I'd say most of the time errors & such things are usually from trying to har so I wouldn't say effort is the problem. Just trying to force passes to much & score off every play.

This could be the bump back into reality you need and realise you're not quite as good as you think yet

But also catching the ball requires effort and concentration, I'm not saying they haven't tried its just the effort hasn't been as good as the past few weeks and that's disappointing.

I don't buy this whole no effort thing. Its hard to play at the same intensity every week, hence why you never see a team go 100% undefeated in a season. If Catalans had just lost 10 in a row and playing there U18's and we had got beat by 50 points, I would agree there was probably no effort. We just got outplayed as simple as that.

Catalans are a bloody good side and have give us a good tonking today. We gave them one a few weeks back so they would obviously be up for the game more then we were.

Not sure it's down to lack of effort, more like a cack performance in what sounded like a pretty scrappy cack game. 3 from last 4 is decent. 2 weeks off, few more troops and Miller on the team.

C'est la vie.

That went well.

After losing one game ? Give your head a bang.

The gulf between our good and bad performances is too great IMHO.

Its the old nursery rhyme. When we're good, we can be very good, but when we're bad we're terrible

It was unlikely that we'd win there twice in a few weeks, and I'd much prefer to progress in the cup.

Agree with that. Doesn't sound like a lack of effort at all. We just weren't able to turn things in our favour at any point and made too many errors.

Which is exactly what Gentle wanted to reduce. He's getting there, I think this week off has come at just the right time.

Didn't sound a very good game, too many errors & Catalans punished us for them. I reckon just about anybody would of took 9 wins out of the last 11 games before the season started. Have a week off now & focus on putting things right against Cas.

Hope you're right but they are a bloody tough proposition on their own patch.
We'll have it all on in another months time at their place.
Differently game-plan than today will be required.

You needed it

Ah well. Even the best teams lose once in a while. Look at Leeds for example.

This game doesnt define our season.

We need to pick our selves up, we've just beaten some big sides in Leeds and Warrington. We have the team to compete with any team in this league. We didn't lose once in May and only once in April. That is a great run that we should be proud of.

Castleford next week, Wakefield after that. With all respect to them, I'm still confident of a result against both.