We had seven out of our top eight backs missing and Bill Tupou had to deal with Folau, which I thought he did brilliantly. We were beaten again because of better half backs being expert kickers and controlling the game. On the evidence presented yesterday, Walker is a long way from being a first choice full back and Hampshire will never be a half back. Miller had his best game of the season but still trailed Maloney and Drinkwater in class and execution.

The scramble for starting places seems to be partially resolved with Jowett to the halves, Hampshire to full back and Gigot to challenge Miller.

You'd favour the attackers to get to grubber kicks like yesterday's, first, 9 times out of 10. It's always easier to run with the kicker in the direction of the ball than it is to turn and chase. The aerial kicks are maybe 50/50. Depends on how good the kick is. Yesterday's kicks were inch perfect, so pretty much every one favoured the attacking side. I'd just put it down to a very well executed game plan from two very good half backs. Maloney and Drinkwater looked top class yesterday.

It will be interesting to see how Catalan performs against a so called top team. The St Helens defeat could be excused because it was the first game back after lockdown.

The best way of defending kicks near your own line is to not to give the opposition field position there.

Your pack lost the arm wrestle in the first half, and then being under pressure bringing the ball away from your own line leads to errors. The execution from Catalan was then very good. I wouldn't blame your inexperienced three quarters, who did what they could behind a pack that was second best.

On attacking high kick to the wing,the attacking winger will always have the advantage running onto the ball and therefore can jump higher,the defender is normally jumping from a static position.Its about protecting the winger and trying to legally block the attacker or better still don't give the attacking team time to pinpoint the kick.