I will try to take a couple of positives, well one anyway - Lee Gaskell did well tonight, he didn't hide and tried to do his best. I have to agree with the previous poster re: substitutions why put a winger on the bench? When he came on we were really under pressure & if anything desperately required forward power up the middle. I can't give much credit to the senior players excepting Graham, Moore is a particular problem both in his service from dummy half & his defence, which is fine on the occasional 'big hit' but too often misses. He also struggles to get back in the defensive line too often, leaving an easy target for referees. Interesting even Potter seems to be losing his patience with the way his players are performing, "sometimes the penny has to drop"??

Dissapointed yes, but this is the type of game you get with Ian Smith. slow play the balls, lying on , forward passes, offside etc. etc. It was always going to be a tricky game with the amount of injuries and lack of playmakers.
Positives from the game, Dean Gaskill did OK, no more injuries, Wilkin rusty but put in a big effort.

If tonights performance came from our 1st 17 I would agree with the above comments, but this was very much a patched up team with no organizers in the side. Tonights 17 not good enough but thats the only squad we have got left at the moment.

3 good tries from Catalans after being "piggy backed" up the field by Ian Smith.

Ok. Of our first 17, who did we have on the field tonight?

Wellens
Gidley
Gardner
Meli
Graham
Roby
Clough
Puletua
Flannery
Wilkin
Fozzard (since we lost Maurie yonks ago and he's been playing quite a bit since then and he isn't exactly a debutant)

Our only totally inexperienced player was Gaskell and I felt sorry for him as it was a bit of a baptism of fire to do your debut but I was glad to see him get a try and he worked hard.

Lomax is a regular, when he is fit, and he played well.

Ashurst has been playing very regularly this season.

Moore has played in every match this season in one position or another either for the full 80 or as an interchange.

In effect, we were missing Cunningham, Pryce and Eastmond. Soliola has been gone for the season so we haven't missed him and Maurie has been gone so long that his absence no longer affects us, with Fozzard as a poor replacement but still a direct replacement.

We missed a creater and organiser. We still had enough experienced players out there to win or at least to be able to pass, catch and tackle, none of which most of those players could do tonight with any reliability. I really don't think injuries could be an excuse tonight. We have played far better with far fewer experienced players in our side. We played far better after we lost three players against Leeds last weekend.

hands off Millward !!!

Fair enough, potter has to take some of the blame but also the players need to take the blame as well.

Tonights team was good enough and should have beat Catalan but potter shouldn't take all the blame. He don't miss the tackles, he don't drop the ball, that is basic skills that these players at times this year can't do!

It's not Potters fault he's got to many players that ain't good enough.

Tactics and game plan shouldn't be needed against bottom of the league.

If potter should be sacked now then a few players should go with him.

Indeed. Potter's bizarre interchanges and screwing up the whole team as opposed to just the halfbacks didn't help but we had enough fire power out there to at least challenge the basement dwellers. However, we were never in that match. What a ridiculous waste of two points.

Potter picked a team that was good enough to beat catalan. Even if they all played where they like and with no game plan we should still beat a poor Catalan side.

The players are as much to blame.

Yes quite a wierd comment:
"We have to show more urgency and while there things to work on or keep talking about, sometimes the penny has to drop."

Peter Sellars would have been proud of that!

Someone hasn't done their homework now have they.

Can the boys and girls who turn up for school other than on nights Saints lose, tell the silly boy how many 'we're the best team in the comp' threads I've started in my history on RLFANS.COM.

s'up lad....can't sleep?



Fretting I suppose!

Fretting about what exactly? I've been watching the live manhunt on Sky News.