Why?

I would prefer to see Trent Robinson, Wayne Bennett or Craig Bellamy. But given the impossibility of those preferences, I will take Steven McNamara if the team can keep winning.

This run is amazing. I will say that. However, the style of play over the year he has been in charge has been in the main turgid.

We might still stay up but I just feel that we might still be fragile in confidence and a beating at Wire tonight might expose those weaknesses.

Against all the odds and the opinion of the experts on here, McNamara has turned Catalan from a laughing stock into a side that is very difficult to beat.
Lead by Casty and Bird (who seems to be playing rugby rather than being just a grub), Catalan look certain to finish in the top 8 and even if they do finish in the bottom 4, there is little chance of relegation.
I think that you are being a little disingenuous towards the coach who, assuming you do survive in SL, will look to play a different game in future.
Surely, this season is all about SL survival ?
A side that was so poor and so low on confidence cant suddenly play champagne rugby, they have, first of all, to stop losing games.

This upcoming game is very important. Even if Catalans lose to a powerful Warrington team, it is important that Catalans at least play well. That will show that they have built up their confidence.

Next year, when Samuel Tomkins joins the team, we may see some champagne rugby league. I am assuming that Tomkins will play in the halves alongside Drinkwater, while Antoine Gigot and David Mead will still be in the backline, and Remi Casty, Gregory Bird, Michael McIlorum and Julien Bousquet will still be in the forwards. That would make up the core of a team that can play champagne rugby league.

As an aside, I hope that Fouad Yaha does not defect to rugby union. He is a great attacking winger, and it is important for the team to have three quality wingers -- Jody Broughton, Lewis Tierney and Fouad Yaha -- in case of injury.

Catalans are set to announce the signing of Matty Smith which will bolster their depth

Regards

King James

And guarantee their middle 8s position.

Matty Smith has more superleague winners medals than the entire Castleford team put together. He has also never been banned for taking recreational drugs nor involved in assaults on students

Regards

King James

Lol. Great point well made.

This Catalans team showed tonight that it deserves to be not just in the top 8 -- which it will be -- but in the top 4. They were even with the much fancied Warrington.

Does that make Huddersfield top 3 then, who were better than the more fancied Wigan?

Have a safe trip home buddy.......what time's your flight?

FLIGHT???

From Warrington to Chorley.

Spat my brew out at that CMG. Brilliant

I am not flying home yet. I am staying in Odessa for a few days, and then back to Kiev.

Nobody in Odessa whom I have met thinks Catalans is not going to make the top 8.

Catalans have shown that they are quite capable of challenging the other big boys. I am not ready to predict a place at Old Trafford just yet, but it is not out of the question.

Ah Odessa, centre of the rugby league world. They've probably never heard of Catalans.

Catalans are now safely in the top 8 and heading for the top 4.

What a brilliant turnaround by the club, after a terrible start.

Hopefully Toulouse will join Catalans and Toronto in Super League in 2019.

Buddy..... You're like a 14 year old girl allowed to wear make up for the first time........ You really are laying it on too thick.

8 points off top 4... lol good luck.

But your not are you. Stop the fake charade and lies. You make yourself look a nob

If you had a friend among the mods, you might be able to get them to check my IP address, which was Odessa and is now Kiev. But since you are obviously an obnoxious twit, no mod would do you such a favour.

It is perhaps hard for some residents of Leigh, born and bred in Leigh, to imagine themselves travelling to other European countries. But fortunately I don't have such a cultural defect.

Jean

You are absolutey 100 % correct

I am born and bred in Leigh and I find it very difficult to imagine myself travelling to a European country.

I tend to just do it for real, the experience is a lot better and you get a better sun tan

Stay safe

I agree, while Catalans are the form team in the competition, to gain 8 points in 8 games is a big ask. The only way I can see it happening is if Castleford’s or Warrington’s season falls apart and they lose around 6 of their final 8 games.

How does that really happen? I mean the change of atomic structure from human cells to errr plastic, made from errr carbon and other goodies?

His mate is a mod on the Wigan board and has confirmed to him that we all have the same IP address

Regards

King James