Still yet not convinced about Gale as our long term solution has more average games than good ones for me.

The last two games have been against teams with much bigger forwards. Last week our pack managed to gain parity, this week we eventually ran out of steam.

Catalans played in that second half how I expect them to play every game of the season. Their pack is huge, they won almost every collision and Hendo was having the time of his life.
We chose the wrong option on a couple of plays and it cost us in the end. A damn shame, but this game didn't end our season. The dropped points against Widnes and Wigan were the real season killers.

I agree with red about gale. He's far to inconsistent. Hes the organiser in the side but he doesn't take control. Last tackle options are the wrong ones 50% of the time. We need a general out there alongside Sammut.

I thought Langley was immense in defence today, he put his body on the line and gave it to Catalans big men.

"Keep blaming" the referee? Whilst he's not the first, the fact is that on this occasion he had a huge, disproportionate and unfair influence on the game. Any one of say 4 key decisions, if he gets it right, we win.

I agrees he made some howlers. The back to 0 he gave it hit langleys back was an awful call, particularly when he ignored what I thought were some blatant attempts at the ball from Catalans and didn't wipe the tackle count.

The 7 tackle accusation I can't comment on. I thought they had too many tackles but I thought that's because he gave zero. Not happy that all 6 officials missed some of the foul play on our players.

That said it was in our hands and we have thrown it away. Even wen Kearney was sin binned the Henderson try was as soft as they come. Basic school boy errors like not crouching down at the play the ball. Unforunately them silly school boy errors have cost us many points throughout the season and that's the reason we're not in the play-offs, not because of Benthams inept display.

Obviously every adverse result we've had is a factor, but we're talking about how the factual situation was at 3pm and how it is now. That's sadly 100% down to Bentham's worryingly one-sided display

Perhaps the banana throwing incident when the locals threw them at him in Perpignan about 4 seasons ago unnerved him and he subconsciously looks out for the Dragons!

Thought the Catalans got the tactics spot on. They identified Heath L'estrange as our biggest attacking threat and made sure they took him out. Dirty, cynical and cowardly. Typically French then

Disappointed I thought we were going to hang in there and squeeze a win but it slipped away in the last few minutes.
Despite Mr Bentham single handedly trying to attone for a thousand years of English wrongs against the French (according to the Cats chairman) and some cynical hits on our playmakers we just seem to lack the cool heads to close the game out, the % football in the last 10 minutes was missing. maybe some of the new recruits will have the on field leadership we seem to miss at the moment.

Catalans play it right on the edge and have some tough players. I’d like to see the L’Estrange incident again. However it was the Catalans pack that was the main reason for the win.

We had only two bona fide props out there today and no answer to the impact that Bousquets made when he came on in the second half. I thought Gale kicked well with the wind in the first half but in the second half we were losing the energy battle having had to defend our line for long periods. Add that to the lack of props coming off the bench and we have no go forward. Kicking into a strong wind from well within our half was always going to be difficult for the halfbacks. That said we could’ve kicked lower to address this or mixed it up a bit.

I'm with those who are not convinced by Gale. Over the course of two full seasons, Danny Addy is a better half back.

If we have ambitions for the 8 we need a leader at 7. Someone who can lead us around the park, pick the right options, kick us out of trouble etc. Gale -IMO- is not good enough.

He's shown odd glimpses of doing something half decent, but that's not enough over 2 years.

I thought against Hull, Gale controlled things well. His kicking game was superb and his last tackle options were better. But I remember the Widnes home game when we were leading with ten minutes left, and Gale put a high bomb up for Ah Van, who then scored a length of the field try. Gale should have grubber kicked into the in-goal area and forced a repeat set. This decision more-or-less cost us the match.