We all know attacking is not our issue its defence where we need to strengthen. Defence is a big one this week. Catalans a very strong team. There wingers will also cause problems.

Should be a good game and hard to call who will win.

to be fair, I'd expect this as we have two games in quick order.

still chuckling about Butcher's remark about like a sofa (I assume you mean settee) as an American name for a two-seater sofa is "love seat".

Yes but is it a SCS or bright House Sofa ? you'd think with Flanagan in he team we'd be able to get a deal off Arighi Bianchi

poor today we was. dave taylor outstanding for them. josh griffin played well for us linked well with johnson rest were poor. dobbo was shocking today awful kicking from him too. yet again bench not good enough. we need weller and vidot back to strengthen us

How bad was that?
Not sure where to start. In fact the start was the problem. An error from the kick off set the tone,and we didn't see the ball for ages.
Overall the backs were OK,other than O'Brien being unable to handle bombs.
The pack was the problem. Sarsfield looks out of his depth completely. Jones and Flanagan have gone backwards. BMM isn't breaking the line. Phil Joseph did liven things up and I thought that Tomkins did well.
I'd excuse the last try,as it was a final,vain,attempt with the time nearly out. Otherwise,conversions would've kept us in the game.
We need 2 hookers who can play acting half back so when Tomkins went off we were stuffed.
If there were no injury issues I'd play Evalds with O'Brien at stand off.
If Lee and Johnson are injured I'd bring in MCB and Wilkinson.
I couldn't fault the effort but we were outmuscled

A fair summing up, I quite agree with. With Watto's love affair with Joseph, I expect he, Joseph. will be hooker/ acting half back against Hudds.
Pre season did not Sheens say this season was treading water and our real serious recruitment starts 2017. So there is going to be a lot of staff moving on and we watched a lot of them playing yesterday