Most teams talk about the season being a warm up once they have won the thing from outside the top spot.

Whilst peaking at the right time is important, so is getting to the right time of the season. Winning from 5th aint as easy as Leeds make it look. Far easier to win it from 1st or 2nd.

can't believe you lost to them.

Well that was just awful.....good job the bars were open.

no shock to me we lost over in catalans, despite them having a poor start to the season they will of been fired up for this game.

a few comments i agree with though, dont think brough is playing well at the moment, our forwards are also poor, faiumu has been our best prop so far this season and hes not even a prop!

early days, having a mixed start to the season but we need to peak at the right time...which is at the end of season play offs, we all should know this by now.

quicker lunt is back the better.

miss lawrence lastnight?? tackling machine.

why not? they are a good team who have just had a bad start, hard to beat on their own patch, they have won 4/5 against us over there now i think so hardly a surprise.

brearley, i said in another post that we missed bruno's work rate and defence, bailey for me, doesn't offer that.maybe fairbank would have been a better choice at 13?

also agree about broughy, he seems to be misfiring at the moment, but then again the forwards have to lay the platform for the halves to do their bit, and they haven't yet, we need Eorl, koppy, fusi to start making yards and getting the opposition on the back foot.

Didn't manage to watch the game in the end. Just watched the 'try of the night' by Louis Anderson. What the hell was going in that defensive line, Ferres slapped a Catalan player then sloped back, Broughys stood there looking at the ref instead of playing to the whistle, then further down the line there standing off the ball carrier . They seriously need a rocket up their Jacksy because they haven't looked interested for most of the season!

Out of all the areas we could improve on, i just wish Eorl would man up, run in a straight line and have a bit more menace, like the Eorl of 2009.

When i saw that elima was in the catalans team i predicted we would lose. We have massive forwards, but they lack aggression and we get bullied by the smaller teams who get pumped up by the proposition of facing a 'big pack'. I feel we are in desperate need of a niggly enforcer which we just haven't found since we lost fielden/fa'alogo/odonnell

^Agree 110% All this garbage about keeping it clean etc, We are giving away penalties left, right and centre anyway for nothing so lets get a bit of aggression into the team and frighten the living daylights out of our opponents. Huddersfield Giants at the moment are seen as an easy ride due to our soft forwards. Time to crank things up about 50 notches and become a team to be feared especially if Andersons gameplan is all down the middle ala Catalans and Widnes

other teams forwards see us as a big challenge.... we dont seem to be matching them at the moment, anderson said this after the widnes defeat.

odonnell... i wish!

I was really not happy with the effort shown last night by our second rows, both Ferres and Chan wanted the ball going forward but did not put a shift when Catalans had the ball leaving 4 forwards to take on the Catalans pack, two of whom (Wood & Bailey) are on the small side for forwards. Result our props were over-run. Having Eorl, Koppy & Kaufusi in the front row should give us an advantage, but that doesn't work if people cheat on defence.

Only one way to sort that, people cannot be assured their places in the team. I would recall Mullally and go in for a bit of regular rotation in the forwards to ensure people are competing to be selected for the big games.

Cannot agree. The job of chan and Ferres is to defend out wide. Catalans did most attacking up the middle as this is where they got success. Brough, Robinson, and Wood had to make 82 tackles between them which suggests Catalans were very clever at picking out who to run at which would also have the effect of tiring out our pivots in attack.

What I do find unacceptable is
Kopczak 6 carries 29 metres
Kaufusi 7 carries 48 metres

That is an unacceptable work rate and in Kopczaks case is frankly embarrasing and that is not for the first time this season.

Our props are letting us down. There is absolutely no doubt about it.

Are our props to blame or are they just not being given the ball- too many times pinned in our own half and backs are taking the ball up for the first three tackles!! That should not be happening! If it's a game plan it's a poor one.

chris bailey top tackler in the game, not really come at the club to do that job though, soon as lunt is back he can play the way anderson wants him too, crabtree did a big stint too and wood