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This Sunday the Catalans Dragons cross the channel to take on the Huddersfield Giants at the Galpharm Stadium (3.00pm). Giantsrl.com caught up with Head Coach Nathan Brown who recognises the strength of the French team.

“They are pretty strong all across the park. Their full back is a good player and they have some good centres, some good halves and a huge pack. I know they had injury concerns earlier in the year, but as a whole, when they have most of their good players on the field they play well and they have most of them back now, including Greg Bird who is near enough one of the best players in the competition.”

“They are going to be a hard side to beat and for everyone who meets them the more those better players play together, the better the Catalans will get and the harder they’ll be to beat.”

Brown believes the next two league games will help the team in their preparation for the business end of the season, including the eagerly anticipated Challenge Cup Semi Final clash against St Helens.

“The best thing we can do is prepare well and hopefully build some momentum over the next few weeks and keep improving our game so that when we do face St Helens we have prepared well and we are ready to play. All we can control between now and then is how we play against Catalans and Hull and, that’s the most important thing for us.”
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Nathan's comments ahead of the game, the battle of who will come out on top will be won or lost in the forwards.

From that statement, maybe Lunt will loose out to Danny Sculthorpe.

Possibly, but we have a formidable forward line up with Mason, Griff, Jackson and Eorl, he may go for some extra brute force with Sculthorpe, which would not surprise me.

I'd be tempted to start Mason, Griff and Sculthorpe and bring on Jackson and Eorl after 20 mins for the impact it gives us.

I've obviously missed something somewhere but where's Fatz?

Migraine?

Good question.



Might be due to this still? [url=http://www.examiner.co.uk/huddersfield-giants/huddersfield-giants-news/2009/07/08/giants-paul-whatuira-set-for-harlequins-return-86081-24098673/LINK[/url

So what I said then.

Quote COCKNEY GIANT="COCKNEY GIANT"look at botton of report ie ref. news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 152448.stm'" Since when have the BBC known anything about Rugby League Hewer definitely comes from Cumbria

Quote COCKNEY GIANT="COCKNEY GIANT"look at botton of report ie ref. news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 152448.stm'" Since when have the BBC known anything about Rugby League Hewer definitely comes from Cumbria

Or maybe not

Cheers chaps. Thought I'd missed something else. Bit of a worry if he's still struggling with it though.

here is the Catalans assessment of the game. Amazing how they know more about our team than we do. Guess work or inside knowledge. We need to check the players bags for empty snail shells. www.sang-et-or.net/readarticle.p ... cle_id=596

here is the Catalans assessment of the game. Amazing how they know more about our team than we do. Guess work or inside knowledge. We need to check the players bags for empty snail shells. www.sang-et-or.net/readarticle.p ... cle_id=596

A Dragons fan talking about 'pretty' football? LOL.



The players haven't been fit in previous years? Absolute garbage.

If you don't know anything about the opposition, clearly you can just make it up and call it a 'preview'.