Pity you pick that up because I thought him and Arona had their best games for ages, against a big physical Catalans pack.

Thanks for back up Cocker only seen it once as did not record game .Pity the Rugby League can not see it.It is some thing that wants stamping out fast.The big clubs get most of the 50 \50 calls as it is

Just found it now at 59:00...it's definitely Pitts that gets penalised for being off-side (even though he wasn't !!!), rather than Ashurst hitting the arm, as the ref walks over to Pitts and says "you're off" and awards the penalty there.

I suppose we brought Catalan down to our level right mr wilkin.



Great performance from the lads especially Max and Brad and there's nothing else really what hasn't already been said regarding the Ref, think Specsavers come to mind.

Just shows how a partisan crowd can influence officials. Every time the crowd didnt like something they jeered and sure enough got the majority of the decisions.

Just want to add a few things.

I thought all our forwards put a real shift in yesterday. Was very pleased to see Aydin mixing it up in the middle. The lad doesn’t take a backwards step and looks like he’s ready to stake a claim for a bench spot this season.

I thought Bowes was impressive too. When I saw him end of 2020 I think he was getting pushed around like a pinball but against Catalans he tackled well and offered some options. Massively positive and he looks like he could be a decent 9 option should he be needed this year.

Special mention to Batchelor who again filled in at right centre and did a great job. I really like the look of Batch and it’s hard to forget he’s only 23! If there’s the option I would be tying him up long term as our permanent right SR for the future.

The whole team never threw the towel in and soon these tight losses will turn into wins! Keep it up.

Don’t think you could have picked a worse example to make your point and I rate you as a poster.

That wasn’t a schoolboy error, it was just an error that every player in every team makes on a regular basis. Sometimes you get away with them other times you don’t,

If there is such a thing as a schoolboy error Drinkwaters?? pass in in the last minute was it. True it wasn’t going to cost them the game but it was utterly pointless. Grix a few years ago, that was bad because getting it wrong actually took more effort than getting it right.

Battye for me made an unforced error, a momentary lack of concentration. All people in all professions make them all the time, it’s how we/they react and the damage limitation that matters. Although we couldn’t hold the line on this occasion overall we did well on that regard but you just can’t win them all. Isolating one player doesn’t help.

As I said some of the schoolboy errors from yesterday were things that we were all taught as children to do. There are some things that absolutely need to be forgotten about, as it will come with time playing together but the basics are the same regardless of what team you’re in. You probably won’t understand if you didn’t play when you were a kid.

As to congratulating the side, read the thread back. I’m more than proud of the performance from yesterday. Just can’t turn a blind eye to some things…

Can you explain to me (without digging a deeper hole) the exact reason Drinkwaters is a schoolboy error yet Battyes wasn’t?

Both errors leading to a try except again one you’re taught to do right from being 5 years old “thats it little lad, pop the ball on the floor and roll it backwards” and the other comes a little further down the line and requires a little more skill.

Life doesn’t work like that though, not just in RL but in anything.

Personal question and you’re not obliged to answer but is your own life not littered with errors? Mine is. We’re they not mostly errors you were warned about as a child? Mine were.

Who are these perfect people? Do you think RL players are above normal human behaviour? Because they are not.

Doctors train for years but they still make errors. If you didn’t have errors in sport you wouldn’t have a sport, especially team sports. You’d just be watching 13 robots playing 13 robots and every game being a 0 - 0 draw.

Fair enough mate, it was just from what Sky showed yesterday seemed to focus more on the hitting of the arm.

I guess the ref had already told Pitts and blew for offside, I’d imagine they’d still of called back should Pitts not have been off.

Listen it’s sunday night and I can’t be bothered carrying this petty argument on any longer , you have your view on the matter and I have mine ,whether it was a silly mistake or a schoolboy one it still had the same outcome … a try