cant fault the effort today, but silly mistakes were punished today by the best team in the league, last game v saints we were getting the bounce of the ball, today it just wasn't happening, even the short kick offs weren't happening for us today. Would like to see Carlos have had a word with Moore about the gamesmanship from Catalan, timewasting at every opportunity, Tomkins wasn't afraid to be in the refs ear most of the match, time we did the same!

Tomkins pushes Houghton out of the ruck area and nothing is said.

Houghton does it and its a penalty.
Give me strength.

Think the talking to the ref is where we are naive as we just don’t question anything particularly as to the difference in what we get pinged for. Think we are also too honest at the ptb instead of diving/falling or making a meal of things to gain a penalty/6 again etc.

If there was ever a reason why we need to sign some big forwards , then that was it , We defended well but we was always struggling to contain Les Dragons pack .
They slowed the ruck area down and made it even more difficult to make any yards .
Not to disappointed with the result , couple of poor reads and the result could have been different .

Then there’s Bousquet‘s try - surely that was double movement. Dived over with ball in his right hand, right arm goes down during tackle, removes ball with his left hand and puts the ball down outside the upright. Not saying we’d have won but wrong calls, small margins and momentum. If right calls made maybe we wouldn’t have had to force it.

Great post. Had a solid dig - didn't really feel that Catalans got out of 2nd gear but we had some extended periods of quality defence and our attack under Smith is much improved

Yeah noticed that too



It’s inconsistencies like that which infuriates fans.

Any news on Swift? That try on the first half hooter was top notch

TS said after the match that he got a knee in the back which resulted in a dead leg & back pain but he should be good for next week.

Would be the first timely boost of the week

We got bullied upfront and they off loaded at will but due to the massive effort we put in managed to stay in the game.Our goal line scrambling defence was superb.

Disappointed with the result but at least we are showing some character. Something that has been missing from us for years.

More confident than ever that Smith is the man, imagine if he was in charge of any of our squads from 2018-2020! Massively uplifted the performances of some limited ability players.

Next seasons signings are more key than ever, with our finances I expect more unknown and unsung names than household names but if we get this right we are back in business next year I feel.

I'm away and watched it on the app, nothing wrong with it, couple of 50/50s but ref had a decent game

Agree, some fans think the world is against them too often. SL does need video ref at all games though, this inconsistency between TV and non TV games has gone on too long now.

no youre not, you are just jumping on the bandwagon of the Griffins on here.

here is the post.It has three parts so tell me which of them you you disagree with


bonaire wrote:
lack of pace and power in the forwards has to be addressed for next season.
The team needs to start working on faster play the balls which seems to me to be the reason they are on the wrong end of six again calls.
Once again you cant fault the effort but we were dominated today

Agree with all you said, never said otherwise, you never answered the question, why didn't you comment during or after the Saints match, whilst you couldn't wait to post on here when we get beat.

Because he's already put on the record that he doesn't think 'tinkering Tony' will see out the season.
Probably sat in his bedroom, by his radio, cursing every victory we have cos it doesn't help with the e he's already posted.
For what it's worth, thought we huffed and puffed a lot today, and couldn't fault the effort but we are presently a below average SL team.
Those posting this week still with a belief of top 6 are either deluded or haven't been watching the same side I have.
No doubt, we've had our moments, but never shown any consistency that equates to us being able to get near challenging.
All about onwards and upwards, innit.

I think you will find i did post after the Saints match
You used to be a reasoned sensible poster on here but as i said you have chosen to go Griffin jumping on some peoples posts.
You dont need to follow some of the children on here you were better than that.

Save you checking if you are on holiday

Re: On to Saints in the League : Thu Jun 22, 2023 10:01 pm
What a quality performance from a makeshift team.
dominant all round and out enthused Saints.
See what a disciplined team can do when you are not using up all your energy defending from errors and repeated six agains

5 hours after the match, but couldn't wait to post straight away today.

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Just admit it, ''you have chosen to go Griffin'.
Then in the next breath has the audacity to talk about reasonable and sensible posters on here and people not being children.


Couldn't make up what a tool he is.

Thought the better team won today, a lot of the bounces went Catalans way but they was certainly worthy winners, a very good side who I think will go on to win at least the league leaders come the end of the season. We made a good account of ourselves, as mentioned previously, all we ask for as fans is effort and that is what we got from the 1st to the 80th minute. There is clear improvement in this side and long May it continue

Reckon that is Lovodu's last game in a Hull shirt, think he got brought off after the dropped ball and never came back on did he.

Sutcliffe is back, I'd put Carlos or Scott there, think Scott deserves a good run in the side, think we are starting to see his true potential.

Yeah thought the same when he hookd him

Maybe because he was having heart problems?