I note we are only taking a squad of 17 to France due to one player being pinged and I presume another being injured. What happened to A Walker he was in last weeks squad but not this. If he is fit than he should travel because if we lose anyone else before the game we are down to 16.
I wonder does anyone actually think we will win this or are we heading for another defeat.

Cant see how we can be within 30pts of catalan to be honest esp if we have lost more players not sure what weather like over there but i hope its raining.supprised we havent done what other team have done and cancelled.....we need to be careful though i reckon thers a couple of wins in leigh and with this percentage crap who knows what could happen

Yeah just taking 17 cos from the 19 man squad we named one player tested positive and one isolating as a close contact from that so only got the 17 to take now, very risky like ya say if we get an injury in warm up.
Think we have got a chance depending on which 2 players we are missing hull kr really took it to em and really threw the ball about they've got some big guys have catalan and if you can make them work overtime by moving em around alot then gaps start to appear, but our defence as got to be on top form if not we won't win

If be amazed if we get anyway close, HKR have the game to cause them problems, we are so easy to read that the opposition know what we're going to do before we do. Tomkins, Malloney and Drinkwater will run us ragged.

With the games HKR have not played they are 100% fit, just can not understand how teams get away with it .Think there are just us and Wigan playing by the rules .Think it is back firing big time for us

On the subject of players getting ping, surely, you can swap players in/out of the squad as cover for this ?
Have to say, it seems crazy to travel with just 17 players.

Saves on air fares!

I suppose we all hope that Chester will have a plan to trouble Catalan based on their recent score line against Hull KR. It is possible but sadly evidence suggests very unlikely and we will just lose again but by how many. I am a little surprised that some of the squad members have not highlighted our obvious shortcomings in team meetings because they must become despondent at defeat after defeat.
I am yet to understand the comment by Gaskell that he very much looks forward to playing our style of football. I don’t know who wrote that for him but they are obviously having a laugh because no one wants to play like us.

Why did we only name 19 in the first place? Surely it would have made sense to fill the squad for just this occurrence, even if it was with a couple of the fringe players like Bowes, Greensmith etc. They did ok the other week and the experience of travelling to Perpignan with the team would be good for them.

Who pays for the trip to France?

We do.

That may answer why we are only talking 17 players. I guess even the club has waved the white flag on this one.

Depends whether we are chartering a plane or going cattle class with the public.

Will be a miracle if we come away with the points from this one ,Catalans are too big too strong and on a different level in their attacking structures,but we live in hope . Damage limitation is the order of the day I suppose from this one ,get it out of the way and move on , still plenty of winnable games to look forwards to .

To be honest, I can see two, one of them has just been postponed and the other will be away against a club who despite been winless pushed us all the way at BV.

Catalans have a win record of 10 in a row and it is highly unlikely that the record won't go on to be 11, 12, 13 etc. Really don't see the point in filling the squad with Academy guys to make up the numbers on this occasion. Hats off to the club as it continues to do it's bit to keep the Sky Contract while others take the urine.
Slightly O/T but how crazy was Jake Mamo last night high fiving the Wire supporters and hugging some after his team's victory. Hardly surprising the competition still has Covid issues when this is happening?

Going to lose by 30+ more worried about how many players will come back injured

Thats why its stupid to play sure we could of got out of it line other clubs are.i think the club think its a competition to see how many games they can play

27 degrees in Perpignan today nice and cool for the boys. With this business of Catalan games not being on tv I hope other clubs complain as this is just another thing that makes the competition even more lopsided. Some teams have had benefit of televised and some will have not. If they don’t get a deal sorted soon then the RFL should say that they forfeit any home playoff games as Sky will need to cover them without piggybacking Bein sports

Luppylad . They re a professional outfit , so they will want to play there games on a rugby pitch and not on a spreadsheet. If they perform to the best of their abilities and lose , then they will have been beaten by a better side. I know you think that winning is everything. but performing to your best is winning in the bigger picture..

We could just assemble as best a team as we can, go to France and attempt to play some good RL and see what happens, or is that too obvious?

You and your new fangled ideas of how to play rugby.
It'll never catch on.

Wow tanginoa starting in second row

That is a wow as Mr Chester missed the plane

Over 15 years on here and a sensible post at last, well done and keep up the good work.