Huge congrats Catalan. Their defence in the opening 15 of each half set the tone and they deserved to win.

Catalans definitely deserved to win.

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Credit Gazwire being gracious on the posts, post game.

Edit - I agree it’s not necessary that there’s so many on this forum. And I meant to say C U Next Tuesdays anyway.

Have you seen Gazwire posts? He’s anything but gracious

Regards

King James

Well done Catalans. God knows how they managed to hang in at the end when Wire had all them sets on their line. Massive heart and determination.
Not the highest quality game but one that was close and exciting.

It was as though Thaler had already made his mind up. Clearly touched the Warrington hand. Absolutely no excuse for that with the benefit of several angles and slow-mo.

Anyway, congrat Catalans, superb performance. Wire just not good enough although it has to be said Catalans' defence was excellent for long spells.

I’m commenting on the posts they’ve made after the game, which have offered congratulations to Catalan and made no excuses. You just appear to go around gloating which is odd given your team got nowhere near Catalan.

That was a gutsy win by Catalans. They were fully deserved winners. The Frenchman Antoine Gigot was a deserved Lance Todd medal winner. Superior courage and patience despite costly dropped kicks by Yaha and Drinkwater that led to Warrington's two tries. The team rallied and forced a victory. Bravo!

Now all we need is to have Toulouse in the Challenge Cup final, and winning it, as soon as possible.

It’s more important for Toulouse to get into Super League ASAP to capitalise on the boost French Rugby League has been given

Ahhh, like watching the warrington of old, 2017 that is. Best team won, and they weren't even that great.

Feel a bit for Warrington they were on a hiding to nothing everybody wanted Catalans to win (myself included) but you did see what it meant to the French players and fans and it’s massive for French RL we do need another French team in SL before Toronto imo

Agree with that. Think a lot of it was to do with just pure poor execution by Wire. I think it was 3 times near the end when Wire was on the Catalans line and they played the ball back on the last tackle to Brown but the pass to him was shocking around his head/shoulder/behind him and resulted in a poor kick.

I don’t think the Catalans performance was anything special after the opening 20 mins and the final 20 they were just as sloppy as Wire. When you think back to their SF performance, THAT was a top quality performance, todays you can’t really say came close to that. If they produced similar today they’d have won by 20+. Instead they were clinging on by 6 against a team who were like headless chickens anytime they were in Catalans 20m.