Seems to be me who starts these...

Just Hakim (who I like a lot even if no one else does) missing. Def best squad of the year. Wild optimism let's go

No McShane for them either!

We’ve had a few decent results at our ho e away from home in Kent - let’s hope it continues!
COYB!!

We’ve had a few decent results at our ho e away from home in Kent - let’s hope it continues!
COYB!!

We do like to drop the ball after crossing the line.

Yup, what a place to do it!!

On the way back. Could have won that. Sin bin/ disallowed try which I couldn't see was a bit turning point. Defence got found out a few times too but attack so much better.

Were for a little bit more spent on the team. A couple more forwards, another half....

Yup, fine margins tonight- if we’d got the ball down over the line ( twice) early on who knows what could have happened.

Can’t fault the effort, but we left ourselves a mountain to climb in the second half.

Yup our carelessness with the ball and a few instances where we just switched off meant we never looked like winning. On the other side of the coin I thought we ‘could’ score pretty much every time we attacked. We made decent metres and they looked a bit off from where they’ve been in the last couple of weeks. Can’t really fault anyone. Wish we converted more tries but I’ve got used to us scoring in multiples of 4 now. Don’t think we missed Miloudi if I’m honest. Campo seems to be on the way back. Not sure who makes way for him. Rourke again rock solid under high ball and makes metres. Frankly if Walker was fit I’m not sure he’d get in. Maybe a learning point for him here - when you get the ball pelt forward instead of crabbing sideways.

On a side issue it cost me £31 extra to get from central London to this so called home game. That really is a lot of lolly.

Any better with Waine and Parata or am I just clutching at straws?

Parata is a quality player but I’ve just got a feeling he may not play long minutes anymore. Waine adds impact but we seem to be going with 2 hookers. I didn’t think we had major problems making metres against Cas it was our execution- we left quite a few points out there. Basically all the other teams are slightly or significantly better than us. This type of result and performance is where we are. I quite enjoyed the game although not enough to want to see us play Catalans again.