At the end of the day we got beat by a very professional Catalan performance. It was a well balanced first half and we could have easily gone in at half time with a lead if the Pitts try was given and Bill went himself in the corner. Second half we gifted them field position with unforced errors and dumb penalties. You can’t compete without the ball unfortunately. Westerman head and shoulders our best player today.

I noticed that one forward seemed isolated behind the try line after a cats try.
Two groups of players congregated leaving one by himself and he made no effort to join either group.
I could be reading too much in to it but it could also be a rift.

I agree that our strengths at the moment are in the backs. The problem seems to be that the opposition's defence is on them almost before they get the ball. Sometimes it's because the distribution is slow/predictable but I reckon that more often than not we have not drawn enough of the opposition's forwards into the middle of the pitch which would allow the backs chance to have an overlap or be creative. That comes down to our forwards needing to be more of a handful and getting quick play the ball. The predictability causes a problem as the opposition can move their defence around with confidence. When Lino did his little kick through and broke the defensive line it created some uncertainty In Catalan's defence for a short time and they made sure they got to him before he had a chance to do anything like it again. We need to create that uncertainty more often.

McNamara is quite complimentary about us in today's League Express...

" Wakefield played well on Saturday, we had a lot of ball control and pressure but they were really strong in defence.....Wakefield haven't managed to get a win, but I know that they are potentially a lethal team this season. They have a real opportunity to do something special..."

Let's hope he is right