Quote: Durham Giant "Despite everything written on here throughout the season there seems to be no lack of effort from the players. They seemed to be throwing everything into the game. It was like men v boys at times. Catalans seemed to make twice the metres we did at every set yet we just kept holding on. Would love someone to post match stats about carries and metres made. Have to give big raps for that sort of effort to the players and the coaches.'" www.rugby-league.com/superleague ... port/73856

Quote: Durham Giant "Despite everything written on here throughout the season there seems to be no lack of effort from the players. They seemed to be throwing everything into the game. It was like men v boys at times. Catalans seemed to make twice the metres we did at every set yet we just kept holding on. Would love someone to post match stats about carries and metres made. Have to give big raps for that sort of effort to the players and the coaches.'" www.rugby-league.com/superleague ... port/73856

Yes Jake has, there are usually at least a couple of scouts at the academy games and with the talent in there at the moment it's easy to see why.

18-0 down.. 24-6 down... looked game over!

once again drinkwater ran the show with his kicking and working behind that big pack, we really do need to get some size in the team next season.

catalan started to give too many penalties away and with great charater shown from us we somehow got the win!!

good crowd, shame we arent playing at home again for a while to keep the momentum going on that score

came back for the freebie after all these years!!!

Could it be Andy Kelly they’re trying to entice?

macnamara moaning post match about the ref

funny he never said anything when they beat us in the cup with some calls against us

swings in roundabouts!

And that just made it the perfect evening.

Welcome back, glad you enjoyed the trip back to your homeland

bloody hell what you driving a tank?!

see you in 5 years when they do it again

Bird`s antics when Russell was taking the penalty deserved a sending off, but nobody has mentioned it. He was like a puppet on a string, waving his arms about and jumping from side to side. I would like to know the refs interpretations of the rules, as I was under the impression players had to be still whilst a conversion or penalty was taken. It was definitely ungentlemanly conduct and Bird plumed the depths with his antics.

Which was why the penalty leeming won from him to put us in front was especially satisfying. - he’s a grub.

He not only behaved on that way- but continued to do so after the red warned him. Hewer is a very very weak ref.

least he kicked it!

we got two penalties i think as the ball was moved forward after leeming got the penalty, making it easier! thank you very much

leeming could have played that ball but he passed it into the player in the ruck... dont really like to see that creeping into the game but not complaining ... but would be fuming if on the end of it

I’m sure it was particularly satisfying for leeming to make that play. Perhaps if Catalan hadn’t play acted to get him sent off a couple of weeks before leeming wouldn’t have thought about doing what he did. Got his own back on bird very nicely.