I'd rather us play there in Feb or March.

id sooner not play them at all.sooner they are booted out the better.pointless having them in the league.

why?

You are aware its called the European Super League aren't you.

Lack of discipline at key times really killed us tonight.
Often took the wrong options as well which hasn't been the case recently.
That said, we still very nearly took the points, or at least a share of them.
Also I think we need to spell Houghton. Need to introduce a bit of zip, and give Houghton a break at the same time.

Explain...

you'd probably rather we were playing Keighley or Halifax, more serving of a SL slot based on tradition??

Not seen any highlights of the game yet being over here in Spain but it looked liked the catalan winger stamped on sas' face, anybody know what happened?

As for the idiot saying the french shouldn't be in the league, get a grip

Yep, he stamped on Sa's face.


Looked fairly intentional to me although the Sky pundits decided it wasn't.

Stats show that the game was pretty even but we have forwards who are just not doing enough/good enough at this level which is why we struggle when we interchange

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Looked like it to me too. He looked directly down at Sa and appeared to adjust to make sure he caught him, rather than miss him.

Great crowd there yesterday - wish I was there!

I wasn't overly convinced it was intentional - he stumbles whilst leaning forward and arching his foot up, which suggests to me he was trying to avoid standing on his head. On the other hand, he jumped over his head, which carries a risk of ending badly. Silly rather than deliberate. There was no downward movement with the leg, which I'd expect if it were a stamp.

And I agree - Catalans have done incredible things in the south of France, and if dimwit-boy is seriously suggesting he'd rather go to Batley, then he can always go and support them. The crowd might get into triple figures if he turns up!

Thought our bench was poor yesterday and Ellis had his quietest game for a while, thought we kept Taia pretty quiet.

They still made 60 more tackles than us and that is why we were on top the last 20, like saints at home that last pass just wasn't there.

I'd freshen things up a bit at Leeds and bring in Shaul, Naughton, Lineham, Bowden, Abdul and Cunningham.

Rest Ellis, Westy, Yeaman, watts and Pryce.

Shaul
Naughton
Talanoa
Sa
Lineham
Rankin
Sneyd
Paea
Houghton
Green
Mini
Whiting
Abdul

Feka
Bowden
Cunningham
Thompson

Still a team capable of giving them a game.

Did ellis come back on? Must admit I didn't notice him in the 2nd half.

Mini made as many carries and more metres than green, feka and whiting put together. If we're to be more competitive next year we need a better bench.

They made more tackles because they were getting more men in the tackle which was slowing us down. I don't think we looked to have any more energy than they did in the last 20 minutes personally.

sneyd had another of his "meh" games and hopefully has it out of his system for a few weeks now. We need watts, paea, mini, ellis, sneyd and pryce in top form in the next few games. Have a feeling our mid week game at wakey could be a lot more difficult than it would have been a month ago

Mini's second top in the comp for tackle busts and Tala's in the top 10 too.

Tricky to work out the strategy for this upcoming run.

Sounded like radford wanted to rest a few for the next match but now can't because we lost yesterday. Really tricky period coming up where the season could collapse around our ears if we're not careful. We could be out of the 8 today or have 2 teams within 2 points of us. We could potentially be 10th by the end of next weekend

Playing the percentages I'd sack off the Leeds game next week, go all out for the cup game and pin our hopes on winning matches against the lower teams. Our record at Leeds is truly awful and don't see the point in expending a load of energy to be undone by McGuire in the closing stages.

I'd do the same but listening to radford yesterday I don't think he will.

I wouldn't expect him to say he was sacking off the Leeds game to the media tbf. Going to be loads of nonsense talked by the coaches in the next couple of weeks.

should approach every game to win, can you imagine any of the top 4 "sacking off" a game?
if we don't go full throttle we'll pick up injuries (IMHO)

Sneyd was definitely off colour yesterday and Ellis was quiet.

Green and Feka had little effect. I would have liked to have seen Abdul on the bench.

With both Lineham and Shaul out the team was short on pace.

All in all a good effort though and if we'd been a bit smarter we would have won. I have felt a lot worse after defeats this season than I did last night.

Thought radford got it wrong. Obviously thought about getting on top them coming on strong later. But to me seems stupid to have paea watts Ellis &westy all sat down at the same time. Lost momentum and the match in that period. Also going for 2 killed us a bit. I'd of pressed them.
Bench was poor. Thompson forms dropped right off. Whiting gives the worst pens u could ever give away at the very worst times. Green is ok some games but useless others. Feka a luxury & effective in many games but not in a tight 1 like that

Tough call aint it?
We field a weakened team and aren't competitive at Headingley then lose in the Cup and we are scratting about up in the air as to making the 8.
Not easy this management shizzle unless you are, of course, one of our more illustrious worldly knowledgeable posters.

I reckon Radford will play his strongest team next week, but may bring back Lineham and Shaul.

Get out there and beat Leeds twice would be my intention.