love to know how a player can pass a ball to aonother player that is 3 yards behind them, who catches the ball still 3 yards behind them, in a forward direction.

Had you been drinking before the game? Grix passes near to 20 metre line. His hand are in a forward direction. Mcgillivary stretching takes the ball at least 3 metres in front of the 20 metre line,

Nol he doesn't. Grix is over the 10 metre line. He quite clearly throws it backward His hads aren't facing forward. It travels about 1 metre forward but Mcgillevary is still behind Grix when he catches it. Watch the video, it isn't a forward pass. Mcgillevary isn't stretching, the ball lands in his bread basket. When Mcgillevary catches the ball Grix has moved about 7 yards forward. The ball actually moves backward relative to Grix it is a perfect pass between two players moving in a forward direction. The ball arcs through the air because Grix spins it as he throws it.

3 yards? Was more than that.
If that pass was forward then Jerry must be the fastest man in superleague by a very long way!
But that's irrelevant as the movement of grixs hands was backwards- the touchy was in the perfect place to see
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It was bad enough condition wise in the stand so god knows how the players must have felt but I will give all 17 of them credit for not buckling in the heat and seeing the game out .... Catalans have everything in their favour at home but we stood up to them and the conditions very well !!
Massive shout out to the fans too who never stopped singing and dancing all game.

Must also say I thought Scott Grix stepped up to the plate very well when broughy was sin binned and showed he can still be useful for us in attack !!.

Hard to criticise any individual in that heat I think !

The catalan chairman is having a good old rant

That's because like many other people- including players- he does not understand the forward pass rule and think it has something to do with the ball travelling forward in relation to the ground- which it hasn't - as the ball will always do that if the player throwing it is running forward at pace.
You can see from my stills that the TJ was in the perfect position to see and was looking at whether grixs passing motion was forward or backwards-

Why would the coach drop Scott Grix. Thought he had a good game and provided the match winning pass to Mcgilvary.
A great win given the conditions and every player played his part.

For the trip to France, and knowing how the Cats would play, it was a good decision to bring in the 'Old Hands' as the professionalism of the Catalans was known - lying on, head shots, late tackles etc - and therefore keeping the young ones out of this game was a Great call
However going forward the Young Guns are the ones who will take us to greater heights.
Great calls from the Coach who fully understands what we need to do to get to the Top.
Total faith in Baloo and his team.
We are in a good place and can look forward to better times going forward in the Comp.

That's all fair enough

Want to see Simpson, Leeming etc back in next week v Wakey

In Carcassonne now after 5 nights in Perpignan, what a top time with great company and the locals were welcoming as ever. Mind you, was a tad warm.....
Cheers everyone and congratulations on the hard earned win

My beard has started to smell funny. Looking forward to cooling down.

I believe Grixy thinks quicker and reacts faster than anyone else in the squad and proves it near each time he plays.As for Saturdays match was it just me but did our lads look to handle the conditions much better fitness wise than the other nationalities[sorry Catalans}?They looked absolutely cream crackered.

To be honest the conditions were ok on Saturday if we had had to play tonight where the temperature has been far higher and the sun was out later that would have been a real test of endurance but thankfully the points are in the bag and we did what we had to do.

poor quality game, but we dug out a well earned and hard earned win, not many teams go there and win, to do so in that heat and humidity was very pleasing, i also though Grix played well as did others, but it was a team victory rather than outstanding individual performances.

good turnout by the giants fans, although i suspect a few hotels in the costa brava were happy! you can't really tell by watching the game back on tv, but excellent vocally as well!

great weekend as always although the heat and humidity put most people to the sword, it must have been pushing 40 in Montpellier yesterday.

both teams were dead on their feet at the end, but yes i did think we looked the fitter side in the closing stages probably due the interchanges, i think catalans only had 2 subs at one point?

or the fact that had to make 143 more tackles than we did!

We absolutely bossed the territory in that game.
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This seems to show that Grix passes that ball backwards to me!

You should post this to the other nationalities {Sorry Catalans}chairman Jools.

I understand that Grix's hands looked like he was passing backwards and that he always remained in front of the ball, but the ball did travel a mile forward.

I do have a bit of sympathy for Catalan because if it was the other way round, there would be plenty on here kicking up a real fuss.

However, we've had plenty of decisions go against us so it's nice to be on the other end!