Team News

Ratchford
Russell
Atkins
Evans
Penny
Gidley
Sandow
Hill
Clark
Sims
Currie
Hughes
Westerman

Subs
Dwyer
Bailey
Westwood
Cox

Probably the best 17 we've put out all year

That team, 100% fit is quality but bumps and bruises seem to have been causing us problems recently. Catalans missing a fair few this week so we should be picking up 2 points. It should still be a tough game though.

Let's just hope we don't score first!!!!

what the hell are we playing at..another bilge half..and dont get me started on russell and wasterman...

Catalan playing like they want it more than us.SHOCKING.

Smith very honest at the end there, and bang on the money too. I said when Evans took it in on the last with 30 seconds to go that it was a stupid thing to do, if there's one team you don't give one more go in a tight game it's Catalan. Luckily we were able to see them off. Thought Smiths comments about us playing the victim at the minute and letting teams dictate the pace of the game right through was on point too, that has been a big problem recently. He looked pretty pee'd off too so I would expect to see a big change next week as his patience looked thin.

Frayssinous thought they had some bad decisions against them tonight. I can't really think of one. I think the yellow for the lift was harsh, especially when Pellisier clotheslined someone off the ball and stayed on the field but other than that I felt like the penalties they conceded were fair enough, as were ours.

You're right, Smith was spot on. Apart from when he said Lineham and Ormsby were in the mix for next week. Why on earth would we even consider them?

very lucky to win tonight.... we were poor again.

the team seems to lack direction and purpose.

i will be amazed if this side wins a trophy this season

As with Hull last week we came up against a bigger & more mobile pack & were lucky to hold on for a good result in what was a very entertaining game. I would like to thank whoever made the decision to go for 2 point penalties though because ,otherwise ,the comments on this forum would be very different tonight.

Catalans game plan was pretty simple; big forwards driving down the pitch wearing teams down, excellent last tackle kicking by Carney. Nice gentle pace to let the forwards recover. Unfortunately we allowed them to play that way for much of the game when we should have been playing a much faster game with quick ptb.

What we can take away from the game though was the fact that we didn't try and overdo the off-load and we took most of the goal kick options when given the penalty. Surprisingly our kicking game was poor apart from the last quarter. Perhaps we can also claim that Penny, Russell, Hughes and Westwood were not quite up to match speed. Overall though that was pretty poor and some of the passing down the line was shocking.

Probably to highlight the fact to the players he wasn't happy with that performance and he could replace them for next week if he wants.