I'm being realistic, points difference cost us last year

It will be controlling the tendency to give away stupid penalties which will define how well we do against the SL teams.

The thing is the main reason we tend to give penalties away is because we can't win the ruck and lie on and keep hands on the ball trying to slow down the ptb and give time for the defensive line to set. The SL teams will be much much quicker at gaining there feet

NB I was thinking that. A number of champ forwards have beaten us in the ruck. SL will dominate and thus be very fast getting away, which may catch us out. The frogs are traditionally nasty to add to that

Happy enough to drag Catalan into a battle, as has been said in the Rl papers, Catalan are the most penalised team in the comp, so let's try and earn the penalties.
For a number of seasons we have been poor in controlling the ruck. A quick ptb wins mtrs, how often do we see our players finishing the ruck on hands and knees? How often do we see our tacklers putting the ball carrier on his back facing his own line? It's all about technique in both attack and defence.

cant make the game due to family holiday is it on the box

All Catalan home games in M8s will be on TV.

On Sky, programme starts at 5.15 U.K. time.
Will be traveling across Ireland on Saturday, place we're staying in has a Sky subscription- hoping not to get stuck behind any tractors on the country roads !

We have Chris Kendall as our referee on Saturday. Robert Hicks is our video ref.

The referees head (Ganson) needs to look at the bunker in Australia. The video refs last week on BBC were embarrassing to say the least.

They go looking for to much instead of just looking at what the ref asks for. If the try is scored from a kick and the ref asks for grounding just look at grounding and not go looking at onside offside. The ref would ask for that if unsure.

Ok question for you WQ the RFL go down the route of JUST looking at what the ref asks for like the grounding. Grounding is fine but in the playback it's obvious that a player us offside, what happens?
Watch Aus rugby, watch every try, look how long it takes for them to award a try! Why do they go through thus whole dance of looking left, looking right at the TJ,s then checking with the pocket ref? Checking for feedback? Or waiting for the bunker to say we need to look at It?
I would rather let the VR look for offside, at all kicks to prevent any embarrassing headlines.