Deja vu of last season. 50 mins without scoring, struggling for field position, brain farts, double penalties, Adkins passing into the crowd and only raising urgency with minutes left.

20 - 12 Score doesn't reflect the game. Warington can get a lot better, can Catalan? Greg Bird got away with murder. Savelio, Westerman, Cooper, Clark and Patton played well. Lot of rust to be scraped off for many others. Backs very disappointing, refereeing poor. Is one week enough to get ready for next week's big game. A few niggling injuries perhaps?

Too many mistakes and clueless on the catalan try line, but for a first run out and some bad decisions from child , to lose by 8 points isn't too bad.

What was the Warrington penalty count in the end? Did we declare or what?

Cats deserved this win.
I've no complaints about the result.
Some good performances from our guys - in particular Savelio, Sims, Cooper, Atkins, Dec, Clark.

Evans and Russell were the weak links in this game. They cost us 12 points.
I'm now convinced Russell isn't a full back.
I think Livett will get quite a few games this year based on his showing.

As a 1st match - scrappy but not too bad, and honestly not too disheartened.
Taking the long view.

Ratch, Hill, Bennie, Brown all to come back.

And honestly - for those complaining at the ref - sorry but I disagree.
Too many high shots from us in the first half and we were penalized - rightly.

Roll on next week

Same for both sides but only one team were throwing themselves to the ground and milking it

I blame the warm weather training.We're always poo when they've had a jolly in the sun.Should be men + stick it out over here in winter like rest of us.

I just hope that we slowly improve throughout the season, culminating in a peak grinding out wins when it matters in the GF. A la Wigan and Shaun Wane.

I'll only echo what has been said here really: we were poor overall with some good individual performances. We created way too many problems for ourselves with penalties and knock-ons all over the field but we did well to keep Catalan out under so much continued pressure. Again, we look very limp in attack.

Although we deserved the loss (by a bigger margin than Catalan managed) Child was poor. Some of our "high shots" never were, he allowed Catalan to lay on and niggle at the play the ball where he penalised us and we got penalised for putting one of them over the horizontal (by half a degree...) whereas they did worse to Rhys towards the end and we get nothing. No excuses for the loss, just made for a frustrating watch.

Surprised it was only us that got a team warning with the holding down that Cats were getting away with,no wonder Walsh was smiling before the penalty goal.
Not surprised we lost though with the amount of ground Cats were making on their sets & our poor handling at critical times putting us under pressure. Someone capable of breaking the line from close range would have come in handy too apart from a prop with a flick pass.

Westerman was immense

Agree with most of the posted comments. I thought Child was poor, but you can't use that as an excuse can you. Catalan have changed their style and are much less flamboyant but defensively far stronger than last year. Should we have had Johnson at FB with Russell on the wing ?

Overall I thought we were a game away from being ready for the season, but perhaps that is no bad thing with the WCS and two back-back games to come. And without Hill and Ratch we were lacking our two most influential players. Long, long way to go yet but a disappointing defeat regardless.

Struggled with a slow game. Battieri and Bird played the game well, stayed down when any chance of a call and relied on the crowd to convince Child to blow.

No excuse, we were too clean, too nice. Fell to bits without Sims and Cooper.

Plus points, Clark was handy, Sims was strong and Westerman looked to have developed into a leader.

Some people find the positives in that?? We were playing against a side that will really struggle to be top six this season and regardless of players missing and it being the first game of the season...that was a gimme. I fear for us this season...and this is not just based on tonight..even by todays woeful standards we have no creativity whatsoever. The game of rugby league in england is currently formulaic, devoid of skill and based on who, pumped full of the most legal growth hormone, can milk an arbitrary penalty and get the team closer to a touchdown....i believe we are one of the worst offenders but this season are not going to be very good at it. Ps. Rugby league is really currently very rubbish

Do we have half backs.

I only ask, as, as a rugby team, that tends to be required.

I only saw the first half, bored less.

Boy, we are dull. I'm fast losing faith with RL. Formulaic e. Hardly a decent move in 40 mins.