100%, we need to make the 8, nothing else is acceptable after what Adam has invested. A longer cup run will also help the finances (obviously!)

Could do with Rovers winning today.

We're struggling to make the 8 because we've been shizzle at home this season. 3 wins from 8 games is dire. 10 points away from the KC

losing at home by 1 point was the worst one!

bench was poor last night, defo try to get lineham shaul back in, as been said would like to have seen Abdul on the bench last night to, but lets dust ourselves down and get ready for leeds,COYH

The way we (Leeds) are playing I reckon you've a very good chance of picking up the two league points and getting to the SF of the Cup so you've no need to be 'sacking' this game off

I agree. We're almost at full strength and playing with more confidence than we've seen in years. I think we'd be mad to take our foot of the pedal at this moment while we are within touching distance of 4th and still in the cup.

Agree. Shaul has an instinct to be in the right place at the right time. Watts broke 1 time n mini did and I'd of backed shaul to be there and finish. Our support play was well off again last night

another reason Lineham should play.

No good all this ifs and buts, he should not have played /played. The side put up a great fight against the odds with the heat and the ref and could have won.We never and we move on. Only one side have won at their place this season and we were far from being poor.Why do some thrive od seeking out negatives??

Big opportunity missed last night . Very frustrating.
It was a four pointer and we blew it .
Made a very ordinary Cats side look good . We could regret this defeat big time !!

it's called discussion, what else would a discussion forum be for?

Yeah, a very ordinary Cats team that's beaten Wire,Saints and put 50 on Wigan give your a head a shake,not as good as we have been but still deserved a point IMO.

Agree 100%. By saying how we lost because we blew chances is papering over the fact that it was suicidal to have for 25 mins (?) a middle unit of Green, Thompson and Feka, plus complemented by having Ellis off at the same time. If Catalan hadn't themselves blown a gilt-edged chance just after half time there would have been little chance for our run-on pack to salvage things.

I wouldn't want to put my house on Green or Thompson making a crucial one-on-one tackle if need be.
Love Feka as a person/player but he is so immobile in defence it is uncomfortable to watch at times.
As you say Whiting is an expert at giving away pens on the 4th or 5th tackles, which is strange for a "smart" player.

TBF to Radford he is having to learn on the job and he will have learnt a lot last night. It's a shame as I personally think he has generally the right idea in trying to shake the club out of mediocrity.

Yep. Keeps us in the 8 for now.

Got to go for the win against Leeds. Looking at next weeks fixtures for the teams battling to make the 8

Leeds v fc
kr v wire
wigan v Salford
widnes v hudds
catalan v Wakefield

Big weekend for any team to pick up a win. A win for catalan and they should be a shoe in for the 8 leaving 1 spot

wigan, hudds, cats and rovers to win

You missed off FC pal.

Not quite as confident as you

Naughty Naughty showing your rovers bias just kidding jake who do you think will win between Leeds and hull?

It will take a bit more clinical finesse then we had against Catalan & no piggy backing the opposition down field, but Leeds are not as consistent as they've been in recent years.

Wire & Hudds could have a couple of players missing for their games next week after 4 players sin binned for fighting .

Not bias, wire are struggling and rovers are pretty good at home and have players coming back.

I think we'll win one of the 2 leeds games and lose the other. Hopefully we'll win the cup game

It will take a much better performance from pretty much everyone on the pitch. I expect a few back for leeds for the cup game but that might actually work in our favour. Someone needs to crack peacock early on and get him whining like a baby

This, for me. I thought we also saw a bit of one-out rugby for a spell in the middle there, too.

Hopefully just a blip. We've been much better recently, we were always likely (almost certain) to see some sort of dip at some point, it's all about how we respond now.

Also, to say that the game time of our props seemed more evenly shared than it usually is, the difference in workload did not reflect that IMO.