7,800 and something, I heard no cockerel but rarely do.

Attendance was 7800 prob 500 in south stand and yep he made a noise or two lol not bad atendance for not one catalan fan

Wasn't 1500 tickets given away for free?

thats a good attendance, should see with the arrival of away fans get around 8,500 so not bad at all.

Agree with all of that.

Sandercock said in his Harry Poole Bar that the players were super confident before the game and they tried too hard. My mate's Dad spoke to Liam Salter in the car park and he said we made 21 errors which validates that.

It was disappointing the players couldn't steady themselves in the first half and gone in 6/12 points down because I'm sure we would have gone on to win the game.

Discipline and sloppy errors cost us.
I thought Withers had probably the worst 40 mins he has had with us in the first half.
Second half showed a few positives though and should give us some confidence to take into Saturday.

Yer for the south stand only and that wasn't full

Don't know where to start first half thought the ref was poor had a better second half, thought Carlisle had a good game and thought hodgy was better in the forwards, thought salter and caro were good but when I saw the Catalan pack I was like oh oh, they're gonna be a force this season menzies is a bloody robot lol

To do what? it wasnt tackling or keeping the ball for sure. They were as flat as a fart in the first half.

I thought Catalan looked very good to say they were missing their main playmaker in Dureau, big, fast and skillful, I'll be surprised if they're not there or there abouts at the end of the season.

And the positive from this is were in 8th position lol still don't think Bentham has forgiven us for him breaking his leg #that was so last season Bentham get over it

Catalans were excellent, you wouldn't have know Dureau was missing. Big, aggresive forwards & Menzies is a freak, he should be getting studied by scientists. They've a touch of the Harlem Globetrotters about them though, today it worked, some days it won't, that's the only thing that might stop them challenging.

I thought we went ok for 15-20 mins then the weight of possession started to tell & we cracked a bit too easily for my liking. Need a bit more resilience than that. Moving Hall & Withers left us looking a bit unbalanced imo. Still, early days.

You got beat easily, Catalans took their foot off the gas

What !!!!!!!!!!!

In the first half it was nice to see that we've balanced being terrible in defence through the left channel to also being terrible down the right.

We've also added not being able to defend a set on our line to not being able to defend one in the oppositions twenty. Far, far too many easy yards. Pryce cut us to ribbons.

For some bizzare reason reason we had Withers defending around the ruck, he must have made forty tackles meaning he was totally gassed when we actually got our hands on the ball.

Positives were that we didn't just roll over and die after they scored first in the second half, but to be honest, the score line flattered us.

No big worries, first game of the season, making the eight is imperative.

After 43 minutes Catalans had scored their 5th try to be 26-2 up, you didn't score your first try until the 50th minute. Yes, the difference in the end was 8 points. You scored a try with a minute/2 minutes to go but still required another 2 to win, so yes, they beat you easily/comfortably.

They beat us by 8 points I wouldn't say that's convincing really yer the scoreline prob did flatter us in the end but we never gave up, round 1 long long way to go yet

Is it just me or was mika struggling today?? He seemed either very fatigued or carry a knock in the first half.good show from cox and lovegrove today onwards and upwards we will be fine!!

Problem was you never even started for the first 50 minutes!

This.

Catalans were in cruise control after the Fakir try. I have not seen Rovers pack bullied that easily in years.

I have to disagree, I think that when we scored our penalty to take a 2-0 lead we thought we had the game in the bag and took our foot off the gas, this enabled Catlan back into the game, unfortunately we didn't pu tour foot back on the gas until it was too late. If we can cut out these blistering starts to the game we could be genuine contenders this year.

Nowt wrong with a bit of optimism in my book, however I think your being more than a tad over optimistic if you honestly think you could be genuine contenders though

He was carrying a knock from the first half. I know it sounds harsh, but he reminded me a bit of Jake Webster today. Made a mistake then started limping around for bit.
Cats were just too good for us, they did nothing other then play the basics. We looked fatigued early on, from having to defend so much.
Price tore us apart & Menzies is just class.
Not the start I was hoping for, but not the end of the world.

Totally agree with you regarding Meeks he was very frustrating to watch in the first half but had a good go after the break. Think Paterson was brought back down to earth with a bump too,welcome to super league cory lol

We said he same.