Just back from lunch and Quins are 14-4 up and a hat trick to the sharpster. COME ON YOU QUINS!!
Let us all hope 2 points is the outcome and this is the starting point of the season.
Crowd appears to be very dire.

The one thing that has been good to hear is the attacks been good, everyone seems to know what they doing and having BJB entering the line sure does add something to it.

Just hope its the start of something to cheer up our season.

As for crowd,Rammo said it vey small.

Eureka!!

Good Effort so far by the lads. I had intended going today but last minute work commitments dictated otherwise, so the crowd was -1 due to my non attendance

its been a long time coming,rammo says last home win 6 june 09,well done the lads

Couldn't make it either, again. Sounded a good performance but Catalans must have been woeful in the 2nd half - so much dropped ball.

As for the attendance, I have a ST so I think I'll be counted as having been there.

.........we now await the reports from those that did go with anticipation

Crowd -1 more due to me being ill though as a ST holder I may be included in the final figure. I've also had a text from someone who was planning on going saying they were abandoning as public transport delays meant they would miss most of the first half. That may have claimed a few more potential attendees. Sadly I doubt it kept a couple of thousand away.

Certainly a much better performance from us but Catalans made a lot of mistakes.

Sounded like Catalans were woeful, but we were competant at least

However Catalans played , you managed the all important today.

Crowd announced over the PA at 2300. Some good performances from the young lads. Impressed with Bolger who had a couple of good runs. Give credit to Quins who kept the Dragons out and forced errors.

Our defence stood it's ground well and forced the big cats back back to the middle very well.

Our attack improved on the past two games, although at times we lost the plot in the final 20m.

Gale had a good game, kicking was as good as we have seen by any quins side at home in the past four seasons.

Randall doesn't look his zippy self. Bolger shown up down the flank and had a bit of the Hoppo in his running style.

Sharp finally got the ball without having to be a cart horse which was a real plus.

But jones bishop looks class again, inches from some spectacular breaks. Spend what we saved on Robinson and get him signed as a permanent.

Much better, but still a bit early to be popping open the bubbly.

Thought we played pretty well in the first half with few errors and penalties. Was a bit of a dogfight, livened occassionally by BJB.

Second half was scrappy from both sides with plenty of handling errors, although we always seemed to be in control - a bit like a reverse of the Wakefield game. We got the rub of the green mostly, i thought.

Overall, looked solid in defence (albeit not having to face Bosc) but not much threat in attack. Pitch seemed heavy and was a bit damp, so i guess we can hope for better in the future.

Gave away 3 penalties on the fifth tackle, none of which could have been considered try savers.

Will's catch and grrounding for 2nd try was spectacular by the way. I assume he was MOM.

Here's what BMcD had to say about it:

"Will is much more than just a fast bloke. He is a bit of a freak really and he does things other players cannot.

"He is like a cat in a way - you can throw him around or up in the air and he always seems to land on his feet.

"He did not have the best of times last year - few of our players did - but he seems back to his best. "

Strange thing is that is he isn't actually that fast.

A big improvement on the previous two weeks. BJB excellent again. Thought the two halfbacks were good and also liked the effort put in by Bolger. Catalans were bloody terrible it has to be said, I've seen them get thumped by Leeds and the like on more than one occasion and they've never even come close to being that bad. Looked utterly directionless without Bosc.

I'm going to savour this, as we probably won't have too many wins to celebrate this season. Its nice to be off the mark.

I rather missed the Ferriol sending off incident - what happened there?

Couldn't see really. Not too impressed though with him trying to knock over one of the staff on his walk back down touchline.

the way willie took the second try was just incredible!

Much improved performance in our forward play. Without Bosch Catalans were really rudderless, little inspiration and couldn't kill us with their kicking game.
The French forwards didnt dominate as they usually do and we got some go forward. We used our field position to put good kicks in to Howell/Sharp wing and got the rub of the ball. At least we challenged them with the question!

BJB showed his class Bolger made some good runs, hopefully another lad who will progress. Randall looked off his game IMO. Wilkes put some good work in. Williams and JO'c had a good game. Esders seemed to be working hard. The French made a lot of errors which gave us more posession than we were entitled to but we kept our nerve.

I think it started he was on the ground and got Golden's knees in his back (no reason to think it was deliberate). He then simply had a big swing at Golden (after playing the ball). With his record I'd guess the red card will not be enough. A shame he can't stop himself crossing the line, as I think he is just about the best pantomime villain type player around at the moment - and you fear for the opponent who gets to tackle him first time in a match.

think it was a bit harsh to say the cats were woefull, i do thin k they were forced in to a few errors, altho shocked to see greenshields dropping a few high balls! Seemed to me that the game was slowed down an awful lot with messing around at the play the ball that was not sorted out and quite a lot of "grapple" tackling from the cats that they were allowed to get away with, but! if the attackers make little attempt to stand up then play the ball will not be penalised
Too many penalties on the last tackle and a really really stupid one where cats took the ball on there own try line then dave Howell came in and tried to roll "pello I think" back in to touch, just dumb rugby

Not the most exciting game, but 2 points!!!!! pretty upset with the attendance but lots goign against us on that!! Valentines day!!! clashing with 6 nations (for those that have split loyalties) and our record and no away fans so hey ho

A good allround performance. Deserved the win-We went over their try line a number of times without coming away with the points.

We controlled the game from start to finish. Clubby had his best game at centre, Gale went well(he stood out wide and spread it wide which was good and kicked well) Golden worked hard, BJB is so confident at FB.

All in all very pleasing performance

Cats miss Bosc- Mogg is no 6. He doesn't link the forwards with the backs

Gale certainly came off second best prior to that. He's a good player, and fierce, he just likes a fight rather too much. Very softly spoken off the pitch, apparently.

A very encouraging performance, but we do need to cut out those penalties.

IMO Danny Orr was masterful today.

good to see the ref going straight for red as they did at the wakey game!! shows consistent policy hope the RFL do the same as well, 1 match ban at least a punch is a punch look forward to seeing if they show it on all the tries on monday or on full show on wed