Well at least if Child's is the referee Durham Giant won't mistake him for Bentham

Dragons can be a very rough side, won,t be surprised to see a couple of yellow cards, Baloo will certainly have told our lot to man up, so could see some fireworks, l hope Crabtree has brushed up on his French
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Giants 28 - 16 Dragons

if any our pack want to go into hiding then they better do it now,because the catalan forwards won't take a backward step.
our pack needs to be on top from the off, no shirking, no hiding, no can't be d attitude this week boys!

Looks like anderson has finally found out his best 17 players for this game!

lawrence unlucky..but i suppose it was him or bailey, seeing as bailey missed last week he gets a chance.

Lol
Good possibility there will be a stretcher or too required! Lets hope ots not for our lads!

well it just wasnt going to be our night , could sense it with the power cut chaos!

4250 not a bad crowd on the night so well done for the promotion.

our kicking game in the first half was very poor, brough abit rusty after a few weeks off, thought catalans were very good and that we were lucky to be drawing at half time, they really are full of confidence!

where as we are down on confidence, lost it in the forwards again, catalans were allowed to get away with slowing the ruck down by the ref though and offside a fair bit.

but overall we deserve nothing this season as we have been poor all season, performances way down on last season for whatever reason..world cup have an affect? whatever it is anderson has a big task on his hands, starting to lose confidence in him, not been able to rectify the problems all season even when we know where we are going wrong.

where did you get that figure from brearley? every report i have seen states 6,900

its in the examiner today, i couldnt find one anywhere else, not on bbc.

I'm not sure why you are losing confidence in Anderson- he has been saying the same things as us all season! I don't get this -he can't motivate the team stuff. If the team can't get themselves motivated to perform in a playoff game then nothing he does or say is going to help!!!!

I agree and I think it's also as much bottle as motivation that we struggle with and I'm not sure you can blame coaches for that - it's what differentiates the great teams and players from the good ones. In the big games, and in the most important game moments, a massive amount more often than not, we are found wanting. This has been the case for many years with a number of coaches. Sacking PA won't solve this - a better recruitment policy would be a much more progressive way forward.

depends whos making the decisions recruiting wise! and handing out new contracts

You also have to appreciate that NB signed up a lot of players on long term contracts. PA is now stuck with these -whether he wants the players or not!