Awful opening 20 minutes. As bad as last year.

Main problem is there are no leaders. Second problem I've yet to see any backbone from BJB. Third problem we only have one halfback capable of doing anything. And to finish it off our pack is useless. This game is a big one for us , now I'm just hoping we keep it respectable.

26-0...

Now time to get some scores before half time

And some more.

14 points isn't that much to overcome but we simply can't afford to concede again. Also Miller needs to up his game as how many times this season has our attack has faltered because his passing/kicking is poor?

12-26 half time could have scored just before HT , let's give it some air nothing to lose! Catalans will tire and we didn't do anything for 30 minutes!!!

Hate to pick on individuals but Miller has been dreadfull. Tupou has made a massive difference, he needs to stay on.

Agree. Tupou has been the difference between the first 20 and the last. The only player with a bit of composure.

Millers bombed 2 tries with his inability to perform a basic catch and pass.

Bentham should have given us a penalty just before their last try but instead he told the Les Cats player to play the ball.

Game on! Johnstone with a corker!

Credit where it's dues. They've well and truly pulled their finger out!

Well it was fun while it lasted. Unfortunately Mason went off and Catalans started performing again.

Gave ourselves far too much to do in the opening half hour. Pretty even game otherwise. Special mention for Johnstone. Tremendous attitude from the lad.

Well that was a shambles yet again. How long will smith keep his job, how many super league games has he won foe us? 2 in 20? Not counting the middle8's. Would another club put up with this? No doubt he come on wakey tv with the usual bull,, he should be a MP with the excuses he come out with. Get Jk in before it's too late again and we have to drag all fringe players in from the top teams to save us again.

Miller had a nightmare

We were poor but Bentham gave them 18 points due to errors.

I thought we suffered whilst Scruton was on the pitch. Our come back started when he limped off and then hit the buffers when he came back on gave away that head high that lead to Catalans moving from 26 to 32. Went straight off again then!

Loss by 13 against a star studded Catalans side lead by a rampant Dave Taylor doesn't seem too bad as an end result. But it's another "if only"

Very disappointed with the first 25 minutes and no team is going to win from that position.
Great comeback, while it lasted and Toupu was certainly the inspiration for that but, the effort, commitment and quality from the youngest
player on the field, Johnstone, brightened up a crap afternoon. The lad was utterly brilliant and unlucky not to add to his earlier well taken try.

BJB, whilst looking dangerous in attack, looks very shy in defence and why he wasn't busting a gut to get to the kick for their first try was just poor and it set the tone for the first 25 minutes of slow, lazy rugby league, which was the worst we've seen for a couple of years or more.

Someone needs to take charge on field as there doesn't appear to be any leadership out there.

I'd drop BJB and Miller for the next match. The only two areas that haven't been changed.

No coach could do much more with our squad. We have too many journeymen and players who are really not SL standard.
However put in a couple of class players in the squad and we would have enough to build a half decent team.

Why bring an international class player across to the other side of the world and then stick him on the bench? Absolutely baffles me! Completely different side while he was on the pitch. Brian Smith is not the messiah he's a very naughty boy

Our coach signed and retained some of the dross on field.we have no chance while we have finn n miller at 6 and 7

Very poor in the tackle for those first 20 - 25 mins you cant blame any Ref for that and Its been said that the first thing they do in training is contact work..well they need to up it then as even after that there was some poor tackles put in. Johnstone must have been told you have a free reign he was my mom stopped 2 certain scores and played well

We need o make A. Tupou Captain....imo he would make an excellent leader on the pitch. We desperately need a centre to partner Tom Johnstone, who was fantastic today, and a big strong forward to replace Scruton who is abysmal. Our go forward changed altogether the minute Scruton left the field and Tupou and Arona came on, the backs will never do anything until the forwards start dominating.

First the positives, Tom Johnstone was excellent and we didn't give up like we probably would have last year and for a couple of calls it could have been better. And why oh why do we not get as much game time out of Anthony Tupou as possible? The guy is comfortably our classiest player, we need him on the pitch. But ultimately we were just not good enough at crucial times principally the start and once we had fought back to give ourselves a chance. You can't start like we did and hope to get results, we were so soft in defence in was a throwback to last season at times. As we saw at times today Catalans have a soft underbelly and some attitude problems and this should have been a target game for us, as it was pretty much over after half an hour. BJB was ok going forward but poor defensively, the forwards well and truely owned by Dave Taylor and Louie Anderson but for me the main issues resolves around two areas, hooker and halfback. Although he isn't the quickest Howarth i don't mind but i have a problem with Sio. This guy is taking up one of our overseas spots and i really don't see what he offers that a championship rake couldn't, probably for less coin. We need much more from him. But top of the problem tree are Finn and Miller. Now we know Finn doesn't really have the legs but he could do a job if the guy alongside him had half a clue what he was doing. But time and time again Miller is being found out to be nothing short of awful creatively and the epitome of a headless chicken. patience is wearing thin with him and for me he has a couple of games to show a siginificant improvement and make it work or changes are going to have to be made.