The last 10 minutes don't paper over the cracks. London, strange how I can't say we, are a poor side with no leadership but a little honest endeavour. Dragons were missing a few and took their foot of the gas and applied the handbrake.

paddock, did the apply the brakes or did they start to show a bit of fatigue?
Agree with you, we have no leadership.
As for them missing a few, you can only play what is in front of you.
Games normally go with teams being in ascendency for 20 min periods, it boils down to what you can do in the 20 you are on top.
When we played basic rugby, competed our sets, we did not look that bad.
Like I said, Catalan are not in the form they had last year, so yep that took a bit of shine, but like I said you play what is in front of you.
optimist will say we started to play
pessimist will say they took there foot off the gas and let us in.

Gus has gone now.

Although didn't he promise to come back as a fan?

Well, he's already lost the lowest ever London SL crowd crown he worked so hard to get

It was neither a crucifixion or resurrection but both nearly occurred! A great effort but leadership lacking in attack and all the Cats tries came from close in. Nowhere near a 1,000 there, but any newbies would have enjoyed it. Happy Easter to all. #COYB

Did think 1000 was err generous, but who am I to doubt em

When we had season tickets you were counted as 'in' whether you were present or not. Now we don't have season tickets I guess someone has realised their mistake and is correcting in by including some like for like 'membership' figure to compensate.

Aren't we clearly unfit and need a new conditioner? I'm confused. How did we rally and score late in the game if true.

A thoroughly enjoyable match, even at half-time I never felt we were out of the contest. Admittedly at 28-4 it looked all over but we kept plugging away and got some deserved scores. Not seen any stats but I reckon the possession and territory would be pretty even, just didn't take our chances.

Farrer is yet to impress me but Drinkwater seems to be offering something in attack now. Duckworth looked average at best, hopefully he'll get better as he gets fitter.

But I honestly don't think we're too far off, if we get Dixon & Dollapi back it'll make a difference. A back 3 of Dixon, Solomona and Mataitonga would be exciting and Dollapi would be an improvement on Greenwood who is pretty decent in defence but doesn't run his weight when in possession.

And also, the Catalans replacement hooker Guasch(?) was the smallest SL player I've ever seen. 5 foot 4 maybe

Counting tickets sold as attendance is standard practice these days.

Arsenal declare 60,000 sell outs every week despite often being 10,000 shy of bums on seats.

& Saracens are notorious for creative accounting.

But lets not open that can of worms again.

You just did.

rooster! I don't think fitness was actually the issue yesterday, in fact as the game went on, that was when we scored.
As I mentioned before, the difference apart form Gauche and escargot!!(little morgan) the Catalan squad probably had at least 2 or 3 kilos on the London players if not more. It was down to the physicality of the Dragons that closed us down. That worked in our favour later in, the big fellas started to tire and we exploited.
That or they stopped trying depending on yr view!

No more than 200 there

Catalans had Big ears, Duraeu, Webb, Millard to name a few missing.

Its that bad Ive today cancelled my season tickets. Im done with them, enough is enough. I will see them in Manchester but wont be at the Hive again unless something drastic changes. That team wouldnt compete at the top of the championship it is utterly woeful.

Bloody hell????!!!!!!!????

There was a lot more than 200 there but I doubt there was 1000.