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.

why cant paea and mika do more than 10 mins galea and newton used to do the full 80 i know paea is a prop and gets rotated but still

Paea doesn't spend 80 minutes on the pitch and no second rower can force themselves onto a game whilst playing behind a badly beaten front row.

Was dissapointed with the performance. Was looking for alot more aggression from our pack. We seemed to get that aggression for a period of the 2nd half but the game was over I felt at that point. Thought we was devoid of any attacking threat on the right and when we did get the ball out onto that side we saw some really good results. Withers isn't the option at 6 and hopefully we'll see Hall playing next week with Eden at fullback. Still one less game now till we get to see Burns make his debut.

I thought they did longer than ten mins today thought it was 20

Tbf the aggression shown on our part seemed to get unnecessarily punished today.

Yep totally agree is it a game of touch rugby now ruined the first half did Bentham just cos walker put few hits in we got penalised it was ok for the frogs to do it and get away with it

You can't blame a mobile phone for that gibberish

Poor 1st half littered with errors, poor discipline, and an inability to defend our line. A second half rally, that briefly gets us back in the game but ultimately falls 8pts short. Sound familiar?

Also, not sure if anyone has mentioned this ... but the 'path' towards the East Stand was awful (again). My wellies are ruined.

Well, i think that Graeme Horne was actually playing touch rugby.

So it was the ref's fault?

De Ja Vu?

Got bounced off about five times,fair play the lad was playing out of position as he hasn't been a centre for about five years and ultimately, that's Sandercock's call.

It's not difficult rugby league, Catalans did all of the basics right today and we didn't. Line speed, wrapping the ball, quick play the balls, dummy runners, having a game plan, we lacked all of that today.

It's early days but having identified the problems with our team over year ago I'd expect a coach to be well down the road to fixing them by now.

Horne played more in the centres last year than the backrow i think. He got himself into position to make the tackles but as you say he got bumped off far to easily. Shouldnt be happening to somebody his size.
The rest of your post is spot on.

Well hopefully today will have brought a little bit of realism into some of our supporters...

It went very much how i expected... we can butter up our signings as much as we like but we still have nowhere near the quality to try and challenge.... we reputedly have spent 1.2m on the cap(debt enforced)... and barring maybe 1 or two of recent signings we lack that strength in depth.. and sadly i do not envisage this changing soon..

I`m trying not too be too downbeat over the game today but it did show our vulnerabilities yet again.... It`s a long old season so hopefully we will improve a little when the grounds start to dry out a bit , we have always struggled against the big(size wise) teams barring the odd shock....so it deffo didn`t come as a shock today...

Hopefull of improvement.....

I was absolutely disgusted with the effort from the forwards(apart from Lovegrove), totaly spineless!they should be ashamed of their performance. What was it with Webb, is everybody scared of him? he laughed and taunted everyone yesterday.

I also dont get why Sandercock switched Hall to FB, the lad has trained and played at 6 all offseason, would have been easier to put Hodgson at FB and played Brown on the wing.

I never expected us to win the game but to put in such an inept performace was bad. The clown with whistle gave us nothing, not that he had anything to do with defence which I would describe as a shambles.

Rant over, roll on Saturday!!!

It was, but that doesn't make for a good rant.

Paea & Mika are not joined at the hip, it's entirely possible for one of them to play ok whilst the other has a stinker and goes off sulking after a game ending drop ball.

Mika didn't go off sulking, he was badly concussed and didn't know where he was.

I think you're right, he did, the question is, should he be playing in the centres?

For me, no.

Wonder what Heil, the man who has been waiting in the wings for 2 years, thinks about a second rower playing in left centre, badly, week after week.

if he did then he wont be playing next week then He in fact went off with damaged pride hes a 10 minute powder puff liability