It's a Friendly, meaningless.

We looked good last night (Cas) although I took nothing from it really apart from fitness and no injuries, if you beat us next week or vice versa I wouldn't give a...

To put it in perspective, we got well beaten by a very good SL side who have made a few changes to their squad and quality changes at that. Salford got well beaten by what will be a very good championship side in Leigh (which was put together late in the day and without an appointed coach.

If we were in Salfords position with a relatively settled sqaud from last season and getting beaten by Leigh, then I would be more concerned.

There is undoubtedly something pyschologically about friendlies in any event. These are competitive athletes were talking about and knowing there is nothing at stake is bound to affect their approcah to the game whether we as fans like it or not.

The time to start judging is when the season starts. I personally am not expecting everything to click at once given the large number of new signings. I will be happy with gradual improvement on a week to week basis and as long as I see the team putting the effort in to make that gradual improvement, then they will get my full support.

For the last 10 years I've been saying I'm not going to any more friendly matches as they aren't a true reflection of what is to come for the season. Year on year I've stood freezing watching two teams give about 65% effort. I'm sticking to my words this year and will make judgment of the team in the first match against Widnes.

Personally I'm happy to lose friendlies as they mean nothing other than they provide training. You want to start your winning run in matches that count. It also means we won't start the season thinking we are better than we actually are.

Result from Catalans

Catalan Dragons 44 London Broncos 22.

Puts our result into perspective

I beg to disagree on that score.

that's the problem where do you get the confidence to take into the first match of the season if you can't think you can compete with the rest.

you should only take a defeat as a learning curve to analyse where it went wrong