Everyone keeps comparing us to Castleford last year. I seem to remember Catalans struggling in their first year in superleague - did they finish bottom? But they are doing ok now. Is there somebody out there with more time on their hands that can look for their results on year 1 in superleague and did they stick with their manager?

They Dragons won their first Superleague game at home as we did and then only won 1 out of the next 12 matches.

They finished bottom but did seem to improve after round 14, so role on to the 22nd May when we entertain the Bulls at the Willows

POS12 Catalans Dragons P28 W8 D0 L20 F601 A894 PTS16

And yes they did keep faith with coach Mick Potter and it paid off big time for them.

The problem with comparing like-for-like statistics is that there’s little sense of how the team is performing week-in week-out. Are they losing games by wide margins or are they competitive? Are they entertaining to watch or are they boring as hell?

Salford, at the moment, have a similar feel to the teams of 1999 and 2002 — they are hopeless. In both of those previous seasons there was a turnaround in form later on in the year; however, the tipping point in both was a change of coach.

Makes you wonder how they only managed 1 in 12 games?..

I was regually drunk while watching salford round that time so it was more bearable to watch.

The comparisons are poles apart. Pointless.

People keep saying just wait and we'll improve.

Nobody is taking into account that the other teams are improving as well and the teams we consider to be nearish to us are miles ahead (e.g. hudds, wakey, harlequins). We are nearer to the likes of Wigan, Bradford etc who we wont get nowhere near to this season and when they sort their problems out, we will be miles away from them as well