Six points and a man up with half an hour to go, we lost the rest of the game 22-10. Door to the play-offs opened up and we weren't up to walking through it.

How many errors?

Team not good enough especially in backs. Can't beat 12 men at home. Season over for me. Probably same rubbish next year with the odd good result can't wait. Wouldn't mind the whole of the backs being replaced by Kearney but that isn't realistic.

The policy of signing players other clubs didn't want is the sole reason we still in this mess. Only Ollie was wanted by his old club.

Mentally weak. Tactically naive. Also looked unfit. Struggled to complete a set of six all day. All fans ask is for a team to do the basics. We didn't do that under McNamara and we didn't do that today. That said the Dragons played some superb handling rugby. Mind you it helps when the opposition can't tackle a fish supper. Depressing.

How long do Bradford need to remain bad ? At the current rate of progress we'll only get back into the play-offs if they let 12 teams in.

Tore apart out wide everytime, we need vast improvements in the backs.

Just got home....

Basically, not good enough. Poor completion rate, soft in the tackle and woeful in decision making. We are killing ourselves with elementary errors e.g Jeffries allowing himself to be tackled into touch, Diskin doing a forward pass off the first tackle of a set after a penalty.

The backs have zero cohesion, when compared to a well drilled team like Catalans. Whereas they looked like ripping us open every time it went out wide, we looked laboured and clueless. Platt was especially poor in this regard, whilst Ah Van doesn't even seem to be bothered anymore.

We're probably not going make the 8 now, and frankly we don't really deserve to. I fear we're in for another clearout over the close season, with the first half of next season being a run of defeats accompanied by the 'we need time to gel' mantra. Sad really, I had hoped for a sixth or seventh placed finish this year and a very few strategic changes over the winter.

That said, I was very impressed with Catalans. Well done to them.

You do look a bit of a mess.
Position wise you seem to be all over the place,subsequently your defensive line is a dogs leg at times.
Your attacks even worse, you would have swore you were two men down at times.
I think but for the grace of God(Mcmanus?) we could be in your position.
Odsals a money pit, subsequently your player recruitment has steadily gone downhill.
A real lack of quality,and Its hard to see a way out unless you have some very good juniors comeing through?

Could we have just seen possibly the most incompetent performance ever?
The opposition down to 12, so a great opportunity to take the ball wide on every set to make gaps. But no, lets bang it up the middle into their huge forwards so they can smash us. Genius.
And then on defence - they do exactly the opposite, everytime. And we forget to tackle. Pure genius.

One man advantage and what do we do? Keep trying to drive down the middle.

Do we try and get the ball out wide and across the park, to stretch the defence and take advantage of the man advantage? Do we bollox.

Do we look like we know where we are and what we are doing? Do we bollox.

That game was there for the taking. Yet, again, we contrived to find a way to lose. Even if it was against a Cats team that looked well-drilled and knew what they were about - especially out wide.

Can't see us making the playoffs. And we don't deserve to.

That's almost exactly what I said. Great minds and all that...

We dont have a SH capable of getting the ball outt wide. There's your man Marc Herbert again. Get rid of him. Absolutley flat as a fart, no organisation whatsoever.

Are they, Mick? Are they really?

Our mentality is wrong though, totally. We are the Andy Murray of rugby.

dont think the mentality is wrong, i just think some of the plays are mental.

silly panic off-loads, running in touch twice, forward passes from dummy half and more

another thing why do players persist in trying to palm the ball down from the play the ball ? twice we conceded tries on the second set of six because of this. its brainless , the only way the ball is going to go is forward so if we do pounce on the ball its either a knock on or offside

Same old, same old.

First half, killed our energy levels of by needlessly coughing up possession time after time. As after 2 or 3 years and many changes, many players still cough up the ball or give away dumb penalties or make dumb decisions, the certain diagnosis is, across the team, we are not good enough.

Second half, with low energy levels, and having said that, a worrying appearance of lethargy at times and unwillingness to back up and cover, we were given a lifeline when they went down to 12 in the heat with half an hour to go. Sadly, though, we decided to then wheel out our junior girls defensive mode, so that despite being a man down, Catalans could score from near, far, wherever you are, SEVEN tries conceded at home, the defence was an absolute joke. A shambles. A dog's hind leg.

There did seem to be plenty of effort, and even to the last they kept having a go, but ending up losing by 6 is both infuriating and flattering; Cats were by far the better team overall. At times they played attacking rugby several classes above anything we could do.

We have, of course, made some disastrous moves in letting players go, and the daddy of them all, the immaculate Steve Menzies, came back to haunt whoever made that insane decision. Still pure class after a season and a half down the track, he drove many nails into our coffin. I couldn't believe we'd made the coup of signing Menzies, but we did. Yet madly we then, having had a once in a lfetime stroke of luck, kick him out! Shame, shame, shame. It was embarrrassing to watch our so called halfback Jeffries unable to beat Menzies with a clear run, and then it was Menzies' killer flick offload that put the Cats in for the try that sealed our fate. He was class all day - as usual - and he was ours to keep.

Just more same old same old, I'm afraid. It doesn't always happen, but it happens with monotonous regularity.

We had a gameplan and were sticking to it but as soon as the Cats player was sent off we thought that made us suddenly turn into the RL version of Harlem Globetrotters. The triple sub - Diskin, Hargreaves and Scruton came on to steady the ship shortly after the sending off with their experience (can't knock MP for that)....... we subsequently fell apart. It was pathetic and we should of spent time completing sets and tiring the Cats defence before finishing them in the last 15 mins instead of thinking we were Saints on a good day.

As well as he played last week and in the first half, Diskin is supposed to be an experienced big game player who should be getting the game by the scruff of the neck at crucial points but did nothing in his second stint.

Leeds Rhinos are the Andy Murray of RL btw, not us because they actually think they can challenge for titles without realising they are far too to. We know we're far too to even consider it. We're probably Jamie Murray now.

More Al Murray, overweight and not entertaining whatsoever.

Not sure about the diskin comment above, i agree he should be getting involved a bit more but he always seems to be substituted just when he is getting the game by the neck. he was in a wonderful spell yesterday, making yards and getting penalty and then the next thing is he is going off. Some of the substitutions are strange at times, wasted ones with a couple of minutes before half time, big players taken off at wrong times. Our most go forward forwards , kopzcak and burgess need more time on the pitch. Add to that our top tryscorer not getting a game and it makes simple reading in why we are where we are

Kept forgetting we were a man down, when Catalans attacked down the right hand side and often had a 1/2 man advantage! What was up with that? Why weren't we able to do that?

my thoughts exactly, i dont think we threw the ball about at all, until raynors first pass in the last minute when he waltzed passed greenshields. If anything catalans were globetrotter esque . We could have the best wingers in the world and they wouldnt score ten tries between them, they simply dont get the service. I dont get this rubbish they should be looking for the ball, raynor and crookes do there fair share of graft bringing the ball out, the just dont get the ball in the right areas. How many times did blanch and the other fella get given open space to run to ? Sorry forgot they had class centres and half backs inside them

Reason why they had 1/2 man overlap with only 12 men is because we can't slide as a defence. Also we stand still once we make 5m going up as a line instead of going to meet them, thats why Menzies always ran across without getting touched.

Some tough matches coming up now. Next week is probably our only realistic chance of some points in the next few weeks. Cas always seem to play well at home against us though so we'll do well to win there. Then Huddersfield at Odsal and Wire away... July might not be a great month for us!!!

We were shocking. You can read our plays like an open book, they are simple plays and we don't have many and we can't even execute them. We are slow playing the ball and don't move up in defense, hence other Teams make easy yards and we struggle to to make any yards! What's the point in having Wingers if they only ever drive the ball up the middle? When they were down to 12 we should have been passing the ball out wide and using the extra space. Instead we carried on with the same ploy of driving up the middle, you would have thought it was us that was down to 12 the amount of space they found.
The table doesn't lie, we haven't made any progress since last year! Market that one boys!

I'm giving serious consideration to making this season my last. Sick of the mediocrity, sick of coming away from matches feeling let down.

I guess you should support your team through thick and thin but - as with anything in life - if you're not enjoying it, make the change.

I think I may become a floating rugby league supporter, picking and choosing matches for the atmosphere and competition. It's got to be better than blindly following this e.