Travelling in and out today is not madness its the way most teams are doing it now.
What is madness is the flight time scheduled for 07.00 which means some players up at 04.00 this morning.
A later fight time arriving for lunchtime would have been better.

This would allow no contingency in the event of an issue with the aircraft for example.

Kelly on the bench with Brown, Lane and Nzoungou.

Thompson & Ellis @prop, Houghton plays, the rest at expected.

Wynne, Logan, Tuimavave, Griffin, Faraimo, Connor, Sneyd, Thompson, Houghton, Ellis, Manu, Minichiello, Westerman.

Subs: Brown, Kelly, Lane, Nzoungou

Kick up the backside for Kelly then?

Can't see why. Big job tonight gonna be hard but as long as the lads give it a go. Be interesting to see how the young guns go

Joe Westerman injured in warm up. Hadley to LF

I really fear for us this evening.

We are at 2003/4 level of absentees.

It's crazy isn't it? Sky describing as 6 props out, Westerman out in the warm up and Minichiello taken a heavy knock.

Dont agree
If the flight was say 09.00 giving the players 2 more hours sleep it still arrives at 12.00 local time
kick off 18.00 local time.
Plenty of time for lunch and warm up

well done lads two 18 year olds score their first tries for the first team

Playing with an assuredness Ive not seen for a long time

just hope we dont run out of steam with such a small pack on the field
Need to keep the ball as much as possible and Sneyd needs to keep turning them round with kicks into the in goal rather than the usual kick to the corner

I love that tap penalty move. Think we score off it every single time we do it.

This is great from Hull.

Wynne and Brown look so full of confidence. Griffin again looking excellent in the centres.

Whats the bet Greg Bird is sent off in the second half after Ellis hit him a bit high

Excellent half from Hull. Catalans should be down to 12 men IMO, both feet off the ground.

I say that every time , think there’s only us that use it . Think it’s the only time we use dummy runners !

We look far more focused than them, unless Mcmanara can sort his team out, then we'll take this.

More of the same from us is suffice.

Another ruck penalty. Oh no.

Got to stop the last tackle penalty.

Manu having a shocker in defence, too slow for both trys.

Levy injured not coming back on
That will take its toll

here we go with the penalties
just what we dont need

we fell asleep again

That's a brilliant team try.

We seriously need to stop the penalties, they're killing us!!!