yep, its French national policy - no advertising of any alcoholic drinks on either national or cable tv. has been in place since the 80s

Unbelievable!!!!!!

Don't feed the troll.

Is this guy for real? Knocking houghton for not playing because his having his first child? Haha I can't get over it. In the real world I'm sure paternity leave also exists. It's a shame you didn't show the same commitment and get out to France. Your a disgrace to your club with comments like that.

wish we would make our minds up, it wasn't so long ago that people wanted houghton out of the side

I don't think anyone wants him out of the side. However there are plenty of people, me being one if them, that thinks a) Heremaia is a better all round 9, and b) Houghton probably isn't good enough for a top 4 team.

Would we have won if he was playing? Maybe so, but that's only because we would have had a genuine 2nd hooker to spell with Azza. Do we not have any other hooking options? Who's been playing there for the 20's? I would have definitely considered recalling Cunningham when we found out Houghton wasn't going to play.

They all prefer bulmers

34 degrees at 5pm in perpignan saturday, great credit to any player who took the field today

thought we got a few harsh calls from bent ham, penalised for lifting in the tackle yet the french did at least 3 times and he turned a blind eye

Only reason he gave theirs was because Henderson (iirc) dropped the ball and he'd had to have given the knock on.

Thought we made a few mistakes just at the wrong time which eventually cost us but we held Catalans to 20 points and with a little more patience in the first half we could have wont the game.

Good effort though and they never gave up and stopped trying, last year we loat 30 points to 4 and in teh first half they dig deep to keep them in the game.

We will definately win more games

Wow ive seen some plonkers on here but tonight you've been the biggest ive seen.
Embarrassed for u!
All your points/misplaced rants have been answered.
reason danny didnt go is his partner gave birth few days ago but only just got out of hopital today so obviously she's not in great nick. Also they have a another young un so he'll be needed there as well!

If anyone can't see the positives in that performance tonight, they're fools.

Catalans have acclimatised to that heat by now, we were always going to tire early.
They've only lost once at home and that was in February to Leeds.
One of our wingers hadn't played for 3 months and then goes straight into those conditions.
No first choice hooker
No scrum half to speak of
They'd put 40 points past Saints in the same heat and conceded NONE.
We tried to play conservatively in the first half to save energy for the second and it paid off for us.

If someone had said we'd lose by 4 points today, I'd have said, "You mean 34". I'll take that.

One things clearer though. Rankin's getting better and NEEDS a leader on that field with him. Miller and Horne are not the answer.

Thought you were unlucky and it could have gone either way. In that heat i thought you were dead at half time but came back great. Probably tried a bit too hard at times instead of keeping a calm head. I've watched Horney since he was an under 9 and have always been a big fan. So sad to see him now and although the heart is still there he's a shadow of what he was

Thought it was a typical fc 2014 performance. Full of heart and effort in ridiculous conditions really but just fell short. At times the structure was totally wrong and we still put our set plays on too deep. But effort and spirit not lacking in any way. Been the same all season. Two ptbs by pryce in first half that were immediately prior to tries were very poor but bentham struggled all night with basics. Result would be less expensive had we beaten wakey and Widnes at home.

If its possible I would recall Cunningham from London and play Heremaia at 7 with Rankin for the rest of the season until we can find a seven we all know we are missing.
Big effort today but Horne is definitely finished as a regular first team player and unless a miracle happens to his play at Doncaster Millar will not make the grade.
Playing Dean Hadley as a stop gap 9 was again a big mistake by Radford and maybe we saw today why Thompson is rumoured to be leaving the club.
We still struggle to score in the opposition 20.Passing is poor and set up too slow.

No they haven't..so DH not playing cos his wife dropped a sprog..biiiig deal, clearly you're another one of these happy campers because we put ina 'performance'..okay..whatever.
This game was there for the taking, Cats were not anywhere near what they were against St's but gash team selection, DH being given time off (or him requesting it..whichever) when this would have given us a shout at least of getting in the top 8..but no we are all happy as pigs in e because we got within a score. That we played like crud for 65 minutes yet again
IT IS YOU AND YOUR ILK THAT ARE EMBARASSING accepting mediocrity and bigging up the team for losing..
I'm glad you're happy with Radford and his ineptness on display yet again. happy to make more excuses for a loss because one player's missus was in hospital with a baby (that's where they go btw for a few days and they have nurses and shiz..oh I'm sure both grandparents might have been on hand too..aunts/uncles too..plus specialists

)

if we aren't doing everything possible to get the best team out and the best tactics possible then we're fooked and people like you are complicit in the way things have been.

That's not a rant..that's all about facts baby..

Was tuson on all game? He only made 5 carries according to the stats on SL website.

Weirdly made 20 tackles though, so must on mainly been on when we under pressure.

Paea and Ellis apart that's a poor effort from our forwards, hardly made any meters and poor average gain. Thought Thompson was poor yesterday and his stats back it up.

I'd shut up before you embarass yourself any further. Its called statutory paternity leave, every father (if qualifies) is entitled to it by law . I'm sure if Mrs Houghton could have hung on until after Saturday night she would, just to help her husbands employers out.

There are no facts there! Just an impeccable display of sheer bellendery!

Top post, excellent summary..

It's a shame Horne didn't ground the ball correctly. Not so much for the two points we would have gained but more for the fact that it would have kept you off here for another week.

I bet you got punched a lot at school, didn't you?

I always like to read a concise, well thought out comment. What a pity this isn't one. You really should consider a job as a professional idiot, you do seem perfectly qualified.

You are a disgrace to our club. Blockity-block-block-block.