Has to come down to the pivots, we need a 2nd hooker with some zip, we are relying on Connor, Reynolds has been ok, but he has an injury and is settling in so he gets the benefit of the doubt, but Sneyd, been average for the last couple of years. When was the last time he set up a try not from a kick?

Props was an issue, but we had enough ball particularly in the first half to win that game

I do think we have enough X factor in attack the problem is we're not getting close enough to to the opposition 20 to out it to use, the few times we did we almost scored every time but for a couple of errors or deemed forward passes , it's the pack that needs strengthening

Hopefully this galvanises us going forward. We know we’re capable after the cup game, and for all the bemoaning of our attack we’ve shown some real strike already this season. The sky isn’t falling down just yet.

It's both, our pack dominated last week and we still struggled to score, relying on Sataecto power over.

We need another prop and improve our bench, but our attack also needs to improve.

We definitely left some points on the pitch in the first half. The final pass let us down a couple of times.
All in all a pretty poor performance.

Needs to look no further than how ineffective Sneyd is as an attacking half back.
Always said the lack of another big front row will come back to bite us and was so evident tonight.
We have to find some speed in the backs.Our backs have to be the slowest in S/L
What i fail to understand was our bench
Johnstone plays 10 minutes and Scott would not have played at all if it hadnt have been for a head knock to Carlos.
Big lesson tonight for Hodgson.
Must have been the influence of the Union coach throwing all those forward passes

In Super League weve only beaten Hudds and Salford convincingly - We was average against Warrington, Wakefield and Wigan and poor tonight against Catalans

6 games in - 2 decent performances, 3 average, 1 poor - lots of work ahead and as many have said we need another front row now.

wondered when you would pop up, nothing last week then hey presto we lose and up you pop,

still dont get the knocking of sneyd, hes never been a ball handling half back, but hes the best kicker and organiser around, we got reynolds and connor as ball handlers, plus its our bench whats the problem, we havnt one,

Really poor tongiht and agree that Hodgson made an error of judgment with the bench choice.

Hope our terrible home form of recent years isn't going to continue.

Hardly ever seen a good game against Catalan. Always niggled and messed about at the play the ball, no matter who coaches them.

That said we were disappointing with ball in hand. Think the squad is unbalanced as well. That will hopefully get addressed once BH gets chance.

Thought tonight you’d have thought we were on a on a short turnaround, thought our line speed was poor tonight compared to previous weeks.
Think Hodgson also got it wrong tonight in terms of the bench. We lacked size so don’t understand why Brown & Faraimo weren’t on the bench. Just don’t see the attraction of Cameron Scott in 17 tbh. We seem to have reverted to flogging Houghton for 80mins again, after 60 mins he looked out on his feet. So why didn’t we use Johnstone instead of waiting for nearing 74 mins but then still keep Houghton out. We might as well not bothered having Johnstone or Scott on the bench as Scott only came in when Los went off and Johnstone didn’t even get 10 mins so pointless really.
Losing Carlos hurt us and hope he’ll be ok for next game.
We need another forward with some size quickly as once Satae & Sao were off then Cator and Fash were just far too small against a big Catalans pack. Though I thought Fash for his size did pretty well.
For all the good stuff in terms of improvement we’ve seen so far this season tonight showed we are still a long way off.
Our attacking plays when in the Catalans 20 were poor tonight and it was predictable with no variation.

Really disappointing home coming

No way is Sneyd the best kicker around, goal kicks maybe, but his in field kicking game hasn't been great for the past couple of years.

Interesting to note that all fiixtures tonight bar St’s v Salford were all losses for home sides.

Agree with others that the bench choices weren't right, Scott and Johnstone were wasted picks for the minutes they played. We need another prop in desperately.

A disappointing result, but were still around that 5th/6th bit of the table I expected us to be, the squad needs some more tweaks to go any higher.

Was still great to be back, I've missed having a grumble at the ref and dissecting the performance on the way home.

Disappointing that we let Tomkins and Catalans to knock us off our game.
With a light pack we should have used Faraimo off the bench , kicked early in the tackle to put them off their game. Connor & Reynolds were poor tonight

For as poor as the ref was, for us to not have a play the ball in their 30 all second half is appalling. Thought Houghton and Sneyd were very poor, wrong options time and time again. Against a big pack you either go wide and run them around, or kick early and turn them around and we didn't do either. It seems that we don't just resort to the last tackle kick to score our tries now, it's give it to Satae twice a set too.

Hopefully that's our poor performance out the way and turn it around next weekend. Can't make as many mistakes and expect to win.

Connor like Sneyd is another who seems to dodge the criticism bullet

play like that again and its likely after the next two games that our beloved neighbours could be above is in the table

You cant carry a half back because he can kick goals.
Organised sweet FA tonight and very debatable that he is the best kicker in the game.
Certainly not the best ball in hand kicker,certainly not the best short kick into the in goal,and several others are just as good with conversions as Sneyd.
Wont mention drop goals.He is now way down the list
I can see McNamara taking his place at some time this season if his form keeps dipping

You mean Houghton

Houghton does absolutely nothing apart from tackle

Roby Clark and dwyer make 30/40 tackles a game aswell as great attacking games

Houghton has lived on tackle 52, he's not even a leader. Only time he leads is when singing old faithful at full time



Sneyd kicks teams to death

People are raving about Connor yet he single handedly lost us the match against Wigan

Yet people don't mention that or the interception against Wakefield

Bet they soon notice if the Wigan game was a play off match

I said you were fortunate with your extra/loop games and I'll stand by that.

Rovers had 'extra' games against St Helens and Catalans whereas you had extra games against a Sezer less Hudds and Salford. Had that been the other way round the league table would be very different and not to your advantage.

IMO.