A team containing Nathan Ashe beat Leeds around this time last year (a few more games in I think) - I wouldn't read anything into it! How we fare against Leeds will be a good yardstick, but by no means confirmation one way or t'other. It will be interesting to see how the top 5 mini table develops over the year though.

We can only beat what's put in front of us, and that's what we did tonight, all be it, doing it tough. Lick our wounds, rest anyone whose struggled to get through tonight and focus on maintaining our best start in a good few seasons!

I'd agree with that. Leeds will be the real test

For last night I think you have got to factor in the following that you can,t ignore.

Catalans came here to compete with a spoiling game, continuous off side to control the ruck area and messing around at the play the ball to slow it right down.
The performance of George Stokes was a 2 out of 10 some baffling decisions and incapable of letting the game flow, at one time the penalties against us appeared corrupt.
The dissruption of the team with injuries that eventually took us to last seasons offerings.
With the above negated we should have really seen a score line of something in the region of 48 - 12.

I agree , i was saying on the way home that for 30mins we were good no penalties then Stokes suddenly decided we were infringing almost every PTB , depite the number of flops people taken off the ball and offsides that Cats did es we won, but as Judderman says you got the feeling he was trying everything to keep Cats in the game at some points in the game the ONLY way that Cats could get up the field was Penalties, not surprised he got heckled at the end
A halfway decent ref would have kept the game flowing and penalised BOTH sides equally

He got heckled at the end because Jones grounded the ball but he disallowed the try.

The game was terrible but we ground out a win. The more worrying bit is the worst has happened , we went into the season with 1 senior halfback and he's now injured. Without Walsh we looked back to last years directonless rubbish but were saved by the fact our pack is no longer powder puff and Catalan were terrible.

We scored 40 points and Mak's try was a pearl. Stop complaining.

Cats looked a mess, but they had some decent moves from which Mike Oldfield "chimed" into the line and managed a good number of offloads which wouldn't have been possible if they didn't have any talent.

I found my self frustrated with the ref, especially at the end of the first half. Not sure if it was my club bias or what......

Where this oldfield from? Looked decent. Certainly fast.

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Those 3 penalties in the first half bam bam bam, really knocked us out of our stride.

The second try was a bit lazy by us as a team.

At that point the disruption set in and we never really got back into our stride.

Should be an interesting line up next week. But we should still be able to handle Wakey

Maybe just maybe last week Catalan had started to turn their season around and Saints did very well to put the score on them they did.

Huddersfield don't seem to be flying against them.

Crashing and burning more like!

Some results so far have certainly helped us, Leeds and Cas create a bit of a gap at the top. A win tomorrow will push us 3 games ahead of the chasing pack.

not bad after 6 games!