Agree with that, discipline absolutely killed us and can't argue with any of the decisions. Annoying.

Didn't think there was much between the sides in regard to the ruck but we seemed to cop it more second half. I don't think Thaler calls the ruck very well (for any side). He calls holding in when there isn't any and misses it when there is. Certainly loves the sound of his own voice.

Poor discipline, disappointing input from the halfs and westerman and lack of ball control when it mattered but we still lost courtesy of an interception and a questionale VR decision. As has been said, we really lost the game in that spell before half time when paea, watts and ellis were off. Once we had our starting props on the field we looked much better.

Did ellis pick up an injury?

Radford said Ellis and Yeaman picked up slight knocks but not serious.

Can't argue against any of those points

Not sure if already mentioned but Catalans confirmed we've taken the largest support this season, great effort considering it's out of school holidays.

Was there as a sort of neutral but likening the Catalans style. Have to say the FC support was magnificent!

It was mentioned by the Sky commentary team . Great following & gutted I missed this one . Hopefully we get rewarded again with a favorable month next season .

It's a challenge with school age kids because the split happens at the start of school holiday now. We had an amazing holiday in Beziers, 2 weeks with the match on the middle Saturday, but that won't even be a possibility to plan now.

... or later this season.

I'd rather us play there in Feb or March.

id sooner not play them at all.sooner they are booted out the better.pointless having them in the league.

why?

You are aware its called the European Super League aren't you.

Lack of discipline at key times really killed us tonight.
Often took the wrong options as well which hasn't been the case recently.
That said, we still very nearly took the points, or at least a share of them.
Also I think we need to spell Houghton. Need to introduce a bit of zip, and give Houghton a break at the same time.

Explain...

you'd probably rather we were playing Keighley or Halifax, more serving of a SL slot based on tradition??

Not seen any highlights of the game yet being over here in Spain but it looked liked the catalan winger stamped on sas' face, anybody know what happened?

As for the idiot saying the french shouldn't be in the league, get a grip

Yep, he stamped on Sa's face.


Looked fairly intentional to me although the Sky pundits decided it wasn't.

Stats show that the game was pretty even but we have forwards who are just not doing enough/good enough at this level which is why we struggle when we interchange

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Looked like it to me too. He looked directly down at Sa and appeared to adjust to make sure he caught him, rather than miss him.

Great crowd there yesterday - wish I was there!

I wasn't overly convinced it was intentional - he stumbles whilst leaning forward and arching his foot up, which suggests to me he was trying to avoid standing on his head. On the other hand, he jumped over his head, which carries a risk of ending badly. Silly rather than deliberate. There was no downward movement with the leg, which I'd expect if it were a stamp.

And I agree - Catalans have done incredible things in the south of France, and if dimwit-boy is seriously suggesting he'd rather go to Batley, then he can always go and support them. The crowd might get into triple figures if he turns up!

Thought our bench was poor yesterday and Ellis had his quietest game for a while, thought we kept Taia pretty quiet.

They still made 60 more tackles than us and that is why we were on top the last 20, like saints at home that last pass just wasn't there.

I'd freshen things up a bit at Leeds and bring in Shaul, Naughton, Lineham, Bowden, Abdul and Cunningham.

Rest Ellis, Westy, Yeaman, watts and Pryce.

Shaul
Naughton
Talanoa
Sa
Lineham
Rankin
Sneyd
Paea
Houghton
Green
Mini
Whiting
Abdul

Feka
Bowden
Cunningham
Thompson

Still a team capable of giving them a game.

Did ellis come back on? Must admit I didn't notice him in the 2nd half.

Mini made as many carries and more metres than green, feka and whiting put together. If we're to be more competitive next year we need a better bench.

They made more tackles because they were getting more men in the tackle which was slowing us down. I don't think we looked to have any more energy than they did in the last 20 minutes personally.

sneyd had another of his "meh" games and hopefully has it out of his system for a few weeks now. We need watts, paea, mini, ellis, sneyd and pryce in top form in the next few games. Have a feeling our mid week game at wakey could be a lot more difficult than it would have been a month ago

Mini's second top in the comp for tackle busts and Tala's in the top 10 too.

Tricky to work out the strategy for this upcoming run.